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“Is it time to aim for 1.7°C as the new limit for global warming?
“If you told a child to stay “well away” from a cliff edge, how close to the edge could they creep before you started shouting for them to turn back? That is the question puzzling climate scientists right now, as it looks almost certain that we will breach the global commitment to limiting warming to no more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”
“Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows.
“Donald Trump’s huge spending boost for the Pentagon will produce an additional 26 megatons (Mt) of planet-heating gases – on a par with the annual carbon equivalent (CO2e) emissions generated by 68 gas power plants or the entire country of Croatia, new research reveals.””
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/trump-pentagon-emissions
“Climate catastrophes are creating a ‘new market reality’ for insurance carriers.
“Raging wildfires and severe storms contributed to record-high global insurance losses — totaling an estimated $84 billion — for the first six months of the year, according to a report from reinsurance broker Gallagher Re.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/18/business/insurance-losses-climate-change
“Effectively the entire Arctic Ocean has observed thinning sea ice over the last 4 decades during the month of July (especially in the East Siberian Sea)…
“Data simulated by PIOMAS at psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro…. For more information: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI…” [Zack Labe]
https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3lu6z3ahb222j
“‘We’re the canary in the coalmine’: when will Russia take action on the climate?
“…Some of Shukin’s neighbours have had to abandon their homes as melting permafrost leads to huge cracks in the ground that swallow homes, pipelines and roads. Farther south, fire has scoured forests, with an area as large as Italy burnt in some of the largest wildfires in the country’s history.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/18/when-will-russia-take-action-on-the-climate
“On July 17, the unbearable heat in Volgodonsk was suddenly relieved by rain and strong wind. The natural disaster affected only the old part of the city and lasted only 10 minutes.
“This time was enough to cause significant damage to the city’s infrastructure.”
https://bloknot-volgodonsk.ru/news/yarost-stikhii-shtorm-v-volgodonske-vyrval-ostanov
“SCANDINAVIA: HISTORIC HEAT 35 [95F] DEGREES (see attachment for Norway all-time records) NORWAY.
“4 consecutive Tmin >23c Somna! HIGH MINS: 21.3 Kristiansund, 19.7 Tagdalen, 19.0 Oppdal, 17.2 Mannen 1300m! SWEDEN 31 Saittarova 30.2 Korsvattnet; GREENLAND Constable Pynt min 13.1 max 23.1 70N.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1946287606574239943
“Fires that burned across moorland at Carrbridge and Dava in the Highlands recently were the biggest Scotland has ever seen, according to landowners.
“Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) estimates the fires that broke out in late June and early July affected 29,225 acres (11,827 hectares) – an area almost 30 times bigger than Lanarkshire’s Strathclyde Park.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn81nl1n2v5o
“England’s farmers battle drought as river flows fall ‘perilously’ low…
“Tom Lancaster, head of land, food and farming at the non-profit Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said the dry spring had affected many arable crops at a “really crucial growth phase”. Last month was the hottest June on record…”
https://www.ft.com/content/5106fe0e-cd36-4042-9918-d04a2167bd1d
“A beach in Biarritz closed to swimming due to a toxic algae.
“A beach in Biarritz, in southwestern France, was closed to swimming on Thursday due to a high concentration of a toxic micro-algae, which had caused a wave of panic and the closure of several Basque coast beaches in 2021.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/beach-biarritz-closed-swimming-due-044111364.html
“Smoke engulfs Madrid after wildfires in Spain…
“One blaze sending smoke over Madrid has already burned through 3,000 hectares and is threatening to burn more. More than 100 firefighters are battling it from the ground and air as officials told dozens of people to leave their homes and evacuate.”
https://news.sky.com/video/smoke-engulfs-madrid-as-wildfires-rage-in-central-spain-13398541
“Extreme Weather Causes Devastation Across Romania: Bucharest And Fourteen Counties Hit By Storm, New Update.
“The Department for Emergency Situations (DSU) reported that the storm ravaged 60 localities and downed trees and tore away roof materials, while causing extensive power outages, with some areas also suffering from heavy flooding. Regrettably, the storm claimed at least 1 life.”
