Below ís the start of an article in The Guardian dated July 23 that says Sunday July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded, according to preliminary data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, funded by the European Commission.
the article seems to have upset Birdman29, one of the Muppets of Denial of anthropogenic global warming and the climate change it brings, who post on HC and no doubt elsewhere.
these neanderthal antiscience knuckledraggers seem to suggest that meteorologists shouldn't measure, record and analyze daily temperatures and publish their findings.
i guess it's because they don't want to know, and one way of not knowing is to suppress science.
yet they use science to mount spurious arguments about other times when Earth was believed hotter, though of course our species homo sapiens wasn't extant at these times and so couldn't record temps then.
here's the start of the article in The Guardian yesterday.
THE GUARDIAN:
"Sunday was world’s hottest ever recorded day, data suggests
"Preliminary data from Copernicus suggests temperature records were shattered, taking world into ‘uncharted territory’
"World temperature records were shattered on Sunday on what may be the hottest day scientists have ever logged, data suggests.
"Inflamed by the carbon pollution spewed from burning fossils and farming livestock, the average surface air temperature hit 17.09C (62.76F) on Sunday, according to preliminary data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which holds data that stretches back to 1940.
"The reading inched above the previous record of 17.08C (62.74F) set on 6 July last year, but the scientists cautioned that the difference was not statistically distinguishable.
"“What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records,” said the Copernicus director, Carlo Buontempo. “We are now in truly uncharted territory – and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new records being broken in future months and years.”
"The finding comes as large parts of the world roast in punishing heat. Hot weather fuels crackling wildfires that burn homes to a crisp, and triggers silent waves of mass mortality that spill through hospital wards and retirement homes.
"Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist who works on the Berkeley Earth data project, said the record was “certainly a worrying sign” on the back of 13 record-setting months and that it should show up in datasets from other research groups. “It also makes it even more likely that 2024 will beat 2023 as the warmest year on record.”"
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