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“What we are witnessing is so insane it rewrites WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY.
“The Moroccan Airport of the coastal town of Essaouira had a MINIMUM of 27.3C [81.1F], the highest in all its climatic history. In summer it has never been as high as today – the 24 November. THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED IN THE HEMISPHERE.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1860719210487501153
“Unbelievable MINIMUM 28.7C [83.7F] Sidi Ifni MOROCCO – 10C ABOVE JULY AVERAGE.
“Not only does it destroy the Moroccan National November record by >4C but it’s just 0.5C from the highest minimum ever recorded so late in the whole NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. Absolutely historic.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1860644800271372719
“Record heat also in Mozambique. Pemba on the coast 3 days ago had a record high minimum of 26.5C [79.7F].
“Insanity in South Africa, with records destroyed every single day. Incredible minimum of 23.5C on the highlands at Postmasburg 1321m asl. Min 20.3 Addo.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1861009480047071352
“Two Britons are believed to be among more than a dozen people missing after a boat sank in the Red Sea off the Egyptian coast…
“Preliminary reports suggested a sudden large wave struck the vessel, capsizing it within about five minutes, governor Amr Hanafi said.”
“Severe Flooding due to heavy rainfall in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
“Severe flooding has hit Jeddah Governorate in Saudi Arabia due to heavy rainfall. The roads in the area are flooded, causing disruptions in traffic flow. The southern part of the city experienced the heaviest rain, leading to water accumulation and damage to vehicles.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es63zUXXP4I
“SE ASIA RECORD HEAT – exceptional heat continues unabated since March 2023,with records every single day.
“Today: Sabu Island INDONESIA max 36.9 [98.4F] HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN HISTORY; Spratly Islands VIETNAM min 28.7 HOTTEST NOVEMBER NIGHT IN HISTORY.“
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1860299598440595506
“Rescuers recover 20 bodies from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island…
“Torrential rains over the weekend caused rivers to burst their banks in four hilly districts in North Sumatra province, washing away houses and destroying farms.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/indonesia-ap-sumatra-north-sumatra-jakarta-b2653682.html
“Wedge Island fire: Residents north of Perth told to evacuate as bushfire escalates to an emergency…
““You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive,” the Department of Fire and Emergency Services said. “There is a threat to lives and homes. Leave in a northerly direction towards Cervantes, if it is safe to do so.”
“SOUTH AMERICA.
“Harsh heat wave between Paraguay, Northern Argentina, Bolivian plains and parts of Brazil with night temperatures up to 30C and daytime 42C. It will last the whole week before a cooling in the next weekend.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1861237373859963016
“Coffee Prices Surge to 26-Year High Amid Brazil’s Drought and Supply Woes…
“The considerable increase in coffee prices this year results from major disturbances in important growing areas. A protracted drought has harmed coffee trees in Brazil, which raises questions about a smaller crop next season.”
“Heavy rains in Bolivia send mud crashing into the capital, leaving 1 missing and destroying homes…
“Torrential rain on Saturday caused a river to spill its banks, dislodging mud from a southwestern La Paz neighborhood where low-slung, shoddily built dwellings dot the hillside.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/bolivia-ap-la-paz-b2652909.html
“American Airlines Flight to Miami Makes Emergency Diversion After Passenger Breaks His Leg During Severe Turbulence…
“American Airlines flight AA930 from Sao Paulo made a more than four-hour flight to nowhere after turbulence struck the 24-year-old aircraft as it was flying at around 37,000 feet, prompting the pilots to return immediately from where the plane had taken off.”
“If you’ve noticed your flights feeling bumpier, you’re not alone. Scientists say that increased turbulence is becoming more frequent—and it has a lot to do with our changing climate.
“Turbulence occurs when an aircraft flies through irregular airflows. These are often caused by colliding air masses or obstacles like mountains.”
https://bgr.com/science/flight-turbulence-is-getting-worse-and-now-we-know-why/
“Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke in fire-riddled Southern California has been associated with diagnoses of dementia, researchers said Monday.
