“The Earth Energy Imbalance from NASA satellite data broke through 1.8 W/m² (12-month mean)!
“This is faster than I expected. More than many experts thought possible.
“I call this the most important graph in the world. A lot more heat is accumulating!”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1676102160071663617
“June 2023 was the warmest June on record globally according to the just released ERA5 reanalysis. It beat June 2019 by 0.2°C.”
https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1675885526883385350
“What the actual F*CK???
“First time the global average temperature reaches 17°C [62.6F]!
“One more month of warming in the pipeline!”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1676125308951359488
“State of emergency declared in Siberia over raging wildfires.
“Authorities in the Russian Far East declared a state of emergency on Monday as summer wildfires spread amid intense heat and lightning storms… Wildfires have become more intense in Russia in recent seasons, helped by unusually high temperatures in Siberia, driven by climate change.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/3/state-of-emergency-declared-in-siberia-over-raging-wildfires
“More record warmth in Russia and China:
“Yakutia again with temperatures to 37C [98.6F] and the cold poles Oymyakon and Delyankir >33C. In China highest minimum temperature on records at Wuhan with 30.5C, first time in history the Tmin is above 30C.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1675868222753497089
“China beats its own record for hot days over six months.
“China has registered the highest number of hot days over six months since records began, according to authorities, as the country confronts another record-breaking summer of blistering heat. In the first half of this year, China saw an average of 4.1 high temperature days where the maximum daily temperature exceeded 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/03/china/china-record-hot-days-climate-intl-hnk/index.html
“More and more insane heat in China: Yesterday Yunnan was with deadly humid heat.
“Dongchuan broke its monthly record, Taoyuan was with 39.4C [102.9F] and 60% of humidity with a heat index of more than 60C. More records on the way….”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1675799039789473799
“China’s deadly weather from heat to hailstorms take a toll…
“The heavy rain, heat and recent hail have been damaging infrastructure, crops and endangering livestock across the country. It has also been testing the patience of many of China’s 1.4 billion people and raising fears of climate change… The extreme weather comes as John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, is expected in China soon for talks.”
“Flooding across China displaces thousands after weeks of torrential rain.
“According to state media, heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people and damaged infrastructure across China. Authorities in the northern Shaanxi province reported the worst flooding in 50 years, while in the south-western city of Chongqing, a landslide caused cracks in roads and damaged foundations.”
“Heavy rain pounded Japan’s southwestern Kyushu region on Monday, causing a bridge to collapse, with evacuation orders issued for some 360,000 residents in the city of Kumamoto.
“The Meteorological Agency warned of torrential rain and thunder continuing across the region through around Tuesday noon and called on residents to be on alert for mudslides and flooding.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/03/national/kyshu-floods-rain-evacuation/
“Last month was the hottest June for Northern Japan since records began in 1946, JMA said. The average temp in June was 2.2℃ higher than normal.
“Similar to other countries, regions at higher latitudes have been particularly affected by temperature changes recently.”
https://twitter.com/sayakasofiamori/status/1675954923970899974
“Vietnam farmers planting in the dark as heatwave looms.
“Planting in the dark has become a savior for countless farmers in north and central Vietnam during increasingly hot summers as South and Southeast Asian nations battle record-high temperatures this year. “It’s so hard to plant the rice when the strong sun is directly on my back and the warm water in the field splashes my face,” Lan, 47, told AFP.”
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-vietnam-farmers-dark-heatwave-looms.html
“Drought Menacing Thailand Threatens Global Supply of Sugar, Rice…
“Rainfall across the nation may be as much as 10% below average this monsoon season, and the onset of the El Niño weather pattern could lower precipitation even further over the next two years, according to government officials. Thailand is facing widespread drought conditions from early 2024…”
“Taps run dry on Thai island as tourism boom worsens water shortage.
“Authorities on Koh Samui are working to tackle a water shortage that has left taps running dry often for months, saying they do not want the Thai island to become a “disaster zone”. A lack of rain and a resurgence in tourism has put intense pressure on supplies…”
“Extraordinary milestone reached in the Indonesian town of Nanga Pinoh, Borneo Island.
“June 2023 wasn’t just by far its warmest June on records but it also was the 100th consecutive warmer than average month (last colder was Feb 2015). Only Mayotte managed to hit 100 months.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1675161127519502336
“Outback communities swap record heat temperatures for record winter rainfall, low temperatures [Queensland, Australia]…
“Mount Isa has eclipsed its wettest July day on record, with more than 110 millimetres of rain falling on the outback mining city since 9am yesterday. The new record has almost doubled its 1978 record of 62 millimetres in 24 hours.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-03/outback-queensland-rain-records-tumble/102553368
“The abnormally warm ocean water along the Peruvian coast are triggering continuous records of high temperatures.
