A draft of a federal climate change assessment yet to be approved by the Trump administration has found the average temperature in the United States has risen exponentially since 1980, according to a report.

The study by scientists from 13 federal agencies also revealed recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, the New York Times reported.

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