“The Earth had its hottest May ever last month, continuing an unrelenting climate change trend as 2020 is set to be among the hottest 10 years ever, scientists with the Copernicus Climate Change Service announced on Friday.
“It’s virtually certain that this year will be among the top hottest years in recorded history with a higher than 98% likelihood it will rank in the top five, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/climate-change-may-2020-is-hottest-month-on-record.html
“Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia, home to much of Earth’s permafrost, as the world experienced its hottest May on record, the European Union’s climate monitoring network said Friday.”
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1930012/siberia-10%C2%B0c-hotter-warmest-may-on-record
“In the last week of May, parts of the Arctic Circle recorded temperatures on par with the average monthly temperature in Hong Kong…
“Scientists have raised concerns about thawing Arctic permafrost that will release stored greenhouse gases, further accelerating the rate of global heating.”
“Russian emergency workers and marine clean-up specialists on Thursday intensified efforts to clean up a major fuel spill that environmentalists say is the first such accident in the Arctic polar region…
“The Ambarnaya River, which is the worst-affected by the spill, feeds into Lake Pyasino, a major body of water and the source of the Pyasina River that is vitally important to the entire Taimyr peninsula.”
I am wondering if this is related to higher temperatures? Permafrost melt, possibly? Sea-level rise?
“A massive landslide in northern Norway slowly swept eight houses into the sea, but incredibly, there are no reports of injuries.”
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“Governments must rebuild their economies after the coronavirus crisis to withstand the next shock heading their way – climate change, the central bank governors of Britain and France have said.
““Unless we act now, the climate crisis will be tomorrow’s central scenario and, unlike COVID-19, no one will be able to self-isolate from it.””
“[Northern Europe’s] Farmers have yearned for showers after one of the warmest French springs on record and the U.K.’s driest May in a century, while parts of Germany still need more rain.
“The drought further hurt the region’s production prospects after relentless autumn rains hampered plantings.”
https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/europes-extreme-weather-threatens-wheat-crops
“South Africa has extended the national state of disaster it declared for a drought that’s been going on for more than seven years in some parts of the country.
“The state of disaster that was initially announced for three months on March 4 has been extended to July 4…”
“Floods swept through Yemen amid heavy seasonal rains, leaving at least 16 people dead and flooding dozens of homes, security officials said Thursday.
“The casualties were reported in eastern Hadramawt and southern Shabwa provinces…”
https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/flooding-from-heavy-seasonal-rains-kills-16-in-yemen
““In 2018, two cyclones dumped heavy rain on the uninhabited portion of the Arabian Peninsula known as ‘The Empty Quarter.’ There, locusts can breed and reproduce freely, undisturbed by humans.
“The locusts bred in the Empty Quarter for nine months, over three generations. That is the original source of the East Africa upsurge we are seeing now,” Williams told Mongabay.”
“Nisarga turned deadly as it battered western India with torrential rainfall and damaging winds into Thursday morning.
“The Business Standard reported on Thursday that Nisarga killed at least four people across two districts in western India, and injured at least eight others.”
“As March turned to April, a devastating cyclone gathered force over the Pacific Ocean and began to bear down on the island nations of Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, among others.
“The storm was eventually rated category 5—as high as the scale goes—and it struck just as the world was attempting to adjust to the dislocation caused by Covid-19…
“The aftermath holds important warnings for the rest of what’s predicted to be a busy storm season in both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.”
“Tropical Storm Cristobal is currently meandering over Mexico but will head for populated regions of the Gulf Coast this weekend just as many people escape to the beaches to decompress from the coronavirus pandemic…
“NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center predicts a significant amount of rainfall from June 4th to June 11th in the Gulf States and Lower Mississippi River valley…”
“Humans have spread to most parts of the planet, and now researchers have calculated that only a fifth of ice-free land on Earth is free of our influence…
“Most of the low human influence areas on the planet are really cold, high or dry areas of land, such as arctic landscapes, montane areas or deserts.”
“From Amazon to India, nature has suffered enough in one year.
“Bush fires, earthquakes, cyclones and more, 2019-2020 has seen various natural disasters. These disasters have caused major structural damages and has destroyed wildlife, forests, indigenous species and has taken thousands of lives.”
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