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2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #31

Posted on 4 August 2024 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom, John Hartz

A listing of 33 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 28, 2024 thru Sat, August 3, 2024.

Story of the week

Like a stuck phonograph record, our Story of the Week continues as "the entire Earth's temperature is higher than our species has ever before seen." We think of heatwaves as regional features; here it's our whole planet seeing prolonged bulging temperatues. In a crowded news environment crammed with urgencies (and fluff), this news is largely flying beneath the radar of wide public attention but it is nonetheless (somewhat axiomatically) historic, truly remarkable. 

Only last week it was phenomenal to see two days in a row exceeding our pevious experience. A few days later and we're in a thicket of multiple new records, four as of the Washington Post's coverage. 

Other news and analysis of our ongoing planetary fever:

Even with current data that is off previous charts and an incomplete explanation for "precisely why now," we'll likely see global temperature simmer down a bit not so long from now, as we've already experienced. Squinting at any graph of Earth surface temperature for the past 60 years will serve nicely to set expectations.

Stuck in a related groove, we'll point out yet again that global temperature reliably wavers from year to year, but only a fool would bet against a 5-year run ending cooler than when started. This elevator is headed up. 

Stories we promoted this week, by publication date:

Before July 28

July 28

July 29

July 30

July 31

August 1

August 2

August 3

If you happen upon high quality climate-science and/or climate-myth busting articles from reliable sources while surfing the web, please feel free to submit them via this Google form so that we may share them widely. Thanks!

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