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This story was originally published by\u00a0the\u00a0<\/em>Guardian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0<\/em>Climate Desk<\/a>\u00a0collaboration.<\/em><\/p>\n

In a remarkably candid<\/span>\u00a0essay in the journal Nature<\/em><\/a>\u00a0this March, one of the world\u2019s top climate scientists posited the alarming possibility that global heating may be moving beyond the ability of experts to predict what happens next.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2023 temperature anomaly has come out of the blue, revealing an unprecedented knowledge gap perhaps for the first time since about 40 years ago, when satellite data began offering modellers an unparalleled, real-time view of Earth\u2019s climate system,\u201d wrote Gavin Schmidt, a British scientist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.<\/p>\n

If this anomaly does not stabilize by August, he said, it could imply \u201cthat a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system operates, much sooner than scientists had anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many in the science and environment community read these words with alarm. Was the leap in temperatures over the past 13 months, which has exceeded the global heating forecasts of experts, a sign of a systemic shift, or just a temporary anomaly? If the world was warming even faster than scientists thought it would, seemingly jumping years ahead of predictions, would that mean even more crucial decades of action had been lost?<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are already in uncharted territory with respect to climate and with every decade we go more further out on a limb.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

With August now here, Schmidt is a fraction less disturbed. He said the situation remains unclear, but the broader global heating trends are starting to move back in the direction of forecasts. \u201cWhat I am thinking now is we aren\u2019t that far off from expectations. If we maintain this for the next couple of months then we can say what happened in late 2023 was more \u2018blippish\u2019 than systematic. But it is still too early to call it,\u201d he said. \u201cI am slightly less worried, but still humbled that we can\u2019t explain it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian<\/em>, Schmidt, said records were beaten last year by a surprising margin and predicts 2024 is also likely to set a new peak, though the trend may nudge closer towards expectations.<\/p>\n

Looking back at the most extreme months of heat in the second half of 2023 and early 2024 when the previous records were beaten at times by more than 0.2 C, an enormous anomaly, he said scientists were still baffled: \u201cWe don\u2019t have a quantitative explanation for even half of it. That is pretty humbling.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe should have better answers by now. Climate modeling as an enterprise is not set out to be super reactive. It is a slow, long process in which people around the world are volunteering their time. We haven\u2019t got our act together on this question yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not to doubt the underlying science of global heating, which\u00a0more than 99.9 percent of climatologists agree<\/a>\u00a0is caused by human burning of gas, oil, coal, and forests.<\/p>\n

That alone is creating alarming new temperature records every year, as the world experienced last month with\u00a0two consecutive days of heat in excess of anything in human records<\/a>, and probably also\u00a0anything in more than 120,000 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is wreaking havoc over an even wider swath of the world by intensifying forest fires, droughts, floods, sea-ice loss, and other manifestations of extreme weather.<\/p>\n

The worsening trend will continue until fossil fuels are stopped. \u201cAs climate change continues, every decade it gets warmer, the impact is larger and the consequences are greater,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cSo in that sense, we are already in uncharted territory with respect to climate and with every decade we go more further out on a limb.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Unicef calculates a quarter of the world\u2019s children are already exposed to frequent heatwaves, and this will rise to almost 100 percent by mid-century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

The recent El Nin\u00f5 added to global heat pressures. Scientists have also pointed to the fallout from the January 2022\u00a0Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai volcanic eruption in Tonga<\/a>, the ramping up of solar activity in the run-up to a\u00a0predicted solar maximum<\/a>, and pollution controls that reduced cooling sulfur dioxide particles. But Schmidt said none of these possible causes was sufficient to account for the spike in temperatures.<\/p>\n

Schmidt said he hoped a clearer picture would emerge by the time of the\u00a0American Geophysical Union meeting in December<\/a>, when many of the world\u2019s top Earth system scientists will gather in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

One of the most worrying theories to emerge is that the Earth is losing its albedo, which is the ability of the planet to reflect heat back into space. This is mainly because there is less white ice in the Arctic, Antarctic and mountain glaciers. Peter Cox, a professor at Exeter University, noted on X that this is \u201ccontributing hugely to the acceleration of global warming.\u201d It would also suggest the recent records are not just a freak conjunction of factors.<\/p>\n

On 29 July, the total extent of sea ice was at a record low for the date and some 1.5 million square miles\u2014an area bigger than India\u2014below the 1981-2010 average,\u00a0according to Zackary Labe<\/a>, a climate scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n

It continues to melt rapidly because temperatures in some parts of Antarctica recently\u00a0hit 24 C above the average<\/a>\u00a0for the time of year in the middle of the austral winter.<\/p>\n

Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, warned recently that \u201cEarth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere.\u201d He pointed out that scorching conditions killed 1,300 pilgrims during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, shut down tourist attractions in Europe\u2019s sweatbox cities, and closed schools across Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n

Temperatures above 50 C\u00a0used to be a rarity confined to two or three global hotspots<\/a>, but the World Meteorological Organization noted that\u00a0at least 10 countries have reported this level of searing heat in the past year<\/a>: the US, Mexico, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Pakistan, India and China.<\/p>\n

In Iran, the heat index\u2014a measure that also includes humidity\u2014has come perilously close to 60 C<\/a>, far above the level considered safe for humans.<\/p>\n

Heatwaves are now commonplace elsewhere, killing the most vulnerable, worsening inequality and threatening the wellbeing of future generations. Unicef calculates a quarter of the world\u2019s children are already exposed to frequent heatwaves, and this will rise to almost 100 percent by mid-century.<\/p>\n

The pace of change is disorienting. Schmidt says there is a 72 percent chance that 2024 will beat last year\u2019s heat record. The likelihood will rise still higher if there is no cooling La Ni\u00f1a by December.<\/p>\n

While some argue that the world will soon pass the lower Paris agreement guardrail of 1.5C of heating above the preindustrial average, Schmidt says the more important goal should be to phase out carbon emissions as quickly as possible: \u201cWhat should be motivating people is that with every tenth of a degree of warming, the impacts will increase. That is the fundamental equation. It doesn\u2019t matter where we are now, but we have to get to net zero. The faster that happens, then the happier we will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

At times, he acknowledged that his work puts him in a bind because as a scientist he wants his forecasts about global heating to be accurate, but as a human he would rather they proved an overestimate. \u201cWe would all rather be wrong than right on this,\u201d he says. \u201cThat is the one thing that skeptics don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Author: Jonathan Watts<\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/climate-scientists-unexpected-rise-global-temperatures-warming-july-2024-record-heat\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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