“Pakistan pleads for international assistance after massive floods kill 900 people… “No question of the provinces or Islamabad being able to cope with this magnitude of climate catastrophe on their own,” tweeted Sherry Rehman, the federal minister for climate change…
“Managing relief efforts, reconstruction and rescue remains a challenge for cash-strapped Pakistan, which is forced to cut spending to ensure the International Monetary Fund approves the release of much-needed bailout money.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/pakistan-floods-death-climate-change-b2152427.html
“What it’s like to toil in India’s dangerous, unrelenting heat?
“The New Delhi Heat was unrelenting this spring and summer. Day in and day out, the city woke up to a steamy sunrise and went to bed in sweltering darkness – the most persistent, widespread and severe heat event in India’s recorded history.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/india-extreme-heat-climate-change/
“Hot weather, low rainfall dry up farmers’ profits in Bangladesh…
“Farmers experienced unprecedented flash floods in June that submerged 15,852 hectares (39,171 acres) of land in northeastern Bangladesh. The country’s farmers now face drought in the full rainy season. While July is supposed to receive the highest amount of rainfall, the country received less than half of the average rainfall this July…”
“Endless oven in the city of Chongqing which recorded again a min. temperature of 34.9C,the highest ever in Chinese history in August.
“Mind blowing: 2 weeks without ever dropping below 32C [89.6F]! Moreover several more all time records fell today in China.” [This epic heatwave is finally going to dissipate over the next few days].
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1562469794858795010
“Distressed farmer shares video of livestock dying in extreme heat.
“Across China, farmers are struggling to save their livestock and crops, as huge parts of the country bake under a record-breaking heat wave that has lasted more than two months. CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout takes a look at the toll on farmers and local residents.”
“Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao [Philippines] under state of calamity for 2 months due to massive floods.
“At least 80 percent of 63 villages in Cotabato province that make up the BARMM special geographic area have also been underwater in the last 30 days. BARMM, however, still had to release the total number of barangays and the corresponding number of residents affected.”
“How [Australia’s 2020] wildfires made the ozone hole worse.
“Australia’s massive 2020 “Black Summer” bushfires, which injected nearly a million tons of soot and other particulate into the stratosphere, strengthened and prolonged a spinning hole in the ozone above Antarctica, a new study finds.”
“Another extreme weather event in South America: Record heat followed by another harsh wintry blast.
“Temperatures will rise >40C [104F] in Paraguay beating the national record of the hottest August day on Saturday before collapsing on Sunday. Argentina might also see 40C at Las Lomitas.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1562568144459161600
“Desert flooding damages Interstate 10 between Los Angeles and Phoenix.
“The main highway from Los Angeles to Phoenix was damaged by a flash flood that washed out part of the road through the Southern California desert in the latest bout of punishing monsoonal thunderstorms that have hit the region this month.”
https://www.fox29.com/news/desert-flooding-damages-interstate-10-between-los-angeles-phoenix
“Underwhelming Iowa Corn Crop Sets Stage for More Food Inflation.
“After drought shriveled US corn plants in the western crop belt, all eyes have been turning to Iowa [biggest national corn grower] to help save the national harvest. Instead, the fields in that state have been “underwhelming,” “disappointing,” and just “not great.””
“August may pass without a single named tropical storm in the Atlantic.
“A named storm hasn’t roamed the Atlantic since Colin dissipated on July 3… According to Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University, this marks the first time since 1982 that there hasn’t been a single named storm anywhere in the Atlantic between July 3 and the penultimate week of August.”
“Jersey Shore water temperature sets yet another record Thursday, reaching 84.7F [29.3C] degrees.
“The water temperature off Atlantic City set yet another record Thursday when the official government gauge registered 84.7 degrees at 6 p.m. — 28.9F degrees higher than it was two weeks ago. A run of extraordinarily warm surf-temperature readings began Tuesday…”
https://www.inquirer.com/news/jersey-shore-water-temperatures-record-high-20220824.html
“New Jersey’s largest city [Newark] could be sweating its way to a record, challenging for its hottest summer by average temperature in recorded history.
“Newark’s average temperature since the start of June sits at 79.1 degrees, as of Thursday… With another set of scorchers on the horizon, it is possible that Newark will break the record before August ends next week.”
“Forest fires in Russia burn over 100,000 hectares of land in 3 days.
“A report by the state-run TASS news agency said that a total of 126 forest fires were recorded, and the area affected by wildfires increased by 8,000 hectares during the past three days. The Far East region’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is the worst hit area…”
“Current Siberian heating is unprecedented during the past seven millennia…
“… we provide this long-term perspective by reconstructing past summer temperature variability at Yamal Peninsula – a hotspot of recent warming – over the past 7638 years using annually resolved tree-ring records. We demonstrate that the recent anthropogenic warming interrupted a multi-millennial cooling trend.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32629-x
“Late heat in European Russia.
“Today the city of St Petersburg rose to 31.1C [87.8F] highest temperature for this time of the year. Record late heat also at Pskov with 33.0C [91.4F]. Temperatures will locally exceed 30c for some more days.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1562545283115847680
“Climate change: Russia burns off gas as Europe’s energy bills rocket.
