“China has issued a red alert for heat – the highest in its colour-coded alert system – for northern parts of the country after Beijing recorded its hottest-ever June day…
“The temperature in the capital was hovering at about 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), after reaching a June record of 41.1C (106F) on Thursday [its second highest temp ever].”
“For the first time, Beijing and Tianjin experienced 40C [104F] for two consecutive days [and almost certainly will for a third today]! Qixia/Pingdu, which are close to the sea, experienced the first 40C in history.
“Several stations have broken [all-time] historical records, heat wave will expand to Northeast China tomorrow!”
https://twitter.com/yangyubin1998/status/1672206887583109123
“Exceptional heat in Mongolia. Temperatures reached record levels at 39.8C [103.6F] at Khovsgol (995m asl). 39.7C also at Sainshand, record beaten also at Bayandelger with 37.5C.
“Not only daytime but nights are also scorching in the highlands: Min. temperature was 27.1C at Khangbod at 1109m.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1672221395382685698
“Nearly half a million people in northeast India have been affected by severe flooding after heavy rains battered the region, turning roads into rivers and submerging entire villages.
“More than 495,000 people spread across 22 districts in the state of Assam have been impacted by floodwaters, its disaster management authority said in a statement Thursday.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/23/india/india-assam-floods-rain-intl-hnk/index.html
“19 dead, thousands seek shelter in South Asia monsoon floods.
“Floods are common and cause widespread devastation during the treacherous monsoon season, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and unpredictability. The toll from flooding and landslides last weekend in Nepal had risen to 14 by Friday…”
“From Indonesia to Vietnam, El Nino fans fears of fires and drought.
“Sweltering heat spreading through Southeast Asia in recent weeks heralds the return of El Nino, with governments across the region bracing to fight everything from water shortages to forest fires and clouds of choking haze as the weather pattern strengthens.”
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/From-Indonesia-to-Vietnam-El-Nino-fans-fears-of-fires-and-drought
“To see how smoke affects endangered orangutans, we studied their voices during and after massive Indonesian wildfires…
“…although they were eating more and moving less, we found… that they were still burning stored fat – a sign that they somehow were using up more energy. We hypothesized that the cause might be inflammation – the swelling, fever, pain and fatigue that human and animal bodies experience in response to infection or injury.”
“Chile official warns of ‘worst front in a decade’ after floods, evacuations.
“Days of heavy rainfall have swollen Chile’s rivers causing floods that blocked off roads and prompted evacuations… Climate change drives increasingly extreme weather. The Chilean rains come just a few months after a period of wildfires amid a severe drought that destroyed hundreds of homes and left dozens of people dead.”
“Sweating in winter? Northern Argentina and Paraguay (and adjacent areas of Bolivia and Brazil) are about to experience a record breaking warmth for June:
“Temperatures in Argentine Chaco is expected to reach 32C/34C and in Paraguay 36C/37C next days (Sat-Tue).”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1672000314717659136
“French Guiana again! Another intense heat wave in sweeping South America with temperatures close to 40C [104F] in Colombia and Venezuela.
“French Guiana is also part of the unusual heat, after St George, today it was St Laurent (Suriname border) 34.9C, new record for June.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1671985672222044162
“Texas heat wave is so bad, meteorologists are apologizing for it.
“A brutal Texas heat wave is now entering its third week for some places and shows no signs of slowing down. If anything, it could expand north and east and get worse over the next week. The expected intensity and longevity of the heat has forecasters concerned about dangerous and deadly consequences and even apologizing for it.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/06/23/texas-heat-wave-forecast-records
“Record-breaking winds detected during Wednesday night’s storm, stronger than Hurricane Ike [Houston, Texas].
“Wind gusts of 97 mph were reported at Bush Intercontinental Airport at 9:04 p.m. Wednesday. Until then, the strongest winds recorded at the location were 82 mph during Hurricane Ike, according to the National Weather Service.”
“This month is now the wettest June on record in Denver with more thunderstorms on the way…
“The rain on Wednesday was enough to push the total for the month over 5 inches which is record for June. With 9 days to go, Denver has now measured 5.19 inches of rain in June. The previous record for the entire month was 4.96 inches from 141 years ago in 1882.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/wettest-june-record-denver-more-thunderstorms/
“Sacramento is building smoke shelters to act as safe spaces from wildfires.
“You’ve heard of storm shelters for tornadoes and hurricanes, but now, Sacramento is stepping up its game by creating smoke shelters for another type of natural disaster: severe wildfires. During wildfire season, the Sacramento region can have some of the worst air quality on the planet, and smoke is becoming a growing concern in California as officials plan for climate change.”
