Climate Change: The August Deadline
By Gwynne Dyer — 31 July 2024
When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed.
“By August, if we’re still looking at record-breaking temperatures, then we really have moved into uncharted territory,” said climate scientist Gavin Schmidt in April. Well, 22 July was the hottest average global temperature ever recorded – and 23 July promptly broke that brand new record. Here we are in August, and it is not looking promising.
Gavin Schmidt is Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He was choosing his words very carefully when he used the phrase ‘uncharted territory’, because that is a frightening place to be. Continue reading Dyer: Global Heating: Breaking Records, Beating Forecasts; Now What?