Posted on 8 July 2023 by John Hartz

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Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years. Here’s how we know. 

0bservations are enough to make scientists confident that the current period of warming is exceptional.

Observations from both satellites and the Earth’s surface are indisputable — the planet has warmed rapidly over the past 44 years. As far back as 1850, data from weather stations all over the globe make clear the Earth’s average temperature has been rising.

In recent days, as the Earth has reached its highest average temperatures in recorded history, scientists have made a bolder claim: It may well be warmer than any time in the last 125,000 years.

Tracing climatic fluctuations back centuries and millennia is less simple and precise than checking records from satellites or thermometers. It involves poring through everything from ancient diaries to lake bed sediments to tree trunk rings.

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Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years. Here’s how we know. by Scott Dance, Extreme Weather, Washington Post, July 8, 2023

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Sunday, July 2, 2023

• Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out by Alaa Elassar, CNN, July 1, 2023
• How does extreme heat affect the body and what can you do about it? by Aliya Uteuova, Explainer, The Guardian, June 28, 2023
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Monday, July 3, 2023 

• Global warming is disrupting humanity’s ‘Goldilocks zone’ on Earth by Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections, June 28, 2023
• Climate groups accept millions from charity linked to fossil fuel investments by Kiran Stacey, Environment, The Guardian, June 30, 2023
• Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm? by Jonathan Watts, Julian Amani, Paul Scruton & Lucy Swan, Environment, The Guardian, July 3, 2023 

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

• Global warming is disrupting humanity’s ‘Goldilocks zone’ on Earth by Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections, June 28, 2023
• We Need To Name and Shame Bad Climate Journalism by Nathan J Robinson, Current Affairs Magazine, July 1, 2023
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Fri, July 7, 2023

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