Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Temperature rise accelerating

 From a tweet by Really_Bad_At_Names

Fun fact, trends aren't measured in single digit years, there's a reason why we use 20 or 30 year baselines (or in NOAA's case, a century, 1901-2000). Here's NOAA's latest, CONUS June, 2022. Last 50 year slope, +0.273°C/decade, the last 10 years +0.493°/dec.
A decadal increase of 0.25 degrees C means that temperatures are rising by 0.5 degrees every twenty years.  However this is on land, where temperatures are rising faster than the average for the whole surface of the globe.




A response from Gordon Data Hunter-Gatherer


My comparison of a trend measured at different timescales All of them trend upwards

Note how the shorter moving averages are rising faster than the longer ones. In other words, the rise in temperatures is accelerating. And still not enough is being done. Politicians pretend to care, while pocketing their cheques from fossil fuel companies, and companies mouth platitudes about climate change and greening, while continuing to expand their carbon footprint. Net-zero by 2050 is a pious platitude. No real action is intended.




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