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“Record rainfall on Saturday hit central Japan’s Noto region, which was devastated by a major earthquake in January, prompting evacuation orders for tens of thousands of residents and causing a power outage for more than 5,000 households…
“Hourly rainfall came to a record 121mm (4.8 inches) on Saturday morning in Wajima, while neighbouring Suzu saw 84.5mm in an hour, also an all-time high.”
“With manual site data now in, here’s how many times in Winter across Australia where at least 40c has been recorded. The y-axis has had to be expanded since my original graph on the 28th.
“Unprecedented doesn’t even begin to describe last month’s event.”
https://x.com/Hitchy04/status/1831009693055209888
“A massive ice sheet in Antarctica – equal to the size of Great Britain – could be all but lost by the 23rd century, experts warn…
“Experts from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) now say ice loss at the glacier will accelerate through the 22nd century and could lead to a widespread collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the 23rd.”
“Record-breaking fires engulf South America, bringing black rain, green rivers and toxic air to the continent…
“”The air quality in Brazil has never been worse,” Alessandra Fidelis, a researcher at the Plant Ecology Laboratory of the State University of São Paulo, told Live Science.”
“SOUTH AMERICA HEAT WAVE: 44.5 [112.1F] Villamontes [Bolivia]; MIN 30.4 Cuiaba BRAZIL HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT EVER.
“BOLIVIA SEPT RECORDS 42.1 Puerto Suarez,41.9 Yacuiba; SEPT HIGH MINS RECORDS: Parguay 30.3 Filadelfia,30 Mariscal Estigarribia, 28 Puerto Casado, Pozo Colorado, 27.2 Concepcion.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1837285219302273195
“Brazilian energy authorities have approved bringing back daylight saving time, a senior official said on Thursday, to save energy as the country faces a major drought that has hit power generation.
“Before it goes into effect, reinstating daylight savings time will need to be backed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.”
“Driest Month in 55 Years Leads Bogotá to Tighten Water Controls…
“Officials began rationing five months ago hoping that the Chingaza water system would reach at least 70% of its total capacity by October, when it’s set to peak. Dry weather, however, has lasted longer than forecast and the system is currently close to 45% of capacity.”
“CARIBBEANS HISTORIC RECORD HEAT:
“CUBA HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY EVER: 38.4 [101.1F] Velasco; BELIZE HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT EVER: Tmin 30.0 Belize Port; MARTINIQUE 35.2 Le Lamentin AP monthly record; SURINAME 36.5 Nickerie all time high; GUYANA Tmin 24.9 Timehri September record.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1837240300189929554
“Confronting Florida’s Coral Collapse…
““What you can see in the FluidCam image actually goes beyond bleaching,” explained Katey Lesneski, a marine biologist who inspected Horseshoe Reef several times during the worst of the heat. “The heat in summer 2023 was so early and intense that we actually had coral tissues almost instantly dying and sloughing off…”“
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153304/confronting-floridas-coral-collapse
“‘Red Flags’ on Climate: U.S. Methane Emissions Keep Climbing…
“The United States’ booming fossil-fuel industry continues to emit more and more planet-warming methane into the atmosphere, new research showed, despite a U.S.-led effort to encourage other countries to cut emissions globally.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/climate/us-methane-greenhouse-gas.html
“Methane is pitched as a climate villain – could changing how we think about it make it a saviour?
“Abating methane emissions and enhancing atmospheric removal offers an opportunity to rapidly mitigate warming. This climate villain becomes a key saviour protagonist in efforts to stay within safe climate limits.”
“The misinformation about the North Atlantic Ocean keeps aging like milk [as sea surface temps approach an all-time record high for the date].
“Nobody seems to care. People rather buy into false hope than accept hard truths and act accordingly.”
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1837179117172666458
“A ship carrying 20,000 litres of diesel fuel ran aground and sank off Greenland’s coast on Thursday, said authorities who were working to contain a potential spill in the fragile Arctic ecosystem.
“”Last night, around 1:45am, a ship hit a reef near Nanortalik and started taking on water,” Greenlandic police said in a statement.”
https://www.thelocal.dk/20240920/ship-with-20000-litres-of-diesel-fuel-sinks-off-greenland
“A rare polar bear showed up on the shores of Iceland. Police shot it…
“The bear was killed Thursday afternoon in the northwest of Iceland after police consulted the Environment Agency, which declined to have the animal relocated, Westfjords Police Chief Helgi Jensson told The Associated Press.”
