As a record-breaking heat wave scorches Europe, the scenes—children hosed down in London, shoppers scrambling for fans in Paris—offer a glimpse of a continent struggling to cope. On this episode of On Assignment, host Jonah Green speaks with data journalist Ben Welsh, who built Reuters’ new Climate Monitor to measure just how unusual this moment really is. By comparing today’s temperatures to historical norms, the tool illustrates how today’s hot weather truly is a sharp departure from the past.
Check out the Reuters Climate Monitor here: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-AUTOMATED/MONITOR/akpeykqqapr/
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In solidarity with Europe, I’ve set my home Air Conditioner here in the USA to 20 C.
More people die in European countries from no AC heat deaths than people die in the USA from guns. Let that sink in..
complete globalist propaganda.
To have a perspective and a real scale you need to bring the cyclical changes in temperatures beyond 1960’s.
A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature. Understanding how global mean surface temperature (GMST) has varied over the past half-billion years, a time in which evolutionary patterns of flora and fauna have had such an important influence on the evolution of climate, is essential for understanding the processes driving climate over that interval. Judd et al. present a record of GMST over the past 485 million years that they constructed by combining proxy data with climate modeling .
They found that GMST varied over a range from 11° to 36°C, with an “apparent” climate sensitivity of ∼8°C, about two to three times what it is today.
This range is larger than previous reconstructions; however, PhanDA agrees well with independent GMST estimates from the Cenozoic, providing confidence in its larger dynamical range.
PhanDA reveals key features in the relationship between GMST and the pole-to-equator temperature gradient, including polar amplification (i.e., larger temperature changes at high latitudes) and a shallowing of the gradient with increasing GMST. Tropical temperatures range between 22° and 42°C, refuting the idea of a fixed upper limit on tropical warmth and suggesting that ancient life must have evolved to endure extreme heat.
We parse PhanDA into five climate states and find that overall, Earth has spent more time in warmer climate states than cold ones during the Phanerozoic.
Earth’s natural temperature cycles are governed by Milankovitch cycles—long-term shifts in the planet’s orbit and tilt that alter solar radiation. These cyclical climate patterns include:
Eccentricity (100,000-year cycle): Changes the shape of Earth’s orbit from nearly circular to elliptical, altering the distance from the Sun.
Obliquity (41,000-year cycle): Shifts Earth’s axial tilt between 22.1° and 24.5°, affecting seasonal intensity.
Precession (19,000 to 23,000-year cycle): The wobble of Earth’s rotational axis, dictating which hemisphere is closer to the Sun during summer.