Hundreds of US Locations Had Their Hottest Year On Record (axios.com) 67
Communities across the U.S. experienced unprecedented warmth in 2024, with numerous cities breaking temperature records set just a year earlier. Phoenix recorded an average temperature of 90.5F and endured 70 days with highs at or above 110F, surpassing its previous record of 55 days.
Major metropolitan areas including Chicago, Nashville, Washington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Burlington, Vermont, all registered their warmest year. Even northern Maine cities like Caribou and Houlton saw record-breaking temperatures, reflecting broader global warming trends that made 2024 the hottest year on record worldwide.
Major metropolitan areas including Chicago, Nashville, Washington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Burlington, Vermont, all registered their warmest year. Even northern Maine cities like Caribou and Houlton saw record-breaking temperatures, reflecting broader global warming trends that made 2024 the hottest year on record worldwide.
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Until we come for your land.
Re: Chicago - This is great (Score:3)
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I have some pristine beachfront property in Nunavut that I can sell you.
No thanks. If it's beachfront now then by the time it has warmed up enough to be useable the sea level rise will put it under water.
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Go further north and ask the Canadians how they're feeling about 2023.
https://www.science.org/doi/10... [science.org]
"Our results show that fuel aridity was the most influential driver of burn severity, summer months were more prone to severe burning, and the northern areas were most influenced by the changing climate."
Keep in mind that all the water in Lake Michigan couldn't save Chicago from Catherine O'Leary's cow.
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I was mostly kidding to point out to that dumbshit OP that people are notoriously unwilling to sit there and starve or die of thirst.
Re: Chicago - This is great (Score:2)
I was a climate refugee one summer, trying to drive anywhere cool. No luck going north, turns out when the problem is a heat trapping gas that captures the suns energy, the land of the midnight sun offers little relief. But I would advise a guy like you to have a bug out up on Mt Rainer or similar. Thin air does offer relief.
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The Hitler comparison thing triggers you?
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," -- Vance (VP Elect)
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Trump is no Hitler. Too dumb. I mean, the guy cannot even really read.
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Hitler after he shot himself before his heart stopped, sure.
The real fear I have of Trump is the scary fucking fascists he keeps around him that he's too fucking stupid to disagree with.
To be fair, I had the same problem with Bush 2 and neocons. To lament for the days when I was worried that the President was too stupid not to invade the entire fucking Middle East... Now I have to worry about the motherfucker calling his political r
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Indeed.
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"Voting can change the weather".
Meanwhile they still take hot showers. Selfish and unnecessary.
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I feel for the ones who don't deserve it, but sometimes around COVID I lost my empathy for people who not only deny reality, but try to force the rest of us to do so as well.
Too many people are getting hurt by their ignorance for me to be tolerant of it, and tolerating them is how their numbers increased to the point they have so much influence today.
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fyi, your claims don't seem to match the data... just sayin...
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The only claim he made is that we all suffer for the ignorant.
Why post as Anonymous Coward?
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This sentiment can be applied to all sides.
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Sure. If you are willing to lie. Many people are.
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Yep, same here. I was aware that the average person is really disconnected and basically understands nothing before. But COVID made that blatantly obvious and showed nicely how utterly mentally incapable a majority of the population really is. And how much damage these cretins do, even if COVID was a minor event in that regard.
Personally, I have some empathy for somebody that is dumb and know is. But these people are harming and killing others and that is completely unacceptable. I have no empathy for someb
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It's a hoax or simply does not matter (of in this case it directly benefits them- indirect costs do not exist;) the American people have spoken so reality and physics will bow to their might.
Re:Chicago - This is great (Score:4, Funny)
Physics is tyranny and undemocratic! I didn't elect Newton or Maxwell, did you?
Re:Chicago - This is great (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Chicago - This is great (Score:5, Interesting)
Except that's climate change, not *warming*. You wouldn't notice a uniform difference of 2 degree Fahrenheit in Chicago, what you are experience is a disruption of existing weather patterns. In Chicago's case it means you're having on average milder winters and hotter and more humid summers, which may well be too your liking.
It's misleading to think of global warming as just a slight warming of the global average temperature, although technically that's true. It's really the troposphere becoming extremely more energetic, causing a variety of anomalous weather conditions, including unusual cold snaps, like the cold snap of 2014 where temperatures in Chicago went to -16F. Averages can hide a log of things, like in some places where climate change will cause both more intense rainfall and drought over the course of several years.
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We should put a fence around it and lock everyone in like in Escape from L.A. / N.Y. series.
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While true, you are really wasting your breath. These people are mentally incapable and cannot even understand what you are pointing out and what happens to be reliable Science.
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Thank you for the sample size of one.
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So, the liberal residents of Chicago were saying "Global warming is great"?
Interesting....
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So, the liberal residents of Chicago were saying "Global warming is great"?
Interesting....
Did you just generalize the opinions of the majority of the City based on the /. posts of one individual?
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Everyone around here is like "Global warming is great".
No, they summarized said /. post said, you illiterate twat.
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Yup. And some people think we'll just be growing mangoes in Georgia and everything will work out just fine for us.
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So, it won't be the Peach Bowl anymore? It'll be the Mango Bowl soon? Or maybe Malaria Bowl brought to you by Canada Dry Tonic.
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And Florida's Orange Bowl will be the Screwworm Bowl.
Pasadena's Rose Bowl will be the Jellyfish Bowl and under about 4 feet of water at high tide.
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Really?
Because I thought the northern Midwest was getting hammered when the polar vortex destablizes and moves further south.
Re:Chicago - This is great (Score:4, Interesting)
I live in Chicago. Everyone around here is like "Global warming is great". The winter was milder than usual, the summer was pretty much mid-80s and fabulous except for a few days in 90s. Oh, we still have more fresh water sitting on our shores than most of the planet.
