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“A continent ablaze: South America surpasses record for fires.
“South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to Sept. 11.”
“RECORD HEAT IN THE AMAZON – records are being destroyed in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyanas, Brazil and Bolivia.
“Manaus, BRAZIL- Highest minimum ever: min 29.2; 39.9 [103.8F] Tarapoto PERU broke the September 2023 record (it also broke the record of all months); 38.3 Leticia COLOMBIA September 2023 record smashed. It will get worse and worse.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1834750590368260327
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CENTRAL AMERICA – records brutalized all over.
“HONDURAS RECORD HOTTEST NIGHT min 29.5 [85.1F] Roatan; BONAIRE RECORD HOTTEST NIGHT min 29.6; BELIZE RECORD HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT min. 29.9 Belize Port and Plasencia;
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1834713083308085527
“The heavy rains that hit Guatemala on September 12 left the streets of Huehuetenango flooded.
“The torrential rains surprised the inhabitants of the town, causing massive flooding. Rescue teams arrived in the affected areas to provide assistance to the victims.”
“Heavy rains continue in Mexico City! Due to the heavy rains this Friday, the capital’s authorities have issued a purple alert for two municipalities…
“[Purple] is used to highlight climatic events that are of great intensity and can cause serious damage to the city.”
“Ileana floods roads after making landfall in northern Mexico.
“The Mexican National Meteorological Service (SMN) warned of torrential rains between 150 mm and 250 mm [9.8 inches], and gusts of wind between 70 km/h to 90 km/h in the afternoon and night.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ileana-floods-roads-making-landfall-033626104.html
“New: 3X increase in major hurricane landfalls in Florida’s Future!?! That’s what an exclusive study by PNNLab & WFLA just found.
“With huge increases in max winds/ rain too all along Gulf and SE coast due to climate change.”
https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/1832092809186427128
“EXCEPTIONAL HEAT IN THE FLORIDA KEYS – Key West NAS has recorded another min of 88F tying for the 4th time this month the September hottest Florida ‘s night in history.
“While Key West conventional station with a min of 87F had its highest minimum in September.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1834740389539950819
“‘Weather Whiplash’ Helped Drive This Year’s California Wildfires.
“Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel powering the Park Fire in Northern California, the Line Fire outside Los Angeles and other conflagrations.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12092024/california-wildfires-weather-whiplash/
“The US will face a bigger rise in weather-induced supply disruption over the next 15 years than any other country, a new study suggests…
“In general, middle-income countries face greater risk than high- or low- income countries… This is partly because they are located mostly in the subtropics where they are vulnerable to seasonal heat and rainfall extremes, and partly because they tend not to trade with a diverse range of countries.”
“D.C. area drought concerns grow after hardly a drop of September rain.
“The District has received just 0.02 inches of rain in September, while Dulles Airport hasn’t even received a trace. The ongoing dry spell is one of several so far this year… dry conditions have been expanding and growing more intense.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/12/dc-maryland-virginia-drought/
“Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami [Greenland]…
“The seismic event was detected by earthquake sensors around the world but was so completely unprecedented that the researchers initially had no idea what had caused it.., the scientists said it showed how global heating was already having planetary-scale impacts.”
“With the end of the hydrological year (Sep 2023 => Aug 2024) of the Arctic ice caps, it is the time to build some statistics.
“Over the East Arctic, ie Svalbard and the Russian Arctic, [there was an] absolute record of surface mass loss from 1940, according to the MAR model forced by ERA5.”
https://x.com/xavierfettweis/status/1834177888704205209
“Dozens of records of warm/day and nights in the Arctic including Murmansk…
“RUSSIA: Moscow had its hottest September night in history Tmin: 19.2C [66.6F].”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1834662806508982592
“Record warmth keeps melting glaciers [Norway].
“It’s official: High temperatures broke records in many parts of Norway this summer, and September is also off to an unusually warm start. Norway’s glaciers, meanwhile, keep melting and haven’t been smaller for 1,000 years.”
https://www.newsinenglish.no/2024/09/13/record-warmth-keeps-melting-glaciers/
“The UK faces another autumn and winter of destructive floods, the Met Office has warned.
“On Thursday, the government flood resilience taskforce met for the first time to discuss how to proceed when – as seems highly likely – homes, farms and businesses are flooded in the coming months.”
“Parts of France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria are living historic cold with snow as low as 800m asl.
