It's Already Too Hot In LA

The goal of IPCC is to keep the global temperature increase from preindustrial times below 1.5 degrees Celsius, however, it's already more than 3 degrees Celsius in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.

It is becoming clear that climate change temperatures are going to affect different parts of the world differently.  Another example is Arctic where the temperatures are increasing faster than anywhere else on the planet.  Here is a diagram showing temperatures around the globe.

This shows the Arctic warming but notice the small dot at Los Angeles.  Other places besides the Arctic, are Eastern Europe, Eastern Russia, and off the coast of Uruguay.

The entire global ocean is warming, but some parts are changing much faster than others — and the hot spot off Uruguay is one of the fastest. It was first identified by scientists in 2012, but it is still poorly understood and has received virtually no public attention.

[A] mysterious blob covers 130,000 square miles of ocean, an area nearly twice as big as this small country. And it has been heating up extremely rapidly — by over 2 degrees Celsius — or 2C — over the past century, double the global average. At its center, it's grown even hotter, warming by as much as 3 degrees Celsius, according to one analysis.

What researchers do know is that the hot zone here has driven mass die-offs of clams, dangerous ocean heat waves and algal blooms, and wide-ranging shifts in Uruguay’s fish catch.

The South Atlantic blob is part of a global trend: Around the planet, enormous ocean currents are traveling to new locations. As these currents relocate, waters are growing warmer. Scientists have found similar hot spots along the western stretches of four other oceans — the North Atlantic, the North Pacific, the South Pacific, and the Indian.

A Washington Post analysis of multiple temperature data sets found numerous locations around the globe that have warmed by at least 2 degrees Celsius over the past century. That's a number that scientists and policymakers have identified as a red line if the planet is to avoid catastrophic and irreversible consequences. But in regions large and small, that point has already been reached.

The famous global temperature limit specified by IPCC is 1.5 degrees Celsius, but as can be seen that temperature is being considerably exceeded in parts of the world. 

California is one of those places.  They have been suffering from wildfires lately.  It is not possible to say that climate change is solely responsible but there can't be any doubt that it is a significant factor.

Since 1895, the average temperature in Santa Barbara County has gone up by 2.3 degrees Celsius. Neighboring Ventura County has warmed up by 2.6 degrees Celsius since preindustrial times, making it the fastest-warming county in the Lower 48 states.

The result, as The Post’s Scott Wilson reports, is an eroding bluffside beachfront that has led to the condemnation of apartment buildings, wildfires that have forced thousands to evacuate and heat waves that have scorched orchards and killed livestock.

A result, I should add, that Pacific Northwest coastal property is vulnerable to as well.