“Annual (Nov-Oct) Sea Surface Temperature anomalies over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes from 1855 to 2023.
“Something has changed.”
[Aerosol demasking in Leon Simons’ view]
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1750077796649492568
“EUROPEAN CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN… Hundreds of records are being pulverized in Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria…
“ANDORRA already beat its national record for January with 20.5C [69F] at Les Salines (1445m) and still rising. Temperature is typical of June!”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1750148537893933532
“Exceptional warmth day and night in Western and Central Europe. Alpine area records:
“AUSTRIA: 17.9 [64.2F] Imst; 16.6 Landeck; 15.1 Prutz; 14.0 St Jakobi; 13.6 Nauders; 11.0 Brenner; SWITZERLAND: 11.1 Samedan; GERMANY Highest Tmins: 11.2 Geldern; 11.1 Reinstetten.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1750183005648204059
“Last year, temperatures in Slovenia were the highest on record since measurements started, surpassing the previous record year of 2022, the country’s Environment Agency (ARSO) said Wednesday.
“It also said last summer was the third wettest in the country’s history. It was marked by record floods…”
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2024/01/25/slovenia-sees-warmest-year-on-record-in-2023
“Waterfall of records destroyed in SWITZERLAND AND FRANCE.
“Including Le Luc, Montpellier and Nimes. Also 21.9C [71.4F] Faro PORTUGAL January record tied. Tomorrow it will be much warmer with near 30C in Spain and 25C in France and hundreds of records.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1750189080770711880
“Too hot, too dry, too wet: climate change hits Italy’s winemakers hard…
“…last year, southern Italy was hit by incessant rain in May and June, leading to a proliferation of the fungus Plasmopara viticola, which thrives in warm, humid conditions. This fungus… causes grapevine downy mildew and wreaked havoc.”
https://www.ft.com/content/2ce398cd-6e5c-47e5-a84a-8f19b1bb9b6b
“35 more [January] records today in SPAIN and many more coming next days.
“This includes stations like: 23.2 [73.8F] Cuenca; 22.1 Teruel; 20.8 Soria; 17.0 Navacerrada 1894m above sea level.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1750235503591612478
“Libya’s September flood requires $1.8 billion in recovery funds, report says…
“The report by the World Bank, United Nations and European Union said the disaster affected about 1.5 million people or 22 percent of Libya’s population, and cited figures from the UN humanitarian agency OCHA of 4,352 confirmed deaths with 8,000 still missing.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2447691/middle-east
“Double heat wave in AFRICA North-South: Insane winter heat in MOROCCO: 32.4C [90.3F] Taroudant January record smashed (and it will be like this all week!).
“SOUTH AFRICA 46.1c [115F] Vioolsdrif similar or hotter tomorrow.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1750224110184202283
“Relentless record heat in the Gulf of Guinea. Hottest January day on record in Ivory Coast beaten again with 39.6C [103.3F] at Dimbokro.
“Hundreds of records have been falling in every country from Liberia to Congo for the past 8 weeks, nearly every day, due to unusual low levels of humidity.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1749991509750141086
“Liberia’s president ‘OK’ after heat curtails inauguration ceremony.
“Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, has recovered from an episode of heat-induced faintness that caused him to cut short his inauguration speech on Monday before being led off the podium, his party’s spokesperson said.”
“Record heat again the MALDIVES.
“33.4C [92.1F] today in the Northern atoll of Hanimadhoo tied the highest temperature ever recorded in the country in January. Very few countries worldwide this month haven’t beaten any record.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1750131426660630878
“Snowless winter in Himalayas – another sign of climate change. Lack of snow could mean water shortages for millions across Asia…
“The cryosphere – snow, ice, and permafrost – in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region that stretches from from Afghanistan to Myanmar is the world’s most crucial water tower, serving as the water source for large parts of Asia.”
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/environment/tibet-snowless-winter-01232024144224.html
“Kupwara villagers stage protest against water scarcity [Kashmir]…
“Dozens of vehicles were stranded Wednesday after the residents of Tikker area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district blocked the Kupwara-Karnah road to protest against the Jal Shakti Department for failing to provide them tap water for the last one week.”
