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“Scientists discover Earth has two new seasons.
“Experts have warned that ‘haze season’ and ‘trash season’ are now part of Earth’s annual climate rhythm, disrupting ecosystems and redefining the calendar. The new seasons are now recurring every year, driven entirely by human activity and posing serious threats to public health, marine life, and global ecosystems.”
“Abrupt collapse of Arctic sea ice may come with little warning.
“Subsystems showing more consistent abrupt changes included Arctic summer and winter sea ice, Antarctic sea ice, the North Atlantic subpolar gyre, land permafrost, and snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau. Even systems not officially recognized as tipping elements experienced abrupt changes in several models, suggesting wider potential for sudden climate shifts than previously thought.”
https://www.earth.com/news/abrupt-collapse-of-arctic-sea-ice-may-come-with-little-warning/
“Warming Arctic lakes may release more methane than expected…
“The study underscores the importance of including lake sediments in Arctic greenhouse gas budgets. It also shows that seemingly small environmental changes can have large effects on methane emissions. “The Arctic is changing rapidly, and we need to understand all the feedback involved,” said Marie.”
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-arctic-lakes-methane.html
“Finland breaks heat record again with 16 consecutive days above 30°C [86F].
“The previous record, set in 1972, stood at 13 days. This year’s streak has now exceeded that for three consecutive days. Lapland also saw a separate milestone, with heatwave conditions, temperatures above 25 degrees, continuing for 17 straight days. This is the longest uninterrupted stretch of heat recorded in the region.”
“Severe Drought Threatens 25% of Crops in Russia’s Agricultural Heartland…
“The Rostov and Krasnodar regions, traditionally among Russia’s most productive farming areas, have seen yields fall from about 62 centners per hectare last year to just 46 centners this season…. Authorities have declared states of emergency in 30 districts — 21 in Rostov and nine in Krasnodar — as extreme weather devastates fields of wheat, barley, corn and sunflowers.”
“Trains halted by shrinking peat affecting tracks [UK]…
“Network Rail said peat soil under the Fen Line between Ely in Cambridgeshire and King’s Lynn in Norfolk had shrunk, causing the track to drop and become uneven. It apologised to passengers, blaming the problem on “the driest spring in more than 50 years”.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rpr6x52mjo
“A preliminary investigation into a train crash that killed three people in Baden-Württemberg on Sunday indicates the train was likely derailed due to a landslide caused by heavy rain.
“A landslide likely caused Sunday’s deadly train crash in the German town of Biberach as a result of heavy rain, German police said.”
“EXCEPTIONAL SUMMER COLD IN CENTRAL EUROPE:
“Daytime temperatures in the teens for hundreds of stations, especially in Italy, those are the lowest daytime temperatures in late July on record. Record heat continues in North/Eastern Europe. The exceptional cool might last 2/3 weeks!”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1949795954573328750
“Flash floods ravage Romania: One dead, hundreds displaced in worst flooding in 50 years…
“The National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management issued Code Red and Code Orange warnings early Monday for the northeastern provinces of Suceava and Neamț after rainfall exceeded 70 liters per square meter in just three hours, causing the Bistrița River to breach historic levels.”
“Dozens of beachgoers in Sardinia were forced to flee by boat on Sunday when a huge wildfire broke out nearby, blocking other escape routes, firefighters on the Italian island said.
“Black smoke could be seen rising from the beach in Villasimius in the south of the island.”
“HISTORIC HEAT IN EUROPE – records of high minimums all over:
“MIN 27.6C [81.7F] Stip is NORTH MACEDONIA HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY; Also 26.6 Demir Kapija,23.1 Bitola; ALBANIA: 27 Gjirokastra, 23.4 Kucova; ROMANIA 24.8 Rimnicu; FINLAND 23 Liperi.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1949545217406668946
“Albania and Bulgaria ask EU for help to deal with raging wildfires.
“Bulgaria has to deal with more than 230 fire fronts. The EU sent four helicopters and two aircraft to help tackle them. 11 regions have been put on red alert due to high temperatures. Dozens of houses have been burnt to the ground and thousands of acres of forest have been set ablaze.”
