Continuing massive temperature anomalies continued in October.
We WILL have a new hottest year record.
Even Dr Roy Spencer’s UAH satellite record, normally a laggard indicating warming, has shown the pop.
Zeke Hausfather says “slightly less gobsmacking”.
The world is set to have been hotter in 2023 than in any other year on record, scientists have declared, before a landmark climate summit this month.
“We can say with near certainty that 2023 will be the warmest year on record, and is currently 1.43C above the pre-industrial average,” said Samantha Burgess, the deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service. “The sense of urgency for ambitious climate action going into Cop28 has never been higher.”
The Copernicus scientists found last month was the hottest October on record globally, with temperatures 1.7C above what they were thought to have been during the average October in the late 1800s.
My fault! My fault!
I left the house without turning the volcanic island arc off.
“The sense of urgency for ambitious climate action going into Cop28 has never been higher.”
Good thing the right people are in charge in the right place: fossil fuel executives & the President Sultan in Dubai, UAE.
“‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report
“The energy plans of the petrostates contradicted their climate policies and pledges, the report said. The plans would lead to 460% more coal production, 83% more gas, and 29% more oil in 2030 than it was possible to burn if global temperature rise was to be kept to the internationally agreed 1.5C. The plans would also produce 69% more fossil fuels than is compatible with the riskier 2C target.
“The countries responsible for the largest carbon emissions from planned fossil fuel production are India (coal), Saudi Arabia (oil) and Russia (coal, oil and gas). The US and Canada are also planning to be major oil producers, as is the United Arab Emirates.”
COP28 is just another in a long line of opportunities to further delay climate solutions. All 28 COPs have been little more than spectacles meant to obscure the relentless agreement between wealthy countries’ governments & fossil fuel corporations to continue to profit & dominate, no matter what. Their continued joke about staying under 1.5, even 2, had gotten old before Paris, COP 21. Now it’s just sadistically rubbing the world’s people’s faces in it.