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The year 2024 shattered records but for all the wrong reasons. In July, Earth’s average temperature soared to the highest level in over 175 years, with July 22 marking the hottest day ever recorded. This summer scorched its way into the history books as the hottest since around 1880, while the hurricane season kicked off with a bang—Beryl, the earliest Category 4 hurricane ever documented. Here in South Africa's winter, we received record-breaking rainfall and freak storms, some snowy even.
and other space agencies are harnessing climate satellites to track the dramatic impact of climate change on weather patterns. Using satellite gravimetry—a technique that Space.com describes as capable of “precisely measuring ice mass loss, rising oceans, and even shifts in groundwater supply”—scientists are uncovering the full extent of the danger. These shifts pose an escalating threat to coastal towns across the globe, signalling a growing crisis.
's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, told Space.com. "That's just mind-blowing." Scientists have long sounded the alarm on rising sea levels and the peril they present to coastal cities. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that by 2100, sea levels could surge between 0.43 metres and 0.85 metres, which although seemingly low, would have devastating consequences for regions by the sea.
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