Global warmth surged far above previous records in September — even further than what scientists said seemed like astonishing increases in July and August, The Post’s Scott Dance reports. The record was shattered by more than half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit), marking the largest monthly margin ever observed.
Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said on Thursday. The global surface temperature for the month was 2.25 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.25 degrees Celsius, above the 20th century average.
In March 2022, temperatures near the eastern coast of Antarctica spiked 70 degrees Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius) above normal — making it the most intense recorded heat wave to occur anywhere on Earth, according to a recent study. At the time, researchers on-site were wearing shorts and some even removed their shirts to bask in the (relative) warmth. Scientists elsewhere said such a high in that region of the world was unthinkable.
Susan Eckert teaches advanced placement biology at Montclair High School. Her room sits on the second floor, under a black tar roof. On hot days, Eckert cracks the windows in her classroom early. By the afternoon, though, nothing stops the heat. Eckert has bought five fans for her classroom, which she said registered 90F (32C) on the thermostat this week.
Amanda Shendruk | September 6, 2023 Charts that illustrate the effects of climate change often share a distinct feature: that alarming, bright-red line. The line makes a statement: This is not normal. Sometimes the red…
The nation’s most ambitious climate law will drive steep carbon emissions cuts in the power and transportation sectors by 2030, but its impact is more muted in other key areas of the United States economy, a recent report from independent research firm Rhodium Group finds.
In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels. The court determined that a provision in the Montana Environmental Policy Act has harmed the state’s environment and the young plaintiffs, and is, accordingly, unconstitutional.
If you’ve been listening to the world’s major energy companies over the past few years, you probably think the clean energy transition is well on its way. But with fossil fuel use and emissions still rising, it is not moving nearly fast enough to address the climate crisis. In June, Shell became the latest of the big oil companies to curb plans …
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In response to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s proposal to plant a trillion trees, Maxine Joselow of The Washington Post wrote an article that included our analysis from the En-ROADS simulator.
The study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests that continued warming will push the AMOC over its “tipping point” … The shift would be as abrupt and irreversible and lead to dramatic changes in weather on either side of the Atlantic.
“This is a really worrying result,” said Peter Ditlevsen, a climate physicist at the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the new study. “This is really showing we need a hard foot on the brake” of greenhouse gas emissions.
The lawsuit she filed in November goes after a who’s who of the fossil fuel industry — Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, BP and others. Ms. Sims argues that since 1965, those companies have produced 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time colluding to deceive the public about the disastrous consequences of their actions.
