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“Breaking News! Code UFB!!!
“On November 22nd, the planet hit 1.81°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the warmest November 22nd on record, and likely the warmest November 22nd in the last 120,000 years.
“Hot times ahead.” [Prof Eliot Jacobson]
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/1992939715394486454
“Monday ice update – Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data).” [Zack Labe]
• about 770,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean
https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3m6fzwokdmc2d
“This year’s Arctic sea ice freeze-up is clearly the latest on record for the Baffin Bay region (located between Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago). The extent of ice cover is a record low for the date there.
“Data from NSIDC.” [Zack Labe]
https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3m6f5e6mkxk2h
“Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests…
“The return of cold and snow at the close of the year typically signal the end of the wildfire season. But this time, the fire did not stop. Instead, it smouldered in the soil underground, insulated from the freezing conditions by the snowpack. The next spring, it reemerged…”
“UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show…
“The Fire Brigades Union, backed by climate groups and tax justice organisations, has written to the government asking for long-term investment in the service to help it meet the growing threat from wildfires and floods as the climate crisis worsens.”
“BRUTAL – colder than January in Central Mediterranean; hotter than July in Eastern Mediterranean.
“UNBELIEVABLY hot nights – dhocking MINIMUMS: EGYPT 26.0 [78.8F] Shalatin, JORDAN 24.6 Aqaba, ISRAEL 24.6 Tel Aviv, GREECE 23.2 Kastellorizo, CYPRUS 22.6 Lefke, TURKEY 23.4 Carsibasi, 23.3 Kas.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1992585044033196291
“Severe weather causes casualties and evacuations in Albania and Greece.
“Torrential rain in Albania has killed a 75-year-old and evacuated hundreds due to flooding. Severe weather has also hit Greece, causing widespread damage… Hundreds of people in southern and southeastern Albania have been evacuated from their homes in the past 24 hours due to flooding.”
“ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE 28.4 [83.1F] IN RUSSIAN HIGHLANDS.
“28.4 Akthy 1000m asl November record. It’s an absolute insanity. NEVER HAPPENED ANYWHERE IN RUSSIA SO LATE. Also MINS up 17C UNPRECEDENTED in Russia.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1992982811310166260
“Major wildfires break out in Armenia’s Tavush…
“In Dilijan, 234 firefighters and 28 Eco Patrol Service officers are combating the blaze in the Kazachi area. In Navur, 62 firefighters, 40 Eco Patrol officers and 53 local residents are working to control the fire in the Srtni area. Authorities say operations are ongoing and further updates will be provided.”
https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2025/11/24/wildfires-Tavush/3146014
“Jordan’s olive harvest collapses as climate change devastates farmers.
“Jordan’s olive farmers are facing one of the worst harvests in decades. After a year of frost, drought, relentless heatwaves and shrinking rainfall, families who depend on their groves are left with a fraction of their usual yield.”
“Pistachio farms in Syria survived the war – only to be hit by climate change…
“He said that those who had the means to dig wells were able to water their crops, and explained: “The spread of diseases caused by Capnodis tenebrionis beetles and mealybug infestation has reduced production by 20 to 30 per cent compared with previous years.”
“Over half of Iraq now at risk of desertification, ministry warns.
“The Ministry’s Central Statistics Office reported on Monday that lands classified as desert or threatened by desertification reached 96,500 square kilometers (km²), accounting for 55.5 percent of Iraq’s total territory. Fully desertified land rose to 40,400 km², or 23.2 percent of the country.”
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Over-half-of-Iraq-now-at-risk-of-desertification-ministry-warns
“Iran is undoubtedly one of the mid/low-latitudes regions that is warming the most! Unbelievable anomalies… +2°C since the 1960s!
“As a result Damavand [mountain, 5,600m tall] was snow free for the 1st time this summer and chronic drought is threatening millions of people!” [Melaine Le Roy]
https://x.com/subfossilguy/status/1992938269160681499
“Tehran shrouded in thick smog as Iran burns dirty fuel amid energy crisis…
“Footage taken on Saturday from the nearly 4,000-metre-high (13,000ft-high) Tochal mountain, adjacent to northern Tehran, showed the capital no longer visible beneath the layers of pollutants.”
“‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal.
