Recent summer temperatures in Europe are likely the warmest of the last 2 millennia

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/iop-rst012716.php

Public Release: 28-Jan-2016
Recent summer temperatures in Europe are likely the warmest of the last 2 millennia
Institute of Physics

Most of Europe has experienced strong summer warming over the course of the past several decades, accompanied by severe heat waves in 2003, 2010 and 2015. New research now puts the current warmth in a 2100-year historical context using tree-ring information and historical documentary evidence to derive a new European summer temperature reconstruction.

The work was published today (Friday 29th January) in the journal of Environmental Research Letters by a group of 45 scientists from 13 countries.

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The new research finding that temperatures over the past 30 years lie outside the range of these natural variations supports the conclusions reached by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that recent warming is mainly caused by anthropogenic activity.

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