“Historic flooding in southern China kills 47, with more floods feared.
“The extreme weather also destroyed some 221 miles of road, damaged more than a hundred bridges and flooded farmland… Henan and Anhui provinces in central China, as well as Jiangsu province on the coast and the southern province of Guizhou, all are expecting hail and strong thunderstorms,”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/historic-flooding-southern-china-guangdong-rcna158253
“Southern Anhui was hit by the heaviest rainstorm in history, with more than 400mm [15.7 inches] of rainfall in 12 hours.
“The famous Huangshan scenic area was closed urgently.”
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1803775784924164487
“Northern China’s dry summer will be gone as climate change hits hard: study…
““The acceleration of wet bulb temperature increases in northern China challenges the conventional understanding of China’s regional summer climates, which historically categorised the south as hot and humid and the north as dry,” the team wrote in a paper…”
“Severe drought forces corn farmers in China’s east to delay planting…
“Record high temperatures have swept across northwest and east China, a key grain producing region, during the crucial corn sowing season, threatening to curb production in the world’s second-largest producer and consumer of the grain.”
“Warnings of heavy rain, flooding and landslides issued for Kagoshima [Japan]…
“In the city of Ibusuki, 418 millimeters [16.5 inches] of rain were recorded over 24 hours as of 7:20 a.m. on Friday, setting a new all-time high for the location. Some cities, towns and villages in the Satsuma and Osumi regions have also issued warnings for heavy rain.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/21/japan/heavy-rain-kagoshima/
“SOUTHEAST ASIA LATEST RECORDS – THAILAND: Tmax 39.0 [102.2F] Chok Chai hottest June day on record.
“MYANMAR: Tmax 33.0 Loilin Hottest June day on record; Tmin 16.8 Kyaukmae and 19.0 Taungkok Lowest June temperatures on record.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1803772830246428903
“Coldest start to winter in decades in some areas with polar air mass predicted across Australia next week…
“It has been the coldest start to winter in decades for parts of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, and temperatures are expected to remain cooler with a polar air mass predicted to sweep through the entire country in the coming week.”
“TUVALU AGAIN! Historic MINIMUM temperature of 29.3C [84.7F] at Funafuti it’s the HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (it beats the record set earlier this month).
“Despite the end of Nino, all Pacific Islands are breaking heat records non-stop, every day.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1804438655299166534
“Record heat in PARAGUAY never ends – while Patagonia is freezing with near record low temperatures, it’s like an eternal summer in Paraguay.
“More June records: 37.7 [99.9F] Base Adrian Jara; 37.4 Bahia Negra; 36.0 Mariscal; Estigarribia and Puerto Casado 35.0 San Pedro.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1804311667737493957
“Floods are recorded in the Valparaíso region [Chile]: homes in the Concón sector are completely flooded.
“The frontal system has caused great havoc in the coastal commune, causing flooding, rockfalls and flooding in irrigation canals… Authorities continue to closely monitor the situation and work to mitigate the damage…”
“Death toll rises to 19 as torrential rains continue in El Salvador…
“The torrential rains hitting El Salvador caused the deaths of another six people on Friday when two girls and four adults were killed after being buried in their homes. Wall collapses and landslides on the outskirts of the capital brought a total of 19 dead.”
“Latin America and the Caribbean experiences record dengue cases…
“The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has revealed that Latin America and the Caribbean has reported 9.3 million cases of dengue so far this year, twice the number of cases reported in all of 2023.”
https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/latin-america-and-caribbean-experiences-record-dengue-cases
“CARIBBEAN HEAT WAVE:
“Still relentless record heat day and night; today St Eustatius, Dutch Antilles had its hottest June night on record with Tmin 28.2C [82.8F]. The warm sea is keeping air temperatures at perennial record levels.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1803906270648279527
“A 400% Jump in Cilantro Prices Forces Mexican Taquerias to Get Creative…
“Most of the country’s cilantro supply comes from the central state of Puebla, which like much of the country has suffered from a lack of rain and record-breaking heat. The herb is a staple of Mexican cooking…”
“Just in: HISTORIC IN MEXICO 52 DEGREES [125.6F] – yesterday Tapache, Sonora State ties the HIGHEST RELIABLE TEMPERATURE IN MEXICAN HISTORY (=Mexicali Sur, Rancho Williams and Delta July 1995).
“3 stations >51C. This exceptional heat will sweep SW USA: Phoenix can have record hot nights.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1804244778931954071
“Mexico recovering from tropical storm which has left several dead…
“Strong winds and heavy rain have brought destruction and death to Mexico… Many people have sought refuge in shelters, as others assess the damage done to businesses by the storm.”
