As the USA simmers through its hottest March on record — with more than 6,000 record high temperatures already set this month — a new study released Sunday shows that average global temperatures could climb 2.5 to 5.4 degrees by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.
The study findings are based on the results of 10,000 computer model simulations of future weather overseen by researchers at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
"These are the first results to suggest that the higher warming scenario could be plausible," says study lead author Dan Rowlands of Oxford.
It is a faster rate of warming than most other models predict.
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