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“World temperature anomalies have been rising abruptly since July.
“In particular we observe absolutely remarkable anomalies in the past 7 days up to +0.76C vs 1991/2020, the highest since January and even temporarily above those of 2024 in the same period.
“Map credit Dr. Ryan Maue.”
[Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1970801249634197629
“Russia’s Wheat Woes: Diesel Costs and Dry Weather Impact Sowing.
“The winter wheat planting in Russia is severely hampered by soaring diesel prices and dry conditions, affecting half of the intended fields. Experts fear this may impact next year’s grain output significantly as high costs and logistical challenges persist.”
“UK North Sea set for extreme weather and security drills…
““We are planning a drill for a once-in-1000-year-wave, which could impact the structural integrity of a platform, but also create resource challenges around the downmanning of multiple installations,” Wilson said.”
“UK Cider Season Booms Post Record Heat.
“British apple growers are preparing for one of the sweetest harvests in years, thanks to a record-breaking summer of heat and sunshine. The warm summer, which saw temperatures soar to historic levels, has left orchards across the southwest heavy with fruit, With some saying it’s a once-in-a-lifetime crop.”
https://www.wionews.com/videos/uk-cider-season-booms-post-record-heat-1758777655520
“Unusually high night-time temperatures pushed Ireland’s summer to record high.
“Ireland was on course for an average summer this year but climate change turned it into a record-breaker, scientists have found. The unusually high night-time temperatures that put June, July and August into the record books were made 40 times more likely by the distorting impacts of the heating planet.”
“Global warming leaves Germany under threat from extreme weather.
“”The acceleration of global warming is so rapid that we are flying off the climate curve,” said Frank Böttcher, chairman of the German Meteorological Society and organizer of the 15th edition of the extreme weather conference in the northern city of Hamburg.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/global-warming-leaves-germany-under-125630402.html
“Massive downpour turns Ischia streets into rivers [Italy].
“huge downpour turned streets on the Gulf of Naples island of Ischia into rivers on Tuesday, with roads made impassable and cars submerged in water. The extreme weather caused major inconvenience, with firefighters inundated with requests for help.”
“Flooding hits Dalmatia – Adriatic Highway closes.
“The Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (DHMZ), through the MeteoAlarm system, issued a red alert – the highest level – for much of the Adriatic, warning of dangerous weather conditions… In the Šibenik hinterland and Ravni Kotari, more than 150 litres of rain per square metre fell in just one day – several times the usual monthly average.”
https://www.croatiaweek.com/flooding-hits-dalmatia-adriatic-highway-closes/
Heavy flash flooding causes damage in Constantine, Algeria, today.
video:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4175272102757546
“Lagos govt appeals for calm as heavy floods submerge streets [Nigeria].
“Heavy downpours on Tuesday and Wednesday left several parts of Lagos submerged, prompting the state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, to appeal for calm.”
“Wildfires ravage Syria’s Latakia for 4th day in row…
“Civil defense officials said they were still working to contain and extinguish several wildfires in the Turkmen Mountain area of the coastal province. Firefighters have managed to gain control of the fires in some areas, but other parts are harder to access due to unexploded landmines,”
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/09/wildfires-ravage-syrias-latakia-4th-day-row-what-know
“Drought, drilling, diversion: Daraa’s deepening water crisis [Syria].
“The land is dry, and the water does not come. For Abu Said in Inkhil, northern Daraa, it is an expensive problem. Without public water for more than a month, he has spent half his monthly salary on trucked-in water for his family of eight: five tankers at a total cost of around 550,000 Syrian pounds ($39).”
https://syriadirect.org/drought-drilling-diversion-daraas-deepening-water-crisis/
“How war and drought have resulted in Lebanon’s worst water crisis in decades…
“With average rainfall having fallen by almost half over the past year and reservoirs at critically low levels, the shortage is compounding hardships in a country battered by Israeli bombardments since 2023 and an economy in freefall since 2019.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2616453/middle-east
“Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years…
“Less than 250 mm fell over 11 months, compared to average rainfall of over 1,000 mm over the past 30 years. Turkey’s Mediterranean regions have not been spared, with Marmara and the coast along the Aegean Sea recording the lowest precipitation in 18 years.”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250923-turkey-facing-worst-drought-in-over-50-years
“Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq’s water crisis.
