September’s record-setting temps were “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”
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The global temperature numbers for September are in, and they are not good. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist-absolutely gobsmackingly bananas," Zeke Hausfather posted Tuesday on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Kristina Dahl, principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, read that post yesterday. I've been sitting at my desk trying to think of a better way to describe that, but I can't," Dahl says. It's just shocking."
Concerning, worrying, wild-whatever superlative you want to use," says Kate Marvel, senior scientist at Project Drawdown, a nonprofit that fights climate change. That's what it is."