Temperatures are set to skyrocket to potentially record-setting levels across the U.S. Southwest as yet another heat dome entrenches itself over the southern tier of the country and Mexico. This is just one of the many punishing, deadly heat waves that have baked locations around the world, from China to Algeria, this spring and...
Thursday's record came after the revelation that the seven-day stretch ending Wednesday was also the hottest week in at least 44 years.
The degrowth movement makes a comeback.
The presidents of Brazil and Colombia discussed regional coordination to fight deforestation and protect the world’s largest and most biodiverse rainforest at a meeting in Colombia’s Amazonian city of Leticia on Saturday.
Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy led the way. Now a new crop of novelists is putting the heating emergency at the forefront of their plots
Governments focus on the climate when they have few other economic worries. That can no longer be the case
https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
Their unprecedented profits over the past year have shown their unwillingness to adapt. It’s now D-Day for them.
“Heat sets the pace of our climate in so many ways … it’s never just the heat,” said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown University.
After two days in which the planet reached unofficial records, Earth's average temperature remained at a record high on Wednesday.
Scientists say the average temperature on Earth was 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit on July 4, the highest since at least 1979 and a sign of the worsening climate crisis.
Simultaneous harvest failures across crop-producing regions are major threats to global food security. A strongly meandering jet can trigger these, however, climate and crop models underestimate effects with consequences for climate risk assessments.
"Still we are not acting with the urgency and determination that is required," the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Monday.
Heat records will keep being broken as long as planet-warming emissions continue to increase.
[…] The tens of billions of chickens, pigs, cows, and other animals we raise and slaughter for food annually account for around 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from cow burps, animal manure, and the fertilizer used to grow the corn and soy they eat. More than one-third of the Earth’s habitable land...
Renewables and storage are saving Texans money as temperatures soar and coal and natural gas power plants fail.
Rising temperatures in north Atlantic and drop in Antarctic sea ice prompt fears of widespread damage from extreme weather
Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421523002276?via%3Dihub...
My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentrat…
This headline from the Washington Post is unlike anything we have ever seen before from a mainstream news publication. America is an inferno with heat waves in the South, smoke in the North Their alternative headline, depending on when you click on the...
