An iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle. | John McConnico/AP
Climate campaigners on Thursday pointed to a study showing that Earth is hotter than it’s ever been during the entire epoch of human civilization as the latest proof of the need to treat human-caused global heating like the dire emergency that it is.
On Wednesday, the peer-reviewed scientific journal
Nature published a report revealing that an analysis of ocean surface temperatures found that the planet is hotter now than at any other time in the past 12,000 years and that it may actually be warmer than at any point during the last 125,000 years.