Wrecking weather warning systems on purpose

Posted on July 8, 2025July 9, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

Trump making climate science reporting disappear

Three current stories that are clearly part of the same story:

Methane detention satellite disappears mysteriously
National Severe Weather Labs to be shut down
Mona Loa CO2 monitoring station to be shut down.

MISSING SATELLITE: The MethaneSAT satellite was launched in March 2025 and began monitoring methane emissions from human activities with unprecedented accuracy. Operators have suddenly lost contact with no explanation so far. MethaneSAT was able to pinpoint CH₄sources with unprecedented accuracy, especially oil and gas wells, pipelines, and storage facilities. Who can we think of that might want to make this satellite get lost in space? And has the power and money to do it? Methane is far more powerful than CO₂ as a greenhouse gas and its levels are increasing precipitously.

GUTTING NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORIES In the wake of the catastrophic, lethal Texas floods, the Trump administration remains committed to shutting down the nation’s network of Severe Storms Laboratories. These facilities are credited with saving countless lives by developing better prediction and warning capabilities.

ICONIC CO2 MONITORING STATION WILL BE TRUMPED Mauna Loa has been collecting data on CO₂ emission for more than 65 years, producing the Keeling curve graph, the most dramatic and iconic demonstration of how human activities are collectively affecting the planet.

When it was established in the 1950’s CO₂ levels were around 320 parts per million. Now they’re over 420 ppm. That’s a level unseen for at least three million years: the rate of increase far exceeds any natural change in the past 50 million years. Is this something we should know?

Mona Loa CO2 station to close

shutting down severe weather labs

Killer European Heat Dome Smashes Records

Posted on July 3, 2025July 9, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

Current updates on the planet wide global warming emergency.

2,300 people died in Europe’s June’s heat wave

A massive, relentless high-pressure system trapped scorching air from North Africa over Europe, bringing at least one more week of debilitating heat. The atmospheric condition has resulted in sustained extreme heat, with daytime highs over 40 °C (104 °F) in many regions and unusually warm.

France: two deaths , 300 hospitalized
Italy: red alerts in 18 cities; two men dead on beach
Swiss reactor shut down due to high river-water temperatures
Spain: Four dead in Spain, two of them in wildfire
Turkey: 50,000 evacuated as wildfires spread.
Crete: 1,000 evacuated ahead of wildfires

Highest June temperature ever recorded in Portugal: 115°F: June 29, 2025 in Mora

Record-breaking temperatures
June was among the hottest ever recorded across Europe. Cities from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean saw readings typical of mid-summer — reaching 115 °F in southern Spain and Portugal and across the Straits of Gibraltar , frying Ben Guerir, Morocco a record smashing 117 °F reading. Southern and central Europe will continue to bake with no real cooling trend expected through early to mid-July .

Eiffel Tower Closed As Paris Temps Hit 102°F

Fatalities & severe health challenges
At least 8 heat-related deaths have been reported in Spain, France, Italy, and the UK, with emergency rooms seeing significant increases in heat-stress cases. In Sardinia alone, hospital traffic spiked up to 20% above average.

Wildfires and environmental damage
Heat has sparked major wildfires in Catalonia, Crete, Turkey, Greece, and other regions. The conflagrations have led to evacuations and serious damage to agriculture and infrastructure. Crete saw over 1,000 people evacuated, and Italy, Portugal, and France face heightened wildfire danger.

Economic disruption
Heatwaves could shave as much as 0.5 percentage points off Europe’s GDP in 2025 — up to 1.4 % in heat-stressed countries like Spain. Productivity losses are comparable to half-days of strikes.

Eiffel Tower's Top Floor Closed Through Wednesday Due to Heatwave

Europe is now the fastest warming continent: Scientists are clear: global warming is making Europe’s heatwaves more frequent, more intense, and longer. June heatwave events are now around ten times more likely than in pre-industrial times, and heatwaves are approximately 2–2.5 °C hotter.

