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. Sea surface temperatures eclipsed any month on record. And February, as well the previous two winter months, soared well past the internationally set threshold for long-term warming,
Ben King, Michael Gaffney, and Alfredo RiveraJanuary 10, 2024 In 2023, the US experienced something it hasn’t since before the COVID-19 pandemic: a growing economy paired with shrinking greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. After two years of emissions…
A new assessment of Earth’s depleted ozone layer shows that efforts to repair the vital atmospheric shield are working, according to a panel of U.N.-backed scientists. Scientists said the ozone’s recovery should also serve as proof that societies can join to solve environmental problems and combat climate change.
It’s the hottest year on record, and the U.N. just set a global goal to phase out fossil fuels — but the U.S. is drilling for more oil and gas than ever before. By Maria Virginia Olano…
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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.