“Each day, Kiran Kasbe drives a rickshaw taxi through his home neighbourhood of Mahul on Mumbai’s eastern seafront, down streets lined with stalls selling tomatoes, bottle gourds and aubergines–and, frequently, through thick smog.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/24/mumbai-datacentres-coal-air-pollution
“Climate change links Tibetan lakes to Yangtze River, fueling flood risks…
“The study highlights that extreme precipitation events have intensified in recent years, driving sharp lake-level fluctuations and heightening downstream flood risks. In 2024, rainfall in the region surged 195% above historical averages…”
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-climate-links-tibetan-lakes-yangtze.html
“Exceptional warmth in East Asia:
“Dozens of late-November records in CHINA, mostly in Hebei (see table by Xinxin). Record warmth everywhere: Koreas with >20C [68F] and MINIMUM up to 17C in South Korea.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1992883580364808407
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN SOUTHERN JAPAN:
“Summer conditions continue unabated in the most Southern Japanese island. Incredible Minimum 26.9C [80.5F] at Minamitorishima , 4th consecutive Min >26C: IT IS LIKE AUGUST. Never happened anything like this in Japanese territory so late in the year.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1992411059446305150
“Vietnam flooding death toll reaches 90 amid landslides and relentless rain.
“Relentless rain has lashed south-central Vietnam since late October and popular holiday destinations have been hit by several rounds of flooding. Rainfall has exceeded 1,900mm (74.8in) in some parts of central Vietnam over the past week.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/23/vietnam-flooding-deaths-landslides-rain-dak-lak
“‘Once-in-300-years’ rain leaves Thai city [Hat Yai] flooded and maternity ward stranded.
“A “once in 300 year” storm has battered southern Thailand, bringing floodwaters more than eight feet high that in one city cut off access to a maternity ward holding 30 newborn babies, staff and officials said.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/asia/thailand-hat-yai-floods-rain-intl-hnk
“Malaysian floods affect 11,000 people across 7 states.
“Sixty temporary shelters have been opened in the affected states to house those displaced by floods, the agency report showed. In a separate incident on Nov 23, around 400 people were left stranded by a landslide caused by continuous rain in Wang Kelian, a village in the north-western state of Perlis, state media reported.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-floods-affect-11000-people-across-seven-states
“Dangerous rains over Cebu – PAGASA: ‘Verbena’ may trigger flash floods [they did].
“It may only be a tropical depression, but Verbena is forecast to dump heavy rains over Cebu—enough to trigger floods and landslides, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) warned.”
“‘I’m afraid for our children’: living with the climate crisis in the Philippines.
“The Philippines is one of the countries most at risk of the climate emergency due to its low-lying island geography. With sea temperatures rising, the country deals with increasingly frequent and intense typhoons, rising sea-levels that threaten coastal communities, and changing rainfall patterns that disrupt agriculture.”
“Due to heavy rain that has poured down on the Kebumen area since Sunday afternoon, a number of areas were hit by flash floods [Java, Indonesia].
“The worst flooding occurred in Surotrunan Village, Alian District. On Sunday night, water levels began to rise, cutting off the main access road between Kebumen and Alian.”
“HISTORIC: WETTEST NOVEMBER/SPRING DAY EVER RECORDED IN NORTHERN TERRITORY from Cyclone Fina.
“Middle Point (inland of Darwin) recorded *430mm* [17 inches]. Smashes the territory record of 344.2mm in 1970. Exceptional even for peak wet season.” [Cameron H]
https://x.com/Hitchy04/status/1992534440191693079
“AUSTRALIA HISTORIC HEAT:
“Sun 46.8C Bedourie is monthly record and world highest temperature this month; Mon CRAZY MINIMUM 34.2 [93.6F] is HOTTEST SPRING NIGHT IN AUSTRALIA SINCE 1965 and 3RD WORLD HOTTEST NOVEMBER NIGHT EVER.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1993211676259463198
“Giant hail [14cm] and intense thunderstorms leaves 161,000 customers without power across southeast Queensland…
“Flying tree branches, roofs and debris from these intense thunderstorms downed over 600 powerlines, resulting in over 161,000 energy customers without power on Monday. Power utility companies and contractors are hard at work on the recovery effort, but power restoration and clean up could still take days to be completed.”
“The hailstorm that hit Erechim, in the North Region of RS [Brazil], on Sunday (23), left more than 150 people injured and affected more than 25 thousand residents. The city declared a state of emergency…
“On Monday morning, cars were found with numerous holes in the hood and windows. Thousands of houses also had their roofs destroyed.”
“Extreme rain, severe flooding, rescues and emergencies in Santa Catarina [Brazil]…
“Balneário Barra do Sul, on the North Coast of Santa Catarina, declared a Level II Emergency… after heavy rains caused widespread flooding. In just 12 hours, the municipality recorded 150.4 millimeters of rain, a volume that left streets submerged, houses invaded by water and dozens of incidents throughout the morning and afternoon.”
“Weather disasters are surging in the Amazon. Reporting isn’t.
“The Amazon is often treated as a single forest, yet the risks its people face from extreme weather vary sharply across borders. A new analysis by researchers from Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and the United States suggests those risks are also widely undercounted.”
