Earth experienced its warmest April on record as US prepares for brutal summer heat

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

May 7, 2024, 10:00 PM


Earth has just experienced its 11th straight warmest month on record -- a preview of the brutal temperatures forecast for the summer, according to scientists.

Last month continued a relentless stretch of record-breaking global temperatures for the planet after it measured as the warmest April on record, according to a monthly climate report by Copernicus, Europe's climate change service, released on Tuesday.

April 2024 saw an average surface air temperature of 15.03 degrees Celsius, or 59.05 degrees Fahrenheit, the report found. The temperature measured at 1.21 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1991 to 2020 average for April, according to the report.

May 2023 through April 2024 was the warmest 12-month stretch on record with a global average temperature of 2.90 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1850 to 1900 pre-industrial average, the report found.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/earth-experienced-warmest-april-record-us-prepares-brutal/story?id=109990145

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Link to EU Copernicus Climate SUMMARY - https://climate.copernicus.eu/climate-bulletins#fff0490f-9b0c-4f51-8faf-453f6d751f14

[Think. Again.]

1. Just the beginning.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. The sea surface temperature record for every single day has been broken over the past year

Fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year, a BBC analysis finds.

Nearly 50 days have smashed existing highs for the time of year by the largest margin in the satellite era.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68921215

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Yeah that really fires up the hurricanes and Typhoons

and particularly I have been seeing an (anecdotal) uptick in Eastern Pacific hurricanes and tropical storms including that Hurricane Hilary that barreled into the U.S. west coast as a Tropical Storm last year (August 2023).

[progree]

4. Uggh, that's 1.61 deg Celsius higher. When do we declare that the 1.5 deg C is in the rear view mirror?

May 2023 through April 2024 was the warmest 12-month stretch on record with a global average temperature of 2.90 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1850 to 1900 pre-industrial average, the report found.

Supposedly staying below 1.5 deg centigrade compared to pre-industrial times is what will keep us from the more severe consequences, per various consensus.

Each degree C change is 1.8 degree F change.

Each degree F change is 5/9 degree C change.

[LudwigPastorius]

5. YOLO, right?

Let's just kick that can on down the road and let somebody else worry about it.

We, as a species, haven't proven ourselves engaged enough to take collective action against an immanent threat to our global civilization. As Frank Zappa said, "We is dumb all over".

[Elessar Zappa]

6. The warmest on record and

probably the coldest from this year forward.