“A warming climate has melted three glaciers on Mount Rainier, the tallest volcano in the lower 48 states — more evidence of the rapid worldwide decline of mountain ice.
“The total mass of glacier ice on Mount Rainier, southeast of Seattle, is less than half what it was in 1896, according to estimates from a National Park Service report published this month.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/three-mount-rainiers-glaciers-melted-away-rcna89123
“A tornado struck the largest coal mine in the US while workers were in the midst of a shift change Friday in northeast Wyoming, injuring at least 8 people, officials said.
“The tornado hit the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Campbell County at around 6:20 p.m. MT Friday, according to county government spokesperson Leslie Perkins.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/24/weather/wyoming-tornado-coal-mine/index.html
“US honeybees suffer second deadliest season on record.
“The US’s honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest death rate on record, with beekeepers losing nearly half of their managed colonies, an annual bee survey found… Honeybees are crucial to the food supply, pollinating more than 100 of the crops we eat, including nuts, vegetables, berries, citruses and melons.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/23/us-honeybees-second-deadliest-season
“Canada was an extreme global hotspot in an extremely hot May…
“Although NOAA ranked the month as only the 11th warmest across the contiguous United States, due to this extreme heat across Canada, it was still the hottest month of May for the entire continent of North America.”
“=NEW MONTHLY RECORD= Yesterday’s minimum of 19.7°C [67.5F] held at Wabush YWK [Labrador, Canada], setting a new record for warmest daily low temperature ever recorded during June.
“Previous record: 17.9°C (June 30, 2014). Records since 1961.”
https://twitter.com/rcbstormpost/status/1672239128027492354
“Bermuda’s June rainfall far above average, could hit record.
“This month is already more than twice as wet as the average June… The unusually wet weather this month comes after record-setting rainfall last month, when 12.39in of rain was recorded, surpassing the previous record of 11.7in set in 1997.”
“Tropical Storms Bret, Cindy Break New Record.
“This is the first time since 1968 there have been two active Atlantic storms in June, according to a tweet by Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University. It’s also the first time on record that two storms have formed in this part of the ocean in June.”
“The North Atlantic Ocean continues to defy logic. Anomalies are still spiking. Now .7C above record territory (1.26F) and 2.5F above normal.
“It’s hard to put into words how difficult it is to achieve those numbers across an entire basin.”
https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1672052524738572289
“The sudden warming of Britain’s seas will tear through ocean life like a wildfire.
” As water temperatures reach an all-time high, the direct effect on wildlife – from seagrass to oysters and fish – will be devastating, the way “wildfires take out huge areas of forest”, as one scientist says.”
“Britain Saw A Record Wildfire Season in 2022. It Still Hasn’t Raised Its Game.
“Even as Britain prepares to bake again this weekend, the country is not geared up any better for wildfires than it was last year which saw a record number of fire incidents and forced dozens to flee their homes. Wildfires are becoming unsettlingly more common in the UK…”
“Europe’s Firefighters Strained as Climate Change Fans Wildfires…
“While the European Union announced a doubling of its aerial firefighting fleet for this season to 24 airplanes and four helicopters, that’s not enough, according to unions from 15 countries affiliated to the European Public Service Unions. More personnel, training and protective equipment are needed…”
“Absolutely mind blowing heat record in Austria: just before MIDNIGHT Oberndorf with fohn effect rose to 36.1C [97F] beating its monthly heat record.
“It’s one of the highest temperatures ever recorded in Europe at midnight and one of the very few cases a record is broken night time.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1672171963597352961
“Severe storms brought heavy rains and damaging winds to several states in Germany on Thursday, as the German Weather Service (DWD) warned of a heightened risk of tornados, storms and extreme hail after weeks of warm weather.
“The service said the movement of a patch of low pressure — and the presence of muggy and hot subtropical air — would cause the atypical conditions for the country.”
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hit-by-hail-flooding-as-severe-storms-sweep-nation/a-65999117
“Wheelie bins and motorbikes have been washed down the streets of Spain as a brutal storm and flash flooding lashed parts of the country…
“In Spain nearly 30 emergency calls were made and some families were trapped in their homes because of flooding… The Argos River, which starts in Caravaca de la Cruz and runs through Cehegin before joining the Segura River, burst its banks at several points.”