“South Texas still grapples with severe drought despite recent rains…
“Signs of the current drought in our area are evident everywhere we turn. From dry, brown, crispy grass; to rivers, creeks, streams, and lakes running really low. South central Texas has dealt with some level of drought, for almost three years now, that’s over one thousand days.”
“Supreme Court rejects settlement in water dispute between parched New Mexico and Texas…
“The 5-4 decision rebuffs an agreement that had come recommended by a federal judge overseeing the case over how New Mexico, Texas and Colorado must share water from the Rio Grande.”
“Scenes of devastation emerge in New Mexico as ‘dangerous’ floods follow wildfires…
“A total of 8,000 people in the region have been evacuated, with many of them staying in emergency shelters. The larger South Fork fire destroyed some 1,400 buildings in the area, including 500 homes, said New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/new-mexico-flooding-wildfires-heat-b2566226.html
“A record-breaking number of mosquitoes are carrying West Nile virus around Las Vegas…
““These are huge numbers of mosquitoes, and we’ve already identified a concerning number of them carrying the West Nile virus,” said Vivek Raman, an environmental health supervisor for the Southern Nevada Health District.”
“Heatwave continues to roast 65m people in US midwest and north-east…
“Record temperatures were set in some areas, with heat indexes that combine temperature and humidity hitting 100F and 110F. Calendar-day highs were broken across Maine, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/heatwave-midwest-north-east
“Monthly and all-time records were set today in Atlantic Canada, just above 35°C [95F] at Terra Nova Natl Park and Saint John airport (both all-time record highs).
“[Not on map] All-time humidex record in Halifax (42.5), and 0.2 below all-time in Gander (40.3).”
https://x.com/Pat_wx/status/1803951907439800453
“It’s just natural variability, they said.
“Don’t be a doomer, they said.
“The truth is bad enough, they said. Graph is North Atlantic sea surface temps, June – May, 12-month averages.”
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1803856974682956099
“Floods, Mayenne, NW France…
“In the Mayenne town of Craon, the flood of the Oudon far exceeded the historic level of 1996, reaching 3.25 meters, compared to 2.86 meters previously… “Since I have lived here in 1948, I have never seen this ,” assures Henri Robert, 78 years old…”
“Severe hailstorm damages vineyards in Beaujolais.
“One winemaker remarked how the large hailstones had broken branches off the vines and left them looking “gnawed”…Local media reported that one wine grower had lost €200,000 (£169,067) worth of their harvest in the storm.”
https://news.sky.com/video/france-severe-hailstorm-damages-vineyards-in-beaujolais-13156017
“Landslide and Flooding Cuts Off Zermatt, Switzerland, From Rest of the World…
“The famous Swiss ski resort Zermatt has been cut off from the rest of the world after a landslide and flooded rivers made roads impassable today, June 21… The river Vispa as well as the Triftbach Creek that runs through the center of the village, have turned into a muddy torrents.”
https://snowbrains.com/landslide-and-flooding-cuts-off-zermatt-switzerland-from-rest-of-the-world/
“A major electricity blackout has hit Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and most of Croatia’s Adriatic coast, leaving people sweltering in the middle of a severe heatwave.
“Temperatures in Montenegro’s capital, Podgorica, reached 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/21/balkan-regions-hit-by-major-power-outage
“It’s a historic heat wave for Balkans and Eastern Europe. Today insane MINIMUMS in CROATIA; 29.3 [84.7F] Tmin and 29.1 Dubrovnik airport – HOTTEST JUNE night in Croatian history. Records are falling in a huge area in Eastern Europe.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1804159003263390091
“A man died on Friday as several forest fires fanned by gale-force winds battered Greece’s southern tip and forced evacuations, the fire brigade said.
“The 55-year-old man was injured in a blaze in the region of Ilia on the Peloponnese peninsula and died at a hospital, said a fire service official.”
“HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN TURKIYE – 47.8 [118F] Ceylanpinar ties the HOTTEST DAY EVER RECORDED IN JUNE IN TURKEY.
