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“The ocean carbon sink is ailing: 10% drop in CO₂ absorption seen during record 2023 marine heat wave.
“Measurements analyzed by an international research team led by ETH Zurich show that the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heat wave in 2023.”
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ocean-carbon-ailing-absorption-marine.html
“Sea Surface Temperatures s are spiking again. Mini-caution, two days does not a trend make.
“The Climate 8-ball advises waiting a few more days then screaming into a pillow.”
[Prof Eliot Jacobson]
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/1963267657513505185
“New temperature records in the North and Baltic Seas.
“In 2025, the North Sea experienced the warmest summer since temperature measurements began in 1969, averaging 15.7 degrees Celsius, with temperatures two degrees above the long-term average over a large area. The Baltic Sea also recorded significantly higher values – with expected consequences.”
“ARCTIC WARMTH. This insane relentless record warmth never ends. These temperatures in September are “ridiculous”.
“At 80N latitude Vize Island is still unable to drop below +4C (7 weeks without freezing). at 68N Snezhnogorsk today rose to +22.7C / 72.9F (September record). Unprecedented.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1963296984577569248
“OFFICIAL! Met Éireann confirms summer 2025 was the hottest in Ireland since records began…
“The climate expert broke down the rationale behind the summer’s high temperatures saying: “it hasn’t been particularly sunny during the summer but the dry soils from a warm and sunny spring, the heat domes over mainland Europe.”
“Homes destroyed as rare tornado strikes Brittany’s Morbihan region.
“A rare tornado struck Brittany on Tuesday morning, tearing through Morbihan with winds of nearly 140 km/h, destroying homes and leaving villages littered with debris.”
“France recorded its third hottest summer this year since records began in 1900, Ecological Transition Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher announced on Tuesday.
“The summer of 2025, marked by two heat waves in July and August, was the third hottest recorded in France since Meteo-France began taking measurements in 1900, Pannier-Runacher said, according to broadcaster BFM TV.”
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/france-records-3rd-hottest-summer-since-1900/3676495
“Barcelona sees record number of ‘tropical’ and ‘torrid’ nights during summer months.
“Throughout Catalonia, between June 1 and August 31, temperatures exceeded 35°C on two out of every three days, only the fourth time this has occurred this century. Temperatures reached 40ºC [104F] on 16 days, equalling the record set in 2001.”
“Climate change made heat and dryness that fuelled Iberian wildfires 40 times more likely, study finds.
“The extremely hot, dry and windy conditions, which fueled one of the IberianPeninsula’s most destructive wildfire seasons in recorded history, were 40 times more likely due to climate change, according to a study released Thursday.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/madrid-spain-portugal-europe-pedro-sanchez-b2819781.html
“Drought and doubts: can the European Union help Greece and other thirsty Member States?
“…Last year was catastrophic for Giannis´ olive trees. Olives were so small that they were referred to the oil market, much less lucrative, he says. This year seems only slightly better. By the day we film, not a single rain drop has fallen here in two months.”
“Torrential rains brought major flooding to parts of Istria on Tuesday, inundating roads in the Croatian region, basements and ground-floor apartments after 100 liters of rain fell per square meter in less than an hour.
“Nearly 2,000 lightning strikes were recorded in two hours, as cars were overturned and emergency services struggled… Residents described the scale as unprecedented.”
“HISTORIC MEDITERRANEAN & BLACK SEA HEAT WAVE:
“Insane September heat persists with 46.4C in Algeria , 44.1C [111.4F] in Turkey,39C in Russia and records broken everywhere. TURKEY: 40.8 Gaziantep; Min 26.1 Osmaniye; RECORD HOT NIGHTS Tmin: RUSSIA: 24.2 Sochi, 22.7 Saratov; BULGARIA: 22.3 Sliven; ROMANIA: 22.8 Buzau.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1962947379981603317
“Lemon growers in Türkiye struggle as climate change fuels disasters.
“Lemon farmers in Türkiye’s fertile Çukurova region are reeling after a series of unprecedented weather events destroyed a significant portion of their crops, highlighting the mounting impact of climate change on the country’s agriculture.”
“Iraq risks water disaster as reserves hit critical levels…
“The expert, speaking to Shafaq News on condition of anonymity, explained that authorities have begun drawing on “dead storage” from Lake Habbaniyah to cover severe shortfalls, stressing that the water is of poor quality, with high sulfur content and a dark green color.”
