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I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New
- gardenfelder 3y agoAs global temperatures shattered records and reached dangerous new highs over and over the past few months, my climate scientist colleagues and I have just about run out of adjectives to describe what we have seen. Data from Berkeley Earth released on Wednesday shows that September was an astounding 0.5 degree Celsius (almost a full degree Fahrenheit) hotter than the prior record, and July and August were around 0.3 degree Celsius (0.5 degree Fahrenheit) hotter. 2023 is almost certain to be the hottest year since reliable global records began in the mid-1800s and probably for the past 2,000 years (and well before that).
- 1970-01-01 3y agoThis bait-and-switch article goes down exactly how you think it will. Models are accurate, and Earth is getting hotter. There is absolutely nothing 'new' here.
- pier25 3y agoThe claim is about the acceleration of warming which has been a controversial topic for many years. > Among my colleagues in climate science, there are sharp divisions on this question, and some aren’t convinced it’s happening. Climate scientists generally focus on longer-term changes over decades rather than year-to-year variability, and some of my peers in the field have expressed concerns about overinterpreting short-term events like the extremes we’ve seen this year. In the past I doubted acceleration was happening, in part because of a long debate about whether global warming had paused from 1998 to 2012. In hindsight, that was clearly not the case. I’m worried that if we don’t pay attention today, we’ll miss what are increasingly clear signals.
- 1970-01-01 3y agoIt should be an opinion piece. It's not.
- howard941 3y agoBut it says "Opinion" and "Guest Essay"
- 1970-01-01 3y agoAh, my paywall scraper removed it! I retract my statement, carry on.
- howard941 3y agoIt's all good. And to be fair the labels are in smallish type, strangely colored, and really not as obvious as they should have been.