“Turkey wildfires: At least 17 killed as thousands flee their homes…
“The number of fatalities in fires outside the country’s fourth-largest city, Bursa, rose to four on Monday, as two volunteer firefighters died in hospital after being pulled from a water tanker that had overturned on the way to a forest fire.”
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN TURKEY:
“Hundreds of records destroyed; MINIMUM 36.6 [97.9F] Kesefli is HOTTEST NIGHT IN TURKISH HISTORY; UNBELIEVABLE MINIMUM 32.9 Mardin at 1000m asl! More MAX RECORDS in the highlands: 42.6 Karabuk, 41.8 Burdur, 41.5 Cardak, 40.3 Isparta 40.5 AP, 39.7 Bolu.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1949537355611717878
“Turkey’s glaciers fall victim to climate change…
“”The melting process is faster than we expected. According to our research, in the last 40 years, we lost almost 50 percent of this continuous snow and ice cover in this place,” said Onur Satir, a professor at Yuzuncu Yil University…”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250729-turkey-s-glaciers-fall-victim-to-climate-change
“Israel faces unprecedented drought crisis as water shortages loom.
“Israel is grappling with record-breaking temperatures and dwindling water sources, with northern streams drying up and the Water Authority sounding alarms over a severe drought. Yehezkel (Hezi) Lifshitz, the authority’s director, warns that the situation is nearing catastrophic levels.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/bkoeuyndxl
“The beauty industry loves argan oil. But demand, and drought, are straining Morocco and its trees…
“Long a staple in local markets, argan oil today is in luxury hair and skin care products lining drugstore aisles worldwide. But its runaway popularity is threatening argan forests, with overharvesting piled on top of drought straining trees once seen as resilient in the harshest of conditions.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/goats-morocco-trees-scientists-fruit-b2797741.html
“Several people killed as floods hit northeastern Nigeria…
“The disaster ravaged the Shagari, Yolde Pate, and Sabon Pegi communities of Yola city in Adamawa State, with at least eight people killed, residents told Anadolu news agency. The flood was caused by heavy rainfall overnight that lasted two hours, resulting in walls and houses collapsing and water inundating homes.”
https://trt.global/afrika-english/article/c2da219357f7
“HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN MIDDLE EAST:
“Hundreds of records smashed in pieces everywhere. INSANE MINIMUM 35.2 [95.4F] Jeddah SAUDI ARABIA HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY; BRUTAL HEAT IN IRAQ; Almost all country >50C and minimums >30: It’s an oven! All time records: 51.1 Tikrit; 51.0 Kirkuk* 100+ year of data; 50.7 Heet; 50.2 Hella; 50.0 Al Khalis.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1949507341214195800
“Water scarcity in Pakistan — a geopolitical ticking time bomb.
“Adding to Pakistan’s water crisis is the relentless pressure of climate change… The country has faced unprecedented heatwaves in recent years… Meanwhile, global warming has accelerated the melting of glaciers in the Hindu Kush–Himalayan region… Put simply: we are hurtling toward an inevitable crisis of catastrophic proportions.”
https://www.dawn.com/news/1913435
“Torrential rains triggered a devastating cloudburst in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh [N India], leaving three people dead and one woman missing.
“The incident has caused widespread destruction across the city and nearby areas, with key national highways blocked and dozens of vehicles buried or swept away.”
“Heavy rain causes flooding, evacuations and at least 38 deaths around Beijing region…
“Heavy flooding washed away cars and downed power poles in Miyun, an outlying district that borders Hebei’s Luanping county. More than 80,000 people have been relocated in Beijing, including about 17,000 in Miyun, a Beijing city statement said.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/beijing-chinese-hebei-tianjin-xinhua-news-agency-b2797820.html
“Breaking news: HISTORIC – HOTTEST NIGHT IN CHINESE HISTORY with Brutal MINIMUM 37.2C/99F at Turpan.
