Our instrumental record doesn’t stretch back far, but proxies reveal the non-tropical Northern Hemisphere has not been this hot for millennia. The Northern Hemisphere’s summer was a scorcher, pushed off the charts by a combination of global heating and El Niño. Given the much higher baseline today, and how exceptional it was, some people speculated last summer may have been the … [Read more...] about Not Only The Hottest On Record, Summer 2023 Was Hottest For 2,000 Years