Japan logs its hottest year on record in 2024 for 2nd straight year

Time to get off fossil fuels.

@Newgirlintown

Agree completely. But it will be business as usual with all sorts of mental gymnastics to blame rice and vegetable shortages, starving bears appearing increasingly in human settlements, deaths from heat stroke, super typhoons and other climate-change driven phenomena on everything but the fossil fuel industry.

Embrace the change and adapt, do not cling to the past as it is NOT possible to maintain constant climate on Earth. Never was and never will. Sheer stupidity to pour billions into nothing.

Who is pouring billions into nothing? I'd like to see some examples.

Embrace the change and adapt, do not cling to the past as it is NOT possible to maintain constant climate on Earth. Never was and never will. Sheer stupidity to pour billions into nothing.

But for a cold December, it would have beaten the record by a larger margin. Here is a map showing average temps from the last month compared to 30 year averages.

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/obd/stats/data/mdrr/tenkou/indexTenkou.html?gazou=tem30d00&dhi=0

Note that this average temp for 2024 is 1.48C above the average for 1990 to 2020 where detailed records exist across the country. It is not the UN standard, where temperatures are compared to "preindustrial times", which is two hundred years ago, before the widespread massive use of fossil fuel. The UN target was to limit warming to 1.5C above preindustrial times but it looks like Japan is there already. This suggests to me that a global temp rise of 2C will likely mean a much higher average temp rise for Japan.

Embrace the change and adapt, 

Yes, everyone living in Nagoya within one meter of sea level will just have to move to higher ground. Other cities too, like Niigata. Their property will be completely worthless, but hey, they're not my assets.

but for a cold December, it would have beaten the record by a larger margin

So if the numbers weren't lower they would have been higher. Helpful

But still the conservative neanderthals think there is not a global warming..

Well I'll definitely buying multiple electric fans and a jacket with built in fans for this summer. Will also get new air cons, double glazing and solar panels for the roof. And for the worst months I will be up in the mountains away from it it all. Gonna be prepared this time. You won't be weaning me off the fossil fuels any time soon.

But still the conservative neanderthals think there is not a global warming..

Pls listen to what people say. Firstly you need to make sure you are reffering to the same definition of "global warming", second many conservatives dont think that there is a MAN MADE global warming.

So what is really the problem with the a warming planet ??? We just evolve with the condition like the last time there was warming planet event, it call evolution. Plus it is refer to Man made global warming. So in theory man can make a cooling planet. Tora has the right attitude just adjust to the environment condition in stead of whining.

There is climate and then there is the weather.

There is climate and then there is the weather.

And you lost half the reader with this sentence ^o^

Pacific island people already affected by rising sea levels with a number of islands people have had to abandon, salt water in fresh water wells, tidal surges and the like.

Poorer nations like Bangladesh will have rice growing reduced by rising sea levels.

People in wealthy countries can be smug, but its not only your planet is it ?

Yeh, well it’s bitter in Japan with cold winds and un insulated houses- bring on the warmer weather!

So if the numbers weren't lower they would have been higher. Helpful

The temp was much higher than normal from July through November. This would have created an even bigger headline, but for a colder than normal December which no-one saw coming. There is tons of snow at the ski resorts this year, something you would not expect at the end of a hottest on record calendar year.

Last year was a very average year weather-wise. Climate models cannot even predict past weather events. They don't take into account the most powerful greenhouse gas -water vapor. You can get better info looking out your front door.

I am interested as to how one "predicts " a PAST weather event .

Actually, ice core samples taken at the poles DO show the level and concentration of gases in various periods over the distant past....read thousands of years.

Also interested in how "water vapour " gets into the outer atmosphere and contributes to climate change.

Comparing 2025 data with pre-satellite data just seems ridiculous. @TokyoLiving “conservative Neanderthals” disagree with how much of the climate change is man-made. We got out of the ice age with climate change, none of that was because of man.

