Bill McKibben is spreading the word that September, 2023 was crazy hot and that the time to save our planet is critically short.
Mostly everyone is aware by now that September of 2023 was the hottest September in recorded history and not by a little,! The graph above was created by well known climate scientist Zeke Hausfather from data compiled by the Japanese Meteorological Agency and reported bydataset for each day of the year between 1958 through September 21st, 2023. The JRA-55 data is available in near-real time while other datasets can take weeks to provide a result.
“We have, in effect, turned September into July,” according to McKibben. “That’s not hyperbole, that’s just data. And in so doing, September smashed through the 1.5 degree Celsius warming mark that the world set as a target in Paris just eight years ago. We’ve been talking about it ever since, and now we’re there.”There’s no huge mystery about why, McKibben writes. “Yes, we’re in an El Niño, though it’s only now kicking in.
“Even without accounting for the destruction of the earth, the rapid build out of renewable energy is cheaper than business as usual. It requires a little more capital expenditure to build all those solar panels than to keep replacing fossil fuel infrastructure but the operating expense is far lower because … wait for it … the sun delivers the power for free, while Saudi Arabia and Exxon charge.
“In recent years, some have chosen to deride these facts. They bring up allegedly solid scientific data, like the fact that the planet has always had, and will have, periods of cooling and warming. They forget to mention another relevant datum — that what we are presently experiencing is an unusual acceleration of warming, at such a speed that it will take only one generation — not centuries or millennia — in order to verify it.
Pope Francis ends with a pointed message for American bishops who too often have been in league with the climate deniers in the Republican party.
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