“Insane conditions last night in Oman:
“Hamra Aldrooa had 46C [114.8F] at local time 10pm: one of the highest temperatures ever recorded in world climatic history at that time of the day.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1672068904502403072
“Shocking temperatures in Iran, at world record levels for high elevations today. One of the hottest day in world climatic history at 1000m/1500m asl:
“Bam 920m Tmin 35.7C Tmax. 47.4C [117.3F]; 45.0C Saravan 1195m; 44.1C Nehbandan 1211m; 42.5C Birjand 1491m.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1671917613922893825
“In Iran, some are chasing the last drops of water.
“Summer has come to Sistan and Baluchistan province, an impoverished fragment of chapped earth and shimmering heat in Iran’s southeast corner, and all people there can talk about is how to get water. For weeks now, taps in cities like Zahedan have yielded nothing but a salty, weakening trickle.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1213865/in-iran-some-are-chasing-the-last-drops-of-water/
“Important point in the talk from Prof Matt England:
“The instantaneous warming feedback of AMOC slowdown with West Antarctic sector (Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas):
https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxkgs3Vxwd5-kezHYKA8pMh6ncx5yxt4kv
[^^^Clip is only 53 seconds]
“This is why Antarctica and AMOC experts are paying special attention to the current extreme anomalous low Antarctic Sea ice extent, especially in this area.”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1672219904764780546
“Rapidly degrading state of Antarctic spotlighted in climate action exhibition.
“Photographs of snow-capped land marred with large patches of red and green algae due to rising surface temperatures are among some of the images and descriptions of the rapidly declining state of the Antarctic that are showcased at a new climate action exhibition.”
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Hmmm, which of the expertly curated dramatic stories from Panopticon to click on to get more of the dish rather than just the taste test of the headlines and doom-laden photos?
Twitter’s brief format got the first response from my neurons, but, yeah, the orangutan story, so prominent in the final scenes of hopium-special Plant of the Humans, got more of my wandering attention, and it did not disappoint.
Remember the litany: “swelling, fever, pain, and fatigue.”
Maybe I got the order wrong – I don’t read for detail but for basic deepening of already formed knowledge – but that’s the future, for so many now, for so many to come, but hey, AC, amirite?
At least Panopticon keeps the political commentary low here- it’s “climate” and “ economy,” after all, not “climateandeconomyandpolitics.” The stupidity on display in that realm would burst any faithful reader of C&E’s remaining synaptical functions.
The poor orangutans. I recall reading about a female called Pony who was shaved and kept as a sex-slave in a brothel in Borneo; she’s now fortunately in the care of a charity. And I learnt this week about a global monkey torturing ring, which was partly based in Indonesia. I won’t link to either story because they’re just too bleak. Wtf is wrong with people?
Hello Panopticon
Your posts are like a prelude to all kinds of disaster movies every other day. Let’s see how those scenarios play out. Very interesting by the way. In the meantime, Macron in Paris has been trying very hard over the past two days 🙂 I have been posting about it daily for my readers.
Well it remains amazing how the conondrums pile up even among the climate activists who keep waving their demands to get out of the ‘fossil economy’. Thunberg was also there and she once again got to talk to the multinationals and government leaders. Lula got a lot of applause when he shouted dqt ‘it wasn’t about anything’….. and even that comment was about nothing 🙂
I don’t know if you have netflix….you probably don’t.
That’s quite a shame. I’m currently breathlessly watching an eight-part Japanese drama series about Fukushima. The Days….” .Highly recommended….for followers of ‘The World Without Us’.
https://www.netflix.com/fr/title/81233755
Zip, we do have Netflix but the challenge for me is finding time to watch anything. By the end of my days, all I want to do is slump in bed and watch animal rescues on YouTube. 😆
Hey Panopticon and Co
I no longer have Netflix, or other streaming services. Canned them a few months ago, as I really wasn’t watching them, and needed to cut-back $$ *somewhere*, so my dogs can keep eating high-quality pet food!
Besides which, I pirate everything for media entertainment 🤣 Have done so since the 2010s. Have a huge media library stored on hard-drives. Every other Sunday breakfast time, I scour media sites and download a month’s worth of TV and movies in my own PLEX media streaming server. Even able to share it with friends.
Have the Japanese series on Fukushima in the TBW pile 🙂
Recently been scrabbling round rabbit holes on Youtube. So much junk, hard to find the *gems*.
Stumbled onto the European DW TV channel last night, live broadcast on the Russian situation, far more informative and detailed, than anything I get here in Australia.