“Records all over East Asia: SOUTH KOREA Min 28.5 Sogwipo, 28.0 Incheon AP; HUNDREDS of records of maxes are being broken; WORST HEAT WAVE EVER IN CHINA, KOREAS AND JAPAN.“
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1949420045920006198
“Hong Kong Shuts Down for Second Time in a Week Due to Heavy Rain…
“The local observatory hoisted the black rainstorm alert at 9:10 a.m. local time on Tuesday. More than 100 millimeters (3.9 inches) of hourly rainfall was recorded, according to the observatory.”
“Thousands evacuated, businesses closed in southern Taiwan as torrential rain continues…
“The Central Weather Administration forecast up to 0.9 metres [35 inches] of rainfall in mountainous areas of the south over the coming days and warned that “intense” rainfall could trigger more flooding and landslides. Taiwan is still recovering from Typhoon Danas.”
“Typhoon Wipha Kills 4, Leaves 4 Missing as Storm Batters 34 Districts Across Laos.
“Typhoon Wipha has killed four people and left four others missing after sweeping through 34 districts in multiple provinces across Laos. The storm battered nearly 15,000 families, damaged more than 2,200 homes, and caused widespread destruction.”
“Severe flooding hits multiple towns in Myanmar, causing deaths and damage.
“Kalaw, Pindaya, Taungoo, and Tachileik are experiencing severe flooding, with reports of fatalities, according to local relief organisations providing aid in the affected areas… Local reports indicate that at least four people have died in Theingone and Konesaung villages due to sudden flooding.”
https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/news/asean/40053236
“The shifting of rainbands from a shifting Intertropical Convergence Zone is the most important impacts of climate change most have never heard of.
“It contributes to Greening of the Sahara, dieback of the Amazon rainforest, and changes in monsoon rains that feed >billion people:” [Leon Simons]
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1949756920828432778
“Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests.
“As climate change escalates, intense storms are becoming more common in the tropics and elsewhere, resulting in a variety of forest impacts. Those effects are generating concern among researchers over potentially diminished carbon storage and altered forest composition.”
“North Sumatra declares state of emergency in seven regencies as forest fires spread…
“North Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) Head Tuahta Ramajaya Saragih said the seven affected regencies are Toba, Samosir, Simalungun, Humbang Hasundutan, Karo, Dairi and North Tapanuli.”
“RECORD – The 38.6C [101.5F] at Sukang exceeds the records of Indonesian Kalimantan(s) Provinces and those of Malaysian Sarawak and Sabah States, therefore it is…
“HIGHEST RELIABLE TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN THE ISLAND OF BORNEO [and Brunei national record].”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1949855737376649278
“Heavy rains cause flooding, fallen trees, and damage in several areas of Greater San Salvador.
“In Greater San Salvador, several communities have reported damage due to the intensity of the rainfall. In San Salvador Este, users reported strong winds, hail, and flooding, mainly in areas such as the Fifth Stage of Las Margaritas, Ilopango, and in the community of Las Mercedes…”
“Tampa Breaks 100 Degrees F for First Time on Record as Heat Wave Bakes Eastern U.S.
“More than 250 million people in the U.S.—nearly three quarters of the population—are experiencing moderate, major or extreme risk of heat effects on July 28, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tampa-breaks-heat-record-as-heat-dome-bakes-eastern-u-s/
“Summer nights are getting warmer due to climate change, sparking health concerns…
“From 1970 to 2024, Climate Central analyzed average summer nighttime temperatures in 241 locations across the U.S. The organization found that these temperatures have warmed in nearly all locations, increasing by 3.1 degrees Fahrenheit on average.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/summer-nights-warmer-due-climate-change-sparking-health/story?id=124140866
“San Francisco sets record for rainiest July week since [records began in] 1850, adding to its unusual summer.
“July is typically the driest month of the year. And while it is normally foggy in downtown, it doesn’t average more than .01 inches of rainfall for the entire month. This year, however, there have been five days where measurable rain fell in downtown San Francisco.”
“People living in parts of southern Alberta were cleaning up again on Monday, after another nasty storm swept through the area on the weekend.
