understating global warming

The headline in news.yahoo.com reads "Global temperature highest in millennia", and starts out : "The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years". (Note: a millennium is one thousand years, which can be misleading).

.But I would say that is very much of an understatement.Later in the article, it gets more specific : "That brings the overall temperature to the warmest in the current interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago."

Near the end of the article, we finally see the statement : "The study said the recent warming has brought global temperature to a level within about one degree Celsius — 1.8 degree Fahrenheit — of the maximum temperature of the past million years.

Maybe the person who edited this article is a Republican.