“Bees once thrived among the date palms along the Shatt al-Arab, where Iraq’s mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, but drought has shrivelled the green trees and life in the apiaries that dot the riverbank is under threat.”
“UNPRECEDENTED HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST:
“Record heat continues with widespread Minimum temperatures 30C/33C at low elevations, with summer heat also in the highlands with up to 40C [104F] at 1200m asl in IRAN and will get hotter. Let’s expect hundreds of October records smashed all over the area.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1970873508931744047
“Melting Kara-Batkak Glacier highlights looming water woes… Lake Issyk-Kul shoreline in Kyrgyzstan has receded 12 meters in six years….
“Since the 1980s, the glacier has lost up to 30 percent of its volume and retreats up to 10 meters annually… Temperatures in the Tian Shan have risen 1–1.5°C since the 1970s, and annual snowfall is now only 200–400 mm.”
https://eurasianet.org/melting-kara-batkak-glacier-highlights-looming-water-woes
“‘Pakistan will have to adapt to floods as the new normal’…
“Natural extremes and human-made vulnerabilities – from glacial melt to unchecked urbanisation – have turned Pakistan’s floods into a recurring national disaster… Accelerated melting in the Himalayan, Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountain ranges due to warming heightens during heatwaves, synchronising with erratic, concentrated rains that overload the Chenab and Sutlej rivers in Punjab.”
https://www.eco-business.com/news/qa-pakistan-will-have-to-adapt-to-floods-as-the-new-normal/
“Apples Are Vital to Kashmir’s Economy. A Landslide Left Them to Rot.
“The Himalayan region supplies most of India’s apples. But when heavy rains left a major highway blocked for weeks, farmers couldn’t get them to markets… Apples contribute about 10 percent to the region’s economy, with seven million people in the region depending on the trade for their livelihood.”
“At least 12 dead as record rain floods India’s Kolkata…
“At least 12 people died as heavy rain lashed the eastern Indian city of Kolkata and surrounding areas ahead of a major festival, flooding streets, disrupting transport and leaving residents stranded for hours, officials said on Wednesday.”
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN THE TROPICS:
“After the September hottest day, now the September hottest night: Minimum 28.4C [83.1F] Male. MALDIVES SEPTEMBER HOTTEST NIGHT. 100% of all tropical countries keep smashing record after record…”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1971033782422847951
“Ragasa lashes Hong Kong: Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel breached by waves, barge grounded.
“Super Typhoon Ragasa wreaked havoc across Hong Kong on Wednesday, with strong waves shattering the glass doors of an Ocean Park hotel and violent winds blowing a barge ashore and tearing air-conditioning units from homes.”
“Typhoon-Triggered Dam Collapse Causes Devastation in Taiwan.
“At least 14 people were killed in Taiwan’s Hualien County on September 23, when rains from Super Typhoon Ragasa caused the collapse of a natural dam and unleashed powerful torrents of mud and water, according to local media citing fire officials.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/typhoon-triggered-dam-collapse-causes-191846589.html
“Japan sets new record for heat-related ambulance transport incidents.
“Japan set a new record for ambulance transports due to heat-related illness this summer, the government said Wednesday, surpassing last year’s figure amid unprecedented heat waves and an unusually early end to the rainy season.”
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250924/p2g/00m/0na/042000c
“Jeju swelters under record-late heat wave [Korea]…
“The state weather agency added that the oppressive heat is expected to continue, particularly along the island’s coastal regions, with temperatures climbing to around 33C [91.4F] during the day and tropical nights expected to persist in some areas.”
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10583577
“Record heat continues in Southeast Asia with stifling hot nights.
“In VIETNAM Ca Mau had an exceptional Minimum of 29.7C [85.5F], breaking again its record of September hottest night in history… t was also the September hottest night in history at Takua Pa (Southwest, Thailand, with a minimum temperature of 28.0C.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1970668610592088343
“Record rainfall in Goiânia [Brazil] causes flooding and mobilizes emergency actions by the city government.
