2022 was 5th-hottest year on record despite cooling La Nina conditions

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2022 was among Earth's 10 warmest years on record despite cooling La Niña conditions, and rising greenhouse gas concentrations hint that the worst is yet to come.

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[Ken Fabian]

The evidence is overwhelming that we have serious climate change. We can expect new record high temperatures over the next few years just from a swing from la Nina to neutral, even without the extra from el Nino.

"When you look at nine of the past 10 years, they're the warmest years in the modern record since 1880, and that's pretty alarming," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a joint NASA/NOAA news conference on Thursday (Jan. 12), when the new data was released. "If we don't take it seriously and have some real action to mitigate [the trend], there are going to be deadly effects across the globe."

It is more than serious enough to warrant strong actions - stronger than we are currently seeing.



Every measure we can use shows significant warming, like Ocean Heat Content -