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Several states and many big corporations including Walmart, McDonald's and Citigroup are determined to meet the goals of the Paris climate change accord despite Trump pulling the US out of the agreement. California Governor Jerry Brown, who will host a global climate summit in September, laments that we are just beginning to see the environmental damage caused by Trump's action:
Governor Brown says fallout from Trump quitting Paris accord is 'far more serious than anyone is saying
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...601-story.html
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Global temperatures are getting warmer. Facts and figures do not lie. Unfortunately there are still a few people who don't believe the facts and figures. We all know who they are.
May heat smashes US temperature records
CBS News, Jun 6 2018 1:10 PM
Record heat returned to the United States with a vengeance last month. May warmed to a record average 65.4° in the contiguous 48 states, breaking the high of 64.7° set in 1934, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. May was 5.2° above the 20th century’s average for the month. Weather stations in the nation broke or tied nearly 8,600 daily heat records in May. Minneapolis reached a high of 100° on May 28, the earliest the city has seen triple digits. The United Kingdom, Germany and other places also set May heat records.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/may-record-heat-noaa/
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World leaders, with one exception, want clean air, clean water and clean energy. One leader wants dirty air, dirty water and dirty coal. I'll give you one guess who he is.
Six of the G7 commit to climate action. Trump wouldn’t even join the conversation.
Trump skipped the formal climate discussions, had the US negotiators promote fossil fuels instead and then renounced the group's official communiqué in a Twitter tirade.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/1...-france-canada
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Pretty soon, the penguins will have to start building rafts.
Antarctica's ice sheet lost 3 trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2017. The rate of melting has tripled since 2012, a new study finds.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/antarct...-study-nature/
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At the rate the oceans are rising due to global warming, Fresno, Riverside, Palm Springs and San Bernardino might be coastal cities in a few hundred years.
Southern California's coastal communities could lose 130 feet of cliffs this century as sea levels rise
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...627-story.html
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The high in Los Angeles tomorrow is predicted to be between 104 and 113°. Coastal cities will be in the 90s. The long hot summer has begun.
Heat wave builds in western US after leaving more than 30 dead in northeast, midwest and Canada
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...DoM2?ocid=AMZN
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As I write this, the temperature in Los Angeles is 113°. It's 109° in Calabasas, 113° in Woodland Hills, 115° in Palm Springs and 116° in Death Valley. Yikes!
Southern California heat wave breaks records
CBS News, Jul 6 2018
Southern California is baking under a heat wave today that forecasters correctly predicted would be one for the record books, with widespread triple-digit highs and increased fire danger. Torrid conditions are expected to last through Saturday before easing a bit Sunday.
In downtown Los Angeles, it was only 10:15 AM when the mercury topped the July 6 record mark of 94° set in 1992 and kept on rising, hitting 100 before noon. Many other areas were sweltering in record triple-digit temperatures earlier. Many Southern California locations reported temperatures above 80 degrees before dawn. At 3 AM, it was 98° in Gaviota on the Santa Barbara County coast. Maximum temperatures are predicted to be 20 to 25 degrees above normal virtually everywhere. Woodland Hills, for example, is forecast to reach 117°.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/souther...ay-2018-07-06/
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In the above story, the temperature in Woodland Hills was expected to reach 117°. It did -- and it was deadly.
US Postal worker found dead in California after delivering mail in extreme heat
MSN, Jul 10 2018
A 28-year US Postal worker was found dead in her truck Friday after delivering mail when temperatures reached nearly 120 degrees in Southern California. Peggy Frank, 63, was found unresponsive in her truck around 3 PM Friday in Woodland Hills. Paramedics arrived at the scene and pronounced the grandmother dead after several attempts to revive her.
The exact cause of death was not released but Frank’s family believes heat exhaustion may have led to her passing. Friday was Frank’s first day back on the job after she was placed on medical leave for a broken ankle. Robert Tipton, a neighbor of Frank, said, "It was almost 120 degrees outside. When I came out it was just a wall of heat just hitting you. It's one of the hottest days I've ever experienced out here in the valley."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us...QEMI?ocid=AMZN
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Here is an insightful column by UC Santa Barbara environmental politics professor Leah Stokes in today's Los Angeles Times. She says we can "link many recent disasters and weather events to climate change" but, unfortunately, "reporters are trained to distinguish weather from climate." She concludes, "The science is clear. Reporters need to start using it."
Climate change is behind the global heat wave. Why won't the media say it?
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...715-story.html
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Global temperatures have now been above average for 402 consecutive months. That's almost 33 years. But there's no cause for alarm: Our President says global warming is just a hoax.
June 2018 was earth's fifth-warmest June on record, NOAA says
https://weather.com/news/climate/new...2018-noaa-nasa
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The high in Kamagaya today was 106°, the highest temperature ever recorded in Japan. Yikes!
Record-breaking heat wave hits Japan, killing at least 44
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...ZTdW?ocid=AMZN
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A new study shows the correlation between higher temperatures and suicides. Global warming could lead to an additional 21,000 suicides by 2050. Yikes!
Stanford researchers find warming temperatures could increase suicide rates across the US and Mexico
https://news.stanford.edu/2018/07/23...suicide-rates/
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Yesterday the temperature reached a record-high 114° in Waco and a record-high 115° in Phoenix and the climate-change deniers are having an increasingly difficult time explaining why they believe the earth is not getting warmer.
