The Crisis Report — 44
2023 was a BAD year for the Earth’s Climate.
In more ways than you might expect.
Surface Air Temperature is the metric most people think of when they think of “Global Warming”. As you can see, global temperatures increased dramatically in 2023.
From about +1.2°C over the GISS baseline in January to about +1.7°C over baseline by December.
Now, when the mainstream press reports the 2023 temperature as being +1.56°C over baseline. That’s the GISS average for the year.
The year started low, then ended high. +1.56°C is somewhere in the middle and in a “normal” year that average would be a reasonable way to discuss the global temperature for 2023.
Look at the graph. 2023 wasn’t NORMAL. Temperatures dropped from a peak of around +1.9°C (the EU say +2.1°C) to about +1.7°C over baseline at the end of September 2023. Then they STAYED THERE.
That’s what happens during an El Nino. The earth warms up the “first year” and that heat carries into the winter of the “second year”. That heat warms the Northern Hemisphere and bleeds off into the heat sinks of the High Latitudes.
As the temperature of the oceans fall, the global temperature falls, and the planet cools down from the heat release…