“Istanbul experienced its driest June in the last 65 years, receiving almost no rainfall last month….
“Professor Hüseyin Toros, a faculty member in the Department of Climate Science and Meteorological Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), told AA that Türkiye has been experiencing extremely hot weather and insufficient rainfall in recent days.”
“Heavy downpour in Ankara: Streets and avenues turned into lakes, businesses flooded.
“Heavy rainfall in the capital, Ankara, caused disruptions across the city. Numerous vehicles were submerged, and numerous businesses were flooded, sustaining material damage.”
“RECORD HEAT ALL OVER ASIA – up to 52C [125.6F] in Middle East; MINIMUM 37.9 at Jahra, Kuwati [record]
“Insane heat IN the former USSR: 46C at to 45 latitude in KAZAKHSTAN with record hot nights too: Min 30.3 Karak ,28.4 Zalagash; Records fall from North Africa all the way to Indonesia ! (37.0C Pekanbaru).”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1946254765685387273
“Tehran faces severe water crisis amid record drought.
“Iran’s capital, Tehran, is grappling with its most severe drought in recorded memory, with alarming statistics revealing that the dams supplying the capital hold only 14% of their capacity, local print newspaper Jam-e Jam reported on July 17.”
https://x.com/WaterTrends/status/1945824028368814116
“Punjab [Pakistan] braces for more after rains claim 70 lives in 48 hours…
“The PMD and PDMA have issued fresh alerts about more downpours in Punjab and other parts of Pakistan. The advisories, issued on Friday, directed provincial and district administrations to take precautionary measures…”
https://www.dawn.com/news/1925094/punjab-braces-for-more-after-rains-claim-70-lives-in-48-hours
“Decades of drought end in deluge: Bundelkhand sees 200% surge in rainfall, kharif crops ruined [northern, central India]…
“After nearly two decades of chronic water scarcity, Bundelkhand — a drought-prone region spanning parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh — has witnessed an extraordinary spell of monsoon rainfall that has left fields flooded and crops ruined.”
“Today, heat wave in China has expanded again. Xinjiang Toksun reached 45.1C, AWS reached 46.6C [115.9F]! Four stations in Tibet & Qinghai broke record:
“Milin 29.9 (annual record); Nangqian 29.6; Dingqing 27.1; Suo County 26.8 (annual record, 4220m asl.).” [Jim Yang]
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1946183061156274623
“JAPAN ENDLESS RECORD HEAT:
“>1000 records have fallen in Japan in the past weeks including in Hokkaido with temperatures >36C [96.8F] and also warm nights, which is very abnormal. More records of High Minimums: 23 Lake Akan, 23 Rankoshi, 22 Obhiro Springs, 25.4 Hoshogaware, 23.4 Rokkasho.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1946367608824938936
“With an increased global demand for matcha and record temperatures hitting Japan, supplies see an abrupt halt, causing prices to hit an all-time high…
“At the auction in May, tencha was selling for 8,235 yen per kg (US$55.45), 170% up from last year, and beating the previous record of 4,862 yen (US$32.74) per kg from 2016.”
https://supplychaindigital.com/news/how-high-temperatures-have-caused-mass-matcha-supply-issues
“Torrential rains that lashed South Korea for a fourth day on Saturday kept nearly 3,000 people from returning to their homes, as the death toll reached four people…
“Rainfall since Wednesday reached a record of more than 500mm [19.7 inches] at Seosan, in the South Chungcheong province south of Seoul.”
“CEBU City [Philippines] declared a state of calamity on Friday, July 18, 2025, following days of relentless rain and widespread flooding…
“Gov. Pam Baricuatro called on Cebuanos to take preparedness seriously. “As we face stronger and more frequent typhoons and natural disasters, I urge everyone to take preparedness seriously — from your households to your barangays,” she said in a statement.”
“PHILIPPINES RECORD HEAT:
“Relentless record heat continues in the Philippines where thousands of records have fallen since March 2023 – every single day – hottest July night in history at Aparri with a minimum of 28.6C [83.5F] today.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1946133608957104279
“A diver has compared the algal bloom crisis off the South Australian coast to Chernobyl, highlighting the devastating impact on marine life with before-and-after images.
