Here we go again: WaPo claims: ‘Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, scientists say’

Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, scientists say

WaPo claims we are in “dangerous new territory.” 

“The results from the Copernicus Climate Change Service show the planet’s average temperature on July 21 was 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit) — breaking a record set only last year. The historic day comes on the heels of 13 straight months of unprecedented temperatures and the hottest year scientists have ever seen.” …

“It is troubling but not surprising that we are hitting record temperatures this year,” Andrew Pershing, vice president for science at the nonprofit Climate Central, wrote in an email. “We continue to add carbon pollution to the atmosphere, so global temperatures will continue to go up.” …

“We are in truly uncharted territory,” Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. “And as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see records being broken in future months and years.”

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Climate Depot Reality Check:

The same claims of “hottest day” were made in 2023, also based on the output of a climate model and not actually measured temperatures.

See: No, the Earth Did Not have an ‘Unprecedented and Terrifying … All-Time High Temperature’ on July 4th – Not the hottest in 100,000 years – NOAA & AP back away from claim

https://climate.copernicus.eu/new-record-daily-global-average-temperature-reached-july-2024 

The Copernicus Climate Change Service admits it ‘fills the gaps’ with climate models and other statistical methods, not actual temperature data. 

They claim it is “based on preliminary data” and was “the hottest day since at least 1940, by a small margin of 0.01ºC” which they note is “almost indistinguishable from the previous record,

 reanalysis dataset.” 

But the media ran with it to blow out of proportion. 

They admit it’s a “combination of observations and state- of-the art weather and Earth system models” 

They tout literally invention temperatures where none exists! “We can reconstruct the past weather even for when and where we had no observations. The principle of ECMWF’s reanalyses is to provide “maps without gaps” using “data produced by model simulations in order to “fill the gaps” in observations.” 

What is ERA5 reanalysis: “The latest European State of the Climate, using ERA5 data, C3S stated that 2022 was the second warmest year for Europe since 1950.” 

 The Copernicus Climate Change Service is also beholden to Net Zero politics due to “funding” from the the European Commission. 

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