Just a friendly Earth Day reminder: Once upon a time the US appeared to be concerned about human rights, the collapse of global industrial civilization and the sixth great extinction.
Chances are extremely high of a repeat of this ending heat wave in Europe with another one which looks like its photocopy.
This heat wave is already starting in Morocco and Portugal and will spread North and East afterward.
France will get the worse,once again.
Breaking News!
Code: y-axis alert!
Well, NOAA has finally done it. They finally extended the y-axis to 5.0°C for the CFSv2 Nino 3.4 monthly forecast after it became obvious to pretty much everyone that 4.0°C was absurd.
Source: https://t.co/uJKaeNchKs
there is a popular bit of climate misinformation that says a warmer planet is a good thing.
world-renowned earth system scientist @JRockstrom eviscerates that claim:
🚨 The 2026 European heatwave isn't just "uncomfortable weather." It's lethal.
🇫🇷 France: 1,000 deaths
🇪🇸 Spain: 327 deaths
🇩🇪 Germany: 7 deaths
🇮🇹 Italy: 5 deaths
Stop calling it a climate crisis. We are living through a full-scale humanitarian crisis. 🧵 #ClimateCatastrophe
The “air conditioning debate” is a climate culture war started by center-right and liberal commentators, which drives attention away from the existential need to phase out fossil fuels.
In France they’re actually keeping the focus on lack of government action, where it belongs.
INSANE HOT NIGHTS: MINIMUM 29.4c GERMANY !
This is completely out of any imagination
WORLD RECORDS of Hottest nights by latitude smashed in Europe.
Crazy Min 29.4C Kubschüt
Thousands of hot nights records in Germany,Switz, Austria,Denmark,Sweden,Czechia,Slovakia,Croatia,etc
Heat waves are driven by weather patterns but occur on the backdrop of a rapidly warming world. Without climate change the current European heat wave would have been ~3.2 °C (5.8 °F) cooler.
Heat impacts are non-linear, so this higher severity can lead to much greater suffering
Two news items, one after the other; a piece about coping with the heatwave in our homes, followed immediately by a piece about growing pressure to drill more oil in the North Sea. No connection made between them at all.
Full video: https://t.co/57LeMe2LdQ
"Le ricerche mostrano che nei cinque decenni tra il 1950 e il 1999 l’Europa ha subito cinque intense ondate di calore. Tra il 2000 e il 2021, se ne sono verificate 18".
https://t.co/d5QlTCQ36M
From the tropics to the boreal north, forests store carbon, regulate rainfall & shield us from floods, droughts & deadly heat.
To limit global temperature rise, we must end deforestation & restore degraded land – protecting nature, reducing disaster risks & creating green jobs.
Hundreds of thousands of chickens in France have died one of the worst deaths there is—from prolonged extreme heat.
Dairy cows are also hit: "They're standing there with ��their mouths wide open, just trying to find air," a farmer said. "It's very difficult, physically for people and for the animals."
Even if you don't care about animals suffering, food supply and prices are impacted by CC. Milk production has fallen by 15% to 20%.
All the carcasses are a problem too: the collection service has buckled under the sheer scale of the demand.
Disease looms when bodies lie rotting from the hell we have created.
Report in 🧵
"No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you."
- Carl Jung
In a stable preindustrial climate, we would expect to see something like the current heat wave engulfing France once every seven thousand years. Seven thousand years ago, the first pyramid was still two thousand years away.
Europe is red hot this week & we are seeing red.
People are being killed by our government’s inaction in the face of extreme weather.
It is preventable, but they refuse to what is necessary, ban fossil fuels & invest in renewables
The power to demand change is in our hands.
Paris, the capital of France, has recorded more days above 40°C this week than during the 147-year period spanning from 1872 to 2019.
Historic is an understatement.