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Nonlinear climate change

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Most studies assume that temperature trends are linear. Now, research demonstrates that warming trends are nonlinear, that warming accelerated over most of the twentieth century and is much stronger since 1980 than calculated by linear methods.

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Figure 1: Global temperature trends.

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  1. Christian Franzke is at the Meteorological Institute and the Centre for Earth System Science and Sustainability, University of Hamburg, D-20144 Hamburg, Germany,

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Franzke, C. Nonlinear climate change. Nature Clim Change 4, 423–424 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2245

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