March 6 (UPI) -- Researchers have detected a "statistically significant" increase in the pace of global warming on Earth for the first time, based on an analysis of data collected over the last decade.
Since 2015, the Earth's temperature has warmed by roughly .035 degrees Celsius per decade, compared to just under 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade between 1970 and 2015, researchers at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research wrote in a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
While previous analyses had not reached a 95% confidence level, climate scientists at PIK removed the influence of three natural factors from the data, which they refer to as noise, to determine the portion of warming caused by human consumption.
"The adjusted data show an acceleration of global warming since 2015 with a statistical certainty of over 98%, consistent across all data sets examined and independent of the analysis method chosen," Stefan Rahmstorf, researcher at PIK and lead author of the study, said in a press release.
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