Record Hottest Month Again Again

When will we listen and learn? Just hitting copy & paste from the last few months doesn’t do justice to the fact that, yet again, the planet set a new record for temperature. The first month may have seemed an aberration. From NOAA;

“For the seventh-consecutive month, global ocean surface temperature also set a record high.”

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“The past 10 Octobers (2014–2023) have all been the warmest Octobers in NOAA’s global climate record.”

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“The YTD average global surface temperature ranked as the warmest such period on record at 2.03 degrees F (1.13 degrees C) above the 20th-century average.”

This is beyond ‘aberration’ and ‘fluke’ and fluctuation. This is beginning to look like the new normal with worsening weather, rising sea levels, climate-induced migrations, and effects we couldn’t predict. The changes are also changing our civilization as studies shift from hypothetical to reactive. The scientific expectation is that this trend will also set yearly records, not just monthly ones. Will we respond or adapt in time is a consideration for current events, not future planning.