“Over 100 days of continuous record surface air temperatures for the Northern Hemisphere.
“Temperature is now +1.42°C above the 1979-2000 mean, which is about 2°C above 1850-1900.”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1711619351193817591
“It is clear that the anomalously high global temperatures of the past four months (above the global warming trend) can’t be explained by El Niño, if we take past El Niño events as examples.”
https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1711263550470037791
“At first glance, it seems the recent spike in global temps was similar to 2016. But upon further inspection, the spike in 2016 came many months later at El Niño max.
“So although much of the spike this year is switch from 3 La Nina’s to El Niño, something is still missing.”
https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1711386417241141259
“This map from Climatologist49 shows that the record warmest temperatures are in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, & tropical Pacific, as well as the Indian Ocean and the Kuroshio Extension region off Japan.
“So it seems to be related to SST anomalies, but outside the Nino 3.4 region.”
https://twitter.com/flowinguphill/status/1710700998598303763
“Record heat unleashes deadly floods from New York to Libya.
“Cities around the world have seen record rainfall 139 times in 2023… Soaring temperatures were at the root of all these weather calamities. June, July and August were the hottest ever for that period. Higher air temperatures mean the atmosphere can hold more moisture, leading to heavier rainfall, while record-hot oceans provide fuel for storms.”
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-unleashes-deadly-york-libya.html
“Scottish farmers say they’ve suffered some of the biggest losses in food crops the industry has ever seen as a result of the weekend’s flooding [image is of hay bales being washed down the River Aray].
“NFU Scotland said millions of pounds worth of unharvested vegetables have been damaged by flood waters described as unprecedented for the time of year.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67055797
“The Government has no evidence to back up a recent claim it made saying the UK is on track to meet its internationally-agreed targets on improving nature, campaigners have said.
“After the Wildlife and Countryside Link (WCL) found there to be just over 3% of land and up to 8% of sea protected for nature – when the target is 30%.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/government-b2426897.html
“Northern Ireland has recorded its warmest October day in 50 years after temperatures hit 22.5C [72.5F] in Co Fermanagh on Sunday.
“The mercury reached the unseasonably hot temperature in Derrylin… Last month was Northern Ireland’s joint warmest September on record and the joint warmest for the whole of the UK.”
“Record-breaking autumn heat fuels giant pumpkin bonanza [England].
“But climate scientists express concern over global temperature records and the impact on tree health amidst unseasonable warmth… Climate scientists have expressed shock about the unseasonably hot September, which has broken global records.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/07/record-october-temperatures-fuel-giant-pumpkin-haul/
“Summer-like temperatures are set to continue throughout this week in France. It comes after over 150 October heat records were broken on Sunday.
“Hundreds of weather stations recorded highs above 30C (in the shade), with the mercury reaching 34C [93.2F] in Creuse.”
“October is off a to historically warm start over much of Europe after its hottest September on record. And the next several days promise more record heat.
“So far this month, thousands of locations have set calendar day record highs, and scores have also set records for the entire month of October. Spain, France, Poland, Austria and Slovenia [now Croatia, too] all posted their highest October temperatures.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/10/09/europe-heat-wave-records-october/
“Spanish drought to press Europe’s olive oil supply further.
“A second consecutive year of drought in southern Spain will keep the country’s olive oil production below average in 2023/24, meaning the European Union faces another year of high prices, official data showed… Spain, the world’s top olive oil producer, usually supplies about 40% of global output…”
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/spanish-drought-to-press-europes-olive-oil-supply-further
“Persistent drought strains Morocco’s economic prospects…
“Morocco has suffered five consecutive years of drought and officials and analysts say climate change is one of the biggest threats facing the kingdom. In the past, occasional droughts were followed by years of plentiful rains. Now, however, the country is widely considered to have entered an era of water scarcity…”
https://www.ft.com/content/99191aaa-8c70-45b1-ba17-dcbc471eadf8
“Death toll in Cameroon landslide rises to 30, rescue efforts continuing.
