September Breaks Record for Hottest Global Temperature, Follows Warmest Summer

[Mixtas]

Source: The Daily Beast

The summer contained some of the hottest days recorded worldwide, and this fall has so far featured temperatures that are even more abnormal. According to data by the Japan Meteorological Agency obtained by The Washington Post, the global average temperature surpassed the September record by 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit. Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist for Stripe, called the measurements “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas.”

Researchers claim that the severe heat is the result of human-driven climate change due to actions such as burning fossil fuels and El Niño, a warming climate trend that is believed to reach its maximum in the winter. Studies show that the world is significantly hotter than the previous major El Niño in 2015 and 2016, giving rise to extreme weather phenomena like the floods in Libya caused by Storm Daniel last month. According to Axios, El Niño’s effects work on a delay, so 2024 may be even warmer.


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/september-breaks-record-for-hottest-global-temperature-follows-warmest-summer

[Delphinus]

1. Well, that's a new phrase:

“absolutely gobsmackingly bananas.”

[Think. Again.]

2. Just the beginning.

[Duppers]

4. Unfortunately. Yet most aren't taking this seriously.

Even here.

[LeftInTX]

3. El Nino does not cause an increase in global temperatures.

It's not even behaving like an El Nino right now. It's behaving like a La Nina with increased hurricanes, depressed E Pac season. El Nino is supposed to bring droughts to Seattle and rain to the Southwest, Instead, Seattle is getting the rain.

[Blues Heron]

5. It does in the sense that it releases stored oceanic heat into the atmosphere

Also there is quite a bit of variation among el ninos, even of the same strength.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. The graph that smacks the gob:

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-september-2023-unprecedented-temperature-anomalies

and also, this shows that the anomaly for September was even bigger than during July, when the highest global temperature ever was reached (July temperatures are normally higher, since the Northern Hemisphere is more land, and the Southern ocean)



The anomalies shown another way:

Link to tweet

[LiberaBlueDem]

7. The time to do something about this was 20 years ago

The US almost had Gore as president and he would have acted and it wouldn't be so bad today as it is.

The time to do something about global warming 20 years from now is today.

I act today for the young who I feel sorry for since they may not enjoy the world as I did. So, i cut back by reducing use, recycling what I can and reusing what I can.

And i push for EVs, solar power and more politicians like Gore, and Biden and Sanders.