“On Sunday, the Cardston area, about 90 minutes southeast of Calgary, was pummelled by heavy rain and hail the size of tennis balls that smashed windows, dented vehicles, snapped large tree branches and destroyed crops.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/11307762/cardston-alberta-hail-storm-severe-weather/
“Newfoundland farmer says he’s never seen anything like this year’s drought, ‘not even close’.
“An unseasonably warm and dry stretch across much of Newfoundland and Labrador has left crops and animals parched — and farmers hoping for a steady dose of rain… Eastern parts of the island have received less than half of normal precipitation, while St. John’s has seen temperatures between 2 to 4 degrees warmer than usual…”
“Krill catch in Antarctica soars to record following collapse of conservation deal.
“Trawling near Antarctica for krill — a crustacean central to the diet of whales and a critical buffer to global warming — has surged to a record and is fast approaching a never before reached seasonal catch limit that would trigger the unprecedented early closure of the remote fishery…”
“Prolonged wind droughts in a warming climate threaten global wind power security.
“…record-breaking wind drought extremes will probably become more frequent in a warming climate, particularly in eastern North America, western Russia, northeastern China and north-central Africa. Our analysis suggests that ~20% of existing wind turbines are in regions at high future risk of record-breaking wind drought extremes, a factor not yet considered in current assessments.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02387-x
“COP30 will be different: Brazil wants world leaders to face the climate crisis head-on…
“Do Lago said the challenge for countries is to think of these emission-reduction plans not as a sacrifice but as a moment to change and grow. “One of the objectives of this COP is that we hope we will be remembered as a COP of solutions, a COP in which people realised that this agenda is creating more opportunities and challenges,” do Lago said.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cop30-different-brazil-wants-world-143716446.html
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All year is trash season so long as humans occupy this planet.
COP30 will not be different just more blah blah like every single other one..
Trump thinks windmills are ugly so we won’t build more here.
I want to go for a long walk through the forest to check the mail and read these headlines.. but I’m so tired working for 16$ an hr (13.53 after taxes) to do that on weekdays.
We’re beyond hopeless.
I watched Rest is Politics, Leading this week
Gary Stevenson was a trader on London stock exchange and explains how the chaps working there are mentally ill, driven by wanting to win.
We allowed a culture to grow, separate from normal human beings
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iD2sPL7k98c
Thanks for that, Mad Hatter. Alastair Campbell is not my favourite individual; I was at the BBC when he was savaging it for its “sexed up” dossier claims:
“Fresh evidence has emerged that Tony Blair’s discredited Iraqi arms dossier was “sexed up” on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false… new evidence reveals the extent to which – on his instructions – those drafting the notorious dossier colluded with the US administration to make exaggerated claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/10/alastair-campbell-iraq-dossier-inquiry
Garry Stevenson is clearly a smart cookie but living standards have historically been good in the West post-WW2 not because we have had an unusually wealth-holding middle class, but because a generous net energy surplus made the middle class wealthy. That party is long over now. Real median incomes in the UK have stagnated or shrunk since around 2003 – the year we turned from net energy exporter to importer.
He’s right, though, that living standards will be significantly lower in five years, and that wealthy inequality will increasingly be a feature of that decline.
Doom Wizard, as I’m sure I’ve said before, I feel terrible for the asset-poor, younger generations, emerging into a world of rising risks, rising costs and shrinking possibilities.
If I were in my twenties and understood our predicament, I think I’d just mentally check out and go the hedonistic/escapist route… That’s legitimate self-reflection, btw; not a recommendation. 😂
As a parent, I cling to the hope that my kids will be strong/lucky enough to swim against the tide for as long as things hold together.
Pan: “As a parent, I cling to the hope that my kids will be strong/lucky enough to swim against the tide for as long as things hold together.”
Oof! I felt this one, Pan.
I don’t remember where I saw this, maybe here, “There are no non-radical futures.”
Right on man
Moving in for the krill: humans are the only species that wipes out species for the glitz of specie.