“Many records of lowest max. temperatures for mid September [there were record low maximum temperatures for the 1st half of September in 5 Austrian states] are being broken, possibly even for all month).”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1834536789538717993
“An unusually cold and intense storm is pounding central Europe with tremendous amounts of rain and early season mountain snow.
“Named Boris in parts of the continent, once-in-a-generation flooding is feared in locations that end up hardest hit by torrential rain, while feet of snow are expected pile up in the Alps.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/13/europe-storm-flooding-snow-alps/
“Italy’s Dosdè eastern glacier on thin ice as it retreats by seven metres…
“This is despite heavy snowfall from April and May, which fuelled hopes the area would be better protected against summer heat. The only relief, according to the glaciologists, was that the Dosdè glacier melted less than previous years.”
“Hottest Summer on Record since Measurements Began [Hungary].
“…the Hungarian meteorological service wrote that the average summer temperature nationwide was 23.5 [74.3F] degrees Celsius, 2.7 degrees higher than the average of 20.8 degrees Celsius for the years 1991-2020. The average summer temperature was 0.76 degrees above the warmest summer on record, 2022.”
https://hungarytoday.hu/hottest-summer-on-record-since-measurements-began/
“Drought plunges Romanian feed industry into crisis.
“Romania, Europe’s second grain exporter after France, will see its corn and sunflower harvest plummet this year owing to one of the worst droughts in recent decades, which affected nearly 2 million ha of agricultural fields. The drought also dealt a devastating blow to Romanian vegetable production.”
“Croatian agriculture is struggling with climate change, with farmers lamenting that they’re having issues even with historically easy crops…
“One of the key changes required is a different model of crop insurance against damage caused directly by the climate.”
https://total-croatia-news.com/news/croatian-agriculture-8/
“Lakes drying up leave Greeks in despair…
“Locals say they can see the 42-square-kilometre (16-square-mile) expanse of water near Thessaloniki retreating day by day – a fate shared by three other important natural lakes in Greece’s Central Macedonian breadbasket.”
https://neoskosmos.com/en/2024/09/14/news/lakes-drying-up-leave-greeks-in-despair/
“‘We are still finding bodies’: Libya’s Derna under reconstruction one year after floods…
“This week marks one year since the deadly floods in Libya’s Derna, which killed more than 4,500 people and left thousands missing. A year after this humanitarian catastrophe, the city is undergoing extensive reconstruction…”
“Deadly floods bring relief to Moroccan farmers…
“”These rains will bring a breath of fresh air” to the south, said agronomist Mohamed Taher Srairi. “But it has not rained elsewhere, and the country remains under a heavy structural drought.””
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240913-deadly-floods-bring-relief-to-moroccan-farmers
“An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green…
“Satellites recently captured plant life blooming in parts of the typically arid southern Sahara after storms moved there when they shouldn’t. It has also caused catastrophic flooding… and scientists say a world warming due to fossil fuel pollution is making both more likely.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/13/weather/sahara-desert-green-climate/index.html
“Hundreds of thousands in need of aid as floods wipe out homes in Nigeria…
““What I have seen is really heartbreaking,” he said, describing homes, infrastructure, roads, schools, hospitals submerged by water. “Many people — over 200,000 to 300,000 — are displaced and overcrowded in various IDP (internally displaced persons) camps and on the streets.””
“Scorching heat wave in SOUTH AFRICA – after some tropical nights and monthly records of highest minimums (short POR stations though).
“Max temperatures rose >40C on the highlands with some records broken including 41.4C [106.5F] at Hoedspruit.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1834648790650732606
“Zimbabwe orders cull of 200 elephants amid food shortages from drought.
“Zimbabwe had “more elephants than it needed”, the environment minister said in parliament on Wednesday, adding that the government had instructed the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks) to begin the culling process.”
“Zambia is poised on September 14 to unprecedentedly halt power generation at its largest hydro plant at Kariba due to critically low water levels caused by the country’s worst drought in 40 years.
“Built in 1959, the dam, where Zambia has a 1,080-megawatt (MW) facility, had a usable live storage of 8.7% on August 26 compared to 26% on the say day a year ago.”
“President Al-Sisi: Egypt’s Only Source of Water is the Nile River…
“During a joint press conference with his German counterpart at Al-Ittihadiya Palace, President Al-Sisi highlighted the Nile water issue as a top priority, mentioning GERD and the ongoing negotiations with Ethiopia to secure a binding legal agreement on the dam’s filling and operation.”
