Scientists clear up a serious local weather thriller, confirming Earth is hotter than it has been in not less than 120 centuries – The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette

Scientists have resolved a controversial but key climate change mystery, bolstering climate models and confirming that Earth is hotter than it’s been in at least 12,000 years, and perhaps even the last 128,000 years, according to the most recent annual global temperature data. 
This mystery is known as the “Holocene temperature conundrum,” and it describes a debate that has gone on over how temperatures have changed during the Holocene, an epoch that describes the last 11,700 years of our planet’s…

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