“Norway may be the first nation to mine the Arctic seabed—it could cause ‘irreversible’ damage to the marine ecosystem…
“Among the dangers Greenpeace cited were the direct removal of the seafloor habitat and organisms, noise and light pollution, the risk of chemical leaks from machinery and equipment, as well as the accidental displacement of species.”
“Exceptionally warm weather in Finland’s arctic region…
“According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Thursday marked the latest date this autumn that the temperature topped 20 degrees in central and northern Lapland since the beginning of official record keeping in the 1960s.”
“Summer 2024 has been really tough for glaciers in Lapland! “Kebnekaise ice cap has lost 3.3 m and is now only 2089.9m high!
“Absurd loss given the high elevation! Sydtoppen was 2118m in 1996 and became lower than Nordtoppen in 2019.”
https://x.com/subfossilguy/status/1837042228532817953
“A tornado has swept through Hampshire, with trees blown over, as storm warnings come into force across much of southern England and Wales for the weekend…
“It comes as storms gather across much of the country over the weekend, bringing to an end a spell of warm weather at the end of summer.”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tornado-hampshire-blows-down-trees/
“‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve…
“Tony Juniper, the chair of Natural England, says new data showing a sharp fall in butterfly populations this summer was probably the consequence of habitat loss and the use of pesticides, making the insects less resilient to extreme weather fluctuation…”
“75 people were hospitalized after eating lettuce — and it’s linked to climate change [UK]…
“…how did Escherichia Ecoli, typically carried by animals like cattle and sheep, find its way to the food supply through lettuce? According to a new investigation, a series of cascading climate-driven events created the perfect conditions for the outbreak.”
“Floods, fires, and drought: ‘Shock’ France climate change report…
“Cities that are too hot in summer, huge forest fires, and major flooding events are among the ‘shock’ warnings in a new report on how France will be affected by climate change.”
“Ice melting at Konkordiaplatz, Great Aletschgletscher [Switzerland], continues. No relief for glaciers…
“4 meters of ice loss over the thickest ice of the European Alps in the year 2024. Stay posted for the publication of our results on 1 Oct”
https://x.com/matthias_huss/status/1836814693173702993
“‘Catastrophe region’: Austrian city faces up to scale of damage left by deadly flooding…
“By the third night of rain, the situation in the command centre had escalated from tense to critical. Mateusz Fryn, the deputy firefighter chief in St Pölten, Austria, told his colleagues to stop filling sandbags and pumping water out of basements. Instead, it was time to focus on saving lives.”
“Watch: Hungary’s Danube River bursts banks as flooding reaches parliament in Budapest…
“Roads, train stations and ferries along the river, which rose by nearly one metre in 24 hours, have been shut. Prime minister Viktor Orban has warned that floodwaters will peak in the city on 21 September…”
“Deadly floods add to fiscal strains in central Europe…
“Economic losses linked to extreme weather are adding to strains on state finances in a region still squeezed by the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflation surge following Russia’s 2022 invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.”
“Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region hit by new floods as storm moves west…
“”We are in a full emergency …the event is very similar to what we had last May,” the Mayor of Ravenna, Michele De Pascale, told Radio 24 broadcaster, adding however that this year’s floods were more concentrated geographically.”
“A sea of loss: Pieria mussel farmers [Northern Greece] face climate devastation…
““Mussels can survive in temperatures up to 27-28 degrees Celsius. Here, we recorded sea temperatures of 30-35 degrees. We can’t survive this. We need a team of scientists to guide us through these changing conditions.”
