News this morning. Tropical storm with possible record rain on the gulf coast. Deadly wild fires on the West. Pretty much the norm now.
That chart doesn't change the fact that there are more floods happening around the world, the glaciers are melting, the seas are warming, and storms are intensifying more rapidly. You do realize that there were a lot more deaths back in the days before hurricane hunters, hurricane forecasting, and measures to evacuate people safely before a storm hit don't you? Gee, no wonder more people got caught off guard back then during tropical storms and hurricanes and died. Sticking your head under a rock and pretending nothing is changing wont make it go away.
I would like to see the source of that graph. Nearly all of the hottest years on record has been in the last 20 years and as we'll see in the next few days with a heat dome over the east coast there is likely going to be many heat related deaths. We've also seen some of the biggest record floods in the last few decades. Also yes fossil fuels have many uses but so does lead and asbestos and we have largely been able to transition from those.
"I do not remember a warmer night than the last. In my attic, under the roof, with all the windows and doors open, there was still not a puff of the usual coolness of the night. It seemed as if heat which the roof had absorbed during the night was being reflected down on me. It was far more intolerable than by day. I heard the sounds made by pigs and horses in the neighborhood and of the children who were partially suffocated by the heat. It seemed as if it would be something to tell of, the experience of that night, as of the Black Hole of Calcutta in a degree, if one survived it." -Thoreau's Journal; June 22, 1853.
Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/06/22/deadly-heat-wave-climate-change/
This graphic compares the year-to-date temperature anomalies for 2024 (black line) to what were ultimately the ten warmest years on record: 2023 (1st), 2016 (2nd), 2020 (3rd), 2019 (4th), 2017 (5th), 2015 (6th), 2022 (7th), 2018 (8th), 2021 (8th), and 2014 (10th). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202401/supplemental/page-1
