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Warmest Decade

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Temperature data from four international science institutions. All show rapid warming in the past few decades and that the last decade has been the warmest on record. Courtesy:Nasa Global CLimate change http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus

El Nino activity in 2oth century and global warming

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High El Nino -Southern Oscillation (ENSO) activity in the late 20th century is a footprint of global warming says a recent study. An international team of scientists spearheaded by Jinbao Li and Shang-Ping Xie, while working at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, has compiled 2,222 tree-ring chronologies of the past seven centuries from both the tropics and mid-latitudes in both hemispheres. Their work is published in the June 30, 2013 online issue of Nature Climate Change . Li, J., S.-P. Xie, E. R. Cook, M. Morales, D. Christie, N. Johnson, F. Chen, R. D'Arrigo, A. Fowler, X. Gou, and K. Fang (2013): El Niño modulations over the past seven centuries. Nature Climate Change . http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1936 Caption: This graph shows El Niño variability derived from tree rings (blue) and instrumental measurements (red). The dashed lines indicate boundary for natural variability. Recent El Niño behavior is largely beyo