{"id":68242,"date":"2024-05-19T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68242"},"modified":"2024-05-19T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:23:22","slug":"tree-rings-reveal-summer-2023-was-the-hottest-in-2-millennia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68242","title":{"rendered":"Tree rings reveal summer 2023 was the hottest in 2 millennia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tree rings reveal summer 2023 was the hottest in 2 millennia<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Tree rings suggest the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, with temperatures exceeding those of the coldest summer in the same period by 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 Celsius).\"Three<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A photo taken in May 2024 shows three women shielding themselves from the scorching sun with a cloth in Mumbai, India.<\/span>\u00a0(Image credit: SOPA Images \/ Contributor via Getty Images)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Last year’s summer was the hottest in 2,000 years, ancient tree rings reveal.<\/p>\n

Researchers already knew that 2023 was one for the books, with average temperatures soaring past anything recorded since 1850. But there are no measurements stretching further back than that date, and even the available data is patchy, according to a study published Tuesday (May 14) in the journal\u00a0Nature<\/u><\/a>. So, to determine whether 2023 was an exceptionally hot year relative to the millennia that preceded it, the study authors turned to records kept by nature.<\/p>\n