“The Min. temperature today at Trujillo was 22.1C [71.8F], the highest for July in history. Tropical night also at Lima Airport. They are like a mid summer min. temperatures.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1675654779127623681
“The largest hailstone on record for North Texas fell out of the sky during a torrential storm last month.
“On the evening of June 15 a severe hailstone storm hit Sanger in Denton County bringing down a 13-ounce iceball measuring almost six inches in diameter. The hailstone was collected by a local resident and preserved for official verification by the National Weather Service…”
“Texas is in the grip of a relentless heatwave – but how much hotter could summers get in years to come?
“It’s 9.15 pm in San Antonio on 17 June. At this time, young children would usually be asleep and their parents enjoying a balmy summer’s evening. But not this year, when temperatures have reached triple figures in parts of Texas, and extreme humidity has made it feel hotter still, even after sunset.”
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230630-will-texas-become-too-hot-for-humans
“Millions under US heat warnings as record temperatures to continue.
“Millions across the US have been caught up in dangerous weather conditions over the weekend and are braced for further extreme conditions ahead of the 4 July holiday, as thunderstorms and intense heat continue to affect much of the country.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/03/millions-us-heat-warnings-temperatures
“Dust from a shrinking Great Salt Lake may be accelerating Utah’s snowmelt…
“Snow in the Wasatch Mountains above Salt Lake City had more dust deposited on it in 2022 than in any year since observations began in 2009, researchers report in the June Environmental Research Letters. The dust accumulation caused snow to disappear 17 days earlier than if the snow had been clean.”
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dust-snow-melt-great-salt-lake-utah-shrinking
“As the climate crisis intensifies, insurers will likely reshape where people live — leaving desperate homeowners in the lurch…
“More frequent and destructive wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding are pushing up the price of property insurance in high-risk states such as California and Florida; some companies are pulling out of these markets altogether.”
“Wow. Just got dropped on homeowners insurance in Salt Lake City after being with the company 22 years. Stated reason? Two car thefts in 3 yrs for 3k total. Real reason? I’m blaming global warming.
“When I get dropped for petty theft, I’m guessing insurance companies are seeing the end. [Tim Garrett, professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah].”
https://twitter.com/nephologue/status/1675951675662827520
“Chicago flooding is stark reminder of vulnerability of major cities during extreme weather.
“Heavy rains that flooded Chicago neighborhoods, rendered freeways impassable and wreaked havoc on NASCAR street races downtown Sunday are serving as stark reminders of urban centers’ vulnerability during extreme weather events.”
https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-flooding-stark-reminder-vulnerability-232757082.html
“2 people missing after torrential rain in Quebec causes landslide.
“Quebec provincial police are searching for two people who went missing after a landslide following torrential rain in Quebec’s Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region on Saturday… Environment Canada reported a rainfall of about 130 millimetres [5.1 inches] had taken place within two hours.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/9807561/2-people-missing-quebec-landslide-torrential-rain/
“June 2023 in Iceland had an average temperature of 10.0C and was the 3rd warmest on records.
“Very warm in the East, more cloudy and cool in the West. The capital Reykjavík had more than double of normal rainfall. Monthly heat Records were broken locally with temp. >28C [82.4F].”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1675776392020066304
“Met Office ‘sinister’ warning as UK experiences hottest June on record…
“A ‘sinister’ warning was issued by The Met Office as it was confirmed June was the hottest on record in the UK. Nationally, temperatures hit an average of 15.8C this year, surpassing the previous record of 14.9C. Confirming the news, Met Office officials stressed the news was a warning of the impact climate change is having on our country…”
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-world-news/met-office-sinister-warning-uk-8571134
“June 2023 in Netherlands & Belgium was nothing short of exceptional; average temp: 19.4C [66.9F], +3.2C above 91-20 norm, hottest June on records and 1.2C hotter than the 2nd hottest.
“Average temp (Uccle):20.3C,+3.6C above normal, hottest June on records and 1C hotter than the 2nd hottest.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1676131227114389505
“France is being badly hit by climate change, is not prepared for its effects and is failing to sufficiently reduce its emissions, an independent climate body warns.
“The record heat and exceptional drought seen last year have had “serious impacts in France,” and are more than the current prevention and crisis management systems can cope with, the French High Council for the Climate (HCC) said in its annual report.”
“Portugal: Farmers selling livestock so as not to lose everything in drought…
““I fear that in a very near future, this type of agriculture will disappear almost completely”, Nuno Faustino told Lusa, with the cows that he has left behind him waiting for the food that will arrive in a van because the water is already there.”
“Update on the Algeria Heat Wave: 49.2C [120.6F] today at In Salah and 48.9C at Adrar and dozens more above 45C.
“Today it isn’t supposed to be the hottest day, so 50C [122F] next days is not an impossible task. “Happened very few times in Algeria. Records are at risk.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1675950167357288466
“Istanbul water sources in danger as drought hits 3 crucial dams.
