{"id":67824,"date":"2024-05-02T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67824"},"modified":"2024-05-02T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T23:49:08","slug":"heres-what-record-breaking-temperatures-looked-like-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67824","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what record-breaking temperatures looked like around the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here\u2019s what record-breaking temperatures looked like around the globe<\/a><\/h3>\n
Climate change is affecting every continent and the oceans.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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(Photo credit: Anthony Quintano \/\u00a0CC BY 2.0 DEED<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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You probably know that 2023 was\u00a0a very warm year for our planet<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and that this heat is continuing into 2024. And you likely know some effects of this heat in your own region or continent \u2014 in the U.S., for instance, the Canadian wildfire\u00a0smoke<\/a>\u00a0that covered the U.S. East Coast, the Midwest\u2019s unusually\u00a0warm winter<\/a>, or the recent million-plus-acre wildfire in the\u00a0Texas Panhandle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you live in the U.S. and happen to get most of your news from national broadcast channels ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, these big stories may be most of what you know about recent climate events. During the\u00a0record-smashing year<\/a>\u00a0of 2023, these four TV stations spent\u00a0less than 1%<\/a> of their news time addressing climate change.<\/p>\n

If you get your news from other sources, you\u2019ll likely know more. For instance, you may have seen this\u00a0stunning comment<\/a>\u00a0from the Deputy Director of the European Union\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service, Samantha Burgess: \u201c2023 was an exceptional year with climate records tumbling like dominoes. Not only is 2023 the warmest year on record, but it is also the first year with all days over 1\u00b0C warmer than the preindustrial period. Temperatures during 2023 likely exceed those of any period in at least the last 100,000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, you may sometimes lose sight of the global picture \u2014 and the critical fact that the whole planet\u2019s climate is under stress. It\u2019s not just the heat itself, either, but also the droughts and floods that can come with higher temperatures.<\/p>\n

So here are some quick snapshots and summaries of what these hot months have meant around the world. In many cases, the headlines alone tell the basic story.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what record-breaking temperatures looked like around the globe Climate change is affecting every continent and the oceans. (Photo credit: Anthony Quintano \/\u00a0CC BY 2.0 DEED) You probably know that 2023 was\u00a0a very warm year for our planet\u00a0\u2014 and that this heat is continuing into 2024. And you likely know some effects of this heat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,369,34467,31406],"class_list":["post-67824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-sueellen-campbell","tag-yale-climate-connections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67825,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67824\/revisions\/67825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}