First Month of September: The Warmest Month since Pre-Pre-Industrial Times, according to a Climate Scientist at the Berkeley Earth Observatory

This past September was 1.75 degrees Celsius (3.15 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the mid-1800s, Copernicus reported. The world agreed in 2015 to try to limit future warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming since pre-industrial times.

There is a principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. While sitting at my desk I have been trying to think of a better way to describe that, but I can’t. It’s just shocking.

The graph below, created by Hausfather, a researcher at the climate group Berkeley Earth, shows temperature anomalies, meaning how high each month was above a historical average baseline temperature. The colors represent a previous year,coded by decade. (The 1990s, for example, are the lines in yellow.) The solid black line is 2023, and it has been soaring above the others since May. September was the first month that it beat the prior monthly record.

The year is on track to be the warmest on record, according to the deputy director.

For long-term temperature averages, 1.5 degrees Celsius is the global threshold goal. But scientists still expressed grave concern at the records being set.

There isn’t any end to this given the new oil and gas reserves still being open for exploitation. If you have more hot events, there is no time to recover.