“Just this last year it was one of the four hottest years in the history of the world.”
Doubt we’ve been recording actual and accurate ‘world temperature’ for very long. Maybe never. It’s all a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess).
Any reasonable WAG has some thought behind it and this one ain’t scientific.
A recent paper from England alleges nearly 60 million indigenous people were killed in Central America between 1492 and 1600 causing a drop in crop cultivation which led to more capture of CO2 leading to a drop in global temperature. The authors admit to only using models giving the desired result.
But I gave it high scores for intersectionality.