Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years

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Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

The rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study1 that tackles one of the hottest debates among climate scientists.

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