“The diver’s images show a stark contrast between a vibrant underwater ecosystem and a barren, lifeless environment due to the toxic algal bloom.”
“Why the Southern jet stream is shifting – and what it means.
“A fast belt of westerly winds that helps shape summer weather across South America, southern Africa, Australia, and Oceania is now sliding toward the South Pole and blowing harder…”
https://www.earth.com/news/why-the-southern-jet-stream-is-shifting-and-what-it-means/
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CENTRAL AMERICA – 40.2C [104.4F] Choluteca is HONDURAS HOTTEST JULY DAY IN HISTORY.
“Temperatures up to 41C also in COLOMBIA; Santa Marta had its hottest July day on record with the T rising >38C. This heat in the rainy season is unprecedented.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1946003301327147026
“The body of another victim of the rains has been found in Zapopan, Jalisco; the death toll has risen to 10. [Mexico]
“Tlajomulco, Jalisco. —The body of a man was found Thursday afternoon in a storm drain in Tlajomulco . He was preliminarily identified as Adrián Guerrero , who was swept away by the current while riding his motorcycle on July 12. His death toll from the storm in Jalisco now totals 10.”
“Texas ‘economic miracle’ crashes into new reality of extreme weather.
“Texas leaders’ dreams of unlimited development and a rush of artificial intelligence data centers are on a collision course with a new reality of extreme weather, as this month’s flash floods hammer a landscape plagued by long-term drought.”
“The weather-beaten village of Ruidoso [New Mexico] endured another bout of heavy rainfall Thursday that triggered a flash flood warning and at least two swiftwater rescues.
“Although the rescues were successful, they were a painful reminder of flash flooding that hit the area last week and claimed the lives of three people, including two children.”
“Nebraska sues Colorado over river water rights, proposed canal construction…
“The lawsuit alleges Colorado has “deprived” Nebraskans of their water rights during irrigation season, while also “obstructing” plans to construct a long-disputed conduit called the Perkins County Canal.”
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5406638-nebraska-colorado-water-rights-canal/
“Flooding in Southwest Virginia leads to evacuations.
“Lebanon Police Captain William Puckett said that there are 13 injuries, and they do not know the severity of the injuries at the moment. Officials ask that no one travel through the area of Dante tonight, as electricity will be cut to the area, making it hard to travel through.”
https://wcyb.com/news/local/evacuations-due-to-flooding-happening-now-in-dante-va
“Unfortunately, there will be more flooding events this month. Unusually high levels of moisture will continue to pulse over central and eastern states during the next two weeks.” [Ben Noll]
https://x.com/BenNollWeather/status/1946219659579040198
“HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN CANADA:
“Record temperatures all over the planet and Canada is not an exception. Temperatures up to 35C [95F] in Newfoundland and Labrador Province, including historic records like 34.9C at Badger.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1945965236093104603
“States of emergency, agricultural disaster declared in parts of drought-stricken Manitoba.
“The extremely dry conditions in Manitoba, which have led to multiple wildfires in the north, are now pushing other areas toward an agricultural calamity. The rural municipality of St. Laurent has declared a state of emergency, while the RM of Coldwell has declared a state of agricultural disaster.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/drought-agricultural-disaster-emergency-1.7588473
“Soil is losing nitrogen, along with its climate-fighting power.
“Plants can’t pull carbon from the air without nitrogen in the ground. A new global study finds that forests, prairies, and other natural areas are receiving far less new nitrogen than scientists previously believed. This shortfall could weaken nature’s ability to slow climate change.”
https://www.earth.com/news/soil-is-losing-nitrogen-along-with-its-climate-fighting-power/
“The World Is Entering a Dark New Era of Hydroterrorism…
“According to the Pacific Institute, global water-related violence surged by more than 50 percent in 2023 alone. Yet international institutions still treat water as a development or an environmental issue—not as the national security flashpoint it has become.”
“Why we urgently need to talk about geoengineering.
“The idea that we might attempt large-scale experiments to cool the planet is horrifying to some, but it looks increasingly likely that we will have to do so this century. We are heading towards a future that is so much hotter we won’t just be able to carry on as normal.”
