Last week in the Alps the freezing temperatures stayed above freezing even at the highest peaks like Mont Blanc, 4,800m!
All Alpine #glaciers were melting
Sheets laid over the ice to protect from sun & heat felt like a veil draped over a dying patient
#ClimateChange is now !
The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science.
We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan, and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:
Breaking News!
Code: y-axis alert!
As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean.
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The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:
Some of the most terrifying and violent storm conditions that are possible on this planet are occurring right now on the Pacific island of Rota.
At 180 MPH (290 kph) and with eyewall mesovortex gusts potentially as high as ~220 MPH (355 kph), Category 5 Super Typhoon Bavi is moments away from making landfall.
Wake up..
When seas warm, sea food dies, fish die, we die.
Scientists don’t use phrases like ‘uncharted territory’ lightly. When they do, we should probably pay attention.
Oceans feed billions, regulate climate & absorb heat. They can’t keep buffering our emissions indefinitely.
The “Summer of the Heat Dome”! In the coming 1-2 weeks Florida, Europe, and the Central US will find itself under more sweltering heat domes. So what’s behind all the extreme heat, what #science says, and what can we expect the rest of the summer? Welcome to the one of the hottest summer’s of your lives, and one of the coolest of your future. #heatwave #ElNino #climatechange @dfenton