Monster wildfire over Torrefeta i Florejacs, Spain

Lethal Rain and Floods Swallow Gujarat, India

Posted on June 27, 2025June 28, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

Apocalyptic Gujarat rainfall event dumps 13 inches in a day, killing dozens

Rushing currents dragged Indians downstream to their death as record rainfall across Saurashtra caused led to widespread flooding. The tragedy unfolded amid widespread weather-related disruption across Gujarat. On Tuesday alone, eighteen people lost their lives in various rain-linked incidents across the state

As the 2025 monsoon continues, the effects of global warming are increasingly obvious each year. July opens with alerts for very heavy rainfall in multiple regions, including northwest, central, east, northeast and southern India. Key states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, UP and Kerala are likely to see intense rainfall between 27 Jun and 3 Jul.

Torrential rains battered South and Central Gujarat since early morning, leaving streets waterlogged and chaos unfolding across cities.

Gujarat flood: Nine people travelling in a car were swept away in Botad amid heavy rains with the NDRF recovering 4 bodies while search was underway for three missing persons

Antarctic Seal Population Down 50%

Posted on June 25, 2025June 26, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

Antarctic seal population crashing as sea ice continues collapse

Several species of Antarctic seals are discovering that looking cute is not enough to save them from extinction. The latest research from the British Antarctic Survey indicates that Weddell seals, Antarctic fur seals and southern elephant seals have all declined precipitously in the past 50 years. That is primarily because the ice they live on is melting, so they have nowhere to live. The ice is melting because of global warming.

Populations have declined roughly 7 % per year since peaking in 2009

Seals are apex predators, meaning that these declines are indicative of deep disruption in Antarctic marine food webs, especially krill and fish. As sea ice loss affects weather patterns and ocean currents, the cycle of ecological damage has become irreversible. The overall disruption also triggers new diseases in the form of viral outbreaks. Marine life across the spectrum is not only affected by sea ice decline, but also the changing chemistry of the oceans as the increasing acidity threatens the web of life across the board. When the oceans are done, we are done.

Weddell Seals: A long-term study on Signy Island reveals Weddell seal numbers have plummeted by 54 % since 1977, largely due to melting sea ice, which they depend on for resting, breeding, and hunting.

Antarctic Fur Seals: Their population has dropped about 47 % since 1977 in the same region. Especially vulnerable at Bird Island, populations have declined roughly 7 % per year since peaking in 2009—a dramatic crash linked to rising sea temperatures reducing krill, their primary food source.

Flooding in Burundi is now perpetual

Posted on June 13, 2025June 14, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

Lake Tanganyika floods have no end as Burundi citizens move to the roof tops

Lake Tanganyika is Africa’s second largest lake. It has naturally fluctuated for eons, but global warming has changed the cycle. Surface temperatures of the lake have continued to climb relentlessly since 2018. This is turn causes heavier rainfall and increased flooding, to the point that the waters in the region never recede.

“We’ve been underwater for years.” – Asha

With the lake swollen, the Ruzizi River is unable to drain into it, resulting in persistent floods that inundate surrounding areas like Gatumba on the northern shore. Death in neighboring countries included 260 in Kenyaand 155 in Tanzania.

The situation deteriorated further in 2023 as thousands near the capital were evacuated. The floods returned in 2024 and this spring as residents adapt by moving to rooftops as floodwaters engulfed entire neighborhoods. Twenty-nine people in Burundi were killed.

In the West, some degree of mitigation would be possible by deploying infrastructure upgrades to stave off the inevitable. But that won’t happen in Burundi.

An area affected by floods in the Gatumba district of Bujumbura, Burundi, April 19.

Collapsing glacier wrecks a Swiss mountain village

Posted on June 4, 2025June 9, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

Ice is the key to the future climate collapse | Polar ice is melting fast, with multiple scenarios and surprising consequences | The collapse of mountain glaciers is equally alarming, but in different ways | Rapid permafrost thaw in Arctic regions leads to unforeseen consequences: especially CH4 release | READ MORE ABOUT THE ROLE OF ICE IN GLOBAL WARMING

“We’ve lost our village!”

