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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 02/14/2026 13:34 EDT

Earth is Warming Faster Than Ever. But Why?

"Global temperatures have been rising for decades," reports the Washington Post. "But many scientists say it's now happening faster than ever before."

According to a Washington Post analysis, the fastest warming rate on record occurred in the last 30 years. The Post used a dataset from NASA to analyze global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025. "We're not continuing on the same path we had before," said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. "Something has changed...." Temperatures ove

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