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submitted 1 month ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17745389

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[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Hey ma, they're putting out the 'hottest on record' headline again! What're we up to now, 11 years in a row?

[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh it's lovely when an otherwise fairly cold (or mild in the summer) eSStonia had experienced practically the highest temperatures in eu-cool these past 2 months on multiple occasions

[-] booty@hexbear.net -4 points 1 month ago

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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[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

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.

From your source

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.

From the article

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.

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month 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.

[-] booty@hexbear.net -2 points 1 month ago

most comically competent liberal

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