“Climate nears point of no return as land, sea temperatures break records, experts say…
““We’ve run out of time because change takes time,” said Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climatologist at Australia’s University of New South Wales…
“High land temperatures have been matched by those on the sea, with warming intensified by an El Nino event and other factors. Global average sea surface temperatures hit 21C in late March and have remained at record levels…”
“F*cking climate chaos.
“On 25 days in June all these records were simultaneously broken! Record high surface air temperatures… Record high global Sea surface Temperatures… Record low global sea ice…. And things are about to get MUCH worse. We better stop quarrelling and prepare.”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1674678699088658432
“Hottest year on record? The five charts showing unprecedented global warmth… 2023 is outpacing previous years – and there’s a looming El Nino…
“2023… already looks like this could be the world’s warmest year on record. Ice coverage at the poles is shrinking to near-record lows, and oceans are warming at rapid rates.”
“El Niño is here — how bad will it be?
“…So far the nascent El Niño seems on track to be a moderate to strong event, on the basis of how much warming has been observed in the waters of the east-central tropical Pacific. “I think this one is going to be pretty big,” says Mickey Glantz, a social scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the impacts of El Niño.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02122-6
“It finally happened, breaking 5 sigma, the same statistical threshold physicists used to prove the existence of the Higgs boson.
“At 2,700,000 km² below the 1991-2020 mean, Antarctic sea ice extent was 5.14σ below the mean, roughly a 1-in-7,400,000 chance.”
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1674736887322533888
“Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure…
“A moulin is forming right in front of me on the Greenland ice sheet. Only this really shouldn’t be happening here – current scientific understanding doesn’t accommodate this reality.”
“Historic heat in Canada again:
“Yesterday 32.3C [90.1F] at Ennadai Lake was not only the station hottest day in climatic history (60 years of data) but also 0.2C from the Nunavut highest temperature ever recorded in June. More record warmth today.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1674785658630717443
“‘It burns wild and free up there’: Canada fires force US crews to shift strategy…
““It is nothing like what we have in California,” said Mueller, now back in the US after leading an American team of federal wildland firefighters to tag in on one of the 2,765 fires that have erupted in Canada this year. “The trees are like little matchsticks – and just as flammable.””
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/canada-wildfires-us-crews-shift-strategy
“Millions face a relentless summer of smoke that won’t end anytime soon…
“The latest disruptions made it all the more clear: Record-setting, out-of-control Canadian wildfires will not be put out any time soon, meaning more Americans than ever face continuing threats of dangerously poor air quality this summer.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/06/29/canada-wildfire-smoke-new-normal/
“First the Smoke. Then the Bugs… New Yorkers, already alarmed about smoky skies, have been complaining about swarms of insects that appear to be aphids.
“It’s been described as a plague and a sign of the end times, turning New York City into the “Bug Apple.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/nyregion/nyc-bugs-gnats.html
“A hail-battered June adds to billions in U.S. storm damage this year…
“Time and again this spring, and especially during June, a relentlessly locked-in-place weather pattern has driven intense severe thunderstorms from the High Plains across the South and Midwest.”
“Flash flooding on Thursday caused some issues in Denver. The Mile High City saw a combination of heavy rain and hail in areas like LoDo and neighborhoods like Sloan’s Lake, where sidewalks got flooded.
“The sudden storm also sent people scrambling at Elitch Gardens. People at the amusement park took cover where they could.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/flash-flooding-hits-denver-hard-lodo-coors-field/
“New record: It’s been 291 days without a 100-degree high in Las Vegas…
“The official measuring station at Harry Reid International Airport topped out at 97 degrees Monday. Setting a new record, Las Vegas has failed to reach 100 degrees for 291 straight days, according to the National Weather Service.”
“Emergency room visits surge, Texans die amid dangerous heat wave.
“… in one particularly harrowing incident, a 14-year-old boy and his stepfather, 31, died after hiking in Big Bend National Park last Friday. The stepfather died after crashing his car as he raced to get help after the boy lost consciousness on the trail.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deaths-illness/
“Extreme heat persists for millions of Americans, with more to come. Texas, the Southeast and the Mississippi Valley continue to endure extreme heat, with California bracing for severe temperatures…
“In places large and small, Americans took what measures they could to escape the heat — or at least to mitigate the risks that already have led to numerous deaths, left power grids stressed and prompted hundreds of emergency room visits for heat-related illnesses.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/29/extreme-heat-forecast-us-southeast/
“Peru: Cordillera Blanca’s melting glaciers threaten towns in valley.
“In the past 20 years, Peru’s glaciers have lost a third of their surface area due to climate change. The phenomenon is particularly noticeable in the Cordillera Blanca, a majestic mountain range located north of Lima.”