The disaster in Blatten is only the most recent of an increasing number of catastrophic landslides caused by melting ice and permafrost. As Europe rapidly warms, rain is falling more often than snow, providing the heat and lubrication that brings glaciers to collapse.

Unstable permafrost, melting glaciers are unleashing more deadly Alpine ice slides

A huge chunk of glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off in mid-May, dumping a deadly mash of ice, mud and rock down the mountain, burying most of a mountain village. The village of Blatten had already been evacuated was 90% buried by rubble. While this particular catastrophe was unprecedented in terms of damage, the frequency of Alpine disasters such as rockslides and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) has been increasing. Permafrost in Alpine locations and also in the Arctic is no longer so “perma,” causing accelerated destabilization of tundra and mountainsides.

ITALY 2022: Marmolada glacier landslide kills 11.The glacier melt has been accelerating, losing mass and volume for years.

Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of their glacier volume from 2000 to 2023.

Glacier Lake Outburst Floods

Similar to Alpine rockslides but even more insidious are Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF). While the Batten, Switzerland catastrophe was unprecedented in terms of damage, the frequency of Alpine disasters such as rockslides and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) has been increasing. Similar to Alpine rockslides but even more insidious are Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF).

WHAT CAUSES GLOF:

As glaciers melt at a frenetic pace new lakes back up behind newly formed ice dams in the Andes, Alps and Himalayas. When these dams break, massive torrents rushe downstream, often in a cataclysmic flood. These floods have become more common as global warming causes rapid melting of glaciers around the world.

Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Juneau Alaska — Flash glacier outburst flood in Juneau as GLOF events increase globally. In a repeat of a 2023 catastrophe, an “outburst flood” from the Mendenhall Glacier sent millions of gallons of rock and water into a neighborhood in Juneau. About 100 homes were evacuated and a state of emergency was declared. According to authorities, shocked residents managed to swim out of their homes in the middle of the night.

Glacial floods in high mountain Asia (The “Roof of the World”) projected to triple by 2100.

For the past decade, the valley has filled with rain and meltwater as the glacier recedes. Then the water burrows a tunnel into the ice dam, which eventually breaks through and pouring into the city below.

Tibet 2016 double glacier landslides kill dozens

A glacier in Tibet’s Aru mountain range suddenly collapsed in 2016, killing nine people and their livestock, followed a few months later by the collapse of another glacier. The avalanche of rock and ice carried 60 cubic meters and covered about seven square miles. It was followed by another major collapse months later.

Juneau’s Mendenhall glacier repeats 2023 slide, an ongoing warning with extensive damage to homes

More than 100 homes in Juneau, Alaska, were damaged by flooding in August 2024 after a glacial lake overflowed, sending surging water to nearby neighborhoods in what has become a recurring problem for people in the state’s capital.

Summer flooding is an annual concern for people who live near the Mendenhall Glacier, which last year unleashed flooding that swept away trees and homes, including two buildings that collapsed into the Mendenhall River, which flows through parts of Juneau.

ITALY 2022: Marmolada glacier landslide kills 11.The glacier melt has been accelerating, losing mass and volume for years.

The world has a third pole – and it's melting quickly | Glaciers | The Guardian

The rapidly melting “third pole” is essential to fresh water for billions.

Glaciers are melting away in all mountain regions on the planet, including the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas.

Beyond the sadness of incomparable beauty lost, glaciers provide fresh water sources for several billion humans, especially downstream from the Himalayas.

This global catastrophe will manifest itself in two stages:

Increase in mountain lake water level, followed by extreme flooding (Glacier Lake Outbreak Flood)
Extreme drought and lack of fresh water on a massive scale, especially Asia.

Chicago dust storm was a toxic event

Posted on May 29, 2025May 30, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

historic dust storm chicago

“These are man-made ecological disasters, driven by a form of agriculture that exploits and depletes the land, leaving millions of acres of soil exposed and eroding for half the year. We can’t keep farming this way.” – Robert Hirschfield, Director of Water Policy at Prairie Rivers Network.

