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Carlo Buontempo, the director of Copernicus, said that average temperatures his team had documented were the highest in the climate organization’s records dating back to 1850. But evidence suggests, he added, that Earth hasn’t been this warm in at least 100,000 years.
“There were simply no cities, no books, agriculture or domesticated animals on this planet the last time the temperature was so high,” he said.