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“New bee parasite spreading around the world could impact billions…
“…a tiny parasite called Varroa destructor… has now been detected in Ukraine, Georgia and southern Russia, and is suspected to be in Iran and Turkey. From there, it is expected to enter Eastern Europe, then spread across the continent. Australia and North America are also at risk.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/parasite-honeybee-tropi-varroa-destructor-b2823760.html
“INCREDIBLE AUTUMN ARCTIC TROPICAL NIGHTS; CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN. Never happened anything like this. Records broken by 3/5C in NORWAY.
“Today’s NIGHT MINIMUMS in the Arctic Circle: 20.4 [68.7F] Reipa, 19 Stokka, 18.9 Leknes, 18.7 Evenes. 18.2 Setsa & Bodo. Another milestone in world history!”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1966488216246129076
“Russia’s autumn sowing campaign hit by drought and rising input costs…
“Southern Russia, a region responsible for a large share of the country’s winter grain production, is facing low soil moisture for the second consecutive year, creating serious challenges for farmers… Rising costs for seed, fuel and fertilisers are compounding the difficulties.”
“Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms…
“Forensic scientist and Pfas expert Dr Dave Megson said he was “amazed that this was happening”, having assumed it was only “a relatively minor practice” under strict controls. “It seems like the whole system is out of control,” he said.”
“‘Like walking through time’: as glaciers retreat, new worlds are being created in their wake.
“As Swiss glaciers melt at an ever-faster rate, new species move in and flourish, but entire ecosystems and an alpine culture can be lost… People here once feared the monstrous ice streams, describing them as devils, but now they dread their disappearance.”
“Spain to teach schoolchildren disaster survival skills after deadly floods and wildfires.
“Spain will make lessons on floods, wildfires, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions compulsory for children as young as three in what the government says is an urgent step to prepare the next generation for the effects of the climate emergency.”
“How Europe Lost an Area the Size of Cyprus to Wildfires This Year…
“Climate change is playing a major role in the endless scenes of smoke and fire. Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, and the searing heat and drought that fueled this summer’s blazes will intensify in the coming decades…”
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2025/09/12/838930.htm
“EU countries delay deal on new climate goal, diplomats say.
“European Union countries have shelved plans to approve a new climate change target next week, after pushback from governments including France and Germany over plans to quickly land a deal, three EU diplomats told Reuters on Friday.”
“MEDITERRANEAN HEAT WAVES – once again extreme heat both West and East of the Mediterranean (as usual only Italy is skipped):
“Next days both Iberian Peninsula and Turkey will see temperatures around 40C [104F] for the whole next week. Only UK & Ireland will be cooler than average in Europe.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1966452680471044331
“Flash flood in Alcamo (TP), water washes away everything! [Sicily]
“A violent downpour hit Alcamo , in the province of Trapani, on the evening of Wednesday, September 10, causing flooding and disruption in several areas of the city. According to rainfall data, approximately 35 millimeters of rain fell in a short period of time…”
“Heavy hailstorms in northeastern Algeria and northern Tunisia.
“Violent thunderstorms accompanied by hailstorms hit Algeria and Tunisia, causing significant material and agricultural damage in several regions of these two countries. Powerful thunderstorms hit many wilayas in the east and north of the country, including El Tarf, Annaba, Skikda, Jijel, Constantine, and Guelma.”
“The crazy heat continues and intensifies in SOUTH AFRICA.
“Temperatures up to 39C [102.2F] again and insane hot nights even on the highlands with tropical nights well above 1000m asl. Records of high minimums broken locally with huge margins and it will get even hotter…”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1966095631971152250
“Over 100,000 people in South Sudan have been displaced by what the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has called “new deadly floods.”…
““Homes, schools, health facilities, farmlands, and pastures have been flooded,” said the UNHCR representative, “devastating livestock and inundating safe water sources and latrines, which have worsened sanitation and heightened health risks.””
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165841
“Melting Glaciers Threaten Tajik Agriculture.
“Climate change in Tajikistan is no longer a future concern, it is an immediate crisis. Farmers across the country are grappling with the effects of melting glaciers, prolonged heatwaves, and dust storms that are disrupting traditional agricultural cycles.”
https://timesca.com/melting-glaciers-threaten-tajik-agriculture/
“The retreat of Himalayan glaciers will never stop; what we can only hope for is to slow the decline…
“The Himalayas are reaching a critical point where fragile mountains with unstable slopes, and rapidly retreating glaciers are triggering disasters to become increasingly frequent and severe.”
