UK Met Office upgrade finds world is heating up faster than thought
Co-author Tim Osborn, a professor of climate science at East Anglia, said the higher estimate was due to better data being assessed from the oceans and the Arctic, which is believed to be warming faster than other parts of the world. “Climate change has not suddenly got worse,” he said. “Instead, we have an improved estimate of how much warming has taken place.” The paper, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, takes data from sensors on land and sea around the world, amalgamating them into a global picture. The update comes from two major changes to the wa...