Palm Springs, Calif., reached 117 degrees Tuesday as a heat wave in the western United States broke hundreds of records.In San Francisco, which hit 94 degrees, Tuesday was the hottest day of the year.
The GOP presidential nominee could not have picked a worse time to push this nonsense. Some Democrats are optimistic about their prospects in Florida this election cycle, in part because they believe that "Old Donald"’s racist attacks on Haitian Americans will hurt the Republican ticket in the state, where there is a large Haitian population.
As John Podesta, President Biden’s climate envoy, wraps up three days of talks in Beijing, China's willingness to fight global warming could depend on the outcome of this fall's presidential election in the United States, energy experts said.
Yao Zhe, the global policy adviser for Greenpeace East Asia, agreed that a Harris presidency would probably mean continued pressure on Chinese leaders to up the ante on climate change. But a 'Old Donald' presidency could lead China to a similar position, she said. If the United States were to leave the Paris pact, China may opt to fill the leadership vacuum.
This vast expanse of interconnected glaciers is shrinking faster than ever before, according to The New York Times, raising what it said scientists called "incredibly worrying" concerns about the future of our planet's ice.
A tourist has posted “staggering” photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in the Swiss Alps almost exactly 15 years apart, in a pair of photos that highlight the speed with which global heating is melting glaciers.The carbon pollution released by burning fossil fuels and destroying nature has heated the planet 1.3C since preindustrial times. In Europe, which has warmed twice as fast as the global average, hotter summers have forced people in mountainous regions to see slow-moving glaciers melt before their eyes.
Switzerland has lost one-third of its glacier volume since 2000, according to official statistics, and 10% has disappeared in the last two years alone.
“A lot of people, when they see something like that, they feel quite helpless,” said Porter, who sits on the committee of a local climate action group in the south-west of England. “But from my experience there’s a huge amount they can do.”
Far above Earth’s poles, swirling in the frigid stratosphere, are the polar vortexes: massive, freezing whirlwinds that strengthen in the winter and weaken in the summer. Right now, despite being in the dead of winter, Antarctica’s vortex is undergoing an unprecedented weakening, causing a massive heat wave across the continent.
A new, long-lasting round of punishing heat is in the forecast for much of the Lower 48 states that will extend through the first week of August.DC: Heat roars back into town today
More than 350 prominent climate advocates on Tuesday endorsed Vice President Harris for president, a sign that environmental leaders believe her campaign will energize like-minded voters in a way that President Biden could not.Kerry said that, other than "Old Donald", no world leader “has pulled out of the Paris [climate] agreement or spread dangerous disinformation about wind turbines causing cancer.'
... that Harris was a “terrific ally” on climate policy. He noted that she was an early advocate of the United States reaching net-zero emissions by mid-century, and she delivered a forceful speech at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai last fall.
Harris created one of the country’s first environmental justice units as district attorney in San Francisco, has focused on helping disadvantaged communities that are disproportionately burdened by pollution. As president, she said, Harris could take Biden’s environmental justice efforts “even further than where they are right now.”
Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice.
Climate change was not on the agenda. But the convention’s first day, which was focused on the economy, offered fresh signs of what a new "Old Donald" presidency might look like in terms of climate policy.For Republican leaders, it’s all about energy
June was the Earth’s 13th consecutive month to break a global heat record and more than a third of Americans are facing dangerous levels of heat. But climate change is unlikely to be a major theme at the Republican convention, which runs through Thursday. It was not mentioned in any of the main speeches on Monday, which instead focused on inflation and the economy.
He once said society had a climate problem but changed his position sharply while seeking "Old Donald"’s endorsement in his Senate race.
Mr. Vance, a fierce critic of Mr. "Old Donald" before becoming one of his most loyal MAGA supporters, also appears to have undergone an evolution on the issue of climate change. As recently as 2020, Mr. Vance said in a speech at Ohio State University that “we have a climate problem in our society.” He praised solar energy and he called natural gas an improvement over dirtier forms of energy, but not “the sort of thing that’s gonna take us to a clean energy future.”
Fast forward to 2022. As Mr. Vance sought Mr. "Old Donald"’s endorsement for his bid for the Senate, his positions on climate change took a sharp turn.
