Climate Change Tracker: World is at its hottest in 12,000 years
3 years, 10 months ago

Climate Change Tracker: World is at its hottest in 12,000 years

Live Mint  

Although human beings have been around for about 200,000 years, we have never had it as good as in the past 12,000 years or so. Around then, Earth entered a new geological epoch called the Holocene, one marked by mild temperatures and a stable climate, a period in which the human race thrived, built civilisations and developed sophisticated culture. A new, important study published on 27 January states that Earth today is hotter than it has been in the past 12,000 years. The study, Seasonal Origin Of The Thermal Maxima At The Holocene And The Last Interglacial, published in Nature, states that annual sea surface temperatures have been increasing steadily since the dawn of the Holocene. For the longest time, research has suggested that global temperatures had warmed up for the first 6,000 years of the Holocene; this has been seized upon to undermine climate models.

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2024 will be world's hottest on record, EU scientists say
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

2024 will be world's hottest on record, EU scientists say

The Hindu  

This year is "virtually certain" to eclipse 2023 as the world's warmest since records began, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. C3S said that from January to October, the average global temperature had been so high that 2024 was sure to be the world's hottest year — unless the temperature anomaly in the rest of the …

European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record — again
1 month, 2 weeks ago

European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record — again

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it’s ever been. And for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming compared to the pre-industrial average, the European climate agency Copernicus said Thursday. Going over that number in 2024 doesn’t mean the overall trend line …

Earth’s ‘greatest natural wonder’ faces existential threat from hottest ocean temperatures in 400 years
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Earth’s ‘greatest natural wonder’ faces existential threat from hottest ocean temperatures in 400 years

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Great Barrier Reef, the largest living ecosystem on Earth, is facing an existential threat, …

Last Sunday was Earth's hottest day in all recorded history, European climate agency says
5 months ago

Last Sunday was Earth's hottest day in all recorded history, European climate agency says

Hindustan Times  

WASHINGTON — On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday. Last Sunday was Earth's hottest day in all recorded history, European climate agency says Copernicus' preliminary data shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 …

Climate change: Planet endures 12 straight months of unprecedented heat
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate change: Planet endures 12 straight months of unprecedented heat

CNN  

CNN — The planet just marked a “shocking” new milestone, enduring 12 consecutive months of unprecedented heat, according to new data from Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service. The 12-month heat streak was “shocking but not surprising” given human-caused climate change, said Carlo Buontempo, the director of Copernicus, who warned of worse to come. Copernicus released its data the …

New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating
6 months, 2 weeks ago

New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating

Associated Press  

The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. They said even with a faster warming rate they don’t see evidence of significant acceleration in human-caused climate change beyond increased fossil fuel burning. “If you look at this world accelerating or going through a …

Summer 2023 was the hottest in past 2,000 years: Study
7 months, 1 week ago

Summer 2023 was the hottest in past 2,000 years: Study

Hindustan Times  

Last summer, as wildfires swept across the Mediterranean, roads buckled in Texas and heatwaves strained power grids in China, it was not just the warmest summer on record, but the hottest one in some 2,000 years, new research has found. Women cover themselves to protect from the sun on a hot summer day European scientists last year established that the …

Summer of 2023 was hottest in 2,000 years, study finds
7 months, 1 week ago

Summer of 2023 was hottest in 2,000 years, study finds

LA Times  

An extreme summer marked by deadly heat waves, explosive wildfires and record warm ocean temperatures will go down as among the hottest in the last 2,000 years, new research has found. Notably, Copernicus found that the summer months of June, July and August last year measured 1.18 degrees warmer than average — still hot, but not nearly as warm as …

April 2024 was hottest on record, marking 11 months of new highs
7 months, 2 weeks ago

April 2024 was hottest on record, marking 11 months of new highs

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The streak of record global temperatures has continued for the 11th month in a row, …

The world has been its hottest on record for 10 months straight. Scientists can't fully explain why
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The world has been its hottest on record for 10 months straight. Scientists can't fully explain why

ABC  

In short: Leading climate scientists say there is a margin to the extreme heat the world has experienced over the past year that can't be explained by global warming or known climate drivers. Leading climate scientists say there is a margin to the extreme heat the world has experienced over the past year that can't be explained by global warming …

Earth has obliterated a worrying record for the ninth straight month
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Earth has obliterated a worrying record for the ninth straight month

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Earth has obliterated global heat records for the ninth straight month — with February, …

Data Munching | The numbers don’t lie: the Earth is warming, and rapidly
10 months, 1 week ago