“Water Crisis in Asia: Why the World Cannot Afford Inaction…
“The water crisis in Asia is not only a humanitarian emergency but also a macro-economic emergency with global spillovers. If left unaddressed, it will …threaten food security, climate resilience, and long-term economic stability.”
https://earth.org/water-crisis-in-asia-why-the-world-cannot-afford-inaction/
“ASIA EXTREME HEAT FROM WEST TO EAST – Widespread record heat continues from West to East:
“KUWAIT CITY min 34 max 48, IRAN Minimum 34.5C Honesynieh – never been that hot so late. PAKISTAN Min 28.5C [83.3F] Chillas is AUTUMN WORLD RECORD HOTTEST NIGHT 1200m asl. UZBEKISTAN-TAJIKISTAN Still 40C+.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1966553875747324201
“Floodwaters begin receding in a major Pakistani city but nearby towns face evacuations.
“Floodwaters that had threatened a major town in eastern Punjab province began to recede Friday, sparing its 700,000 residents, but rising waters swamped villages near two nearby cities, forcing panicked evacuations, Pakistani officials said.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/punjab-pakistani-multan-misery-sindh-b2825502.html
“At least 4 dead in West Sikkim [NE India] as incessant rain causes landslide; rescue ops on to trace missing people.
“National Highway 10 — the main road connecting Siliguri in West Bengal to Sikkim — has been closed several times in the last two to three months due to landslides… Sikkim and its adjoining areas, including North Bengal, have been receiving incessant rainfall over the past few days.”
“Southern Sichuan was hit by heavy rain on September 12, with 210 mm [8.3 inches] of rainfall in 12 hours.
“Neijiang and Zigong broke the single-day rainfall record in September.”
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1966728058766782487
“Eastern Shangqiu, Henan, was hit by heavy rain on September 12, with a record-breaking 260 mm [102 inches] of rainfall in 24 hours…
“In Hubei’s Xiaogan region, 195mm 7.7 inches] of rain fell in the first six hours of the morning. Yunmeng, Anlu, and other areas broke the single-day rainfall record for September.” [Jim Yang]
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1966720989527482747
“Heavy rains hit northern Mie Prefecture, flooding strands cars in Yokkaichi; 57,186 people ordered to evacuate [Japan].
“Heavy rains hit northern Mie Prefecture from the 12th to the 13th due to the influence of warm, humid air moving toward the autumn rain front. According to the Tsu Regional Meteorological Observatory, Yokkaichi City recorded the highest hourly rainfall ever recorded, at 123.5 mm [4.9 inches].”
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20250913-OYT1T50079/
“One dead and thousands without power as Tokyo receives half a month’s rainfall in one hour…
“The downpour brought large parts of the capital to a standstill… The Japan Meteorological Agency reported record rainfall in some districts, with Setagaya Ward getting 92mm and Ota 88.5mm within an hour, the highest ever observed in these areas.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/rainfall-tokyo-power-cut-latest-b2825147.html
“Indonesia’s meteorological agency on Friday warned of another week of extreme weather across the country, just days after Bali was hit by its most severe flooding in 10 years [out of rainy season].
“The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said heavy rainfall and strong winds are likely to affect multiple provinces between Sept. 12–18, raising risks of floods…”
“EXTRAORDINARY MILDNESS IN ANTARCTICA.
“Temperatures >+7C but the unprecedented “warmth” were the Minimums well above 0C. Yesterday Base San Martin (Argentina) had a MINIMUM temperature of +3.8C [38.8F], which destroys the record of September and it’s even close to the summer records!“
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1966653311324418308
“SOUTH AMERICA HEAT WAVE:
“Another scorching day in Brazil and Bolivia with temperatures up to 41.8C at Goias. From tomorrow further increase of the heat: during the next 7 days Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil will experience a terrible heat wave with up to 44C [111.2F].”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1966617223071445417
“An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists.
