Anonymousabout 1 hour ago
The years 2023 and 2024 broke global temperature records by margins many times larger than the hundredths-of-a-degree increments that historically separated record years, with 2024 becoming the first calendar year to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. While El Niño, reduced shipping aerosols, and a solar cycle peak all contributed, attribution studies find a significant residual warming that existing models did not predict — and a 2026 peer-reviewed study claims to have detected a statistically significant acceleration in the warming rate since 2015, though prominent climate scientists disagree on whether the evidence supports that conclusion.