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Earth - A Global Map of Wind, Weather and Ocean Conditions - Use the menu at bottom left to toggle different views. For example, you can see where wildfires/smoke are by selecting "Chem - COsc" to see carbon monoxide (CO) surface concentration.
Climate Reanalyzer (University of Maine) - A source for daily updated average global air temps, sea surface temps, sea ice, weather and more.
National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center (US) - Information about ENSO and weather predictions.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Global Temperature Rankings Outlook (US) - Tool that is updated each month, concurrent with the release of the monthly global climate report.
Canadian Wildland Fire Information System - Government of Canada
Surging Seas Risk Zone Map - For discovering which areas could be underwater soon.
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Those projections were never realistic. They were the optimistic "best case scenario" which the IPCC — a political org funded by fossil fuel dependent economies — touted as the "most likely" average, when it never held more than a 50/50 chance even if everything went to plan.
The whole 1.5 - 3c "likelihood" was dependent on major variables we don't actually control (like how much carbon the remaining forests absorb), and confounding variables (like feedback loops and major weather systems reversing/collapsing) were downgraded or completely ignored due to a horrific level of uncertainty/unknowability. In statistics, if you don't have real world data and can't analyze a variable with any reasonable degree of confidence, you tend to omit it entirely.
Most of the actual climate scientists have been saying we're on track for the worst case scenarios due to this and actual weather patterns (we've been hugging the upper limit of projected warming the entire time).
Man I remember when IPCC scientists quit in protest because the organization refused to let them publish a report containing the sentence "incremental changes will not be a viable solution to global warming" back in like 2016 or 2018. Fuck I can't even find it on Google anymore, i swear this was real.
I remember it too. I feel like Winston in 1984. "Was the picture real or did I just imagine it ..?"