“Expanding large-scale agriculture is escalating flooding in the largest South American breadbasket.
“Driven by soaring international demand, extensive areas of grasslands, and forests across South American plains have rapidly been converted to the production of annual crops, such as soybean and maize. This agricultural expansion has been taking place at a staggering rate of 2.1 million hectares a year.”
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-large-scale-agriculture-escalating-largest-south.html
“Amazon facing ‘urgent’ crime crisis after gutting of protections, says drugs tsar.
“The Brazilian government’s drug policy chief has admitted that the rapid advance of drug factions into the Amazon rainforest has produced a “a very difficult situation” in the region, as a UN report warned that flourishing organized crime groups were driving a boom in environmental devastation.”
“Hottest June on record for Ireland as average temperatures of 16+°C [60.8F] break 83-year-old record.
“Met Éireann has announced that June 2023 will be recorded as the hottest June on record. Provisional data shows that Ireland has experienced its first June with 16+°C average temperatures, exceeding the previous June record which held for 83 years. June 2023 is set to be more than half a degree higher than June 1940.”
“Water scarcity critical in more areas of Scotland despite rainfall…
“Scots were urged this month to use water more responsibly amid fears that shortages could become more widespread. Sepa previously forecast that 28 out of 83 areas would be put on the highest warning level by the end of June if there was no recovery of river levels.”
“Teams on stand-by to pump England’s rivers with oxygen amid fears of fish deaths due to hot weather.
“The Environment Agency (EA) says it has recorded “hundreds of fish kill incidents” already this year – with drops in oxygen levels in rivers and canals blamed… It comes after a hot spell in June – expected by the Met Office to be the warmest on record.”
“Before the flood: how much longer will the Thames Barrier protect London?
“The colossal flood defence has been in use since 1982 – but as sea levels rise, it will need upgrading much sooner than expected… That decision – whether to build a new barrier or upgrade the existing one – will wait until 2040… Critics are concerned this timescale is too slow…”
“June 2023 was one of France’s hottest and stormiest on record.
“…June 2023 has been something of a weather paradox, the experts have said. It’s expected temperatures will be, on average, 2.5C higher than seasonal norms, but without any heatwaves. Only June 2003 – the start of a deadly summer in which 15,000 excess deaths linked to heat were recorded – has been, on average, warmer…”
https://www.thelocal.fr/20230630/june-2023-was-one-of-frances-hottest-and-stormiest-on-record
“Portugal again! Record heat wave in Algarve. Today Faro rose to an exceptional 38.9C [102F], destroying its record of the hottest June day on record.
“In the past days more than 20 records fell in Spain too including the highest June Tmins of Valencia with 25.0C and Tarifa with 23.3C.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1674484548426407952
“Record Portugal sea temperatures…
“According to data provided by the institute to CNN Portugal, the buoys of Leixões, Sines and Faro registered average temperatures well above the historical averages, collected by the Hydrographic Institute between 2000 and 2020, but also above the averages obtained in 2021 and 2022.”
https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-06-29/record-portugal-sea-temperatures/79019
“Seven people have died and at least another seven are missing in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal after the southeastern province was hit by heavy rain and a tornado, local authorities said on Friday.
“Powerful winds and rainfall damaged roads and flooded houses and sewer systems, followed by a tornado that struck north of the port city of Durban on Tuesday.”
“Middle East Heat is not weakening, just the opposite. Always impressive temperatures at high elevations in Iran highlands (with some world records beaten too). Today 47.2C [117F] at Khor at 920m asl.
“Night minimum temperatures are locally >30C even above 1500m asl. Really brutal.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1674436671843209216
“Brace for more cyclones as Arabian Sea heats up…
“A 2021 study on the ‘Changing status of tropical cyclones in the North Indian Ocean’, found that the frequency, duration and intensity of cyclones in the Arabian Sea have increased significantly. There has been a 52% increase in the number of cyclones in the Arabian Sea, while ‘very severe cyclones’ have increased by 150%.”
“Locust timebomb looms in Afghanistan after insects lay billions of eggs in cropland…
“Although the locusts have caused significant damage this year, limiting food supplies in some areas, the worst scenarios have largely been avoided. But the insects have left billions of eggs buried in the ground in a region known for being Afghanistan’s breadbasket.”
“8,000 pilgrims stranded on Badrinath highway after massive landslide.
“In Uttarakhand [N India], 8,000 pilgrims are stranded on Badrinath National Highway due to a landslide at Village Chhinka due to heavy rains last night. At the same time, about 100 meters of the highway has been damaged and washed away. Vehicles queued up on both sides of the highway. There is a jam of about six kilometres here.”