I'm not sure what part of Chicago you inhabit, but everyone around here is well aware that this past fall continued the trend of ever-worsening and -lengthening allergy seasons, that this winter (which has barely started) has already has one polar vortex-induced cold spike down into the single digits (and more can be expected due to climate-induced changes to global weather patterns), and that the price of food has seen unpredictable spikes in response to climate-induced reductions in crop yields happening around the planet. "Great" is not a word anyone around here is using to describe these changes. Your mileage, however, may well vary.
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Well then, get prepared for the bug invasions, especially the mosquitos. They love warm climates and you have plenty of water to incubate them. Better get your shots for the tropical diseases they bring, at least the ones we have for some tropical diseases. And get them before that joker who will head HHS gets around to banning the vaccines. While you are at it, better load up the kids on the mumps and measles vaccines before he kills those off. And polio, do not forget polio, Kennedy is big on infecting th
Pfft. all thermometers are biased. (Score:3)
Shouldn’t have to say it but it’s sarcasm.
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Especially American thermometers. The ones in the rest of the world show numbers which are far lower and it doesn't feel any colder outside. How can you people even survive on 110 degree days. I can't even get water to that temperature, it maxes out at 100 and burns my skin if I touch it!
Re:more details (Score:4, Interesting)
Now if you are trying to equate 2012's solar activity with the heat wave that impacted the central US.. Well.. correlation of an event isn't causality. Hell, I stubbed my toe when in Chicago immediately preceding the wealth events.. that doesn't mean the pain and damnation I uttered at the city had anything to do with the weather.. its just a correlation of events.
So again, how does your "sunspot" cycle post have anything to do with the fact that humans are working overtime at making the planet uninhabitable for humans (at least as we are now).
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>> see those state highs as probably a better surrogate for climate
And why would that be? Record high temps have been happening year after year recently, not just in a couple of outliers like 1936.
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Not trying to troll, just pointing out that we have not exceeded the records for most states, despite global warming. That could change --- global warming + high sunspot activity, but picking a bunch of cities that are hot is not good way to demonstrate (overall) pervasively high temps. A less biased way of looking at these temps is including all the
Re:more details (Score:5, Informative)
Your cite is more than 30 years old. Here is a chart that shows the global temperature anomaly versus sun activity;
https://science.nasa.gov/clima... [nasa.gov]
As the report said, 2024 was "the hottest year on record worldwide".
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1) the original article was bs. You can't demonstrate the temperature is rising by looking at record temps in some "hot" cities. The very definition of a biased convenience sample. That is the reason I brought up the state highs, which look at "all" temperatures.
2) The fact that most (26) states have their record temperatures set in the 30's should give some pause to the whole "unprecedented" record temperature narrativ
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>> But it seems solar iridescence
My cite refers to "the Sun's energy received by Earth (yellow line) in watts (units of energy) per square meter since 1880". It isn't a visual phenomenon and it includes whatever gets emitted by sunspots, flares, etc.
>> You can't demonstrate the temperature is rising by looking at record temps in some "hot" cities
I don't see where anyone is making that claim. The article explicitly states "The unusually high U.S. temperatures during 2024 match global trends", and
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Many attribute these record highs to increased output from the sun during years of peak sunspot activity (like in '36 and '37). See Science, below...
Many people are Amish and hate all things technology. I suggest you join them if you are going to repeat theories that have been thoroughly debunked over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
What-About-Isms... (Score:3)
How much of the 'city temperatures' is global vs just locally poor planning and construction management contributing to a localized problem?
Yes, I do notice it is at least much more humid in my little spot vs the 1980s, and winters simply aren't winter-like anymore. I am not denying we are heating up to a degree (pun intended) - but focusing on known heat-islands is lazy click-bait to feed the alarmists.
Can't be (Score:4, Funny)
There's snow outside. :-)
As Enver Hoxha might have said... (Score:3)
Urban heat Island effect MITFA (Score:5, Informative)
How can you have an article wittering on about record temperatures in cities that doesn't mention the Urban Heat Island effect? Even our woke state governmenet acknowledges that
"Climate change is increasing average temperatures across NSW. We are already seeing an increase in annual average temperatures, and the number and duration of extreme hot weather events. In large cities, average temperatures can be 1C to 3C higher than average rural temperatures.
These higher temperatures are caused by the materials used in buildings and infrastructure, which absorb more heat compared with natural environments. The lower levels of vegetation in urban areas also reduces the natural cooling that plants provide. Urban heat can be increased by human activities that generate heat, such as transport, industry, and electricity usage.
Urban heat and the urban heat island effect are increasing the heat-related impacts of climate change in urban areas, making increased temperatures and extreme hot weather events more severe.
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NSW (Score:3)
So why don't you move to the outback where it should be cooler, eh Bruce?
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So why don't you move to the outback where it should be cooler, eh Bruce?
I think even the dingos will tell him to piss off.
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How can you have an article wittering on about record temperatures in cities that doesn't mention the Urban Heat Island effect?
That's been done. It's not significant in the trend. And that was research funded by climate sceptics
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Its too cold for global warming (Score:2)
Every time they talk about global warming in the winter, the deniers love to talk about how there is 6" of snow on the ground.
Maybe we could get the deniers to have better buy-in if we told them the cause was wearing masks. As we all know, there was no global warming before Covid. Wearing masks makes your face hot and glasses steam up (a proven fact!). That heat has to go somewhere, and its the cause of global warming. The solution? Stop wearing masks so the heat doesn't build up.
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This is meaningless. One has to look at whether the community is in an increasing urban heat dome before using it for this kind of statistic.