AUGUST 25, 2016
by Chuck Bednar
While most experts seem to agree
that human activity played a major role in bringing about climate change, the
consensus has been that this is a fairly recent trend, but that is not the case
at all, according to new research published in Wednesday’s
edition of the journal Nature.
In fact, people have been doing
things that contribute to global warming for nearly two centuries, Nerilie
Abram, an associate professor from the Australian National University
(ANU) School of Earth Sciences, and her colleagues discovered
during the course of their research.
“It was an extraordinary finding,”
Abram, who is also part of the Australian
Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, said
Thursday in a statement. “It was one of those moments where science
really surprised us. But the results were clear. The climate warming we are
witnessing today started about 180 years ago.”
According to the study authors,
the evidence suggests that the first evidence of global warming can be traced
back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and signs of its impact first
appear in the Earth's oceans around the 1830s – far earlier than
scientists previously thought, and contrary to the assumption that warming was
not an issue until the 20th century.
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