We somehow missed this, it is entertaining – Anthony
WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts
The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, with some of the consequences being irreversible over hundreds if not thousands of years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which also underlined the massive economic and social upheavals from extreme weather.
Key messages
- Key climate change indicators again reach record levels
- Long-term warming (averaged over decades) remains below 1.5°C
- Sea-level rise and ocean warming irreversible for hundreds of years
- Record greenhouse gas concentrations combined with El Niño and other factors to drive 2024 record heat
- Early warnings and climate services are vital to protect communities and economies
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WMO’s State of the Global Climate report confirmed that 2024 was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era, with a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average. This is the warmest year in the 175-year observational record.
WMO’s flagship report showed that:
- Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide are at the highest levels in the last 800,000 years.
- Globally each of the past ten years were individually the ten warmest years on record.
- Each of the past eight years has set a new record for ocean heat content.
- The 18 lowest Arctic sea-ice extents on record were all in the past 18 years.
- The three lowest Antarctic ice extents were in the past three years.
- The largest three-year loss of glacier mass on record occurred in the past three years.
- The rate of sea level rise has doubled since satellite measurements began.
“Our planet is issuing more distress signals — but this report shows that limiting long-term global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is still possible. Leaders must step up to make it happen — seizing the benefits of cheap, clean renewables for their people and economies – – with new National climate plans due this year, ” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
“While a single year above 1.5 °C of warming does not indicate that the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement are out of reach, it is a wake-up call that we are increasing the risks to our lives, economies and to the planet,” said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.
The report said that long-term global warming is currently estimated to be between 1.34 and 1.41 °C compared to the 1850-1900 baseline based on a range of methods – although it noted the uncertainty ranges in global temperature statistics.
A WMO team of international experts is examining this further in order to ensure consistent, reliable tracking of long-term global temperature changes to be aligned with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Regardless of the methodology used, every fraction of a degree of warming matters and increases risks and costs to society.
The record global temperatures seen in 2023 and broken in 2024 were mainly due to the ongoing rise in greenhouse gas emissions, coupled with a shift from a cooling La Niña to warming El Niño event. Several other factors may have contributed to the unexpectedly unusual temperature jumps, including changes in the solar cycle, a massive volcanic eruption and a decrease in cooling aerosols, according to the report.
Temperatures are just a small part of a much bigger picture.
“Data for 2024 show that our oceans continued to warm, and sea levels continued to rise. The frozen parts of Earth’s surface, known as the cryosphere, are melting at an alarming rate: glaciers continue to retreat, and Antarctic sea ice reached its second-lowest extent ever recorded. Meanwhile, extreme weather continues to have devastating consequences around the world,” said Celeste Saulo.
Tropical cyclones, floods, droughts, and other hazards in 2024 led to the highest number of new displacements recorded for the past 16 years, contributed to worsening food crises, and caused massive economic losses.
“In response, WMO and the global community are intensifying efforts to strengthen early warning systems and climate services to help decision-makers and society at large be more resilient to extreme weather and climate. We are making progress but need to go further and need to go faster. Only half of all countries worldwide have adequate early warning systems. This must change,” said Celeste Saulo.
Investment in weather, water and climate services is more important than ever to meet the challenges and build safer, more resilient communities, she stressed.
The report is based on scientific contributions from National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, WMO Regional Climate Centres, UN partners and dozens of experts. It includes sidebars on monitoring global temperature for the Paris Agreement and understanding the temperature anomalies in 2023 and 2024. It includes supplements on climate services and on extreme weather.
It is one of a suite of WMO scientific reports which seek to inform decision-making. It was published ahead of World Meteorological Day on 23 March, World Water Day on 22 March and World Glaciers Day on 21 March.
Three methods for establishing an up-to-date estimate of current global warming as of 2024, compared with the IPCC AR6 method, which uses averages over the previous 10 years and is representative of warming to 2019. The best estimate resulting from each method is shown as a dark vertical line, and the uncertainty range is shown by the shaded area.
Key Indicators
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, as well as methane and nitrous oxide, are at the highest levels in the last 800,000 years.
Carbon dioxide concentrations in 2023 (the last year for which consolidated global annual figures are available) were 420.0 ± 0.1 parts per million (ppm), 2.3 ppm more than 2022 and 151% of the pre-industrial level (in 1750). 420 ppm corresponds to 3,276 Gt – or 3.276 trillion tonnes of CO₂ in the atmosphere.
