Huge thanks to this month’s anonymous sponsor, who wishes me to lead with this public notice she spotted and which tickled her: “If special arrangements need to be made to accommodate residents with disabilities in order for them to participate in the public hearing, including a Spanish or Karen interpreter, please call…”
“Even as oceans take up 90% of the heat from global warming, air temperatures over land increase faster than over oceans.
“The land only trendline has already reached +2°C! This is based on observations:“ [Leon Simons]
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1943654812056166714
“We should look at the global temperature change for a longer period than my yesterday’s posts.
“This is NASA GISS data plotted differently [global surface temp relative to 1880 – 1920 mean]. Even with a recent slight drop, global warming is accelerating.” [Makiko Sato]
https://x.com/MakikoSato6/status/1943324893052862772
“Global surface temperatures have continually been running more than 8 standard deviations above the 1941-1970 mean since January 23, 2024.
“If temperatures were normally distributed (they aren’t), 8 SD’s would be about 1-in 1,500,000,000,000,000 (1-in-1.5 quadrillion).” [Eliot Jacobson]
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/1943338984010334509
“Bowhead whales are ingesting toxins driven by warming in Arctic, study finds…
“Warming Arctic conditions resulting from climate change are increasing the prevalence and concentration of neurotoxins in the whales’ poop, researchers found. These conditions include shrinking sea ice, expanding tracts of open water and more sunlight penetrating the ocean’s depths.”
“Lithuania to save Baltic seals as ice sheets recede due to climate change…
“The effects of climate change on the seals’ habitat are severe, as the Baltic Sea, which is shared by the European Union and Russia, rarely freezes over now, depriving the seals of sanctuaries to rear their cubs.”
“Using the coin as a reference object, the largest hailstone in the photo is 11 cm across. This makes it the first giant hail reported (>= 10 cm) in Latvia, at least based on what is available in the ESWD.
“Photograph by Sigita Zaļā in Palsmane.” [Tomas Pucik]
https://x.com/Djpuco/status/1943759965833114015
“Millions of Moscow residents were placed under a heat advisory Thursday as forecasters warned of potentially record-breaking temperatures, just days after powerful storms swept through the capital…
“The heat wave follows two consecutive days of storms that brought down trees and caused damage across the Moscow region, with some areas reporting hail as large as 2.5 centimeters (nearly 1 inch) in diameter.”
“An extreme heat wave is ongoing in DONBAS with daytime temperatures reaching 40C [104F] and night minimums up to 26C.
“This put an extra suffering for the people in the conflict areas. On Sunday we expect the heat to peak to as much as 41/42C.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1943674869847146951
“Flash floods hit Lviv after torrential rains swamp western Ukraine…
“The Shchyrka and Zubra rivers burst their banks following heavy rainfall, prompting widespread inundation. Emergency crews have already pumped out more than 10,000 cubic meters of water and rescued eight people, including five children.”
“Climate change poses growing threat to UK economy, says BoE official.
“Climate change represents a growing threat to the UK’s economic stability, with the potential to worsen inflationary shocks and trigger the sudden repricing of assets, a top Bank of England official warned on Thursday.”
https://www.ft.com/content/947fd05f-5fbb-40d1-b341-c641d438cbe4
“Why Switzerland is among the ten fastest-warming countries in the world…
“Switzerland is landlocked and cannot benefit from the buffering effect of the oceans, which are able to absorb large amounts of heat. Globally, continents warm more than oceans. The altitude and morphology of the Alps also play a key role.”
“On thin ice: a two-day trek down the Alps’ biggest glacier [Aletsch, Switzerland]…
“Since official records began in 1892, its surface level has dropped at different points between 200 and 400 metres, and it has retreated by more than 3km in length. Recently, the pace of destruction has accelerated, and its snout is now shrinking at a rate of more than 50 metres a year.”
https://www.ft.com/content/e903c2ed-32ba-41e1-b41b-b73159a9e93c
“The State Meteorological Agency of Spain (Aemet) issued a red alert on Friday night due to the heavy rains that have fallen in recent hours.
