“It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems,” you know *
This July 4 was hot. Earth’s hottest day on record, in fact.
Tuesday was the hottest day on Earth since at least 1979, with the global average temperature reaching 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius), according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
Did you catch that? History starts in 1979
"HOTTEST DAY IN RECORDED HISTORY"
-Chart, strangely, only goes back to 1980. https://t.co/R0JduVt7xY— Ordnance Jay Packard, Esq. (@OrdnancePackard) July 5, 2023
The link in the first excerpt shows the large graph, which is based on satellite measurements and computer simulations. Snicker
(Al Jazeera) “This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” said climate scientist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London.
“It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems.”
Doom!
