If we – meaning the entire world – can't reduce greenhouse gas emissions, brace yourself for extreme droughts, more wildfires, flooding, food shortages and more heat-related illnesses and deaths.
Record high temperatures far exceed record lows – a trend of the climate crisis
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/us/cl...ows/index.html
One would think lions and tigers are used to hot weather. Probably so – but this past week has been much hotter than normal for two-thirds of the United States.
Sheba the lion dies from sweltering heat in North Carolina, wild cat sanctuary says
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/st...233020452.html
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice," wrote Robert Frost in 1920. Nearly a century later, it appears the world will end in carbon dioxide emissions and global warming unless emissions can be drastically reduced – and we don't have much time left.
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48964736
Today, Paris had a high of 108.7°, Germany reached 106.7°, Belgium recorded 103.8° and the Netherlands had a high of 107.1°. All of those are record highs. In England, the temperature reached 100.6°, the second-highest temperature ever recorded and a record for the month of July.
Paris records all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weath...rsday/70008874
A 66-year-old Belgian woman has become the latest heat-related fatality. Temperatures in Belgium reached 104° today.
Europe's heat wave is about to bake the Arctic
Concerns grow regarding sea ice and Greenland's ice sheet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...t-bake-arctic/
Globally, last month was the hottest June ever recorded. This month will be the hottest July on record. Would anyone care to make predictions for August and September? This is from Business Insider:
At least 20 people have died from Europe's extreme heat. The Arctic caught on fire. This is what climate change looks like.
https://www.businessinsider.com/summ...-change-2019-7
Final data will be released in four days. The four hottest years on record are 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. This year is likely to be the second-hottest year on record, which will mean the five hottest years have been the last five years. "The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, causing it to scorch everyone with its fire. Everyone was burned by this blast of heat....." – Revelation 16:8-9, New Living Translation
Record heat waves might have made July the hottest month ever recorded
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/world...ntl/index.html
June 2019 was the hottest June on record. And then came July.......
July 2019 was Earth's hottest month on record
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...ord/ar-AAFQQah
Alaska had 95 consecutive days of above average temperatures this year (April 26 to July 29). July was Alaska's hottest month on record. Almost every major city had record high temperatures. On July 4, Anchorage had a high of 90°. The expanse of ice in Alaska in July was the smallest on record. The water in Alaska's streams and rivers has also reached record high temperatures, in the low 80s. Excessive heat worldwide is killing people, fish and animals. At least insects are still thriving.
The water is so hot in Alaska it's killing large numbers of salmon
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/16/us/...rnd/index.html
Melting ice and rising sea levels could displace two billion people by 2100 and many island nations could be underwater.
Scientists bid farewell to the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change. If more melt, it can be disastrous.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/18/hea...rnd/index.html
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