“Climate monitor records hottest ever September by ‘extraordinary’ 0.5C margin.
“Scientists at the Copernicus Climate Change Service said 2023 was on course to be the hottest on record, after the average global temperature in September was 1.75C degrees warmer than the pre-industrial period of 1850-1900, before human-induced climate change began to take effect…
“Last month’s global average temperature of 16.38C was 0.5C above the previous warmest September in 2020, it said, and 0.93C above the 1991-2020 average for the month.”
https://www.ft.com/content/5dc63f73-94f6-4fbe-8aa7-512ab8552093
“‘Gobsmackingly bananas’ [Zeke Hausfather]: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat…
“Mika Rantanen, climate researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, said: “I’m still struggling to comprehend how a single year can jump so much compared to previous years.” Prof Ed Hawkins, at the University of Reading, UK, said the heat seen this summer was “extraordinary”.”
“The Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) blasted through its previous high and Earth is now heating up at a record pace of 15.96 Hiroshimas per Second (12 month running average) or 13.11 Hiroshimas per Second (36 month running average).
“This is not gobsmackery. This is pure f&%kery.”
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1709693500021969000
“Where’s All the Antarctic Sea Ice? Annual Peak Is the Lowest Ever Recorded…
“Winter is over in the Southern Hemisphere and sea ice around Antarctica has likely grown as much as it’s going to for 2023… “The ice this year is so far out of the range of all the other years that it’s a really exceptional year,” said Ariaan Purich, a climate scientist at Monash University in Australia.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/climate/antarctic-sea-ice-record-low.html
“I keep trying to point out the massive area of open water on the western side of the Arctic right now. This is very much reflected in looking at last month’s sea-ice concentration anomalies…
“Data from https://nsidc.org/data/g02202/versions/4. Concentration = fraction of sea ice in a location.”
https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1709540145551323504
“Greenland’s Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change…
“On a headland of barren tundra some 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the nearest settlement, Ittoqqortoormiit’s 350 people get their fresh water from a river fed by a glacier that is melting fast. “In a few years it’s gone,” said Erling Rasmussen of the local utility company Nukissiorfiit.”
“Climate change brings cloudberry to Svalbard.
“After an exceptionally warm summer, ripe cloudberries are for the first time documented at 78° North. “I was surprised, I have never seen cloudberry here before. I hardly believed my own eyes,” tells Stein Tore Pedersen.”
https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2023/10/03/climate-change-brings-cloudberry-to-svalbard/
“Canada’s wildfires take devastating toll on wildlife.
“In the woodlands of Quebec province, hunter Paul Wabanonik searches for fresh moose tracks on his Indigenous tribe’s ancestral lands, which had sustained him and his family. “Normally, we would see traces everywhere,” says the Ashinabe tribesman. But “it’s like a desert,” he says…”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231004-canada-s-wildfires-take-devastating-toll-on-wildlife
“Tuesday was Ottawa’s hottest autumn day on record.
“Oct. 3, 2023, was Ottawa’s hottest autumn day in more than 150 years of Environment Canada records. With Wednesday’s forecast, it could have a short reign at the top. Environment Canada said the temperature reached 30.9 C [87.6F] at Ottawa’s international airport on Tuesday.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-gatineau-heat-record-october-autumn-1.6986090
“Central New York today was hotter today than it’s ever been before in October.
“The temperature hit 89 degrees this afternoon at Hancock International Airport, the official measuring site for Syracuse. That beats by 3 degrees the record for the date, 84 degrees, set in 2017.”
“Fargo, Grand Forks [N Dakota] hit records for most days over 40 degrees F.
“In Fargo, the last day below 40 was May 4, or a record 151 days ago as of Monday. The previous record was 147 days, set in 2013. Considering this week’s WDAY forecast calls for highs in the 70s on Tuesday and 50s/60s on Wednesday, it appears the record streak will continue, at least for a few more days.”
https://www.grandforksherald.com/weather/fargo-grand-forks-hit-records-for-most-days-over-40-degrees
“A Florida Coral Reef Fights to Survive After Record Ocean Heat Wave…
“Enochs’ team is still processing data, and doesn’t yet have exact statistics on how many corals died or the current state of bleaching. Even if they did, the ocean heat wave isn’t over, meaning the scientists won’t know the reef’s fate for many more months. “We’re not out of the woods,” he said.”
“This is so bad. Ghost reefs like this now span both coasts of Central America.
“So many people have no idea it’s even happening.
“We are sleepwalking to extinction.”
https://twitter.com/Unpop_Science/status/1709551588191215765
“Rest of hurricane season in ‘uncharted waters’ because of El Niño, record ocean temperatures.
“Experts fear an already active hurricane season could come to an eventful and exceptional end as unusually warm, storm-boosting ocean temperatures and a slow-to-emerge El Niño combine… October usually signals changes in activity and the areas where storms form.”
