Posted on 12/06/2023 7:41:58 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Earth’s temperature was off the charts this year, and scientists just confirmed what much of planet already felt coming: 2023 will officially be the hottest year on record.
The analysis from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found this year’s global temperature will be more than 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels — close to the 1.5-degree threshold in the Paris climate agreement, and beyond which scientists say humans and ecosystems will struggle to adapt.
Every month since June has been the hottest such month on record, and November piled on. The month was roughly 1.75 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels, and two days soared beyond 2 degrees, worrying scientists about what this means for the planet in the coming years.
The report comes as delegates from more than 150 countries are in Dubai for COP28, the UN’s annual climate summit, where the discussion over whether to phase out planet-warming fossil fuels has been heated.
“The timing could not be more urgent,” Brenda Ekwurzel, director of climate science at the Union of Concerned Scientists, who is not involved with the report, told CNN.
“Wealthy and high-emitting countries, which have contributed the most to this record-breaking year,” she added, “have a greater responsibility to make a fair, fast and funded phase out of fossil fuels to help limit the increasing extreme weather and climate change impacts.”
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“Hottest year on record...”
A lie of omission is a lie nonetheless...without including the context of what constitutes the ‘record’, this statement is intended to deceive.
“The record” in this case, goes back less than a half century, when satellites started providing consistent observed data, with modern accurate instruments, over the entire planet. We are nowhere near even establishing a baseline for that data, let alone making any conclusions about the Earth’s average temperatures. Indeed, a large percentage of the globe doesn’t have any observed and recorded temperature data prior to World War II.
Thank god the earth is healing and recovering from the horrors brought by low temperatures , death and famine.
And these clowns want to stop it and return to that? What are they, a death cult?
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