What I’m saying is that’s when that particular recording began. We’ve surely measured temperature and recorded it before 1979. So it’s the hottest day in the history of that particular recording. Not necessarily the hottest day ever recorded in the history of man kind as the article title makes it sound.
Well, that’s when recording began. But additional data suggests it hasn’t been this hot for 125,000 years https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-faces-hottest-day-ever-recorded-three-days-in-a-row-180982493/
What I’m saying is that’s when that particular recording began. We’ve surely measured temperature and recorded it before 1979. So it’s the hottest day in the history of that particular recording. Not necessarily the hottest day ever recorded in the history of man kind as the article title makes it sound.