“Rescuers pulled out three more bodies later Monday after landslides in Cameroon’s capital of Yaounde buried homes and buildings Sunday, bringing the death toll of the disaster to 30… The landslides occurred at 8 p.m., local time, Sunday in the hilly neighborhood of Mbankolo in Yaounde after a persistent downpour.”
https://english.news.cn/20231010/d51ef574ffd646e6816c7e80e6a28844/c.html
“Ethiopian drought and child marriage – in portraits…
“Girls in parts of the country hit by drought and food shortages are increasingly being forced into child marriage, with rates rising by 119% in 2022. Bone-dry water sources, decimated crops and dying livestock have combined with vicious conflict to make early marriage a threat to them.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/ethiopian-drought-and-child-marriage-in-portraits
“Over 100,000 displaced by flash floods in southwest Somalia.
“Flash floods caused by heavy rains on Wednesday have displaced 107,000 people in the Baidoa district in southwestern Somalia… The local authorities in Baidoa are preparing a response and have appealed to humanitarian partners and the international community to support the emergency needs…”
https://english.news.cn/20231008/cf32440983664dd59726f4bd2405cdf8/c.html
“Lockdown returns to Zimbabwe as health experts try to bring cholera outbreak under control…
“All public gatherings are banned in the southeastern Zaka district if they do not have official approval, while people have been discouraged from shaking hands, eating at gatherings and buying food from unlicensed vendors in the capital, Harare. Almost 5,000 suspected new cases of cholera have been recorded since late last month…”
“Harsh heat wave in Southern Africa with temperatures up to 43.8C [110.8F] at Tete [a mining region, pictured] in Mozambique and 42.5C at Mababe in Botswana (1000m asl).
“Record heat again in the Mauritius: 34.0C [93.2F] at Agalega Island is the new October heat record for Mauritius.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1711177390775238864
“Joburg residents struggle with water shortages amid heatwave.
“Johannesburg residents have taken to social media to air their frustration over ongoing water interruptions. Some parts of the city remain with low-pressure water, while some areas’ taps are completely dry, as Gauteng continues to grapple with a looming water crisis.”
https://ewn.co.za/2023/10/08/jhb-residents-struggle-with-water-shortages-amid-heatwave
“Toxic storms blamed on climate change cloud Tajikistan.
““I can’t stop coughing. I’m fed up with this dust choking me,” Munira Khushkadamova, a teacher, said during a visit to the Sofia clinic in Dushanbe… “In the 1990s, there were two or three sand and dust storms per year in Tajikistan. Now there can be up to 35…””
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-toxic-storms-blamed-climate-cloud.html
“Death toll from flash floods in Indian Himalayas climbs to 74 with at least 100 still missing.
“Following days of torrential rain in the northeastern state of Sikkim, torrents of water swept down narrow river valleys from Lohnak Lake, in the northern part of the state, damaging a dam and wreaking destruction in villages and Rangpo town…”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/09/asia/india-flood-sikkim-glacier-climate-intl/index.html
“Heavy flooding in southern Myanmar displaces more than 10,000 people [parts of Myanmar saw 8 inches – a record for October].
“Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar’s southern areas has displaced more than 14,000 people and disrupted traffic on the rail lines that connect the country’s biggest cities, officials and state-run media said Monday.”
“Three people died and one person was missing following flash floods and landslides in northern Vietnam over the weekend, disaster officials said on Monday…
“Natural disasters including floods and landslides, have left 98 people dead or missing, and injured 103 others in Vietnam since the beginning of the year.”
“Losses from China disasters reach $42 billion in first nine months of 2023…
“The emergency management ministry unveiled on Sunday the unprecedented toll wrought on the nation of 1.4 billion by calamities that ranged from sandstorms to rains that brought massive flooding and historic rainfall in Beijing, the capital.”
“Hong Kong halts trading, closes schools post-typhoon…
“The storm caused non-stop rain overnight, leading the agency to issue a “black” rainstorm warning signal — its highest… rainfall exceeded 300 millimetres [12 inches] over some parts of urban Hong Kong island, data showed… In early September, Hong Kong experienced its highest rainfall [on record].”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231009-hong-kong-halts-trading-closes-schools-post-typhoon
“Records are falling all over Asia.
