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Zeke Hausfather
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"A tireless chronicler and commentator on all things climate" -NYTimes. Climate research lead @stripe, writer @CarbonBrief, scientist @BerkeleyEarth, IPCC/NCA5 author. Substack: theclimatebrink.substack.com/ Twitter: @hausfath
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It wasn't only the warmest February on record – this past month saw the largest anomaly (change from the 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline) at 1.79C of any month on record, beating out December (1.77C) and September (1.73C) 2023. The past 12 months are 1.56C above preindustrial.

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Here are the temperatures for Februaries since 1940 in the ERA5 dataset, with 2024 highlighted:

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Zeke Hausfather
@hausfath.bsky.social
"A tireless chronicler and commentator on all things climate" -NYTimes. Climate research lead @stripe, writer @CarbonBrief, scientist @BerkeleyEarth, IPCC/NCA5 author. Substack: theclimatebrink.substack.com/ Twitter: @hausfath
8.4k followers185 following784 posts