Global heating of the Earth system is unequivocal. However, detecting an acceleration of Earth heating has remained elusive to date, despite suggestive evidence of a potential increase in heating rates. In this study, we demonstrate that since 1960, the warming of the world ocean has accelerated at a relatively consistent pace of 0.15 ± 0.05 (W/m²)/decade, while the land, cryosphere, and atmosphere have exhibited an accelerated pace of 0.013 ± 0.003 (W/m²)/decade. This has led to a substantial increase in ocean warming, with a magnitude of 0.91 ± 0.80 W/m² between the decades 1960–1970 and 2010–2020, which overlies substantial decadal-scale variability in ocean warming of up to 0.6 W/m². Our findings withstand a wide range of sensitivity analyses and are consistent across different observation-based datasets. The long-term acceleration of Earth warming aligns qualitatively with the rise in CO₂ concentrations and the decline in aerosol concentration during the same period, but further investigations are necessary to properly attribute these changes.

地球系统的全球变暖是明确的。然而，尽管有暗示证据表明加热速率可能增加，但迄今为止，检测地球加热加速仍然难以捉摸。在这项研究中，我们证明，自 1960 年以来，世界海洋变暖以 0.15 ± 0.05 (W/m 2 )/十年的相对稳定的速度加速，而陆地、冰冻圈和大气则呈现出 0.15 ± 0.05 (W/m ² )/十年的加速速度。 0.013 ± 0.003 (W/m ² )/十年。这导致海洋变暖大幅增加，1960-1970年和2010-2020年间海洋变暖幅度达到0.91 ± 0.80 W/m ² ，覆盖了海洋变暖的十年尺度变化高达0.6 W/m 2 ² .我们的研究结果经受住了广泛的敏感性分析，并且在不同的基于观察的数据集中是一致的。地球变暖的长期加速与同期CO ₂浓度的上升和气溶胶浓度的下降在性质上是一致的，但需要进一步的研究来正确归因这些变化。