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Zack Labe 4d ago

The World Meteorological Organization report on the State of the Global Climate 2025 was released today:

"Earth's energy imbalance has been growing since the 1960s, reaching a record high in 2025."

"Extreme weather impacts millions and costs billions."

Press release: https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/earths-climate-swings-increasingly-out-of-balance

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Jonathan Hartley 4d ago

@ZLabe Forgive me Zach, but it seems weird to post this graph without any indication of what the vertical axis represents, or why that quantity is important. I tried clicking through to the press release you linked, and the underlying Global Climate report page it links to, and the PDF that provides, but have not yet found this graph in those materials. Am I being dumb? I had hoped to reply to your toot with a summary explainer, for the benefit of other readers.

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Jonathan Hartley

@ZLabe AHA! Page 20 of the PDF report, although it doesn't include that precise graph, it does include a similar one, and the page is dedicated to explaining what the new indicator "Earth's Energy Imbalance" means, and why we should care. I'll post again after digesting...