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“We just experience the first two years ‘with a global temperature anomaly above 1.6°C in one or more data sets!’
“Global temperatures during the past 7 months were 0.36°C higher than the same period 2 years earlier.” [Leon Simons]
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1929544538080608395
Meanwhile, we’ve just had a dip in temps [for reference global temps were 1.16C above pre-industrial for the year 2022]:
“May, 2025 just recorded a monthly average global temperature anomaly of 1.393°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline, making this the first full month to be below 1.4°C since June, 2023 (1.354°C).” [Prof Eliot Jacobson]
https://bsky.app/profile/climatecasino.net/post/3lqmqauivhs2i
“Last month (May 2025) witnessed below average Arctic sea-ice concentration in most areas.
“Early melt across the Laptev, Kara, and Barents Seas region was particularly striking. This region is near Siberia.” [Zack Labe]
https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3lqmrogkhhk26
“Another insane warm night in RUSSIA:
“Minimums up to 26C [78.8F] in Kazakhstan and tropical nights near the Arctic Circle in the midst of Siberia. Some records are nearly 10C above the high minimums recorded this time of the year and some are above the June records.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1929157762379845852
“Double record breaker: Spring 2025 is warmest and sunniest on UK record…
“The UK, and all four nations, have all recorded their warmest spring for mean temperature since the series began in 1884, surpassing the previous record from 2024. This season also outshone the rest, claiming the title of sunniest spring on record for the UK…”
“In Switzerland, after a glacier collapsed onto Blatten, fear is gripping the mountains.
“The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in the Swiss Alps. Some experts are now daring to raise the possibility that, in time, the most exposed sites may have to be abandoned.”
“Severe weather hit southern Germany on Sunday. Massive hailstorms and fires caused hours of fire and technical relief operations.
“Towards the evening, severe thunderstorms with heavy hailstorms swept across the city of Bad Säckingen ( Baden-Württemberg ), causing significant damage.”
“A supercell thunderstorm struck around ten towns in Puy-de-Dôme [central France] this Sunday evening, including Bertignat, Vertolaye, and Olliergues, causing significant damage.
“Trees were downed, 12-centimeter hailstones, and numerous roofs were damaged. This Monday, it was time to take stock of the aftermath of the storm.”
“Mainland Spain experienced its hottest May day ever on Friday, with the average temperature surpassing 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit), national weather agency AEMET said on Monday.
“The average temperature across the country hit 24.08C, breaking the previous record for the month of 23.73C set on May 21, 2022…”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spain-records-highest-may-temperature-111330933.html
“A new Mediterranean heat wave is going to sweep both the western, eastern and southern Mediterranean: Spain, Algeria and all the Balkans.
“Temperatures might rise >40C [104F] again in Spain and perhaps in some spots of the Balkans, which would be the earliest on record.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1929473101688909857
“Severe storm batters Egypt’s Alexandria, state of emergency declared.
“The northern Egyptian city of Alexandria was struck by sudden and severe weather on Saturday, including strong winds, heavy thunderstorms, and hail, prompting local authorities to declare a state of emergency and delay school exams.”
“GABON had its HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT IN HISTORY – min 26.9 [80.4F] Port Gentil.
“Record also at Libreville Min 26.5. Records have fallen nearly every month for years now in Gabon”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1929574848247869675
“More than 700 believed dead in devastating Nigeria floods…
“In an effort to prevent disease in the area, authorities will soon start to dig out corpses buried underground, Mokwa’s district head Muhammadu Aliyu said. Recounting scenes of catastrophe, local residents told the BBC that they saw their homes and family members get washed away.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c071jz90pj8o
“People in Burundi struggle amid Lake Tanganyika’s endless flooding,.
“Asha, a mother-of-four, found herself once again donning rubber boots inside her living room – the recurring cost of residing near Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, where climate change and relentless flooding have become a part of daily life.”
“Saudi Arabia deploys AI to protect over a million haj pilgrims from extreme heat…
“This concern is especially urgent following last year’s haj, during which more than 1,300 pilgrims lost their lives as temperatures soared to 51.8 degrees Celsius (125.24 degrees Fahrenheit).”
