World's First Year-long Breach of Key 1.5C Warming Limit

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... World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts.

This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.

Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists say.

"This far exceeds anything that is acceptable," Prof Sir Bob Watson, a former chair of the UN's climate body, told the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.

"Look what's happened this year with only 1.5C - we've seen floods, we've seen droughts, we've seen heatwaves and wildfires all over the world."

The period from February 2023 to January 2024 reached 1.52C of warming, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The following graph shows how that compares with previous years. ...

Ocean system that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos, study says
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... An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a "cliff-like" tipping point looming in the future.

A long-worried nightmare scenario, triggered by Greenland's ice sheet melting from global warming, still is at least decades away if not longer, but maybe not the centuries that it once seemed, a new study in Friday's Science Advances finds. The study, the first to use complex simulations and include multiple factors, uses a key measurement to track the strength of vital overall ocean circulation, which is slowing.

A collapse of the current -- called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC -- would change weather worldwide because it means a shutdown of one of key the climate and ocean forces of the planet. It would plunge northwestern European temperatures by 9 to 27 degrees (5 to 15 degrees Celsius) over the decades, extend Arctic ice much farther south, turn up the heat even more in the Southern Hemisphere, change global rainfall patterns and disrupt the Amazon, the study said. Other scientists said it would be a catastrophe that could cause worldwide food and water shortages.

"We are moving closer (to the collapse), but we we're not sure how much closer," said study lead author Rene van Westen, a climate scientist and oceanographer at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. "We are heading towards a tipping point." ...

@#16 ... Sorry Snoofy, I guess you misunderstood my comment. It's solely to point out that if your democrat overlords actually thought global warming / climate change / whatever new phrase you guys will eventually have to use were true ... They wouldn't own beach front property, nor would insurance companies insure their homes. ...

Really?

That is what your current alias is hanging it's hat on?

That people who own beach front property (a phrase I note you do not describe in detail, but that's a later comment) still own that beach front property?

Why does your current alias think they may own it?

Possibly to sell it to someone else in the future for a profit?

All that aside...

Let's talk specifics...

What, exactly is the beach front property that is owned and how is it threatened?

Yeah, let's start there. Details, please.

Yer up.

@#17 ... n But Obama and richest libs buys a mansion on an island and beachfront. ...

Lemme ask of ye a question...

Has your alias done a survey of the properties affected by climate change and ascertained whether or not those buying those properties have a rational reason to buy those properties?

Yer up...

@#20 ... the house is 100-200 feet above sea level. ...

Sea Level Rise Dooms Obama's New Martha's Vineyard Mansion (2020)

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... Guest "I couldn't make this sort of schist up if I was trying" by David Middleton

This is sort of a follow up to Eric's post on the Obama's new beachfront mansion ...

Climate Change Could Leave Obama's Possible New Mansion Underwater, According To Researchers Funded By Obama Admin

PETER HASSON
SENIOR REPORTER
August 26, 2019

Former President Barack Obama's possible new mansion on Martha's Vineyard could be totally underwater by the year 2100, according to a climate change model relying on government data.

The Obamas are reportedly in the process of buying the island property, which was originally listed at listed at $14,850,000, from Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck. Though the deal has yet to be finalized, both TMZ and the Boston Herald have reported that the Obamas are in escrow. ...

My first question...

Is this fmr Pres Obama betting against climate change, or is this fmr Pres Obama looking to use Capitalism to get more in return on an investment?

In other words, and quite bluntly, is fmr Pres Obama looking to exploit the GOP's intentional ignorance of climate change to make money off of them in the future?

@#22 ... Perhaps he just likes the place and can afford it? ...

Yeah, there's that also.

Which raises another question...

Why do people still buy houses in Florida when the risk of hurricane damage has gotten so great that insurance companies are vacating the area?

Farmers Insurance is the 4th major insurer to leave Florida, underlining insurance crisis (July 2023)
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... Now that Farmers Insurance has decided to join more than a dozen other Florida insurance companies that have stopped writing home insurance policies in the state, over 100,000 homeowners are scrambling to find new coverage in a dwindling yet critical industry. ...

...and...

Florida home insurance crisis: Floridians brace for yet another rate increase. Here's why.
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