Over the past 24 years, from 2000 to 2024, global average temperatures have increased by approximately 1.2 to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (about 0.7 to 0.8 degrees Celsius). This period has seen an accelerated warming trend, largely attributed to increased greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
The rate of temperature increase has been more pronounced in recent decades. For instance, the average global temperature over the past 12 months (from June 2023 to May 2024) was 2.34 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century baseline [oai_citation:4,NASA Analysis Confirms a Year of Monthly Temperature Records – NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-analysis-confirms-a-year-of-monthly-temperature-records/) [oai_citation:3,Global Temperature | Vital Signs – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet](https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/?intent=121). Moreover, 2023 was noted as the warmest year on record, continuing the trend of rising temperatures over recent years [oai_citation:2,Climate Change: Global Temperature | NOAA Climate.gov](https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature) [oai_citation:1,Climate Change Indicators: U.S. and Global Temperature | US EPA](https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-temperature).
For more detailed and up-to-date information, you can refer to resources from NOAA, NASA, and the EPA.
Hurricanes
7 costliest hurricanes in the U.S., adjusted to the 2022 U.S. dollar:
- Katrina (2005) – $187 billion
- Harvey (2017) – $149 billion
- Ian (2022) – $113 billion
- Sandy (2012) – $83 billion
- Irma (2017) – $60 billion
- Andrew (1992) – $56.3 billion
- Ike (2008) – $40.7 billion
Current CA Fires
- Airport Fire: Orange County
- Line Fire: San Bernardino Mountain foothills
- Bridge Fire: Angeles National Forest
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/bridge-fire-angeles-national-forest-evacuations
- Boyles Fire: Lake County
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/boyles-fire-clearlake-lake-county/
- Davis Fire: Near Lake Tahoe
- Rancho Palos Verdes landslide: State of emergency
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/power-outage-rancho-palos-verdes-residents
Floods
- Hurricane Ida Flooding (2021) – $75 billion (total cost including other damage)
- Mississippi River Flooding (2019) – $6.2 billion
- Midwest Floods (2019) – $10.8 billion
- Louisiana Flooding (2016) – $10.4 billion
- Mississippi River Flooding (2019) – $6.2 billion
- Texas and Louisiana Flooding (2015) – $2.6 billion
Wildfires
- Maui Wildfires, Hawaii (August 2023) – $5.5 billion
- 2021 Western U.S. Wildfires – $10.6 billion
- Dixie Fire (2021) – $1.15 billion
- California Wildfires (2020) – $16.5 billion
- Camp Fire (2018) – $10.4 billion
- Mendocino Complex Fire (2018) – $1 billion
We share a problem that “we don’t all realize” we have.
In 2003 Our government realized our “CO2 levels were too high (and increasing) and 45 million people had a power outage for 2 weeks”. …and helped create a zero-cost-conversion program to solve it.
It didn’t work.
After 16 years only 14% of California was renewable.
By 2018 the CO2 levels were higher… and our weather was so imbalanced that our planet had unprecedented weather, fires, freezes & high temperatures… combined with a 20 year drought. And we all know that climate changes has eliminated civilizations.
Our job at Sunrun is to help the Utility Companies eliminate home energy CO2 and help power Electric Cars.
We do not want 2018 to happen again…as it will again be unbelievably worse than we can imagine.
In 4-6 months each home can eliminate their CO2 with solar + battery at no cost. The critical CO2 problem is why we have the unprecedented no equipment cost option.