“SINGAPORE: 36.3 Admiralty new official national monthly record; 38.7 INDONESIA 0.8C from national all time high; INDIA: 33.6 Bhuntar; 31.0 Dharamshala; EMIRATES: 43.6 Ras al Khaimah SAUDI: Tmin 33.0 [91.4F] Makkah HIGHEST OCTOBER TMIN IN SAUDI HISTORY.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1711360112252661950
“Australians are being warned the next seven months could bring severe heatwaves and bushfires to large swathes of the country.
“The Bureau of Meteorology said in its latest climate outlook that an El Nino weather pattern on the east coast combined with a positive Indian Ocean Dipole on the west could bring extreme heat between October and April.”
“West Maui starts reopening to tourists as thousands still displaced after wildfires: “A lot of mixed emotions”…
“More than 2,000 buildings, the majority of them homes, were destroyed in the fire. In some cases, multiple families were living under one roof. Today, thousands of people are still displaced, being shuffled from one temporary location to another.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-maui-reopen-tourists-thousands-displaced-hawaii-wildfires/
“HISTORIC in Peru.
“On 7 October the AWS of Iñapari rose to 41.6C [106.9F] breaking the ALL TIME NATIONAL HEAT RECORD again. It has been months of unstoppable record heat in South America. Tomorrow new heat wave with 43/44C in Paraguay and Bolivia. More bad news: Around mid month THE HELL.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1711484625124569230
“Argentina may suffer massive losses in wheat yields due to drought.
“Argentina’s Rosario Grains Exchange warned on Oct. 5 that the country’s core agricultural farmland could suffer huge losses in wheat yields due to drought, Nasdaq reported citing Reuters. Last season’s drought hammered harvests, halving the country’s wheat output from the 23 million tons produced the previous year.”
“‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future…
“Raimundo Silva do Carmo, 67, makes his living as a fisherman, but these days has been struggling to simply find water. Like most rural residents in Brazil’s Amazon, do Carmo typically retrieves water untreated from the biome’s abundant waterways.”
“Rains and floods lead 67 cities in Santa Catarina [SE Brazil] to declare emergency.
“The state of Santa Catarina has 132 municipalities with several occurrences due to the heavy rains that have hit the state since last week. According to the Civil Defense bulletin, released on Monday (9), 67 municipalities have already declared a state of emergency.”
“Endless record heat in the Caribbeans:
“On 2 October US VIRGIN ISLANDS tied the October record heat with 94F/34.4C at St. Croix. Today SABA beat for the 4th time in 9 days the territorial October record with 32.9C. It’ll get worse/hotter.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1711509231306744083
“Tensions Rise in the Rio Grande Basin as Mexico Lags in Water Deliveries to the U.S.
“In 2020, rebellious Mexican farmers occupied a dam in parched Chihuahua state to prevent the federal government from sending its reservoir water to Texas under a 1944 treaty. With the clock ticking toward another treaty deadline, the two sides are struggling for a solution.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102023/tensions-rise-in-the-rio-grande-basin-u-s-mexico/
“Another Mississippi River record [low]!
“Previous record was last October, with a depth of -10.75′. Tough break for farmers to see significant reductions in barge transport of crops during the peak part of harvest season 2 years in a row. Barges carry about 60% of U.S. grain exports.”
https://twitter.com/DrJeffMasters/status/1710827283814952977
“It was the wettest summer on record for Wyoming — what does this mean?
“It was the wettest summer on record for Wyoming — at least since meteorologists began keeping track in 1895… Natoli said this relief is separate from the 23-year “megadrought” that has plagued the West. “In terms of canceling out the losses of the last 20 years, we unfortunately did not even get close,” he said.”
https://891khol.org/it-was-the-wettest-summer-on-record-for-wyoming-what-does-this-mean/
“Extreme Weather Disrupts U.S. Oil And Gas Sector…
“This kind of extreme weather plays a significant part in the volatility in the oil and gas sector, resulting in prices, supply and demand often swinging drastically from hour to hour. While shorter than recessions, weather events have super-sized effects on the entire oil and gas supply chain.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimfoerster/2023/10/09/extreme-weather-disrupts-us-oil-and-gas-sector/
“According to the International Centre for Waterspout Research, Saturday, Oct. 7, was a record-breaking day on Lake Erie with more than 180 waterspouts spotted.
