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Science 9 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5387, pp. 279 - 281
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5387.279
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Climate Change Record in Subsurface Temperatures: A Global Perspective

Henry N. Pollack, * Shaopeng Huang, Po-Yu Shen

Analyses of underground temperature measurements from 358 boreholes in eastern North America, central Europe, southern Africa, and Australia indicate that, in the 20th century, the average surface temperature of Earth has increased by about 0.5°C and that the 20th century has been the warmest of the past five centuries. The subsurface temperatures also indicate that Earth's mean surface temperature has increased by about 1.0°C over the past five centuries. The geothermal data offer an independent confirmation of the unusual character of 20th-century climate that has emerged from recent multiproxy studies.

H. N. Pollack and S. Huang, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, USA. P.-Y. Shen, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed.

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