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EcoWatch - The planet just had its hottest April ever recorded, extending a streak of 11 consecutive record-setting months, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The monthly bulletin from C3S said the average global temperature was 1.61 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average — the highest for a 12-month period. It was also 0.73 degrees Celsius above the average from 1991 to 2020. “El Niño peaked at the beginning of the year and the sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific are now going back towards neutral conditions. However, whilst temperature variations associated with natural cycles like El Niño come and go, the extra energy trapped into the ocean and the atmosphere by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases will keep pushing the global temperature towards new records,” said C3S Director Carlo Buontempo in the report.

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Anonymous said...: Isn’t ‘politics’ fascinating?

In the future, the GOP will turn arguments 180 degrees, and blame the Dems for some new term that hasn’t been invented yet… like Planet Hyperthermalization. They will loudly proclaim that the Dems, by blocking the unregulated oil exploration and coal mining, actually created the increasing temperatures and ocean level rise.

And, by their singular ability to mindlessly repeat their party skree, people will believe.; May 11, 2024 at 12:34 PM

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