“The smoke, which contains a mixture of hazardous pollutants, produces particles known as PM2.5.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/wildfire-smoke-dementia-risk-b2653359.html
“Since 2000, the intensity and size of Western U.S. droughts have been dominated by heat, not lack of precipitation…
“Recent NOAA-funded research found that across the western United States, the climate factors driving drought intensity underwent a role reversal at the start of the 21st century. The West has entered a new era in which drought intensity and size are driven more by drying heat than lack of precipitation.”
“‘Bomb cyclone’ adds to growing extreme weather trend.
“The “once-in-a-decade” storm that devastated the Pacific Northwest last week caused widespread outages, damage, and at least two deaths. Data shows the storms are becoming more common. Could climate change be a key driver?”
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-cyclone-extreme-weather-trend.html
“Worst year ever for farms in North Carolina.
“Tropical Storm Helene terrorized Western North Carolina’s farms in late September. Recovering is no easy task. And Helene was the not the first calamity that farmers across the state faced in 2024.”
https://carolinapublicpress.org/67290/farms-nc-2024-worst-year-ever-helene-debby/
“Northeast Ohio’s warm November may break weather records for area.
“CLEVELAND — It’s been a record warm November… *SO FAR*! At Cleveland Hopkins, the average temperature has been 50.8° for Nov. 1-23. That makes it the warmest on record for that period.”
“Record rainfall dampening spirits [Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada].
“A new record was set over the weekend in St. John’s. as of Sunday morning we reached a new monthly rainfall record for November. NTV’s Marykate O’Neill has more.”
https://ntv.ca/record-rainfall-dampening-spirits/
“As Arctic climate warms, even Santa runs short of snow.
“Rovaniemi (Finland) (AFP) – With a month to go until Christmas, Santa Claus is busy preparing, but the warming climate and lack of snow in his Arctic hometown have him worried… on a recent visit, rain poured down from a gloomy slate sky and the temperature was well above freezing…”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241126-as-arctic-climate-warms-even-santa-runs-short-of-snow
“A mystery in Finnish Lapland, and what it means for the climate crisis…
“…recently, something has changed: Finland’s carbon sink is no longer working. In fact, in barely over a decade, its forests and peatlands have become a net emitter of carbon dioxide…”
“Forecasters and flood defences under scrutiny after UK’s Storm Bert ordeal…
“A huge clear-up is under way across swathes of Wales and England, with hundreds of properties flooded and a former Welsh mining town hit by a landslip from a coal tip, leaving buildings deep in sludge and mud.”
“More flooding likely this week after rain from Storm Bert, UK minister says…
“Mike Silverstone, the deputy chief meteorologist at the Met Office, said: “On Tuesday night we’ll see outbreaks of rain spreading north-eastwards, which could be heavy at times.”
“Denmark strikes new weather record for warmest ever November night.
“The average temperature in Denmark on Sunday night was a highly unseasonal 13.3 degrees Celsius [55.9F], making it the warmest November night ever recorded in the country.”
https://www.thelocal.dk/20241125/denmark-strikes-new-weather-record-for-warmest-ever-november-night
“EXTRAORDINARY EVENT ONGOING IN EUROPE. Hundreds stations tonight were much warmer than a July average.
“GERMANY CRAZY MIN 17.8c [64F] Baden Geroldsau – HIGHEST NOVEMBER MINIMUM IN GERMAN HISTORY.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1860997786465939772
“This Sunday was officially the warmest November 24 ever recorded in the Netherlands, Weeronline reports.
“At the De Bilt weather station, 14.7 degrees were measured around midday, putting the old record from 1980 out of the books. The old record stood at 14.4 degrees.”
https://nltimes.nl/2024/11/24/officially-warmest-november-24-ever-measured-netherlands
“Temperatures of 26C [78.8F] recorded overnight in south-west France.
“Measurement smashes the national November record and comes only days after snow covered parts of the country. Parts of France are experiencing record-breaking temperatures only days after a fierce storm battered the country and caused up to 10cm of snow in some areas.”
