Earth's fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported Thursday.
A tourist takes a drink opposite the Elizabeth Tower also known as Big Ben in London, on Aug. 11, 2022. , not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported Thursday.
Last year was slightly toastier than 2021, but overall the science teams say the big issue is that the last eight years, from 2015 on, have been a step above the higher temperatures the globe had been going through. All eight years are more than 1.8 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times, NOAA and NASA said. Last year was 2 degrees warmer than the mid-19th century, NASA said.
Like a fever, "every tenth of a degree matters and things break down and that's what we're seeing," Climate Central Chief Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky. The La Nina, a natural process that alters weather worldwide, is in its third straight year. Schmidt calculated that last year the La Nina cooled the overall temperature by about a tenth of a degree and that last year was the hottest La Nina year on record.
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