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Iraq-risks-water-disaster-as-reserves-hit-critical-levels
“Mass evacuations in Pakistan’s flooded Punjab hit 300,000 in 48 hours.
“Nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of Pakistan’s Punjab province following the latest flood alerts by India, officials have said, bringing the total number of people displaced since last month to 1.3 million.”
“Punjab floods threaten to devastate India’s rice harvest.
“Floods caused by torrential monsoon rains have submerged swathes of agricultural land in northern India, threatening to ruin the standing rice crop and undermine the country’s food security.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/punjab-floods-rice-harvest-basmati-b2819240.html
“Jammu and Kashmir faces threat of Glacial Lake Outburst floods, says report, urges immediate remedial action.
“A series of devastating cloudbursts and landslides across Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh claimed over 122 lives [in August]. Now, a risk assessment report has sounded the alarm on the growing threat of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in Jammu and Kashmir, highlighting the region’s increasing vulnerability to climate-related disasters.”
“One dead, 5 missing as landslides triggered by heavy rains wreak havoc in Himachal.
“At least nine people were buried under heavy debris and mud after a landslide struck Inner Akhara Bazaar in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh early today. One body has been recovered, three injured persons rescued, and the search for five others is ongoing.”
“INDIA RECORD HEAT:
“September has just started and records are coming from all over the world, including India. Yesterday 39.6C [103.3F] at Silchar September high record; Today Minimum 30.1C Patna September hottest night.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1962911426986602598
“HISTORIC AUTUMN WARMTH IN MONGOLIA:
“Insanely hot nights, unprecedented in September: HIGH MINIMUM RECORDS: 22.8 [73F] Khovsgol is HOTTEST AUTUMN NIGHT IN MONGOLIAN HISTORY; also 22.2 Khanbodgd; 21.2 Mandakh; 17.8 Choir.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1962886484349890836
“China sees hottest summer ever…
“On Monday, Hangzhou in Zhejiang province and Shanghai again reached 35 C, extending record-breaking streaks. By Sept 5, high temperatures are expected across the Sichuan Basin and much of the Yangtze River Delta…”
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202509/02/WS68b6a971a3108622abc9e791.html
“A car was discovered on the bed of a dried-up reservoir in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, after a severe drought pushed water levels to a record low, local news reports said Thursday. [S Korea]
!Police and fire authorities said the Tico compact car from now-defunct Daewoo Motors was found on a sloped section of the Obong Reservoir…”
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10568665
“EXTRAORDINARY UNBELIEVABLE. HUNDREDS OF RECORDS BRUTALIZED IN JAPAN:
“Most extreme heat wave in Japanese history: Not just the records of September but ALL TIME RECORDS keep falling like 37.4 [99.3F] Sendai and 36.1 Watari: Hottest day ever.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1962834573185733041
“As of 3 September 2025, the number of extremely hot days (>= 35°C / 95F) in Tokyo in 2025 has risen further to 28 days, significantly exceeding the 22 days recorded during the summer of 2023 over the 150-year observation period!”
[Tomoki Suzuki]
https://x.com/StabilizClimate/status/1963094904076161287
“Bullet trains disrupted as record rainfall floods northeastern Japan…
“Kitaakita City recorded a record 190mm (7.5 inches) of rainfall within 24 hours through Tuesday evening – surpassing the typical September average, authorities noted.”
“Historic flooding: Mexico City and Edomex…
“Citizen and Civil Protection reports agreed that Iztapalapa was the borough hardest hit by the day’s rains. Flooding was reported in various locations, affecting both motorists and pedestrians… At some of these locations, emergency teams also reported sewage outbreaks.”
“Wildfire burns into historic California Gold Rush town of Chinese Camp.
“Chinese Camp was once a bustling mining outpost for thousands of immigrants who worked the gold fields of the Southern Sierra. Then it was a historic landmark where tourists could revisit an often-forgotten chapter in California history.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-03/california-fires-lightning-strikes
“Late-summer heat breaks all-time September heat record in Spokane [Washington].
“On September 1st and 2nd, 2025, Spokane, Washington, recorded official high temperatures of 99 degrees Fahrenheit, setting a new record for the two hottest consecutive September days in the city’s history. This was due to a strong “heat dome” causing temperatures to remain significantly above the early September average of 78 degrees.”
https://www.youtube.com/c/KREM2NewsSpokane
“Spokane just ended its driest summer.
