The Crisis Report — 32

The Climate System is going INSANE right now. You would think more people would be paying attention.

What happens in the next few weeks will tell us how BAD things are about to get. You would think this chart would be on the NIGHTLY FUCKING NEWS.

Because we are literally on the “Brink of the Abyss”.

Start with this, 2023 was the HOTTEST year, by far, in “at least” the last 125,000 years.

See How 2023 Shattered Records to Become the Hottest Year — NYT 01/09/2024

Month after month global temperatures didn’t just break records, they surpassed them by far.

In January 2023 the Global Mean Temperature was an Observable +1.2C. By December 2023 it was almost +1.8C. That’s a +0.6C JUMP in a SINGLE YEAR.

This was reported a number of ways.

Here’s what Europe had to say.

Copernicus: 2023 is the hottest year on record, with global temperatures close to the 1.5°C limit

Global surface air temperature increase relative to the average for 1850–1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period, based on several global temperature datasets shown as 5-year averages since 1850 (left) and as annual averages since 1967 (right). Credit: C3S/ECMWF.

Monthly global mean atmospheric CO2 (left) and CH4 (right) column-averaged concentration from satellites for 2003–2023 (grey curve) and 12-month average (red curve). Data source: C3S/Obs4MIPs (v4.5) consolidated (2003–2022) and CAMS preliminary near real-time data (2023) GOSAT (CH4) and GOSAT-2 (CO2) records. Spatial range: 60S — 60N over land. Credit: C3S/CAMS/ECMWF/University of Bremen/SRON.