“Heat in Turkey in the past weeks has been unreal with 44/47C every day for weeks and won’t end in any foreseeable future.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1803872910487982215
“At least 11 killed in southeast Turkey wildfires…
“Health Minister Fahrettin Koca reported the deaths from the overnight blaze between the cities of Diyarbakir and Mardin on Friday. Seventy-eight people were injured, he said on X, with at least five people in intensive care units.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/21/at-least-five-killed-in-southeast-turkey-wildfires
“MEDITERRANEAN HEAT WAVE – 49.4 Adrar ALGERIA June record again!”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1803860476008501444
“Fears of ‘catastrophe’ in Egypt as Ethiopia prepares to fill Nile dam for fifth time…
“Satellite photos taken last Monday have revealed Ethiopia’s preparations to fill the controversial Great Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile for a fifth time, amid Egyptian fears that this could have a catastrophic effect on the amount of essential Nile water it receives.”
https://www.newarab.com/news/fears-disaster-egypt-ethiopia-prepares-fill-nile-dam
“Why the recent floods in Abidjan [Ivory Coast] are unprecedented…
“…the most significant damage was recorded in the residential commune of Cocody, where 205 millimeters [8 inches] of rain fell in 72 hours , or a quarter of the precipitation expected over the entire three months of the rainy season.”
https://www.dw.com/fr/cote-d-ivoire-inondations-abidjan-degats-morts-urbanisation/a-69436293
“How ‘Searching For Amani’ spotlights climate change through a tragic personal story [Kenya]…
“Aspiring journalist Simon Ali, 12 when the filmmakers first met him, is devastated after his father, a very well respected nature guide in Laikipia’s largest wildlife conservancy, is shot dead. Simon’s investigations into the crime reveal some uncomfortable home truths about land ownership, grazing rights and climate change.”
“One man’s desperate search for wife as more than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die in extreme heat…
“Hoda Nagib and her husband had walked 20km in the baking sun in Saudi Arabia when she told him that she needed to rest. The couple, who are in their 60s, had just scaled Mount Arafat, along with thousands of other white-robed pilgrims…”
“Exceptional heat in BAHRAIN = Yesterday MINIMUM temperature was 36.6C [98F] in the International Airport, hottest June night ever recorded in Bahrain.
“Minimums >35C are currently being exceeded in 12 countries!”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1804109161996644805
“Record heat is ALL OVER Middle East:
“51.7C [125F] today at Rabiya KUWAIT all time high; up to 51C at Nassirya in IRAQ ties June record; >49C again in Algeria, Oman, Emirates. June record again at Alula SAUDI ARABIA 47.1”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1804230523050426484
“An unprecedented heatwave has pushed temperatures in several Iranian cities to record highs, with Ahvaz in the southwestern province of Khuzestan registering as one of the world’s hottest spots…
“Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, is also facing temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, causing power cuts and increasing numbers of people headed to hospital, INA reported.”
https://www.intellinews.com/iranian-city-among-world-s-hottest-as-heatwave-grips-middle-east-330740/
“Rise in night temperatures amid relentless heatwave leaves Indians sleepless…
“The analysis comes just a couple of days after Delhi recorded its hottest night ever on Wednesday with the minimum temperature staying at 35.2C, eight degrees above normal.”
“As climate change imperils Taliban’s shift from opium, impact could be felt worldwide…
“Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of climate change, imperiling poppy eradication efforts.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/21/afghanistan-taliban-opium-climate-change/
“Global warming has significantly altered plant growth patterns on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) over the past three decades.
“Plants adjust their growth trajectories in response to climate change, prioritizing leaf and stem growth or root extension to better absorb nutrients from the sun, atmosphere, or soil.”
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-reveal-effects-climate-belowground-biomass.html
“Floods strand over 2m people in Bangladesh…
“The south-Asian nation is among the world’s most densely populated and highly prone to flooding. Swelling rivers are fed by monsoon rains and Himalayan snowmelt, aggravated by global warming. The country’s north-east has been especially hard hit.”
https://www.dw.com/en/floods-strand-over-2m-people-in-bangladesh/video-69443955
“Climate activists bemoan scant progress on finance as COP29 looms.
“Finding the finance needed to stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis will be “a very steep mountain to climb”, the UN has conceded, as two vital international conferences failed to produce the progress needed to generate funds for poor countries.”
“How companies are starting to back away from green targets…
“This year, corporate leaders in a range of sectors have acknowledged they cannot meet their greenhouse gas emissions targets set, in some cases, several years ago. Large corporations, including Unilever, Bank of America and Shell, have in the past year dropped or missed goals…”
https://www.ft.com/content/c9fee776-1471-442c-aae8-8d78fe60faeb
“Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds…
“The paper shows that targeted interventions to lower temperature in one area for one season might bring temporary benefits to some populations, but this has to be set against potentially negative side-effects in other parts of the world and shifting degrees of effectiveness over time.”
