Earth Just Had Its 6th Day Above 17°C — and the Oceans Are Breaking Daily Records
More Fucked Today Than Yesterday
A climate data analyst shares the latest alarming figures: global surface temperatures have stayed above 17.0°C for six straight days, a level only seen in 2023 and 2024 in the last 115,000 years. Oceans have set 55 consecutive daily heat records, and an unprecedented El Niño is building, with models predicting anomalies far beyond any previous event. The post also covers Earth's energy imbalance, shrinking albedo, and the threat to sea ice — all pointing to a planet in accelerating crisis.
There is simply no historical precedent for a global climate event of this magnitude.
- Z0rp
As a father of two small children I feel heartbroken. Will we die together in a heatwave in a few years? Do I flee north now? How should we (can we?) prepare (them) for what is coming. Can the next generation have something close to a "normal" live?
- tito
If someone knows how to unflag this, I'd appreciate it. I think this is a fair climate discussion and I'm happy to weigh in. Also, Eliot Jacobson is an active figure in climate science, so it's not just some rando's blog post.
- grebc
I don’t disagree with the sentiment or any of the data.
But what actionable steps can an individual take that will actually affect the “it’ll be worse tomorrow” outcome?
I feel like there’s more resources put towards marketing that there’s a problem rather than coming up with practical steps people can do. And not picking on vegans but “turning vegan” isn’t really an acceptable answer for a industrial society.
Installing solar panels is something that I view as actionable by almost anyone. Battery is a bit out of reach. There’s questions to be asked about how sustainable that all is but in terms of getting people onboard, lower outgoings is a mighty big pull compared to endless impending doom articles.
- alehlopeh
Given that, throughout history, a handful of volcanic eruptions have triggered periods of global cooling, will global warming become a non-issue if a particularly large volcano happens to erupt in the next few years?
- tito
Whoever wants to go to work on combatting El Niño this year, I'm getting the gang together here on Wednesday: https://luma.com/tu0uvbx1
The timing is still being finalized but we should have climate scientist Zeke Hausfather there to give his take, and then we can talk about actions to avoid the worst impacts of El Niño this cycle, what innovators can build etc. I heard one idea of building modular battery powered Starlink systems that activate when the cell system gets knocked out.
But yeah, if nothing changes El Niño this year will likely be fucked.