“WORLD RECORD HIGHEST TEMPERATURE for the second third for September onward – 50.4C [122.7F] at Ab Paksh IRAN, Bushesher province on 11 September.
“The minimum of 36.5C at Kuwait AP is 0.2C from the world record for the same period of the year.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1834313421988278539
“Extreme heat due to climate crisis puts people at greater risk of kidney disease…
“When the body is exposed to extreme heat, the cardiovascular system goes into overdrive to keep the body at a safe temperature. Over time, experts say, these functions take a toll on organs like the heart and kidneys – especially for people who exert themselves outdoors.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/climate-change-kidney-disease
“War, deforestation, flooding: in Afghanistan they are all linked…
“…the frequency and extremity of disasters such as flash flooding is on the rise, and climate breakdown is not solely responsible for these changes. The country’s history of armed conflict has exacerbated the situation severely.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/afghanistan-war-deforestation-flooding-climate-change
“Rainfall in Rajasthan [NW India] breaks record of 49 years in this monsoon season…
“664 mm rainfall has occurred in the state so far, which is 61 percent more than normal.. Life has been disrupted due to waterlogging in low-lying areas of many cities and towns in the eastern districts.”
“New rainfall record in 60 years set in Myanmar’s Bagan; walls of some ancient pagodas collapse…
“Torrential rains have lashed conflict-racked Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi which smashed into Vietnam at the weekend, wrecking infrastructure and causing deadly landslides across the region.”
“Vietnam’s Typhoon Yagi death toll passes 250, scores still missing…
“Insurance companies in Vietnam had received 7 trillion dong ($285.36 million) of claims as of Thursday for damages done by the typhoons, floods and landslides, the finance ministry said.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/typhoon-yagi-death-toll-rises-254-vietnam-2024-09-13/
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CHINA, KOREAS AND JAPAN:
“Still >40C and mins >30 in China and it will get worse; Most extreme event in history for East Asia; In KOREAS more records: 35.1 Heuksando, 34.5 Kwanju; HIGH TMINS: 25.9 Heuksando; 24.9 Sosan; 24.5 Andong; 24.3 Sangju; 23.6 Ryongyon.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1834589801598669108
“Rising Sea Temperatures Diminishing Saury Catch [Japan]…
“…the outlook is not bright. According to this year’s long-term forecast by the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, the volume of saury coming to waters around Japan is 920,000 tons this year, about as low as last year at 940,000 tons.”
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20240914-211083/
“Weaker La Niña Is Forecast to Give Other Weather Patterns Clout…
“The weather-roiling La Niña that forecasters have been predicting for months will likely arrive late and in a weakened form, limiting its impact and allowing other climate patterns to hold more sway.”
“The worst mass extinction in Earth’s history may have been caused by a supercharged El Niño cycle.
“New research suggests that an overload of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere led to the climatic shift, which, in turn, killed 90% of the species on Earth around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period. The finding has implications for modern climate science…”
“COP29 to Call for Sixfold Increase in Global Energy Storage…
“A massive amount of batteries will be required to allow grids around the world to store excess solar and wind energy so it can be deployed at times when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.”
“Oil-rich nations launch ‘pushback’ against fossil fuel phaseout…
“… the negotiators said that a group of countries including Saudi Arabia, Russia and Bolivia — which have historically proved a block to any global agreement to phase out the use of fossil fuels — were yet again frustrating progress.”
https://www.ft.com/content/c1e13d08-9917-44d3-bd63-5916a320e451
“Big oil faces a rising number of climate-focused lawsuits, report finds…
“Oil Change International and the climate research organization Zero Carbon Analytics pulled data from a Columbia University database, focusing on cases in which the world’s 25 largest fossil fuel producers were named as defendants.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/12/big-oil-climate-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-companies
“The Hague to ban fossil fuel ads from January…
“The Municipal Council in the third largest city in the Netherlands voted on Thursday to approve the new rules for outdoor advertising, which will apply from January to billboards and freestanding advertising screens.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/the-hague-to-ban-fossil-fuel-ads-from-january
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Brutal headlines.
Sure, ban the advertising. Please ban the advertising.
But don’t do anything real, or even approaching real. We have so, so much time to do these little dances of Nothing Theater while profits for Gigantor Corps mount and the world burns.