“Each year between January and April, a blob of cold water rises from the depths of the Gulf of Panama to the surface, playing an essential role in supporting marine life in the region. But this year, it never arrived… Andrew Sellers, a marine ecologist… said the disappearance of the cold water upwelling could cause “major repercussions throughout the food web.”“
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/climate/pacific-cold-water-upwelling.html
“The Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude [ocean] heat keeps blowing my mind.
“The 2025 summer (June-August) was not as extreme as the past two years for the North Atlantic, but the other oceans were even more extreme than both 2023 and 2024!”
[Leon Simons]
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1966218537539960992
“Florida, have you noticed our “cool” season is shrinking?
“With the prospect of a sub 70 degree [21F] near Tampa on Sunday/ Monday, it’s worth mentioning that our first sub 70 degree morning arrives much later than it used to – by about 5 weeks!” [Jeff Berardelli]
https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/1966598095682072606
“Corn diseases lurk in bumper U.S. crop, threatening yields.
“The outbreaks [of fungal disease] are a blow to farmers in the world’s biggest corn-producing country as they struggle to make money due to low grain prices and rising costs for fertilizer, seed and other inputs. Farmers had hoped to produce the biggest possible yields to offset low prices, and crop diseases put that plan at risk.”
“US environment agency could end reporting of greenhouse gas emissions…
“The Trump administration has also taken steps to end the collection of key environmental databases at the EPA as well as other federal agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and end greenhouse gas-monitoring satellites operated by Nasa.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/environment-greenhouse-gas-reporting-end
“Cost of July Calgary hailstorm almost double initial estimates.
“Original estimates pegged insured damage at $92 million, however, that total increased to $164 million – a 78% increase… “It’s been another catastrophic year for hailstorms in Alberta,” said Aaron Sutherland, Vice-President, Pacific and Western, Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC).”
“Southern Manitoba communities flooded by as much as 135 mm [5.3 inches] of rain overnight.
“Vehicles were left stranded in sudden lakes as the city was hit with 103 millimetres of rain in just four hours and 135 mm by the time it stopped, according to Environment Canada. That’s the equivalent of two months’ worth of rain for that city, 40 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/steinbach-flooding-rain-thunderstorms-1.7632088
“Much of Atlantic region officially suffering ‘extreme drought,’ Agriculture Canada confirms…
“”At the end of the month, 72 per cent of the Atlantic Region was classified as abnormally dry (D0) or in moderate to extreme drought (D1 to D3), including 100 per cent of the region’s agricultural landscape,” text accompanying the map said.”
“Climate change is making resources scarce and tensions rise, increasing the risk of future wars.
“As conflicts around the world increase, migration ramps up pace, and nations are extinguished, we may be entering a Hobbesian world where natural disasters, rising sea-levels and resource scarcity lead to war and chaos.”
https://www.dawn.com/news/1941493/can-climate-change-trigger-armed-conflict
“‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster…
“The transition to clean energy will be difficult, but not impossible. Some of it is already happening… We now need to make coal- and gas-fired power plants go the way of whale oil… Electric vehicles are an obvious solution… Renewable energy technologies have become good, reliable and inexpensive.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/11/hope-fight-ecological-disaster-climate-catastrophe
“Action on climate change faces new threat: The doomers who think it’s too late to act…
“Doomism produces viral social media content — what’s been termed “climate doom porn,” marked by dramatic but unsupported claims of collapsing ice sheets, runaway warming, and imminent extinction… Doom porn sells, and it has surely borne fruit for the polluters, petrostates, and plutocrats who are fanning its flames.”
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Hello Pan
I am beginning to dislike these NGOs more and more with their manageability and “earning models”
Well another piece that cries out for “action” on water….
Development banks, NGOs, and multilateral institutions love to publish optimistic reports about water and climate adaptation in Asia. They talk about “resilience,” “governance,” smart sensors, and billions in new dams and irrigation schemes. But behind that glossy language lies a far more fundamental story that rarely gets told: the silent plundering of aquifers, the underground water reserves that sustain hundreds of millions of people.
NASA’s GRACE satellites show the hard truth.
In northern India, groundwater levels are dropping by an average of 17.7 cubic kilometers per year. In the North China Plain, losses exceed 8 cubic kilometers annually. In the Indus Basin, depletion has tripled since 2015. These are not future projections but measurable facts. And as the water vanishes, the ground itself sinks: in Ahmedabad, India, subsidence from over-pumping reaches three centimeters a year.
