India suffers hottest decade on record
National weather office calls impact of global warming 'unmistakable' with more than 1,500 people killed last year.
The last decade was India's hottest on record with the national weather office calling the impact of global warming "unmistakable" and extreme weather killing more than 1,500 people last year.
India, home to 1.3 billion people, is at the forefront of climate change suffering devastating floods, dire water shortages and baking temperatures. The southern city of Chennai last year declared "day zero" as taps ran dry.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/india-suffers-hottest-decade-record-200107070017013.html
1.9 billion people at risk from mountain water shortages, study shows
Rising demand and climate crisis threaten entire mountain ecosystem, say scientists
A quarter of the world’s population are at risk of water supply problems as mountain glaciers, snow-packs and alpine lakes are run down by global heating and rising demand, according to an international study.
The first inventory of high-altitude sources finds the Indus is the most important and vulnerable “water tower” due to run-off from the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Ladakh, and Himalayan mountain ranges, which flow downstream to a densely populated and intensively irrigated basin in Pakistan, India, China and Afghanistan.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...sing-demand-global-heating-mountain-ecosystem
Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates
The heat in the world’s oceans reached a new record level in 2019, showing “irrefutable and accelerating” heating of the planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...it-record-high-as-rate-of-heating-accelerates
Australia fires: Smoke to make 'full circuit' around globe, Nasa says
Smoke from the massive bushfires in Australia will soon circle the Earth back to the nation, says Nasa.
Massive infernos have raged along the nation's east coast for months, pushing smoke across the Pacific.
Nasa said plumes from blazes around New Year's Day had crossed South America, turning skies there hazy, and moved "halfway around Earth" by 8 January.
"The smoke is expected to make at least one full circuit around the globe," the US space agency said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51101049
Storm Ciara: Disruption continues with snow and ice set to hit
So far, the storm has resulted in a month and a half's worth of rainfall falling within 24 hours for some parts of the UK, resulting in flooding and power cuts for more than half a million households.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51439152
It is 65° F. in Antarctica and if the Thwaites Glacier Plops in, Expect 4 ft. of Sea Level Rise
And it isn’t just the low-lying coastal areas that will be flooded. An average sea level rise of 3 feet won’t be distributed evenly in the ocean. Some parts will be higher. And the higher the sea level, the higher the storm surges will be. Hurricane Sandy hit lower Manhattan because it only had a 3 to 8 foot high storm wall, and the surge was 9 to 14 ft. high. After Thwaites and its cousins fall in and melt, a similar storm surge could be as much as 18 feet high, which is not what New York City is planning for.
The Trump administration is actively encouraging the burning of more and more fossil fuels and has removed restrictions on CO2 production enacted by the Obama administration.
https://www.juancole.com/2020/02/antarctica-thwaites-glacier.html
Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record
Scientists describe 20.75C logged at Seymour Island as ‘incredible and abnormal’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...temperature-rises-above-20c-first-time-record
UK- Highest number of flood warnings on record in place across the country as authorities warn of risk to life
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...s-red-warning-south-wales-floods-live-updates
UK must prepare for more intense storms, climate scientists say
Government urged to create more natural drainage systems to cope with impact of crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...or-more-intense-storms-climate-scientists-say
Boris Johnson will not visit areas of UK hit by flooding, says No 10
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ences-working-well-environment-secretary-says
Storm Dennis: Flood hits drinking water supply in Monmouth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51540009
Gigantic hurricanes, unprecedented floods, locust plagues, wildfires, droughts, high temperatures and STILL the maggots bleat ' Hoax, hoax '
It's because they are profiting from environmental destruction. Wakey, wakey. Start arresting them.
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In Germany there have been rumors that the alleged Antarctic Seymour Island “all-time Antarctic record high” of 20.75°C set on February 9th is a hoax – originating by the AFP news agency and then spread by The Guardian.
The alleged 20.75°C was supposedly logged by Brazilian scientists and was supposedly almost a full degree higher than the previous record of 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982, The Guardian blared with much alarm, citing its own rush job chart.
Currently the WMO is seeking to obtain the actual temperature data for Seymour Island, part of a chain of islands off the Antarctic peninsula.
WMO cites media as source!
The WMO website itself is citing the media as its source, writing: “Media reports say that researchers logged a temperature of 20.75°C. Mr Cerveny cautioned that it is premature to say that Antarctica has exceeded 20°C for the first time.”
Thermometer data show only 16°C!
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UK weather: warning of further rain for areas already hit by flooding
More than 100 flood alerts in England as Jeremy Corbyn criticises government response
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...rning-further-rain-areas-already-hit-flooding
UK weather: Parts of UK could see a month's rain in 24 hours amid floods
And eight rivers have reached record levels in recent days, the Environment Agency (EA) added.
Nearly 120 flood warnings remain in place across the country.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51567635
UK weather: heavy rain brings further flooding with more forecast
The damage wreaked by Storm Dennis last weekend and Storm Ciara the week before is projected to run into the billions to repair.
The agency said river levels had exceeded existing records with the Colne, Ribble, Calder, Aire, Trent, Severn, Wye, Lugg and Derwent among the many rivers where records have been broken.
Caroline Douglass, the director of incident management at the Environment Agency, said: “This will be the third weekend of exceptional river levels and stormy weather. With the effects of climate change, we need to prepare for more frequent periods of extreme weather like this.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/22/heavy-showers-bring-fresh-flooding-parts-uk