“The Antarctic is estimated to have lost three trillion tonnes of ice over the past 25 years and Ellis holds grave fears of an approaching tipping point…
“If and when it tips – a moment unlikely to be discernible until it’s already past – Antarctica will become an aggressive driver of climate change.”
“Hong Kong’s butterfly population hit its highest level in at least 14 years in 2019, the warmest year on record in the city, causing a local green group to suggest the increase in numbers could have been linked to climate change…
“Average temperatures in February and March 2019 were 4.4 degrees Celsius higher than usual.”
“While China continues to battle the deadly coronavirus, another battle is being waged in Xichang City, in China’s southwest Sichuan Province.
“Firefighters are working around the clock to put out the blazes in the region, as new fires began to flare on Lushan Mountain, and spread quickly toward the downtown area, CGTN.com reported.”
“Flooding caused by heavy rain in south and central provinces of Iran, lead to fatalities and widespread damage, and continue to cause damage to infrastructure and agriculture sector, worth USD 120 million… Iran is also grappling with the biggest desert locust invasion in the last 50 years.
“Response teams are fighting the spread in 6 southern provinces where weather conditions are optimal for breeding…”
“At least 4,625 families have been displaced by flooding in several Yemeni governorates, Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday.
“According to the UNHCR, heavy rain fell across southern and eastern Yemen on 24 and 24 March. Floodwater covered several homes and streets in Aden and destroyed bridges, streets and water networks. Crops were also damaged…”
“Something amazing has happened to the [UK] weather. The interminable rains that began last September suddenly vanished two weeks ago over much of the country.
“Waterlogged soils are drying out at an astonishing rate… A new UK record for high atmospheric pressure in March was set: 1,051.2 millibars at South Uist in the Outer Hebrides.”
“‘A powerful storm dropped a sneaky snowfall on the Appalachians from Tuesday into Wednesday. Since then, the potent cyclone has blossomed into a hurricane-strength whirlwind over the Atlantic…
“The system even developed half a ring of strong thunderstorms surrounding its center of circulation, a trait common in tropical and subtropical storms.”
“Indian River County [Florida] — A local state of emergency and a countywide burn ban will go into effect Friday morning after a record-low month of rainfall…
“The state of emergency is going into effect to free up resources to help combat any wildfires that might break out…”
“Flooding continues on a river in South Dakota a year after it was first triggered by heavy rain and snowmelt from a Plains bomb cyclone last March…
“”The river levels never fell in the winter because the ground was fully saturated when it froze last fall,” Amy Parkin, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Aberdeen, South Dakota, told NASA.”
“The endangered whooping crane could be wiped out if it continues to migrate in large groups – an unusual behavioural trend that could be due to habitat loss.
“The five-foot-tall crane (Grus Americana), which is North America’s tallest bird, is distinguishable by its unusual ‘whooping’ sound.”
“Climate change threatens to shake up the lifestyles of many animals around the world and a new study has revealed that for the American robin these wheels are already very much in motion.
“Scientists tagged the songbirds with GPS units to track their migration patterns and found that they are embarking on their annual Arctic-bound journey earlier each decade…”
“The sea ice in the Bering Sea got broken up pretty well in March due to a series of storms that moved through the area. The change from the beginning of March to the end of March was dramatic.
“According to Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, the loss of sea ice from the first half of the month to the second half was record-breaking…”
“…large vessels are increasing their activity in the Arctic Ocean as declining sea ice opens previously inaccessible Arctic regions to shipping.
“This surge in vessel traffic is also causing an increase in underwater noise, which research has shown can affect marine mammals and fish by interfering with communications, behavior and movement.”
“Not since November 2011 has Svalbard had a monthly average temperature colder than normal…
““Average temperature for March was -16,2 degrees Celsius, which is 0,5 degrees under the normal,” says Jostein Mamen, Climate researcher with Norway’s Meteorological Institute.”
“Twenty-eight people are missing and feared dead after being washed from a ferry in Solomon Islands in the early hours of Friday morning as it encountered rough seas caused by Cyclone Harold.