“Goiânia faced a severe storm this Tuesday, the 23rd, with hail, winds of up to 35 km/h and 78 mm of rain in just an hour and a half—a volume higher than the average forecast for the entire month of September, which was 52.8 mm, according to the Goiás Meteorological and Hydrological Information Center (Cimehgo).”
“Heavy rain leaves flooding of up to 1.5 meters in Acapulco [Mexico]…
“”This rain surprised us all; no one expected it,” said Raúl, a resident of Rinconada del Mar, who reported that the water reached waist-deep, as people tried to protect themselves from the flooding amid fears of rising water levels.”
“FIERCE HEAT IN MEXICO: Temperatures still exceed locally 44C [111.2F] but the most exceptional are the constantly hot nights since July, which has never happened before.
“Yesterday Mazatlan had a Minimum of 29.9C,the highest in September and just 0.1C from its highest ever (Aug 1st,1981).”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1970967650613461070
“As fall officially begins, wacky weather pounds the US – including heat warnings, snow threats and hurricanes…
“Bay-area and inland parts of northern California are under an extreme heat advisory beginning on Tuesday, according to ABC7 News. The advisory will begin at 11 am local time and the temperature is expected to hit triple digits in inland California…”
“US and Canada fight over who’s to blame for wildfires…
“Wildfires are not only worsening in Canada. The US has recently seen some of its most damaging blazes, including the 2023 Hawaii wildfires that killed at least 102 people, and the Palisades fire in January, the most destructive in Los Angeles history.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4l3j93481o
“People with schizophrenia were hit hard by B.C.’s deadly 2021 heat dome.
“…people with schizophrenia — just one per cent of the population — made up 15.7 per cent of the deaths. This statistic underscores a troubling truth: climate change does not affect everyone equally.”
“Calgary on track to see its driest September in more than 100 years.
“So far, Calgary has only picked up 0.4 mm of rain this month, putting it on pace to see its driest September since 1908, when 0.5 mm of rain fell. For context, the average September rainfall is about 37.1 mm. The record for the month dates back to the 1885 (0 mm recorded).”
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/calgary-track-see-driest-september-220606255.html
“Absurd never ending summer in CANADA with temperatures still close to 33C [91.4F] in Saskatchewan today.
“More to come tomorrow and than another heat wave on the weekend and start of next week. Absolutely insane and unprecedented for late September.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1971017814548095405
“N.L. posted record heat warnings in August, which could likely increase, say climate scientists.
“Atlantic Canada was hammered by a drawn out heat wave in August, and one climate scientist says it exacerbated the burning wildfires… Newfoundland and Labrador experienced an historic number of wildfires this year…”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-record-heat-warnings-august-2025-1.763616
“Where ‘day-zero droughts’ could happen as soon as this decade.
“Many parts of the world are predicted to endure “day-zero droughts,” periods of extreme and unprecedented water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots including parts of North America, the Mediterranean and southern Africa, according to a new study.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/23/climate/day-zero-drought-water-scarcity
“Just last year (2024, in orange), global sea ice extent hit a record low maximum. Will 2025 set a new record low maximum?
“The Climate 8-ball is taking Tylenol.”
[Prof Eliot Jacobson]
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/1970842582529044598
“Ocean Acidification has been added to the growing list of Planetary Boundaries now considered to be breached, bringing the running total to seven out of nine, a new scientific report has declared…
“It’s a shift – scientists warn – that is degrading the ocean’s ability to act as Earth’s stabiliser, pushing humanity “further beyond the safe zone for civilisation.””
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ocean-acidification-officially-breaches-planetary-boundary/
“‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the climate crisis…
“I worry about the future of my daughter when she reaches my age and even more about the future of her children if she does have any. I think lifestyle changes do not matter as much unless you are the richest 1%. I believe the only way we can achieve change is by going out and protesting as that’s the only way governments, corporations and richest 1% will listen.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/24/climate-crisis-silent-majority-quotes
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Mordecai Ogada is objectively the best youtuber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMrkr-4dlhk
I just watched a video about tourist scammers in Paris, how temp/illegal migrants ask for charity donations or sell bracelets to unsuspecting members of the suburbanite class, tragically overflowing with compassion for “those people”; and how it sucks that “our” society allows this to happen.
