The Best in Science News and Amazing Breakthroughs
Tree ring data confirms it's been 2,000 years since the Northern Hemisphere had a summer as hot as last year's. Not since the height of the Roman Empire has life on Earth experienced a summer so extreme.
Büntgen, along with his colleagues, climatologists Jan Esper and Max Torbenson, from Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany, compiled early temperature records with indirect measures fromTheir results suggest the pre-industrial baseline from which we measure changes in global temperatures was ever so slightly colder than we thought.
While their results are only limited to the Northern Hemisphere, upwards of 30°N, another study from earlier this year came to a similar conclusion using, published in February by the European Union's climate service, indicated that global warming breached 1.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Comparison: 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe vs 2023 Kia Sorento PHEVs | Car ReviewsHow to choose between the 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe PHEV vs 2023 Kia Sorento PHEV? Auto123 compares two attractive plug-in SUVs options.
Read more »
2023 marks hottest summer in over 2,000 years in Northern Hemisphere, study findsA recent study published in the journal Nature reveals alarming findings about the summer of 2023, asserting it as the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in over 2,000 years.
Read more »
How scientists discovered summer 2023 was the hottest season in 2,000 years on EarthA closer look at tree rings is adding to the growing list of evidence that shows unprecedented temperatures measured on Earth over the past year.
Read more »
2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand yearsResearchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past two thousand years, almost four degrees warmer than the coldest summer during the same period.
Read more »
2023 summer hottest on record, surpasses warmest period of Roman EmpireClimate data focused on the Northern Hemisphere found that the summer of 2023 was the hottest in the past 2000 years.
Read more »
Tree rings reveal summer 2023 was the hottest in 2 millenniaSascha is a U.K.-based trainee staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Southampton in England and a master’s degree in science communication from Imperial College London. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and the health website Zoe.
Read more »