“Flood disaster in Trabzon [eastern Turkey, injured and missing]…
“As a result of the heavy rainfall in the region, roads were flooded and landslides occurred in some areas. Emergency response teams were dispatched to the scene, and Trabzon Governor Aziz Yıldırım was reported to have moved to the Yanbolu junction to conduct inspections.”
https://www.haber61.net/trabzon/trabzonda-sel-ve-heyelan-felaketi-yollar-kapandi-h578084.html
“Cyprus faces water shortage as dams reach critically low levels…
“Cyprus is facing a significant water shortage as dam levels plummet due to a severe drought and ongoing climate changes, raising concerns among national and local authorities. According to the Water Department, the country’s dams are only 30% full…”
“Last 12 months the second driest on record [Malta]…
“Only 1948 was drier …July was the driest month of the year with no rain recorded at all for the second year in a row, while October last year was the driest such month on record with only 0.2 mm of rain.”
https://timesofmalta.com/article/last-twelve-months-second-driest-record.1098328
“Portugal’s wildfires produce record emissions with smoke headed for France and Spain…
“With several blazes burning since 14 September, Portugal has recorded the highest total estimated emissions for the month of September in 22 years of CAMS data. That includes both carbon emissions and harmful particulate matter pollutants like PM10 and PM2.5.”
“HISTORIC HEAT IN NORTH AFRICA – Every day minimums >30C [86F] in Libya and Egypt and every day of the month records fall.
“Egyptian capital Cairo also had its hottest September night in history with a Tmin of 29.8C.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1837196646373085436
“Floods force Niger to delay new school year…
“Over the last few weeks, the West African country has been battered by relentless downpours, resulting in over 300 deaths either due to drowning or buildings collapsing, according to the interior ministry.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20j34ldzlxo
“3 million children in Nigeria are without school indefinitely…
“All three million children in Borno state in Northeast Nigeria are without school indefinitely, increasing the likelihood of child marriage and other protection risks, after being hit by the worst floods in 30 years, Save the Children said, News.Az reports.”
https://news.az/news/3-million-children-in-nigeria-are-without-school-indefinit-ely
“Iran’s Wetlands Facing Crisis: Environmental Mismanagement and Extreme Heat to Blame…
“The Fars News Agency… reported on Wednesday, September 18, the complete drying up of nine wetlands across Iran due to extreme heat. Citing “record-breaking air temperatures” in many parts of the country, particularly in the eastern, southeastern, and central regions…”
“Unplanned dam construction: Nearly 500 rivers vanished in Bangladesh amid navigability crisis…
“The Bangladesh Environment Movement claims that due to a lack of water flow, one and a half rivers disappear each year. Over the past two decades, more than 300 rivers have dried up, and nearly 400 are now on the verge of extinction.”
https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/359159/unplanned-dam-construction-nearly-500-rivers
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT WAVE IN BANGLADESH.
“Nearly 100% of the stations had their Sept hottest night in history! MIN 30.0C [86F] Dhaka First Time Bangladesh has 30C min, in September (max 37.8 also record). Most record breaking event in Bangladesh history.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1837108731307229681
“China has had weather stations breaking records for 26 consecutive days.
“Today, 99 stations broke the mid-September record, 10 stations tied the record, and 8 stations broke the full-month record(yesterday was 131+5). Qu, Sichuan reached 42.1C [107.8F]!”
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1837126554989527503
“China bolsters flood control amid triple typhoon impact…
“While the impact of Typhoon Bebinca has now concluded, Typhoon Pulasan is expected to bring heavy to torrential rain to parts of eastern and northern Zhejiang, Shanghai, southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui from Sept. 20 to 22.”
https://english.news.cn/20240920/420bc2d496a6426db89266f1225a2f20/c.html
“Storm Soulik injures 1, causes major flooding in Vietnam’s central region…
“Heavy rains on Thursday evening and night led to significant flooding across parts of the central province of Quang Binh, with water levels in the Gianh River rising sharply. In Thanh Thach Commune, Tuyen Hoa District, dozens of homes were inundated.”
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/asean/40041657
“Local, foreign firms facing months of recovery in storm-hit Vietnam.
“Factory roofs blown off, products worth millions of dollars destroyed, supply chains disrupted: Typhoon Yagi has had a disastrous impact on local and global companies in northern Vietnam who could take months to recover, business leaders warn.”
“INSANE HEAT IN THE KOREAS – 100% of South Korea, including the mountains had another tropical night.
“Mins up to 28C [82.4F], >25C even in North Korea. All stations of both countries destroyed the records several times.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1836949959083532372
“Cabbage prices in South Korea surge 70 percent amid heat wave…
“The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp reported that a head of cabbage, essential for making kimchi, was retailing at 9,337 won ($7.02) this Thursday. This represents a 69.5 percent rise from the same period last year and a 32.7 percent increase from the three-year average.”
