J. Love

Line graph time series showing global land surface temperatures (90°S to 90°N) in a red line and global mean (land+ocean) surface temperatures (90°S to 90°N) in a blue line. Temperatures are averaged annually from 1900 through 2024. Linear least squares trends are also shown from 1990 to 2024. The land is warming faster than the global mean.

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record.

Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

A line graph shows the time series of global mean surface temperature anomalies for each January-August from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in January-August 2025 was 1.17°C globally. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic.

Global temperatures so far this year are still the 2nd warmest on record when comparing with each prior January-August period. However, a ranking of #3 is most probable by the end of 2025.

Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

I’m completely baffled by this reporting on getting weather and emergency alerts through only social media.

The majority of the public is not on Twitter/X, and the bizarre Facebook algorithm shows a mix of trashy AI videos and days-old news? I’m so confused.

"A nation which deliberately infects itself with poison will inevitably sicken and die."
Telford Taylor

Some federal workers lost health coverage they had paid for. A Democrat wants answers Commerce Department employees who were fired, reinstated, and fired again learned belatedly that their health insurance has been cut off. Some had already racked up thousands in medical bills.

More on what happened to us: www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n...

"They were left uninsured – despite the fact that they'd been paying their health care premiums through paycheck deductions..."

More bad news for sea ice monitoring (key satellite observations for tracking for sea ice)

"The Defense Department has informed National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) that they will reduce the priority of processing the SSMIS data, resulting in likely daily data gaps"

nsidc.org/data/user-re...

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through May 2025. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 431 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

🚨 Carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels set a new monthly *record high* in May 2025 - 430.51 ppm (seasonal maximum)

This is the second largest May-May increase in this dataset (3.6 ppm higher than 2024). This is not good... 🫣

Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Yikes. 😬

First three months of the year, Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude Sea Surface Temperatures for the past 170 years:

Your daily dose of #CO2 part 1

#CO2 explodes higher again
Hourly reading at 433 ...

24.04.2025 Unavailable
24.04.2024 428.42 🆙4,46 or +1.05 %
24.04.2023 423.96 🆙3.45 or 0.82 %
24.04.2022 420.51 🆙2.10 or 0.50 %
24.04.2021 418.41 🆙2.72 or 0.65 %

#ClimateCrisis

It's been over a month since I updated this graphic -- my analysis: still f&%ked.

The average global surface temperature anomaly so far this year, Jan. 1 - Apr. 23, 2025, is 1.62°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline.

Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

The latest CERES data just dropped, and surprise, surprise, for the eighth month in a row the 36-month average for Earth's albedo hit yet another record low.

Gratitude to the folks at:
ceres-tool.larc.nasa.gov/ord-tool/srb...

And for those keeping track of the rate of planetary heating, as expressed in Hiroshima bombs per second (HpS), the current rate is 11.25 HpS, which comes out to about 970,000 Hiroshimas per day.

I guess if we're under 1 million per day, that's a good thing???

Lucky thing we have oceans, right?

Polar stereographic map showing 2-m air temperature trends over the Arctic for Aprils from 1979 to 2024. There is widespread warming over nearly all locations.

Trend in April temperatures across the #Arctic over the last 46 years...

The greatest warming is along the Siberian coast and in the Barents Sea, especially near Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya.

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5. For more info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and May by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 310,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 660,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,130,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,640,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪

A line graph shows the time series of global mean surface temperature anomalies for each March from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in March 2025 was 1.31°C globally. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. A map of temperature anomalies in March 2025 is also shown. Red shading is for warmer than average temperatures, and blue shading is shown for colder than average temperatures. The climatological baseline on the map is relative to 1971 to 2000. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic.

In the NOAAGlobalTemp v6 dataset, last month was the 3rd warmest March on record. Small differences in rankings between datasets can occur. Particularly extensive warm anomalies were observed over Europe ⚒️🧪

+ For more info: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
+ Data: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Your daily dose of #CO2

Over 430 again

12.04.2025 430.36 🆙5.56 or 1.31 %
12.04.2024 424.8. 🆙 1.57 or 0.37%
12.04.2023 423.23 🆙 4.24 or 1.01%
12.04.2022 418.99 ⬇️ 0.52 -0.12 %
12.04.2021 419.51 🆙3.82 or 0.92 %
03.04.2020 415.69 🆙 4.23 or 1.03%

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

Line graph time series of daily mean Arctic sea ice thickness for each year from 1979 to 2025 using shades of red, white and blue. A seasonal cycle is shown with thicker ice in late winter and thinner ice in late summer. A long-term decreasing trend is also visible. Data is from PIOMAS v2.1.

Each line represents one year of #Arctic sea ice thickness from 1979 [dark blue] to 2024 [dark red]. This year is shown in yellow - now updated through March 2025 which is around the 2nd thinnest on record for the month.

+ More visuals of thickness and volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Time series of globally averaged air temperature for March, with the LOESS curve clearly showing a concave up pattern

Time-varying global trends derived from LOESS fits to each month's time series. All have increasing trends over time with recent decade being around 0.3 to 0.4 deg C/decade.

Digging into the data on whether global warming is accelerating. It is.

Smoothing any month's global time series makes the concave up pattern clear. Taking the finite difference of the smoothed time series, the rate of change is increasing for all months and is now 0.3 to 0.4 °C/decade. #climate

Monthly level of Absorbed Solar Radiation was record high:

January EEI update: it looks like the Earth Energy Imbalance has turned a corner since its recent drop -- full steam ahead everyone!

Will we see a new record high for the EEI in a few months? Stay tuned!

Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

Arctic sea-ice extent is once again back to lowest on record for the date, as of Mar. 25, 2025.

Hello, is anybody out there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is anybody home?

As Earth heats up, Outgoing Longwave Radiation increases.

But the increasing greenhouse gases keep much of the heat in.

And as sulphur emissions and cloud cover decrease, more and more sunlight is absorbed:

Ironically, this picture comes from Heron Is, on the southern Great Barrier Reef, in April 2024 - not from Western Australia.

It's almost like coral bleaching and mass mortality is increasingly global & more frequent,..... oh wait! See www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

10bmnews.com/2025/03/shoc...

Surge!!!

BREAKING NASA 📈🔥
The most important graph in the world is going up again.

The four-year average Earth's Energy Imbalance is record high at +1.4 W/m².

Even with a record hot January 2025 of +1.75°C, the monthly (climatology corrected) Earth's Energy Imbalance was +2.5 W/m²!

What beachgoers need to know about poisoned sea lions An ongoing poisoning event is stranding sea lions and other marine mammals as warnings are issued to the public of the threat posed by animals that are transformed by their illness.

Check out the photo. Any animal that doesn’t have a high tolerance for humans has long ago disappeared. Biodiverse ocean beaches have been successfully sterilized planet-wide. 🙁

www.latimes.com/california/n...

Another warning about travelling to the US. Any criticism of Trump can now be qualified as terrorism when entering the US.

Line graph time series showing the latest mean sea level as of 27 January 2025 using data from 1993. There is a long-term increasing trend and a quadratic fit line is shown on the graph with an acceleration of 0.11 mm/yr^2. The current rate of increase is +4.1 mm/yr in the 2013-2024 period.

Another global sea level update with satellite altimetry data now processed by CNES/AVISO through late January 2025. It's accelerating. 🌊

+ Note that this graph was produced by www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/prod...

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.

Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.

(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

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