Media Push 2024 Hottest Year Narrative, Overlook El Nino, Flawed Data And Climate Trends
by Anthony Watts Jan 16, 2025
A number of mainstream media outlets have uncritically echoed the proclamation of 2024 being the “hottest year on record,” such as CNN with a story titled, “2024 Confirmed as World’s Hottest Year on Record”, and the BBC running a headline that declared, “2024 Confirmed as Hottest Year Ever Recorded.” [emphasis, links added]
When these media reports are examined in the long-term historical context of the available global temperature data, it becomes clear that the claims lack the certainty their headlines proclaim and are likely false or exaggerated.
A close examination reveals that such declarations are predominantly based on data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (CCCS), a European organization but only one of several global temperature monitoring systems.
Their press release, 2024 – a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 became immediately reused by media outlets around the world.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/media-push-2024-hottest-year-narrative-overlook-el-nino-flawed-data-and-climate-trends/
