Our planet is getting warmer, there’s no doubt about that. Now NASA’s climate time machine is showing just how bad things have been.
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00:00Our planet is getting warmer. There's no doubt about that. However, despite international
00:08governmental climate agreements set to restrict and reduce global emissions, the World Meteorological
00:13Organization now says that 2023 set a new record with regards to atmospheric pollutants.
00:19This means that global emissions will now most certainly lead to the 2.7 degree Fahrenheit
00:23average planetary temperature rise scientists have long warned of. August 2024 was the hottest
00:28month our planet had ever seen, with July 2024 setting the record before that, and June
00:332024 before that. And our planet's oceans had similar records set, with August's global
00:38ocean surface temperatures being the warmest ever as well. In fact, on several occasions,
00:43global temperatures rose above the 2.7 degree Fahrenheit pre-industrial mark for several
00:48days. This is the first time this has ever happened in the Northern Hemisphere, with
00:52experts saying that we're not only on track to surpass the global temperature increases
00:56scientists have warned of, we're set to double them by the end of the century.