Quote from BBC as well as a chart. Quote: "What struck me was not just that [2023] was record-breaking, but the amount by which it broke previous records," notes Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University. The margin of some of these records - which you can see on the chart below - is "really astonishing", Prof Dessler says, considering they are averages across the whole world. The chart shows daily global average air temperatures plotted between 1940 to 2023, and highlights an increasingly large gap in red between the average and 2023, which is a MUCH greater significant margin of temperatures change than shown in any prior year -- as if the climate has uncoupled itself from the prior trends and patterns.

Download link

Notices where this attachment appears

AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 23:20:39 JST AI6YR Ben

BBC: 2023 confirmed as world's hottest year on record. "The margin of some of these records - which you can see on the chart below - is "really astonishing", Prof Dessler says, considering they are averages across the whole world." #climate #heatwaves #weather #wx https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67861954?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=mastodon

In conversation about 11 months ago from m.ai6yr.org permalink