“From June 1 through Aug. 31, a mere 0.26 inches of rain fell at Spokane International Airport, compared to the average summertime rainfall of 2.33 inches, considering all summers since 1881. This resulted in a substantial seasonal rainfall deficit…”
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/sep/03/since-records-exist-spokane-just-ended-the-driest-/
“The all-time heat record for September in Canada now has just one titleholder: Ashcroft, B.C., after nudging out its three predecessors with a preliminary reading of 40.8°C [105.4F] on Wednesday.
This is also HOTTEST AUTUMN DAY EVER RECORDED IN THE WORLD at 50 latitude, per ExtremeTemps
“Was it the driest summer on record in the Maritimes?
“…[Yes[, For some official Environment Canada stations in this area, including Saint John, Fundy Park, Point Lepreau, Grand Manan and Kejimkujik National Park, this was indeed the driest summer on record. Notably, records date all the way back to 1870 in Saint John.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/driest-summer-maritimes-1.7622678
“How permafrost thaw diminishes the remaining carbon budget…
“The warming of permafrost regions is causing frozen soil to thaw down to deeper layers. The study shows that this will affect around 122 gigatons of carbon by the end of the investigated period if warming reaches 2°C. If it got 3°C warmer, the figure would increase to 229 gigatons.”
“Scientists warn on safe carbon capture limits to address climate change.
“Far less carbon dioxide can be safely stored underground than previously thought, scientists have said, highlighting the risks of relying on a technology that is undeveloped at the scale needed to meet global climate goals.”
https://www.ft.com/content/7ace8a5a-7af3-4160-8e2a-ad028e846e11
“Climate change is making rollercoaster harvests the new normal.
“A new global study led by the University of British Columbia shows that hotter and drier conditions are making food production more volatile, with crop yields swinging more sharply from year to year. For some, it may mean pricier burgers; for others, it can bring financial strain and hunger.”
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-climate-rollercoaster-harvests.html
“The real crisis isn’t climate change, ecologist Sandra Diaz says.
“Sandra Myrna Diaz, one of the world’s most influential ecologists, argues that humanity is missing the bigger picture. While climate change dominates headlines, she warns the deeper crisis is biodiversity collapse, the unravelling of the living web of plants, animals, soil and water that sustains life.”
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As bad as each day is, looking back at the spring and summer, it feels like a bit of a pause before climate change ramps up to the next level – things go as a series of steps rather than a continuous trend.
Also the last article is the most important message that anyone can properly grasp.
Exactly
Biodiversity loss is surely the Great Tragedy we’ve brought unto the world, and the floods/fires/droughts pale in significance in terms of loss of life, value, beauty. Still, let’s remember that four out of five Great Extinctions have been the result of runaway climate change with ocean acidification, which may well be where this ship is ultimately headed (though I’ll bet humans won’t live to see it). It’s hard to say what the odds are that this could be avoided even now, given the feedback loops already begun. Ah, but in 500 million years, what a world may have returned!
“…let’s remember that four out of five Great Extinctions have been the result of runaway climate change.”
This is a good point, Shane.
We have so many converging crises and with so much interplay between them that I just tend to lump them all together as eco-climate breakdown. I’m still very wedded to the idea that a financial collapse will get there first, but really who knows what the first, proximate triggers for mass human mortalities will be…
I think it is now accepted that even the dinosaur extinction was in large part climate change. The asteroid wasn’t quite large enough on its own but it set off the Deccan Traps (which happened to be diametrically opposite the Yucatan at the time) with a resultant pulse of CO2 and other nasties.
Finally, finally one of the “world’s leading ecologists,” which is like being one of the world’s leading buggy-whip manufacturers in 1900, says that there is hope, and hope is good, and hope comes from people, and somehow, if humanity ignores all the petro states like Qatar and the petro hegemons like the US and the petro nature of our brains and bloodstreams, then magically, all the social power will be reversed into the hands of only the sweetest and least violent of nature and biodiversity lovers among us.
Guy McPherson, on the other hand, said yesterday 2030 for The Date. What say you, good people? I do confess that I like and admire the guy, without buying into all of his predicts.
