According to experts, 2024 might be significantly warmer.
In the days leading up to the weekend, would you like to hear some unfavourable news? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has just released its yearly worldwide temperature report, and lo and behold, the year 2023 was the warmest year on record since the beginning of temperature records in the year 1880. In the previous year, the average global temperature was around 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius) higher than the average for the baseline period observed by NASA, which spans from 1951 to 1980.
In 2023, the temperature of the world was 2.5 degrees higher than it had been in the 1880s. Perform the necessary calculations, and you will see that the vast majority of that growth took place after the baseline period established by NASA. In other words, the most terrible of all the worsts have occurred during the course of the last few decades. Despite the fact that nobody desired or asked for it, July of 2023 ended up being the hottest month ever measured. However, here we are.
“What billions of people around the world experienced last year is confirmed by the global temperature report that was released by NASA and NOAA,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “We are facing a climate crisis because of the climate crisis.” As a result of things like rising sea levels, wildfires, and high heat, it is clear that our planet is undergoing change.
There is no intention on the part of NASA to bury its head in the sand and act as if this is a natural occurrence. We were able to accomplish this, with Gavin Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), stating that the temperature shift was mostly caused by “our fossil fuel emissions.”
The year 2023 was not an anomaly. Ten years in a row have been the warmest on record, and this trend is expected to continue. In light of this, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States recently reported that there is a one-in-three probability that the year 2024 will be even hotter than the current year. Greetings!
It is also important to note that the year 2023 was marked by a number of cooling events that were really successful in bringing about a little decrease in temperatures. These events included the presence of volcanic aerosols in the atmosphere as a result of the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano in January 2022. However, these occurrences were unable to keep up with the continuous emissions of greenhouse gases and the heating impacts that were caused by the El Niño weather event that occurred this year.
In light of the fact that greenhouse gas emissions are expected to continue to rise, Schmidt stated that “we will continue to break records.” This past year, we have once again established a new record for the amount of greenhouse gases that we have released into the atmosphere.
There are a few things that the administration of Biden and Harris has done in an effort to slow down the process by which our society is becoming a Mad Max dystopia. With the intention of making vital climate data easily accessible, the United States Greenhouse Gas Centre was recently established by the White House. Additionally, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2017 allocated $369 billion for programmes that are related to climate change and sustainable energy. Additionally, Vice President Biden has committed to reducing the levels of emissions to achieve a minimum of fifty percent below what they were in 2005 by the year 2025. The fact that these are positive incremental movements is not in question; nonetheless, it appears that we have rushed past the “f*ck around” phase and are now careening rapidly into the “find out” phase. Where did that curse come from again? Not at all. Your life will be filled with exciting moments.