Earth record heat getting hotter, now come the impacts- APT Nov 12 SCIENCE report w transcript, Heating Planet blog

There's no new normal, because it's not static. We're still moving; At 1.5 C we're halfway to the Pleistocene, the last time Earth was quite warm. Where people live, we are seeing the impacts of climate change in extreme heat. WATCH & READ Earth Hits Record Heat: What the Science Says About Climate Change- APT[APT News YouTube channel- Accurate, Powerful, Timely international news coverage. From the United States since 2016] TRANSCRIPT:

[Music] [footage of recent heatwave in Italy, people and traffic]

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Right. The most important thing are the long-term trends. Right. We've warmed the planet by about 1.5 degrees Celsius since the since the 19th century. And that is halfway to the Pleistocene. And the Pleistocene was the the period 3 million years ago. That was the last time that it was actually quite warm, and that was only three degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial. So, we're halfway there, but not in millions of years. In 150 years. [Footage melting glaciers, flooding water- drone footage, melted glacier ice rocking on ocean surface,] [wow] 

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We do detect some acceleration in the last 20 years compared to the previous 20 years. Um whether that means that temperatures are going to like suddenly rocket up exponentially that seems a little unlikely. but we're seeing the impacts of the changes that we have. I mean whether we can formally detect an acceleration in that, that is what we expect right and we expect that because we still haven't really started reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. until we do then we have our foot on the accelerator pedal of of global warming. 

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Now it's large enough that we're seeing that signal- we’re not just at the global mean, not just to the continental mean, not just in the regional mean, but at the local mean, at the weather stations where people live. We are seeing the impacts of climate change on extreme heat. We're seeing it on extreme rainfall. We're seeing it on sea level rise and storm surges if you're in a coastal area. We're seeing it in wildfires; and it is now no longer possible to just say oh you know this is just something that the scientists worry about. It doesn't affect normal people. It's affecting normal people. It's affecting them all over the world. 

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[Music] hurricane footage, wildfire footage, 

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Well, but there's no normal because that implies that we're just going to stay where we are. And we're not. We're things are continuing to get worse. for us to stabilize global warming even at the level that it is now, effectively, we have to get to net zero. We have to stop emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And that's that's a huge challenge. so, you know, that isn't going to happen anytime soon. 

And so that means that while that's not happening, temperatures are going to increase and the extremes are going to become more extreme. Now you know whether you know one year or another is like warmer or cooler than than the previous year. Okay? You're not going to see that in the in the weather statistics. But we have reached a point now where this isn't the new normal because it's not static. We're still moving. but the baselines are shifting., and so what was normal for the 1980s is no longer the case. Right? So, if you're making plans based on what extreme weather was doing in the 1980s, then you're way out of date with what's actually going to happen. 

[KE: Everything climate scientists predicted about global warming since the 1970s is coming true, only faster][Because instead of lowering emissions we increased them and now it's happening faster every year.]