The trail of clues that our planet might be heating faster than we realised
A curious online row over this summer's heatwaves points to a wider - and worrying - shift in climate science.
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"It's pretty clear that the rate of warming has accelerated."
— Reto Knutti , Academic
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Principal researcher at Cicero, the Norwegian climate research institute.
Professor of climate physics at ETH Zurich and former co-ordinating lead author for the IPCC.
Richard Tice is the head of Reform's proposed new Department of Business Trade and Energy.
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