Global surface temperature
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Global surface temperature is the average temperature of Earth's surface at a given time. It is a combination of sea surface temperature and the near-surface air temperature over land, weighted by the
Exterior of a Stevenson screen used for temperature measurements on land stations.
Interior of a Stevenson screen
There is scientific consensus that the Earth has been consistently warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, that the rate of recent warming is largely unprecedented, and that this warming
Global surface temperature
…can be used for example from tree rings, corals, and ice cores. Observing the rising GST over time is one of the many lines of evidence supporting the scientific consensus on climate change, which is that human activities are causing climate change. Alternative terms for the same concept are global mean surface temperature (GMST) or global…
In 2013, it had been quantified that the vast majority of published scientific literature had agreed with the human role in climate change since the 1990s.
The consensus on anthropogenic global warming among the peer-reviewed studies published between 1991 and 2015.