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Why has it been so hot this year?


Why has it been so hot this year? | Citizens' Climate Lobby

The answer to our questions lies in the science of greenhouse gases and their impact on our planet. It all starts with the greenhouse effect.

Is there a reason why it's hotter this year besides climate change?

The most likely answer is that it is a confluence of factors amplified, brought about, or caused by climate change and the increasing amount of GHG in the ...

2024 is on track to be hottest year on record as warming temporarily ...

2024 is on track to be hottest year on record as warming temporarily hits 1.5°C · Jan-Sept 2024 global average temperature 1.54 (±0.13) °C above ...

Endless summer weather? Why it's still so hot and dry. - USA Today

The ongoing warmth is due to the position of the jet stream, which has been unusually far north, AccuWeather meteorologist Tom Kines told USA ...

NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date

June through August is considered meteorological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The white lines indicate the range of estimated temperatures ...

The hottest summer on record could lead to our warmest year ever ...

And if this sounds familiar, that's because the records the globe shattered were set just last year as human-caused climate change, with a ...

Why is it so hot? (Video) | Citizens' Climate Lobby

2023 was the hottest year of temperatures ever recorded across the earth. Across America, communities are facing hotter weather all year long.

It's not just you. Here's where this summer really has been the worst

Forecasters have been warning of a searing summer for months due to the troubling combination of a budding La Niña and a world warming due to ...

Five Factors to Explain the Record Heat in 2023

“The cause of that warming trend over the last 50 to 60 years is dominated by our changes to greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide and ...

Summer 2024 was Earth's hottest on record - Los Angeles Times

Climate change is transforming the character of the West's hottest periods — making them more frequent, more persistent, more humid and more ...

Why is this fall so hot — and when will it cool down? Here's what we ...

There are a combination of factors driving temperatures up in fall 2024. These factors include La Niña, a heat dome and climate change. La Niña ...

2024 could be world's hottest year as June breaks records - Reuters

"I now estimate that there is an approximately 95% chance that 2024 beats 2023 to be the warmest year since global surface temperature records ...

Get used to more absurdly hot Octobers - Vox

Climate change has also led to higher temperatures around the world throughout this past year, including a particularly hot summer in states ...

Climate Change Indicators: Heat Waves | US EPA

... heat wave in major U.S. urban areas has been about four days long. ... year is rare enough that most people would consider it to be unusually hot.

Extreme heat is breaking global records: Why this isn't 'just summer ...

The extreme heat is part of a longer trend: Each of the past 13 months has been the hottest on record for that month globally, including the hottest June.

New record daily global average temperature reached in July 2024

What really stands out is also the difference between the temperatures since July 2023 and all previous years. ... To date, 2024 has been ...

Heat Waves and Climate Change - C2ES

In extreme temperatures, air quality is also affected. Hot and sunny days can increase the production of ground-level ozone, a harmful pollutant that is the ...

When will the heat end? Never. | CNN

There will still be colder-than-average summers in the future, but climate change is making it likelier more summers will end up hotter-than- ...

2023 was the warmest year in the modern temperature record

Most of the globe was warmer-than-average (red). Only a few areas were colder than average (blue). The animated bar graph shows yearly average ...

2023 was the world's warmest year on record, by far

Ocean heat content is a key climate indicator because the ocean stores 90% of the excess heat in the Earth system. The indicator has been ...