Data Munching | The numbers don’t lie: the Earth is warming, and rapidly

Hindustan Times  

Earth is running a fever, and the latest temperature readings aren’t offering much comfort. Last week, climate data released by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, better known as C3S, presented another warning about the impending climate crisis hovering over humanity — for the first time in recorded human history, 12 consecutive months saw temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial …

Earth surpassed 'doomed' 2.7F global warming limit for the first time in 2023 - which scientists say was hottest in 100,000 years
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Earth surpassed 'doomed' 2.7F global warming limit for the first time in 2023 - which scientists say was hottest in 100,000 years

Daily Mail  

The Earth exceeded 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit of warming in a 12-month period for the first time since scientists began recording global temperatures. Last year was the hottest year on record, and scientists suspect El Niño and global warming combined to make it the hottest year in 100,000 years. Climate predictions that came true In the late 1970s, petroleum company ExxonMobil …

2023 Was One Of The Coldest Years Of The Rest Of Your Life
11 months, 1 week ago

2023 Was One Of The Coldest Years Of The Rest Of Your Life

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING For the last couple of years, Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, has taken to X, formerly Twitter, to update a boilerplate response to the latest global temperature assessment. NOAA NCEI The two U.S. reports follow one on Tuesday from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, which similarly concluded that 2023 was the …

Scientists explain why the record-shattering 2023 heat has them on edge. Warming may be worsening
11 months, 1 week ago

Scientists explain why the record-shattering 2023 heat has them on edge. Warming may be worsening

Associated Press  

The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary. “The heat over the last calendar year was a dramatic message from Mother Nature,” said University of Arizona climate scientist Katharine Jacobs. They wonder whether human-caused climate change and a natural El Nino were augmented by a freak blip or whether “there’s …

In Graphics | Why 2023 was the hottest year on record
11 months, 1 week ago

In Graphics | Why 2023 was the hottest year on record

Firstpost  

2023 was the warmest calendar year in global temperature data records dating back to 1850, according to a report released on Tuesday by the European Climate Agency. Earth broke all previous records for annual heat, verged on the global warming threshold, and displayed additional symptoms of a feverish planet last year, the report said. January 2024 is also on track …

2023 confirmed as hottest year ever as climate records ‘tumbling like dominoes’
11 months, 2 weeks ago

2023 confirmed as hottest year ever as climate records ‘tumbling like dominoes’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The findings are hardly surprising, but a global gut-punch nonetheless: 2023 has been confirmed as …

2023 was the warmest year on earth since 1850, says EU’s climate change agency
11 months, 2 weeks ago

2023 was the warmest year on earth since 1850, says EU’s climate change agency

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Last year was the warmest calendar year in global temperature data records going back to 1850, Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Tuesday. These record temperatures strongly increased the intensity of heatwaves, droughts and extreme rainfall associated with storms like Otis and Daniel, said XAIDA, a consortium of leading European climate institutes. If we want to successfully manage …

Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says

Associated Press  

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. The European climate agency Copernicus said the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. In a separate Tuesday press event, international climate scientists who calculate global warming’s role in extreme …

Earth shattered global heat record in '23 and it's flirting with warming limit, European agency says
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Earth shattered global heat record in '23 and it's flirting with warming limit, European agency says

The Independent  

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Earth reaches grim milestone: 2023 was the warmest year on record
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Earth reaches grim milestone: 2023 was the warmest year on record

LA Times  

An astonishing seven consecutive months of record-breaking warmth have culminated in a grim milestone for humanity: 2023 was, officially, Earth’s hottest year on record. Temperatures during 2023 likely exceed those of any period in at least the last 100,000 years.” With a global average temperature of 58.96 degrees, last year was about 0.31 of a degree warmer than the previous …

2023 shatters record for world’s warmest year: EU climate agency
11 months, 2 weeks ago

2023 shatters record for world’s warmest year: EU climate agency

Al Jazeera  

Copernicus Climate Change Service says 2023 ‘very likely’ the warmest year in the past 100,000 years. Last year was the planet’s hottest on record by a significant margin and likely the world’s warmest in the past 100,000 years, the European Union’s climate agency says. When checked against palaeoclimatic data records from sources such as tree rings and air bubbles in …

Scientists have confirmed 2023 is the hottest year on record, with a month to spare
1 year ago

Scientists have confirmed 2023 is the hottest year on record, with a month to spare

ABC  

Scientists have confirmed 2023 will be the hottest year on record, with the official declaration from climate change service Copernicus, run by the EU, made with a month to spare. Key points: An EU-run climate change service declares 2023 the hottest year on record The call comes as Australia is in the grip of a heatwave The global mean temperature …

