Provisional estimates of the global average surface temperature for 2023 suggest the year could be on track to be the warmest on record.
The year is likely to exceed the level reached in 2016; currently the warmest year on record. 2023 is expected to continue the run of the warmest years on record since 1850.
IANA scientist but these arguments are imo pointless because we know the PPM of CO2 and Methane is well over what the earth can reasonably sustain, same with the Earth Energy Imbalance, the GHG concentrations and EEI should be the primary measures, we’ve exceeded them already. We know non anthropogenic emissions and feedback loops are real. Yet don’t include them in model’s appropriately.
Arguing about a very specific data point of which we cannot even agree on in contrast to very recent history i.e 1800? 1900?, is fanfare at best and obfuscation and delaying action at worst to ensure BAU continues for as long as possible.
Doesn’t matter if the meteor is 1000 days away or is made up of iron and rock, it’s still hurtling towards earth and we sit here acting like it either isn’t on track to collide yet or could maybe be stopped or slowed. This is a false narrative. We are in range of impact now and have been for sometime.
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Provisional estimates of the global average surface temperature for 2023 suggest the year could be on track to be the warmest on record.
The year is likely to exceed the level reached in 2016; currently the warmest year on record. 2023 is expected to continue the run of the warmest years on record since 1850.
IANA scientist but these arguments are imo pointless because we know the PPM of CO2 and Methane is well over what the earth can reasonably sustain, same with the Earth Energy Imbalance, the GHG concentrations and EEI should be the primary measures, we’ve exceeded them already. We know non anthropogenic emissions and feedback loops are real. Yet don’t include them in model’s appropriately.
Arguing about a very specific data point of which we cannot even agree on in contrast to very recent history i.e 1800? 1900?, is fanfare at best and obfuscation and delaying action at worst to ensure BAU continues for as long as possible.
Doesn’t matter if the meteor is 1000 days away or is made up of iron and rock, it’s still hurtling towards earth and we sit here acting like it either isn’t on track to collide yet or could maybe be stopped or slowed. This is a false narrative. We are in range of impact now and have been for sometime.