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Hunziker’s latest counterpunch is 99% straight C&E, a pure distillation of the relentless collating work Pan-O does here day after day, but Hunziker ends with this:
“Consequently, governments of the world are massively beefing up relief agencies to help their citizens. Trump is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Relief, The New York Times, July 12, 2025, as he gooses up the wallets of billionaires via obscene tax cuts that will blow up America’s deficit like a hot air balloon. Watch for it to burst. This is presidential?”
Huh? Say what? “Massively beefing up relief agencies”? They iz? Really? Umm, you sure ‘bout that? Cos to me it looks like the precise opposite, that governments of the world are massively beefing up their weapons of war to kill other governments’ citizens and leaving the transnational corporations in charge.
Head-spinning.
Transnational. Exactly. Thank you for that. There is no such entity as a Multinational Corporation.
Meanwhile, here in the USA, the MSNBC pundits froth at the mouth as much as Trucker Carlson over Epstein. Once again gleefully pouncing on another sex scandal even while children are being systemically targeted for State-sponsored execution by religious zealots with weapons the US supplies while mouthing empty self-serving platitudes.
In Bonesawdi Arabia, our ally, as Wei as many other Asian countries, girls as young as 12 are bought & sold like cattle, a well known fact, but the West cannot exist w/out their energy resources, so that’s just fine.
My sister was raped at a young age, then, decades later, murdered by her husband: Her children , as well as herself, did not equate the two; to those confused, who equate murder and rape, I would like to stand with my sister’s offspring to shout, “They are not the same!” You can, and most do, recover from rape (I did … more or less … well, let’s just say I agree with Dorothy Parker, “Might as well live”) … those murdered aren’t given that choice … while children shot in the head, execution-style with weapons supplied by us, do not go on to have children of their own, yet there is nothing even close to the feeding frenzy over these murdered innocents as there is over victims of sexual abuse.
The underlying reason is there for all to see, as pointed out by Guy de Maupassant in “A Woman’s Life”: “for the church, a corpse was a source of profit”. A truism to this day. Every religion profits from births, but each and every one of them takes in far more cash muttering mumbo-jumbo over a corpse. Is it then any wonder that religious institutions all over the world maintain a stony silence while women & children are being systematically slaughtered, yet pile on invective and clutch their rosaries in horror at even the thought of a trans athlete?
The propaganda of the first Transnational Corporations we prefer to call religions remains the same as it has always been:
While Sex is Evil, Murder and wholesale slaughter is Divine (GW Bush claimed God told him to do it, as he rained weapons of mass destruction made with depleted uranium onto the heads of Iraqi civilians … and not one church elder has ever condemned this blasphemy).
Rob, I may be misreading your comment. If it was indeed your sister who was raped and later murdered, then any words I begin to type ring trite and shallow in my own ears… FWIW, I am truly sorry.
The points you make about ubiquitous hypocrisy and double-standards are well taken.
Martin, I’m aware of zero beefing up here in the UK. There’s no one government fund for helping out people who are victims of climate change disasters; it’s all ad hoc and the sums are pretty measly. If you get flooded out, for example, the council might let you off paying council tax and you could be eligible for a £500 Community Recovery Grant.
Meanwhile, we are, as you say, splurging on weapons of war – £60 billion this financial year with further increases in the pipeline. We are also investing a cool £22 billion in carbon capture projects. Honestly, there aren’t enough “roll eye” emojis in WordPress to accurately reflect my feelings on that.
“The World Is Entering a Dark New Era of Hydroterrorism…”
TIL a new word: ‘Hydroterrorism.’
I mean, it makes sense. All the pieces to construct the terminology already exist: the concept of ‘water wars’, fighting over dwindling water resources, aquifer depletion, exploiting water shortages for power, the fact that the aforementioned has been flagged by climate scientists for aaaages, and so on.
Unrelated to topic question: what is the best way to do HTML mark up in this comment section? Like. e.g., bold, italics, links. I’m a dummy regarding these things.
Also, Pan… thanks man for doing this 6 of every 7 days! How do you stay mentally sane doing this so often?
Good question on the formatting. Let me check let me *test it out*. is this bolded?