Yet international reports remain quiet. Why? Because you can’t build a business model around exhaustion.
A dam or irrigation canal can be financed, an aquifer that’s drying out cannot. So the attention shifts to “innovation” and “investment,” while the physical base is ignored.
The consequences are dire. In India and Pakistan, the food supply for hundreds of millions depends on crops irrigated with water that will soon be gone. When the pumps run dry, no technology or financing instrument can make up the shortfall. The result will be food crises, migration, and social instability.
The irony is that the very institutions now calling for more investment have, for decades, financed the expansion of irrigation and intensive agriculture that drove this depletion in the first place.
The debts remain. The water does not.
Who pays the price? Not the banks, nor the conference delegates in Dubai and Singapore, but the small farmers watching their wells collapse. They are forced to migrate while policy reports continue to speak of “resilience” and “growth opportunities.”
Asia’s real water crisis is not unfolding in the boardrooms of development banks but deep underground. There, silently and invisibly, the reserves that entire societies rely on are disappearing. And once they are gone, they will not come back.
Zip, thank you for your thoughts on this. I agree the framing of the article is tiresome. It’s like the Editor challenged the author to see how many times she could cram the world “sustainable” into her piece (eleven, if you’re counting).
I wondered what sort of interest rates the The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank charges, but they don’t publish them. Nor does similar entity European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Their financial packages are apparently “bespoke”.
Fck Mann & Hotez!! Both get WELL PAID to promote calm and SOFT DENIAL. (Not to mention this will help sell their new book which came out last week.) Maybe “doomism” is growing exponentially for GOOD REASON!?!
You left out the u!
I have some news for Mann & Hotez; it’s not the doomers that are impeding actions on climate change. It is the inaction on climate change for the last 2 or 3 decades that increased the number of doomers. Doomers are on the increase because reality is settling in for more and more people.
It’s also hypocritical because the most effective forms of green politics/climate action tap directly into doomerism to lend themselves gravity while also promising the usual lineup of solutions. Greta Thunberg being a case in point, as well as the “blow up the pipelines” guy.
But we are in runaway warming..
Look at the data of that ocean heat MANN!
Dear Dr.Mann.. What the F has your volumes of hopium accomplished. You seem incapable of understanding how a human brain actually functions. There is no amount of pleading that will break through the wall of highly infectious mass psychosis infecting the planet
Thank you all for your comments on Michael Mann. I was stirring the pot a bit by including that article.
What a runaway freight train of an ego a person must have to appoint themselves Ultimate Gatekeeper of the Climate Change Narrative.
Obviously, I agree that his scapegoating of the tiny subset of people who one might call doomers is risible, especially when it is he who is in factual error; not them. This ship cannot be turned around for a whole host of reasons that are apparently a mystery to him, for all his academic laurels.
He talks about “polluters” as if he isn’t one and, ever classy, he can’t resist having a pop at Jim Hansen in that article. 🙄
There’s a million stupidities in that Mann/Hotez self-advertorial, but I would like to lead with this one:
“ the implication being that we are selling “hope” in the way, say, junkies on the street might sell drugs.”
Say what?
I thought that junkies typically buy and use the drugs, and that it is the good capitalist folks called “dealers” who sell the drugs. The confusion wrought by the flubbed simile by professors Mann/Hotez gets too convoluted to disentangle – junkies sometimes do some dealing, and dealers do become junkies, too, and, well, – forget it, it’s just all nonsense.
If the world wants me to enumerate the nonsense, well the pay up beforehand – how else do you think a doomer critic like me can ever have risen to the heights of “eminence in the political economy”?
Not seeing anyone forking over the cash, I’ll simply note that this indictment was brought to you on “livescience,” a website owned by something called “Purch,” which features blinking, blinding product advertisements in accordance with Purch’s product placement propaganda.
There you go – I hit my troll-farm alliteration goal of four P’s, and now can go comfortably viral to find my sweet lavish lifestyle.
Pan-O, how long can you hold out before livescience “Purch” gives you a takeover bid you can’t refuse?