“Residents of northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania spotted dozens of waterspouts over Lake Erie. In total, there were more than 180 reports of waterspouts.”
“Wildfires in Alberta could burn all winter: official.
“The end of October marks the official end to the province’s wildfire season, but Mother Nature does not follow a calendar. As of Monday afternoon, 87 wildfires were burning in Alberta with one still deemed out of control in the High Level Forest Area.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/10014200/alberta-wildfires-burning-season-ending/
“Heat Waves in the Ground Are Getting More Extreme—and Perilous.
“Scientists are racing to understand the consequences… This proliferation of heat could have major implications for the intricate natural systems that grow our food, process water, and even sequester carbon. At a certain point, warming soils could actually contribute to higher air temperatures, in a gnarly sort of climatic feedback loop.”
https://www.wired.com/story/heat-waves-in-the-ground-are-getting-more-extreme-and-perilous/
“Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans.
“If global temperatures increase by 1° Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be unable to naturally cool themselves, according to interdisciplinary research from the Penn State College of Health and Human Development…”
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-climate-driven-extreme-earth-hot-humans.html
“Atmospheric Methane: Comparison Between Methane’s Record in 2006–2022 and During Glacial Terminations…
“…recent changes may be comparable or greater in scale and speed than methane’s growth and isotopic shift during past glacial/interglacial termination events. It ….is possible that methane’s recent growth and isotopic shift may indicate a large-scale reorganization of the natural climate and biosphere is under way.”
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GB007875
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Re ““Atmospheric Methane: Comparison Between Methane’s Record in 2006–2022 and During Glacial Terminations…”
I have just skim read the paper and will read in detail later but the plain language summary is chilling –
“Atmospheric methane’s unprecedented current growth, which in part may be driven by surging wetland emissions, has strong similarities to ice core methane records during glacial-interglacial “termination” events marking global reorganizations of the planetary climate system.”
I don’t think I need to add anything to that.
Nice find Pan.
You all have a good day now.
It is an ominous paper indeed, Bry, even down to the Bob Dylan quote!
“The air is getting hotter. There’s a rumbling in the skies. I’ve been wading through the high muddy water, With the heat rising in my eyes.”
“Temperature is now +1.42°C above the 1979-2000 mean, which is about 2°C above 1850-1900.”
Which is something like 2.3 above the 1750 baseline stick they used to beat us with. Seems that stick got too long to wield so it had to be shortened, twice now. So we’re well over 1.5c and 2c for that matter. Experts!? Phooey! So the bullshit coming from the political world is that we still have a chance to stay under 1.5c. Shouldn’t be any trouble at all, just keep moving the goal posts. As you were.
It’s never been satisfactorily explained to me why the IPCC shifted that initial 1750 baseline forwards. I understand that it airbrushes out perhaps 0.25c of warming that occurred between 1750 and 1850.
Even the idea of an arbitrary guard-rail figure is pretty absurd when you think about it, given that we are destabilising an unbelievably complex system, much of which we still don’t understand. I suppose a clearly defined target is helpful if you are trying to cap emissions etc. but, yeah…
https://www.planetf1.com/news/f1-lucky-escape-qatar-grand-prix-step-too-far
Too hot to race. It was painful watching the us open with the heat not sure when tennis will wake up after someone dies from the heat.
Thanks, Heather: “With the Qatar GP weekend taking place in 40-degree Celsius heat, with humidity figures of around 60%, the drivers were already set for a huge challenge to their overall fitness levels.”
Sounds miserable.
Sporting events are bound to increasingly become casualties of extreme weather conditions. Minnesota Twin Cities marathon was cancelled recently, I recall, and athletes had a torrid time at the sizzling Tokyo Olympics a couple of years ago:
“Olympic athletes and volunteers in Tokyo are being “tortured” by dangerous heat, meteorologists have said, as the hottest Games in history puts pressure on organisers to rethink the future of sport in a climate-disrupted world.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/olympic-athletes-and-volunteers-in-tokyo-tortured-by-heat
The International Olympic Committee is holding fire on announcing the location of the 2030 Olympics: “Host city for 2030 Winter Olympics hasn’t yet been named. Why? It may not be cold enough.”