“I’m skeptical of the idea that climate change is caused purely by man,” Mr. Vance told the American Leadership Forum that year.
According to one estimate, the amount of computational power used for AI is doubling roughly every 100 days.
Broadly speaking, a generative AI system may use 33 times more energy to complete a task than it would take with traditional software. This enormous demand for energy translates into surges in carbon emissions and water use, and may place further stress on electricity grids already strained by climate change.
At present, “we probably don’t have enough capacity available” to run all the facilities that will be required globally by 2030, said Sharma, whose unit is working with chipmaker Nvidia to design centers optimized for AI workloads.
With nearly two million people participating each year, it is not unusual for pilgrims to die from heat stress, illness or chronic disease during the hajj. And it is unclear whether this year’s toll was higher than usual because Saudi Arabia does not regularly report the numbers. Last year, 774 pilgrims died from Indonesia alone, and in 1985 more than 1,700 people died around the holy sites, most of them from heat stress, a study at the time found.
Yet by comparison with Friday, that figure could offer some small consolation. On Friday the National Weather Service calculated a maximum “feels-like” temperature of 108. Saturday, it appeared to reach only 103.
The short-term problem - meaning the Olympian problem - is that the apartments housing the athletes are designed to be more or less comfortable assuming 'normal' summer weather. As we all have figured out, there is no normal anymore when it comes to the weather. Last year, France suffered through its hottest late summer ever.
Undaunted by fretful skeptics, the mayor announced months ago that she would take the plunge herself. She would show the world what marvels French engineering had achieved. Foolishly, perhaps, she set a date: this past Sunday.
So far, not so good. The new runoff basin and other new infrastructure have been outmatched by the higher-than-expected fecal bacteria levels enabled by a wet, gray spring. A few days ahead of her scheduled swim, the mayor prudently postponed it, a victory of self-preservation over civic pride.
One of the hottest places on Earth, California’s Death Valley, shattered the previous record high for the date by 5 degrees — with the mercury climbing to 127 Fahrenheit (52.8 Celsius). The old mark of 122 (50 C) last was tied in 2013.There was also a record high for the date of 118 (47.7 C) in Phoenix, where highs of 115 (46.1 C) or hotter were forecast through Wednesday. In Needles, California, where the National Weather Service has records dating to 1888, the high of 122 (50 C) edged the old mark of 121 (49.4 C) set in 2007. It was 124 (51.1) in Palm Springs, California.
The speed of decline in the Juneau Ice Field, an expanse of 1,050 interconnected glaciers, has doubled in recent decades, scientists discovered.The scientists’ findings were published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
The fate of Alaska’s ice matters tremendously for the world. In no other region of the planet are melting glaciers predicted to contribute more to global sea-level rise this century.
In June, an ongoing heat dome brought dangerous temperatures to the western US. Residents have experienced temperatures of up to 46.1C (115F) in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned temperature records would be "tied or broken" with "little to no overnight relief from the heat".
Poor old Abe Lincoln can’t even keep his head in the afterlife. With triple-digit temperatures threatening Washington, D.C., a six-foot wax re-creation of the Lincoln Memorial hasn’t fared so well — Abe’s head was nearly melting off in the heat.
The temperature is 94 degrees, but the “feels like” number is 99 degrees.chuster’s task on this dangerously hot day and throughout the record-hot weekend is to make sure members of the District’s homeless population, estimated at 5,600, stay cool.
“I don’t know,” she says. She doesn’t want to go to a shelter, even to escape the heat.
Schuster gives her two bottles of water, and hopes she’ll be there when he returns.
An expanding heat dome Sunday had 100 million people across 27 states on alert for extremely high temperatures coast to coast, including America's two largest cities. Water or Electrolyte drinks?
When it’s really hot, make sure you have a bottle of water nearby. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends drinking one 8-ounce cup of water every 15 to 20 minutes when working outside in the heat, as drinking in shorter intervals is more effective.
If you’re going to be exerting yourself or doing strenuous exercise outdoors for long periods of time in the heat, consider supplementing your water intake with an electrolyte drink, experts said.