{"id":421288,"date":"2026-01-14T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421288"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:24:57","slug":"no-cbs-news-recent-temperatures-didnt-surpass-a-critical-climate-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421288","title":{"rendered":"No, CBS News, Recent Temperatures Didn\u2019t Surpass a \u2018Critical Climate Mark\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"410\" data-attachment-id=\"421296\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=421296\" 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href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2026\/01\/no-cbs-news-recent-temperatures-didnt-surpass-a-critical-climate-mark\/\">ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/author\/awatts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"394\" data-attachment-id=\"421291\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=421291\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-226.png?fit=438%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"438,394\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-226.png?fit=438%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-226.png?resize=438%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot of a CBS News article discussing climate change, featuring the headline '2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark, scientists say' with the term 'DOOM-MONGERING' overlayed in bold red letters.\" class=\"wp-image-421291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-226.png?w=438&amp;ssl=1 438w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-226.png?resize=300%2C270&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CBS News recently published a story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2025-was-so-hot-it-pushed-earth-past-critical-climate-change-mark-scientists-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark, scientists say<\/a>,\u201d from the Associated Press (CBS\/AP), claiming that a recent temperature \u201cblip\u201d has pushed the planet past the Paris Agreement\u2019s 1.5\u00b0C threshold, implying that catastrophic consequences are now unfolding or inevitable. This is false. Earth has passed that politically chosen temperature hallmark with no disastrous effect and is now cooling. Also, no data support the claims of increased severe weather consequences matching the short-term temperature increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article states that 2025 was among the hottest years on record and that a three-year average \u201cbroke through\u201d the 1.5\u00b0C limit, warning that staying below this mark \u201ccould save lives and prevent catastrophic environmental destruction.\u201d The story relies a great deal on rapid-attribution outputs&nbsp; from World Weather Attribution suggesting that specific extreme events in 2025 were far more likely because of climate change. Their implication is clear: crossing 1.5\u00b0C is a critical line, and dire outcomes should now be expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a short-term temperature spike, especially one based on a three-year average, is not climate, and it certainly does not validate years of catastrophic predictions tied to the 1.5\u00b0C number. What CBS\/AP also ignore is the fact that since the peak in early 2024, likely induced by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/07\/09\/hunga-tonga-volcano-impact-on-record-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">huge amounts of water vapor injected into the atmosphere by the Hunga-Tonga volcanic eruption<\/a>, global temperature has been trending downward as seen in the graph below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"325\" data-attachment-id=\"421293\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=421293\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?fit=2560%2C1152&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?fit=723%2C325&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?resize=723%2C325&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Graph showing UAH satellite-based temperature departures from the 1991-2020 average in degrees Celsius from 1979 to 2026, with red trend line and blue data points.\" class=\"wp-image-421293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?resize=1024%2C461&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?resize=300%2C135&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?resize=768%2C346&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?resize=1536%2C691&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?resize=2048%2C922&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?resize=640%2C288&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?resize=1200%2C540&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-227.png?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Satellite derived global temperature data from January 1979 through December 2025, plotted by Roy Spencer, PhD. The Version 6.1 global area-averaged linear temperature trend remains at a modest +0.16 deg\/ C\/decade.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate is defined and assessed over multi-decade periods,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-weather-vs-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">typically 30 years<\/a>, specifically to smooth out short-term variability from El Ni\u00f1o, La Ni\u00f1a, volcanic aerosols, and other natural influences. A brief overshoot during a warm phase does not establish a new long-term state. As importantly,&nbsp;<em>Climate at a Glance\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-tipping-point-1-5-degrees-celsius-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cTipping Point: 1.5 Degrees Celsius Warming\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;explains the 1.5\u00b0C threshold is a policy target, not a scientifically established threshold beyond which climate disaster looms. In short, the 1.5\u2103 target was chosen by politicians to drive policy action and never represented a physical cliff beyond which the climate system suddenly collapses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That distinction matters because the public has been told that passing 1.5\u00b0C would unleash unmistakable, escalating disasters. Yet when global averages have briefly touched or exceeded that level in recent datasets, the promised cascade of unprecedented impacts did not materialize. Hurricanes have not suddenly multiplied, floods did not surge globally, and agricultural output did not collapse. On the contrary, long-term records summarized at&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate at a Glance: Hurricanes<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-floods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate at a Glance: Floods<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>show no clear global increases that would confirm the article\u2019s apocalyptic framing. This is why critics have long argued that 1.5\u00b0C functions as a moving rhetorical goalpost rather than a scientifically demonstrated tipping point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CBS\/AP also amplify claims that extreme weather in 2025 proves the danger of crossing this threshold, but those claims rest on model-based attribution rather than observed long-term trends.&nbsp;<em>Climate Realism<\/em>&nbsp;has documented the weaknesses of such attribution studies in multiple analyses, including its coverage of<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/?s=World+Weather+Attribution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Weather Attribution claims<\/a><\/strong>, showing how probabilistic model outputs are routinely presented as settled fact while observational uncertainties are minimized or ignored. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/assessment-report\/ar6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (ICCC AR6)<\/a>&nbsp;is far more cautious, assigning low or medium confidence to many asserted global trends in extremes and emphasizing regional variability and uncertainty. Later references to IPCC AR6 in media coverage often omit this caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What the CBS\/AP piece also leaves out is historical context. The climate system has always exhibited variability, with warm and cool phases layered atop longer-term trends. Selecting a recent warm spike and declaring a \u201ccritical mark\u201d crossed tells readers little about where the climate will settle over coming decades. While warming has occurred since the late nineteenth century, the rate and impacts vary substantially over time and region, undermining the idea of a universal danger line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the article\u2019s sense of urgency ignores a crucial real-world metric: outcomes. Despite rising global temperatures over the past century, climate-related deaths have declined dramatically due to improved infrastructure, forecasting, and energy access, a point documented at&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-deaths-from-extreme-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate at a Glance: Deaths from Extreme Weather<\/a><\/em>. Deaths related to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/?s=temperature+related+deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">non-optimum temperatures<\/a>&nbsp;have also fallen dramatically as the Earth has slightly warmed, in part because cold weather kills more people that hot temperatures. If crossing 1.5\u00b0C were truly the existential turning point portrayed, one would expect the opposite trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By treating a short-term temperature blip as proof that a \u201ccritical climate change mark\u201d has been breached, CBS\/AP mislead readers about how climate science actually works. The 1.5\u00b0C figure is a political benchmark, not a physical tipping point, and brief excursions above it say little about long-term climate outcomes. The fact that nothing resembling the predicted catastrophes occurred when the threshold was touched suggests that CBS\/AP are engaging in doom-mongering rather than journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News recently published a story \u201c2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark, scientists say,\u201d from the Associated Press (CBS\/AP), claiming that a recent temperature \u201cblip\u201d has pushed the planet past the Paris Agreement\u2019s 1.5\u00b0C threshold, implying that catastrophic consequences are now unfolding or inevitable. This is false. Earth has passed that politically chosen temperature hallmark with no disastrous effect and is now cooling. Also, no data support the claims of increased severe weather consequences matching the short-term temperature increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore how CBS News misrepresents climate science, claiming dire impacts from exceeding 1.5\u00b0C, while evidence shows no catastrophic outcomes.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Why CBS News Misrepresents Climate Data and 1.5\u00b0C 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