GHG Daily
1/29/2016
Using data gleaned from tree rings and historical documentary evidence, a group of 45 scientists from 13 countries have concluded that the high summer temperatures experienced by much of Europe in recent decades represent the warmest summers on the continent in the last two millennia. “Summer temperatures during the last 30 [years] (1986–2015) have been anomalously high and we find no evidence of any period in the last 2000 [years] that has been so warm,” according to the study.
“We now have a detailed picture of how summer temperatures have changed over Europe for more than two thousand years and we can use that to test the climate models that are used to predict the impacts of future global warming,” the coordinator of the study, professor Jürg Luterbacher of the University of Giessen in Germany, said in a release.
