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2024 could be world’s hottest year as June breaks records (www.straitstimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I issue you several billion pinnochios, one for every year since earth's actual hottest period when the air was like 3600f

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Temperature records from thermometers and weather stations exist only for a tiny portion of our planet's 4.54-billion-year-long life. By studying indirect clues—the chemical and structural signatures of rocks, fossils, and crystals, ocean sediments, fossilized reefs, tree rings, and ice cores—however, scientists can infer past temperatures.

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June 2024 was the hottest June on record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on July 8, continuing a streak of exceptional temperatures that some scientists said puts 2024 on track to be the world's hottest recorded year.

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We don't exactly have records from millions or billions of years ago, so I don't know why you think this article is lying to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We sort of do have so e idea when using the fossil records and core samples in ice. You can tell a lot about the atmospheric content an infer temperatures and rainfall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's all well and good, I'm not trying to deny that those methods work, but booty was claiming that the article telling us this year is the hottest on record was a lie without any real clarification why he thought that.

So either he read the he only read the headline and wanted to feel smug about it, or he was trying to downplay the seriousness of the situation by saying it used to be worse millions or billions of years ago. I don't really care which, the outcome is the same either way.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

most comically competent liberal

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