Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface air temperature, which suggests we are just ...

Re-draw the baseline to a warmer or cooler starting ... there has been since the true pre-industrial period," Dr Hawkins told BBC News. But the Reading scientist cautions that the uncertainties ...

New research shows that carbon dioxide contributions from the pre-industrial era still have an impact on our climate today. When evaluating the historic contributions made by different countries ...

The 2015 Paris agreement aims to limit the rise in mean global temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels, ideally to 1.5C. But how far along that path are we already? Try drawing ...

Other scientists say the study contains too many uncertainties and limitations to draw such firm conclusions ... more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Researchers say the ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, researchers established a new pre-industrial temperature baseline, revealing ...

The UN Paris Agreement on climate change aims to ensure increases in global temperature are less than 2C above pre-industrial levels, with an aspirational limit of 1.5C. However, the starting line of ...

The Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have catastrophic and irreversible impacts on the planet and its ecosystems ...

Archaeological evidence from earlier eras, however, has long implied that as few as 1 percent of pre-industrial residents of the island suffered from the devastating disease. Recent research ...

Re-draw the baseline to a warmer or cooler starting ... there has been since the true pre-industrial period," Dr Hawkins told BBC News. But the Reading scientist cautions that the uncertainties ...