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The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres painted a pretty dire image of the world’s climate direction in 2023 when he said, “The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived. Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning.”
“Global boiling” is a clear escalation of phrasing from the less polarizing “climate change” in a time when much of the population, presidential candidates included, want to pass the planet’s state off as a hoax perpetrated by the media (I still haven’t personally received these shill checks from George Soros, so I haven’t learned how this for-profit program works). But the trend is at least leaning toward Guterres’s remarks having some data to support it. January 2024 has just been confirmed as the planet’s eighth consecutive “hottest on record,” according to experts and data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
“The average global land and ocean surface temperature was 2.29 degrees F (1.27 degrees C) above the 20th-century average of 54.0 degrees F (12.2 degrees C), ranking as the warmest January in the 175-year global climate record. This was 0.07 of a degree F (0.04 of a degree C) above the previous record from January 2016,” their report says.
“Temperatures were above average throughout the Arctic, most of northeastern North America, central Russia, southern and western Asia, Africa, South America, eastern and southeastern Asia and Australia. Africa and South America saw their warmest Januarys on record.”
January also saw record-high monthly ocean surface temperatures around the globe for the 10th consecutive month. NOAA pointed out that El Niño conditions, which are fueled by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Pacific, should transition to ENSO-neutral by April or June and we may see La Niña developing by June-August of this year.
When it’s all said and done, they say there is a 22 percent chance that 2024 finishes as the warmest year on record. There is a 99 percent chance it will finish somewhere in the top five warmest years ever recorded.
An annotated map of the world plotted with January 2024’s most significant climate events. Please see the story below as well as the report summary from NOAA NCEI