“Record temperatures for September observed in many parts of Japan…
“…the mercury rose to dangerous highs of 39.2 degrees in Shizuoka City, and 38 degrees in Obama City in Fukui Prefecture and Toyooka City in Hyogo Prefecture… Dazaifu City in Fukuoka Prefecture recorded 35 degrees, marking 62 days of 35 degrees or higher.”
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240920_29/
“Global heating is making El Niño and La Niña forecasts less reliable, BoM says..
“Braganza said older statistical models that based predictions on historical observations “worked well in a stationary climate”, but that these dynamical models were now more useful. “It’s not relying on the past, but on the current information.””
“Global health fund says health, climate, conflict ‘triple whammy’ hits world’s poorest…
“Climate change and conflict risk overshadowing efforts to improve people’s health, when in reality the issues overlap, Peter Sands, head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said.”
“Extreme Weather From Floods to Drought Threatens Food Supplies Again…
“This week offered a worrying reminder of how climate change is altering the weather — and threatening food supplies. Severe rains hit parts of Europe, Asia, the US and Africa, where the worst floods in decades across a swath of the continent’s west and central regions are worsening a food-insecurity crisis.”
“I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia…
“…if we fail to adequately limit climate breakdown, then very few of the other causes that progressives care about will survive in the world that will result. In a world of starvation and societal collapse, there would be little chance of human rights, let alone gender rights.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/19/russia-china-global-security-climate-breakdown
“How to Cool the World Without Blocking the Sun…
“Microbes may help determine our climate future… Fertilizing the ocean with iron is a form of geoengineering, a set of technologies that are compelling for their potential to meaningfully alter Earth’s systems…”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/09/geoengineering-microbe-bacteria-climate/679961/
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Magnificet work.
The scale and toll of destruction is al consuming.
I still feel the pangs of grief when I read these headlines.
I’ve crossed he acceptance phase but that doesn’t mean I’m completely immune to feeling the anguish from time to time.
Wish I could send you a thousand dollars.
The petro dollars :'(
My sentiments exactly. What a mess out there. Carry on humans with thy heads stuffed up yer arses
Second that. The pictures of children watching the devastation. It’s all they will ever know. Heartbreaking.
Thank you for the compliment, Regan. 😎
Capitalism to the rescue..
The US derivatives watchdog has finalised the first federal guidelines for unregulated carbon offsets, as the Biden administration seeks to standardise a disorderly market in a bid to tackle climate change.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission adopted measures announced on Friday that ask exchanges to validate carbon offset derivatives, which base their prices on those of financial instruments bought by companies to offset emissions.
Treasury secretary Janet Yellen issued a statement on Friday praising the new guidelines as a means to “promote the integrity of carbon credits and enable greater liquidity and price transparency”.
The unregulated market for carbon credits is estimated to grow to $100bn by 2030, up from $2bn this year, according to Morgan Stanley. But the voluntary carbon derivatives market has languished, with only a handful of contracts attracting substantial trading volume due to concerns about credibility.
“We actually have a legal responsibility to ensure the health and transparency of both the derivative side, but also the underlying cash market,” CFTC chair Rostin Behnam told the Financial Times.
The guidelines, which were initially proposed in December, seek to crack down on manipulation and price distortions by pushing exchanges to ensure that voluntary carbon credit derivatives comply with CFTC regulation as well as US law.
There are rules and there are rules…in another headline features “”Will voluntary methane restrictions work?”
Yes, the reality of us residing in the Matrix is rather astonishing. Where I live in South Florida the local TV weather reporters…Certified Chief Meteorologist as One calls herself, points out heat advisory and is “rather warm today” because of the upcoming thunderstorm showers.
The Chief Environmental Advocate on Channel 10 features locals picking us tons of trash and plastics on the beaches and intracoastal waterways…as a measure to save the planet.