“The Government of Aragon has sent a message to the cell phones of residents near the banks of the Ebro River in Aragon.”
“Sea snot: The noxious plague troubling Istanbul’s coast…
“The mucilage is an overgrowth of phytoplankton, which coats the living things in the water with a mucus-like layer of slime that prevent oxygen transfer and can kill fish larvae, eggs, mussels, corals and whatever else comes in its path.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250710-the-summer-slime-threatening-turkish-beaches
“‘We belong to this land’: Syrians navigate landmines to battle wildfires.
“The scene around Abu Jameel’s destroyed home reflects a broader catastrophe unfolding across Syria’s Mediterranean coast. Wildfires have consumed more than 14,000 hectares (34,600 acres) of land over the past week, according to Syria’s Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management, Raed al-Saleh…”
“RECORD HEAT IN KENYA. Records everywhere and Kenya is not spared.
“Yesterday MINIMUM temperature of 27.8C [82F] at Lodwar. HOTTEST JULY NIGHT IN KENYAN HISTORY (July is cool season). Previous record was set last year.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1943625580584308767
“The heat index reached a ridiculous 129°F (54°C) this evening in Dubai.
“A small glimpse into the future for the Persian Gulf, which could become uninhabitable in the coming decades due to rising temperatures.” [Colin McCarthy]
https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1943132591999033847
“Record again at Aminidivi, [Lakshadweep islands off southwestern coast of] India.
“Minimum 29.0C [84.2F] again, hottest July night in history for the second time in a row. There isn’t one single tropical country from Oceania to Asia which hasn’t been breaking records.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1943578388368588813
“Record eight-hour rainfall devastates Lahore [Pakistan], causes widespread flooding.
“Lahore received 136 mm [5.4 inches] of rainfall over eight hours on Thursday, the highest in recent history. Several areas of the city turned into waterways, submerging low-lying neighbourhoods and flooding homes.”
“Torrential rain floods 80 villages in Cox’s Bazar, 70,000 families stranded [Bangladesh].
“The Cox’s Bazar Meteorological Office recorded 226 mm [8.9 inches] of rainfall over the past 30 hours as of noon Monday. Assistant meteorologist Md Abdul Hannan reported that 146 mm of rain fell between 6am Sunday and 6am Monday, with an additional 80 mm recorded by noon. The heavy rainfall is expected to continue…”
https://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/812791
“Tibetan glacial lake drainage triggered deadly flood in Nepal, climate body says.
“The deadly flood in Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in the Tibet region of China, a regional climate monitoring body said on Wednesday.”
“Baotou and Bayannur in Inner Mongolia, close to the China-Mongolia border, were hit by extreme rainstorms, with 195 mm of rainfall in 24 hours, equivalent to the local annual rainfall in one and a half years!”
[Jim Yang]
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1943663694942245080
“Japan record rainfall submerges roads in water as drivers wade through severe flooding.
“Footage recorded on Thursday (10 July) shows queues of cars in an underpass in Shibuya, Tokyo driving through huge floods as 100mm of rainfall accumulated across the capital. Multiple “record-breaking short-duration heavy rain” warnings were issued, mainly in the Kanto-Koshin region amid the record breaking rainfall.”
“EAST ASIA RECORD HEAT. More terrible heat in the Koreas and Japan.
“July hottest night in history at Haeju, NORTH KOREA. Min 27.6C [81.7F]. THI’s locally >50C… North Koreans have no AC except Kim and his friends…”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1943287570999222699
“South Korea mandates breaks for outdoor workers in deadly heat…
“The revision was made following mounting criticism from labour groups and a surge in heat-related deaths among outdoor workers during the relentless and intense heat… On July 7, a Vietnamese day labourer in his 20s was found dead at an apartment complex construction site in Gumi, North Gyeongsang province.”
