Climate crisis: past eight years were the eight hottest ever, says UN

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) The past eight years were the eight hottest ever recorded, a new UN report has found, indicating the world is now deep into the climate crisis. The internationally agreed 1.5C limit for global heating is now “barely within reach”, it said.

The report, by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), sets out how record high greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are driving sea level and ice melting to new highs and supercharging extreme weather from Pakistan to Puerto Rico.

The stark assessment was published on the opening day of the UN’s Cop27 climate summit in Egypt and as the UN secretary-general warned that “our planet is on course to reach tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible”.

The WMO estimates that the global average temperature in 2022 will be about 1.15C above the pre-industrial average (1850-1900), meaning every year since 2016 has been one of the warmest on record. ...............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/06/climate-crisis-past-eight-years-were-the-eight-hottest-ever-says-un

[patphil]

1. We've had 4 days in a row of 70 degree temperatures in November!

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My wife and I live about 60 miles north of NYC on the west side of the Hudson River.
I have an Ambient Weather station, and recorded these temperatures on Nov. 2-6. It's already 69 degrees today at 9:30 AM; could easily reach 70. Normal daytime high is in the high 50's.
Our first frost was on 10/29. That's about 5 weeks later than it was back in the 90's.
A couple years ago, we actually harvested tomatoes from our garden in November.
There's no question we're warming up.

For the record, we got to 70 on Sunday, and now 73 today, Nov. 7th. That makes 6 straight days of 70 or more weather. Tomorrow, back to usual November weather.

[NickB79]

2. Same here in Minnesota

It was in the 70's last week in Minneapolis! Broke a record.

It's now cooled to a more seasonable 45F, but it's going back into the 60's this week.

[marmar]

4. Yep, same in Detroit. And it's not going back to normal until next weekend.

[Javaman]

3. We're fucked.

The reports by the WHO and the various news and government agencies around the world are very conservative at best.

Read up on what that actual climate scientists are saying.

Right now 2.5 degree rise is baked in. We ain’t going back.

Glacial melt will happen, sea rise, will a happen, the complete acidification of the oceans will happen. This is on top of whole portions of the earth experiencing wet built temps. These things will/are happening.

The very best we can hope for is to keep it below 3 degrees but that only happens if we stop pollution right now, this very moment.

That will never happen.

The truly horrible things are yet to come and it’s not just with climate change. Mass climate migration, resource wars, tropical diseases spreading north and south, more pandemics as unknown effects take hold. They are already happening but it will get much much worse.

I believe the rise of fascism in the world is a direct result of a subtle panic taking over the world.

The loss of power, the loss of wealth the loss of reason, the loss of basic rights are just a few of the coming attractions upon society.

Ask any climate scientist worth their salt and they will tell you, “if you aren’t scared shitless hair on fire terrified, there is something seriously wrong with you”

[Peacetrain]

5. This!!!!

The jackasses who think that they will die before the consequences hit get to face them head on with the rest of us now.. I hope someone who has better research skills and computer skills than me, can dig up all the times the right dismissed climate change.. attacked Al Gore and anyone else who tried to point it out and paste it everywhere..

[newdayneeded]

6. Don't worry,

in a month some super smart repub congressman will throw a snowball on the house floor to ease all of our fears that the earth is warming!

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. In the 21st century, Swiss glaciers have lost over a third of their volume

Glaciers and ice: In the European Alps, glacier melt records were shattered in 2022. Average thickness losses of between 3 and over 4 metres were measured throughout the Alps, substantially more than in the previous record year 2003.

In Switzerland, 6% of the glacier ice volume was lost between 2021 and 2022, according to initial measurements. For the first time in history, no snow outlasted the summer season even at the very highest measurement sites and thus no accumulation of fresh ice occurred. Between 2001 and 2022 the volume of glacier ice in Switzerland decreased from 77 km3 to 49 km3, a decline of more than a third.

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/eight-warmest-years-record-witness-upsurge-climate-change-impacts