Current Events > 2024 warmest year on record for mainland US: agency

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The announcement came as Europe's climate monitor confirmed 2024 was the hottest year globally, with temperatures so extreme that the planet breached a critical climate threshold for the first time ever.

President-elect Donald Trump, a vocal climate skeptic, is just days away from taking office and has pledged to expand fossil fuel production -- the main driver of human-caused warming -- while rolling back the green policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden.

According to NOAA, the average annual temperature across the lower 48 states and Washington was 55.5 degrees Fahrenheit (13.1 degrees Celsius) -- 3.5F above average and the highest in the agency's 130-year records.

It was also the third-wettest year since 1895 and saw the second-highest number of tornadoes on record, trailing only 2004.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250110-2024-warmest-year-on-record-for-mainland-us-agency

Not looking good

Yet I still got inundated with a shit ton of snow

More blood on Bush's hands

It's hard to believe that some people don't think global warming is real.

Sunburst posted...

It's hard to believe that some people don't think global warming is real.

I blame it on peoples' desire for instant results. If drastic changes took place like they do in natural disaster movies, like The Day After Tomorrow, there would likely be more call for action.

Sunburst posted...

It's hard to believe that some people don't think global warming is real.

My coworker doesn't. He kept saying stuff like "yea, but they don't really know. No one really knows. We had an ice age thousands of years ago. They only started tracking this stuff a few years ago."

NeonPhoenix posted...

Yet I still got inundated with a shit ton of snow

More blood on Bush's hands

Thanks Obama

Sunburst posted...

It's hard to believe that some people don't think global warming is real.

The Earth goes in cycles and we also are affected by what the Sun is doing.

Jupiter posted...

My coworker doesn't. He kept saying stuff like "yea, but they don't really know. No one really knows. We had an ice age thousands of years ago. They only started tracking this stuff a few years ago."

You hear that a lot from people who don't know shit. Then they use it as a slam dunk because you can't fully explain things they don't know to them. Like, if you REALLY want to know, the info is out there. I'm not a scientist, I only have a passing interest and critical thinking skills.

Monolith1676 posted...

The Earth goes in cycles and we also are affected by what the Sun is doing.

That doesn't refute what he said.

2025 will break records.
2026 will break records
2027 will break records

Etc.

We've passed the tipping point, the world is screwed. Well, humanity is screwed anyway. The world can recover. A million years is a blip to it so it'll bounce back. Humans, not so much. Welp, hope the future cephalopod people don't repeat our mistakes.