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2022/12/08/winter-olympics-2030-host-delayed-ioc/10852956002/
Financial limits impacting sports, too:
“World Athletics event falls victim to Birmingham’s financial crisis… The financial crisis at Birmingham City Council is set to lead to the cancellation of a World Athletics Indoor Tour event in February. Last month the council effectively declared itself bankrupt…”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/world-athletics-event-falls-victim-to-birminghams-financial-crisis-trvrtlvdt
https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2007/11/01/ipcc_beginnings/
Here is a post on how the ipcc was started
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/recent-rains-not-enough-to-fix-water-shortage-seattle-public-utilities-says/
Water and seattle
“Between May through September, the watershed typically gets around 26 inches of rain, Chen said. This year, the Tolt and Cedar River watersheds — where the utility sources its water — only got 10 inches”
Wow. Most of us think of Seattle and think “rain.”
Just noticed this ploy…
Saudi oil giant Aramco announces pilot project to suck CO2 out of the air, but some scientists are skeptical
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Aramco is partnering with Siemens Energy AG to develop a small-scale direct air capture “test unit,” which is set to be finished in 2024.
Direct air capture, or DAC, works by extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converting it into solid or liquid forms to be stored underground.
Some experts say that DAC is too expensive and yields too little results to be a viable carbon reduction strategy.
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Saudi oil giant Aramco on Monday announced a partnership with Siemens Energy AG to develop a small-scale direct air capture “test unit” in an attempt to manage emissions.
The test unit will be built in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and finished in 2024, according to a statement from Aramco.
Direct air capture, or DAC, works by extracting carbon dioxide that has already been emitted into the atmosphere. The extracted CO2 can then be condensed into solid stone-like formations or liquefied to be stored underground.
DAC is the most expensive method of carbon capture, according to the International Energy Agency. It’s generally cheaper to remove CO2 at the source, before it’s emitted into the air.
The big price tag attached to DAC along with questions of its efficacy have made some climate scientists skeptical of its viability as a long-term emissions reduction strategy.
“From a physics point of view, we just made the problem thousands of times harder,” said Jonathan Foley, who leads the climate solutions nonprofit Project Drawdown. “Imagine trying to remove 400 things out of a million and do it in the air. Then, efficiently liquefy this stuff and put it below ground. That’s a huge engineering marvel … to do it at the scale of billions of tons is science fiction right now.”
Foley added that DAC machines themselves take a lot of energy to get running, which eats away at whatever carbon reduction they do achieve.
But despite obstacles to scaling DAC, many companies, especially tech giants, are pouring investments into developing the technology. For example, Amazon announced last month that it would provide funding for the world’s largest deployment of DAC, and a coalition of tech companies led by Stripe has launched a public benefit company called Frontier to invest in carbon-capture startups and projects.
Extracting carbon from the atmosphere is attractive to companies with large carbon footprints, because it would allow them to keep emitting with a reversal mechanism after the fact.
“Fossil fuel companies would love to be able to keep emitting from fossil operations while offsetting those emissions via cost-effective direct air capture projects — that’s kind of a perfect world for them, if they can get there,” said Cara Horowitz, the executive director of UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
“And even if they can’t get there, investing in the development of DAC allows them to tout efforts to achieve net-zero goals in ways that don’t involve reducing use of fossil fuels.”
So far, experts say, the technology is unproven at scale.
“I would love a machine like this to actually work. Wouldn’t that be great? You just turn on a machine that sucks everything out of the sky,” said Foley. “But sorry, it’s a lot easier not to emit it than it is to take it back out again. That’s just thermodynamics.”
The DAC collaboration between Aramco and Siemens Energy is still in early phases.
A Siemens Energy spokesperson told CNBC that once the test unit is complete next year, the companies will consider taking the technology into an official pilot phase. Only after that would they pursue scaling it commercially.
Given DAC’s adolescence, both oil companies are invested in other clean energy technology projects.
The Siemens spokesperson said the company has invested in hydrogen, wind, nuclear fusion and others. Meanwhile, Aramco also has projects in hydrogen and geothermal energy.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect the correct name of UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
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More on that dam bust [embedded pics & video]
‘We Knew This Was Coming’: Deadly Himalayan Dam Burst Was Predicted by Scientists
The climate crisis is melting ice in the Himalayas, threatening to overflow glacial lakes as the Indian government rushes to build new dams.
