We keep hearing that 2024 was the hottest year on record—a record that extends back, keep in mind, only to about 1850 or so, and there’s some doubt about even this short time frame—which, let us recall, many climatologists predicted would happen after the massive Hunga Tonga volcano eruption in the South Pacific two years ago, and yet both Arctic sea ice and northern hemisphere snow cover are bursting above the average of the last several decades.
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