Hottest January on record mystifies climate scientists
A run of record-breaking global temperatures has continued, even with a La Niña weather pattern cooling the tropical Pacific.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service said last month was the warmest January on record, with surface – air temperatures 1.75C above preindustrial levels.
The EU-funded Earth observation programme highlighted wetter-than-average conditions in eastern Australia and drier-than-average conditions in other parts of the country.
Samantha Burgess, the strategic lead for climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said: “January 2025 is another surprising month, continuing the record temperatures observed throughout the last two years … Copernicus will continue to closely monitor ocean temperatures and their influence on our evolving climate throughout 2025.” Sea-surface temperatures remained unusually high in many ocean basins and seas.
This record breaking heat DESPITE La Niña.
I don’t think people appreciate what comes next.
Almost 600 000 workers couldn’t go to work in California in January thanks to fires, the highest level ever where climate change has impacted the physical mechanics of employment.
Capitalism will start becoming increasingly dysfunctional.
What the LA Fires really tell us is that despite being the richest Americans, they couldn’t protect themselves and their privilege from climate change.
When the homes of the Movie stars burn down, shit just got real.
Things start shutting down now, like economies, like biospheres, like democracy.
The speed of change will demand a level of adaptation we are not ready for.
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Keep shopping till the end!! The other side of fire is flood, and as we saw after NZ storms, hundreds were de-housed, some communities were cut off for months due to “one way in and out” scenarios, and extensive road detours required while bridges were patched up.
Fortress NZ sounds scary but it needs to start happening–but probably will not apart from the wealthy looking after their own arses in their bunkers and estates. NZ does not even choose to feed, house or medically care for all its people in a large fertile country with just 5 million population, so an urgent move to national self sufficiency is just not in the mindset of the arseholes running CoC or much of the population absorbed in the digital world, sport and just trying to get by.
Excellent comment @ Tiger Mountain.
I’m buying a fire extinguisher… Is that irony?
Marlin seen and caught in the Cook Strait, Mahi mahi caught off Kapiti and Hokitika.
We are in big trouble.
Mahi mahi were once only caught off the very top of NZ in exceptional years. Now venturing very far south due to warming seas.
Kingfish now common place down as far south as Invercargill, previously Nelson and Wellington were the bottom of their range (odd one caught in Christchurch).
I heard of a kingfish caught at Stewart island recently!
It’s nothing new.
In fact, in slightly different ways, it’s happened 5 times before in Earth’s 4.3 billon years of existence.
Sceptics should read Peter Brannen’s paleontology-based book ‘The Ends of the World’ – it’s in most public libraries.
What we don’t need are more millionaires with high expectations of comfort.
We can’t look after the people we have and let’s face it, many aren’t expecting much.
If the ACT party school lunches are anything to go by, they expect us to be satisfied and grateful, for very little while they pick the eyes out of everything.
20,000 feet of atmosphere or 6 kilometers is about the outer limits of breathable oxygen.
Set the odometer and drive 6 K. Now, freak the fuck out. Our planet has the most ridiculously thin veil of breathable air and we’re fucking it up for junk and baubles while we burn down the forests and pollute the oceans which generate the air-veil we must breathe. We, dear humans, are fucked in the head.
Now? Bogans. Go and do your farty-farty noise brum-brums while making wee smokey skiddies on the roads you dumb fucks!
You richer Bogans? Go here and see the global shipping traffic that brings you your pointless dollar-fetishes to your instant-gratification demanding testicles and vaginas. When next you see a Leach or a Maggot can you at least bow down and apologise to them and beg their forgiveness.
Now, just keep zooming out.
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A family member said to me a few weeks ago its just weather .What a stupid person she is .I never bothered to engage with her as she is part of the Act greedy cunts voting block but will soon be regretting that .She is already moaning about how bad things are getting for the dumb arse squeezed middle who think they are in the sorted group .When in fact they are far from sorted and have been royaly fucked over .