“Thai Army assists Nan flood victims as flash floods hit Wiang Sa and Mae Charim.
“On July 11, the Royal Thai Army, through the Disaster Relief Centre of the 38th Military District, dispatched personnel to assist residents affected by severe flooding in Nan province.”
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40052456
“Algal bloom fears grow as video shows dead fish in ‘neon green’ waters near Ardrossan [South Australia].
“New underwater vision shows how the state’s toxic algal bloom has ravaged marine life near the Ardrossan jetty on SA’s Yorke Peninsula. The footage shows scores of fish lying dead in “dark neon green” waters.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-12/ardrossan-algal-bloom-update/105522596
“‘It can’t withstand the heat’: fears ‘stable’ Patagonia glacier in irreversible decline…
“”The first year the glacier didn’t return to its previous year’s position was 2022. The same happened in 2023, again in 2024, and now in 2025. The truth is, the retreat continues. The glacier keeps thinning, especially along its northern margin…””
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/11/glacier-patagonia-perito-moreno-decline
“Texas flood rescue teams continue to search for scores of missing people as death toll climbs.
“The search for more than 170 people still missing after flash floods devastated Central Texas stretched into an eighth day on Friday. At least 121 people have been confirmed dead, according to local law enforcement and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-floods-missing-people-death-toll-climbs/
“How extreme rainfall in New Mexico is linked to wildfires…
“Burn scars caused by wildfires remove vegetation that helps to stop rainwater from flowing above ground into rivers, increasing the risk of a flash flood. More rain is expected in New Mexico and Texas at the weekend.”
“Wildfires force evacuations at two national parks in the US west…
“An extreme heat warning was also issued for the lower elevations of the Grand Canyon as daytime temperatures are expected to reach dangerous levels of up to 115F through the weekend.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/11/wildfires-evacuations-grand-canyon
“Flash floods once again hit Vermont, damaging homes and roads.
“Communities in rural parts of Vermont on Friday woke up once again to damaged homes and washed-out roads due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding, making it the third consecutive summer that severe floods have inundated parts of the state.”
“A large lake near Sachs Harbour, N.W.T. [Canada], which has long been a popular fishing spot, has unexpectedly drained, according to people who frequently use the area…
“Antoni Lewkowicz is a permafrost expert who worked in Sachs Harbour in the 1970s and is now a professor at the University of Ottawa. He says the change at Angus Lake was most likely due to underground ice melting on the south side of the lake.”
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7581386
“The relative Niño Index shows a *moderate-strength La Niña* possible later this year.
“This modern index accounts for how warm or cool the Niño 3.4 region is relative to the rest of the global tropics and is regarded as a better indicator… It’s a more robust way of measuring El Niño and La Niña amid a warming climate.” [Ben Noll]
https://x.com/BenNollWeather/status/1943673129965949186
“This^^^ is a crucial point, especially now that global warming has accelerated.
“The conventional Ocean Niño Index (ONI) is too high for >15 years, as it compares recent tropical Pacific temperatures (Niño 3.4 region) to ‘centered 30-year base periods updated every 5 years.'” [Leon Simons]
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1943676294132101205
“Global warming may create a “permanent El Nino”, changing the world’s weather patterns.
“Scientists are warning that global warming is disrupting the natural rhythm of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), potentially creating the conditions for a type of “permanent El Niño” climate state, with significant consequences for global weather patterns, food security, more extreme storms and putting large ecosystems in danger.”
“Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning?