I’ve been saying that by 2030 the world will be unrecognizable. It is a bit vague, but all in compassing. It will not be “normal”. We won’t be planning holidays, going to kids sporting events, etc. It will be a scramble for survival. There are so many “dominos” that could trigger the chain reaction. Ecology, economics, disease, food insecurity, civic unrest, political, geopolitical… the list goes on. One of them will fall over by 2030 and it is unpredictable how the rest of the system goes.
Take a deep breath. 😮💨. Today is a lovely day 🌅
Martin: Where did Guy say this? Thanks
Good call, Duke.
The place where I thought he said it in his Science Snippets puts the date at 2100.
Must be the microplastics coagulated in my short term memory hole.
Now a deep breath.
He claimed in 2012 that NTHE was likely by 2030, but that’s no defense for my misreading.
Martin, I have pencilled in 2027, an extra 3 years is optimistic, I suppose.
Reddit/collapse makes good reading, humourous cartoons and our human coping strategies.
Feels odd to have lived through the best and worst times of human development. 1950’s to now.
I think UK should have banned American TV, like the French did for many years. USA media always seemed to increase addiction of one kind or another.
We should have banned corporations and kept tax at over 90%. This oligarch stuff has really speeded up our demise.
Lovely to have a 12 year old, Pan, spanning that child/adult no-man’s land 🙂
It is a fun age, Mad Hatter, and he is a bit of a livewire. I particularly enjoy the evolution of slang and hearing all the cool, contemporary high school lingo. 😆
Guy M has become a divisive figure but I learnt a lot from him back in the day. I fear he has undermined his own credibility a bit with his predictions, but at the same time, I do rather like it when people in the doomosphere stick their neck out and risk making them.
How many people have looked into the possibility that climate engineering, solar radiation management programs have already been deployed and are actually making a very dire climate situation far far worse?
Probably not many, cuz it sounds stupid.
Karl – looks like the numbers are tiny.
Climate engineering: These methods are generally categorized into two main approaches: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Management – reckon we can skip the CO2 removal bit but research is still ongoing – mostly imo it is a money maker for companies like Drax who recieve millions from a government who does not know the questions to ask. Other interesting stuff is being researched but not at roll-out stage – this website make heartening reading https://www.ukri.org/
Solar Radiation Management – look like pockets of scientists are still investigating this but are really careful “Researchers Walker Raymond Lee (NCAR) and Michael Diamond (Florida State University), stress that accurate modeling requires transparency about assumptions and careful communication to avoid misinterpretation, especially when evaluating complex and controversial climate interventions like SRM”
So I suspect nothing is making the situation worse, bottom line – where is the profit?
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has broken up
Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, CNN
Wed, September 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM EDT
Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at BAS, told CNN in an email Wednesday: “The iceberg is rapidly breaking up, and shedding very large chunks, themselves designated large icebergs by the US national ice centre that tracks these.”
The “megaberg” has now shrunk to about 1,700 square kilometers (656 square miles), according to Meijers, which equates to roughly the size of Greater London.
I am tired of the willful ignorance.
“Sandra Myrna Diaz, one of the world’s most influential ecologists, ”
I call bullshit! Guy McPherson is also an ecologist & openly says he is not a climate scientist. I’ve read & listened to most of the peer reviewed studies that G. Mc. has reported on since 2008. He says that the reports that he speaks about are not his studies. He interprets the info in relation to the effects a warming climate has on homo sapiens, + 60 possible feedback loops that could go irreversible. His predictions are based on the anaylsis of the info he has at any given time. There is plenty of info from G.Mc.. at Nature Bats Last & on YouTube, some are his opinions are about how to live in the end times. Hopefully any predictions are based on some form of data except for religion, politics & unregulated capitalism. As Lewis Black said: The market goes up, goes down, goes up, goes down & nobody knows why. 😉 I think most prognostications are pulled out of somebody’s head that has been up their asses.
Now that I’ve wiped the shit off my face, out of my ears & brushed my teeth. Overpopulation & habitat destruction will issue a one way ticket to NTHE. Not one ecologist that I’ve read has ever discussed the immediate everyday effects of overpopulation on the habitat. I’ve not see McPherson
discuss Opop.
There may be some ecologists that ain’t skeered, out there, I’ve not read anything about them, but at this point it’s too late to do anything about our damage to our environment?
I’m amazed that everyone’s first item on their bucket list is; Dying dumb.