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Experts link floods in Brazil and Afghanistan to climate change
Afghanistan is dealing with the worst floods it has seen in more than three decades while floods in Brazil have forced more than half a million people from their homes. Both point to what some experts call another climate emergency.
Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1
The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found. When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the hottest month, summer and year on record. But those records only go back to 1850 at best because it's based on thermometers. Now scientists can go back to the modern western calendar's year 1, when the Bible says Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth, but have found no hotter northern summer than last year's.
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