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Hottest year in 2,000 Years
May 20 , 2024
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- The summer of 2023 was hotter than any other in the Northern Hemisphere for the past two millennia.
- Scientists previously determined that 2023 was the hottest year since 1850, when global modern temperature records began.
- The extreme warmth of last summer not only smashed modern records but also exceeded the warmest summer prior to the instrumental record - in the year 246 - by more than half a degree Celsius.
- It was almost 4C warmer than the coldest summer (in 536).
- European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service were saying the year of 2023 was "very likely" to have been the warmest in some 100,000 years.
- More than 150,000 deaths in 43 countries linked to heatwaves for each year between 1990 and 2019.
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