“Dr Andrew Hartley: “The tipping point I’m most concerned about is Amazon forest dieback…because of the significance of the carbon cycle and the feedback to the global climate. Also [due to] the effects that Amazon tipping has on food security, both locally and globally.””
https://www.carbonbrief.org/experts-which-climate-tipping-point-is-the-most-concerning/
“Climate anxiety meant I could no longer work as a pilot. But I love flying – and I know we can transform aviation…
“In the future, a long-haul journey might comprise multiple, slower hops in a low-carbon hybrid electric aircraft, while shorter, essential flights, such as those to and from Scottish islands, could be taken in small electric aircraft.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/pilot-climate-crisis-aviation-industry-flying
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Ee
mungu
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Swahili, apparently, for “Oh, my God,” and the title of quite a few devotional songs, like this one by Shiru Wa Gp, who discovered her talent for singing at Sunday school:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvUC_gPQf_Y
“low-carbon hybrid electric aircraft” wtf stop
LOL. Panopticon will need those, though, when he and his island mates need to get to Glasgow hospital. Should work, right? 🤪
Cassandra, a chopper is more usual for medical emergencies here. The idea of hybrid engines on planes makes me nervous, as they are the worst for fires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQuY7dHfWrM
Awesome. If ever there was a time for the blues, it’s now!
Indeed. RIP the still unsurpassed Stevie Ray. Fingered that guitar like he fingered …well, yknow.
Now, that’s a song to get maudlin drunk to if ever there was one. 😎
Fixed it:
“A small glimpse into the future for the Persian Gulf, which IS BECOMING uninhabitable in the coming DECADE due to rising temperatures.”
A BIG Red flag🇦🇱
Global climate pattern shows signs of shifting. What will happen in the US?
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Thu, July 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM EDT
https://www.yahoo.com/news/global-climate-troublemaker-la-ni-173924614.html
Detail article concerning the shift, absence is any mention of man made climate change.
One comment from it
Rico T 1h ago
Thankfully, no mention of the climate change hoax. Just straight weather., which is their job. Thank you, President Trump!
That’s typical of the coverage I’m seeing here in the US…. pathetic
Another comment
Boss Hogg 14m ago
I know less after reading the article. What a waste of time.
Cheers
We’re so far through the looking glass that you don’t even know if those are comments from actual humans these days, Vince.
To be fair, an analysis of potential ENSO changes doesn’t absolutely need a nod to climate change to be coherent, but it’s still disingenuous to leave it out, especially given that, as some of the people quoted in my thread suggest, even defining a La Nina is becoming challenging because of rapid warming.
I realized that, thank you.
What I was taken back wsf the comment section from the article.
Typical responses of denial and wouldn’t be surprised if these are AI generated by vested interests to sway the reading public.
As we all know by now, looking in the rear view mirror about “doing something about it”,
not having 9 billion people breathing on the planet without burning fossil fuels for any length of time
Thanks for the write up today.
PS. Cassandra, here is a link to Judi Bari documentary you may like to scan over.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HWApxvSjMKY&t=4417s&pp=ygUWSnVkaSBiYXJpIGRvY3VtZW50YXJ5IA%3D%3D
I listened to the part of her speech regarding doing all the legal avenues of the system to end the cutting of the last remaining ancient growth Redwood forest of the named Headwaters (only 1% was remaining).
Even undertaking the courts and rulings the corporate timber butchers were still able to continue the “harvesting”, so much for abiding.
Like Martin pointed out in his comment about Vermont, it don’t matter much..the rich and powerful have the ability to bend the rulings.
Good Day…Keep looking UP
Vince, I am happier not giving such bots/people the oxygen of my attention. He was singing about romance but I often think of George Michael’s lyrics:
“People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omsBhh8vA7c
Cassandra, at 2C, which is surely poised to happen in the 2030’s, “Regions already prone to high temperatures, such as the Middle East and North Africa, will experience “super heatwaves” with temperatures exceeding 50C (122F). This will make some areas potentially uninhabitable without significant adaptation measures.”
https://earth.org/what-2c-of-warming-will-look-like-a-comprehensive-assessment/
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c78nxlz24z9o
Meanwhile the fifa club cup and heat. Players complaining about heat and with world cup coming up next year. Will fifa kill its own players with the heat? Plus the ticket prices are outrageous at one point they were discounted at some venues.