“Floodwaters have caused havoc in four districts of the state, sweeping away people, roads, bridges,” Indian Army spokesperson Himanshu Tiwari toldAFP.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/deadly-himalayan-dam-burst
Whenever I hear and see talk of methane I’m reminded of some research that got little attention when it was published a little over a decade ago. It demonstrates that there’s more methane than 1 Arctic “methane bomb”. Ocean covers most of the planet & it’s loaded with clathrates & there’s a record of them causing rapid changes.
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Researchers decipher the history of paleoclimate change with surprising results
“this remarkable record of paleoclimate changes also raises an important question: What process can possibly push the Earth’s climate so fast from a glacial to an interglacial state? The researchers may have discovered the answer based on the core’s geochemical record: The warming associated with the major climatic shift was accompanied by simultaneous releases of methane—a potent greenhouse gas.
“This particular episode of climate change is closely associated with instability that caused the release of methane from gas hydrates at the ocean floor,” Kennett said. “These frozen forms of methane melt when temperatures rise or pressure decreases. Changes in sea level affect the stability of gas hydrates and water temperature even more so.”
“”The clear synchronism of this rapid warming and the onset of the destabilization of gas hydrates is important,” Kennett concluded. “It suggests that methane hydrate instability and the warming are somehow linked, which is an interesting and potentially important observation. The beauty of these paleoclimate records from the Santa Barbara Basin is that you can actually determine these relationships at high fidelity.”
Modern Global Warming Worries
Kennett said that one of the current worries about modern global warming is that the increase in ocean temperatures will destabilize methane hydrates located at relatively shallow depths on the ocean margin, in turn causing positive feedbacks that reinforce the global warming. In fact, this appears already to be occurring in the ocean.
Recent research by others indicates that methane hydrates off the coast of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia are destabilizing in response to a small increase in bottom water temperatures (only 0.3 degrees Celsius) during the past 44 years. This is producing methane gas plumes that billow upward from the ocean floor. Additional ocean margin areas are exhibiting similar responses to warming, which are documented in other scientific work.
Kennett concluded that such investigations of past climate changes not only inform the world about how climate may change in the future but also illuminate the processes involved.”
https://phys.org/news/2015-12-decipher-history-paleoclimate-results.html
It’s an ongoing positive feed back loop that can continue for a long time & both the rate of clathrate melting & amount of clathrates can increase. Does Mike Mann & Co include this in their fancy high dollar computer models? It matters not & I don’t think it ever did. If an Arctic methane bomb goes off Mike Mann & Crew will blame it on Doomers for encouraging clarates to bubble up the water column & relese into the atmosphere as CH4 or CO2.
Just saw AGW’s bucket list & Mann & many others are at the top & will not escape what they deserve.
Some old sayings can always apply: “Tuck your heads between your legs & kiss your ass goodbye.” 😉
Thanks, Scanlon. Good reminder re methane. Phew! 🤯
Since we are heading to NTHE,I don’t have a problem pointing out the hypocrisy of Israeli killers of babies in the womb & anyone that supports these sick perverts. Go ahead Republicans support killers.
Abortion’s not really that bad. What’s the best reason for abortion? Look into a mirror.
This makes Israel supporters look like ignorant stupids?
https://www.tbsnews.net/world/cutting-electricity-gaza-other-punitive-measures-are-war-crimes-human-rights-watch-715694
I never thought NTHE could be so entertaining. Killing each other when the species is
in extinction mode.
Pop quiz – Who said, “Nobody’s right when everybody’s wrong.”?
I’m still a little surprised at how quickly some reports have become “outdated”.
This one from April 23, talks about the 2022 year:
https://www.okdoomer.io/we-are-going-to-run-out-of-food-7-reasons-theres-going-to-be-a-global-famine/?ref=ok-doomer-newsletter
Great post, Rain, but it appears to be from today and I don’t see it talking about 2022. In any case, thanks.
Kali… right down the bottom, it says “originally posted April 23” on some other blog I forget the name of 🙂