Over the past year, there has been an intense debate among scientists - and more broadly - about whether global warming is "accelerating". This in turn led to questions about whether the world was warming "faster than scientists expected". Here, Carbon Brief takes a closer look at the issue, finding that evidence for an acceleration in the pace of warming has been mounting over the past 15 years.

However, this acceleration is broadly consistent with projections from the latest generation of climate models and the recent Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). All expect the world to warm significantly faster in the current and future decades than the rate the world has experienced since 1970. (ZEKE HAUSFATHER, more at carbonbrief.org)