“Daily heat tracker: Patna and Jaipur [NW India] record highest night-time temperature.
“At 30C [86F] Patna and Jaipur recorded their highest night-time temperatures… The map shows the apparent/feel-like temperature (the impact of humidity on high temperature) for humans, which indicates the level of discomfort people might experience.”
“Silchar, Assam’s second-largest city [NE India], has recorded 415.8mm [16.4 inches] of rain in 24 hours, breaking a 132-year-old record [NE India].
“The previous record was set in 1893 when the city received 290.3mm of rain in a single day.”
“At least 34 dead in India’s northeast after heavy floods.
“At least 34 people have died in India’s northeastern region after heavy floods caused landslides over the last four days, authorities and media said on Monday, and the weather department predicted more heavy rain.”
“MYANMAR – Floods in the north of the country: humanitarian situation worsens.
“Extensive flooding, caused by heavy rains that lasted for about a week, has affected northern Myanmar, particularly the Sagaing region and Kachin State. The emergency further complicates the lives of the civilian population, already severely affected by four years of civil conflict.”
“A landslide in Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China on Sunday has left three people dead, two injured and seven missing, local authorities said on Monday.
“The landslide occurred at around 9:30 p.m. in Muta Township, Dengqen County under the jurisdiction of the city of Qamdo. The injured people are in stable condition in hospital.”
https://www.macaubusiness.com/3-killed-7-missing-in-landslide-in-tibet/
“Flash floods wreak havoc in China’s Yunnan after intense rains…
“In Deqin county in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, pictures showed residents being rescued by boats after severe flooding caused roads to collapse. Several hundred people in Deqin were either rescued or relocated…”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/flash-floods-wreak-havoc-chinas-091425951.html
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA:
“Record heat is sweeping 100% of the tropics like never seen before in 2+ centuries of climatic history. VIETNAM: Ca Mau broke again its record of hottest night in history with a Min of 30.3C [86.5F]. PHILIPPINES: The same at Masbate with Tmin 28.5C.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1929711890529485186
“RECORD HEAT ALL OVER …SE ASIA. June started with pulverizing records all over the tropics:
“Min 29.0 [84.2F] Penang – MALAYSIA RECORD HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT; Max. 37.9 Koh Samui THAILAND – June record.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1929179645158568168
“It never rains or it pours: Australia suffers two weather extremes in May.
“Australia saw a tale of two weather extremes last month, with extremely dry conditions continuing across southern parts of the country as parts of eastern New South Wales recorded the wettest May on record.”
“Millions of birds to migrate to iconic Australian lake after record rainfall.
“The rare event has occurred just four times in the past 160 years. Millions of waterbirds and breeding birds from as far as China and Japan will migrate to the lake during this time. South Australia’s Department of Water advises the best way to view the lake is from the air.”
“Victoria just had its warmest autumn on record.
“If you thought it was mild in recent months in Victoria, you’re spot on, with Australia’s smallest mainland state officially registering its warmest autumn on record. Average temperatures across Victoria were 1.90°C above average throughout autumn 2025, which narrowly exceeded the old record set in 2016.”
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/victoria-just-had-its-warmest-autumn-on-record/1890636
“EXCEPTIONAL HEAT IN NEW CALEDONIA:
“Winter with mid summer temperatures in the most southern islands of the Territory which has been breaking records every month for years. June hottest night in history: Min 24.8 Ouvea Island; 24.1 Lifou Island… Min 26.3 [79.3F] Ile Surprise is NEW CALEDONIA RECORD HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1929700550355939462
“CARIBBEAN HEAT:
“Fierce heat is sweeping both coast of MEXICO (record minimums of 28C / 82.4F] in the Sinaloa) and CARIBBEAN with widespread minimums of 27/30C from North to South. The record heat reaches South America where the Timheri Airport, GUYANA had a June record high Tmin of 24.8C.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1929272100524617782
“Heavy rains trigger emergency protocol: Mexico City and Edomex report severe damage.
