If anything, they would have cooled us since about 1980, during the period of most rapid warming.

Due to the rapid warming, pollen is also problematic during this time of year.

Trees growing well above their normal altitude in Tasmania have provided strong evidence of rapid global warming.

A rapid warming is also expected to have a wide adverse effect on forests, crops, wildlife and human health.

Other possible explanations include that the response to recent rapid global warming might be delayed or nonlinear in some fashion.

Mainstream scientists, citing recent studies, suggest that the relatively rapid warming of the last 25 years cannot be explained without the greenhouse effect.

Scientists believe it is a result of rapid warming in the Antarctic over the last 50 years.

Suffice it to say that "life on earth" is not better off under rapid warming of the kind we're driving.

It is used in the popular media and by environmentalists with reference to concerns about rapid global warming.

It has also been found that rapid warming has occurred in the past, which then proceeded to fall into ice age conditions.