“Violent winds in Lyon: a supermarket urgently evacuated, OL Vallée closed.
“Météo France has placed the Rhône on orange alert this Monday, November 25, 2024, due to strong gusts of wind in Lyon and the department. Emergency measures have been taken.”
“Rains cause flooding in the streets of Bollullos (Huelva), which activates the local emergency plan [SW Spain]…
“The heavy rains recorded on Monday morning in Bollullos Par del Condado have caused pipe vaults to break in streets, flooding some of them, which is why the City Council has activated the Territorial Emergency Plan for Civil Protection at Local Level.”
“Rich Countries Provide No Haven From Climate Doom, Study Finds…
“Investors largely agree that climate risks aren’t fully priced into markets, and academics are now studying what they’re calling the climate-sovereign debt doom loop to calculate the potential costs to countries.”
“How late $300bn deal left a sense of dissatisfaction and betrayal at Cop29…
“Yet rich countries said the deal was as much as they could deliver. “Developed countries have gone quite a long way to try and find a way through this, and at a time when public finances really are stretched,” said Ed Miliband, the UK’s energy secretary.”
“The climate crisis and all the evil in the world drives me to despair…
“I work in climate change and am having to pretend every day that there is still a chance we can prevent catastrophic climate change. I find it ever harder to be around people who don’t get just how bad things are.”
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>>> Rich Countries Provide No Haven From Climate Doom, Study Finds…
Straight from the Office of the Obvious…WASF!
Yes, I can’t say I was startled. I did quite like the study the article linked to, though. Haven’t come across it before:
“The current literature documents significant effects of climate change on the cost of sovereign debt and debt levels. These effects are due to a complex nexus of climate change systemic effects on the economy, characterized by deep uncertainty, fat tails, feedback loops, and uncertain fiscal costs of climate policies. Investors believe that climate risks have begun to materialize but are underpriced…
“[My] findings suggest several mechanisms may activate a doom loop between climate change and sovereign debt.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343524000010
“The climate crisis and all the evil in the world drives me to despair…”
Well, the majority of people have to be confused to whether climate change is real or exaggerated with all the misinformation coming from multiple sources. For example, The Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Here is there statement:
“The Global Warming Policy Foundation is a non-partisan think tank and a registered educational charity that focuses on climate and energy policy.
We are deeply concerned about the impact of climate change policies: that they may be doing more harm than good, both to the world’s poorest people and the environment.
Our aim is to provide robust and reliable analysis of climate and energy issues, based on rigorous research, for policymakers and the general public.”
That’s a laugh – “Our aim is to provide robust and reliable analysis of climate and energy issues, based on ***rigorous*** research,…”
Yeah, rigorous research like their latest propaganda research: The UK’s Weather in 2023 By Paul Homewood.
“Findings include:
· The frequency of days with extreme temperatures has been in decline since the 1970s, as more hot days have been offset by fewer cold ones.
· While winters have become slightly wetter, there has been little change in rainfall trends for the other seasons. In particular, summers are not getting drier, as projections have suggested.
· Wind storms have been declining in frequency and intensity since the 1990s.
In the words of author, Paul Homewood:
“Despite widespread claims to the contrary, our weather in the UK is not becoming more extreme. In fact, although slightly warmer on average, it has changed very little over the years.””
Yeah, Paul Homewood is a retired accountant. No training in meteorology whatsoever.
In my opinion, it’s already too late to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change in the coming decade(s). These kinds of think tanks funded by the fossil fuel industry have confused so many normal people that don’t have a background in science that no progress has been made or will be made.
Good post, Edward, I feel the same and someone pointed out that the war, I mean, “Defense” establishment is one of the largest, if not the largest, resource and emitters, it is apparent our psychological makeup will prevent any change in action. You are correct also it is too late; what we are seeing now are from gas emissions decades ago that have worked its way through the vast climatic system. From Justin’s article carbon sinks are now becoming the opposite…negative feedback loops.
