🚨 We are in a climate emergency. 🚨 Alarm bells are ringing. Scientists shout that we must urgently make drastic changes to stave off complete disaster.

And yet our leaders, our rulers, act as if they can't hear a thing.
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This October was the hottest on record globally, 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average for the month — and the fifth straight month with such a mark in what will now almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded.

"The amount that we're smashing records by is shocking," said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service. After the cumulative warming of these past several months, it's virtually guaranteed that 2023 will be the hottest year on record, according to Copernicus.

A warmer planet means more extreme and intense weather events like severe drought or hurricanes that hold more water, said Peter Schlosser, vice president and vice provost of the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.

Schlosser said that the planet is already exceeding the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming since pre-industrial times that the Paris agreement was aimed at capping, and that the planet hasn't yet seen the full impact of that warming. Now, he, Burgess and other scientists say, the need for action — to stop planet-warming emissions — is urgent.

"It's so much more expensive to keep burning these fossil fuels than it would be to stop doing it. That's basically what it shows," said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London. "And of course, you don't see that when you just look at the records being broken and not at the people and systems that are suffering, but that — that is what matters."
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://phys.org/news/2023-11-october-obliterated-temperature-virtually-hottest.html

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