The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was – in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.7C to 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.
I just googled "what is JRA-55" and it's just so frustrating. I can't find a reasonably short, plain English explanation that I'd feel comfortable passing along to my students. Can you point me to one?
Here are monthly absolute temperatures (compared to anomalies). This September would not have been out of place as a typical July this decade in terms of global temperatures.
This is why I believe we can't wait for emissions to come down to reduce warming. There are safe and affordable ways to limit warming, such as the idea of using mirrors near sensitive areas proposed by MEER.org
Hoping to god and their pet flying spaghetti monster that this is close to the peak of warming, and that the mitigation and steady unshackling of humans from fossil fuels will make the line go down, although it's likely not gonna happen that soon...
also we need to stop hating on liquid trees
Those of us in Central Texas have no doubt that is true. It was 99F yesterday, 2.10.2023. More than 10 degrees F above “average”. We have been broiled for 4 months solid.
We need more climate action now.
It is frustrating that we did not even make it into a decline yet.
At least, coal and oil seem to peak. Hopefully gas will follow soon.
A strong El Nino along with the moisture in the stratosphere from the Hunga-Tonga eruption probably is causing this...this could start a unstoppable feedback loop...especially given that next year could be even hotter with El Nino going into it's peak.