Earth has a bad fever. Our ecosystem is gravely ill. 

If Gaia were a real person, she would be in the hospital, on life-support...
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Following the hottest June through August on record, and the globe's hottest-ever month in July, last month's preliminary data has astonished climate researchers who anticipated such extremes eventually.

The figures show a temperature anomaly of about 0.9°C (1.6°F) above the 1991-2020 average. Converted to the preindustrial era, this amounts to a departure from average of 1.7°C (3.06°F), temporarily exceeding the Paris Agreement's temperature target of 1.5°C compared to preindustrial levels.

In data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, September 2023 beat the previous warmest September by 0.5°C (0.9°F). Typically, monthly records are beaten by fractions of a degree, with such narrow margins that different climate centers around the world can rank them differently.

"We've never seen a record smashed by anything close to this margin," climate scientist Zeke Hausfather told Axios. "It's frankly a bit scary."

September featured numerous extreme weather events, including heat waves in Europe, devastating and deadly flooding in Greece and Libya from an unusually powerful Mediterranean storm system, record heat in Japan, and continued anomalously large wildfires in Canada. In the U.S., the month ended with a record-breaking deluge on New York City and surrounding areas, bringing parts of the region to a halt.

"This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas," said Hausfather.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.axios.com/2023/10/04/earth-hottest-september-record-year

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