Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history
But how much hotter will it get, and what will that mean for life on Earth? To get a picture of our future, we can either use computer models or look to episodes of rapid climate change in the geological record. While models are invaluable in terms of tracking where our world may be heading, peering back into deep time provides unrivalled information about cause and effect; about how the climate has changed in the past and what the consequences were.
- ▪But how much hotter will it get, and what will that mean for life on Earth?
- ▪To get a picture of our future, we can either use computer models or look to episodes of rapid climate change in the geological record.
- ▪While models are invaluable in terms of tracking where our world may be heading, peering back into deep time provides unrivalled information about cause and effect; about how the climate has changed in the past and what the consequences wer
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Environment Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its historyTo understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire By Bill McGuire 24 July 2026 Facebook Threads X / Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn Reddit Email Print Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are trapping more heatBill Gozansky/Alamy As Europe bakes in what could be its hottest and driest summer on record, the rapid transformation of our climate is harder than ever to ignore. But how much hotter will it get, and what will that mean for life on Earth? To get a picture of our future, we can either use computer models or look to episodes of rapid climate change in the geological record.
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