UPDATE: June 2023 was the warmest June globally since modern recordkeeping...

NASA Climate Change 2 years ago

UPDATE: June 2023 was the warmest June globally since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, measuring at 1.07°C (1.93°F) above @nasa's 1951-1980 baseline average. The 5 hottest Junes have all occurred since 2019: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ The third image is the same graph, but on @ipcc's 1850-1900 temperature baseline. Here, June 2023 was also the warmest June globally since 1880, measuring at 1.29°C (2.32°F) above this baseline average. The 5 hottest Junes have all occurred since 2019. #FYI, @nasa uses its baseline because @nws uses a 30-year period to define "normal," or average, temperature. NASA started tracking temperatures in 1980, and the most recent 30-year period at that time was 1951-1980.   @ipcc uses its baseline to represent preindustrial temperature. It's the earliest period of near-global observations of surface temperature. This allows for a comparison of current temperatures with a period before significant human-caused climate change.   Image Descriptions: 1. Global map of average June 2023 temperature changes, with relative warming in portions of Canada and Asia, western Europe, and in the Antarctic Peninsula. There was some relative cooling in parts of India, Pakistan, western Australia, and the U.S. Overall, most places were warmer than normal. 2. A plot showing an upward trend in average relative June global temperatures since 1880, using NASA’s 1951-1980 baseline. 3. A plot showing an upward trend in average relative June global temperatures since 1880. This one is on the IPCC’s preindustrial temperature baseline (1850-1900). #Climate #NASA #GlobalTemp #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Earth #EarthScience #Temperature #ClimateData #EarthData

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Water scarcity has become a core concern for sustainable construction and sustainable building design, with the United Nations warning of potential global water bankruptcy and heightened risk to desalination plants in the Gulf. The construction sector is shifting towards diversified water systems that embed efficiency, reuse, and resilience. These changes align with whole life carbon and lifecycle assessment principles, ensuring environmental sustainability in construction through resource efficiency in construction and life cycle cost analysis. In the UK, stronger regulation following pollution incidents is driving utilities to invest in cleaner networks and green infrastructure, creating new pipelines of low carbon construction materials and sustainable building practices.

Digital manufacturing is transforming eco-friendly construction through AI-driven tools that automate complex formwork and optimise material use. By integrating eco-design for buildings and low carbon design methodologies, contractors reduce embodied carbon in materials and the overall carbon footprint of construction. This digital precision supports net zero whole life carbon strategies and demonstrates how circular construction strategies underpin a circular economy in construction.

Energy security and climate risk are reinforcing the need for carbon neutral construction and renewable building materials. Projects optimised for energy-efficient buildings and net zero carbon buildings are proving more resilient, cost-stable, and aligned with whole life carbon assessment frameworks. The industry trajectory favours sustainable material specification, end-of-life reuse in construction, and decarbonising the built environment through lifecycle performance and life cycle thinking in construction. Firms advancing sustainable design founded on building lifecycle performance and resource efficiency will lower embodied carbon while improving long-term asset resilience, delivering measurable reductions in the environmental impact of construction.

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