Real-time data from specific locations show that levels of these three main greenhouse gases continued to increase in 2024. Carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for generations, trapping heat.
Global Mean Near-surface Temperature
In addition to 2024 setting a new record, each of the past ten years, 2015-2024, were individually the ten warmest years on record.
The record temperature in 2024 was boosted by a strong El Niño which peaked at the start of the year. In every month between June 2023 and December 2024, monthly average global temperatures exceeded all monthly records prior to 2023.
Record levels of greenhouse gases were the primary driver, with the shift to El Niño playing a lesser role.
Ocean Heat Content
Around 90% of the energy trapped by greenhouse gases in the Earth system is stored in the ocean.
In 2024, ocean heat content reached its highest level in the 65-year observational record. Each of the past eight years has set a new record. The rate of ocean warming over the past two decades, 2005-2024, is more than twice that in the period 1960-2005.
Ocean warming leads to degradation of marine ecosystems, biodiversity loss, and reduction of the ocean carbon sink. It fuels tropical storms and contributes to sea-level rise. It is irreversible on centennial to millennial time scales. Climate projections show that ocean warming will continue for at least the rest of the 21st century, even for low carbon emission scenarios.
Ocean Acidification
Acidification of the ocean surface is continuing, as shown by the steady decrease of global average ocean surface pH. The most intense regional decreases are in the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, the northern tropical Pacific, and some regions in the Atlantic Ocean.
The effects of ocean acidification on habitat area, biodiversity and ecosystems have already been clearly observed, and food production from shellfish aquaculture and fisheries has been hit as have coral reefs.
Projections show that ocean acidification will continue to increase in the 21st century, at rates dependent on future emissions. Changes in deep-ocean pH are irreversible on centennial to millennial time scales.
Annual global ocean heat content down to 2000 m depth for the period 1960–2024, in zettajoules (1021 J). The shaded area indicates the 2-sigma uncertainty range on each estimate.
Global Mean Sea Level
In 2024, global mean sea level was the highest since the start of the satellite record in 1993 and the rate of increase from 2015-2024 was double that from 1993–2002, increasing from 2.1 mm per year to 4.7 mm per year.
Sea level rise has cascading damaging impacts on coastal ecosystems and infrastructure, with further impacts from flooding and saltwater contamination of groundwater.
Glacier Mass Balance
The period 2022-2024 represents the most negative three-year glacier mass balance on record. Seven of the ten most negative mass balance years since 1950 have occurred since 2016.
Exceptionally negative mass balances were experienced in Norway, Sweden, Svalbard, and the tropical Andes.
Glacier retreat increases short-term hazards, harms economies and ecosystems and long-term water security.
Glacier cumulative mass balance 1950-2024
Sea-ice Extent
The 18 lowest Arctic sea-ice minimum extents in the satellite record all occurred in the past 18 years. The annual minimum and maximum of Antarctic sea-ice extent were each the 2nd lowest in the observed record from 1979.
The minimum daily extent of sea-ice in the Arctic in 2024 was 4.28 million km2, the 7th lowest extent in the 46-year satellite record. In Antarctica, the minimum daily extent tied for the 2nd lowest minimum in the satellite era and marked the 3rd consecutive year that minimum Antarctic sea-ice extent dropped below 2 million km2. These are the three lowest Antarctic ice minima in the satellite record.
Extreme events and impacts
Extreme weather events in 2024 led to the highest number of new annual displacements since 2008, and destroyed homes, critical infrastructure, forests, farmland and biodiversity.
The compounded effect of various shocks, such as intensifying conflict, drought and high domestic food prices drove worsening food crises in 18 countries globally by mid-2024.
Tropical cyclones were responsible for many of the highest-impact events of 2024. These included Typhoon Yagi in Viet Nam, the Philippines and southern China.
In the United States, Hurricanes Helene and Milton in October both made landfall on the west coast of Florida as major hurricanes, with economic losses of tens of billions of dollars. Over 200 deaths were associated with the exceptional rainfall and flooding from Helene, the most in a mainland United States hurricane since Katrina in 2005.
Tropical Cyclone Chido caused casualties and economic losses in the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, Mozambique and Malawi. It displaced around 100,000 people in Mozambique.
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It is so sad that grown ups print this drivel.
How could a serious scientist sleep at night having forgotten the basic science the learned at Primary school? Co2 is plant food.
That’s it, I’m staying in bed now forever.
