Hottest January on record sees the world reach 1.7°C warming mark
www.newscientist.com
The global average temperature in January 2024 was 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels for the month, meaning the planet has breached the 1.5°C benchmark for the past 12 months

This means there has been a 12-month period in which average global surface temperature was more than 1.5°C above the 1850 to 1900 average

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      yup, it’s working so well.

      did we curb rampant waste of hydrocarbons? nah. the cult of vroom vroom, you know, the chargers, the nascars, the idiots that race around in circles, they wouldn’t let that happen.

      Every day, they still race cars up and down the street spewing the shit.

      hell, we have some folks that are so deep into the cult that they modify their vehicles to be less efficient so they can spew MORE smoke than normal, as a feature. and since we collectively decided to let the dumbest among us drive the bus, we’re all going over the cliff together.

      before you begin pecking out an apologist screed to point out ‘it’s only a tiny percentage’ - one, we’re past any percentage being tiny, the planet is cooking you fuckwits, and two, if we can’t get the vroom-vroom cultists to drop their insanity, how are we going to convince the world to pull back on 2-strokes, cruise ships, snow-mobile and motocross and hundreds of other gas burning leisure hobbies if we can’t even get the racer-heads to wake up?

      we’re letting the morons drive us right off the cliff.