Short Takes — 22

Let me tell you what this chart means.

The fucking oceans are WARMING UP! In FREAKING October! When they should be losing HEAT.

It means, James Hansen is probably right. +1.5°C has been permanently crossed now.

Does 2024 look cooler than 2023 to you?

It means that we have already “cooled down” from the El Nino. Last year the El Nino “peaked” for several days at +2.0

2023 came in “hot” at about +1.2°C. By September it had soared to a “monthly average” of about +1.85°C. October thru November 2023, temperatures stabilized at around +1.65°C.

Here’s Berkeley Earth’s report through August 2024.

Globally, August 2024 was the warmest August since directly measured instrumental records began in 1850. August 2024 was measured as 1.69 +/- 0.09 °C (3.04 +/- 0.15 °F) above the corresponding 1850–1900 average. This exceeded the August record previously set in August 2023 by a small margin.

They state.

“This is the fifteenth consecutive month to set or tie the monthly global temperature record, with many months setting new records by large margins. In addition, August 2024 marks the fourteenth consecutive month at least 1.5 °C warmer than the corresponding 1850 to 1900 monthly average.”

Here’s what that translates into in the “real world”.