Scientific American: "Today's Climate Change Proves Much Faster Than Changes in Past 65 Million Years"

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"The climate is changing at a pace that's far faster than anything seen in 65 million years, a report out of Stanford University says.

"The amount of global temperature increase and the short time over which it's occurred create a change in velocity that outstrips previous periods of warming or cooling, the scientists said in research published in Science.

"If global temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next century, the rate will be about 10 times faster than what's been seen before, said Christopher Field, one of the scientists on the study. Keeping the temperature increase that small will require aggressive mitigation, he said."