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I am writing this on the 16th anniversary of my admission to Trinty West ER where my recovery was deemed a miracle facilitated by Dr. Edgar Sanchez, MD in cardiovascular & pulmonary medicine ... and other medical professionals at Trinity.
The recent tree core ring research has revealed that the summer of 2023 (June-August) air temperatures were the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years. The instrumental evidence only reaches back as far as 1850 at best, and most records are limited to certain regions.
The fact is that over the past 60 years, global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions has caused El Nino events to become stronger, resulting in hotter summers. The study compared the temperatures of June, July, and August in 2023 to those in the same months of 536 CE -- the year many historians cite as the worst year to be alive as it launched the coldest decade in millennia due to major volcanic activity in Iceland and an 18-month fog that blocked the sun causing crop failure. The difference from that coldest summer to the recent hottest one was 3.93 degrees Celsius or 39.074 Fahrenheit.
I am so fortunate to be on earth to engage in the battle of climate change.
Michael Traubert
Wellsburg