“No big surprise here, but the September sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic is far above anything ever observed for the month.
“It’s like we fast-forwarded by 50 years in 2023.”
https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy/status/1709335108459909269
“Irish weather in September: Multiple stations saw record temperatures in month of extremes.
“A total of 14 weather stations across Ireland broke their September maximum temperature records last month with 10 stations breaking their September highest minimum temperature records according to new data from Met Éireann.”
“September 2023 will easily go down as the warmest September ever recorded in Europe.
“The national-average temperatures are greater than 3°C above 1991-2020 “normals” in at least 10 countries.
“This is absolute insanity.”
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1709644281948881010
“It’s now official: Yesterday was the hottest October day on record in France.
“High temperatures soared as high as 35.8°C [96.4F] – Which is now the hottest temperature ever recorded in October in France. Crazy.”
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1709234163948179838
“HISTORIC: Poland and Austria had their warmest October day in history.
“For Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland and possibly later Czechia this event is rewriting history.
“Total records are approaching 2000.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1709217143575732299
“Albania struggles to control forest fire.
“According to authorities, wildfire has burned through 500 hectares of pine forest. Greece has responded by sending two firefighting planes. This summer, searing temperatures fuelled wildfires and prompted health warnings across southern Europe.”
https://www.wionews.com/videos/albania-struggles-to-control-forest-fire-642072
“Balearic Sea has had 150 days of “extreme” temperatures this year…
“Juza explains that, by definition, an extreme phenomenon should occur once a year or every few years. “But this year alone, we have had six marine heat waves. That this is starting to be common is very bad news.” And as to this year, as she points out, there are still some 100 days left to go.”
“‘This is the canary in the coal mine’: Scientists warn Spain’s glaciers will vanish in years…
“The number of glaciers in the Pyrenees has fallen from 100 at the end of the 19th Century to 50 in the 1980s and last year just 17. They used to cover an area the size of 5,000 football pitches. Now, that number is more like 400.”
https://www.itv.com/news/2023-10-03/scientists-warn-spains-pyrenees-glaciers-will-vanish-in-years
“Malaga province closes hydrological year with red and amber level drought alerts in place…
“Two reservoirs, La Viñuela and Conde de Guadalhorce, are at their historic lowest levels and the drought alert level is red (serious drought) on the Costa del Sol, in the Guadalhorce valley and on the Axarquía coast and amber (severe drought) in the rest of the province.”
“October Heatwave: Tenerife Records Unprecedented 39.4ºC [103F].
“Update: Aemet has confirmed that the maximum temperature registered in Tenerife at the Airport station was 39.4ºC, so more than the 39.2ºC announced initially… this is the “warmest period for this time of year since there are records” and continues to break records for the fourth consecutive day.”
https://www.guidetocanaryislands.com/october-heatwave-tenerife-records-unprecedented-39-2oc/
“Thousands evacuated on Tenerife as wildfire rages amid heatwave.
“Firefighters backed by six water-dropping helicopters were battling the blaze, which broke out on Wednesday afternoon in an area of steep ravines in the north-east of the island that was badly ravaged by a huge wildfire in August, the regional government of Tenerife said.”
“Never ending record heat in North Africa and Middle East: Today an exceptionally late 46.0C [114.8F] at Swiehan in the Emirates and almost 43C at Al Ain.
“In Sahara yesterday 42.4C at El Aioun, Atlantic coast, pulverizes the October record. In Cape Verde warmest nights on record up to 27.7C.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1709583777851138127
“Climate change pits clan against clan in drought-hit Somalia…
“Despite the violent conflict in the country, it was natural disasters that were behind the displacement of 66% of the around 2 million people forced to leave their homes in 2022. Most of the rest were displaced by conflicts that have arisen in the aftermath of the civil war…”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03124-0
“Relentless rainfall over the past few days has wreaked havoc in several districts of the northeastern city of Rize [Turkey], leading to floods and landslides.
“The downpour, which persisted for 48 hours in Güneysu, Çayeli, Pazar, Ardeşen, Fındıklı, Çamlıhemşin and Hemşin districts, severely disrupted daily life before escalating into a dire situation.”
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/heavy-rain-causes-floods-landslides-in-rize-186776
“The clock is ticking. Can ‘scientific diplomacy’ save the world’s hottest sea?
“Already the world’s hottest coastal environment in the summer, the shallow sea between the Arabian peninsula and southwestern Iran continues to heat at a breathtaking pace… Sea surface temperatures have been recorded as high as 99.5° Fahrenheit in Kuwait Bay.”
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-clock-scientific-diplomacy-world-hottest.html
“At least 14 people have been killed and 102 are still missing in the north-east Indian state of Sikkim after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst its banks, triggering flash floods down a mountain valley.