Lawsuits, sure – we’ve got decades for the wholly-owned subsidiary of Gigantor Corps, the legal system, to deny, obfuscate, intimidate, refuse, etc., as is its long-maintained specialty.
Oh, and keep giving speeches. And, yes yes yes, keep up with the oil-soaked corporate consensus censorship COPs.
“Resilience” and “Sustainability” are but one or two more wishes and hopium injections away from turning the tide!
Kind of reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Springfield is threatened by a comet. At the end, after their near miss, the Springfield townspeople band together to burn down the observatory, so “it will never happen again”.
There’s a similar logical disconnect here, as if rendering fossil fuels less visible will somehow make them go away.
Perhaps against your wishes, Martin, your acid comments DO help people, or at least me!
Besides, their “It’s not my fault.” motto, I’m sure the the baboon brains will be glad to, “don’t do anything real,”.
Zimbabwe should be culling humans not elephants.
Humans be culling themselves.
The elephants should be moving north, I hear the Sahara is beautiful this time of year.
Mother Nature is doing an excellent job with culling. We’re not at that point quite yet, though close enough, where we are forced to commit humans to involuntary euthanasia. Were we sufficiently empathetic, and we’re not, there would be euthanasia w/ dignity centers springing up everywhere accompanied by sophisticated cadaver remediation technology fueled by 100% green energy, ha ha ha.
Sky, welcome to the site – I think this is your first comment.
We, certainly in the West, have such a dysfunctional relationship with death. I would imagine, if nothing else, the inaffordability of caring for our sick and elderly, as we move into tougher times economically, will force more debate on euthanasia.
British citizens currently have to go to outlandish lengths to check out:
“A former RAF engineer and his retired nurse wife have signed up to become the first British couple to use a double suicide pod. Peter and Christine Scott made the decision after she was recently diagnosed with early-stage vascular dementia.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-couple-double-suicide-capsule-clinic-peter-christine-scott-switzerland-b1180750.html
As for involuntary euthanasia, I guess we are seeing the first stirrings of that in the West where, at the margins, the “cost of living” crisis is a “cost of not dying before your time” crisis. Cancelled winter fuel payments for the elderly here in the UK are grist to that mill.
“Zimbabwe had “more elephants than it needed”, the environment minister said.”
Dale, my first thought was that the elephants would surely be of the opinion that Zimbabwe has more humans than it needs, as they outnumber elephants approximately 17 million to 100,000.
Elephants as vertebrate mammals aren’t immune to the laws of nature.
If they would stand up & walk on two feet like us brilliant primates, they would live forever. AGW, weather weirding, & irreversible tipping points will take care of the complete culling.
What we have willing done to other animals on this rock is good evidence that we deserve what horrors we get.
Ozone Hole Worse than Ever for Last Three Years
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWLS1vM8mk&t=612s
Huge size…
For the last three years (2021, 2022, and 2023) the ozone hole has been bigger than ever. It has reached record levels of size.
Long duration…
It is starting over Antarctica in August and running through to late December (near record durations).
Intense ozone hole depth…
Ozone depletion has reached record levels, letting record high amounts of uv to hit the planet below.
Oops. Not good…
Paul Berkwith YouTube video…
Also
Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
By Kara Fox, CNN
Published 12:01 AM EDT, Sat September 14, 2024
Big Oil’s donations to the UK government
Big Oil has poured money into think tanks and charities that have had an influence on climate and protest laws. At least two think tanks that have received funding from fossil fuel companies made campaign donations to the ministers overseeing the legislation. One — the right-wing Policy Exchange — drafted a report that essentially served as a blueprint for one of the laws.
It don’t look pretty
The plot thickens..
https://eia-international.org/news/illegal-smuggling-of-refrigerant-gases-into-europe-continues-as-the-climate-crisis-worsens/
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, EIA’s latest research shows
Five years after our Climate team first revealed a widespread European illegal trade in hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) climate gases, a new investigation has revealed that significant levels of trafficking persist despite the worsening climate emergency.
And the evidence suggests that black market traders and traffickers are becoming more sophisticated and adapting their tactics to evade detection.
