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It hasn't been this hot since 1880, per that article.

• karmelapple 7y ago
  The article says it’s never been this hot since 1880, which I believe is when they started recording this data - it didn’t mention it was this hot then. Do you have additional info to claim it was this temp in 1880?
  • assblaster 7y ago
    They didn't have records before 1880 according to the article. So, it could have been warmer, but there is no record of it.
    • itcrowd 7y ago
      There have been many reconstructions of global temperatures before 1880 using a variety of temperature proxies. A nice summary in one image is given on Wikipedia [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#/media/File:All_palaeotemps.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#/media/File:A...
      • assblaster 7y ago
        They also mix proxies but superimpose temperature records from the last 150 years. A better curve would be using one set of proxy data to maintain consistency.