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Twenty-nine cities in the UK experienced record high temperatures today. In Coningsby, the high reached 40.3º Celsius (104.5º Fahrenheit). Yikes!
UK breaks record for highest temperature as Europe sizzles
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/ar...-smashing-heat
The Colorado. The Danube. The Yangtze. The Po. The Rhine. The Loire. Many rivers worldwide are drying up because of heat waves and a lack of rainfall. These pictures are truly scary.
The world's rivers are drying up from extreme weather. See how 6 look from space.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/20/world...ntl/index.html
Excessive heat and a lack of rainfall – and it continues to get worse.
Europe's drought is the worst in 500 years, officials say, as two-thirds of the continent is under distress
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/europe-...-years-report/
One of the researchers says it is "entirely likely" sea levels could rise 30 inches. A 2019 study found that if the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, sea levels would rise 23 feet and many coastal cities would be underwater. Yikes!
Inevitable: Melting Greenland ice sheet will send seas nearly a foot higher, study finds
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...as/7889561001/
The highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world is 134° – at Death Valley, July 10 1913. Nearby is Furnace Creek and the Funeral Mountains. All three names are appropriate.
Death Valley hits 127 degrees, setting record for hottest September day on the planet
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...on-the-planet/
Yesterday, Livermore in Alameda County hit an all-time high temperature of 117°. Today was much cooler – only 111°.
A brutal heat wave brings record highs in the 110s and threatens power outages across California
CNN, Sep 7 2022 12:13 AM ET
A record-breaking heat wave has baked the West for days, fueling destructive wildfires and threatening rolling power shutoffs in California – and it could last even longer due to the effects of a hurricane forming along Mexico's Pacific Coast. Sacramento hit 115° Tuesday, the hottest day on record for the state capital. Records were also broken all over the Bay Area, with some cities shattering previous daily records by more than 10 degrees. Scientists say searing heat is part of a global pattern of rising temperatures, and climate change is making heat waves hotter and more frequent.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/us/we...wave-wednesday
Britain, Spain, France and Switzerland had record high temperatures in 2022. The hottest year in the United States was 2016. According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, the states with the highest average temperature are now Florida, Hawai'i, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Arizona and Arkansas.
UK saw hottest year on record in 2022 as Europe’s climate warms
https://fox59.com/news/national-worl...climate-warms/
As glaciers and sea ice continue to melt and ocean levels continue to rise, many inland cities could wind up being coastal cities.
Half of all mountain glaciers are expected to disappear by 2100
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ppear-by-2100/
Here is scary confirmation of what I said above about the likelihood of inland cities becoming coastal cities:
Warm water melts weak spots on Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier,' say scientists
Reuters, Feb 15 2023
Scientists studying Antarctica's vast Thwaites Glacier – nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier – say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, worsening melting caused by rising temperatures, two papers published in Nature journal showed today. Thwaites, which is roughly the size of Florida, represents more than half a meter (1.6 feet) of global sea level rise potential and could destabilize neighboring glaciers that have the potential to cause a further three-meter (9.8-foot) rise.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...ts/ar-AA17wIiR
Last month was the 530th consecutive month with global temperatures above the 20th century average. That trend will continue – and likely worsen.
Scientists warn an El Niño is likely coming that could bring scorching heat to Earth
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s/70211895007/
Globally, the hottest year on record is 2016. The hottest day on record is July 3, 2023.
July 3: Earth experiences hottest day on record
https://www.forbes.com/sites/willski...day-on-record/
The hottest day on record is no longer July 3, 2023. It's July 4, 2023 – and the next few weeks could be even hotter.
'Unprecedented and terrifying': World sets all-time high temperature record 2 days in a row
https://www.aol.com/news/unprecedent...192130184.html
Dr. Kevin Foster says the Arizona Burn Center has been treating many children and elderly people who suffered third-degree burns after falling on asphalt and not getting up quickly. On extremely hot days, asphalt can reach a temperature of 180°.
Temperatures reach 110° for record 25th straight day in Phoenix as summer swelter continues
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...w/70461344007/
Yesterday the World Meteorological Organization announced that July 2023 is on track to be the hottest month ever recorded. Based on millennia of climate data extracted from tree rings, coral reefs and deep sea sediment cores, July 2023 is the hottest month of the past 120,000 years. Retrumplicans, of course, continue to deny global warming. Now let's keep making gas-burning cars and let's get those coal miners back to work!
'It’s called summer': GOP brushes off record heat wave
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clima...b024f8ebc870f5
Phoenix has had 31 consecutive days of temperatures of 110° or higher. The record-setting streak should end today. The predicted high is 102°.
July keeps sizzling as Phoenix has another 110-degree day and wildfires spread in California
https://www.aol.com/weather/july-kee...094656892.html
The residents of Phoenix likely reacted to this news by exclaiming, "Duh!"
July was world’s hottest month on record, climate scientists confirm
Global average temperature exceeded previous record by substantial margin.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ntists-confirm
David Martin Davies, host of two news-talk programs on KSTX in San Antonio, observes, "The evidence that the planet is getting hotter is undeniable but that’s not stopping the deniers. They say the climate is always changing so the current warming trend must be natural. They also say the current warming trend is not caused by humans but by natural factors such as solar activity or volcanoes. They assert that the effects of climate change are not as bad as they are made out to be. They refuse to admit that the rate of climate change is much faster than it has been in the past. We are seeing more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires. Glaciers are melting and sea levels are rising."
NASA declares summer 2023 the hottest on record
https://www.cnet.com/science/climate...est-on-record/
"Good morning, everyone. This is KRLD in Dallas. It's the first day of summer in the year 2049. Today's predicted temperature is 98. That's not the high. That's the low."
Middle America will soon be too hot to live in, scientists predict
https://www.newsweek.com/middle-amer...redict-1833481
Greenland's melting ice will cause a 10- to 12-inch rise in ocean levels by 2050 and a quintuple increase in the number of destructive floods.
North Greenland ice shelves have lost 35% of their volume, with 'dramatic consequences' for sea level rise, study says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-g...limate-change/
In the United States, 2023 was the fifth-hottest year on record. The seven warmest years in the U.S. have all occurred since 2012.
2023 confirmed as world's hottest year on record
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67861954