“The passengers were swept off MV Taimareho, a passenger vessel that was travelling from the capital of Honiara to West Are Are port in Malaita province.”
“Countries with large populations and low levels of development are most likely to see a rise in the risk of armed conflict after extreme weather events, according to a new study that researchers said underscored the need to boost their resilience.”
“Flooding in Iran caused by heavy rainfall has left 21 people dead and one missing, an emergency services spokesman said Wednesday, even as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic.
“Mojtaba Khaledi told Iran’s ISNA news agency that 22 people had also been injured, with most of the casualties in southern or central provinces. He said 11 people had died in Fars province, three each in Hormozgan and Qom, two in Sistan and Baluchistan province, and one each in Bushehr and Khuzestan.”
“Seven people were killed and eight others received injuries in rain-related incidents in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday… Torrential rains also damaged crops and fruits in the district.”
“COVID-19 on one hand, Karnataka [India] seems poised to face another crisis that comes with a harsh summer: drought and the resultant shortage of drinking water…
“by the noise over COVID-19 is the fact that nine districts — Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural, Kolar, Chikballapur, Tumakuru, Ramanagara, Chitradurga, Davangere and Haveri — have slipped into a drinking water problem.”
“In some cities across the southern United States, March 2020 will enter the weather history books as the warmest on record.
“During a typical March, much of the continental United States can have wild temperature swings, as the seasons are changing from Winter to Spring. During March 2020, however, a good swath of the southern United States stayed consistently warm.”
Record cold weather in Hungary after a record warm winter:
“A daily record-low temperature was reported for the second consecutive day on Thursday morning, the national weather service said. The previous record for April 2 was minus 8.6 degrees Celsius, registered in Zabar, in northern Hungary, in 2005.”
“Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time.
“A team from the UK and Germany discovered forest soil from the Cretaceous period within 900 km of the South Pole. Their analysis of the preserved roots, pollen and spores shows that the world at that time was a lot warmer than previously thought.”
“Denman Canyon is located in East Antarctic and descends at least 3,400 metres below sea level, making it the deepest point on continental Earth. While several kilometres below the surface, it is entirely filled with ice that flows in from the Denman Glacier.
“A new study finds that the melting Denman Glacier would not only threaten to flood this canyon, but it could cause global sea levels to rise by 1.5 m.”
“… Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, which owns the mine, wants to expand the operation by doubling its output to 12 million metric tons a year, and, starting in 2025, more than doubling that again to 30 million metric tons.
“That means two to four times as many ships carrying the ore through the icy waters, as well as the construction of a new rail line…”
“The current coronavirus pandemic, despite likely originating with an animal-to-human crossover far from the Arctic Circle, has come at a particularly weighty moment for infectious disease.
“As the Arctic warms twice as fast as the rest of the world, its ground is starting to thaw. With that thaw, bacteria and viruses once buried in the permafrost could increasingly emerge from a long hibernation.”
“The heating climate will likely have greater impacts on extreme heat and weather than history suggests or science has predicted, according to a climate scientist who studies the relationship between climate and weather events.
““Global warming is actually causing a more rapid intensification of heat waves and heavy rainfall events than what we would expect just looking at the historical trends,” Earth Systems Professor Noah Diffenbaugh says…”
“With the world currently on track for catastrophic temperature increases, the two-week summit had been meant to galvanise a renewed international commitment to an accord brokered in Paris in 2015 aimed at stabilising the Earth’s climate.
“But with the British hosts and other countries struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic, which has brought large sections of the global economy to a standstill, officials decided to push the summit back to give governments more time to prepare.”
“Rising ocean temperatures could have pushed the world’s tropical coral reefs over a tipping point where they are hit by bleaching on a “near-annual” basis, according to the head of a US government agency program that monitors the globe’s coral reefs…
“The real concern is with this much bleaching without tropical forcing,” Dr Mark Eakin, coordinator of Coral Reef Watch at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. “This may be a sign we’ve now tipped over to near-annual bleaching in many locations.”
“Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and the Nature Conservancy have compiled a new dataset of damage caused by wildfires in California in areas protected by the state of California…
“The report illustrates how the recent set of severe fires fits into a broader trend of increasing burn area and damage over the past 40 years.”
“Even without completing the month, the National Meteorological Service [of Argentina] has no doubts in affirming that this March will go down in history as the hottest March nationwide since records are available
“…that is, since 1961… the average temperature at the country level presents an anomaly of 2.8 °C “
“An unusually dry end to the summer season across parts of South America is expected to impact the harvests of important crops in the region.
“”Rainfall averaged below normal across much of southern Brazil, including [the states of] Rio Grande Do Sul, Santa Catarina, for the month of March, and in many instances the entire summer season,” said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Jason Nicholls.”
“New South Wales, the Australian state most severely hit by last summer’s wildfires, yesterday marked the official close to its worst bush fire season, which razed over 6 per cent of the state’s land area and killed 25 people.
“The country’s devastating fire season, which lasted from September until torrential rains hit in February, killed 33 people and a billion native animals nationally.”
“Heavy downpour that lasted hours on Monday evening has caused floods that inundated at least 9,285 houses in six districts of Bandung regency, West Java [Indonesia]…
“…forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes and causing at least one fatality.”
“Some good news!! The floodwaters of the Zambezi have hit Victoria Falls and Kariba – the river has risen quickly and the lake is starting to fill. This is the biggest flood since 1977/78, which is the biggest flood since records started in the sixties.
“However, there is now a second wave coming through Chavuma (on the Angola/Zambia border) which looks as big as the first wave.”
“In the last 36 hours, the province of Castellón [Spain] has registered intense and persistent rains, which have left accumulated ephemeris and numerous floods…
“Over the last 24 hours, the AEMET observatory in the Castellón capital has registered 150 l / m2 (rainfall day), it is the largest accumulated on a day outside of an autumn month.”
“Rising temperatures may be having a profound physical impact on one of the world’s favourite songbirds.
“Researchers in Spain found that over a 20-year period, nightingales had evolved smaller wingspans. The scientists say this is linked to a changing climate in the region which has seen the early onset of spring and increased drought.”
“Months of flooding is turning Lugg meadows [UK] anoxic as oxygen is lost.
“Worms and other insects suffocate and come to the surface where they are picked off by scavengers… reducing the larder of food for rarer species that rely on the reserve in spring. Many delicate grass species… are likely to be weakened by the floods, leaving a flush of resistant weed species such as thuggish dock leaves and thistles to take their place.”
“Tropical rainforests are emptying out due to the ongoing extinction of animal species caused by overhunting and forest fragmentation.
“But not only species as such, also the number of individuals of species living in rainforests continue to decline. Large-bodied species, which are particularly vulnerable to changes, decline at a comparably faster rate than other species.”
“Throughout the 1990s, Greenland and Antarctica together lost 81 billion tons of ice per year. But this month, a comprehensive assessment of the changing ice sheets published in the journalNature, found that in the 2010s, the rate of ice loss has risen by a factor six. This means that the two ice sheets are now losing 475 billion tons of ice per year.
“The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report predicted a rise in global sea levels of 28 inches by 2100. But this new study shows that ice losses from both Antarctica and Greenland are rising faster than expected, tracking with the IPCC’s worst-case scenario.”
“…the two main ocean currents in Fram Strait transport the microscopically small plastic particles into the region between Greenland and Spitsbergen from both the Arctic and the North Atlantic.
“While passing through the Strait, many particles eventually drift to the seafloor, where they accumulate.”
“Climate change scientists, historians and archaeologists from the Universities of Nottingham, Harvard and Maine used ultra-high precision laser technology to analyse the contents of the 800-year-old section of [Alpine] ice, which they found “exactly maps the comings and goings of England’s Kings”.”
