Quite the year,
The global annual average for 2024 in our dataset is 1.62°C above the pre-industrial period.

The last ten years have included all ten of the warmest years observed in the instrumental record.

CO2 and methane at their highest levels recorded.

The EIA (Energy Information Administration) estimates that LNG export capacity will double by 2028. The US is the world’s largest LNG exporter.

Meanwhile the Energy Department just released it’s report on the impacts of that.

@drwendyrocks.bsky.social
Saw some of the quotes from you in last month’s Nat Geo on AI in seismology. Cool!
Rick H

Another hot month in a long succession.

November 2024 was the second-warmest November globally, after November 2023

November 2024 was 1.62°C above the pre-industrial level

Nice live map from the USGS from the 7.0 Mendocino earthquake yesterday.

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I ran across this graph from the EIA. It is not an apples to apples comparison but it does show the growth of US shale gas.
Rick H

The Paris climate accords does not cover emissions generated from fossil fuels that are exported.
U.S. fossil fuel exports led to over 2 Gt CO2 equivalent emissions in other countries in 2022.

climateactiontracker.org/blog/highlig...

www.reuters.com/business/env...

Nice review from the Rhodium Group on emissions.

Global GHG emissions rose in 2023 by 1.2% over the previous year, reaching 51.8 gigatons of CO2-equivalent on net. This covers the six leading greenhouse gases emitted from every sector of the economy.

rhg.com/research/glo...

Hard to believe but in the last 25 years, we have made no progress on global decarbonization.
Global fossil fuel consumption surged by 55 percent between 1997 and 2023.
Consumption of crude oil broke records in 2023.

www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

www.energyinst.org/statistical-...

Better than Utqigiagvik

Nice webpage from NOAA tracking AGGI, a measure of the climate-warming influence of long lived gases in the atmosphere. In 2023, the CO2-equivalent stood at 534 ppm. That warming influence has increased 51% since 1990.
Rick H

gml.noaa.gov/aggi/aggi.html

They like to eat too.
Rick H

Nice graph from Copernicus Climate Change Service showing when we can expect to surpass 1.5°C pre-industrial.

apps.climate.copernicus.eu/global-tempe...