An autoplay sent me to this report on Wagner, FINALLY, I understand something about what’s going on.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/shadow-men/shadow-men-inside-wagner-russias-secret-war-company/29735C37-0B4E-4E70-8E8C-C46FB711370C?reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Very interesting link and timings of release from the WSJ of this piece, some convenient truths on display here, but no-one could deny that Western powers are also heavily active in similar ways round the world.
Truly sad to see the suffering inflicted on the planet in the name of accessing weaker countries natural resources when such recourses worldwide are become depleted. Perhaps it’s more prominent today as developing countries are failing or struggling to exist. The world’s not big enough anymore for juggernaut nuclear empires to co-exist as they rummage and rampage about.
It seems incredible that it’s acceptable behaviour, to turn a blind eye, if it’s the West committing ‘the acts’ because modern convenience, it’s technologies, industry and military can not function without such access, legal or not.
It’s undeniable to claim people in the West don’t each benefit to some degree, from what we see here today, just as long as the majority is insulated and happy ‘enough’ to continue the illusion of normalcy, it’s a great shame.
It also seems unbearable to the West when the West witnesses Eastern powers using the exact same tactic.
The planet’s reeling while humans fight for nationalistic ideals and security like national continuance and security while the actual global ecosystem collapses.
Normally an empire naturally rises, peaks, recedes, and is eventually replaced, this natural process can’t take place when it comes to technological, nuclear powers. That which is perceived to create national security and power creates actual insecurity and helplessness when clung to.
When the wall came down, the cold war ended, then the USSR collapsed. The law of non opposition applied and the world was a happier place. Problem is the USA and UK never stopped opposing, expanding bases and supporting NATO, all while exploiting the rest of the apes in the room, and here we are today.
Another ‘thing’ difficult to ignore is both Zenski and the Wagner guy are ethnic jews seemingly on opposing sides, successfully getting white people to fight and kill each other over old wounds inflicted on Ukrainians during the Bolshevik revolution, a revolution itself instigated by bolshevik Jewish generals.
The bolshevik period in Russia resulted in the atrocities of the Holdomore, ethnic cleansing in Poland (during WW2) and the murder of the Romanov Russian dynasty. Similarly, it seems the structure we see today is really another kill-box for Europeans Ukraine’s and Russians. In reality the entire situation, the bloodshed and conflict is a needless inflicted destruction of Europe, Ukraine and Russia by outside forces.
Meanwhile Israel try’s to pretend to sit on the fence and not be motivated to take a side while an illegal war takes place on it’s boarder in Syria involving American and Russian elements and many other factions pillaging that country. Given the other tensions between Israel and Iran and the alignment of their respective allies, The whole situation is a tinderbox bound to escalate.
The question to ask is who benefits?
(the WSJ did not mention that point.
Realising the omission just serves to reinforce old stigmas. Not a good tactic, with the world balanced on a hair pin trigger, it potentially brings about the shattering of the vessels upon the Earth, and we are those vessels.
Human stupidity seems baked in. A revolving door of having to individually directly experience irreversible mourning and sorrows. Heaven forbid we ever try anything different and hope for different results, a jew said something like that too once.
Maybe at-least try realise and listen to this truth, before it’s too late.
@Mountain and @Pintada, my apologies that your comments were held up in moderation for so long – I was sucked into the vortex of domestic chaos yesterday.
Very true mountain 😭
I am under no illusions about WSJ as not-so-trustworthy American source, and am familiar with US tactics being much the same. I grew up with the scandal of Christopher Boyce as it impacted on Australian politics, the Vietnam War (Australia also had conscription/draft, with the same street protests, violence etc) and of the US CIA activity in 1970s/80s in the central americas. My parents, being French-Canadian and English post-war immigrants also hated Americans from their own personal WW2 experiences.
As coincidence would have it, I have just now finished watching the latest installment of “Fall of Civilizations” covering the fall of Carthage and the long series of Punic wars,
along with the story of the Greek dude Pyrrhus (from whom we get the term “Pyrrhic Victory”), along with Hannibal’s campaigns, (which are still studied in military academies today), along with the use of secret mercenary militias, which sometimes rebelled when they couldn’t be paid by the bankrupt city-states that hired them, clever disinformation networks, and sneaky assassins.
Then I switch back to the current news, and see exactly the same thing, but with much more powerful weapons unfortunately, and on much larger scales.
Rain, I urge you to think about the Wall Street Journal article in light of the fact that the “Wagners” in Ukraine no longer exist and bearing in mind that the WSJ is a prime source of US/NATO propaganda.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/06/from-pugachev-to-lebed-the-muzhik-rebellion-fizzles-out-without-bloodshed-prigozhin-to-exile.html