The world hāas warmed 0.05 degrees Celsius (0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade over the past 15 years, a fraction of the 0.2ĀŗC (0.36ĀŗF) per decšøade rate confidently predicted by the U.N. six years ago, according to a leaked copy of the foremost climate report in the world.
That report, which is updated every six years by the U.N.ās Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is called the Assessment Report, and the fifth version (AR5) will be released Sept. 27. FoxNews.com has obtained a leaked copy of the first part of AR5 — and data in it appears to acknowledge that the worldās temperatures havenāt skyrocketed as many had feared.
āThe rate of warming over the past 15 years (0.05Ā°C per decade) is smaller than thš e trend since 1951 (0.12Ā°C per decade),ā the draft report states.
2007’s AR4 observed a similar warming trend (0.13Ā°C per decade) since 1951, yet the report incorrectly asserted that per decade through 2037 — and several climate reporters took the failed prediction to mean alarm about global warming had been raised decades before the problem hit crisis levels.
Ü«āScientific forecasts of imminent doom were drastically wrong,ā .
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