“The world has only six months in which to change the course of the climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate catastrophe, one of the world’s foremost energy experts has warned.
“This year is the last time we have, if we are not to see a carbon rebound,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.”
“Siberia’s prolonged period of unusually warm weather is an “alarming sign,” according to climate change scientists.
“”It is undoubtedly an alarming sign,” said Freja Vamborg, a senior C3S scientist.”
No shit.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/18/europe/siberia-warming-climate-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html
“Moscow experienced its hottest June 17 in more than a century after temperatures hit 31.1 degrees Celsius Wednesday.
“Russia’s Hydrometeorology Center said that beat the previous record of 30.8 C set on the same day in 1892, Interfax reported. The scorching temperature hit at 4 p.m. in the capital.”
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/06/17/moscow-breaks-128-year-heat-record-a70606
“The Anglia region [UK] enjoyed its driest May since weather records began in 1862 but flaming June has turned into downpour June as the rain keeps coming.
There was more rain in an hour on Thursday morning across East Anglia than there was during the whole month of May.”
“A number of Welsh households have been forced to flee their homes after being flooded for the third time this year. Rhondda Cynon Taf council said there had been significant flooding to almost 200 properties in the borough after storms swept across Wales on Wednesday.
“The village flooded twice during February’s storms with the cost of the damage estimated at up to £5m.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53089348
“A weather station at Dublin Airport recorded more rain in an hour this morning than the entire month of May.
“The capital enjoyed its driest spring on record but typically, as soon as lockdown was eased the changeable weather returned with a vengeance.”
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-airport-weather-station-records-18436990
“SW Florida has second hottest Spring – Jesus Hernandez is used to the heat… But this year seemed even hotter than normal.
“”It seems like we went into summer right away,” said Hernandez, 50, owner of Jesus Hernandez Lawn Care. “Normally it gets a little hotter and then a little hotter. This year it happened all at once, like someone flipped a light switch.””
“If it felt hot during the first two weeks of June, it wasn’t just the imagination.
“Central Nebraska recorded its hottest start to June since the 1930s… The average daily temperature in Grand Island was 78.4 degrees.”
“A wildfire in Butt A wildfire in Butte County, California, destroyed four homes on Wednesday. The Bush Fire northeast of Phoenix is the seventh largest in state history.
“It’s one of several fires burning across the western U.S. Red flag warnings and elevated fire weather conditions continue in some areas.”
https://weather.com/news/news/2020-06-16-wildfires-arizona-california-colorado-evacuations
“An intense season of fires in the Amazon rainforest this year could overwhelm health systems and lead to unnecessary deaths, including of coronavirus…
“…as pollution worsens respiratory conditions, public health experts said Wednesday.”
“Humanity’s broken relationship with nature has led to the coronavirus and other pandemics will follow, WWF International said, if the world continues to reject the warning signs.
“WWF’s new report calls for an international effort to reduce the risk of the next animal-borne, or zoonotic, disease outbreak, including stopping the trade and consumption of high-risk wildlife, rampant deforestation and booming industrial agriculture and animal farming.”
“Parts of Rajasthan are set to experience scorching heatwave conditions for the next 2-3 days.
“In view of these extreme temperature predictions, a red warning has been issued over the entire state on Thursday, June 18… Bikaner recorded the highest maximum day temperature across the state at 47.4°C…”
“The different global circulation models of the Earth’s changing climate agree that temperatures virtually everywhere will increase, and in most places so will rainfall, in part because warmer air can carry more water vapor.
“However, “There is one major exception, and that is the Mediterranean area,” Eltahir says, which shows the greatest decline of projected rainfall of any landmass on Earth.”
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-mediterranean-climate-hotspot.html
“New research from a team at Northern Arizona University suggests that subsidence, gradually sinking terrain caused by the loss of ice and soil mass in permafrost, is causing deeper thaw than previously thought…
“…traditional methods of permafrost thaw measurement underestimate the amount of previously-frozen carbon unlocked from warming permafrost by over 100 percent.”
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-stocks-vulnerable-carbon-high-permafrost.html
“Never before has the Arctic seen an industrial expansion of this magnitude.
“In only few years, volumes of extracted hydrocarbons have been boosted and shipments across Arctic waters reached unprecedented levels.
“And much more is to come.”
“More than a century of oil and gas drilling has left behind millions of abandoned wells, many of which are leaching pollutants into the air and water.
“And drilling companies are likely to abandon many more wells due to bankruptcies, as oil prices struggle to recover from historic lows after the coronavirus pandemic crushed global fuel demand…”
“The Arctic Ocean will take up more CO2 over the 21st century than predicted by most climate models. This additional CO2 causes a distinctly stronger ocean acidification. These results were published in a study by climate scientists from the University of Bern and École normale supérieure in Paris.
“Ocean acidification threatens the life of calcifying organisms — such as mussels and “sea butterflies” — and can have serious consequences for the entire food chain.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200617145947.htm
“In a new study from the British Antarctic Survey, scientists report that the Weddell Sea has lost one-third of its summer ice cover in the last five years. Summer sea ice has declined by one million square kilometers, an area twice the size of Spain, in the Weddell Sea along the coast of Antarctica.
“Many animals such as penguins and seals depend on the sea ice that surrounds Antarctica for finding food and breeding.”
https://www.earth.com/news/severe-storms-triggered-a-decline-in-antarctic-sea-ice/
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