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.
“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
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The death toll is ten and expected to rise.
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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.
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Downed power lines, open gas lines and compromised structures will remain a threat. .
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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.
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 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 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.
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.
“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 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.