Past decade was the hottest on record as climate change ‘surged alarmingly,’ WMO reports
1 year ago

Past decade was the hottest on record as climate change ‘surged alarmingly,’ WMO reports

CNN  

CNN — The decade between 2011 and 2020 was the hottest on record for the planet’s land and oceans as the rate of climate change “surged alarmingly,” according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization. Climate pollution from all fossil fuel types — coal, oil, and natural gas — increased around the world, the Global Carbon Project found, …

UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge
1 year, 1 month ago

UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge

Associated Press  

Earth is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed-upon international climate threshold, a United Nations report calculated. The United States’ Inflation Reduction Act, which has $375 billion in spending on clean energy, by 2030 would reduce yearly emissions of carbon dioxide by about 1 billion metric tons, …

The last 12 months were the hottest in recorded history, analysis finds
1 year, 1 month ago

The last 12 months were the hottest in recorded history, analysis finds

Salon  

A new report by the nonprofit organization Climate Central reveals that the last 12 months were the hottest ever recorded. As the organization's vice president for science Dr. Andrew Pershing said in a statement, "this 12-month record is exactly what we expect from a global climate fueled by carbon pollution." As a result, roughly nine out of ten humans alive …

Scorching October puts 2023 on track to be hottest year in 125,000 years
1 year, 1 month ago

Scorching October puts 2023 on track to be hottest year in 125,000 years

Al Jazeera  

Scientists say climate change is driving heatwaves across the planet, toppling previous records with alarming frequency. The Copernicus Climate Change Service, the EU’s climate monitor, said on Wednesday that October was 0.4 degrees Celsius hotter than the previous record for the month, set in 2019. As climate change, driven by greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, heats …

New data reveals 2023 is on track for record heat — and next year should be even hotter
1 year, 4 months ago

New data reveals 2023 is on track for record heat — and next year should be even hotter

ABC  

Earth has just passed another climate milestone. After widespread global heatwaves through June and July, 2023's average air temperature for the year so far is 14.99 degrees Celsius — just passing the previous high of 14.98C from seven years ago. Next year likely to be warmer If you look back through global temperatures since 1950, there's an obvious trend: the …

Explained | Can we really say someday day was the warmest in 100,000 years?
1 year, 4 months ago

Explained | Can we really say someday day was the warmest in 100,000 years?

The Hindu  

Some headlines proclaimed recently that a particular day in July was the warmest in more than a 100,000 years. More specifically, and crucially, for a period of hundreds of thousands of years, proxies – which are typically buried in the ocean and lake sediments – can only record temperature anomalies, i.e. Reliable local temperature anomalies also come with fairly significant …

‘Off the charts’: UN report highlights rapid climate breakdown
1 year, 8 months ago

‘Off the charts’: UN report highlights rapid climate breakdown

Al Jazeera  

Record levels of greenhouse gases have caused “planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere”, a UN agency says in a report that shows the past eight years were the hottest ever recorded on Earth. Global sea levels are rising at more than double the pace they did in the first decade of measurements from 1993 …

World could face record temperatures in 2023 as El Nino returns
1 year, 8 months ago

World could face record temperatures in 2023 as El Nino returns

Live Mint  

The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say. Climate models suggest that after three years of the La Nina weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which generally lowers global temperatures slightly, the world will experience a return to …

Explained | World’s oceans warmest on record in 2022: study
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | World’s oceans warmest on record in 2022: study

The Hindu  

The story so far: For the fourth year in a row, the world’s oceans recorded extreme heating in 2022 on account of anthropological activities like greenhouse gas emissions. A study conducted by researchers from 16 institutes worldwide and published in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences analyses factors that drive heating trends in the world’s oceans. Rising ocean temperatures strengthen the …

Climate change: Last 8 years termed warmest in history
1 year, 11 months ago

Climate change: Last 8 years termed warmest in history

Hindustan Times  

Climate change: Last 8 years termed warmest in history The last eight years were the warmest on record globally, new research by the European Union's climate monitoring service shows. The atmospheric concentrations of the two main greenhouse gases that drive global warming - carbon dioxide and methane - also continued a decades-long climb to record levels.. 1 / 9 View …

Climate Crisis: World’s oceans hit record high heat in 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

Climate Crisis: World’s oceans hit record high heat in 2022

Live Mint  

When we think of the climate crisis, the first thing we usually think of is the way that global air temperatures are rising. As has been amply demonstrated by climate science, it’s the oceans that first absorb the excess heat generated by our burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal. The paper, Another Year Of Record Heat For The …