“Record sargassum piles trap sea turtle hatchlings on Florida beaches…
“The findings highlight the need for beach management strategies that adapt to the rapid spread of sargassum. Without thoughtful intervention, these dense seaweed mats could gradually undermine hatchling survival and long-term conservation efforts.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251123115439.htm
“SUMMER GOES ON IN TEXAS:
“After an August night with Minimums >77F, maxes again reached up to 95F [35C] today. Air conditioning is still needed 24/7 in Southern Texas. And after a small break on the weekend the heat is set to come back again. Absolutely unprecedented.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1993122516374831181
“Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat…
“From the Panhandle to San Antonio to Houston, construction workers, an oilfield worker and a mechanic all succumbed to punishing temperatures. Nolasco was the youngest; the oldest was 57. All were male; none was a union member.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24112025/texas-worker-heat-deaths/
“More than 100 homes damaged by tornado in Texas after warning issued.
“Photos and drone video posted on Facebook by the Harris County Precinct 3 constable showed roofs with shingles ripped off and debris blocking roads. The damage affected the Memorial Northwest neighborhood, according to the office of Mark Herman, the constable.”
“Phoenix sees wettest fall on record with week to spare…
“After this weekend’s rainfall, the official NWS rain gauge at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has measured 6.31 inches of rain this fall, which meteorologists define as September through November. The previous record was 6.18 inches, set all the way back in 1939.”
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-wettest-fall-on-record-with-week-to-spare-40623995/
“Lakes are experiencing more severe heatwaves than the atmosphere…
“Lakes play a crucial role in freshwater ecosystems by providing habitats for diverse aquatic species, regulating local climates, and supporting ecosystem services such as drinking water supply and water for irrigation. However, they are highly vulnerable to extreme heat events…”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02907-9
“Dimming the sun is a terrifying new industry…
“A record-breaking funding round for companies doing this stuff shows people are getting serious about trying to artificially cool the planet. That’s terrifying, especially when these businesses are largely unregulated.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/25/world/fixing-climate-change-by-dimming-the-sun/
“We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight [Ed Miliband].
“The message coming out of Belém was clear: despite the noise, clean energy and climate action remain the foundation on which the global economy is being remade and rebuilt… For all its flaws, Cop has reaffirmed the belief of the vast majority of the world in this ideal.”
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Wow, what a knob Miliband is, I want some of whatever he’s toking!
It is a worry that a person with this degree of tunnel vision has their hands on the levers of power.
“The message coming out of Belém was clear: despite the noise, clean energy and climate action remain the foundation on which the global economy is being remade and rebuilt… For all its flaws, Cop has reaffirmed the belief of the vast majority of the world in this ideal.”
Pan, how do you feel about starting a C&E tiktok influencer hub? Let’s all pool our resources and invest in a nice little eco-cabana in Belém. We can all live there and build social media careers filming ourselves ranting about evil fossil fuel corps and dancing to reggaeton music.
I bet you’re gonna ask me how we’ll pay for all that. Easy, we take donos in carbon credits and re-sell them to local and regional polluters for humongous profit margins! Especially considering all the deep sea drilling they got going on Brazil right now, we’ll be eatin good till the bombs drop!
Ah yes, the Belém Eco-Cabana Influencer Hub™ —
the final stage of the climate transition:
when the narrative becomes so weightless
that it floats off into the rainforest
to monetize itself.
We can call it COP OnlyFans:
Content Of the Planet.
The business model is perfect:
• receive donations in carbon credits,
• resell them to Petrobras subsidiaries,
• film a daily “decarbonization dance,”
• hashtag it #NetZeroButMakeItSexy.
Meanwhile, the deepwater rigs burn enough diesel
to power the entire TikTok server farm
where our videos get shadow-boosted.
In other words:
the purest expression of the Matrix dialectic —
where collapse becomes content
and denial becomes a lifestyle brand.
Count me in.
As soon as we find a cabana
that doesn’t slide into the river
during the next atmospheric river event.
I never could’ve imagined that I would want to be part of an OnlyFans but this is genius. Count me in!
I’m in! As long I occasionally get to have an very public on-screen emotionally dysregulated autistic meltdown, while Agadoo plays in the background.
Zip and Jupiviv, these are fabulous ideas. And finally an excuse to wear that mankini.
“Dimming the sun is a terrifying new industry…
Pan, reminds me of this classic tune by English rock band (1986):
The Stranglers – Always the Sun
They had some radio popularity here in Australia as well, and this is my favourite version of this particular tune.
James, I absolutely love that track. “Black Lace” by Agadoo, less so. 😂
“Golden Brown” is perhaps The Stranglers most well known track, at least in the UK. It’s about heroin: “The Unbelievable Story Behind The Stranglers’ Golden Brown: “We thought we were the Matrix and the real world was out in space…””
https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/the-story-behind-the-stranglers-golden-brown/
Great track! Love it!