Chicago’s dust storm was complex, and worse than you thought

A massive wall of dust and dirt particles enshrouded the city of Chicago in mid-May, causing ground stops at O’Hare and Midway and bringing the region of 10 million residents to a halt. Driven by 60 MPH winds, the violent storm brought near-zero visibility to highways and wrecked crops and agricultural infrastructure.

While the global warming related implications of this event are obvious, there are other consequences, specifically, the toxic chemicals that comprised the storm-driven particles. As with most climate driven disasters, this one is also a reflection of the unsustainable practices of human industrial agriculture. The “dust” that showered down on the city contains heavy doses of lead and other toxic farm chemicals, including pesticides.

ONGOING CROP DAMAGE / MORE HERBICIDE IN THE SOIL

While the effects in the big city got most of the press, the petite haboob was bad news for downstate soy and corn farmers, as millions of tons of chemical doused topsoil ended up in Lake Michigan. These businesses will now be re-applying fertilizer and weed killer (Roundup) to their damaged fields, compounding the ecological suicide at the heart of industrial agribusiness.

Strictly in terms of weather, this is a highly unusual event for the Midwest…but “highly unusual” is rapidly losing its meaning.

Record floods kill five in Australia

Posted on May 24, 2025May 28, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

Record floods in Australia: Global warming comes to haunt the climate perp nation

About 50,000 people were trapped by record floodwaters, said to be the worst in memory, if not all time. The event has been declared a natural disaster as more torrential rains move toward Sydney and Newcastle.

The NSW State Emergency Service responded to over 535 flood rescues in 24 hours as six months of rain fell in one day. More than 100 schools have been closed and 10,000 of homes and businesses have been damaged.

It is somehow appropriate that Australia – with its commitment to massive coal mining for export – is considered by climate scientists to be the planet’s canary in a coal mine. To repeat: these sorts of lethal and extreme weather events are increasingly more intense and frequent as global warming accelerates.

DROUGHT FLOOD DROUGHT

At the same time, large swathes of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania are severely drought-affected due to some of the lowest rainfall on record.

Drone shot of floods in NSW, Australia

Global Warming Speeds Up As Emissions Spike

Posted on May 20, 2025May 24, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

It’s far worse than you think, and getting worser.

While the great unwashed seem to think that global warming has slowed, the reality is quite the opposite. In spite of the way these statistics are reported, concentrations of CO₂ are increasing in the atmosphere and oceans and a sudden jump in methane is turbocharging climate collapse.

Rate of global sea levels rise continued to increase more than expected in 2024, due to thermal expansion as oceans warmed faster than predicted.

And CO₂ stays there for thousands of years, as every molecule that spews forth remains. The 1.5° C threshold was a joke all along, but that is well behind us now as CO₂ levels cross the 430 PPM mark for the first time. This year is projected to be the second year in a row to exceed that 1.5° C mark. There is no going back.

More frequent hot weather and droughts have dealt a significant blow to crop yields, especially for key grains like wheat, barley, and maize, according to a Stanford study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bolivia, Brazil lead record global forest loss

Brazil and Bolivia led forest destruction in 2024 as drought worsened fires and land was cleared for large-scale agriculture and cattle-farming.

Forest loss in Bolivia and across Latin America is part of a broader worldwide trend. New data released earlier this week by World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch found that global forest loss reached record highs in 2024, with almost twice as much tropical primary forest lost in 2024 as in the year before. That is equal to an area larger than Ireland.

Trump ignores disaster relief in MAGA states

Surprise! Trump ignores climate disasters in MAGA states

Red state officials are pleading with the Trump administration for help in recovering from deadly disasters as President Donald Trump triggers frustration in states struck by tornadoes, floods and storms. Shocking, no one is responding. Perhaps they need to buy a ticket to his bit coin events.

Trump has left states, counties and tribes in limbo in states such as Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama and Arkansas up in the air on 17 disaster aid requests. More than half are a month old The grifter government continues massive cuts to personnel and budget.

