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Is Earth today the hottest ever?

Although we are experiencing human-induced global warming, today’s global world average temperature of close to 15°C is really or methane emitted to the atmosphere, although the sources of the gases vary from one ‘hot flush’ to the next, and for some major greenhouse periods scientists are still not certain of the causes.

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