Note the adjectives: ‘Obliterated…record-breaking…hot streak…soaring…climate change-fueled’ …leading to… ‘breaking the old record from 2016 by about an eighth of a degree’. The big build-up followed by the damp squib.
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For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records—with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.
The latest record-breaking in this climate change-fueled global hot streak includes sea surface temperatures that weren’t just the hottest for February, but eclipsed any month on record, soaring past August 2023’s mark and still rising at the end of the month, says Phys.org.
And February, as well the previous two winter months, soared well past the internationally set threshold for long-term warming, Copernicus reported Wednesday.
The last month that didn’t set a record for hottest month was in May 2023 and that was a close third to 2020 and 2016. Copernicus records have fallen regularly from June on.
February 2024 averaged 13.54 degrees Celsius (56.37 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking the old record from 2016 by about an eighth of a degree. February was 1.77 degrees Celsius (3.19 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late 19th century, Copernicus calculated.
Only last December was more above pre-industrial levels for the month than February was.
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This was the warmest winter—December, January and February—by nearly a quarter of a degree, beating 2016, which was also an El Niño year. The three-month period was the most any season has been above pre-industrial levels in Copernicus record keeping, which goes back to 1940.
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“February 2024 averaged 13.54 degrees Celsius…”
Did it really?
I would be highly interested to hear a credible explanation of how “climate scientists” can be sufficiently certain of the temperature of a body about eight thousand miles in diameter, almost three quarters of which is covered in several kilometres depth of water with huge deserts, 5 mile high ice capped mountains and mile thick ice caps at the poles, which can vary from over 50deg C at the Equator to below 50deg C at the poles to a precision of 0.01 deg C over a period of 150 years…
And on the basis of this, authoritatively inform us that we are going to have to massively change our eating habits, our leisure habits and our transportation habits, all the while flying around the World by the ten thousand in hundreds of private jets, living in five star hotels in the World’s top luxury resorts.
I call BS.
Adelaide is facing 5 days of over 30℃ with possibly one day reaching 40℃. On top of a mild summer with little rain this is being hyped up with dire warnings about heat stress and bushfires. We are told all emergency services are on standby.
I cannot say what I think of this stupidity from the BOM (which has failed with many recent predictions, so much so that the general public are quite sceptical) but I suppose that our State Govt. has to assume the worst, and caution esp. the elderly to seek cooler surroundings, even though said elderly should remember lots of previous hot spells in their lives.
However this will be an excuse for DIRE warnings about global warming from the BOM (who faked the Adelaide “record temperature”) and you might well have the gullible in the UK claiming that this proves AGW. Personally I will do any shopping in the morning and retire to my air-conditioning in the afternoon – assuming that the politicians rush into wrecking reliable generation doesn’t mean blackouts.
This was the warmest winter—December, January and February—by nearly a quarter of a degree
Nearly 🤣
BS of the highest order. The error bars on most of this data is +/- one degree, so how do they tell us 0.1 degree? and where are the confidence values? That 0.1 is likely less than the noise.
The world’s governments have been molesting the data for decades to support their “dire” reports and even more scary predictions (that never come true, of course).
And yet, so what? We’ve hit this market yet no tipping point, no extinctions, no bother.
Never a mention of the 400 record breaking COLD temperatures in China. With 2.1 Million animals killed by cold in Mongolia.
It makes you wonder how record “global” heat can balance those low temperatures.
Getting “triggered ” by all this nonsense…. when you hear the weather forecasters telling us so often already THIS YEAR and today: ” Temps will be BELOW what we expect for this time of year” ….. Come again? ( ie MAKE UP YOUR MIND: Hotter or colder than normal/ average/ expected/ predicted blah de blah )
…. and although within 6 inches of my outdoor weather station it is recorded as 5 an a third, or so, degrees Celsius, my gloveless hands are FROZEN this morning in the ever so light wind from a melting Artic ( sarc of course ).
It is MARCH after all, Cold n dry DRYING so’s we can cultivate the autumn ploughed fields in readiness for Spring Barley seeding this now in between feeding the outdoor Cows in the process of calving (hopefully on nicer days).
An interesting decoupling of TSI from SSN there. Unless the latest measurements and their processing are all to cock…
We have a rather short and weak El Niño (already dipping to 1.8) and La Niña by next May. Another 30 months of plateau?
TallBloke and other experts on here a question:
What happened to the Central England Temp records and more to the point the Armagh Observatory in Ireland.
They used to be the gold standard or have they been bastardised as well?
CET data is here – is there a problem?
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/cet-series
Thank you Sir,
No problem except that no one seems to use it/them.
they must be the most reliable long term figures or are they tampered with (as well) I wonder.