“Florida is searing through what could be a record dry and hot March, and that combination is raising the threat of wildfires and drought heading into the heart of the state’s dry season…
“Even though March is in the heart of this drier time of the year, parts of Florida are threatening records with virtually no rain all month.”
“That same storm had dropped 16.45 inches of rain on the peaks of Mount Waialeale [Hawaii] on March 16, with another 11.5 coming down the next day.
“Almost an inch of rain was recorded in just 15 minutes’ time during the height of the storm. In the past two weeks, Kauai has been placed under seven severe thunderstorm warnings.”
“Japan has laid out its plans to tackle greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris agreement in the run-up to UN climate talks this year, becoming the first large economy to do so.
“But its proposals were criticised by campaigners as grossly inadequate, amid fears the Covid-19 crisis could prompt countries to try to water down their climate commitments.”
“International prices of rice have surged as droughts keep production low in key exporters Thailand and Vietnam, while panic buying amid the coronavirus pandemic is also tightening supply.
“The benchmark export price of Thai-grown rice reached about $550 a ton in late March, the highest since August 2013…”
“Eighteen firefighters and one forestry guide died while fighting a huge forest fire in southwestern China, the local government said Tuesday.
“State television footage showed large flames shooting into the sky from the mountains above the city of Xichang in Sichuan province, turning the sky orange.”
“In 2017, Stafford Sheehan handed a friend an unusual bottle of booze. He had made it himself — but not the usual way.
“A chemical physicist, Dr. Sheehan had invented a process to make alcohol from carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas associated with climate change, not cocktail hour… However… the competition has been delayed by the coronavirus crisis.”
“This summer, Casey Research Station, in the Windmill Islands oasis [Antarctica], experienced its first recorded heatwave. For three days, minimum temperatures exceeded zero and daily maximums were all above 7.5C. On 24 January, its highest maximum of 9.2C was recorded, almost 7C above Casey’s 30-year mean for the month…
“By February, most heat was concentrated in the Antarctic Peninsula at the northernmost part of the continent. A new Antarctic maximum temperature of 18.4C was recorded on 6 February at Argentina’s Esperanza research station on the peninsula – almost 1C above the previous record. Three days later this was eclipsed when 20.75C was reported at Brazil’s Marambio station, on Seymour Island east of the peninsula.”
“The report’s lead author, Prof Albert van Dijk of the Australian National University’s Fenner school of environment and society, told Guardian Australia 2019 was “probably the worst in a century or more” for the environment.
““This is not the new normal – this is just getting worse and worse,” he said, adding that 2019 had seen a “continuing descent into an ever more dismal future.
“”You start to see ecosystems fall apart and then struggle to recover before the next major disturbance.””
“[Thailand’s] monsoon season, which usually runs from about May to October, came two weeks late in 2019 and ended three weeks early…
“That is contributing to a drought that is drying up farms, threatening electricity supplies from hydropower dams, and looming over an economy already hurt by the coronavirus.”
“Only this morning a fire that started on Sunday and spread across 40 hectares in Yulong County, Lijiang Prefecture [Yunnan, China], was put out with the help of 579 fire fighters and the mobilization of three helicopters.
“One international news source suggested the fire may have been caused by a villager during tomb-sweeping, which usually involves burning incense.”
“The little three-month-old cub runs from the approaching smoke and flames on the edge of the Land of the Leopard National Park in Primorsky region…
“This footage is unique and it highlights the acute danger to wildlife from seasonal fires – in this case manmade – even in a park set up to provide a safe haven for the Amur leopards, which are recovering from getting as close to extinction as any species can.”
“A warm winter in Russia has seen deaths from alcohol poisoning fall after drinkers ditched vodka, according to experts. Just over 600 people died from alcohol poisoning in January, a 37 per cent drop compared to the same month last year.
“Average temperatures in Moscow in the winter just gone were around 42.8 – more than 20F higher than usual.”
“Seven civilians have died in floods and mudslides triggered by torrential rains in the last three days in Syria’s northern province of Raqqa.
