In Kashmir, Bellwether Of India’s Changing Climate, Heatwaves, Receding Glaciers, Drying Rivers, Power Cuts & Falling Harvests
Environmental damage, unregulated construction and government policies have exacerbated the effects of global warming and hit livelihoods in a region that reflects and affects subcontinental weather.
Are the Bay Area's #sewage systems ready for El Niño? (short answer: No).
Last winter, treatment systems spilled tens of millions of gallons of raw/partially treated sewage into the Bay & city streets. Our executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh said cities need to upgrade their infrastructure to solve this problem.
“And one of the ones that’s been kicking and screaming the hardest not wanting to change is, surprisingly, San Francisco,” Choksi-Chugh said.
Die Rekorde purzeln und es ist kein Grund zum Feiern: Schwer vorstellbar, in was für eine Welt wir uns da hineinbewegen. Aber solche Nachrichten sind beängstigend: (Und der Donnerstag war danach dann noch heißer)
Montag und Dienstag waren global die heißesten Tage seit Beginn der Messungen
Die #Erde wird immer wärmer und nun wurden globale Durchschnittstemperaturen erreicht, die alles bislang gemessene übertreffen.
This year's El Niño launched with incredible intensity on the coast of South America.
In adjacent Ecuador, the national average temperature for the month of August broke the previous record – set during the start of the extreme 1997/98 El Niño – by an enormous 1.4 °C (2.5 °F).
UN warns heat records could be broken as chance of El Niño rises.
“We are expecting in the coming two years to have a serious increase in the global temperatures,” Okia said.
Monday, July 3 saw the highest global temperature average since record-keeping of the measure began in 1979. Read more about what’s causing this year’s heat to soar, and why climate scientists say this “is not a milestone we should be celebrating.”
The co-occurrence of numerous pockets of exceptionally/record warm ocean water outside of the tropics with a strong east-based #ElNiño event has essentially not been observed before. The oceans presently have, and are expected to retain, a configuration without modern analogue. https://t.co/bzCJZZeeFA
Boosted by El Niño, 2024 has started quite warm and this is expected to continue.
Our current forecast range expects that 2024 will become either the warmest (60% chance) or 2nd warmest (39% chance) year on record, with only a slight chance of any lower outcome.
State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start
Global temperatures have been exceptionally high over the past three months – at around 1.6C above pre-industrial levels – following the peak of current #ElNiño event at the start of 2024.
The past 10 months have all set new all-time monthly temperature records, though the margin by which new records have been set has fallen from around 0.3C last year to 0.1C over the first three months of 2024.
In the PH, hellish heat to continue through May. The country's weather agency warned that "temperatures could reach over 40 degrees Celsius in the coming weeks."
The most affected regions are Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Mimaropa, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Zamboanga peninsula, Soccsksargen, Cordillera Administrative Region and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Tuyong mga tanim at patay na mga alagang isda ang epekto ng #ElNiño sa sakahan at fishpond nina Bayan Patroller Gene Tordesillas at kanyang pamilya sa Oton, #Iloilo.
Global sea levels jumped due to El Nino and warming climate, says NASA
> The #NASA-led analysis is based on more than 30 years of satellite observations, with the initial satellite launching in 1992 and the latest in 2020.
A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate makers around the world reliant on West Africa for cocoa, there is significant concern about the impact on the prices of chocolate and the livelihood of farmers.
The climate crisis is pushing African food farmers into starvation
The April harvests from Juwawo’s 3 fields used to be enough to feed his family for a year. Now, they barely get by. “With 6 children to care for, life is very hard,” said the 44-year-old farmer.
Such hardship now affects nearly 2 million Malawian farmers, said Malawian president Lazarus Chakwera
Experts are warning of an “unimaginable humanitarian situation” as more than 24 million people in Africa face a food and water crisis due to drought and floods. Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe have declared national emergencies. El Niño, a recurring climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean, is being blamed for high temperatures and low rainfall which are causing the ground to dry out, making eventual rain more likely to cause floods. Read more about the crisis from CNN.
Herds of hippos are at risk of dying due to a severe #Drought in #Botswana, which is home to one of the largest hippo populations. The rivers of the region have already dried-up, forcing hippos to congregate around the remaining muddy ponds.
Meanwhile in easthern Africa, countries like #Kenya, #Uganda and #Tanzania, have been battling against #Floods for months with hundreds killed and thousands displaced.