So, despair it is, what’s the term, oh yes, “quiet desperation”. I, myself, avoid discussing the topic because of the refusal by many to even deal with it in an open manner. We are trapped, all 8 billion. The sad fact only a small minority is largely responsibly for the accumulation, but the human hoard of 8 billion all are attempting to join that club.
I’ve been reading Chad A. Haag, excellent source for deep analysis.
***rigorous*** research = rigorous obfuscation and cherry-picking.
The UK has good temp records going back to 1884. Our ten hottest years have all occurred from 2003 onwards. In 2022 we had our hottest year on record and saw the national heat record smashed, exceeding 40C for the first time.
Since then we have seen the wettest 18 months on record (we have rain records going all the way back to 1836) and food production is becoming an issue. We may be feeling the effects of a slowing AMOC but the jury is out there.
There is no point giving organisations like Heartland Institute or GWDP the oxygen of your attention. They are fundamentally dishonest.
This explains a lot IMO:
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2022-2023
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
“130 million adults [in the US] are now unable to read a simple story to their children.”
Can that really be true? What a gloomy statistic.
Omg that is awful.
In UK, a drop in reading to children and talking with children is crippling. Taken together with rote teaching it’s no wonder we have so many young people with mental illness.
Rote teaching only teaches an automatic memory response, their is no understanding required, it is actually discouraged. Any pupil asking questions about a topic is told it does not matter, this is the question, this is the answer, learn it.
Well that ‘person’ from that submitted message in the Guardian sure is tormented and depressed…. I do wonder if someone is that real. Reminds me of those feel-good sections in health magazines and women’s magazines with all kinds of supposedly intimate questions….
The answer is equally ‘unreal’ with a reference to enigmatic oh no! the Voltaire himself talking about hope, depression and despair
Typical one of those paradoxical ‘Guardian feelgood climate anxiety’ articles. Plant a tree if only in your backyard.
While the ‘Oil God’ was praised at the COP Baku summit with a small ransom for ‘third world countries’ there was also a climate summit somewhere in the Czech Republic…. the Clintel summit that group of ‘right-wing climate sceptics’ with that fossil Harper in the front row , who got together and officially declared that the ‘climate crisis’ was over!
See that’s two plays for the price of one! What nonsense all around… CO2 as a boon to the greening of the planet and humanity….. and fossil fuels as a gift from God.
The latter, if we ‘hand in hand’, is at least a ‘bit’ true somewhere. The fossil era which, by the way, is coming to an end has, of course, temporarily offered huge ‘opportunities’ also for all the toruwe readers on this site.
It is the last fossil tango we all dance in the CO2 and hydrocarbon dance palace.
Let’s see when the music stops because then it’s over and out for everyone…until then we’ll just keep cheering on the orchestra and hopping around a bit with Voltaire and his psychological ‘il faut cultiver notre jardin’…. Give me Leibniz against whom Candide was directed….
We live the the best imaginable world!…. only and that’s an addition from myself we’ve had the chance but we make a shitty mess of it.
“… the Clintel summit.”
Thank you for the heads up on this August gathering, Zip. It had entirely passed me by. This would have made a fine comic outro article. I’m not entirely clear if they are arguing that there is no crisis or just that there is no point in trying to address it:
https://clintel.org/climate-scientists-officially-declare-climate-emergency-at-an-end/
A two-day climate conference in Prague, organised by the Czech branch of the international Climate Intelligence Group (Clintel), held on 12 and 13 November at the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in Prague, ‘declares and confirms that the supposed and imaginary “climate emergency” is over’.
The communiqué, prepared by the leading scientists and researchers who spoke at the conference, makes it clear that climate scientists have been systematically exaggerating the impact of CO2 on global temperatures for decades
It is a long article, but very funny with all kinds of observations and action points total madness
https://www.climategate.nl/2024/11/klimaatwetenschappers-verklaren-officieel-einde-aan-klimaatnoodtoestand/
These numbered declarations are downright ludicrous.
4. The sun, not greenhouse gases, has contributed and will continue to contribute to the vast majority of global temperatures.
We’ve got to get a dimmer switch for that sun at the center of our solar system.