More at Scientific American.

Australia faces yet another record flood event

It is somehow appropriate that Australia – with its commitment to more coal production – is considered by climate scientists to be the planet’s canary in a coal mine. About 50,000 people were trapped by record floodwaters, said to be the worst in memory, if not all time. The event has been declared a natural disaster as more torrential rains move toward Sydney and Newcastle.

The NSW State Emergency Service responded to over 535 flood rescues in 24 hours as six months of rain fell in one day.

More coverage here

Runaway deforestation reducing Amazonian rainfall

Numerous studies using satellite data, climate models, and field observations confirm that continued deforestation leads to measurable reductions in rainfall. Some models predict that deforestation beyond 20–25% of the Amazon’s original cover could trigger irreversible ecological changes.

Trees in the Amazon rainforest play a crucial role in the water cycle when they release water vapor, generating clouds and rainfall. When they are killed, precipitation drops. “Flying rivers” carry water vapor long distances; when they are weakened, the climate of vast areas of South America area affected.

Local weather patterns are disrupted, creating hotter, drier microclimates. reduce atmospheric humidity, and create drier, hotter microclimates that further reduce rainfall.

Illegal Loggers rape Gran Chaco forest to clear land for cattle

Invasion of criminal loggers lays waste to Gran Chaco forest

Over 8 million hectares of forest have been cleared in the Gram Chaco region of Argentina. The once pristine forests are being raped by illegal logging interests to make room for cattle ranching and soybean cultivation.

Consequences are global and local, as endangered species are wiped out, indigenous peoples are run out of their homes and irreversible desertification erodes soil and increases water scarcity. economically.

More heartbreak in the Guardian.

Minnesota wildfires worsen

Minnesota wildfire season another harbinger of the coming shitstorm

Governor Waltz declared an emergency in northern Minnesota.

As of mid-May, over 40,000 acres have burned across the state—triple the typical annual total. These blazes have destroyed more than 140 structures, primarily in St. Louis and Lake counties.

Ever warmer temperatures, drought and low humidity are exacerbating the crisis.

Thousands evacuated in Indian GLOF landslides

More than 1,000 people were left stranded in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim after landslides in the high-altitude region cut off access to several areas.

This region was the scene of a devastating GLOF event in 2023 as a glacial lake bursts it’s newly formed moraine dam, with torrential floods crashing 300 miles downstream, killing 55. Glacial Lake Outburst Floods are increasing as glaciers melt across the alpine regions of the planet.

Unpredictable GLOF events are becoming more common as the world warns:

On 28 April 2025, a Glacial Outburst Flood landslide killed two people in occurred at Vallunaraju, Peru.

A study was conducted by an international team of scientists.

Cedar and pine trees getting killed by global warming

As warming driven rising sea levels inundate the coasts of Chesapeake Bay cedar and pine trees are dying at unprecedented rates. Deciduous trees are dying as the salt water encroaches, giving way to marches dominated by reeds.

Higher arsenic content as rice harvests are threatened

Increased temperatures and Co2 emissions raise concentrations of arsenic in rice. Arsenic occurs naturally, but common methods of growing rice in inundated fields subject the crop to concentrated levels of the heavy metal, which causes tumors, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The potential consequences have been estimated in millions of additional cases of cancer by 2050, to which would be added those deriving from the increased risks for all other non-oncological pathologies, such as diabetes, heart attacks, neurocognitive disorders and problems during pregnancy and birth.

JAPAN SHORTAGE

As the most common cereal consumed worldwide, rice is already under pressure from warming factors. Japan is currently facing a rice shortage caused by record heat in 2023. As prices soar, the government has release its emergency rice stockpile for the first time in history.

Coffee now on the list of climate threatened luxury items.

But don’t worry, the wealthy will be able to afford it longer than you can.

Climate changed driven disruptive weather has affected supplies of coffee beans, which is driving up the price of your favorite not-remotely-necessary luxury cup. The benchmark that sets the global price of arabica coffee has more than doubled over the past year, with 25% of that surge coming since the start of 2025. For the first time, one pound of arabica costs more than $4 on commodity markets.