“Torrential rains bring Patna to its knees; lightning kills 13 in Bihar
“Weather extremes are plaguing Patna, the capital of Bihar [E India], as heavy rains in the last few days have blanketed many localities and roads with sheets of water. Water-logging is an ubiquitous problem while patients and even doctors faced problems as water entered NMCH Hospital. About 13 people were struck dead by lightning…”
“Intense rains lashed a scenic area in China’s southern Hunan province on Friday, unleashing flooding that swept away cars, engulfed farmland and prompted evacuations and rescues of stranded people…
“Rains have pounded the Xiangxi area in Hunan since Thursday, with 314.5 mm [12.4 inches] of precipitation soaking Baojing County by 2 p.m., shattering a local record, state-backed media reported.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/cars-washed-away-floods-wreak-havoc-southern-china-2023-06-30/
“More records in China: Stifling hot and humid night at Shanghai (POR >100 years) and hottest June night on records with a Tmin of 29.8C [85.6F].
“Several hundreds records have been falling in China since the first day of the month and more are coming.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1674398704885805061
“Endless record heat in Siberia where records have been broken by hundreds since several weeks.
“Temperatures well above 35C [95F] again north of 60N in the Far East Russia and new monthly record set at Korkodon (lat 64N )with 35.7C. The heat will just get worse.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1674732078666055682
“South Korea shoppers buy up sea salt before Japan’s Fukushima water dump.
“South Korean shoppers are snapping up sea salt and other items as worry grows about their safety with Japan due to dump more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant into the sea.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2329906/world
“Absolutely incredible heat wave in Hokkaido, Japan, helped by sea temperatures 6C [10.8F] above average:
“Records of highest Minimum temperatures for June fall by dozens every single day. In few days over 100 records were broken.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1674711875618230272
“Tuvalu [yet] again! Nearly every single day the small Pacific country is beating its record: Yesterday the capital Funafuti rose further to 34.6C [94.3F], beating once again the national record of highest temperature for June.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1674681677598138370
“Climate, environmental change puts 90% of world’s marine food at risk, study says.
“More than 90% of the world’s marine food supplies are at risk from environmental changes such as rising temperatures and pollution, with top producers like China, Norway and the United States facing the biggest threat, new research showed on Monday.”
“The mosquito era: As the world warms, these insects are thriving – and bringing disease.
“Rising temperatures allow mosquitoes to grow faster and live longer. Whereas before they would die out during harsh winters in many places, now they have a greater shot at surviving and more time to build up their populations. Heat also speeds up the time it takes for a parasite or virus to mature inside a mosquito.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/29/world/mosquitoes-spread-climate-dengue-malaria-scn/index.html
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Good lord …seems we’re in the rapid deterioration phase now.
The smoke here in Michigan is relentless..
Jim, I hadn’t thought of you up there but of course you are right in the smoky bullseye! I hope you are surviving that ordeal and healing from your injury.
Jim…I feel for you, from south-east Australia, in 19/20, our “Black Summer”.
I still shudder with a mild case of PTSD, from the memory of the looong 6+ weeks of heavy smoke haze (while also baking in 35-40+C for months) from that fire season.
Relentless indeed.
“Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops the natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not.”
There will be consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An8nMykc-Rk
The Clever Apes’ motto: “It’s not my fault.” What brought this species to the edge, overpopulation? Nothing can stop hard penises & moist vaginas from falling off the edge.
Too late for controlling sexual gratification & it’s results.
Every child that parents have increases each parent’s carbon footprint & depletion of natural resources by 50%. Multiply that times several children, by billions of parents.
“Your children aren’t special.” – Bill Hicks. Someone should have told the parents of everyone alive today.
Bet that reality won’t go viral. 😉
“Nothing can stop hard penises & moist vaginas from falling off the edge. Too late for controlling sexual gratification & it’s results.”
TR, if romance isn’t already dead, you may just have killed it. 😂
That’s hilarious!
Reading this particular climate report made me cry. I feel such compassion for all living beings. So much suffering. No blame, we are here on the planet earth in a mass extinction event. Every day is precious. Love and peace to all in this present moment.
Love and peace to you, too, Amira. These are challenging times indeed.
“A moulin is forming right in front of me on the Greenland ice sheet. Only this really shouldn’t be happening here – current scientific understanding doesn’t accommodate this reality.”
More than a few are having a problem understanding, Infinite growth on a finite planet, right in front of them.
‘If one is going to Hell in a bucket ,they might as well enjoy the ride.’
The Montana trial is over, and the defense seems to have failed to make any rational case. Now, it is up to the judge to figure out some way to rule for the defense.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/the-six-big-surprises-in-the-montana-youth-climate-trial/
Interesting. Thank you, Lou. I wonder why the defence cancelled Judith Curry’s testimony. Guess they also could have gone for Ryan Maue.