{"id":362552,"date":"2025-01-18T10:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362552"},"modified":"2025-01-18T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:09:12","slug":"no-cnn-and-bbc-2024-wasnt-the-hottest-year-on-record-when-all-of-the-available-evidence-is-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362552","title":{"rendered":"<\/font>No, CNN and BBC, 2024 Wasn’t the ‘Hottest Year on Record’ When ALL of the Available Evidence Is Considered<\/font>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By<\/font> Anthony Watts<\/a>
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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<\/a>“, and the BBC with a headline that declared, “2024 Confirmed as Hottest Year Ever Recorded<\/a>.” When these media reports are examined in 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A close examination reveals that such declarations are predominantly based on data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service<\/a> (CCCS), a European organization but only one of several global temperature monitoring systems. Their press release, 2024 \u2013 a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023<\/a> became immediately re-used by media outlets around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CCCS says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n