It's literally in the first paragraph of TFA: > This Monday, 3 July 2023, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Ce

It's literally in the first paragraph of TFA: > This Monday, 3 July 2023, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Key phrase: "ever recorded globally" It's obviously not the hottest day ever because four and a half billion years ago during the Hadean [1] the surface temperature of the earth would have been hundreds of degrees centigrade. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean