Short Takes — 17

However “normal” things still seem.

2024 is finally showing signs of “cooling down”. If you call being “no worse than 2023” cooling down.

They’re about to get a LOT WORSE.

QUICKLY.

No matter which way you look at it.

A Hotter Global Ocean means a Hotter Global Temperature.

Now, if you follow my stuff regularly, you know that I mostly focus on how much HEAT is building up in the oceans. However, when we talk about “Global Warming” we focus on the Surface Air Temperature (SAT).

Today I came across a great piece of analysis in the r/collapse subreddit I’ve been hanging around in lately.

ERA5 global surface air temperature — how fast is our temperature increasing? by allurbass_

u/allurbass_

Predictions

So, a while ago I saw a comment on here that peaked my interest. The comment claimed certain timespans between us hitting key temperature increases for a first time for a monthly average, to us then hitting said temperatures for our yearly average. So I started looking at the data myself and played around with them a little in Excel.