We're in uncharted territory:A new study says the warming we've seen in the past 100 years is unprecedented when compared with the past 2,000 years.From roughly the year "zero" to the late 1800s,warm and cool periods would happen in different parts of the world at different times because of natural weather cycles, solar activity and volcanic eruptions.But since the late 1800s, when humans started burning fossil fuels for energy, the entire world has warmed consistently in a way that it didn't for almost all of the previous 2,000 years.The study was published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature."The warming of the climate system that we've seen in the past 100 years is fundamentally different than what we've seen in the prior 1,900 years,"study co-author Nathan Steiger, a Columbia University climate scientist, told USA TODAY.