The article does the right thing connecting the dots:
The world has warmed by about 1.4C because of fossil fuel pollution, which forms a heat-trapping blanket around the Earth, and the destruction of nature, which sucks carbon dioxide from the air.
In Europe, which has warmed nearly twice as fast as the global average, a warm and dry air mass hanging over much of the Iberian peninsula and France has coincided with high levels of summer sunshine that have pushed temperatures even higher.
I’ll also note that land in general has warmed much more than sea surface temperatures. Unless you’re living on a not-too-big island in a temperate location (eg: where The Guardian writers live) you’re encountering this.
Can verify this. South of Portugal here. Just got home and there was 43°C outside an hour ago when I looked at a thermometer. I feel like I cannot think or process information in days like these. Awful to exist like this.
Wet a turban to cool the brain?
https://gearjunkie.com/apparel/ergodyne-evaporative-cooling-hat
CO2 is at 425ppm. We’re going to have a shit time.
That was yesterday. It’s about 428 now. The line goes straight up, as capitalism demands.
427/8 was the February maximum. Today its 425.
Source, the same site you shared
Ah, of course, plant growth season makes the line squiggle.
I’ll also note that land in general has warmed much more than sea surface temperatures. Unless you’re living on a not-too-big island in a temperate location (eg: where The Guardian writers live) you’re encountering this.
Land will heat faster than water, but will also lose that heat faster than water. That part makes the warming ocean a real big issue, as those warmer oceans will allow more destructive weather and eventually reshape climates. As well as the melting of polar ice raising sea level, humans better buckle up as we seem to have chosen the rough route to self extinction.
Can confirm.
