{"id":1189084,"date":"2023-10-05T09:35:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189084"},"modified":"2023-10-05T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:35:24","slug":"septembers-record-setting-temps-were-absolutely-gobsmackingly-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189084","title":{"rendered":"September\u2019s record-setting temps were \u201cabsolutely gobsmackingly bananas\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/heat-800x605-1.jpg\" alt=\"figured silhouetted against the setting sun\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/heat.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1695\" data-width=\"2240\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Luis Sinco\/Los Angeles Times\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The global temperature numbers for September are in, and they are not good. \u201cThis month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist\u2014absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,\u201d Zeke Hausfather <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hausfath\/status\/1709217151452954998?s=20\">posted<\/a> Tuesday on X (formerly known as Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>Kristina Dahl, principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, read that post yesterday. \u201cI&#8217;ve been sitting at my desk trying to think of a better way to describe that, but I can&#8217;t,\u201d Dahl says. \u201cIt&#8217;s just shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcerning, worrying, wild\u2014whatever superlative you want to use,\u201d says Kate Marvel, senior scientist at Project Drawdown, a nonprofit that fights climate change. \u201cThat&#8217;s what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973482#p3\">Read 12 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973482&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September\u2019s record-setting temps were \u201cabsolutely gobsmackingly bananas\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Luis Sinco\/Los Angeles Times\/Getty Images) The global temperature numbers for September are in, and they are not good. \u201cThis month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist\u2014absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,\u201d Zeke Hausfather posted Tuesday on X (formerly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1189084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}