There’s just no point in exposing myself to all the weather hazards that await me outside.
Will the EPA issue a universal Endangerment Finding about planet Earth?
Key indicators? Snort.
All this climate change scaremongering is based on a bogus, bastardized global temperature record.
Here are 600 regional charts from around the world that refute the bogus, bastardized Hockey Stick global “hotter and hotter and hotter” temperature profile. These 600 charts show that it was just as warm in the Early Twentieth Century as it is today. They show NO unprecedented warming. No “hotter and hotter and hotter”.
https://notrickszone.com/600-non-warming-graphs-1/
Seeing as how these 600 charts and other regional charts are all the creators of the bogus Hockey Stick charts had to work with when creating the Hockey Stick global chart, how is it that they changed regional charts that show no warming into a global chart that shows significant warming? Answer: Climate Change Fraud.
The Science Fraud continues with this WMO report. They are basing all their assumptions on a Hockey Stick temperature trendline that doesn’t exist in reality. It’s made up out of thin air. It’s a lie. A BIG LIE. And it should be obvious to anyone who has looked at the regional temperature records. It’s all right there. There is no Hockey Stick “hotter and hotter and hotter” trendline in the written, historic, regional temperature records. It’s not there.
Everything that Tom said !!! 🙂
Tom gets 10 out of 10. !
I’m wondering how Climate Alarmists can look at the written, regional temperature records and *not* question the bogus Hockey Stick chart trendline.
Where did the Hockey Stick chart creators get this “hotter and hotter” trendline from data that has no such trendline, would be the first question I would ask myself. I would see a discrepancy between the written, historic record trendline and the computer-generated Hockey Stick trendline.
Why don’t Climate Alarmists ask themselves these questions? Either they have not looked at the written records, or they are ignoring them for one reason or another.
They don’t want to debate the subject. That’s for sure. It’s always crickets when I ask, “How can you get a “hotter and hotter and hotter” for “decade after decade” trendline out of historic data that has no such trendline?”
I would say that is impossible in the Real World, and the Climate Alarmists won’t tell us how it is possible, so they must not know.
The whole Climate Crisis is based on the bogus Hockey Stick chart trendline. Without it, the Climate Alarmists would have Nothing to point to that makes their case. The “hotter and hotter and hotter” Hockey Stick chart trendline gives them their one and only talking point.
The Benign (no unprecedented warming), original, written, regional temperature records refute the bogus Hockey Stick chart’s climate alarmism.
Using their temperature data, I zoomed in to 1979–2023 and added UAH temperature from global satellite measurements, which they oddly left out even though it’s one of the primary global temperature datasets. Oh, I see, UAH shows the 1998–2016 global warming “hiatus” that they airbrushed out of their datasets. Can’t have anyone contradicting their dirty tricks. See my comment below for more.
Hi Tom, I am currently analysing all UK Met Office weather stations for site quality and looking to recreate a real temperature record from good sites only. I am also reviewing the dodgy way the Met Office manipulates data. Here is the first part
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/the-reification-of-averages-part-one-how-the-met-office-manipulates-measurements/comment-page-1/
The Surface Statin strapline at the top will take you to the index pf over 300 of my reviews so far.
“2024 was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era.” We are doomed, doomed, the end is nigh. The magic number crossed.
I pick cherries from a tree near where I live in Colorado. I’ve done so for over a decade. This year ripening was late by about two weeks and, while it’s past its peak, there are still cherries that aren’t quite ripe. Unprecedented.
May was cool and damp here in SE Colorado, too.
“It is one of a suite of WMO
scientific reportslies and propaganda which seek toinform decision-making.”further the Alarmist Cause, in support of Ruinables and the careers and rent-seeking of Alarmist pseudoscientists and rent-seeking NGOs and government stooges.”There, fixed.
How is it that madness spreads to so many?
It repeats throughout history.
Examples: throw virgins in volcanoes, burn witches, torture people guilty of heresy, sacrifice children, dancing plague, monkey men attacks, lycanthropy.
Most of these crazy ideas seem rooted in fear, religious belief, or social pressure.
I suspect that sometimes they just said they threw the virgins into the volcano.
People look for authorities who can tell them how to interpret the world they live in. It used to be the tribal leader who was looked to for good advice. Today, it’s the news media.
Many times people are misled by authorities who have ulterior motives, or who don’t really know what they are talking about to begin with.
