European State of the Climate 2022

A new report published today by The #Copernicus Climate Change Service of ECMWF has shown that 2022 was the fifth warmest on record, with the last 8 years the warmest on record overall. Europe is warming faster than the earth overall, at 2.2C warmer surface air temperature than 1850-1900 compared with 1.2C for the earth and 3C for the Antarctic. Sea Surface Temperature has also increased faster in European waters than overall. 

This is scary stuff. Watching Lahaina in Maui burn to the ground yesterday was terrifying. Those poor people. It was such a beautiful place when I visited in the 1980s. Now, there is nothing left. It was human-induced and fanned by winds from a Cat 4 hurricane far away in the Pacific. Sad day for the people of Maui. 

Total devastation: https://twitter.com/i/status/1689515411912491008 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1689384898958917633 

And our CO2 emissions continue to increase.