I might ask Pan to delete this comment of mine.
I think links are automatically clickable…?
Go to this link and scroll down to this part: “To bold text within a comment, markup your text, starting with…”
https://www.knownhost.com/kb/wordpress-comments-formatting/
I can’t type it out here or what I’m trying to show you will disappear.
And you can see my link was automatically hyperlinked.
Cassandra, thank you! I am lost when it comes to these matters and could not run this site without you.
James, I don’t think it is any more emotionally challenging putting these threads together than it is reading them. The practicalities do require quite a lot of focus and discipline, though. It can make for some pretty hectic mornings, with work, parenting and just life pulling me in different directions and undermining my concentration.
Thanks, Cassandra.
Good news everybody! Richard Crim just dropped another banger of a doom article!
https://richardcrim.substack.com/p/the-crisis-report-113
Thanks for that, James. Really lays it out!
Reality is gonna hurt or reality bits on in the dairy ars. As industrial civilization runs up against big limitations as water and resources disappear into thin air. Not sure what silcon valley and trump are drinking but after the populations begin to turn against them after the big bill crashes the us economy no one will want ai or anything soon. Survival will be hard enough.
I do wonder how this insane party will look in hindsight to those suffering through the hangover, Heather.
‘Dozens of stations allover Middle East (Iran,Iraq,Kuwait,Emirates) with Minimums >35C
Max. temperatures expected up to 52C
Historic heat wave,one of the worst ever seen worldwide and it might last weeks.”
A result of geoengineering, which is what starting a series of detonations in a billion ICE machines on a daily basis amounts to. But like “collateral damage”, one’s intentions are not actually the relevant point: if your country’s Luftwaffe kills 50 people to assassinate the groom at a wedding party, they claim collateral damage , even though they knew they’d be killing scores of people as well as the intended target, so somehow dropping bombs on people is okay as long as your intentions are good. The same applies to geoengineering; we may not intend to be geoengineering the climate when we start an engine (here in the US it’s currently “driving season”, accelerating geoengineering to accelerate our own sorry asses over a river of asphalt) but explosions, even those as carefully calibrated as those occurring under the hood, have repercussions that have as little to do with the “intentions” of our actions as we have for their known consequences (ie, none).
‘The idea that we might attempt large-scale experiments to cool the planet …”
who exactly is this “we?” If it’s corporations, they must, by law, make a profit, so gov’t, ie taxpayers must fund any experiments, while the US administration, before which every country grovels in obeisance, spits in your face with contempt by declaring climate change to be a hoax …. all the while being in full knowledge that it is anything but. The Chief Executive can, at such time when it becomes untenable to maintain that moronic assertion, simply claim he was being “sarcastic”, and not a word will dare be uttered as to the utter depravity of such a claim.
Rob, you could make a case that we’ve been geo-engineering the climate since we started on our post-ice age deforestation spree. 12,000 years ago 57% of the world’s landmass was forested; now it’s down to 38%.
Greenland and Alpine ice cores show evidence of significant lead and antimony pollution from Roman smelting… We’ve really been mischievous, planet-tinkering simians for a long time. I’m sure it’s in our nature to try some Hail Mary climate intervention when that looks like the best of our dwindling options.
“They couldn’t leave well enough alone,” would probably be a fitting epitaph for us Homo Sapiens.
This site was posted on Gail’s OFW and took notice of this one; best concise overview on the topic I’ve come across
Yes, Climate Change Is Probably Going To Kill You
Itsovershoot
Nov 24, 2024
https://predicament.substack.com/p/what-most-people-dont-understand
Others are worth a read…some striking observations and insights given
Great honest headline (“Yes, climate change is probably going to kill you”) and excellent post.
What’s this probably, people speak of?
The last person living might be able to say; “They are dead to me.”
Saw the word wisdom today & started to wonder if wisdom is realizing that any one individual, & it’s ego are simply another pair of the 110,000,000,000 who have lived on this rock & that one & it’s offspring are not special & thinks it is beyond the consequences of it’s actions?
I’m starting to get really pissed off with the truth. Weather weirding is entertaining & it’s destruction calms me down because it will never affect me. 😉