Bill McKibben reviews the weather catastrophes, the political setbacks, and the hopeful technology that made up the year in climate science.
As 2024 began, we’d just finished the most remarkable year in the planet’s modern climate history—2023 had shattered every global record for temperature, with researchers firm in the conviction that our planet had seen its hottest average temperatures in at least a hundred and twenty-five thousand years. But, even as they watched the mercury soar, they weren’t completely sure why: temperatures seemed to be rising even before an El Niño warming in the Pacific fully kicked in.
Despite all the concern about new data centers and artificial intelligence soaking up power, Stanford’s Mark Jacobson said a few weeks ago that his home state would use twenty-five per cent less natural gas to generate power this year than last. That’s a big number, big enough that if it were replicated in a lot of places, it would make a dent in the estimates of future warming.
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