“Several municipalities and towns in Mexico City and the State of Mexico were severely affected by the rain that hit Tuesday afternoon. Service on a section of Metro Line A was suspended due to the downpours.”
“Guanajuato [N Central Mexico] struggles with flooding after record-breaking rains in May…
“Officials in León reported that 84 mm of rain fell in May, nearly quadrupling the amount of rain recorded last year (22 mm). In Guanajuato city, a record 42.4 mm of rain had fallen as of midday Saturday, surpassing the record 41 mm seen in May 1991 and May 2020.”
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/rainfall-guanajuato-san-miguel-may/
“Reno broke a century-old heat record Saturday, May 31, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.
“The official high of 99 degrees [37.2F] at Reno-Tahoe International Airport broke the previous record of 98 for the day, set in 1910. It was also the hottest May day ever recorded in Reno — and the hottest temperature the city has ever seen this early in the year, data shows.”
https://eu.rgj.com/story/weather/2025/06/01/reno-breaks-may-heat-records/83975251007/
“Canada faces early and intense wildfire season.
“Dozens of wildfires have raged for several days in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, two provinces in central Canada. Both regions declared a 30-day state of emergency at the end of May to confront a situation that was as unprecedented as it was concerning…”
“Scorching Summer Threatens Grids and Crops Across Three Continents. North America, Asia and Europe will likely be pummeled by record heat…
“The western and central US, along with western and northern Europe, are at risk of sustained high temperatures, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.”
“Scientists identify two global ocean bands heating at record rates.
“Scientists have examined global measurements from 2000 to 2023, comparing them to early-2000s conditions. The findings point to two latitudinal stretches near 40 degrees in both hemispheres where ocean temperatures are climbing notably.”
https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-identify-two-global-ocean-bands-heating-at-record-rates/
“CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time.
“That’s possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years. The global RATE of increase is off the chart. It’s hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!”
[Leon Simons]
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1929265024935047586
“The global temperature may be even higher than we thought.
“The world has warmed even more than we thought, according to a new dataset suggesting the temperature rise since pre-industrial times is 6 per cent higher than previous estimates.”
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And the story that worries me the most…..
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
Thanks, Sean. The web of life starting to unravel…
Yes, I was gobsmacked by it. The weather and climate induced chaos we can “adapt” to, but this is whole other level. Won’t be the last.
Recall that a new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rain forest is being built for the COP30 climate summit.
I nominate Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” as the theme song for COP30.
Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
“They took all the trees put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar an’ a half just to see ’em
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot”
Counting Crows did a remake of the song but I still like Joni’s better myself.
Counting Crows – Big Yellow Taxi
Edward, I agree – the Counting Crows version is not a patch on the original. Janet Jackson sampled Joni’s chorus for her 1997 hit “Got ’til It’s Gone,” featuring Q-Tip. Works quite well, IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznTHSEgx4U
It looks like the bell curve for weather events isn’t just moving to the right but also getting a fat tail, so that even if the average temperature, both spatially and temporally, weren’t changing (which it is of course) there would still be more extreme events localised in time or geographically.
There was a paper last year about the northward shift of atmospheric rivers and the cooling of the eastern Pacific, contrary to climate models, which might fit in with the Trenberth paper. We seem to be exposing a lot of unknowns in the climate and things are accelerating away rather than letting the scientists and models catch up.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq0604
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJuKLrxQ4c
George, re your first para – that is my read of it, too. And even global average temps seem to be showing more lability. Still scratching my head over January being 1.75C above pre-industrial even with La Nina.
It might be something funny happening in Antarctica when there is not much sea ice left to act as a dampener. At least two papers have included particular conditions in the Southern Ocean as possibly contributing to the 2023 temperature bounce. Or not?
Just to clarify my point from yesterday:
“So… peak oil by 2030 or earlier is extremely likely at this point. Question then becomes will it be followed by a plateau in conventional production and decline in shale/unconventional or decline everywhere due to feedback effects from the latter, as well as minerals depletion, as well as climate and geopolitical factors.”