A person forms a preliminary worldview and then tries to fit what is experienced or seen, into this worldview, as a way of confirming the worldview. If something doesn’t fit, then that particular thing is either rejected, or the person changes their worldview to conform to new information.
People want to think that they understand the world around them, so once a worldview is established, it is held onto very tightly. Some people will reject anything that conflicts with their worldview. I think most of us are like that, accepting what confirms our worldview and rejecting what conflicts with our worldview.
During the Vietnam war, I was in the U.S. Army, stationed in Germany in 1967, and I kept reading these news articles from Vietnam and they all were very negative reports and gave the impression that the U.S. military was on the verge of being defeated and kicked out of Vietnam.
Now, my worldview at the time was that a nation like North Vietnam could not defeat the United States military, so these newspaper articles were striking at the heart of my worldview. I couldn’t believe that the U.S. military was being defeated in Vietnam, and I decided that the only way I could know the answer was to go see for myself. So I went down and volunteered for Vietnam. I had to know!
When I got to Vietnam I found out that all that I had been reading were a bunch of leftwing, anti-war lies. That’s also when I discovered that the News Media was not honest, and was not telling the truth for political reasons, and I’ve never trusted them since.
The Lying, Leftwing News Media is responsible for my volunteering for Vietnam. Although, there was a good chance that my next reassignment would have been there anyway.
Yeah, I learned a lot of valuable things in going to Vietnam, and my worldview was not changed, but was confirmed.
The WMO global mean sea level change in rise is simply dishonest. It compares tide gauge with sat alt. As shown in posts here long ago, sat alt is NOT fit for purpose—measurement accuracy is several cm, not mm. The best long record tide gauges still show about 2.2mm/year and NO acceleration for 60 years. The sat alt estimate does not close (a fatal flaw), while dGPS corrected tide gauges do close to within 0.1mm.
Among the many lies the Climate Liars like to tell has to do with their use of the “Industrial era” as their base period, by which they mean the 1850s, which is when things really began to ramp up industry-wise. But wait, that also happens to be around the end of the LIA. They never actually say it, but they imply that it is man’s greatly increased use of fossil fuels which began around then which was responsible for the warmup. There are those who do try to suggest that initially, the warming was due to natural factors, but at some magical point (they never say when), man’s CO2 contributions took over and was responsible for the further warming. But, looking at the actual temperature records and the increase in CO2 shows that that claim is not only absurd, but an outright lie.
Today is, I think, the first not roasting hot day in Wokeachusetts (and surrounding states I presume) in several weeks. Everyone is screaming that it’s climate change. I doubt it- though it sure has been hot. Where can I find facts about heat waves in the American northeast to show the screamers?
Did some quick google-fu research for you. Previous Mass ‘Heat waves’ were in 1896, 1911, 1921, 1936, 1944, 1975, 1994, 2002, 2013, and 2021. The Boston 3 day heat wave record was set in 1911 at 104F.
Show them the nullschool website.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2025/07/28/1400Z/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-115.31,30.48,421/loc=-93.987,35.955
Here is a link that shows a high pressure system over the south-central United States (the center is maked). Anyone under this clockwise circulation is experiencing hot temperatures. Luckily for you, the high pressure system is moving towards the Gulf of America where it will heat up all those States, and then the high pressure system is supposed to drift west in a few days which will heat up the central U.S..
There is no scientific connection between CO2 and how a high pressure system moves. The high pressure system causes the heat, not CO2. When the high pressure system moves away, the heat goes with it.
I live in Oklahoma, and it’s not unusual to see high pressure systems persist for months. That’s when it gets Real hot. I don’t think we are going to get that real hot weather this year for any length of time, fall is already getting close. One more hot month and then the temperatures will moderate here in the central U.S.
Hmm, while many of the statements lack a proper scientific scrutiny in regards to their uncertainty as there might be significant sources of uncertainty which are omitted in the facts as they are presented
For example the selection bias for climate proxies, resolution issues and flaws in the physics of global climate models and the potential effect of the Tonga eruption on recent global temperature seems to not correctly considered.
Most people seem to agree that at least some of the current CO2 is anthropogenic and it should also have some effect on the global temperature. However, the attempt to attribute all warming and extreme weather onto this anthropogenic emissions is unscientific.