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/kashmir/kupwara-villagers-stage-protest-against-water-scarcity/
“Never ending record heat in SE Asia: Today 37.0C [98.6F] at Dawei in MYANMAR broke the January record of highest temperature.
“Since the first day of the month, records have been falling all over SE Asia ever single day.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1749770024951087254
“Another insane month in Bangkok, Thailand. January should be cold season, yet not a single minimum temperature dropped below 25C, and the coldest day average was 28.8C [83.8F]!
“This after the hottest December on record. It’s by far the hottest “cold season” any place on earth has ever had.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1749780686028857504
“Tropical Cyclone Kirrily upgraded to ‘severe’ category three storm as it approaches Queensland coast…
“The cyclone was updated to a category three storm on Thursday afternoon and was predicted to cross the Queensland coast later in the night. A category three is considered a “severe tropical cyclone” and can attract very destructive winds of up to 224 km/h [140 mph].”
“Birdsville breaks Queensland record for hottest January day with 49.4C [120.9F] temperature.
“Birdsville residents watched the mercury hit 49.4 degrees Celsius at 2.30pm on Thursday, surpassing the town’s and the state’s previous January heat record of 49C. The town also recorded its hottest-ever overnight temperature…”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-25/birdsville-breaks-heat-record-for-january/103387326
“Record snowfall in central Japan on Wednesday has forced domestic flights and rail connections to be canceled, while dozens of vehicles were stranded on roads that have become impassable.
“The cold air front and low atmospheric pressure moving across the Sea of Japan has seen historic amounts of snow throughout the day in Gifu and Shiga prefectures…”
https://www.laprensalatina.com/record-heavy-snowfall-disrupts-transport-across-central-japan/
“Record snow continues in Juneau [Alaska]; fierce wind chills hit the north.
“The capital city set a snowfall record on Monday and received more heavy snow Tuesday, bringing the snow total since Sunday to more than 28 inches. For January, they’ve seen an astounding 61.1 inches and are now up to 80.8 inches for the season.”
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2024/01/24/heavy-snow-southeast-alaska/
“Historic California rain could foreshadow more extreme rainfall in coming weeks…
“More than a month’s worth of rain fell in a span of three hours in San Diego on Monday… there is growing concern for multiple rounds of heavy rain targeting these same areas in California and other parts of the West beginning later next week…”
“Water-guzzling ‘hot drought’ in the West is unprecedented in at least 5 centuries, study suggests…
““What we’re seeing is that megadrought conditions are being amplified by anthropogenically driven (human caused) temperature increases,” said Karen King, lead author of the study and assistant professor in physical geography at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/24/climate/hot-drought-west-climate/index.html
“Dangerous flooding engulfing East Texas and Lower Mississippi Valley.
“Parts of East Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley are on their way to picking up 10 inches or more of rain in a week, leading to serious flooding and prompting widespread flash flood watches and warnings.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/01/24/flooding-south-texas-tennessee-mississippi/
“In Mexico, Xalapa’s chronic water scarcity reflects a deepening national crisis.
“Residents of Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz, Mexico, have been struggling with a worsening water shortage that often leaves people without daily access to household water for washing. The problem is nationwide, in 30 of 32 states, forcing residents to purchase and recycle water and postpone bathing.”
“Records keep falling in COLOMBIA: 39.2 [102.6F] Neiva; 38.9 Girardot… Both broke again their records of highest temperature ever recorded in January and it looks it will keep getting hotter.
“In the past 7 months the heat in Colombia has been relentless, breaking records non-stop.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/174998177383933548
“Colombia to declare a natural disaster over wildfires.