“The disaster, which took place on Wednesday, has affected more than 22,000 people, according to the authorities…”
“Exceptional heat in China; dozens of monthly records are falling in several provinces with temperatures up to 38C [100.4F].
“Among them, Luodian in Guizhou, Panzhihua, Yanbian and Batang in Sichuan, Mangkang in Tibet, Yongren, Yaoan and Zhanyi in Yunnan
See list courtesy of meteorologist “Xinxin”.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1709486012378870235
“Taiwan records world’s third most powerful wind gust [and Asia’s strongest] ever as Typhoon Koinu hits…
“Typhoon Koinu brought wind gusts of up to 95.2 metres per second, or 342.7km/h (212.9mph) when it crossed Taiwan’s outer Lanyu (Orchid) island on Wednesday night. The Central Weather Administration (CWA) told the Guardian it was the highest wind gust recorded in Taiwan…”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/typhoon-koinu-taiwan-record-powerful-wind
“Huge NT bushfire shuts down Barkly Highway, surges towards Queensland border.
“A major highway in the Northern Territory has been closed because of a monster fire in the Barkly region that has been burning for weeks and scorched more than two million hectares. The fire started in early September on Epenarra Station…”
“Australia state swings from bush fires to flash floods in 24 hours.
“Less than 24 hours since residents in parts of Australia’s Victoria state fled bush fires, authorities warned on Wednesday of flooding as heavy rain douses flames and swells rivers in the southeastern state… Parts of the state had received up to 150 mm of rain [6 inches], almost eight times the state’s average in September…”
“Suicide rates jumped after extreme drought in the Murray-Darling Basin – we have to do better as climate change intensifies.
“Drawing on monthly data from 2006 to 2016, our findings were alarming. We found, for instance, that one more month of extreme drought in the previous 12 months was strongly associated with a 32% increase in monthly suicide rates.”
“New Zealand records hottest September on record.
“After the northern hemisphere sweltered through the hottest summer in human history, New Zealand’s usually cool start to spring has also hit record high temperatures that are usually reserved for its summer months.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/new-zealand-october-temperature-record-heat-september
“Bolivian growers face disaster as drought destroys vital potato crop.
“In Bolivia’s highlands, a crop emergency is unfolding and pushing families to the brink of hunger. The potato crop in particular is now under threat in the region due to recent erratic weather patterns and changing climate conditions.”
“Relentless record heat from tropical Americas.
“PARAGUAY: Up to 44.0C [111.2F] today and RECORD TMIN 30.6C at Vallemi… Hottest day on records at San Pedro; PERU: 40.2 Tarapoto ALL TIME HIGH & OCTOBER PERUVIAN RECORD; COLOMBIA 40.0 Neiva all time high… Manaus Brazil, the “Amazon” capital beat its all time record again with 39.7C.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1709302709935878271
“Amazon drought cuts river traffic, leaves communities without water and supplies…
““The situation is delicate, with the risk of total shortages if the river continues to recede,” David Bemerguy, the mayor of Benjamin Constant, told Mongabay by WhatsApp. “It’s the worst drought ever seen here because the river has more sandbanks, with less navigability.””
“Pope warns world ‘is collapsing’ due to climate change, urges action at COP28…
““With the passage of time, I have realised that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,” he wrote in the 12-page letter… Only a real commitment to change “can enable international politics to recover its credibility”, wrote the pope.”
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Bringing in an old guy in a frock and cane as the pitchman for reverse-engineering human civilization is a rich comic touch. And of course this lets the US’s own Climatastrophe Jesus, Bill McKibben, in to preach that “spiritual leaders” are gonna solve this little issue of overshoot-to-collapse. Sign up, kids!
Keep the “Praise God” encyclicals coming – praise what, and praise for what – the hi temp records daily?
Funnily enough, the Pope’s 2015 encyclical on the subject turned my devout Catholic Dad from climate change sceptic to believer. Prior to that, the right wing MSM had sculpted his views on the matter.
I mention this not to denigrate my father, who is a lovely man, but to illustrate that most people do not have the time or the inclination to do their own in-depth research and will tend to absorb, almost by osmosis, the prejudices of their political/social/religious etc tribes.
Yes, this is a resolutely stupid species, given to intense unexamined irrationalism that causes all other life forms around it to suffer, die, and go extinct.
The Pope’s idiocies and genuine evil are no different than any other human’s ultrasocial propensity to cause death and destruction through innumerable methods of both cooperation (hunting the mastodons or other megafauna to their extinction, to choose one among millions of examples ) and competition (Nagorno-Karabakh, to choose the latest in humanity’s fear-and stupidity-based slaughter of its own species), just on a larger scale of immediate consequence.
(I deleted my note about own birth family history with Catholicism and religion. Who cares, amirite?)
When civilizations start to go extinct, violent religions tend to mount.
