Breaking the record every day
We’re going up up up…and not in a good way.
The world’s average temperature climbed to its highest level since records began, according to provisional data from U.S. researchers, underscoring the pressing need to slash greenhouse gas emissions fueling the climate emergency.
The planet’s average daily temperature climbed to 17.18 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, an unofficial tool that is often used by climate scientists as a reference to the world’s condition.
The milestone comes just one day after global average temperatures topped 17 degrees Celsius for the first time in 44 years, when the data was first collected. The previous record of 16.92 degrees Celsius had stood since Aug. 14, 2016 — the warmest year ever recorded.
“Monday, July 3rd was the hottest day ever recorded on Planet Earth. A record that lasted until … Tuesday, July 4th,” said Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London, via Twitter.
Better take one of those cruises to Alaska or Antarctica to cool off.
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Rush Limbaugh was a pioneer in climate change denial, saying at one point — “If you believe in God, then intellectually, you cannot believe in man-made global warming. You must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something he can’t create.” — Thus rejecting the idea that humans have an effect on the climate, which is absurd on the face of it. Humans have manipulated their environments, both micro and macro, for hundreds of years. I don’t know how unearthing collosal amounts of combustibles, burning them, and otherwise wiping out ecosystems that have evolved over the course of millenia can’t have an effect. The scientists have been there recording it for quite a long time, but there are quacks who believe that “Mother Nature” or “God” will compensate for humankind’s devastation somehow (the explanations are weak). I don’t know what they’ll do when “God” or “Mother Nature” don’t show up to save the day. I guess we can say ‘told ya so’ as we dwindle away alongside them.
Speaking of opinionated blowhards who are devoid of facts to back up their propaganda, Musk thinks we need more “smart” people to share this situation with, as he launches his gigantic egomobiles into space for no other purpose than vanity, while he ignores the fact that with all those “smart” people, there will be just as many idiots to go along with them (unless your talking eugenics, which I wouldn’t put past him). It’s a hopeless war of attrition, and Musk is solidly with the idiots despite his musings to the contrary, and those he has fooled into thinking he’s “smart.” The (relatively recent) human population explosion is part of the reason we’re in this mess.
It’s not just the science anymore — people are feeling the real effects of what’s going on with the climate. I suppose if you’re wealthy it’s easier to ignore, but if it keeps going the way it is, even the climate deniers will have no choice. After all, nobody believes they’re going to die until it’s immanent.
Mr. Limbaugh was never known as a giant in the field of logic. If god made ants, I can still kill them by stepping on them. It’s “Man’s Dominion,” after all. Many Christians believe in the idea that God made humans the stewards, and we can indeed protect or destroy the Creation. Religon is never clear on anything.
And not only was July 4th the hottest day on record, June marked the hottest month ever for the oceans. Yes, El Nino is a factor, but also, the ocean is great at absorbing heat from the atmosphere. Global climate alarmists are alarmed:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/03/a-perfect-storm-scientists-ponder-if-climate-has-entered-a-new-erratic-era
Quoting Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, of Global Weirding fame:
Hayhoe is an example of a Christian who sees global warming and it hasn’t made her an atheist. Yet.
@1 Well aren’t you a little ray of sunshine!
I think that comment is in the nature of a jest. The nym is a slight clue.