In the end it seems that many of the chapters in this report are just a particularly gloomy version of “Rejoice, the little ice age is over!’ and will be over for hundreds to thousands of years according to this deeply flawed report.
and the fact that the time series of setting new climate records is limited to only a few years points to massive natural contributions influencing long year trends which are therefore of at least similar magnitude of any monotonic CO2 effects
None of this means anything whatsoever. Its intended readership includes no one who comments on this website. It’s intended purely for those who are already climate cultists. It is nothing more than cheerleading slogans for the true believers in the trenches. Remember that the WMO is simply the weather propaganda organization of the United Nations.
There are no useful reports, ever, that come out of WMO. It does no real work. It does no actual research. It exists only to torture the data produced by others into something useful for the UN..It’s as meaningless as GISS.
If WMO disappeared tomorrow, no one would know; no one would care.
July Snow Forecast In Alps Shocks Europeans…Up To 30 cm As Global Temps Plummet!
Anyone who thought the last few weeks had been cool and changeable should dress warmly. Because from Monday, temperatures across Germany will continue to plummet. This is due to a wave of cold Arctic air rushing in from the far north. Highs of under 20 degrees will then be the reality in many places – in July!”
Meeting with realiy 😁 😂
Isn’t July Summer in Germany.. ? !
We hit 18C the other day down here.. in Winter…. and it was glorious.
But now the Antarctic breeze has returned.. brrrrr…
… and they are forecasting several days of rain.. again 🙁
You know the answer, don’t you Krishna? That summer snow is caused by…Climate Change!
Not to worry….we are tip toeing towards the Tipping Point – after that – no problem – we are all doomed – we are all gonna die – ad infinitum.
Many people think the 1.5C is a tipping point. Wrong! There is no calculation that supports that number. It was an “aspirational goal” to work for to keep up from getting to 2.0C above the baseline. So just like “the science is settled” it is a political artifact, not a scientific one.
The good old days, when that crazy creep wearing the sign “the end is nigh” left it at the corner with the note “gone for lunch” attached to it…
Yes doomsters used to be funny, nowadays they’re just annoying.
Drown Greta drown 🤪🤣
Even if the information presented in this article is accurate, so what? Earth is a little bit warmer these days. There’s global greening. Agricultural output is at its highest ever. Climate-related deaths in the US are at historical lows. But oh noes, a ski resort in maritime France had to shut down. Would you like fries with your nothingburger?
This report is so disheartening. It is spewing so much bafflegab that an average person would be pressed to render any meaningful truth from it. That organization must know it is distorting data but seems to do so as though it is saving humanity. It would be nice if these malicious actors could be held accountable for blatant distortions that are so harmful to the search for truth in an extremely complex system.
what the heck does that chart show about ocean heat content down to 2000m (zeta joules). There’s no axis in zeta joules and how about converting that to a change in ocean temperature for the whole volume of the ocean. I tried to ask google ai to give that temperature and it said 1.4 degrees then changed to .14 degrees. I’d bet the real change in ocean temperature over the total volume would be more like .014C or less.
Okay, axis does show change of about 350 zJ over 60 years. Google said volume of ocean is 1.35e18 m3. Works out to temperature change of .06ºC. There always seems to be some truth but the devil is in the details of how that energy was estimated.
In presentation 101 class it was stated that bigger is better.
Which would you rather have 1 kilobyte or 8 kilobits?
This focus approach has been ongoing for decades.
Us GT of CO2 rather than ppm. Bigger number is more impressive and therefore scarier.
An eastern QBO and weak La Niña will affect winter weather in the northern hemisphere.
Indeed, this latest WMO report is so very entertaining for its distinct absence of objective facts, replaced by arm waving. To wit:
— “The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024.”
First, unambiguously define what you mean by “climate change”.
Next, what are the specific, undisputed “signs of human-induced climate change”? Provide scientific proof of such.
Show such changes could not possibly be due to natural variations and “reached new heights”, taking into account paleoclimatology evidence of past large amplitude variations in Earth’s climate predating the first appearance of humans, and more recently following Earth’s entrance in the Holocene.
— “. . . with some of the consequences being irreversible over hundreds if not thousands of years”
Unambiguously define “some of the consequences”.
Describe specifically what science was used to establish beyond reasonable doubt that those specific “consequences” would be irreversible “over hundreds if not thousands of years” . . . specifically, how were you able to project the extent of science and technology advancements—let alone how nature might evolve—over the next hundreds to thousands of years? . . . and please refrain from referencing computer models, which are the modern day equivalent of crystal balls or cast chicken bones, in terms of accurately predicting anything out beyond, oh, 20 or so years.
