Hottest January on record mystifies climate scientists
Hottest January on record mystifies climate scientists
EU monitor says global temperatures were 1.75C above preindustrial levels, extending run of unprecedented highs
EU monitor says global temperatures were 1.75C above preindustrial levels, extending run of unprecedented highs
Climate scientists had expected this exceptional spell to subside after a warming El Niño event peaked in January 2024 and conditions shifted to an opposing, cooling La Niña phase. But the heat has lingered at record or near-record levels, prompting debate about what other factors could be driving it to the top end of expectations.
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EU monitor says global temperatures were 1.75C above preindustrial levels,
I cannot comprehend how it isn't more? The weather has changed noticeably from just 15 years ago.
The past 5 years where I live (Denmark), we've only had very few days with frost through the whole winter, even the nights are almost all frost free.
Back in the 70's, almost all of January and February would have frost.I know memory is fallible, but can I really be that wrong? When we also have stories from around the norrth pole, that the temperatues now are a massive 20° C warmer than usual for this time of year.
The scientists are probably right, they obviously have lots more data then me, it just seems worse here than 1.75° C here.
The article claims it's wetter some places but drier in others. But we read a lot about record rain all over the world. And mostly places that are already dry are getting drier?Seems to me the trend is that we are getting a LOT more rain, which is only logical, because warmer air suck more water from the oceans, so rain is what probably 80% of the globe should expect more of.
Arctic and temperate areas see more change, land masses heat up faster than oceans, etc.
That number is the global average, meaning there will be spots on the planet that see more change, and some that haven't seem much. While going strictly from memory isn't the most accurate way to be sure, don't doubt your gut feelings. Things have been changing.
That's right. There are places on Earth that are now 4-5 °C hotter than before while others are now colder. But on average the temperature increased by 1.75 °C.
Where I live we get less frost in winter too. But it is also expected that a lot of places near the equator will heat up so much in the next few decades that human settlements will be impossible. Those people will then migrate. Guess where they'll go to.
They will patiently wait for visas to neighboring countries we also don't care about, while their children starve?
This is true, but we don't have as much extreme weather here as many other places. Storms are a bit stronger, temperatures are a bit higher, and we get a lot of rain. But nothing catastrophic, so from the news it just seems like most places are actually worse than here? There are places around the world that are becoming unlivable due to extreme heat.
Maybe it's just hard to understand what the numbers really mean, but for sure it's very noticeable now,which it wasn't in the early dqays of the talk of global warming.
PS:
I prefer and recommend to call it global warming, because that's what it really is, and also what the scientists termed it originally.
To call it climate change is giving in to global warming deniers, that used the term climate change exclusively for political reasons.
Climate change is a natural global cycle, but global warming is threatening life on earth. HUGE difference.It's both terms. There never was a name switching, that's a conspiracy made up by climate deniers to create a feeling of question. Global warming is the cause, climate change is what is occurring. And one of the first papers that warned of this occurrence actually used the the term "climatic change". If you feel climate change isn't a strong enough phrase, then separate it from the natural version by calling this period "abrupt climate change", because it's the rate of change that is the real problem, as nothing can adapt well to the sudden shift, maybe even not us.
No it's literally global warming because the increased greenhouse gasses are creating a greenhouse effect causing global warming.
Climate change is part of a normal cycle too, so calling it climate change camouflages the fact that it's human made, and will never be able to get back to balance by itself as with natural changes in the climate.I'm just pointing out they are two parts of the same thing, and both have been used in actual science research for close to a century now. More correct reporting tends to describe it as man-made climate change, caused by global warming. They go hand in hand. I get what your point is, but that same point has also been used by deniers to say that everything's fine because climate change is normal. This one is not.