Unpredictable weather patterns have messed with agricultural production around the world. Chocolate prices are also up sharply in 2025 with higher temperatures and rainfall levels spoiling cacao yields in West Africa

Rapid Sea level rise

“We used to swim to the island, now we walk.”

Alexandria is one of the world’s sinking cities, along with Venice, Miami, Lagos, Jakarta and others. An IPCC report predicts that with global sea levels rising at the current rate, and without adequate preventive measures, thousands of kilometers of the Nile delta could be fully submerged by 2100.

Like the rest of Egypt’s Mediterranean coast around the delta, El Max also faces several other environmental risks, including land subsidence, soil erosion, earthquakes and water pollution from nearby petrochemical plants, which all add to the increasing vulnerability of the area.

SE smashed by storm and fires

NOAA targeted as lethal storms and fires smash records

At least 42 people are dead after powerful storms swept through the Midwest and the South over the weekend and drenched parts of the Northeast.

Multiple states woke up Monday morning to damage from dust storms, wildfires, rain and tornadoes following nearly 1,500 storm reports across the country from Friday to Sunday.

Two children died in Transylvania County, North Carolina, after a tree fell through the center of their family’s trailer early Sunday. Firefighters found the boys — ages 11 and 13 — “trapped directly under the tree and other debris,”

Rapid Warming Drives Massive Flood Increase In Himalayas/Asia as glaciers melt

Rising temps have triggered a 25 year increase in flood risk and unpredictability in High Mountain Asia. The study confirms that planetary heating from the burning of oil, coal, and gas is driving the rise in all four of the main types of floods seen in the region.

Rapid Sea level rise

Sea level rise is increasing 50% faster than 30 years ago.

Since 1880, global sea levels have risen approximately 8–9 inches (21–24 cm), with rates accelerating in recent decades. Between 1993 and 2002, the ocean rose by 24 mm. Over the past decade, that number increased to 36 mm. While 3.6 mm per year seems small, it has already intensified coastal flooding and storm surges. By 2100, over 410 million people could be at risk. climate.gov

Drought flood drought as wildfires cross Carolinas

Weather whiplash continues to take it’s tool in the Carolinas. Evacuations continues amidst an emergency evacuation from wildfires in North and South Carolina.

GovernorEver

Los Angeles Firestorm Catastrophe: Get Used To It

Posted on January 10, 2025February 7, 2025 by rapidclimatechange_tfkjps

Record Hot January 2025 Is Counter to Predictions

Because of El Nino pattern, 2025 was expected to be a little cooler than the record breaking year 2024.

That’s not what happened. Hope there’s nothing wrong with the weather.

These Santa Ana Winds Are Different

CLIMATE WHIPLASH HAS CREATED A PERFECT FIRESTORM

The fire-whipping winds that seem intent on destroying Los Angeles are not new, just as the hurricanes and droughts are not new. However, the monster gales driving the historic conflagrations of 2005 are pumped up by global warming to a degree that makes any attempts at containing them futile. The winds coming from the high deserts to the east reach hurricane force, driven by the record temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.

California, much of the American West, and increasing expanses of the globe are caught in a deadly weather pattern that alternates extreme rainfall with severe drought. The current firestorm was preceded by two years of unprecedented rainfall, followed by a heatwave and drought. That is the recipe for the disaster now unfolding.

Today's Santa Ana winds are growing ever more powerful as global warming supercharges them to hurricane force. — *Today’s Santa Ana winds are growing ever more powerful as global warming supercharges them to hurricane force.*

“Hurricane of fire” apocalypse carries a warning of very bad year to come

The unprecedented fires in Los Angeles could not have been stopped by any human effort, but the bogus, evil onslaught of political opportunism is a harbinger of what to expect as global warming triggers more and more disasters

The death toll is ten and expected to rise.
There are five wildfires burning in the Los Angeles area. Palisades is the largest with nearly 20,000 acres burning and more than 5,000 structures destroyed. Eaton is at nearly 14,000 acres and still 0% contained. The newest fire, Kenneth, burning nearly 1,000 acres in LA and Ventura counties, is 35% contained.
Downed power lines, open gas lines and compromised structures will remain a threat. .
Winds at the Palisades fire are expected to gust up to 40-60 mph Friday night. Forecasters expect a short break in winds on Saturday before they pick up again on Sunday and into next week.
Water supplies ran out as human efforts were shown once again to be overmatched by the anger of the planet.

