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"July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. And now we know something even
more alarming. This week, the European Space Agency announced the July heat
pushed the global average temperatures 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average.
The ominous headlines seemed to suggest we’d blown past the 2015 Paris
Agreement goal of holding warming to 1.5°C – and around a decade earlier than
expected.
Is that it? Game over, we lost?
Well, like all things to do with climate change, it’s not quite that simple.
The threshold was breached for a month before average temperatures dropped
back. And July 2023 isn’t actually the first time this has happened either –
the dubious honour goes to February 2016, where we broke the threshold for a
few days."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
