Sunday Was Earth's Hottest Day on Record.
Sunday Was Earth's Hottest Day on Record.
July 21, 2024 marked Earth's hottest day on record, offering yet another stark reminder of the urgent need to address climate change.
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My dad is 74 and is a climate change denier, it's maddening. He says he doesn't deny that it's happening, but doesn't think that industrialization and cars are the reason, but it's a cycle the planet goes through every few thousand years 🤦♂️ He cites The Ice Age as proof of these long-term climate shifts and says we don't have climate records from anything beyond like 150 or so years ago so it's all conjecture.
I've brought that up, he just says the science of it isn't entirely accurate 🤦♂️
Maybe mention the fact that this recent alarming jump is very likely due to us doing accidental geo-engineering for the last 80 years and we've only just stopped it.
We finally banned sulfur-laden bunker fuel globally for shipping last year. Dirtiest fuel in the world basically, all the left over crud from refineries straight into your cargo ship's engine. Sounds like a good environmental move but, oh shit, guess what? Those sulfur aerosols the ships were pumping into the atmosphere worldwide were actually keeping surface temperatures down.
Climate scientists were shitting themselves over the temperature jump until someone made the connection. They're still shitting themselves over it now, but at least it's an explainable jump now.
It's proof that fairly "trivial" changes by humans can have measurable effects on climate.
He doesn't listen to facts a lot of the time 😑
We finally banned sulfur-laden bunker fuel globally for shipping last year.
Really? Finally, that's some good news. It was infuriatingly stupid.
The fucked thing is he is half right. The earth DOES have cycles, and we are currently in an inter glacial period.
The thing is that we've royally fucked those warming and cooling cycles. The earth isn't going to cool back down due to runaway greenhouse effects from all that extra carbon coming from cars, industrial complexes and general pollution. That's really a simplified version but makes the point I think. Maybe someone more educated on the topic can further explain though.
I REALLY it hate when conman convince parts of the population with half truths that sound convincing because they read two lines on a Wikipedia page.
Haha yep, he keeps clinging to that.
Sunday's average air surface temperature soared to 17.09°C... it was nearly 3°C higher than the pre-2023 record, set at 16.8°C on August 13, 2016.
Editing missed a decimal point in the opening paragraph. It's nearly 0.3C above the pre-2023 record.
Weirdest part is these claimed records only break on northern hemisphere summers….