Thanks to climate change, 2023 has shattered heat records, and 2024 is continuing where last year left off. With this devastating heat driving extreme weather - from heatwaves to downpours to wildfires - across the globe, scientists are increasingly asking if global warming could be accelerating. So what does the evidence show? Is the heating up of our planet speeding up? If so, what does this climate change mean for our future? And can we still hit the brakes and halt global warming? Huge thanks to scientist Andrew Dessler for his feedback! Follow him here: https://twitter.com/AndrewDessler Support ClimateAdam on patreon: http://patreon.com/climateadam #ClimateChange #climatecrisis twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ClimateAdam instagram: http://instagram.com/climate_adam ==MORE INFO== On acceleration predicted by models vs Hansen vs reality: https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/04/much-ado-about-acceleration/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-the-recent-acceleration-in-global-warming-is-what-scientists-expect/ Comment on the weirdness of recent temperatures: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z Further discussion of “the surge” https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-pause-vs-the-surge Is it the volcano https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-climate-impact-of-the-hunga-tonga Further discussion of 2023’s warming: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/2023s-unexpected-and-unexplained Recent temperatures: https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/01/15/i-am-more-worried-than-ever-scientists-explain-why-record-shattering-2023-heat-has-them-on https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/23/heat-records-broken-in-2024-list/72953026007/ https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-february-2024-was-globally-warmest-record-global-sea-surface-temperatures-record-high https://www.axios.com/2024/03/21/climate-extreme-heat-2023 Discussion of accelerating temperature https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/12/26/global-warming-accelerating-climate-change/ Zeke Hausfather comment https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opinion/climate-change-excessive-heat-2023.html Doubt over whether acceleration is underway: https://michaelmann.net/content/comments-new-article-james-hansen Feb beating March records https://twitter.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1764254749925204257 Accelerating heat content https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-49353-1#Sec4 Old (2018) discussion on possibility of acceleration: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07586-5 Climate models compared to ongoing warming: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-models-projected-global-warming/ ==CREDITS== Temperature data: IPCC AR6 mean combined with HadCRUT's values for the last couple of years Historical warming trend and projections from Nasa Goddard Wildfire footage Henderson Hillls El Nino clip from NOAAEco farming video from World Economic Forum and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Waorani people from UN Human Rights