Heather, reminds me of the 1975 movie with James Caan and John Houston. Will fifa kill its own players…?
The film is set in the year 2018…
In 2018, Jonathan E. is the team captain and veteran star of the Houston Rollerball team. Mr. Bartholomew, chairman of the Energy Corporation — one of a series of corporations that now govern society — and team sponsor, offers Jonathan a lavish retirement package if Jonathan will announce his retirement during an upcoming television special detailing his career. Jonathan refuses, and requests to see his former wife Ella, who had been taken from him some years earlier by a corporate executive who wanted her for himself.
Jonathan goes to a library, where he finds that all books have been digitized and edited to suit the corporations, and are now stored on supercomputers at large protected corporate locations. Jonathan’s friend and former coach Cletus, now an Energy executive, warns him that the Executive Committee is afraid of him, though he cannot find out why.
…Jonathan goes to a library, where he finds that all books have been digitized and edited to suit the corporations, and are now stored on supercomputers at large protected corporate locations. Jonathan’s friend and former coach Cletus, now an Energy executive, warns him that the Executive Committee is afraid of him, though he cannot find out why.
Rollerball soon degrades into senseless violence as the rules are changed to force Jonathan out. The semi-final match between Houston and Tokyo is played with no penalties and limited substitutions in the hope Jonathan will be injured and forced out. The brutality of the match kills several players.
In a teleconference, the Executive Committee decides that the final match will be played with no penalties, no substitutions, and no time limit in the hope that Jonathan will be killed during the game.[12] Jonathan’s popularity and longevity as a player threaten the underlying agenda of Rollerball: to demonstrate the futility of individualism.
Jonathan makes his way to Geneva to access the world’s repository of all human knowledge, a central supercomputer known as “Zero,” only to find its memory corrupted
Eerily prophetic regarding the hypnosis mind control focus on the commercial sport industry. My coworkers are totally immersed, while actually doing little or any sport activity themselves.
If this relates or not, you be the judge
Amazing how prescient art can be!
Heather, the 2022 Qatar world cup was moved to later in the year to allow for the local climate. You wonder if that might become standard protocol.
It’s no longer a reasonably safe bet that summer events in temperate zones won’t be badly affected by heat – the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were sizzling, as were, sporadically, the Paris Olympics in 2024.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240725-how-climate-change-has-altered-paris-olympics-between-1924-and-2024
Llikuwa nzuri, yeah it’s been a slice.
I’m bored with “tipping points”. They won’t be entertaining until they become irreversible.
To oil producing countries in the Middle East; Drill, baby,drill. They need to watch the first few minutes of Blazing Saddles; You fellows act like it’s 120 & it can’t be a bit over 114.
Why are people concerned about weather weirding & it’s extremes? It’s simply the consequences of penises & vaginas working together & ignoring the consequences of their actions.
My death certificate’s cause of death: Died laughing at the stupidity of his species. I’m not crazy, I’m just enjoying being unfiltered. Some may want to get a second opinion. 😉
I’m bored with “tipping points”. They won’t be entertaining until they become irreversible.
To oil producing countries in the Middle East; Drill, baby,drill. They need to watch the first few minutes of Blazing Saddles; You fellows act like it’s 120 & it can’t be a bit over 114.
Why are people concerned about weather weirding & it’s extremes? It’s simply the consequences of penises & vaginas working together & ignoring the consequences of their actions.
My death certificate’s cause of death: Died laughing at the stupidity of his species. I’m not crazy, I’m just enjoying being unfiltered. Some may want to get a second opinion. 😉
TR,that’s one of you better one…
It’s only 114….yep, can’t wait to hear that one on TV, it’s a dry heat
The other line about working together without thinking….relates to a prick has no conscious…I like yours better
Thank you for all your down to earth “barking”