Meanwhile, on another planet, it would be remiss of the pond not to celebrate this story, as written up by WaPo ... (paywall)
Talk about being time for a party in the sun in the northern hemisphere ...
There was a graph, of course. Where would uncharted territory be without a graph charting the territory?
The pond is waited with baited (snail killer preferred) breath for the reptiles to forget American politics and bring back the Riddster to deal with the situation ...
The Bolter has really become the grandpa of denialists, he's been at it for so long...
Time for the Riddster to get back into gear at the lizard Oz, and replace news of America with news that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, because the best the reptiles on Sky News have is that prize loon Dean, making a prediction about the future, though as noted this morning, an American visionary had warned that it's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future ...
2021 was it, when he was doing his Yogi Berra imitation? And yet here we are in 2024 ...
...Though Sunday was only slightly warmer than the world’s previous hottest day, Copernicus researchers noted, it was extraordinarily hotter than anything that came before. Before July 2023, Earth’s daily average temperature record — set in August 2016 — was 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit). But in the past year, the global has exceeded that old record on 57 days.
“What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records,” Buontempo said.
Shigezo Shinohara, 97, who lives with his 65 year-old son Takeshi, talks with his family members as he receives a checkup from nurse Hiroko Kondo inside his air-conditioned home. Japan's government issued heat stroke alerts in the country's prefectures on Tuesday. (Tom Bateman/Reuters)
Scientists have been tracking global temperatures only for the past few centuries. Yet there is good reason to believe that Sunday was the hottest day on Earth since the start of the last Ice Age more than 100,000 years ago. Research from paleoclimate scientists — who use tree rings, ice cores, lake sediments and other ancient material to understand past environments — suggests that recent heat would have been all but impossible over the last stretch of geologic time.
Sunday’s record-setting heat was felt on nearly every continent. Huge swaths of Asia sweltered amid scorching days and dangerously hot nights. Triple-digit temperatures in the western United States fueled out-of-control wildfires. Around much of Antarctica, Copernicus data show, temperatures were as much as 12 degrees Celsius (22 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal.
According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, 550 places around the planet saw record high daily temperatures in the last 7 days alone.
People crowd a public beach during a hot day amid a heat wave, in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt, on Saturday. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)
The unrelenting heat has scientists increasingly convinced that this year could prove even hotter than last. In an analysis published last week, researchers at the climate science nonprofit Berkeley Earth estimated that 2024 has a 92 percent chance of setting a new annual heat record. The average temperature for the year is almost certain to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels — surpassing what scientists say is the threshold for tolerable warming.
“It is troubling but not surprising that we are hitting record temperatures this year,” Andrew Pershing, vice president for science at the nonprofit Climate Central, wrote in an email. “We continue to add carbon pollution to the atmosphere, so global temperatures will continue to go up.”
The Riddster ? No, we really need the full Copenhagen Consensus with those hundreds of Nobel winning economists to show us the numbers of how nothing much is really happening at all. Anywhere. At any time.
ReplyDelete0.3% of gdp to repair environment.
ReplyDelete$7.3bn
25% of spend on dog & cat shit.
$30bn. (And beef and lamb.)
And Jamie Pitock et al are MIA - missing in action - in newscorpse rags. Wonder why? I did DDGo and elgoog searches. Nothing. Except an advert for Sky news at elgoog. Ah, the smell of a null set algirithm in the morning.
"Using the best available science and expert advice, we identified 24 actions worth A$7.3 billion each year over 30 years, which could repair much of the past two centuries of degradation.
"For context, the investment amounts to about 0.3% of Australia’s gross domestic product. It’s also far less than the estimated $33 billion a year Australians spend on their pets.
"This report is the most comprehensive of its kind undertaken in this country. It is a tangible, practical pathway which challenges the notion that repairing our continent is a task too big and expensive to tackle."
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https://theconversation.com/yes-australias-environment-is-on-a-depressing-path-but-7-billion-a-year-would-transform-it-235305
Dean Bjorn Again Riddster will of course see above as a worthy spend and endorse The Wentworth Group report.
The free riding money grabbing leeches, in gina's australia - she owns alot of it - will boondoggle the funds and revel in the greenwash! And then be "reported" as bastions of the Private cattle farting Environment by said Dean Bjorn Again Riddster.
Nothing new under the sun king rock.