— “Long-term warming (averaged over decades) remains below 1.5°C”
OK, is “long term” the last 20 years, the last 50 years, or the last 200 years? . . .objective science would like better definition of a “rate” than this.
Is “remaining below 1.5°C” a good thing or bad thing for humanity, other animals and plant life on Earth? Reference the ratio of “excess cold deaths” to “excess hot deaths” for humans that has been documented around the world.
— “Record greenhouse gas concentrations combined with El Niño and other factors to drive 2024 record heat”
The “record” greenhouse gas concentrations, specifically that of CO2, were significantly above the current level of 420 ppm during and before the Miocene epoch around 14-16 million years ago. So what? . . . the Earth survived that just fine.
There has been absolutely zero scientific evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that CO2 at a concentration level above about 300 ppm creates any additional global warming, let alone “record heat” (in the lower atmosphere) . . . in fact there are good scientific arguments as to why such cannot occur (reference William Happer, et.al.) due to radiation absorption being “saturated” above certain concentration levels.
Saying that “other factors” may be the cause of high 2024 average global lower atmospheric temperature is an admission of not knowing what is/are the driving influence(s) on such.
— “Early warnings and climate services are vital to protect communities and economies.”
Define what is meant by “early warnings”, “climate services”, “vital” and “protect”.
Does anyone really believe in the hubris that mankind knows how—let alone has the wisdom and technology skills—to prevent natural climate change on Earth?
No need for me to comment further.
“Acidification of the ocean surface is continuing…..”
Got that far, gave it away.
Basically a LIE.. Here is a compendium of all ocean surface pH measurements from 1900-2010
If anything there is a slight increase in pH….. ie ocean is getting more caustic. ! 😉
(WOLF,WOLF,WOLF) x (WOLF,WOLF,WOLF) = CRAPOLA
better get the lifeboats ready.
I have one response to this report, does the WMO stand behind it? If they do withdraw the US contribution. If I am correct I think we chip in about a quarter of the total. They have 30 days to reconsider their support for the report. That money could be used many productive ways right here in the US.
IR, emitted from greenhouse gasses or any other source, penetrates only a couple micrometers into water, causing evaporation that cools the surface. Solar energy (visible and shorter wavelengths) penetrates and warms the oceans. Encyclopedia of Ocean Science, Upper Ocean Mixing, 2019. Also, the flux of non-solar energy at the atmospheric-ocean boundary (including across sea-ice) is almost always, almost everywhere, from the ocean to the atmosphere (Yu & Weller 2007; Schmitt 2018).
In a simplified form, the climate can be understood as solar energy being received and stored by the ocean, and then transferred to the atmosphere for transport and ultimately discharged to space. ENSO and multidecadal coupled ocean-atmospheric oscillations are solar and wind driven.
Upper ocean heat content has mostly risen since 1995, it barely changed from 1965 to 1995:
Declines in Arctic sea ice extent, glacier mass, and low cloud cover have also been mostly since 1995.
All directly associated with the warming of the AMO since 1995. The warming of the AMO is driven by negative North Atlantic Oscillation regimes. The major marine heatwave in the North Atlantic which developed through 2023 was negative NAO driven. While rising CO2 forcing is expected to increase positive NAO states, which in theory should inhibit AMO warming. Negative NAO is a response to a net decline in climate forcing, and the only rational explanation is the decline in indirect solar forcing since 1995.
The WMO really don’t have a good grasp on how the climate system functions, the AMO is always warmer during centennial solar minima.
Their plot “Global Mean Temperature 1850–2024” conveniently leaves out UAH temperature data from global satellites (1979–2024). I wonder why? All of the temperature data sets they include have been manipulated to leave out the 1998–2016 global warming “hiatus”.
Let’s zoom in on 1979–2023, include the UAH temperate data, and compare. I’ve adjusted the UAH baseline to fit the same 1850–1900 baseline they used for their graph.
Gosh, look how much hotter the other datasets are compared to UAH. UAH clearly shows the 1998–2016 global warming hiatus that all of the
climate scientistsglobal warmists were fretting about back in the 2010’s, nervously assuring everyone that anything less than a 30-year trend didn’t count. None of them talk about it anymore because they figured they could just scrub the hiatus by adjusting their data. Which they did. The dirty tricksters learned their lessons from the masters of dirty tricks, Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann and Phil “Hide the Decline” Jones.