Broken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say

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Source: Associated Press

Broken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say

BY SUMAN NAISHADHAM
Updated 1:34 AM EDT, April 9, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat — with both air temperatures and the world’s oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said.

March 2024 averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius (57.9 degrees Fahrenheit), exceeding the previous record from 2016 by a tenth of a degree, according to Copernicus data. And it was 1.68 degrees C (3 degrees F) warmer than in the late 1800s, the base used for temperatures before the burning of fossil fuels began growing rapidly.

Since last June, the globe has broken heat records each month, with marine heat waves across large areas of the globe’s oceans contributing.

Scientists say the record-breaking heat during this time wasn’t entirely surprising due to a strong El Nino, a climatic condition that warms the central Pacific and changes global weather patterns.

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[Think. Again.]

1. K&R

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2. How could it not be?

The heat has nowhere to go.

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3. Recent records as well

for GHG levels. It will be obvious when reviewing the actions taken over the many years that we didn't start early enough, didn't make changes deeply enough and that we allowed political/financial/corporate interference and disinformation to keep us from starting early enough and making the deep changes needed.

So despite some per vehicle emission reductions, per kilowatt hour reductions in emissions etc. we are still increasing. It is the lag factor of adoption versus results combined with an ever increasing population and consumption. In other words to a certain extent we're trying to outrun ourselves.

Our world economies are based on ever increasing profits by increasing numbers of customers, amount of consumption etc. It was never a sustainable idea to consume all the resources on spaceship Earth and have an ever increasing population but that is where the economic model we have heads to as an ultimate end.