Michael E. Mann 
"Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists" by Jonathan Watts @jonathanwatts for The Guardian (@guardian)
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴#ClimateCrisis might be hitting much sooner than expected:
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"...based on preliminary analyses, he said 👉these factors were not sufficient to account for the 0.2C increase: “If the anomaly does not stabilise by August – a reasonable expectation based on previous El Niño events – then the world will be in uncharted territory.👈 It could imply that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system...
#ClimateCrisis hits
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...operates, 👉much sooner than scientists had anticipated.”👈
"#GavinSchmidt, the director of #Nasa’s #GoddardInstituteForSpaceStudies, noted that #temperature records are being broken each month by up to 0.2C. “It’s humbling, and a bit 👉worrying, to admit that no year has confounded climate scientists’ predictive capabilities more than 2023👈 has,” the successor to #JimHansen wrote in a recent article for Nature.
Schmidt listed several...
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#ClimateCrisis hits
...plausible causes of the anomaly – the #ElNiño effect, reductions in cooling sulphur dioxide particles due to #pollution controls, fallout from the January 2022 #HungaTonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption in #Tonga, and the ramping up of solar activity in the run-up to a predicted solar maximum..."
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Marion GrauThis one?
"WORLD VIEW
19 March 2024
#ClimateModels can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.
By #GavinSchmidt"
Via #nature