“Water levels in three major dams supplying Istanbul have declined to critical lows, alarming the megacity ahead of the long summer, while experts again point to climate change and reduced rainfall as leading contributors to the shortage.”
“Dead fish wash up on riverbank in drought-hit Iraq.
“An AFP photographer saw thousands of small fish washed up on the banks of the Amshan river in Majar al-Kabir, an area in Maysan province that borders Iran… Environmental campaigner Ahmed Saleh Neema said “a rise in temperatures” leading to increased evaporation, coupled with reduced water flow contributed to “a lack of oxygen and high salinity” in the river.”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230703-dead-fish-wash-up-on-riverbank-in-drought-hit-iraq
“The high altitude persistent heat in Iran is something never seen in world climatic history. Nights >35C [95F] near 1000m asl,30C at 1500m with daytime temp near 50C at 1000m and 43C at 1500m.
“Today 44.6C at Nehbandan at 1211m asl. Zabol again with 49.4C [120.9F]. Bam (920M) another Tmins 35.2C.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1675535204574797826
“Dust Storm Hits Northeastern Province [Iran].
“The northeastern province of North Khorasan has been engulfed by a thick cloud of dust for the past two days, causing breathing difficulties for thousands of people, head of the province’s Department of Environment, Reza Shekarian, stated on Sunday.”
https://financialtribune.com/articles/national/118927/dust-storm-hits-northeastern-province
“Pakistan Braces for Heavy Rains, Floods After $30 Billion Climate Disaster…
“With monsoon season fast approaching, Pakistan has already seen heavy rains and strong winds resulting in dozens of fatalities, hundreds of injuries and damage to roads, houses and farmland. This year, though, the rain is falling on a country still reeling.”
“Erratic weather patterns in Kashmir.
“Known for its serene environment, Kashmir has been witnessing erratic climate for the last several years. The valley has been witnessing heavy spells of snow in winter. In March and April, Kashmir received incessant spells of rain and suddenly in June, there was dry spell amid scorching temperatures.”
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/todays-paper/editorial-page/erratic-weather-patterns-in-kashmir
“Mauritius did it again!
“After April (35.3°C), May (34.6°C) and June (33.1°C) the archipelago of Agaléga just tied the Mauritius July record with a Tmax of 31.0°C. 31.0°C was also recorded in Agaléga on July 26, 2017 and in Medine on July 10, 2019.”
https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1675245779613786112
“Abnormally high temperatures in the core of Antarctic winter with widespread above freezing in the Peninsula.
“+8.7C / 47.7F at Vernadsky destroys its previous record of highest temperature in July. This station has broken monthly records almost every month in this 2023.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1675907761710805012
“Here is a graph of the standard deviation for Antarctic sea ice extent for Jan. 1 – July 1, 2023, based on the 1981-2010 mean.
“For those who may not understand, if the climate wasn’t changing and this was happening purely by chance, we’re talking odds of about 1-in- 3 billion.”
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1675651339098152960
“BREAKING: Not only were the June sea surface temperatures (SSTs) the warmest for any June on record, but the June departure from the 20th Century average was the largest for any month on record.“
https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1675994915518681088
“Record Temperatures in Warming Oceans Causes Chaotic Weather Patterns…
““This is an off-the-charts heat wave in the oceans,” said John Abraham, a climate change scientist at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. “The temperatures we are seeing this year are a remarkable excursion from normal temperatures.””
“Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?
““If a few decades ago, some people might have thought climate change was a relatively slow-moving phenomenon, we are now witnessing our climate changing at a terrifying rate,” said Prof Peter Stott, who leads the UK Met Office’s climate monitoring and attribution team.”
“White House releases report on reflecting sunlight to cool the earth, no formal study planned now…
“On Friday, the White House released a federally mandated report on solar geoengineering, which is an umbrella term that describes methods of reflecting sunlight away from the earth to cool the atmosphere.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/30/white-house-releases-report-on-solar-geoengineering.html
“Climate crisis: It’s time for more drastic solutions…
“Dr. Michael MacCracken, the chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington, D.C, has been a leader in the climate field for 25 years. He says the danger of catastrophic climate change is much closer than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has told us.
“Global warming is proceeding so rapidly, MacCracken says, that we must begin dimming sunlight by reducing the amount reaching the Earth’s surface.”
“Dimming Sun’s rays should be off-limits, say experts [a contrary view from a 2022 article]…
“Planetary-scale engineering schemes designed to cool Earth’s surface and lessen the impact of global heating are potentially dangerous and should be blocked by governments, more than 60 policy experts and scientists said on Monday.”