“The Civil Council of Raqqa, affiliated with the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), announced the floods caused by heavy rains, claimed seven civilian lives in Raqqa.”
“The emergency services are on full alert as torrential rain is forecast [on Spain’s Costa Del Sol] continuously for over the next 24 hours and dry river beds are filling fast and more storms and rain are predicted…
“With street disinfecting planned for next week the rain could hamper the street “clean down” planned.”
“A huge and intense area of high pressure has established itself in the North Atlantic, at an equal distance between Iceland and Scotland. With a central pressure of 1055 millibars, this is one the most intense anticyclones on record…
“It comes just over two months after another anticyclone saw a pressure of 1050.5 millibars being recorded in Wales, United Kingdom.”
“As an expansive dome of high pressure continues to remain parked over the Gulf of Mexico and the southern United States, record-challenging heat will continue for many areas that have already smashed records this week.
“Going into the weekend, the stretch of summerlike heat allowed, New Orleans to set daily high temperature records six days in a row.”
“Six people were injured when a tornado ripped through Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Saturday afternoon, Mayor Harold Perrin told CNN affiliate KARK.
“Jonesboro Police Chief Rick Elliott said search and rescue crews were making their third and final sweep looking for anyone in need of assistance before focusing on cleanup.”
“This is a preview of global warming. In a warming world, these patterns shift north,” said Patzert.
““The subtropical jet stream, which comes out of Southeast Asia and usually peters out around the international dateline, also is a little more active and moves farther north. This year it behaved somewhat like in an El Niño year,” Patzert said. “In an El Niño year, it shifts even more to the north.”
“Mike Laureta has lived along the Wailua River for 30 years and says this is worst flooding he’s ever seen in his quiet neighborhood.
““If this was a 50-year flood or a 100-year flood, this is it,” Laureta said Saturday as pointed out where raging water rushed through his yard night before.”
“Climate change is imperiling the world’s largest animals by increasing the likelihood of fatal collisions between whales and big ships that ply the same waters.
“Warming ocean temperatures are causing some species of whales in pursuit of food to stray more frequently into shipping lanes, scientists say.”
“A vast ozone hole — likely the biggest on record in the north — has opened in the skies above the Arctic. It rivals the better-known Antarctic ozone hole that forms in the southern hemisphere each year.
“Record-low ozone levels currently stretch across much of the central Arctic, covering an area about three times the size of Greenland…”
“Large-scale weather forecasts are made using sophisticated computer programmes that model a virtual world. The accuracy of the output of such a model depends on the quality of the input.
“One of the usual sources of input is an aircraft, feeding back real-time wind data.
“The coronavirus pandemic has considerably reduced the number of aircraft operating. As a result, the incoming information has dropped and forecast winds at cruise height can no longer be verified and the feedback loop into the global model is much weaker.”
“…these are extraordinary times along the Great Lakes. High water records are falling throughout the region less than a decade after the lakes hit record lows.
“Millions are being spent to combat erosion threatening homes and infrastructure.”
“A large storm continues to march across the country, with heavy snow in the West and hail in San Francisco Bay area. Up to a foot of snow was measured from California to Wyoming and Montana as parts of I-80 had to be shut down overnight due to the snow covered roads.
“By Thursday night into early Friday morning, the entire western storm will move into the Plains and is expected to bring severe weather to the region.”
“High temperatures soared into the 80s and 90s across much of the southern United States on Thursday as an unusually potent heat wave for late March got underway.
“Temperatures easily made it into the mid 90s across Texas and Oklahoma, with one community in southwestern Oklahoma maxing out at 100°F.”
“This is the only food Karl Bretzendorfer remembers taking up to the attic where he spent 13 days trapped with his wife Irina, as the waters rose around them in what Chancellor Angela Merkel called “the flood of the century” in the state of Bavaria, south-east Germany.”
“Extreme heat in December 2019 and January 2020 – a major feature of the heatwave for this period wasn’t just the extremity of the heat, but the extent of it.
