NASA: 2024 hottest year on record

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NASA: 2024 hottest year on record   A NASA report released on Jan. 10, 2025 indicates that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with global surface temperatures pegged 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) higher than the agency's twentieth century standard, spurred on by greenhouse gas driven climate change.   REUTERS / NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein    #TheManilaTimes  #tmtnews  #NASA  #climatechange

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00:00Yeah, so today NASA provided its annual temperature update and 2024 was the hottest year on record.

00:27It was about 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1951 to 1980 average and collectively the last

00:3410 years have been the warmest since modern record keeping began. We're not just seeing

00:39changes in global average temperature, we're seeing impacts to people and ecosystems all around the world.

00:44So one of the drivers of the trend we're seeing towards warmer temperature, the primary driver,

00:59is an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and so how much warmer it gets in

01:04the future depends on future emissions of greenhouse gases. As long as the level of

01:08greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to rise, we will see an increasing trend towards

01:13warmer world. That doesn't mean that every year will be record-breaking because still things like

01:17El Niño and La Niña may lead to slightly cooler years on occasion, but with increasing levels of

01:24greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we'll see an increasing trend towards a warmer world

01:28and that warmer world brings with it more an increase in impacts.

01:43So what we're seeing is we're seeing impacts from increasing temperatures around the world

01:49and they go beyond just changes in temperature that impact people, but the impacts we see depend

01:53on where you live. So in coastal regions, there's sea level rise, it's affecting storm surge and

01:58coastal flooding. We're seeing extreme heat events across the country. We see changes in the water

02:04cycle, which means more heavy precipitation events and in some regions more droughts. So the

02:10impacts we're experiencing them now, we understand that they will continue to increase in the future

02:14with future warming, but what specific impacts you feel depends on where you live.

02:25Yeah, so the fires in LA are truly devastating and my thoughts are with everyone in LA right now

02:30and I think the focus is on containing the fire and helping the people that are there,

02:35but as scientists, we do try to understand fires and how they're changing so that we can help

02:39provide that information to prepare and plan for the future. Fires are very complex and there's

02:44multiple factors that contribute and we're still learning about these fires, but in general,

02:49what we know is that climate change does increase the risk and severity of fires.

02:54For example, climate change can increase fuel for fires, the amount of dry vegetation

02:59that can catch on fire.

03:05Yes, we do. Scientists both at NASA and around the world are studying links between a warming

03:10planet and hurricanes and some of what we see is that climate change tends to lead towards

03:15a higher proportion of strong storms, so higher maximum wind speeds and more water associated with

03:21it. So more rainfall and precipitation that is coming from hurricanes and a lot of that

03:26precipitation is truly damaging, particularly in the hurricanes. So we're still learning about

03:30coming from hurricanes and a lot of that precipitation is truly damaging, particularly

03:34in the hurricanes we saw this year. We do try to better understand hurricanes. Our sister agency,

03:40NOAA, has the responsibility of forecasting them, but we do work to do research on hurricanes and so

03:45we have some satellite mission called Tropics that's helping us better understand how hurricanes

03:50evolve very quickly so that we can help hurricane forecasters better predict them in the future.

03:55So for the temperature update that we released today, we're relying on surface weather observations.

04:22So these come from thousands of surface weather stations on land as well as millions of

04:28observations in total, including the ships and buoy observations that we have. So it's measuring

04:32the temperature at the surface and we have all of these different point sources of that information

04:37and we can use that to construct regional and global average temperature and look at that

04:41and how it changes over time. There are other ways to measure temperature, so we also have the ability

04:46to measure temperature from satellites. We have a shorter record of that because the satellite error

04:51doesn't go back as far as the surface weather error, but when we compare the record over the

04:56satellite error with the the surface measurements that we see, we see the same trends and the same

05:01move towards warmer and warmer world.

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