Amazing that the "no warming since 1998" claim has been set aside with no acknowledgement why from those who were pushing it to begin with. Tells you there are bad faith factors involved in this discourse.
There was already goalpost moving to "no warming since 2016" but 2023/2024 have ensured that 2016 will no longer be used as a starting year to cherry pick going forward either.
There are plenty of poor outcomes between now & extinction.
Such as a massive immigration crisis due to hundreds of millions of people whom will need to leave countries that will soon become too hot to sustain human life.
At 3C above preindustrial, nearly 2 billion people will see conditions too hot to sustain human life for a week, in an average year.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305427120
Paper published last summer argued that the net effect of that eruption was to cool the globe slightly overall, and that the impact from the volcano is now negligible.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JD041296
Thanks - Copernicus now has daily data for ERA5 through the 22nd available to download, so a few extra days left to go due to data postprocessing, but a record now looks likely, as you've said.
Remarkable to see us edge 2024 given the ENSO flip.
Impressive to see 2025 even competitive with 2024, let alone running slightly above 2024 for most of January. Will be a close call for whether we finish as the warmest January on record in ERA5 or not.
Happy New Year all. Just a couple of days ago, the GEFS had no storm signal. Now, the signal is the strongest it has been with the most recent 6z GEFS run.