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2023 on Track To Be the Hottest Year on Record, Say Scientists (theguardian.com) 166

Posted by msmash from the grim-forecasts dept.
The world is set to have been hotter in 2023 than in any other year on record, scientists have declared, before a landmark climate summit this month. From a report: "We can say with near certainty that 2023 will be the warmest year on record, and is currently 1.43C above the pre-industrial average," said Samantha Burgess, the deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service. "The sense of urgency for ambitious climate action going into Cop28 has never been higher." The Copernicus scientists found last month was the hottest October on record globally, with temperatures 1.7C above what they were thought to have been during the average October in the late 1800s.

By burning fossil fuels and destroying nature, humans have pumped heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere that have raised the temperature of planet by 1.2C since the Industrial Revolution. The global temperature anomaly for October 2023 was the second highest across all months in its dataset, the scientists found, behind only the month before. "The fact that we're seeing this record hot year means record human suffering," said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London. "Within this year, extreme heatwaves and droughts made much worse by these extreme temperatures have caused thousands of deaths, people losing their livelihoods, being displaced etc. These are the records that matter. That is why the Paris agreement is a human rights treaty, and not keeping to the goals in it, is violating human rights on a vast scale."
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  • "above what they were thought to have been during the average October in the late 1800s...

    Really? THAT bullshit is what we're supposed to hang some trillion-dollar emergency save-the-planet budget on? THAT, is sitting on the argument side of 'hottest ever'? Bullshit reads like the fantastical best guesstimate effort of a 4th grader giving a book report on something they've never read before.

    There are plenty willing to take action...if and when a logical argument comes forward instead of this political clickbait bullshit. Do Better..

    • Just pay them a lot more taxes to save the world from hellfire, geekmux.

      Did you see the Ted Koppel piece from 1982 that's been going around?

      Florida may be half-submerged by the 1990's!

      Meanwhile the government isn't panic-building a thousand nuclear reactors like Nixon called for.

      Because they would if they believed their own propaganda. See the Club of Rome report from the mid-80's. Climate change, financial crashes, and pandemics will keep the people in a state of control.

      Such a lucky GUESS!

      • Unsurprisingly, President Carter ALSO called for developing nuclear power for energy, BUT the fossil fuel industry had already started paying "environmental" groups to lobby against it, resulting in decades of coal power plant development and increasing the pace of climate change

        It would be funny if it were not threatening our way of life

      • Do you feel better or worse after spewing the confirmation of human ignorance? Does it make Wisdom feel justified about any effort at all to educate those who don't give a shit enough to even save themselves? A GPS outage today would paralyze millions who can't navigate life without it. A food shortage for more than a week would starve millions more who don't care to plan beyond 24 hours. It's no longer a lucky guess assuming incompetence in leadership or the voters who elect them. It's more like a sur

  • There are a number of ways to reduce your carbon emissions while increasing your comfort level. One way is to build a rocket mass heater, which can warm your butt directly. They use far less fuel than most other forms of heat. Some people run theirs all winter with just the sticks that fall in their yard. You can compare different kinds of heat by looking at this infographic. [permies.com]

    • Well, I'm definitely convinced by a janky website that looks like it crawled out of geocities and onto kickstarter.

      I love the videos that look like they were illustrated by JeffK (for a contemporary reference on how the website looks).

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