And then I thought about what Mordecai exposes about conservation and related fields, how they are instruments to peacefully and efficiently eat “those people” out of house and home (literally), to the point where they are forced to go and sell bracelets to tourists in Europe for a few months to make what would be considered a good bit of money back home.
Take the whole drama around USAID, which unsurprisingly no one cares about anymore because it has served its purpose and we’ve moved on to the next thing, and the one after that. They officially provided foreign aid to third world nations and semi-officially acted as a platform for both native elites and white saviors to maintain and expand control over those nations. When this is spun as “feeding countries” within the context of the Trumpian austerity passion play, how is that not a scam. That statement is a malicious, barefaced lie and the only reason no one corrected it is because it became associated with the “culture war”.
How is that not a scam? In fact this exact scenario plays out in a lot of those scammer videos – there’s always that one scammer who pretends to be the honest upstanding businessman and drives off the bad guy scammers, warns the unsuspecting tourist about scammers, and then proceeds to scam them. And usually this is planned out ahead of time à la the “good cop, bad cop” routine.
I suppose that’s just how the world works. Everyone’s a good guy in their own head, but the goal is to be strong, clever, wealthy and fearsome enough to make everyone else agree with you. Like the fable about Alexander the Great where he asks a captured pirate what gives him the right to plunder so boldly the sea which, like the land, belongs to him alone, and the impudent cutthroat snidely retorts: the same that gives you the right to seize the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship I am called a robber, while you who does it with a great fleet are styled emperor.
Jupiviv, I think I recall you posting another of Mordecai’s videos calling BS on carbon credits. Very good it was.
USAID is still making the odd headline in its death throes: “Trump administration eyes USAID money to advance America First goals…
““House Republicans are in full support of State’s commitment to spending these funds in a more responsible way, specifically for programs that support U.S. national security interests,” the aide said in a statement.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/24/trump-usaid-funding/
“Ocean Acidification has been added to the growing list of Planetary Boundaries now considered to be breached, bringing the running total to seven out of nine.”
Two to go before the biosphere is toast, but i’m sure a few more EVs and another solar farm ot two will turn it around.
For this reason only, the curtailment of burning fossil fuels is enough reason to stop.
We do not realize how critical water chemistry is to aquatic life, not only the pH level, which is measured on a logarithmic scale, meaning each whole pH unit is ten times more acidic or basic than the next value, but its hardness or softness and mineral, metal content.
More likely, we won’t stop, as Norman over at OFW just posted
Norman Pagett says:
September 25, 2025 at 8:24 am
“in energy terms, it seems to be in the nature of humankind to burn through what is available as fast as possible.
We did it to turn the planet into cash as fast as possible, and created gods to reassure ourselves that it is all ‘gods holy purpose’
no other animal does this —we have screwed up their world as well our own
That sums it up 😁, psychology . As you aptly pointed out here in you comment, Leaf, we’ll pretend to fix the crisis …
China for First Time Promises to Reduce Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
President Xi Jinping told a U.N. climate summit that China will reduce emissions across its economy, expand renewables sixfold and make electric cars “mainstream.” NYTIMES..🤣
They WILL
reduce it, just like every other country will. But not through “renewables” or EVs, but through collapse.
China understands only to well the geopolitical advantages of playing the “face” to America’s “heel”, to use wrestling terminology.
Ah, the splendid Norman Pagett – older than my father but living the life of a man younger than me, at least last I heard. His excellent book, for those who haven’t come across it:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-More-resources-humankind-unsustainable/dp/095760792X
Think he has another out too about the
The Iron Men of Shropshire: How They Put the World to Work Kindle Edition
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Though the Industrial Revolution was born in Shropshire, iron-working techniques had been known for millennia. However, it was an expensive undertaking in real terms, needing large amounts of wood to make the charcoal to produce the iron and objects that had to be beaten out in a blacksmith’s forge.
