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MET ÉIREANN HAS said that Ireland is on track to have its “warmest year on record”, sounding a climate-change alarm bell.
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is due to release a report tomorrow about the state of the world’s climate at COP28, a UN conference taking place in Dubai.
Ahead of the global report, Met Éireann has shared provisional data about Ireland’s climate so far this year, stating that it will likely be the warmest year on record — for the second year in a row.
The national forecaster said there is potential that the annual mean temperature will breach 11 °C for the first time.
It is also seeing one of the wettest years on record, with the annual average rainfall total already in the top 20 wettest years with another month still to go.
“This year, Ireland had its warmest January-November on record so far and is on track to have the warmest year on record for the second year running. Currently, 2022 is the warmest year on record in Ireland, with a record length going back to 1900 (124 years),” Met Éireann said in a statement.
The wettest year was in 2009, out of records going back to 1941 (83 years).
2023 has been Ireland’s second wettest January-October to date.
With slightly over one month remaining in the year, Met Éireann said that ”if the mean temperature for November remains above 8 °C and the December mean temperature finishes above 6 °C, it will likely be the warmest year on record”.
“If the average gridded rainfall for December finishes roughly 40% above its 1981-2010 long-term average (LTA), it may also be the wettest year on record (this analysis is less certain and subject to change when all station rainfall observations are incorporated).”
Met Éireann Head of Climate Services Keith Lambkin said: “Ireland has seen a remarkable year with rainfall and warming at unprecedented levels at times.”
“These record-breaking extremes have knock-on consequences to much of society. This is why Met Éireann are continually developing tailored climate information, with our many partners, to help Ireland better plan and adapt to our changing climate.”
The findings come as leaders prepare to meet in Dubai from tomorrow for COP28, the 28th annual UN summit bringing countries together to make decisions about how to address the climate crisis.
This COP comes alongside the first ‘Global Stocktake’ — an assessment of to what extent countries are working towards meeting climate targets set in 2015 under the Paris Agreement.
Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, are driving global temperatures upwards and are leading to devastating consequences for humans, animals and plants.
These impacts are forecasted to grow increasingly worse unless greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced.
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We can’t comment on the fact that two of the countries with the highest number of asylum seekers are Georgia and Algeria. It is news to me that they are war-torn countries.
@paulinlavally@gmail.com: An asylum seeker doesn’t necessarily need to come from a “worn torn country” for their application to be successful
@SYaxJ2Ts: They have to cross many safe countries to get here and then walk through an open door.
And once again, no mention of the simple fact that the Tonga volcanic eruption last year increased the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere by over 15%, ( it will take 5 years before it completely washes out ) along with the sun’s increased solar cycle activity which this time round will peak early, (late 2024), as governments continue to place the full blame on humanity. We may not be helping the situation, but we should not carry the whole blame!
@Joe x: The IPCC don’t factor the sun’s activity into it’s models so their models are useless and it’s these models that are driving policy here and internationally
@Joe x: no mention of your qualifications as a climatologist, yet here you are spouting nonsense to try and deflect from the facts. The sun’s increased activity does not cause any changes to our climate or did you genuinely not know this?
@Ian:
And yet you give an opinion on sun activity without mention of any qualifications either. Hmmm….
@Ian: so Ian, you think that big ball of light in the sky during the day has no effect on the planet. My good man, the Sun is the basis of everything in the solar system including the climates of all the planets. Now I am not a climatologist, or a scientist, but there are plenty of them out there telling us this about the sun…in fact, that lil bit of scandel for you came from NASA last year…..but if you think it has no effect on the planets climate, there is no point even trying to debate it with you if you truly believe that the main source of energy in the solar system has no effect on the planet.
@Joe x: And what was the cause for last year’s second hottest year on record, without the effects of the Tonga eruption and El Nino out of the picture?
@maritoj: you know when the Tonga eruption was, don’t you, December 2021 when it kicked off. 15 percent more water vapour in our atmosphere, it’s a better Greenhouse gas than CO2. ? BTW, el nino did not occur last year, this year, it’s after kicking off again….and if you read my comment correctly, you will see I made no mention of it in the first place.. and if you want to see the effect of the sun on global, look up a period called the little Ice Age. It was the time that the sun had a peculiar long cycle, and extremes of cold….opposite to now, when we are have an extremely active cycle, but the principle is still valid……do yourself a favour, start listening to some real scientists on the issue and not politicians with a vested interest.
@maritoj: don’t you even think it’s strange that the 2 warmest yeaes recorded are the 2 years since the Tonga eruotion?
Here have a read if this
Especially where they discuss the net warming affect if the eruption due to the amount of water vapour vs dust in the eruotion.
Hello,hello is anyone out there?…..
@John Sleator:
Just nod if you can hear me?
@KTH: Is there anyone home ?
Open the comments. It’s really important that complete strangers know what I think and know what type of person I am or pretend to be.
I can’t remember another year when it lashed so much as this. The garden was saturated easy 80 percent of the entire year. More of a danger of catching rain burn!
@Dan The Man: Yep, wettest I recall…and not just rain..lashing rain..
Plus it’s bloody freezing now..in Nov..apparently 7 degrees below average…hottest year my a@se
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Don’t worry. Individual carbon credits that are linked to social credit scores that are linked to CBDCs that are linked to EU digital ID should sort it all out lads
The rain this year has been relentless. It has to be up there with the wettest years in decades.
Announcing the warmest year on record on a day that’s feckin’ freezing ! Me nads are turning blue here …
Many of you are cheerleaders for the Freemasons or the 17th-century Royal Society Enlightenment subculture, which is the only problem for Irish society.
That subculture insists there are more rotations of the planet than 24-hour days in a year because it suits their RA/Dec or clockwork solar system modelling. These academic fools have extended it to human control of the weather (temperatures) and changing Ireland’s maritime climate into……what?
The last time a society followed empirical imperatives was in 1930s Germany and natural selection, so now it’s our turn to deal with a new monstrosity coming from this petty community.
Met Eireann people are acting against our island culture.
@Gearoid O’Ceilleachair: So glad comments are open for this type of inaneness.
@Gearoid O’Ceilleachair: I missed you Gearoid
@Gearoid O’Ceilleachair: Go and have a big long lie down… jesus fockin wept such tripe.
Opin de commintz. Freeze peach wha?
So is 2024 going to be a yellow, a green or a red year? Please, please tell us.
Hot & sticky.. The way I like it!
Maybe the wettest???
Who believes this bs?
Being honest it’s hard to care a jot about climate change when we had 9 months of rain this year. If we were baking in heat waves or long periods of dry weather then maybe we’d take notice but it’s wet and cold for much of the year. So to hear people saying it’s the hottest year on record etc it hasn’t happened around here so tell it to someone else.
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