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I’m not depressed I’m just a doomer.
You remind me of the granddaddy of them all..
https://dieoffinterview.tripod.com/
Jay can make you laugh through your tears. Jay Hanson “Does Doom” better than anybody, masterfully shaping the discussion with a Faustian literary élan that helps the medicine go down. See the end notes of this interview for a list of links to Jay’s essays.
Jay Hanson is not really a suitable menu item for beginners. Some knowledge and background reading in genetics, economics, physics, evolutionary psychology, fundamentals of the hydrocarbon energy regime, and the political and military history of Europe and North America is assumed on the reader’s part.
Warning and disclaimer: Even brief exposure to Jay Hanson’s ideas has been known to result in irreversible neuronal rewiring! You may never again feel at home in The Hive!
….I like this part of the interview
But you asked, how do you prepare for the end. Money. That’s how you prepare for the end. Because the rich people always do better than the poor people. In the Irish potato famine, they had warehouses full of potatoes, and the army was shooting the poor people. So the rich people could get the potatoes. Money.
Q: Ok, but by hypothesis, if you push things far enough, even money …
A: Yes, but I’ll be dead by then.
Q: So in the beginning its money, and in the long run…
A: We’re all dead, yes.
Can’t wait to hear from TR
😂❤️
Thanks for the link. That was a really fascinating read.
“When you are doing research on human nature, you need to look at people at their worst, not at their best. What are people capable of? What are ordinary, average, everyday people, you and I, or our neighbors, capable of?”
Dieoff.org was one of my first exposures to ultra-doom, way back in my peak-oil days. I must have already grokked “overshoot” by Catton, or was close to it, because everything Jay wrote resonated with me. Jay Hanson is missed, I was saddened to hear of his passing. Some sort of surfing accident IIRC.
Here’s another gem from the interview:
“[…] But I don’t really have a moral philosophy. Moral philosophies change to fit the times. At one time it was moral to kill Jews. It could be anything. Everything comes from one side, from the physical side. At one point its killing Jews, at another time we could be hopping around on one foot waving our hands in the air. If you want good moral philosophy, then you have to provide good opportunity to increase fitness [which allows the luxury of that moral philosophy]. If the fitness pie is shrinking, then people will invent moral philosophies in order to eliminate competition for resources.
“Q: And in ancient Afghanistan, they played polo using human heads.
“A: Right, and [that might happen again and] it could be on TV and play to huge audiences. It’s arbitrary. What these things actually are [the content of a moral code] is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any difference, it’s all the same thing to the genes.
“Moral philosophy is irrelevant because it is nothing more than a rationalization of the act. The discussion about philosophy is based on the incorrect view that people consciously think about a subject, and then they act. But the reality is exactly the opposite – people act then rationalize.
“This is literally true. This also self-evidentially true. Where else could consciousness come from except that meat between your ears?”
Wow. The man was amazing. The blog post about starving to death that I mentioned before had a great quote from someone in the Donner party. I’m paraphrasing, but it was something like “yes, of course we were horrified, but if the alternative is death then you reconcile yourself to it.”
People act – then rationalize.
RIP, Jay Hanson. I found an audio of an interview he gave back in 2008, talking so much sense. He says about renewables, “As long as you’re still digging holes in the ground, that’s not renewable… And people just gloss over the problems!”
https://www.resilience.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/reality-report-jay-hanson-interview-3-nov-2008.mp3
I listened to the whole interview and urge others here to do so too. There is a new angle to hear both talking about the challenges ahead. At the end of the podcast Jay was asked if nothing was done when he expected a nuke war to start over resources he expected around 15 years max range..So about now…looks about right.
Thanks Justin for the link..
The NYT had an interesting observation, over the last year over 6 billion people, that’s about 4 out of 5 people on the entire planet, suffered at least a month of abnormally high temperatures. Judging by the way average temps are going vertical it’s not hard to see why. And the hits just keep on coming.
I remember reading somewhere what happens to your body when you die of heat-stroke. Your cells basically start “unravelling” for want of a better word. You start dissolving from the inside out until finally your organs fail. All of them.
Jerry, I believe “denaturing” is the scientific term. I wondered if there were anything a person could do to limit cell-damage from heat-shock and found an old study, which tentatively concludes that dietary changes might help:
“That the presence of some nutrients and bioactive substances favors or enhances the display of a heat shock response is something readily accepted if the organism is under stress, but that a nutrient or a bioactive by itself being capable of inducing the expression of heat-shock proteins without the intervention of stress is an emerging notion that may deserve deeper investigation.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024325/
Hi panopticon, hope you’re well, I read most of your posts, keep up the good work.