I meant US production incl unconventional which afaik is still rising. Anyway, the intersection of the worsening of already alarming climate trends with peak US oil (and maybe substantial production decline in some regions esp EU) will answer a lot of questions on how long, and exactly in what way, this thing can last.
In other news, I exposed my true doomer self to the public today during a conversation about the fashion industry’s wastefulness. It was the usual thing of correctly identifying some problems whilst ignoring others in order to rationalize feel-good “action” of varying degrees of faux-radicality.
I pointed out that the only reason the fashion/textiles exports industry exists in those third world nations to begin with is because other sectors of the economy are either not allowed to develop, or are not as profitable because the first world needs to get their hands on those products for dirt cheap. Textiles “overproduction” is an ultimately minor symptom of that larger problem.
No one disagreed, but I could sense resentment in the air. Like when someone asks how it’s going and you actually tell them. Awkward!
Sometimes that doomer realism just can’t help but spill out, Jupiviv. 😂
Hope you didn’t lose any friends.
Nah, admittedly resentment was hyperbole. They do agree but as I’m sure you know from personal experience, pointing out the fallacies of easy-to-digest solutions to deep structural problems will get interpreted as a bit rude no matter how politely one frames it. *shrug*
Hello Pan
Yes, that report about the collapse of insect populations is shocking. I actually came to the same conclusion here in my tiny village with just one street lamp.
I’ve been living here for 20 years now, and indeed, the moths and night butterflies are gone. The toads are gone, and the bats are gone. Well, you don’t notice it if you’re not an entomologist, but it’s happening.
Oh well, next week is the big ocean conservation conference in Nice… on the most polluted sea in the world. A kind of brother or sister of the COP. Trump isn’t coming because the oceans aren’t urgent. There needs to be a moratorium on deep-sea mining of cobalt, etc. Well, it’s not going to happen with or without a ban. Fortunately, that’s far beyond our energy reach…
Yes, Zip, thankfully the deep seas will, along with the asteroids, go for the most part un-mined. I hadn’t known about that conference. Seems like it is becoming the scene of a showdown between Greenpeace and the French authorities:
“In retaliation against Greenpeace ahead of the UN Ocean Conference, the French authorities have blocked Greenpeace International’s ship Arctic Sunrise from entering the port of Nice, where the “One Ocean Science Congress” then the UN conference are being hosted.
“This follows Greenpeace France highlighting the weaknesses of the French network of Marine Protected Areas last month in the Mediterranean sea, in an expedition on board the Arctic Sunrise.”
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/75120/french-authorities-block-greenpeace-ship-participating-in-un-ocean-conference/
Decline in insect populations has been covered for many years. I remember discussing this somewhere years ago; maybe close to a decade.
Here are a few links:
January 11, 2021
Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts
February 14, 2019
Why insect populations are plummeting—and why it matters
This isn’t meant to discount or criticize any post here but only to highlight that action to mitigate climate change impacts should have started “at least” a decade ago if not sooner.
Edward, at the risk of boring everyone by recycling a hackneyed doomer anecdote, I vividly recall, as a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, bugs constantly splattering on the windscreen of the car when my parents were driving at night in summertime. Now it is a rarity.
This article claims that there has been a 63% fall in windscreen bug-splats since only 2021!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/alarming-bug-splat-decline-uk-cars-fears-flying-insect-numbers
Yes, I was going to mention something along those lines. When I was in college and drove back and forth to my home town between semesters, there were bugs splattered all over my windshield. Especially going down the NY Thruway (90). When I stopped on the thruway for gas or pit stop, I always cleaned the windshield. You can drive down the NY State Thruway now and hardly hit a bug.
There is no way that they can maintain ai, bitcoin and more surveillance on the population along with anything green agenda. This thing will crash and burn as it goes down in flames!
I am now very eager for everything to fall apart so I can suffer and then die which will free me from the Diet of LIes prepared by the hijacked governments of the US and the EU and the UK. Then I will know that the hijackers are suffering too.