Temperature hot spike gets the press

 Yes, this was the hottest year on record, if you like spikes.

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You can't beat the influencers on this.  All the old guys are coming out with doomerisms.

James Hansen, who is now the director of climate science, awareness and solutions at Columbia University, told CBC News in an email that it's likely Earth's average temperature increase will exceed 1.5 C over the coming 12-month period."By late spring, it will be in the range 1.6-1.7 C warmer than in 1880–1920, which is our best estimate for pre-industrial," he said.

"It confirms our conclusion that global warming is accelerating," he said of 2023's record heat. 

"As long as money rules in our governments ... as long as special interests are allowed to buy our politicians, we cannot solve the climate problem," he said.

He is the best.

We can see that the tropics have a big jump due to that sectional El Nino out in   the west Pacific (not the east one).

This has all gone to the northern Hemisphere, as we see that all the continents of the NH have a powerful effect on summer heat.

The Southern Hemisphere is not so affected.  Nobody is mentioning the end of the NH summer spike.  They have their fun and they make a lot of money.  

Whoops, the NH chart

ps.  nooa has put out the US continent temps.  We have the warmest year for the US, as well.  

What an influencer party!