Hundreds of US Locations Had Their Hottest Year On Record (axios.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/06/1838245/hundreds-of-us-locations-had-their-hottest-year-on-record
- Source link: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/06/climate-change-2024-hottest-year-hundreds-us-cities
Major metropolitan areas including Chicago, Nashville, Washington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Burlington, Vermont, all registered their warmest year. Even northern Maine cities like Caribou and Houlton saw record-breaking temperatures, reflecting broader global warming trends that made 2024 the hottest year on record worldwide.
[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/01/06/climate-change-2024-hottest-year-hundreds-us-cities
Pfft. all thermometers are biased. (Score:3)
Shouldn’t have to say it but it’s sarcasm.
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totally, which is because mercury is in retardgrade (i'm quoting but i THINK i got it right)
more details (Score:2, Troll)
26 of 50 states still have their highest recorded temperature from the 1930's. Most in 1936 or 1937. I see those state highs as probably a better surrogate for climate than a non-random selection of cities.
Sunspot cycle ~ 11 years. The cycle of that 11-year cycle is 80 - 90 years. So we are "due" for those kind of temps any year now.
Note this 90 year cycle is a little less active than the cycle in the mid 20th century.
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I'm curious as to how you are trying to tie sunspots (which are either CME's (coronal mass ejections) or "cooling spots" on the sun).. both of which have almost no substantial impact to the earth in terms of climate. A small fraction of the extra heat from the solar flare radiates to layers of the atmosphere below the thermosphere, but it is minuscule compared to the normal amount of heating the lower layers of the atmosphere already experience from incoming visible and ultraviolet sunlight which has nothin
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> see those state highs as probably a better surrogate for climate
And why would that be? Record high temps have been happening year after year recently, not just in a couple of outliers like 1936.
What-About-Isms... (Score:2)
What about temperatures in nowhereland where heat islands aren't constantly going up and expanding like the quoted major cities?
How much of the 'city temperatures' is global vs just locally poor planning and construction management contributing to a localized problem?
Yes, I do notice it is at least much more humid in my little spot vs the 1980s, and winters simply aren't winter-like anymore. I am not denying we are heating up to a degree (pun intended) - but focusing on known heat-islands is lazy clic
Can't be (Score:3)
There's snow outside. :-)
Chicago - This is great (Score:1)
I live in Chicago. Everyone around here is like "Global warming is great". The winter was milder than usual, the summer was pretty much mid-80s and fabulous except for a few days in 90s. Oh, we still have more fresh water sitting on our shores than most of the planet.
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Ya, it's not so bad for folks up north.
Until we come for your land. :)
Re: Chicago - This is great (Score:2)
I have some pristine beachfront property in Nunavut that I can sell you.
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Keep it- in 5 or 6 generations, it should be nice and temperate up there, like the southern wastelands used to be.
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> I have some pristine beachfront property in Nunavut that I can sell you.
No thanks. If it's beachfront now then by the time it has warmed up enough to be useable the sea level rise will put it under water.
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Go further north and ask the Canadians how they're feeling about 2023.
[1]https://www.science.org/doi/10... [science.org]
"Our results show that fuel aridity was the most influential driver of burn severity, summer months were more prone to severe burning, and the northern areas were most influenced by the changing climate."
Keep in mind that all the water in Lake Michigan couldn't save Chicago from Catherine O'Leary's cow.
[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado1006
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I live in Seattle, and every year for about 5 years now, the wildfires up in Canada have turned my air into an unbreathable fucking hell for 4-8 weeks a year, so ya, I know shit's very much not OK up there.
I was mostly kidding to point out to that dumbshit OP that people are notoriously unwilling to sit there and starve or die of thirst.
Re: Chicago - This is great (Score:2)
I was a climate refugee one summer, trying to drive anywhere cool. No luck going north, turns out when the problem is a heat trapping gas that captures the suns energy, the land of the midnight sun offers little relief. But I would advise a guy like you to have a bug out up on Mt Rainer or similar. Thin air does offer relief.
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The Hitler comparison thing triggers you?
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," -- Vance (VP Elect)
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"Voting can change the weather".
Meanwhile they still take hot showers. Selfish and unnecessary.
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I feel for the ones who don't deserve it, but sometimes around COVID I lost my empathy for people who not only deny reality, but try to force the rest of us to do so as well.
Too many people are getting hurt by their ignorance for me to be tolerant of it, and tolerating them is how their numbers increased to the point they have so much influence today.
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This sentiment can be applied to all sides.
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It's a hoax or simply does not matter (of in this case it directly benefits them- indirect costs do not exist;) the American people have spoken so reality and physics will bow to their might.
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Physics is tyranny and undemocratic! I didn't elect Newton or Maxwell, did you?
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Agreed. The temperatures didn't feel hotter, they felt moderate. Chicago usually has extreme temperature swings from 0-100 degrees F in a year. The summer didn't have the extreme high temperatures we typically do, but winter came a bit late.
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Except that's climate change, not *warming*. You wouldn't notice a uniform difference of 2 degree Fahrenheit in Chicago, what you are experience is a disruption of existing weather patterns. In Chicago's case it means you're having on average milder winters and hotter and more humid summers, which may well be too your liking.
It's misleading to think of global warming as just a slight warming of the global average temperature, although technically that's true. It's really the troposphere becoming extremel
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Who cares, its f-ing great. No one travels out of chicago for summers lately, because its gorgeous, we have fresh wate, the forest service burns down dead trees in our forest preserves as I ride my bike deep in the trailers in the northern burbs. Oh, insurance is low AF too.
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Enjoy it while you can, or get really fucking rich, because when my home because too fucked up to live in, I'm going to price you out of yours. But don't worry- you can keep heading north to avoid the folks to your south.
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We should put a fence around it and lock everyone in like in Escape from L.A. / N.Y. series.
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Thank you for the sample size of one.
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So, the liberal residents of Chicago were saying "Global warming is great"?
Interesting....
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All the fake liberals left to TX during 2020/2021 and got hit with -20F the first winter they got down there. Shit follows them everywhere.
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Yup. And some people think we'll just be growing mangoes in Georgia and everything will work out just fine for us.
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So, it won't be the Peach Bowl anymore? It'll be the Mango Bowl soon? Or maybe Malaria Bowl brought to you by Canada Dry Tonic.