Past eight years eight hottest on record, UN report warns
2 years, 1 month ago

Past eight years eight hottest on record, UN report warns

Al Jazeera  

The UN’s weather and climate body outlines ‘chronicle of climate chaos’ as COP27 talks get under way in Egypt. The past eight years are on track to be the hottest ever recorded, a United Nations report has found, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that the planet was sending “a distress signal”. The UN’s weather and climate body released its …

Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026
2 years, 7 months ago

Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The world is creeping closer …

Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026
2 years, 7 months ago

Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026

Associated Press  

The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next five years, teams of meteorologists across the globe predicted. With human-made climate change continuing, there’s a 48% chance that the globe will reach a yearly average of 1.5 degrees …

Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026, report says
2 years, 7 months ago

Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026, report says

LA Times  

The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next five years, teams of meteorologists across the globe predicted. With human-made climate change continuing, there’s a 48% chance that the globe will reach a yearly average of 1.5 degrees …

‘Very real’: 2021 was sixth-hottest year since records began
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Very real’: 2021 was sixth-hottest year since records began

Al Jazeera  

The past eight years were the eight hottest since record-keeping began in 1880, said US government scientists. “So it’s not quite as headline-dominating as being the warmest on record, but give it another few years and we’ll see another one of those” records, said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of the Berkeley Earth monitoring group that also ranked 2021 the sixth …

Ocean temperatures ‘relentlessly increasing’ due to climate crisis
2 years, 11 months ago

Ocean temperatures ‘relentlessly increasing’ due to climate crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The ocean heat content is relentlessly increasing, globally, and this is a primary indicator of human-induced climate change,” said …

2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record as emissions surge
2 years, 11 months ago

2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record as emissions surge

Al Jazeera  

The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service says the last seven years were the warmest ‘by a clear margin’ since records began. The year 2021 was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs, European Union scientists have said. The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a report …

This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold
3 years, 1 month ago

This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold

NPR  

This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold Enlarge this image toggle caption Branden Eastwood/AFP via Getty Images Branden Eastwood/AFP via Getty Images There's one number heard more than any other from the podiums at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland: 1.5 degrees Celsius. By limiting the planet's warming to 1.5 …

Earth's Oceans Have Warmed Consistently For Last 12,000 Years Affecting Climate Change
3 years, 10 months ago

Earth's Oceans Have Warmed Consistently For Last 12,000 Years Affecting Climate Change

News 18  

Earth’s oceans have been warming consistently throughout the last 12,000 years, according to research published Wednesday that authors said showed clearly humanity’s profound effect on the climate. Previous estimates of sea temperatures stretching back millennia have traditionally been based on analysis of preserved rock, and concluded that oceans hit their temperature peak around 6,000 years ago before gradually cooling. Adjusting …

Over 90 pc of human-made warming is absorbed by oceans, record high temps witnessed in 2020: Study
3 years, 11 months ago

Over 90 pc of human-made warming is absorbed by oceans, record high temps witnessed in 2020: Study

Firstpost  

A new study, conducted by researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research has found that the temperatures in the upper 2,000 metres of the ocean hit a record high in 2020. Speaking about it, co-author of the study Kevin Trenberth revealed that ocean heat has exacerbated many significant climate-related events in recent history and has also contributed to the …

2020 Was One of Three Warmest Years on Record: World Meteorological Organisation
3 years, 11 months ago

2020 Was One of Three Warmest Years on Record: World Meteorological Organisation

News 18  

The year 2020 was one of the three warmest years on record and rivalled 2016 for the top spot, indicating the pace of the "human-induced" climate change which is now as powerful as the force of nature, the UN weather agency has said. All five datasets surveyed by the World Meteorological Organisation concur that 2011-2020 was the warmest decade on …

Climate Change Tracker: The world is heating up faster than we thought
3 years, 11 months ago

Climate Change Tracker: The world is heating up faster than we thought

Live Mint  

Earlier this year, the World Meteorological Organization’s United In Science report had warned that between 2020-2024, there may be one or more months in which the world would breach the 1.5 degree Celsius heat barrier. That was a serious wake-up call, since the United Nations-led global effort, under the Paris Agreement, is to limit global temperature rise to 2 degree …

Global warming has undone 6,500 years of worldwide cooling in the last 150 years
4 years, 5 months ago

Global warming has undone 6,500 years of worldwide cooling in the last 150 years

Firstpost  

Accelerating greenhouse gases have contributed to global average temperatures that are now moving past one degree Celsius above the mid-19th century. The findings of the study show that global cooling started approximately 6,500 years ago when the long-term average global temperature peaked at around 0.7 degree Celsius warmer than the mid-nineteenth century. Since then, accelerating greenhouse gases have contributed to …

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