Not long, Martin. I need me some of that sweet “Purch” revenue. 😎
Seems Fish can be smarter than a lot of their two legged uprights…TR would enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RokRxQG8aC0
Watch This Fish “Drive” To His Mom To Get Treats | The Dodo
When I was 10 I got a penny fish that ended up living 10 years. He slept in his tank right next to my bed. He’d wake me up in the mornings by swimming up and down the corner and splashing me. he had a little ball that we’d play with, id toss it in and he’d knock it up and out. He loved to be petted, he’d swim through your hand if you made a tunnel. It’s small thing, but he was the first pet I had that taught me ALL living things have a mind of their own, and can communicate if we just figure
I think one of the major advancements of human sociology and science is that we’ve begun to recognize animals are far more emotionally and practically intelligent, with personalities and feelings, than we ever thought possible
Invasive insect species is so prevalent in US it’s showing up on flight radar
Joe Sommerlad
A massive swarm of spotted lanternflies was detected on weather radar across the East Coast, including D.C., Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, on Thursday.
These insects, originating from South East Asia, are highly invasive and pose a significant threat to agricultural crops.
Meteorologists confirmed the radar readings were due to insects, not weather, by analysing reflectivity, correlation coefficient, and velocity data, which showed characteristics inconsistent with rain.
The species spreads rapidly due to its ability to lay eggs in diverse environments and its capacity to travel long distances by riding air currents up to 3,000 feet.
Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources issued guidance advising against harmful pesticides, instead recommending the use of circle traps and urging caution to avoid harming similar-looking, harmless insects.
Seems another invasive species is causing trouble here
Vince, thank you for those tidbits of info. The more we learn about the intelligence of these apparently simple creatures the worse I feel about the suffering we are inflicting on them. 😢
As a first-time keeper of chickens, I was amazed by how smart and emotional they are, given that their brains are the size of lima beans. When one of the initial pair we bought died prematurely, the survivor was bereft. She mourned for days… It just hadn’t occurred to me that their inner lives are as rich as they are.
Mr Mann is a toady pulling the company line and many us are not stupid after the 2008 crash. I am suck of these pr on the right and left on a variety of issues. Its summer and other bs. Many of live in reality and understand and see everyday what is happening. I think just as the anger grows against me elon musk and droge consequences as on a variety of issues its becoming harder for the pr to work anymore. Even on Palestine the Americans are turning against israel for good reason. As the empire falls apart and the pr campaign name one anyone from the last 10 years or even months where public opinion is turning on it. Scam Nation will come to an end and it will not be pretty as it goes down. Even Florida housing crash isn’t getting much news and Arizona water issues with the collapse of the Colorado water basin. The titanic is starting to go down and how much longer they can keep up the magic show with a non existent unicorn we will see.
For those who choose to dance with corrupt devil dressed as saint don’t be surprised when you get burned in the end.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3324715/japan-fears-inevitable-mount-fuji-eruption-spur-tokyo-map-out-disaster-plan?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=youtube_community
Mt fuji eruption plans if it blows it top!
Heather, I guess it would be pretty ironic for us doomers if it was actually some tectonic black swan like Mount Fuji erupting or a colossal Californian earthquake that nudged us off the edge.
Wait a second. If I read this blog daily, does that mean I have a “Doom Porn” problem?! 😳
Oh dear! Time for therapy or intervention I guess 😉
“…does that mean I have a “Doom Porn” problem?!”
You may well, Jpf, but don’t worry – you won’t go blind. You may get mild eye-strain from all the scrolling, though. 😂
What they call “doom porn” is usually just looking at the facts, without bias.
The loss of the Panama upwelling seems to be another in a line of studies that show long term trends rather than just annual extreme events are now being driven by localised phenomena that cannot be captured in the large scale climate models (e’g. the stratification of Atlantic from low winds, cloud nucleation, polar vortices and jet stream meanders etc.).
The story “Climate change is making resources scarce and tensions rise, increasing the risk of future wars.” probably is the best exemplar of what this site is all about – the confluence of climate change, resource decline and social stresses (really just inevitable evolutionary responses to adversity), which makes collapse inevitable and likely to be rapid.
I’m guilty of doing something I often criticise others for, it’s not just climate change, it’s environmental destruction.
Spot on. And no worries, George. We know you understand and we love you.