All good intentions…. magnificent work …our leadership is very concerned and will solve the unsolvable
This is “guidance” rather than regulation, so I’m sure the double-counting greenwashers are quaking in their boots. This quote from CFTC chair Rostin Behnam later in the article jumped out at me:
“Despite the political momentum behind efforts to develop voluntary carbon markets, Behnam cautioned that the energy transition would “take decades”… “This notion that we’re going to be able to just transition to renewables in the near future and not rely on carbon-based energy sources . . . it’s not reality, right?” said Behnam.”
https://www.ft.com/content/989c395f-3f58-4f35-b91a-1f586cd9e183
Some European readers may understand some or all of the German Language Link that I am going to link below. I have not listened to the entire video yet. I doubt that I will because in my case I think it will be preaching to the choir.
I was saying already in January of 2022 when I wrote one of my old college proffesors that the policies that the west were persuing against Russia were a war not only against Russia but against Germany as well.
I do not know if this Rand Think Tank paper that is refered to in the video even actually exists let alone if it says what the video claims that it says. But the exsitence of such a paper is not important to me as I came to the same conclusion that this video aledges already years ago. But its existence may be important to some readers to decide if the assessments of the video make sense. If so you will have to autheniticate it on your own.
Oh Scheiße I should have put this on the Friday page. But I have already iinvested to much time on this page to redo it. Forgive me for my sin.
In my opinion the policies that the US leadership has been covertly following is an example of Capitalstic Canabalism.
The reason that I wanted to bring this up on C&E is because it shows that the Germans and the Ukranians perfected stupidity faster than the Americans did.
Oh darn I forgot to post the link here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv_szj3eCL4
More great news for those that did nothing to change their actions & are getting to experience the consequences.
I call bullshit on so many of the statements in the links, too many to mention. They can’t, won’t, are afraid to state the truth about global warming & it’s physically destructive affects on the Clever Apes’ bodies.
A band-aid is useless to fix any issue when the body is dying from a thousand, self inflicted, stupid, deep cuts & puncture wounds. Most will continue to talk about the problems as if they are in some distant location.
“You can’t always get what you want,” but sometimes you get what you deserve.
I would call this a summary of everything Guy McPherson has been reporting on for years.
Video ends ~ 44;00
“Birth is a sexually transmitted disease that has proven fatal in every case.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyeU9YjUdbU
I hope you noticed the backwardization of logic in the methane blurb:
Abating it “rapidly mitigates warming”, never the corollary, that as scientists are continually theatrically scratching their collective heads as to why climate derangement has accelerated, never once do they point the fickle finger of fate at the industrial sized fracturing of the Earth’s crust on a continental scale that is leaking methane like a sieve into the troposphere.
The ramping up of criticism against fracturing is being precisely timed with the predictions from geologists as to its eventual inevitable decline which was forecast to occur this very year, yet US production, in the teeth of a decline in prices caused by the very industry that suffers the most from such price weakness, spreading its tentacles ever further along the North American craton.
All for that clean transition to natgas.
Mankind’s manic embrace of murder and mayhem as entertainment serves as the perfect backdrop for the accelerating maelstrom sucking it into the abyss.
Remember way back when during the energy crisis of 2007 Rob, when the price shot up to $147 a barrel and with it the ensuing financial crisis.
Oilman T Boone Pickens out fourth a plan of transition because the Continental US was drill like Swiss cheese and he proposed natural gas to power cars and wind mills ect.
A study or two came out it was not feasible.
T Boone eventually abandoned his wind farm in Texas and now is resting in peace.
I personally think that these were not taken very seriously and just like window dressing as all the Climate conferences to solve the crisis.
We people want our cake and eat it to without any interruptions.
Philosopher Chad A. Haag, his pen name, resides in India and escaped the US by marrying a locale there has written extensively on Peak Oil and the psychological fix we are facing.
He is on YouTube and has several books that are low cost for reading.
Thank you all for the comments. I always read and value them… My brain shuts down a little on Sundays. I sit here and stare at the screen and absolutely no interesting thoughts are forthcoming. 😂
“My brain shuts down a little on Sundays.”
At my age, my brain shuts down too often, 7 days a week. 😉
I’m not religious, but a day of rest is, methinks, not only warranted, but, at least in your case, we’ll-deserved.
Thank you, Rob – that is kind.
FYI … Believe it or not, Texas is the largest producer of wind power in the country … and I don’t mean from their politicians.