Global warming signal can be traced back to the 1830s, climate scientists say

By Peter Hannam
Updated August 28 2016 - 10:40pm, first published August 25 2016 - 9:58am
Global warming, with its devastating impacts on coral reefs already being experienced, started earlier than previously thought, researchers have found. Photo: Morane Le Nohaic
Global warming, with its devastating impacts on coral reefs already being experienced, started earlier than previously thought, researchers have found. Photo: Morane Le Nohaic

When Charles Dickens, the English novelist, was detailing the "soft black drizzle" of pollution over London, he might inadvertently have been chronicling the early signs of global warming.

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