“Earlier this month, Colombia’s Environment Minister Susana Muhamad warned the country was at grave risk of forest fires that could worsen deforestation. Climate change has been blamed for driving a record drought that has hit all nine countries in the Amazon basin – including Colombia…”
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-declare-natural-disaster-over-wildfires-2024-01-25/
“Devastating drought in Amazon result of climate crisis, study shows…
“…the drought was made 30 times more likely to happen by global heating. The return of the natural El Niño climate phenomenon is associated with drier conditions but played only a small role, the scientists said. The climate crisis is supercharging extreme weather across the planet…”
“Storm floods streets, sweeps away cars, leaves people stranded and knocks down trees in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
“Heavy rains caused flash floods in several parts of the capital of Minas Gerais. In Conceição do Mato Dentro, houses and stores were flooded. BR-040, in Nova Lima, was closed due to flooding of the road.”
“Another all time record in ARGENTINA.
“Historic 42.6C [108.7F] at Trelew [Patagonia] hottest day on record. More records are coming, the worst has yet to come.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1749978512071782773
“Falklands confirms new avian influenza (bird flu) case, gentoo penguins on Sea Lion Island.
“On Thursday 18 January, swabs from 3 dead gentoo penguins from Sea Lion returned positive results for highly pathogenic avian influenza. Several gentoo chicks (20-30) and a few adults (1-4) were observed dead or symptomatic.”
“Scientists chart the growing weather extremes on maritime Antarctic islands.
“Scientists at British Antarctic Survey have found that the number of warm weather events in the South Orkney Islands has significantly increased in frequency over the last 75 years… Atmospheric rivers… picked up and then transferred a great amount of heat and water vapor from tropical or subtropical ocean.”
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-scientists-weather-extremes-maritime-antarctic.html
“Brewing crisis: How climate change is reshaping coffee production.
“…scientist Sarada Krishnan and Hanna Neuschwander, strategy and communications director of World Coffee Research, shed light on the grim and profound impact climate change is having on coffee production.”
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Your work is impeccable.
Thank you, Regan. That is very kind of you to say.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06879-8
A decline in groundwater sources what a surprise
Good find, Heather. That probably should have been at the foot of my thread.
“The problem is getting worse faster,” says a scientist quoted in this article about the paper. Also not very surprising.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2413652-groundwater-levels-are-dropping-fast-all-over-the-world/
One day, while groaning about the cost of a few items at the grocery store, I realized that I had a bag that included tea, coffee and a six pack of beer, and that it was those items that constituted the largest percentage of my bill. Likewise because of Imperialism, made to sound benevolent by dubbing it “Globalization “, the lion’s share of developing nations’ resources are used to provide luxuries like wine, coffee, and tea to the OECD nations (the “developed” world: just leave your economy at the Fotomat and pick it up at your convenience).
Why I point that out is that, even as we bemoan the uselessness of the COPout conferences, we neglect to notice that all of the agencies that actually have the power to shape the global economy, the WTO, World Bank, IMF, all have rules that override any progress the COPs might achieve.
Everyone knows this, but nary a word is said about changing these institutions’ rules, yet anywhere on the globe, development, which is what every one of these organizations have as their collective mandate, equates to growth, and growth and fossil fuel combustion go hand in hand.
“Here we go ‘round in circles” … while wondering why we don’t get anywhere.
“…the lion’s share of developing nations’ resources are used to provide luxuries like wine, coffee, and tea to the OECD nations (the “developed” world: just leave your economy at the Fotomat and pick it up at your convenience).”
Dark chocolate is my vice these days, Rob. I buy Fairtrade but I don’t know how much good it does in bridging that gap. Not a huge amount is my cynical guess.
I recall a spate of videos like the one linked to below when cocoa farmers in West Africa were given their first taste of chocolate – they had never even seen the end-product of their labours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plqraK5Ibms
I can’t imagine that the very high temps coupled with unusually low humidity we’ve seen in that part of the world recently will be doing the beans much good.
Rob the WTO, World Bank, IMF, are institutions created by Western BAU and so is the IPCC and COP conferences. Both the IPCC and COP out have done exactly the job they were created to do – gate keep & do-not-alarm.
All you need do is look at who sponsors COP conferences and who was the head spokesman this year.
The WTO, World Bank, IMF, IPCC and COP’s are all the same thing. They are 1.