May I suggest you bias your news searches for climate impacts on food production. It seems this is the most important threat we should be monitoring.
Rob
Rob, good to hear from you! I do my best to keep at least half an eye on the food situation and I’m sure more of my attention will naturally be drawn there as time goes on.
As you probably know, UK agriculture is in a particularly bad spot due to endless rain, and food prices are already so elevated. It’s a worry.
My very simplistic analysis is that we’re doing OK from a global grain standpoint but seeing huge problems with less essential produce – coffee, cocoa, oranges, bananas, avocadoes, wine (2023 was the worst year for global wine production since 1961!) etc.
For those who haven’t come across Rob, he keeps his own splendid blog, undenial.com. I loved seeing Paul Hedderman get a mention in your latest piece. I have a huge soft spot for him and have linked to his website, Zenbitchslap, below yours:
https://un-denial.com/2024/06/13/coping-with-awareness/
https://www.zenbitchslap.com/
Thanks. I’d love to add a section to our most recent essay on how you are coping with awareness. Please send me an email if you’re interested.
I miss Gail Zawacki. Do you know if her old group is still running?
Rob
Rob, I miss Gail, too. She was wrong about very little but I hope she was wrong about woo-woo, as she called it, and travels on in some form.
Re how I am coping with awareness, a lady called Kimberley Hare was kind enough to include my thoughts on that in her new book, “At the Edge; What is Mine to Do and Who Can I Do it With?”
https://www.amazon.co.uk/At-Edge-What-Mine-Who-ebook/dp/B0D4B2RL9B
I’d be very happy to offer up similar for your website, with the caveat that I am no great expert and just muddling through like most.
“Climate engineering”, like collateral damage, is a euphemism for wanton destruction. Hydraulic fracturing is climate engineering on a far more massive scale than all the pathetic, theatrically deployed “climate interventions” put together.
Why is it that all of a sudden they realize that the geoengineering off the coast of the USA “might bring temporary benefits to some populations, but this has to be set against potentially negative side-effects in other parts of the world”, yet pretend complete ignorance of the exact same dynamic at work for the Canadian oil sands, the largest industrial process on the scar-faced earth, and hydraulic fracturing?
They know the truth. Hydraulic fracturing on a continental scale IS geoengineering the climate of the planet, yet liability for the negative side effects in other parts of the world can be safely ignored. Proof of which is that, as the entire Caribbean Basin experiences it’s hottest year in history, the Permian output of what they still call oil, along with the methane it leaks and flares, has never been higher. Nor has Texan energy use.
In 2019 I asked, “Why isn’t Florida suing Texas?” To sue Exxon is ridiculous when both State & Federal Governments give undying support to their activities: we need to sue the state of Texas for its intransigence and its promulgation of the nonsense that climate change is a hoax… but we never Will. Because the United States of Texas would implode, both politically & economically, w/out light/tight synfuel.
https://robertlowrey.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-isnt-florida-suing-texas.html
“…wanton destruction.”
Fracking and climate engineering aside, I guess that’s just the reality of modern industrial civilisation as a totality – remorselessly converting the natural world into goods, services and waste is what it does. BTW, I spotted this rather magnificent alliteration in your piece: 😂
“A teetering tottering Tyranny of Terror traumatizing terra firma via truculence and tariff tirades.”
Now here’s a acronym: ATTTTTTFVTTT! 😉
I’ve just finished the manuscript for my next best selling book.
“Getting What You Deserve,Ever Though It’s Not Your Fault.”
My publisher says it should sell 8 billion copies because no one wants to accept responsibility for a ?+&!)%#$ thing.
For the sake of transparency, the book only has one page with the only thing on that page:
https://climateandeconomy.com/2024/06/22/22nd-june-2024-todays-round-up-of-climate-news/
I can finish a new book each day just linking to C&E. 😉
Pan is letting us down! He couldn’t even find 50 horrible links. 😉
…..
A psychotic break tends to make one forget about their depression.
“Psychiatric students are studying under a Dr. at a mental institution. They look in on a patient & he is grabbing at the air.
Student – Dr., what is he grabbing for?
Dr. – Butterflies.
Student – There aren’t any butterflies.
Dr. – I might be that you can’t see them.”
Paraphrase of something I just heard –
This species has an amazing ability to remain ignorant.
“I Know Nothing” – Sgt Schultz (Hogan’s Heroes character)