Well God Almighty is Kicking Our Asses
Not sure what people are smoking to think we can adapt and survive what’s coming? It’s even getting harder to use the faked ipcc numbers as bad as things are getting at this point. My local ecosystem has been declining ever since we moved to Washington state. I see less birds, bugs and everything. It’s getting harder to bs things. When we went to Portland recently i got trout not salmon which says things are really bad. Locally, everything appears to be collapsing healthcare, and transportation. Not sure how people are surviving at this point. Even home insurance and auto insurance has gone up.
Heather, there is a sense of civilisation fraying badly around the edges here in the UK, too. Re salmon and ecosystems, I came across this rather bleak article the other day but didn’t have room for it:
“Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly… on 20 August, thousands of fish grown in pens from a Norwegian strain escaped. They have since been found upstream in rivers, endangering the wild salmon population and hitting the headlines in Iceland.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/30/thousands-of-salmon-escaped-an-icelandic-fish-farm-the-impact-could-be-deadly
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/debt-for-nature-lifeline/
Here is a good one
Nature debt swaps
One hardly knows whether to laugh or cry.
“In fact, the global financial system must be entirely reimagined.” Not easy but it could be done, right? Right?
It is not the worst idea… only about 50 years too late to really make a difference…
Might help a few critters live a bit longer.
We live in interesting times…. The Pope is a bit behind. 🙂 Meanwhile, I see in many ways that the ‘new normal’ is the acceptance that the climate is warming fast and nature is being destroyed…. The dystopias are rolling over each other, but the memes are fading at the same time…..
Now that’s how the ‘psychology’ of survival works….Keeping up apperance is the survival postulate whether you live in Venzuela or at the front in Ukraine.
References to the ‘old normal” fade as quickly as our perspective changes on our survival journey. Who cares, the survivors create a new reality and build new ideological sandcastles just as ‘we’ have done with ever new ‘eternal truths’.
For those who don’t believe me, I recommend travelling to Sudan and other places we consider hell on earth.
Meanwhile, I understand that the ‘never-ending summer’ in France is seen by my readers as an ‘opportunity’ and not a ‘por problem’
Nature the ecologic main structures etc around them is like a neighbour who is ‘mortally ill’ but yes that is the neighbour…. lucky it doesn’t affect us 🙂
“Meanwhile, I see in many ways that the ‘new normal’ is the acceptance that the climate is warming fast and nature is being destroyed.”
This may be the case in the general population but climate scientists are struggling to contain their alarm now. I spotted this tweet from Stefan Rahmstorf:
“We do understand the global warming caused by fossil fuels – for four decades it’s been going as predicted. But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now. And that worries me.”
https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1709979785626046722
I enjoy all the BS from so many talking heads. Don’t they realize that the solution is here? The new iPhone15 Pro Titanium, what more can anyone ask for?
If that doesn’t fix the problem maybe the believers of the 10 major religions can ask their gods to solve the problems.
The Clever Ape will destroy it’s habitat before it gives up it ability to burn fossil fuels to shop for stuff. Their motto: More is better.
Don’t shoot the messenger,he’s contemplating suicide. 😉
TR,
Under the general circumstances your contemplating is certianly rational. None the less,
I would think that unless you have serious health problems, and have no friends or relatives that depend on you, that you would want to wait until you see large numbers of previously previlaged people eating their pets to be able to survive for a few more days. And no one driving cars because there is no fuel for the cars. Not because the peak oil is the main problem. But, because supply chains have broken down because people are to busy looting to get food to go to work.
Dont you want to know if this state of affairs will be reached in 2025 or 2035 or 2045?
Hmm, I just realized this. You are one of the few people that I can count of to respond to my comments. Therefore I need you. Yet I can not committ suicide with you because my family has not yet accepted that life is pointless and they need my support. They need my support and I need your support. So try to hold on at least until internet service goes permanently down. I imagine that will be pretty close to the end anyways. By that point a good meal will be considered a worm and a farm raised cricket.
Oh and by the way even if I did not have a family I would not committ suicide except to avoid toture because I can not say what the consequences of my decision would be. Torture can be caused by humans or nature. That on the face of it sounds stupid because if I choose not to kill myself today the chances that I will cause an accident that kills 6 people tommorrow is the same as I prevent an accident that saves 6 people. But, I have been indoctrinated with the idea, or perhaps it is better to say that I choose to live out of the hope that I if I make a good faith effort I can do more good than harm to the causes that I support. Therefore I take the chance one more day that I will do more good than harm. Of course there is no way to objectively measure my performance.
I recognize something else funny about that statement too. Somewhere between a few years and few decades from now there will be no more people. With no more people there will be no more good causes to to support or bad causes to oppose. Everything will be washed away like a sand castle, unless it is stored on a hard drive, that aliens may someday watch for their enjoyment.