UAE names oil company chief to lead UN’s COP 28 climate talks
Sultan al-Jaber, CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, will preside over the next round of global climate talks in Dubai.
‘No place for polluters’
His nomination drew immediate criticism.
Harjeet Singh, who is the head of Global Political Strategy at Climate Action Network International, said al-Jaber holding the CEO title at the state oil company posed “an unprecedented and alarming conflict of interest”.
“There can be no place for polluters at a climate conference, least of all presiding over a COP,” Singh said.
Alice Harrison of Global Witness put it even more bluntly. “You wouldn’t invite arms dealers to lead peace talks. So why let oil executives lead climate talks?”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/12/uae-names-oil-company-chief-to-lead-uns-cop-28-climate-talks
Anyone who buys that bullshit will by anything. That’s like having the CEO of McDonalds presiding over the WHO anti obesity conference – make my BULLSHIT SuperSized.
Reporting from Juneau, what a mess! Well over a meter of snow and temps well below freezing.
Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a perfect snapshot of just how fucked-up our world really is.
For example, a small-ish city in a wealthy industrialized country gets dumped on with an amount of snow that is historic even by their winter-y northern climate standards.
What is the response? First and foremost the number one highest priority is: keep the fucking cars moving! No matter what the cost!
It is absolutely insane how much time, effort, and energy has gone into moving ginormous mountains of snow around with diesel-belching heavy machinery just so people can DRIVE their fucking cars anywhere they want, anytime they want.
– AND –
It is absolutely insane how much time, effort, and energy has gone into moving ginormous mountains of snow around with diesel-belching heavy machinery just so people can PARK their fucking cars anywhere they want, anytime they want.
No joke folks, we are talking front loaders and dump trucks full of snow running continuously night and day. All over the city. Just so people can drive their fucking death machines!
The SIDEWALKS? Oh, hell no! No one has time, effort or energy for that! The sidewalks were the first things to disappear under the onslaught of the giant, diesel-belching snow plows. People on foot are forced to walk in the road where they are under constant assault by the idiots still driving and, oh yes, the diesel-belching heavy machinery.
The CROSSWALKS? Oh, hell no! No one has time, effort or energy for that! The crosswalks were the first things to disappear under the onslaught of the giant, diesel-belching snow plows. People on foot are forced to make incredibly dangerous crossings at the few locations where someone put the time, effort and energy into clearing, wait for it…, a DRIVEWAY!
And OH. MY. GOD. You should hear the morons bitching furiously that their side street only got plowed once!
And OH. MY. GOD. You should hear the morons bitching furiously about shoveling their fucking death machines out of the driveway!
Contrast this with what a slightly more sane world would have done.
Only plow the bus routes. That’s it.
You got somewhere to be? Really that important? No problem! The busses are still running!
Everyone else? Stay the fuck home!
Better yet, put your lazy ass to work shoveling the sidewalk down to the bus stop!
Your neighbors will love you for it!
And here in Minneapolis we have NO snow- just fog at 35 degrees (2c). At 7:00 pm. It’s January, the coldest time of the year and we can’t get below freezing.
In my 66+ years here I have never experienced a “winter “ like this. It’s very sad.
John, my apologies that your comment got caught in moderation. Hope you get some proper winter weather soon.
Don’t hold back. Tell us how you feel but common sense, pointing out hypocrisy, doesn’t go far on this rock.
Jerry, we kind of have the reverse situation. Our hill and most minor roads rarely get gritted these days, as there is only one qualified driver for this and the neighbouring island, so walking and buses are our only option when it snows.
I guess we could try another fundraiser – let’s get Panopticon a swish 4 x 4. Land Rover Discovery, please readers! 😁
Anything that is a threat to BAU will be denied no matter the price. The annual budget for climate change denial pales in comparison to the yearly denial budget for Covid denial. It worked. I saw many intelligent people who I respected for many years get duped by it and of course step 1 was to politicize it – right there they’ve won half the battle. They spend money on propaganda because it works.
Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries of progress.
Public health cannot be individualized. Abandoning collective approaches to disease mitigation is a recipe for disaster.
“We can’t talk about how we got to total state abandonment on COVID without discussing the *billions of dollars that went into disinformation campaigns*, pushing people to think of public health as an individual responsibility. Sure, liberals were easily able to call out Trump-era minimizing and their subsequent anti-vaccination rhetoric. But what about the mild-mannered TV news-platformed “experts” and unqualified reporters who continually pushed lines like “personal risk tolerance”, “you do you,” “back to normal,” “we have to live life,” “only vulnerable people are at risk,” and that old chestnut, “we can’t live in fear”? (I truly can’t overstate how much demanding clean air and clean water is not “living in fear” but simply expecting the bare minimum of a democratic society to which we pay taxes and refusing to be a bootlicker for billionaire talking points.)”
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/institutional-covid-denial-has-killed
Anyone interested in knowing just how deep the rabbit hole is when it comes to gatekeeper organizations for anything to do with the environment just needs to click on the link and start reading. It also applies to the so called humanitarian NGO’s as well.
WRONG KIND OF GREEN
The road to hell is paved with corporate profits and compromised NGOs
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/
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ABOUT Wrong Kind of Green
“Of the people, by the people, for the people.”
We are a 100% volunteer, critical-thinking collective.
We stand united behind ‘The Peoples Agreement’ agreed upon in Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2010.
We do not endorse nor promote campaigns, targets, policies nor legislation that undermine the targets and goals within this agreement.
We attempt to expose those who undermine the People’s Agreement. One role of the non-profit industrial complex is to undermine, marginalize and make irrelevant, the People’s Agreement. The reason being, to protect corporate interests by which they are funded. As well, the non-profit industrial complex protects the industrialized, capitalist economic system, responsible for the capitalist destruction of our shared environment. Those groups who continue to protect such interests must be considered complicit in crimes against humanity.
United, we stand behind and actively support this agreement in solidarity with our brothers and sisters, and all life on Earth.
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer
Like everything under the intellectual sun for humanity, wrong kind ‘o can be fabulous in critique, and absolutely stoopid in solutions.
Who here thinks the Peoples’ Agreement means jackshit against the machines Jerry sees, or Jamie Dimon, or anything we drove or bought or were told today?
“Critical thinking” means nothing if it vested in the same ‘ol’ Keep Hope Alive” bunkum.
It’s fine to say this is bad, that is bad, crap this, crap that, but what forces are you then invoking to show instant and dramatic reversal of said problem? The People’s Revolution? Olaf Scholz? Puh-leeze.
“Who here thinks the Peoples’ Agreement means jackshit against the machines Jerry sees…”
Yep. This is spot-on, and I have just the anecdote to prove it.
I mentioned my “only-the-bus-routes” plan to a co-worker and she literally SHREIKED without hesitation:
“No WAY am I riding the WELFARE WAGON!!!”
If you read what I wrote…
Anyone interested in knowing just how deep the rabbit hole is when it comes to gatekeeper organizations for anything to do with the environment just needs to click on the link and start reading. It also applies to the so called humanitarian NGO’s as well.…
I said fuck all about solutions or anything else.
If you have read any of my other comments then you would know I’m 25 years past solutions as anyone who understands the physics and chemistry and the history of the earth should be.
I’m not singling you out, there’s far too many assholes on line who play this game where they ignore the stated reason why someone shared a link and then cherry-pick something else at said link then try and jump on the person who shared the link about the bullshit they just cherry picked. Don’t try that with me again.
Famous Dr., I think you were seeing too many patients and dealing with too much paperwork today. Take a break.
When did “cherry -picking” replace “cotton-picking” as the empty epithet of choice?
(Notice finger-wagging keyboard admonitions don’t amount to much in my book).
In solidarity.
^^^This dialogue seems unnecessarily heated at times.
Let’s please keep it calm and respectful. God knows there’s enough conflict in the world…
When we start having fun, someone let me know. I wouldn’t want to miss out.