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A new study for the journal of the American Geophysical Union, Earth’s Future, looked at global annual temperature records from 1861 to 2005 which indicated there were 17 record hot years over that period.

Then experts examined whether or not those temperature records were being broken more frequently and if so, whether humans were to blame for that rise.

The findings show human influence has greatly increased the likelihood of record-breaking hot years occurring on a global scale.

Without human-caused climate change, there should only have been an average of seven record hot years from 1861 to 2005, not 17.