2024 WAS THE HOTTEST YEAR ON PLANET EARTH BY A STUNNING MARGIN

Blowing past the imaginary 1.5C threshold for the first time.

Historic storm smashes Ireland

Storm Éowyn a historic storm you missed

Ireland was caught unprepared for a monster storm that hit the island nation with 100 MPH winds, smashing infrastructure, bringing floods and, ironically, wrecking renewable energy installations. Hundreds of thousands were without power for days.

Mass Murre die-off in Alaska

Mass Alaskan sea bird death by heat wave

A marine heat wave that occurred between 2014 and 2016 killed about 75% of the population of the common murre, a coastal seabird. This is the largest single species wildlife die-off in modern history.

According to the latest research, the numbers have yet to rebound. The study documented the devastating effect that marine heat waves have had on the population of these birds along the coast of Alaska.

The anomaly, known as “the blob,” persisted for two years, disrupting marine food webs. The impact became visible as more than 62,000 emaciated common murre carcasses washed ashore from California to Alaska – most washing up within the Gulf of Alaska.

Greenland's lakes have turned from blue to brown as global warming alters the ecosystem

Greenland lakes turning brown as environment warms

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes nasty brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide.

Record heat and rain in 2022 pushed the lakes of West Greenland past a tipping point, according to a new study at the University of Maine. Heat waves turned snow into rain and thawed the island’s permafrost — frozen ground that stores carbon, iron and other elements. The rains then washed these elements into lakes, turning them brown.

Less sunlight was able to penetrate the lakes as they darkened, which had a ripple effect on the microscopic plankton living in the water. The number of plankton absorbing CO₂ through photosynthesis declined, while the amount of plankton breaking down and releasing carbon increased.

The lakes normally absorb CO₂ in the summer, but by the following year they had flipped to become carbon dioxide producers. These types of widespread changes would normally take centuries. Researchers have observed the browning of lakes across the Northern Hemisphere, including the U.S., but it typically takes multiple decades — much longer than the transformation of Greenland’s lakes.

“The magnitude of this and the rate of change were unprecedented,” study lead author Jasmine Saros, a professor of paleolimnology and lake ecology at the University of Maine, said in the statement.

Climate Whiplash Devastation in Las Angeles

Global warming driven wildfires fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds continue roaring through Southern California since Tuesday, January 8, 2025, killing at least 10 people, displacing over 200 000 residents, and destroying more than 10 000 homes and buildings in just three days. In addition, more than 360 000 customers, or just over 1 million people in California were left without power.

Aside from the evil nonsense being spewed by the oligarch owned Republicans, there is nothing that could have stopped this apocalypse.

Earth breached the 1.5C safety zone for the first time in 2024

Planet breached 1.5C threshold in 2024

As the death toll climbed from wildfires raging in California, scientists confirmed on Friday that the world has just experienced the first year in which temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times.

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.

“The trajectory is just incredible,” C3S director Carlo Buontempo told Reuters, describing how every month in 2024 was the warmest or second-warmest for that month since records began.

Australia climate insurance crisis

Australia also faces massive climate insurance crisis

Australia has long been considered the canary in the coal mine of global warming collapse. New data indicated the continent is only a few years away from a California-style natural catastrophe insurance disaster, with 5.6 million homes nationwide believed to have some risk of bushfire.

Climate Council research has revealed at least ten electorates most likely to have homes declared uninsurable by 2030, due to the heightened risk of flood or fire wiping residences out.