March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say

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Source: NPR/AP

April 9, 2024 1:14 AM ET



WASHINGTON — For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat — with both air temperatures and the world's oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said.

March 2024 averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius (57.9 degrees Fahrenheit), exceeding the previous record from 2016 by a tenth of a degree, according to Copernicus data. And it was 1.68 degrees C (3 degrees F) warmer than in the late 1800s, the base used for temperatures before the burning of fossil fuels began growing rapidly.

Since last June, the globe has broken heat records each month, with marine heat waves across large areas of the globe's oceans contributing. Scientists say the record-breaking heat during this time wasn't entirely surprising due to a strong El Nino, a climatic condition that warms the central Pacific and changes global weather patterns.

"But its combination with the non-natural marine heat waves made these records so breathtaking," said Woodwell Climate Research Center scientist Jennifer Francis. With El Nino waning, the margins by which global average temperatures are surpassed each month should go down, Francis said.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243595924/march-world-hottest-on-record

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Link to EU Copernicus Climate Agency PRESS RELEASE - Copernicus: March 2024 is the tenth month in a row to be the hottest on record

[Think. Again.]

1. K&R

[-misanthroptimist]

2. We have doomed our descendants

Food will be expensive in rich countries. In poor countries it will be scarce to non-existent. Tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, will die horrible deaths due to famine.

Fresh water will be increasingly difficult, especially in places like China, Pakistan, and India, all of which depend on the ever dwindling Himalayan glaciers for a substantial amount of their water. All of them are nuclear armed as well, so disputes have the potential to escalate to apocalyptic levels if there is enough desperation.

There is little to no chance to avoid any of this at this point. We squandered the opportunity to address the problem in pursuit of profits and an easy lifestyle.

Our descendants will curse us for millennia.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. No, we can still prevent the worst case scenario.

We need to move quickly of course and it may not happen but we can’t give up on the future, for the sake of the younger generations.

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3. Gas bill said ave temp 3/23 was 33.4f and 3/24 was 40f.