• ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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    10 months ago

    Hopefully mostly because of the El Nino, otherwise we’re looking at a pretty drastic increase in rate of temperature rise.

    Politically it’s good though and I hope we exceed+2 degrees this year so that we once and for all can conclude that humanity completely botched that goal and maybe, just maybe redouble our efforts to help change course.

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      10 months ago

      Still, El Niño happens cyclically every few years, and this dataset spans decades. There are no other years in there similar to 2023….

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      10 months ago

      And El Niño itself is driven by ocean temperatures. El Niño isn’t the cause, it’s the name of the effect.