Posted on 09/06/2024 6:37:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
[The European climate service Copernicus says Earth just sweltered to its hottest summer on record]
Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth's hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, European climate service Copernicus reported Friday.
And if this sounds familiar, that's because the records the globe shattered were set just last year as human-caused climate change, with a temporary boost from an El Nino, keeps dialing up temperatures and extreme weather, scientists said.
The northern meteorological summer — June, July and August — averaged 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit), according to Copernicus. That's 0.03 degrees Celsius (0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the old record in 2023. Copernicus records go back to 1940, but American, British and Japanese records, which start in the mid-19th century, show the last decade has been the hottest since regular measurements were taken and likely in about 120,000 years, according to some scientists.
The Augusts of both 2024 and 2023 tied for the hottest Augusts globally at 16.82 degrees Celsius (62.27 degrees Fahrenheit). July was the first time in more than a year that the world did not set a record, a tad behind 2023, but because June 2024 was so much hotter than June 2023, this summer as a whole was the hottest, Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said.
“What those sober numbers indicate is how the climate crisis is tightening its grip on us,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, who wasn't part of the research.
It's a sweaty grip because with the high temperatures, the dew point — one of several ways to measure the air's humidity — probably was at or near record high this summer for much of the world, Buontempo said.
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A-HA! Now El Nino and all of Humankind are to blame! We've got backup! *SMIRK*
That’s racist....isn’t it???
And those ‘records’ go back nearly 150 years.
A literal eyeblink in time as compared to the past billion years.
And the oldest of records weren’t all that accurate because the temperature scales weren’t standardized or even agreed upon which ones to use........................
So what if it is? Let’s see, “on record” compared to 4 1/2 billion years.
Let’s all say a prayer of thanks that the climate is warming during the period of our few generations.
Or it could not.
It’s actually been fairly mild this year in DFW.
“The Copernicus Climate Change Service”
That says it all.
Likely. So ooo ooo tired of these assclowns. Guess they believe its never ever ever been hotter. Well, on record.
They have the word Could so they’re making it up again
Yeah Yeah Yeah. Go tell Grendal Thunderbutt. Maybe she can do something about it with her allowance money she uses to buy cars.
I had a cooler than normal summer up here in North Dakota. My tomatoes still have a fair number pretty green fruit struggling to ripen up.
Where is this? Its 75 and I feel fine.
Cooler than average summer here as well in North Carolina. These climate hoaxsters are simply lying.
You grow tomatoes under the ice sheet?
13 degrees cooler today than the average. Nice.
Hotter by .03 C. That’s a rounding error.
Mild here
What bull shit.
This article is 100% a lie. We have not had one day this summer in the high 90’s, let alone a day breaking 100. Plenty of days like that in the past. This is GA. I grew up without air-conditioning. Don’t talk to me about hot summers.
The sky is falling. The sky is falling.
Also, please keep sending that grant money to me and I’ll keep telling you the sky is falling.
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