Then one man made the breakthrough that kickstarted the Industrial Revolution: making iron in vast quantities using coke instead of charcoal. In 1709 Abraham Darby built his pioneering coke-fired blast furnace to produce cast iron at Coalbrookdale.
Abundant iron and coal brought together men with a common purpose. Amongst them, Wilkinson and Watt developed the technology of the modern steam engine. Richard Trevithick built his viable locomotive here, whilst Abraham Darby II supplied the iron rails for it. Hazledine’s ironworks at Shrewsbury built the Ditherington Flax Mill, still standing today as the grandfather of all skyscrapers. Thomas Telford became surveyor of public works here, and built forty bridges in the county, churches, major canal infrastructure, and the London to Holyhead road.
It was the technology and vision of these men that set the groundwork for modern mass production, which built our cities and all the complexity that sustains them, and us.
Wow. As Kunstler said, each step “seemed like a good idea at the time.”
“Lebanon, particularly its capital city Beirut, has long been referred to as the “jewel of the Middle East,” a title reflecting its historical prominence as a regional hub for finance, culture, and commerce.”
Being destroyed by climate change and US backed Israeli Zionists.
Cassandra, it has been, as Al Jazeera says, a terrible year for poor Lebanon, and, let’s face it, years of sectarian strife and corruption, to say nothing of the largest non-nuclear blast in modern history, meant it was not in a great shape to begin with:
“Lebanon’s terrible year: From exploding pagers to Israeli occupation.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/9/17/lebanons-terrible-year-from-exploding-pagers-to-israeli-occupation
Great day as everything gets worse!
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/05/15/vicious-cycle-how-methane-emissions-warming-wetlands-could-exacerbate-climate-change
More methane as things warm up.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/why-does-openai-need-six-giant-data-centers/
We need ai to save us do we can save the planet! The twisted mindset of the techno billionaire class with all the insane technology being pushed on us.
Heather, and in further dystopian news, it’s ID cards for us Brits.
“Every adult in Britain will require a digital ID under plans to tackle illegal immigration. Sky News understands that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer could announce his backing for the scheme in a speech as early as Friday.”
https://news.sky.com/story/starmer-to-unveil-plan-for-digital-id-cards-to-crack-down-on-illegal-immigration-13438007
Best Nate Hagen’s podcast I’ve heard in a long time, I stopped listening regularly when I found it getting repetitive.
Societal collapses…
https://youtu.be/W7JsDrHrRsI?si=CFKTciNnn0vkySZx
Intellectual men and their flaunting, via short-cut tighty-whitey T-shirts, of steroidal biceps – the latest in male psychic devolution.
Luke Kemp is the guy who thinks his “Don’t be a dick,” maxim could be a catalyst for systemic change; we’ve discussed his book a little in the comments section…
Equates working for fossil fuel industry or big tech to being a guard in a concentration camp… Thinks we can move away from fossil fuels… Rather self-righteous on camera, but biceps to die for, Martin. 😍
Young professor Luke has been crushing those books at Oxbridge. I mean, crushing thrm together, right in the stacks. Make the collapse girls go crazy.
Funny you should say that, ‘cause, sans biceps 💪, he kinda looks like a girl. (Which I don’t mean to be derogatory… it seems to me that most of the best looking people have a dollop of the opposite sex mixed into their features, a la the yin/Yang symbol).
Yeah, besides that one point, which is to me still a valid point, but impossible for anyone to do much about…
the other dozen or so points he outlines, especially about historical patterns of social structures are well-argued, well-supported and thought provoking.
‘Understanding the problem, is half the solution’, but only half, like others his solutions are all unworkable, but his understanding of the problem, particularly with the role of violent social heirarchy is spot on.
Rain, I will never find the time to listen to the whole thing. Does he have anything to say about the unsustainable cost of complexity relative to energy and available resources? Tainter would argue this is the primary driver of collapses with inequality being more of a by-product.
Tbh, the “few bad apples” interpretation of human history, which he seems to be espousing, has never sat comfortably with me, human nature being so complex and situational.
Thnx, Rain. I’ll check it out. There’s 🌧️ in today’s podcast…