……Ultimately, the illegal trade in HFCs is fueled by ongoing demand for the gases, primarily used in the cooling sector, and there is an urgent need to find better ways to keep cool
To keep cool..that’s a good one…I live here in South Florida and every day is a heat advisory to stay indoors in air conditioning if one can…feels like 108 F and above…never mind record nighttime temperatures…sure thing..find better ways…I have an idea dig a deep hole and lay in it, because that’s where we’re headed
Thanks, Vince. The “Montreal Protocol” to save the ozone layer is often touted as evidence of our collective ability to tackle systemic threats.
Unfortunately, banning ozone-damaging CFC’s just encouraged their substitution with HFC’s, which have ridiculously potent warming potential. As your second article notes, the 2016 “Kigali Amendment” to the “Montreal Protocol” stipulated that HFC’s be phased out – but substitutes for HFC’s, like butane or ammonia, add additional expense for manufacturers and consumers.
So, here we are, with super-warming HFC’s being smuggled and still widely used; ozone-damaging CFC concentrations in the atmosphere rapidly increasing again from sources unknown, and the ozone hole worse than ever – evidence only of our collective ability to create “solutions” that just metastasize into a whole new set of problems.
Why do I feel like someone who just slid off of a cliff?
That sickening horror as you realize you are about to fall to your death.
Someone on reddit pointed to an article that suggests the South Sudan may be the first (formerly) heavily populated place on Earth to be rendered uninhabitable by the climate catastrophe due to larger and more persistent floods from Lake Victoria.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, millions if you include people fleeing war.
Their homes and farms are becoming permanent wetlands.
Wetlands are the primary source of methane in the Earth system.
Don’t miss the picture of a “displaced persons” camp. A neat grid of one hundred thousand people completely surrounded by water as far as the eye can see. A mere few feet of earthen berm the only thing keeping them alive.
Jerry, I posted a good article about this the other day:
‘My land is a river now’: South Sudan’s glimpse into an apocalyptic future… Bentiu camp is an apocalyptic vision of vulnerable families in shelters besieged by nature. The surrounding Unity State is nearly the size of the Netherlands and is estimated to be 90 per cent flooded after unusually heavy rainy seasons.
“…the camp of 140,000 remains an island, stopped from being overwhelmed only by 40 miles of mud dykes and round-the-clock pumping.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/south-sudan-floods-climate-change/
South Sudan’s woes have been compounded by damage to a key oil pipeline in neighbouring, war-torn Sudan, which was crucial for transporting their oil abroad. That oil accounted for 90% of their GDP.
Everyday feels like we getting closer to the hell we produced from driving our cars, polluting the water and air and destroying our planet. Everyday i see more infrastructure collapse just in my own neighborhood the concrete is collapsing along with roads and storm water drainage. Most people i talk to are living in this bubble and it will be a complete nightmare when it comes and everything is gone.
Heather, I am fervently hoping that the wet and stormy winter mentioned in the thread does not materialise here in the UK. Our infrastructure is likewise creaking, from potholes in the roads to ferry problems.
Plus we are already staring down the barrel of another jump in food inflation after last winter.
“New analysis indicates that Britain is likely facing one of its poorest harvests on record, following unprecedented rainfall last winter that has severely impacted yields.”
https://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/24580202.england-wheat-harvest-drops-18-record-rainfall/
Some would say our situation is sad & depressing. I think it’s entertaining,
demanding everything that one desires & thinks it’s entitled to, regardless of the destruction of the habitat. Hope I live long enough to see the rich & affluent watch their entitlement disappear before their eyes. All the masses of broke asses get the same consequences.
More fun with Sudan. From the Beeb:
“Thousands of people have died and 10 million have been forced to flee their homes since April last year, when Sudan was thrown into disarray after its army and a powerful paramilitary group began a vicious struggle for power.”
Now the floods.
What hell is this?
What a lovely little planet we once had!
One of the astronauts on the ISS said the things that are missed the most are the feelings you get being outside on Earth. The wind in your hair. The rain on your face.
I wonder if that’s what it’s like being dead? You regret all the time you didn’t love being alive.
8 billion pro-creative destructive fools makes me regret being alive. Not for me to worry, their AGW will take care of me being alive. Genocidal suicide?
Libya’s 4500 deaths hardly peaks the interest of the rest of the global population.
We need a loss of tens of thousands, suddenly, for this species to get any credit for it’s detrimental tendencies.
Re the assassination attempt on Trump in Florida, my wife just said nonchalantly; “The third time’s a charm.” 😉
An addition to the prime directives list: Be careful who you piss- off.