{"id":792666,"date":"2025-01-14T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792666"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:40:03","slug":"its-official-2024-was-the-hottest-year-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792666","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official, 2024 Was the Hottest Year on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Climate scientists must fear sounding like a broken record when discussing new record temperatures yearly. But once again, last year was the hottest one ever recorded, according to a new study by NASA scientists.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-170431\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone paying close attention to climate news would not be surprised. From June 2023 through August 2024, every consecutive month broke a new monthly temperature record. That is 15 straight months of consistently high temperatures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Such a streak directly translates into the year\u2019s overall temperature, but just how bad was it? The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed by 195 countries and the European Union, attempts to limit the global rise in temperatures to 1.5? over a baseline temperature from the middle of last century (1951-1980). 2024 was already 1.28? above it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2024 is the Warmest Year on Record\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KCfSkBvo22o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That\u2019s not a great start, but the data gets even more dire for the climate-conscious. Temperatures in 2024 were already 1.47? above a baseline of temperatures from 1850-1900, a time before the industrial revolution, or automobile transportation, had taken off. Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says, \u201cThat\u2019s halfway to Pliocene-level warmth in just 150 years.\u201d, referring to a geological period where a baseline temperature of just 1.5? above the Earth\u2019s 2024 average resulted in sea levels that were tens of meters higher than total.<\/p>\n<p>Such a sea level rise would devastate population centers home to literally billions of people and have such a dramatic effect on sea and wildlife that it\u2019d be hard to predict the consequences. But it\u2019s not like any of this information is new\u2014it\u2019s just worth reinforcing.<\/p>\n<p>Even with reinforcement, more action is needed to solve the problem. The last ten years have been the warmest on record. While there is some variability between years, the trend in warming temperatures is obvious. Despite that, in 2022 and 2023, there were record releases of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Astronomy Cast Episode 308: Climate Change\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iOGP6g1VI0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Even 12 years ago, Fraser and Pamela were discussing climate change and what it meant for the planet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Additional effects could have impacted such a hot year in 2024. A NASA press release mentions everything from El Ni\u00f1o to volcanoes in Tonga to improved sulfur dioxide emissions from cargo ships. All undoubtedly impact the climate, but the contribution of each is difficult to tease out.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s global temperature assessment is based on data from thousands of weather stations scattered throughout the globe, both on land and sea. The same data was analyzed by other organizations, such as the US\u2019s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Berkeley Earth, the Hadley Centre, and Copernicus Climate Services. Each used slightly different methodologies and models to determine the Earth\u2019s temperature last year. Still, each showed a trend toward hotter temperatures \u2013 which most scientists take as unambiguous proof that the planet is getting hotter.<\/p>\n<p>However, many naysayers still can\u2019t see the forest for the trees, as a nasty cold snap could convince them of the illusion of \u201cglobal warming\u201d in general. However, the world\u2019s overall temperature shift is getting drastic enough that local areas are literally starting to feel the heat. Schmidt said, \u201cWhen changes happen in the climate, you see it first in the global mean, then you see it at the continental scale, and then at the regional scale. Now we\u2019re seeing it at the local level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fires currently threatening NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are just one symptom of the ongoing environmental challenges facing the world. This NASA report is just the most recent in a long line of reports that all point to the same conclusion\u2014the world is getting warmer, and we humans are likely the ones causing it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Learn More:<br \/>NASA \u2013 Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record<br \/>UT \u2013 NASA Confirms that 2023 was the Hottest Year on Record<br \/>UT \u2013 NASA Confirms That 2023 was the Hottest Summer on Record<br \/>UT \u2013 Global Temperatures Continue to Rise<\/p>\n<p>Lead Image:<br \/>This map of Earth in 2024 shows global surface temperature anomalies, or how much warmer or cooler each region of the planet was compared to the average from 1951 to 1980. Normal temperatures are shown in white, higher-than-normal temperatures in red and orange, and lower-than-normal temperatures in blue. An animated version of this map shows global temperature anomalies changing over time, dating back to 1880. 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