Bedlam in Belem: the Co-ordinator Of the Parties 🎉 assures world leaders who go to Brazil in November for the annual United Nations’ climate intoxications that poverty, deforestation and much of the world’s troubles will be as if erased — by design.
Past conference cities included resorts and playgrounds for the rich so that host nations could show off both their amenities and that their communities have no intention of doing a thing about climate change.
But this year’s parties will be in a high-poverty city on the edge of the Amazon to demonstrate how easy it is for the “have mores” to ignore the suffering of the have-nots … and still have gilt-y fun🤩!
What better way to deny a problem than pretending you’re facing it head-on?
Rob, COP28 (UAE) and COP29 (Azerbaijan) were amusingly sold as opportunities to engage with the fossil fuel industry. One wonders what “silver lining” the next host nation (either Turkey or Australia, currently bickering like children) will conjure up.
“The United Nations climate chief on Monday urged Australia and Turkey to resolve their long-running tussle over who will host next year’s COP31 summit, calling the delay unhelpful and unnecessary. Australia and Turkey submitted bids to host the high-profile conference in 2022 and both countries have refused to concede to the other ever since.”
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/un-tells-australia-turkey-end-cop31-hosting-standoff-2025-07-28/
Love that first pun, btw. “View to a Kill” by Duran Duran is on my workout mix, and will most assuredly be sung along to as “View to a Krill” from now on.
They’ve already predicted 90,000 attendees … @ this rate, next year’s’ll be 100,000 … flying to AUSTRALIA !?
One has to laugh: it isn’t the Delay that is “both unhelpful and unnecessary” … it’s the entire junket (at least for its purported purpose).
The COP 30 Yahoo piece mentions the $1.3 trillion loss and damage fund needing a “road map” for negotiations, but really, there is no need for that.
This is going to be COP 30 – The Solutions COP, as the minister says, and the loss and damage fund will be covered by a 50-50 raffle among the attendees. Problem solved, solution provided.
The minister said that COP30 will provide solutions by introducing the well-heeled attendees to poverty, but by the looks of the riverside Belem shacks in the picture, though some of them may indeed be listing both left and right, observers from the world’s largest transnational corporations are already using VRBO to book adjoining suites in these trendy shacks for this “progress” soiree.
The UN is asking each COP attending country to write up a “plan” to cover the entirety of each nation’s economy, including every and all power-dominating fossil fuel and fossil fueled transnational corporation, but hitting a couple of Chat GPT keystrokes will take care of that pronto. No worries.
What will be left to do after this world-shaking, humanity-saving COP 30 Solutions Cup in Lula World? in New York in September for “world leaders, maybe that whole meeting will be turned over to Bet MGM to make money off of wagering by on the last year before human extinction.
Never let it be said we don’t have solutions galore here in the C&E comments section.
Martin, the Yahoo piece also notes that, “Some places have been charging $15,000 (€12,888) a night for one person.” 😱 The attendees may be slightly less well-heeled after attending!
If the trendy shacks are all booked up, there’s always a repurposed brothel:
“Dance Poles and Leopard-Print Walls: Love Motels Ready Rooms for Climate Summit… The décor of Motel Secreto, on the fringes of the Brazilian city of Belém, normally serves as a backdrop for lunch-hour trysts, clandestine affairs and passion-struck lovers seeking a few hours of privacy away from cramped family homes.
“But the love motel, like others across Belém, is now preparing rooms that range from the sensual to the raunchy for a different kind of guest: diplomats and climate scientists, civil servants and environmental activists…”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/world/americas/love-motels-brazil-belem-cop30-climate.html
As absurd as the whole charade is, I guess I’d miss the unintentional comedy if the COPs ceased altogether. Plus, it would point to a more general admission that we are screwed, which would in itself have some alarming ramifications.
I’m quite impressed with the destruction of the habitat. Hope the monkey minds enjoy the unavoidable suffering. Guy McPherson might be close to NTHE with his 2030 or 2026 prediction. I’ll not argue over a 4 year span. I might live long enough to enjoy the horrors. Let me thank all 8 billion for their disastrous input.
If one is born they are a heat engine.