Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015, appeared across five major global temperature datasets with more than 98% statistical certainty.
Yeah Earth has certainly been hotter, but historic changes happened over thousands or millions of years, and still caused wide changes including many extinctions.
At this rate, we are on track for the most sudden change and the greatest extinctions in geologic history.