Temperatures near 120° in Southwest as Texas reports record highs
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-r...ay-2018-07-24/
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Gee, tell us something we don't know.
Record-breaking heat and fires are worsened by climate change, scientists say
CBS News, Jul 28 2018 10:38 AM
Heat waves are setting all-time temperature records across the globe -- again. Europe suffered its deadliest fire in more than a century, and one of nearly 90 large fires in the US West burned dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of at least 37,000 people near Redding, California. Flood-inducing downpours have pounded the US East this week. It's all part of summer -- but it's all being made worse by human-caused climate change, scientists say.
Japan hit 106° on Monday, its hottest temperature ever. Records fell in parts of Massachusetts, Maine, Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico and Texas. And then there's crazy heat in Europe, where normally chill Norway, Sweden and Finland all saw temperatures they have never seen before on any date, pushing past 90°. So far this month, at least 118 of these all-time heat records have been set or tied across the globe, according to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.
The explanations should sound as familiar as the crash of broken records. "We now have very strong evidence that global warming has already put a thumb on the scales, upping the odds of extremes like severe heat and heavy rainfall," Stanford University climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh said. "We find that global warming has increased the odds of record-setting hot events over more than 80% of the planet and has increased the odds of record-setting wet events at around half of the planet.
Climate change is making the world warmer because of the build-up of heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil and other human activities. A study by European scientists Friday found that the ongoing European heat wave is twice as likely because of human-caused global warming.
Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said the link between climate change and fires isn't as strong as it is with heat waves but it is becoming clearer. In the United States on Friday, there were 89 active large fires consuming nearly 900,000 acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The Carr Fire in Northern California has burned hundreds of homes and is threatening thousands of other structures.
So far this year, fires have burned 4.15 million acres, which is nearly 14% higher than average over the past 10 years. In Greece, a devastating fire this month caused at least 83 fatalities.
The first major science study to connect greenhouse gases to stronger and longer heat waves was in 2004. It was titled "More intense, more frequent and longer lasting heat waves in the 21st century." Study author Gerald Meehl of the National Center For Atmospheric Research said Friday that now it "reads like a prediction of what has been happening and will continue to happen as long as average temperatures continue to rise with ever-increasing emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. It's no mystery."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-...cientists-say/
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CNN headline:
2018 is a hot year. It's on pace to be the 4th-hottest on record.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...a0eT?ocid=AMZN
The three hottest years? 2015, 2016 and 2017. The facts speak for themselves.
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CBS News yesterday reported (above) that fires and heat waves are made worse by climate change. Today, further proof:
Wildfires rage across Europe as countries battle intense heat wave
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-w...728-story.html
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Can we say the heat wave is "making a molehill out of a mountain"?
Sweden's tallest peak shrinks as extreme heat wave bakes Europe
NBC News, Aug 2 2018 7:46 AM
Sweden's tallest peak is on course to lose that title as a persistent heat wave melts away inches of the glacier atop it daily. The height of Kebnekaise mountain dropped by 13 feet during July, according to the latest measurements. Weekly temperatures in parts of northern Europe could reach as much as 18 degrees above normal levels through early August, according to forecasters — with hot conditions also contributing to wildfires raging north of the Arctic Circle.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/s...europe-n896831
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July 2018 was the hottest July on record in Death Valley National Park in California. The average temperature was 108.1°. There were four consecutive days of 127° temperatures and ten nights with temperatures that didn't drop below 100. Yikes!
Death Valley was the hottest place on the planet in July
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-...802-story.html
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Today's Bible-study verse is Revelation 16:9, "The people were scorched with intense heat and they cursed the name of God." This is already starting to happen.
Heat waves may make China unlivable, says study
Newsweek, Aug 3 2018
Heat waves caused by climate change could make China’s main agricultural regions the most inhospitable places for humans on earth. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that soaring temperatures will make the North China Plain, which spans 35 million acres from Beijing to Shanghai, uninhabitable by the end of the century. The region generates around a fifth of the country’s grain and is currently home to 400 million people.
Elfatih Eltahir, a climate professor at MIT, said: "This spot is going to be the hottest spot for deadly heat waves in the future." The study which Eltahir led showed the potential of heat waves to cause what is known as "wet bulb" temperatures. Those occur when the heat and humidity, even in the shade, are so strong that it is impossible for the human body to cool itself.
Under these conditions which could be common by 2070, a seemingly healthy person could die within six hours, said the study published in the journal Nature Communications. Lacking rain, the irrigation processes in the North China Plain are so intense that its evaporation leads to higher humidity, further adding to temperatures.
The MIT study concluded that recent heat waves in the region, such as one in 2013 that went on for 50 days, will become more common. "The North China Plain is likely to experience deadly heat waves with wet bulb temperatures exceeding the threshold defining what Chinese farmers may tolerate," Eltahir said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...rReI?ocid=AMZN
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The New York Times says the devastating effects of the European heat wave are comparable to Biblical plagues. Indeed, Revelation chapter 16 describes (among other calamities) intense heat, heavy hail, earthquakes, diseases and the drying up of rivers. Writing in the first century, John the Apostle accurately foresaw the twenty-first century!
Scorching summer in Europe signals long-term climate changes
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/w...heat-wave.html