6. By definition, climate models cannot tell us anything about the extent to which the Earth will warm and to what extent the warming is natural or man-made.
Evaluating the Performance of Past Climate Model Projections
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085378
“Climate models provide an important way to understand future changes in the Earth’s climate. In this paper we undertake a thorough evaluation of the performance of various climate models published between the early 1970s and the late 2000s. Specifically, we look at how well models project global warming in the years after they were published by comparing them to observed temperature changes. Model projections rely on two things to accurately match observations: accurate modeling of climate physics and accurate assumptions around future emissions of CO2 and other factors affecting the climate. The best physics-based model will still be inaccurate if it is driven by future changes in emissions that differ from reality. To account for this, we look at how the relationship between temperature and atmospheric CO2 (and other climate drivers) differs between models and observations. We find that climate models published over the past five decades were generally quite accurate in predicting global warming in the years after publication, particularly when accounting for differences between modeled and actual changes in atmospheric CO2 and other climate drivers. This research should help resolve public confusion around the performance of past climate modeling efforts and increases our confidence that models are accurately projecting global warming.”
7. Global warming will likely remain slow, small, harmless, and net beneficial.
Yeah, I can’t wait to see all the benefits. Are we talking smaller crowds?
These people can’t be serious.
‘Even Santa runs short of snow:
My ‘08 Xmas card:
https://robertlowrey.blogspot.com/2008/12/santa-and-north-pole.html
Hah – apposite, Rob. 🎅
Glass half-full, the North Pole has surprised me a little with its resilience. I recall back in 2012, the decline in extent was so disastrous that year, it felt very likely that the famed Blue Ocean Event would be with us by now.
Martin – a fairly dull but kind of insipid name bestowed on me by Catholic parents in honor of some Middle Ages saint who cut his own coat in two to hand to a homeless person, or so I was told.
Martin- the nom de fiction of Voltaire assigned to the most pessimistic of humans, I now learn (never had to read the book).
Guess irony wins that battle, earthlings.
PS You can’t give any life advice when the human predicament rules. Just keep it moving.
Martin, I have never read Voltaire’s Candide. Martin does indeed sound a pessimistic sort:
“Martin, the pessimist to Pangloss’s optimist, discusses philosophy at length with Candide as the two sail to France. He claims to be a Manichean—a believer in two equal spirits of Good and Evil that struggle to gain control of the universe. Candide says that the devil must be in Martin and Martin agrees that the devil exists in nearly everyone.
““But then why,” said Candide, “was the world formed?” “To drive us mad,” said Martin.”
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/candide/quotes/character/martin/
He may have a point. The world seems inherently frustrating to me, with loss, limitations and suffering “built in”. I suppose art, music, beauty, the occasional joyous connection with other humans or animals and so forth are our consolations.
Martin is a darned tooten good name if you ask me. In addition to the Saint who cut his coat in two, there is Martin Luther, Martin Heidigger, Martin Luther King, Martin Scorsesee, Martin Sheen. In addition to birds called Martins and a furry critter with slgihtly different spelling but as far as I know the same pronunciation. Most importantly Martin is a name that would be famiiiar to people almost every where in Europe, and the Americas.
… and let’s not forget their rollicking offspring, the Martinis.
Usually shaking offspring is a bad idea… Not in this case. 😎
“Rich Countries Provide No Haven From Climate Doom, Study Finds…”
Better quote- “There’s no place to escape to, assholes. No one is immune.
“The climate crisis and all the evil in the world drives me to despair…”
Another better quote – “Evil has no source, it suddenly appears out of thin air? Not my fault! Let’s blame our actions & the consequences on something else, a 4 letter word, evil” Well, “fuck” got us here.
I was going to add a dash of truth to the sarcasm but the lid fell off the container & all the contents ended up in the dish. Truth can taste bitter, especially to those that can’t handle the truth. 😉
https://youtu.be/MMzd40i8TfA 😉
Aren’t we sad to think so much of ourselves.
“Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.” – Big Yellow Taxi
Counting Crows does a good cover.