"The earth has been exceptionally warm of late, with every month from June 2023 until this past September breaking records. It has been considerably hotter even than climate scientists expected."
"Average temperatures during the past 12 months have been above the goal set by the Paris climate agreement: to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels."
"Yet the unusual jump in global temperatures starting in mid-2023 appears to be higher than our models predicted, even as they generally remain within the expected range."
"It turns out that we do not have systems in place to explore the significance of shorter-term phenomena in the climate in anything approaching real time. But we need them badly."
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