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BumRushDaShow

(143,112 posts)
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 08:42 AM Nov 7

European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record -- again

Source: AP

Updated 7:39 AM EST, November 7, 2024


CHICAGO (AP) — For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it’s ever been. And for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming compared to the pre-industrial average, the European climate agency Copernicus said Thursday.

“It’s this relentless nature of the warming that I think is worrying,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus. Buontempo said the data clearly shows the planet would not see such a long sequence of record-breaking temperatures without the constant increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere driving global warming.

He cited other factors that contribute to exceptionally warm years like last year and this one. They include El Nino — the temporary warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide — as well as volcanic eruptions that spew water vapor into the air and variations in energy from the sun. But he and other scientists say the long-term increase in temperatures beyond fluctuations like El Nino is a bad sign.

“A very strong El Nino event is a sneak peek into what the new normal will be about a decade from now,” said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist with the nonprofit Berkeley Earth.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-global-warming-copernicus-extreme-weather-hottest-year-92c46dfd01133f14c437c5d2bf5a5f8b



Link to EU Copernicus PRESS RELEASE - Copernicus: 2024 virtually certain to be the warmest year and first year above 1.5°C
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CousinIT

(10,292 posts)
1. Damn sure the tyrant King and oligarchs that now own & run the US isn't going to
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 08:44 AM
Nov 7

do anything about climate change. We are a failed Democracy here, so count us out.

Marthe48

(19,133 posts)
4. November in Oh and people are still mowing their gd yards
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 09:23 AM
Nov 7

I guess we'll have to rely on European agencies for information.

The criminals who took over the U.S. didn't take us back to the 1950s. They are taking us back to pre-colonial times.

LudwigPastorius

(10,922 posts)
7. Just wait til all the methane from thawed permafrost hits the atmosphere.
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 04:48 PM
Nov 7

Most climate change models don't take that into account, because scientists just don't know how many millions of tons of CH4 is locked up in the arctic.

The tipping point for irreversible warming was probably some time in 2023.

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