{"id":11381,"date":"2023-11-09T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/humanity-just-lived-through-the-hottest-12-months-in-at-least-125000-years\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:01:31","slug":"humanity-just-lived-through-the-hottest-12-months-in-at-least-125000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/humanity-just-lived-through-the-hottest-12-months-in-at-least-125000-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity just lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Month after month since June, <\/strong>the world has been abnormally hot. Scientists have compared this year\u2019s climate-change fallout to \u201ca disaster movie\u201d \u2014 soaring temperatures, fierce wildfires, powerful storms and devastating floods \u2014 and new data is now revealing just how exceptional <\/strong>the <\/strong>global heat has been. <\/p>\n

Two major reports published this week paint an alarming picture of this unprecedented heat: Humanity has just lived through the hottest 12-month period in at least 125,000 years, according to one, while the other declared that 2023 is \u201cvirtually certain\u201d to be the hottest year in recorded history, after five consecutive months of record-obliterating temperatures. <\/p>\n

The period from November 2022 to <\/strong>the end of October 2023 <\/strong>was the hottest 12 months, with an average temperature of 1.32 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to an analysis of international data, published Thursday by the nonprofit <\/strong>research group Climate Central. <\/p>\n

El Ni\u00f1o \u2014\u00a0a natural ocean and weather pattern\u00a0in the tropical Pacific \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>is just beginning to boost temperatures, the report found. The strong, long-term trend of global warming is primarily driven by the burning of planet-heating fossil fuels.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u201cThe key is this is not normal. These are temperatures we should not be experiencing,\u201d Andrew Pershing, vice president for science at Climate Central, said on a call with reporters. \u201cWe are only experiencing them because we have put too much carbon dioxide onto the atmosphere.\u201d <\/p>\n

The vast majority of humanity was affected by unusual heat over this 12-month period, researchers found, with 7.3 billion people \u2014 90% of the global population \u2014 experiencing at least 10 days of high temperatures \u201cwith very strong climate fingerprints.\u201d <\/p>\n

In India, 1.2 billion people \u2014\u00a086% of the population \u2014 experienced at least 30 days of high temperatures, made at least three times more likely by climate change. In the United States, that figure was 88 million people, or 26% of the population. <\/p>\n

Some cities were particularly hard hit. In the US, these were concentrated in the South and Southwest. Houston experienced the longest extreme heat streak of any major city on Earth, according to the report, with 22 consecutive days of extreme heat between July and August. <\/p>\n

Only two countries, Iceland and Lesotho, experienced temperatures that were cooler-than-average over this period, the report found. <\/p>\n

Climate Central\u2019s findings come on the heels of another analysis, published Wednesday by the European Union\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service, which said that <\/strong>2023 is \u201cvirtually certain\u201d to be the hottest year on record. <\/p>\n

The prediction follows the report\u2019s finding that last month was the hottest October on record by a significant margin, beating the previous record set in 2019 by 0.4 degrees Celsius. The month was 1.7 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average. <\/p>\n

\u201cOctober 2023 has seen exceptional temperature anomalies, following on from four months of global temperature records being obliterated,\u201d Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said in a statement. <\/p>\n

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Every month since June has smashed monthly heat records and every month since July has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The year to-date is averaging 1.43 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to Copernicus \u2014 perilously close to the internationally agreed ambition to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. <\/p>\n

While scientists are most concerned about long-term temperature trends, the past several months above that threshold have been an <\/strong>alarming taste of what the world can expect as global warming accelerates. <\/p>\n

In addition to unprecedented land temperatures, ocean temperatures continued to soar. They have consistently been at record-high levels since the beginning of May, according to Copernicus, fueling an explosive development of hurricanes and tropical storms around the planet, including Hurricane Otis, which slammed into Southern Mexico last month. <\/p>\n

Antarctic sea ice also remained at record-lows for the sixth consecutive month, according to the report. <\/p>\n

\u201cLaid out so starkly, the 2023 numbers on air temperatures, sea temperatures, sea ice and the rest look like something out of a disaster movie,\u201d Reay said. <\/p>\n

While the statistics in these reports are big and alarming, it\u2019s what\u2019s behind them that\u2019s truly terrifying, said Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. \u201cThe fact that we\u2019re seeing this record hot year means record human suffering,\u201d she said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Even as 2023 draws to a close, the extraordinary heat shows little sign of letting up. <\/p>\n

China saw more than 12 monthly temperature records broken on Monday, with temperatures reaching 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) in some places. While in the US, multiple heat records have fallen this week, with parts of Texas reaching 93 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday, beating previous November records. <\/p>\n

And records are predicted to continue to be broken next year. \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o is really going to bite next year and that\u2019s going to lead to even more warming as we head into 2024,\u201d Pershing said. <\/p>\n

The unprecedented global heat adds extra urgency to the upcoming UN COP28 climate conference in Dubai this December, where countries will take stock of their progress towards meeting the Paris Climate Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. <\/p>\n

Scientists are clear that this means stopping burning oil, gas and coal. But a report published by the UN on Wednesday found that governments are planning to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels than the limit that would cap global heating at 1.5C degrees. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing more remarkable than the magnitude of these increases in global temperature and sea ice loss,\u201d Reay said, \u201cis our continuing failure to put the world on track to meet the Paris climate goals.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

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