“Experts say the gas would previously have been exported to Germany. They say the plant near the border with Finland, is burning an estimated $10m (£8.4m) worth of gas every day. Scientists are concerned about the large volumes of carbon dioxide and soot it is creating, which could exacerbate the melting of Arctic ice.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62652133
“Liz Truss will end the ban on fracking as part of a plan to make the UK an ‘energy-secure dynamo’, she writes in the Daily Mail today.
“The Foreign Secretary [and probably our new Prime Minister] as of Sept 5th] said Britain cannot be ‘held hostage’ by authoritarian regimes and must end its reliance on foreign imports within a decade.”
“Lidl and Waitrose to sell ‘wonky’ UK fruit and vegetables amid drought.
“Lidl and Waitrose will start selling “wonky” fruit and vegetables that have been “stunted” by UK drought conditions as part of efforts to support farmers struggling with the driest summer for 50 years. Lidl said it had written to its British suppliers who may need extra support…”
“Record-breaking heat wave in Europe will be the norm by 2035, analysis shows.
“The record-breaking heat wave that swept across Europe this year will become the “average” summer by 2035, even if all countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by as much as they have pledged to, according to an analysis published Thursday.”
“The bitter end of our glacier mass balance monitoring programme at Vadret dal Corvatsch [Switzerland] today. Extreme melting has sealed our decision to stop the surveys.
“Recent changes are just incredible! In the background ice crest >3000 year-old ice had been found. Now it’s almost gone.”
https://twitter.com/matthias_huss/status/1562901320738144256
“Drought Forces Earliest Harvest Ever in French Wine Country.
“…this year something is starkly different in one of France’s most celebrated wine regions and other parts of Europe. The harvest that once started in mid-September is now happening earlier than ever — in mid-August — as a result of severe drought and the wine industry’s adaptation to the unpredictable effects of climate change.”
“France has declared a state of natural disaster for several cities in Corsica that were hit by a massive storm on 18 August that killed five people.
“The economy, interior and public finance ministers officially recognised a state of natural disaster for over 70 cities across Corsica that were damaged by hurricane-strength winds and rain.”
“Italy’s drought exposes ancient imperial bridge over Tiber River.
“”Because the water level of the river is so low now due to widespread drought across Italy, we’re able to see a lot more of the piers of the bridge that we usually could,” Mr Majanlahti said. In normal water level years, one of the bridge’s piers can often been seen in the driest season, but this year two are visible.”
“Facing an unprecedented drought, Portugal’s government recommended 43 municipalities temporarily increase water prices for their biggest consumers and suspend street-cleaning and watering in public parks and gardens.
“All of mainland Portugal is suffering severe or extreme drought following heatwaves over recent months, the national meteorology institute IPMA says.”
“Niger Tries Artificial Rainmaking To Ease Drought.
“Niger has deployed rainmaking planes in a bid to alleviate a drought that has sparked fears of a food crisis in the desert nation, weather authorities said Thursday. “We had to do something about this drought,” said Katiellou Gaptia Lawan, head of the national meteorology institute.”
https://www.barrons.com/news/niger-tries-artificial-rainmaking-to-ease-drought-01661452806?tesla=y
“Chad: More than 340,000 people affected by floods in two months.
“The “affected” people are those who have had to “abandon their homes” and who have “lost property”, the Ocha office in Chad told AFP. “As a reminder, 256,000 people were affected by the floods in 2021 and 388,000 in 2020,” Ocha said.”
https://www.africanews.com/2022/08/25/chad-more-than-340000-people-affected-by-floods-in-two-months/
“Another Winter heat wave in South Africa:
“Yesterday 24th August temperatures rose to 35.7C [96.3F] at Knysna, 35.6C at Vredendal, 34.7C at Lamberts Bay (monthly record)…
“34.3C at East London Bay, 33.8C at Port Alfred and 33.2C at Port Elizabeth. Today the heat is expected to move East.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1562713891448266752
“Iraq villages suffer months without enough fresh water
“With temperatures approaching almost 50 degrees Celsius (122°F) in southern Iraq, villages have started to run out of fresh water supply. Instead, families rely on mixing salty well water with government-supplied water which is only delivered by a truck once or twice a week.”
https://www.scmp.com/video/world/3190244/iraq-villages-suffer-months-without-enough-fresh-water
“The World’s Rivers, Canals and Reservoirs Are Turning to Dust. Rivers across the globe are disappearing.
“From the US to Italy to China, waters have receded, leaving nothing but barren banks of silt and oozing, muddied sand. Canals are empty. Reservoirs have turned to dust.
“The world is fully in the grip of accelerating climate change, and it has a profound economic impact.”
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The photos in that last article from Bloomberg are shocking. All over the world. Water is life.
I know. Really hits it home. Very sobering to think it all just gets worse from here.
Dr James Hanson foretold this in his book “Storms of My Grandchildren” and wrote of inflation of food making it intolerable to afford.
Sad that the so called Climate Bill will do nothing now to change the outcome here in the USA.
Thank you for your work, Justin, and little is being mentioned on OFW not surprisingly.
You are very welcome. OFW doesn’t really “do” climate stuff but Gail at least acknowledges it is an issue these days. As you probably know, there has historically been quite a disconnect and often some hostility between the peak oil climate change crowds. I do my best to link it all together.