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[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be honest they couldnt chose any worse color palette. They should have not chosen yellow, darker yellow and orange.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probably used a color palette calibrated to use the blue end of the spectrum for the cooler temperatures since the late 1800s. Those low temperatures have stopped happening.

[–] wunami@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

There's no probably. The legend clearly labels the colors to correlate to decade. It's not related to temperature directly.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Hopefully mostly because of the El Nino, otherwise we're looking at a pretty drastic increase in rate of temperature rise.

Politically it's good though and I hope we exceed+2 degrees this year so that we once and for all can conclude that humanity completely botched that goal and maybe, just maybe redouble our efforts to help change course.

[–] InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Still, El Niño happens cyclically every few years, and this dataset spans decades. There are no other years in there similar to 2023….

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 3 points 8 months ago

I know, I merely meant the +0.4-0.6 increase compared to 2021/22 which also were record hot.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The temperature rise could exceed 10• and nothing would be done about it.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

We'd absolutely do something about it — die!

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

And El Niño itself is driven by ocean temperatures. El Niño isn't the cause, it's the name of the effect.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, well personally I didn't experience it so it is clearly fAkENeWs

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

there is slushy kinda snow in january in chicago so how can global warming exist! checkmate environmentalists!

[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Averaged across last year, temperatures worldwide were 1.48 degrees Celsius, or 2.66 Fahrenheit, higher than they were in the second half of the 19th century, the European Union climate monitor announced on Tuesday.

Every tenth of a degree of global warming represents extra thermodynamic fuel that intensifies heat waves and storms, adds to rising seas and hastens the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.

The 2022 eruption of an underwater volcano off the Pacific island nation of Tonga spewed vast amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere, helping trap more heat near Earth’s surface.

Recent limits on sulfur pollution from ships brought down levels of aerosols, or tiny airborne particles that reflect solar radiation and help cool the planet.

Another factor was El Niño, the recurrent shift in tropical Pacific weather patterns that began last year and is often linked with record-setting heat worldwide.

But scientists will need to continue studying the data to understand whether other factors might be at work, too, said one of the researchers, Karina von Schuckmann, an oceanographer at Mercator Ocean International in Toulouse, France.


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