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-dimming-sun-rays-off-limits-experts.html
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“State’s prolonged drought brings additional fears of arsenic in dwindling water supply: … ”
LOL
This is a verbatim reprint of the original article that Panopticon presented when it was actual news:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30052023/water-west-arsenic-drought/
At this point, with all the spring run-off and flooding of the past 6 weeks, the article is not as useful. Of course, the over-pumping of the aquifer(s) continues and Arsenic does pose a continuing problem here.
Mr. Off of the Off Ranch south of town has taken the water from Rock Creek to put on his pastures, so it is muddy, but drying in my back yard now.
Thanks for the heads up, Lou. Guess I’ll delete that one. It’s school summer holidays here, so my attention is more divided than ever, alas.
“As the climate crisis intensifies, insurers will likely reshape where people live — leaving desperate homeowners in the lurch…”
Oh my, yes.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/07/are-the-californian-wildfires-really-natural-disasters.html
It’s Illustrative how the same folks who decry climate change as a hoax, call for geo-engineering, as though climate change itself weren’t a result of geoengineering, albeit unintentional. It looks as though geo-engineering will follow the same arc as every single one of the so-called “solutions” to climate change: it will make it worse (including the COPout conferences, the CO2 from the thousands of flights from the 1’st one still being in the atmosphere today). Depending on corporations to implement solutions has one slight flaw: Corporate Charters mandate paths to profitability, as profits are the only means by which governments can tax corporate entities. So the fact that CO2 fills the atmosphere as fast as profits fill corporate coffers are of no concern to the economic engine driving both corporate profits and mankind to extinction. Food-to-fuel, EV’s, CSS, and now geo-engineering all use “pay-it-forward” economics, whereby the taxpayers assume all the expense and risk, while the corporate-sphere rakes in all the government-guaranteed profits: ALL corporations are now basically GSE’s. The result of this is that, whereas COPout conferences wrest promises from Nations, entire “industries”, such as crypto-currency, that produce more CO2 from their operations than a modern industrial State, spring up overnight. Yet who but billionaire criminals even wanted crypto? (As an aside, have you ever visited Sam Carana’s Arctic news site? I think you’d like it. The graphs depicting runaway climate change are frighteningly similar to some of those showing current temperature anomalies).
Rob, thank you for your insightful comment.
Re Sam Carana’s blog, yes, I am indeed familiar and have dipped in and out over the years.
My view of Sam’s articles, based I must confess more on intuition than any well-reasoned analysis, was that they tended towards unwarranted pessimism – but who would confidently say as much in July 2023? It is now plain to see that the climate system is seriously destabilised and all we can do is hold our collective breath and see if the Sam Caranas were right all along.
“..unwarranted pessimism – but who would c9nfidently say as much in July 2023?”
Well.. there is some good news, the Colorado and Red River basins in the US, are flowing high and well again, and everybody seems happier than they were this time last year.
https://www.drought.gov/watersheds/colorado
But even that is the result of a temporary flip to anomalously extreme rainfall, at least in the case of the Colorado River, with Denver having its wettest June on record.
I’m right on board with you re Mr. Carana, especially when it comes to his geoengineering solution, what he calls his climate plan. But he has 3 things going for him despite that: he was the only one calling out the “methane monster” > a decade ago; he uses CO2e (CO2 equivalent) so as to include other heat-trapping gases in his prognostications, which the NOAA ignores; and although “tipping points” is by now known to everyone, when he started talking about them, it was on no one else’s radar. Putting those 3 together leaves one with a far better comprehension of not only what is happening now, but what it portends for the future. It is my thesis that hydraulic fracturing on a continental scale, and the resultant methane seeps, has moved climate change forward by decades. What Russia and the US have done is criminally insane, not surprisingly, as Capitalism rewards such behavior so generously. Which proves that anything will be tolerated, even with all of humanity watching, if it keeps our gas tanks full.
As a constant reader of all of this, I don’t pay attention to every detail, but I do recall reading that “Sam Carana” is a pseudonym for a woman living in England.
The world will give no rewards to our climate Nostradamus, but Chris Clugston, author of the incredible “Blip” and “Scarcity,” has another monumental book out now entitled “Industrialism: Our Commitment to Impermanence.”
I like your focus on corporations and financialization. while XR types are harassing anonymous commuters, real life monsters in private equity and hedge funds are raking in unmolested billions directly killing humanity and the ecology.
TR: those are great daily extinction comments I get in my email inbox from RCS and you and somebody named Curt. Don’t ever stop!
I’m declaring this the; “Universes Most Entertaining Site” ! ;
What could be more exciting than watching an overpopulating species destroy it’s habitat?
Sorry for everyone else but I’ve selected a property on Mars to move to.
Yes! I’ve lost my mind but I’m in the good company of 8,000,000,000 others. 😉
I usually scroll down & catch the highlights & then go back & read the links.
The more I read the less entertaining it gets.
I’m going to try & enjoy the time I have left. One response to that is,”Good Luck!” 😉