Fox News host Jesse Watters, Newsmax hosts, Donald Trump, and other right-wing goons go above and beyond to completely deny disastrous climate change threat and calls for action on global crisis during hottest year recorded in history.
“2024 may be even hotter than the “gobsmackingly” hot 2023, which featured extreme — and often deadly — weather and climate events around the globe.
Why it matters: A hotter 2024 would lend credence to the hypothesis that global warming is accelerating.
“If things follow the normal pattern, 2024 should be a bit hotter than 2023. But ‘the normal pattern’ may not exist anymore,” said Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University.
“In any event, it’s certainly going to be one of the hottest years in the record.”
The big picture: The combination of human-caused global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy, along with deforestation, plus other factors like a naturally occurring El Niño, have boosted 2023’s record warmth, stunning many in the scientific community.
Disasters from deadly flooding in Libya and Greece to never-before-seen global average temperatures, along with record-shattering ocean heat, among other milestones have occurred this year, for example.”
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