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2023 Was Already Over 1.5 °C Above Pre Industrial Averages

submitted by newtboy

2 months 4 weeks ago

The warmest January on record indicates a sweltering 2024 to come.

The EU's climate change service says that for the first time, yearly average global temperatures have been more than 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than in the pre-industrial era, for an entire year. Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees (averaged over a decade) is a key aim of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Breaching that mark even temporarily shows how difficult it's becoming to achieve that goal. Independent studies have shown even higher recorded temperature increase averages (1.54°C) than the EU model (1.52°C). The NOAA estimate was 1.48°C.

The picture in Europe was mixed. While the Nordic countries were significantly cooler than the average for the reference period, it was significantly warmer in the south of the continent.
It was also warmer than average in eastern Canada, in Northwest Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, while it was warmer than average in western Canada, the center of the USA and most of Siberia were colder than average. was colder than average.

2023 was officially the hottest year in recorded history, and may well be the coolest year in our future. The hottest 10 years in recorded history were the last 10 years, with last year at the top.

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newtboy

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It’s scary to me that we found out that today (last year in fact) we are already exceeding the temperature spike most people believe is predicted for 2050, the temperature at which scientists determined KNOWN feedback loops may outpace our ability to mitigate greenhouse gasses even with maximum effort on all fronts and spending every possible dollar and still (almost) NO ONE CARES.

It has barely made the news anywhere, definitely not on any of the major U.S. networks and will never be on anti-science righty media.

I would shout “WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE!” But it’s abundantly clear humanity is completely comatose and shows no sign of recognizing the situation we are in no matter what they see outside their own windows daily.

The pot is boiling and we frogs are still arguing over how wet the water is.