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To the editor:
I am writing this on the 16th anniversary of my admission to the emergency room at Trinity Medical Center West, where my recovery was deemed a miracle facilitated by Dr. Edgar Sanchez, who specialized in cardiovascular and pulmonary medicine, as well as other medical professionals at Trinity.
This week's tree core ring research has revealed that during last summer, June through 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 during 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 of last year 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 a major volcanic eruption in Iceland and an18-month fog that blocked the sun causing crop failure, and bringing on the plague known as the Black Death.
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