So what’s weird is I am 100% certain I have heard this song before, but 0% sure on memories of said source.
I believe this is called source amnesia.
Not directly related to today’s thread but to the economic/geopolitical ones:
“The people behind these prizes include the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in physics, chemistry and economics; the Karolinska Institutet in physiology or medicine; the Swedish Academy in literature; and the Norwegian Nobel Committee in peace.
These all sound official and grand, but their long record of scandalous decisions has stripped them of credibility.
In 1918, they gave the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Fritz Haber, whose expertise lay in the invention of poison gas. In 1926, they awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine to the Danish physician Johannes Fibiger for discovering a cancer that did not exist. In 1949, they gave Antonio Egas Moniz the same prize for inventing the lobotomy.
In 2008, Harald zur Hausen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for a drug funded by the Swedish company AstraZeneca by a committee that included two people from… AstraZeneca.
The list is endless. Is it surprising then that, when they gave the literature prize to Jean-Paul Sartre, he told them to take a hike?
Consider the origin of these awards. They are based on the will of Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896 but was shaken years earlier when a premature obituary, published after his brother’s death in 1888, described him as a “merchant of death” for his inventions, prompting him to seek a more positive legacy.
What was his legacy? He made a fortune from inventions like dynamite. We are being hoodwinked.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/venezuela-machado-world-dismantle-nobel-prize
Thank you, Cassandra. Very interesting. This is not something I have given a great deal of thought to, but “Peace Prize” does sound like it is a misnomer.
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-tragedy-of-fritz-haber-the-monster-who-fed-the-world-ec19a9834f74
Another day in the living hell of our own making, but it’s nothing that a few more EVs, algorithms, resource wars, and cop meetings can’t fix!
All just a “misunderstanding”, Leaf….just need better communication….it can’t get no worse….as Ringo quipped…
All we are saying…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_0GqPvr4U
Ah, the good old days, much better….at least parades and such on the streets, instead of folks just mouthing off…not that it changed anything…like John pointed out…”We dressed up”
Carry on folks, stiff up lip and all that….all things must pass.
P.S. but it is disheartening, all the suffering…
That is an awesome time capsule of a video.
I try to think of these days as “the good, old days” because, compared to the future, they will be – but of course it is challenging to hold onto that mentality when the pre-collapse world is so full of pressures and suffering.
Justin, we are on a roll…this one from 1965..Eve of Destruction by Barry McQuire….haven’t heard this in a long, long while..
https://americansongwriter.com/3-one-hit-wonders-from-the-1960s-that-hit-no-1-and-blew-everyone-away/
Second song in article…
My, my, hey, hey….change some events for today and still the same old song and dance…
No turkey for me this so called Thanksgiving…just one of the lucky undeserving ones …what’s the old saying better be lucky than goof
I believe recent climate predictions are for a good probability of a coming El Nino. I am not a climate scientist, but would that largely flip-flop current wet areas to drought, and drought areas to extreme wetness?
For example: would the 75 inches of rain in Vietnam shift to California and Death Valley next year? 75 inches in Death Valley would likely make a huge inland sea still below ocean level. Houston, Texas, had 40 inches of about a decade ago. What would 75 inches do to Houston now?
Or would today’s eruption of a volcano that was dormant for 12,000 years cool the planet enough to continue the La Nina, thus Vietnam might get 150 inches of weekly rain sometime next year?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/volcano-erupts-for-first-time-in-12-000-years-like-a-sudden-bomb/ar-AA1R3InP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=6925ca9b2de842cf9a4aaaccca9bc6e9&ei=14
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Bob, sulfur dioxide from the Ethiopian volcano could cause a little cooling but its plume is only reaching into the troposphere, so the SO2 will fall back to earth quickly.
El Nino does have some predictable impacts on weather patterns but it’s not a neat reversal of those occurring under La Nina. Iran’s drought is a multi-year phenomenon that has lasted through a triple-dip La Nina, an El Nino, and then a weak La Nina. Although La Nina’s do tend to be drier for Iran, there are other important factors, especially the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
And then, of course, climate change is acting as a wild card on top:
“The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has served as a key index linking basin-scale climate variability to marine ecosystem changes in the North Pacific. However, recent apparent breakdowns of PDO–ecosystem correlations have raised concerns about the stability of the mode and its continued relevance in a warming climate.
“Here we show that basin-wide warming now overwhelms PDO-related sea surface temperature (SST) variability, although neither the PDO’s spatial pattern nor its strength have changed.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02482-z
Pan, thanks for the reply. Your clarification helps as global climate is a complex topic.
Would today be the day that we could all agree with Paul Beckwith’s “Weather Weirding”?
Sometimes one doesn’t need a picture or a 1000 words when a few words will do, although a single musical voice can help.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nk6LIj-Qn78