Congratulations, 2019 was the second hottest year on record
Shocking nobody, 2019 was officially the second warmest year ever recorded.
The European Union's earth observing agency, Copernicus, announced the warming record Wednesday morning, along with the fact that December 2019 tied 2015 for the warmest December in recorded history.
That means 19 of the last 20 years are now the warmest on record.
This makes sense. Earth's atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide — a potent heat-trapping gas — are the highest they've been in at least 800,00 years, but more likely millions of years. The pace at which these CO2 levels are rising are breaking records, too. Paleoclimatologists have found that carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing at rates that are unprecedented in both the historic and geologic record.
In 2019, all-time high-temperature records were smashed or broken all over the planet, in the likes of Alaska, Australia, Vietnam, France, Germany, and beyond.
A common climate science denialist argument — though willfully ignorant and increasingly pathetic — is that cold or low records were also broken in 2019. Yes, that's true; winter still arrives and daily weather will always fluctuate. But the critical point is high temperature records are crushing low temperatures records.
As of mid-December, 364 all-time high temperatures were set in 2019, versus just 70 all-time lows. This makes sense.
"As the climate changes into a warmer climate we do expect to see more extreme warm temperatures," Ahira Sánchez-Lugo, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climatologist, told Mashable in December. "That’s what we’re seeing, and that’s what the data are showing."
By July, it was already clear 2019 would be one of the warmest years on record, as the first half of the year was the second-warmest half-year on record.
"As we have shown in recent work, the record warm streaks we’ve seen in recent years simply cannot be explained without accounting for the profound impact we are having on the planet through the burning of fossil fuels and the resulting increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations," climate scientist Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, told Mashable in July.
Soon after, July officially became the warmest month ever recorded on Earth — in 140 years of reliable record-keeping.
The well-predicted consequences of heating the planet are playing out around the globe:
Unprecedented fires are burning in Australia. Greenland is melting at unprecedented rates. Ocean temperatures are relentlessly rising. Warming climes have doubled the amount of land burned by wildfires in the U.S. over the last 30 years.
That's not true. They are cooking those books pretty hard to drive an agenda.
ReplyDeleteOK boomer
DeleteMust of been warm rain because it wasn’t sunshine in Ireland anyway
ReplyDeleteNope.. it has been cooler here.. I looked at the charts on the webpage doesnt even reflect my country at all,.. Looks like BS.. who makes up this bs charts and maps anyway.. They are totally out of touch with reality..
ReplyDeleteFor a planet that is a few billion years old the “records” are a mere blip. Less than 200 years
ReplyDeleteAnd faced many climate mass extinctions... yeah, a blip to the next one
Delete...and yet I didn't feel it.
ReplyDeleteWell we surely didn’t set any heatwave records here
ReplyDeleteMore Bull, this neglects the reality that the drought of the depression in the 30's was the hottest in the last 100 yrs. Get your facts straight when you try to fear monger!
ReplyDeletewhere are your facts?
DeleteApparently stupidity causes the temperature to rise(so, the more humans, the hotter it gets)
ReplyDeleteAnd cue the parade of deniers.
ReplyDeleteThe clue is in ‘on record’ we have no records for 99.9999% of this planets existence.... shame it doesnt fit with your narrative
ReplyDeleteRead this. If you can read. You're welcome
ReplyDeletehttps://skeptoid.com/episodes/4549...
Renewable energy sources destroy habitat and produce ton upon ton of waste much of which is not recyclable.
DeleteAlines with the data forecasts.
ReplyDeleteShow me the temperature fluctuations since we started recording temperatures.
ReplyDeleteThey won't because that smashes their headline. According to ice core data and other geologic measurements, the earth's global mean temperature has been as high as 20-30 degrees warmer or more. That's IN THE RECORD. So this headline is a total lie.
DeleteIf you're not number one, you're last. No need for congrats
ReplyDeleteSo what!
ReplyDeleteWe have known since Tyndall's experiments in 1859 that greenhouse gases trap heat. Because no denier has refuted Tyndall, the deniers are full of ****.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Mashable understand how the global climate works.
ReplyDeleteI can trigger liberals without even trying, lmao.
Deletewe have known since Tyndall's experiments in 1859 that greenhouse gases trap heat. Quit playing dumb. Your grandchildren will curse you.
Deletehaha take it easy lady.
DeleteClearly you don't understand it either. Leave my family out if it you crazy lady.
More coming!!!
ReplyDeleteCool heatmap, got me scared. But why not go all out with the propaganda; Show pictures of burning babies. Because as we all know, babies autoignite from global warming, just like Australia does. 😱
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