https://axios.com/earth--hottest-year-neared-paris-target
During the hottest year on record, the global average surface temperature fell just shy of the 1.5-degree warming limit under the Paris climate agreement.
The climate of 2023 was the hottest seen in at least 125,000 years; for the first time in instrument records, some daily global average temperatures went well above the other Paris guardrail of 2°C.
The year had a global average temperature that was 1.48°C (2.6°F) above preindustrial levels during 1850-1900.
Last year as a whole crushed 2016, which was the previous record in Copernicus' ERA5 temperature data set, coming in at 0.17 °C (0.30°F) above 2016's global annual average.
Data released Tuesday morning from Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service lays out just how many significant climate records were surpassed during 2023, amplified mainly by burning fossil fuels for energy.
Last year's heat raises questions among scientists about whether climate change has accelerated or even passed a tipping point. It started with a cooling La Niña event in the tropical Pacific Ocean and ended with a strong El Niño.
@VengefulThrushRepublican4mos4MO
What was the global average temperature 125,000 years ago? Please answer with a straight face.
@Equ4l1tyJackLibertarian4mos4MO
I want to know the global temperature 124,987 years ago, on 11 March, at 6pm please.
@VengefulThrushRepublican4mos4MO
It was... checking notes... 73.2 degrees with a wind of 20 knots out of the SW.
@QuicheAriaConstitution4mos4MO
And let's not forget that the concept of "global average temperature" is total bunk
@ThrilledS0cialJustic3Green4mos4MO
Why?
@QuicheAriaConstitution4mos4MO
Beyond the nonsense of measuring 'average global temperature,' which tells us nothing, we aren't living in a flat space with evenly distributed temperature, it's also a measurement without context.
A Spring day in Ohio can start at 30° peak at 75° and end at 20°
Is 2° bad? Why? How does this reflect in the desert vs. the arctic? Where is the measurement being taken?
This isn't the 'climate.'
The globe does not have a climate.
This is essentially a scare-looking chart that tells us nothing useful but easily manipulates liberals.
@ThrilledS0cialJustic3Green4mos4MO
This doesn't show the idea is "bunk".
Some of the "objections" are also incredibly stupid. This is like claiming averages in general are "nonsense" because they don't tell you what the variance of the data is. That doesn't make the very concept of an average nonsense or bunk.
@QuicheAriaConstitution4mos4MO
I don't have time to answer you now. I week try to get back, but it's not a concept rooted in science
@LynxLeoRepublican4mos4MO
How many of you think scientists can measure the changes in earth's temperature over the past 125,000 years?
@VoterIDPuddingGreen4mos4MO
It's been measured accurately for the past few decades and the global mean has definitely risen. You're correct that there are many assumptions made when going further back than that.
@LynxLeoRepublican4mos4MO
Absurd. There is no way to do it.
@SimilarP0pulistLibertarian4mos4MO
You are correct, it is modeling.
I would go one further and point out that temperature measurement has been getting less accurate over the last 40 years...
Urban island effect is mostly what is being observed. So if we don't have the last 100 years correct, 125K?
@VoterIDPuddingGreen4mos4MO
Actually geologist can tell the sea levels were much higher during the last interglacial period. Which indicates it was warmer.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
...And because we measured it for the past few decades we can somehow know what the temperature was 125,000 years ago? You've used a straw man fallacy, attacking a position we do not hold in order to swipe at our real decision in a way that doesn't show the obvious intellectual bankruptcy of your neohippy views. None of us ever claimed that logical records of temperature have not been kept for the past few decades, what we claimed, that records were not kept 125,000 years ago, has no been addressed, because it is clearly and demonstrably true.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
No because there’s this thing called analyzing the environment, such as checking rock patterns or fossilized life for the conditions and acidity of its time, allowing as one of many methods to help determine the approximate heat of this planet millenia ago.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
"Approximate heat of this planet millennia ago"? Sorry, but we can't use approximations when we're talking about a rise in temperature of a couple degrees, sometimes even a fraction of a degree! They can't tell you what the average temperature was 125,000 years ago in any specific detail AT ALL. They can just pull an answer out of their butts and force-feed it to the country through the media to gain more control over our lives. Don't let your trust in "science" trump common sense, the only reason science has advanced as far as it has is because people like Galileo (who, by the way, was a Christian) questioned the majority's agenda and made great discoveries because they had an open mind. That's how we learned the earth isn't flat and it's not the centre of the universe.
@9HYTMH84mos4MO
climate change is so important to stop
@9HYSZ3H4mos4MO
I belive we should have reform and scientific innovation and implementation of these innovation throughout the united states.
@ISIDEWITH4mos4MO
If 2023 surpassed the Paris Agreement's warming limits, what personal actions are you inspired to take to help prevent further temperature increases?
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
None, because climate change is a hoax.
@ISIDEWITH4mos4MO
Can we, as individuals, truly make a difference in combating climate change when such extreme temperature records are being set?
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
No.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Well, not much can be done individually, but a lot can be done as groups.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Yeah, just give government, the most evil institution in the history of humanity, absolute power over our lives, liberties, and properties and everything will be alright!
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
No, control said government and hold it accountable. Then use it as the people’s apparatus to make climate change easier to actually fight. The phrase “power to the people” exists as a socialist slogan for a reasoj
@ISIDEWITH4mos4MO
How does knowing 2023 was the warmest year on record make you feel about the future of our planet?
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Optimistic – more people die of cold exposure than heat exposure every year
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