“This saw in area-averaged records for the hottest day being exceeded for Australia…”
“Before the fires, drought had decimated livestock in the region, and after the inferno came a flood that washed ash into the estuaries, destroying all oyster farmers’ plans to harvest.
“And now, as entire cities across the country lock down amid the COVID-19 crisis, a section of NSW that’s been holding its breath for months is being pushed under once again.”
“On a continent [Africa] that has suffered repeated outbreaks of Ebola and is now fighting the coronavirus, the locusts may pose no less of a challenge.
Hundreds of billions of them have conquered territory in at least eight countries, overwhelming governments and aid organizations while consuming crops and grazing land so rapidly that experts fear widespread famine.”
“If circulation of deep waters in the Atlantic stops or slows due to climate change, it could cause cooling in northern North America and Europe – a scenario that has occurred during past cold glacial periods.
“Now, a new study suggests that short-term disruptions of deep ocean circulation occurred during warm interglacial periods in the last 450,000 years, and may happen again.”
“The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing steadily, having recently reached the highest concentration in human history.
“While that’s undoubtedly bad news for the planet, one argued silver lining is that plants are better off due to more of their food being in the air. But a new study has dashed those hopes…”
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“The Antarctic is estimated to have lost three trillion tonnes of ice over the past 25 years and Ellis holds grave fears of an approaching tipping point…
“Hong Kong’s butterfly population hit its highest level in at least 14 years in 2019, the warmest year on record in the city, causing a local green group to suggest the increase in numbers could have been linked to climate change… 
“A severe drought has affected over 1 million people in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, the provincial water conservancy department said Friday. 
“While China continues to battle the deadly coronavirus, another battle is being waged in Xichang City, in China’s southwest Sichuan Province. 
“At least 12 people have been killed and 20 others injured in heavy rains and flash floods that have hit 18 Afghan provinces…
“Flooding caused by heavy rain in south and central provinces of Iran, lead to fatalities and widespread damage, and continue to cause damage to infrastructure and agriculture sector, worth USD 120 million… Iran is also grappling with the biggest desert locust invasion in the last 50 years. 
“At least 4,625 families have been displaced by flooding in several Yemeni governorates, Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday. 
“Something amazing has happened to the [UK] weather. The interminable rains that began last September suddenly vanished two weeks ago over much of the country. 
“‘A powerful storm dropped a sneaky snowfall on the Appalachians from Tuesday into Wednesday. Since then, the potent cyclone has blossomed into a hurricane-strength whirlwind over the Atlantic… 
“Indian River County [Florida] — A local state of emergency and a countywide burn ban will go into effect Friday morning after a record-low month of rainfall… 
“Flooding continues on a river in South Dakota a year after it was first triggered by heavy rain and snowmelt from a Plains bomb cyclone last March… 
“We all might not have been outside as much as usual to notice, but March was a relatively chilly month in Seattle. 
“The endangered whooping crane could be wiped out if it continues to migrate in large groups – an unusual behavioural trend that could be due to habitat loss.
“Climate change threatens to shake up the lifestyles of many animals around the world and a new study has revealed that for the American robin these wheels are already very much in motion. 
“The sea ice in the Bering Sea got broken up pretty well in March due to a series of storms that moved through the area. The change from the beginning of March to the end of March was dramatic. 
“…large vessels are increasing their activity in the Arctic Ocean as declining sea ice opens previously inaccessible Arctic regions to shipping. 
“Not since November 2011 has Svalbard had a monthly average temperature colder than normal… 
“The heavy downpour from Cyclone Harold has inflicted serious damage to a bridge connecting communities in North West Guadalcanal to Honiara. 
“Twenty-eight people are missing and feared dead after being washed from a ferry in Solomon Islands in the early hours of Friday morning as it encountered rough seas caused by Cyclone Harold. 
“Countries with large populations and low levels of development are most likely to see a rise in the risk of armed conflict after extreme weather events, according to a new study that researchers said underscored the need to boost their resilience.”
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