Isn't it funny how the deniers love to disparage science, yet as soon as the subject turns to climate change they become expert scientists!

So what is really the problem with the a warming planet ??? We just evolve with the condition like the last time there was warming planet event, it call evolution.

The current changes are happening within the range of decades and centuries. Evolution is nowhere near that fast.

Plus it is refer to Man made global warming. So in theory man can make a cooling planet.

Not sure how, but why not. As it stands now, however, we're doing a lot for it to warm. What's more, even if we stopped contributing to climate change immediately, it would keep getting warmer for centuries due to the effect of already existing greenhouse gases that we have emitted.

many conservatives dont think that there is a MAN MADE global warming.

Conservatives have been, generally speaking, moving the goal posts for decades. First, there was no warming at all, then there was, but it wasn't man-made, then there was but we didn't have to do anything about it, now there is to some, but it's actually a good thing. Anything to go against calls for systemic change.

The current temperature above the industrial level is 1.6ºC.

I was in Morioka in September, it was beautiful 30-35c most of the time, very enjoyable working on my mate ringo farm and two days sitting of the mini harvester cropping rice. It was the most productive season he can remember. There is nothing better than picking a ripe organic peach from a tree and eating it. Nothing like the peaches back home where I assume old varieties are not coping with warming condition sometime reaching 46c.

The current temperature above the industrial level is 1.6ºC.

I'm not sure if you're saying that to show that it's not that bad or really bad, but the latter is true. It's going faster than expected. That's already higher than the peak suggested by the Paris Agreement and it's bound to keep going up.

kohakuebisuToday  09:15 am JST

Embrace the change and adapt, 

Yes, everyone living in Nagoya within one meter of sea level will just have to move to higher ground. Other cities too, like Niigata. Their property will be completely worthless, but hey, they're not my assets.

Why would they move?

The temp was much higher than normal from July through November. This would have created an even bigger headline, but for a colder than normal December 

Yes, thats how averages work......

If it had been cooler in July through november, the avg would be lower.....

Conservatives have been, generally speaking, moving the goal posts for decades. 

Nope- first it was "global warming", then it was "climate change", and now its "extreme weather conditions" or something something

kohakuebisu

The temp was much higher than normal from July through November. This would have created an even bigger headline, but for a colder than normal December which no-one saw coming. There is tons of snow at the ski resorts this year, something you would not expect at the end of a hottest on record calendar year.

Sure, but did you not get the memo? When it is warm, it is global "climate change". When it is cold, it is a "cold snap". Note for next time...

zulander

Pls listen to what people say. Firstly you need to make sure you are reffering to the same definition of "global warming", second many conservatives dont think that there is a MAN MADE global warming.

Not just "conservatives". Many scientists who have been politically left-leaning are disagreeing with the simplistic "man made global warming" narrative. Including the ex president of Greenpeace, the former Obama government science advisor, and even members of the IPCC itself. It is only a question of who gets the microphone and grants.

And it's not narrative-conforming to mention that the Sun is in the peak of its activity in the ~11-year cycle.

Yes, that bright ball in the sky and its irradiance has a warming effect. For those who may

For those who may have forgotten about the record-setting undersea volcanic eruption two years ago (Hunga Tunga), it injected a record-setting volume of water vapor into the stratosphere. That water vapor will linger for several years, causing a warming effect.

That's far more influential than bovine flatulence or fossil fuel combustion. It's just not taxable.

@zulandar

Oh yeah, I forgot about that conservative "counterargument". As the understanding of the scientific community comes to grips with the complexity of the issues, terms change as we know that the issues go clearly being warming itself. But let's not allow more understanding of complexity to go against simple answers.

The thing is, we are still widthrowing from the last Ice Age period, so the temperature is only going to get higher whether with the help of man or not. We are just speeding up the process. The problem is not how to stop it, since it is almost impossible, but how to slow it down.

This summer was brutal

I really hope the world can come together and start making more changes