World's hottest day since records began

lol, this f**king site

This is a bit of a strange response.

How does the Enviromental impact of the war in Ukraine not really matter to Irelands environment?

It’s not like we are in a sealed chamber unaffected by what goes on outside! Of course it matters!

Log off. Go outside and get some fresh air. Christ

Just because it is white in colour, it is not milk

Now now don’t be getting sour. 😂

What you regard as ignorance is what the rest of us call 'realism'

Like most climate sceptics you fail to mention or indeed realise the most important thing: SPEED.

Yes; the Earth has gone through all sorts of changes before. But they've happened over tens of MILLIONS of years. Sometimes BILLIONS.

Not three decades.

The speed that the Earth is warming is not giving humans - and more importantly animals - time to evolve and adapt.

That may not be true at all.

The climate can and has changed rapidly over very short time scales measured in decades:

One researcher has suggested the onset of the last glaciation period took only months.

That's a short term, regional catastophic event.

We're talking about long term global climate change

Climate change can trigger such catastophic events btw. And this is one of the biggest fears I have. The more we allow the atmosphere to become polluted with man made emissions, the more likely we are to see these abrupt events occuring. Mass die offs of corals, the sudden collapse of the Amazon rainforest, the collapse of the thwaites glacier, the shut down of the AMOC, mass release of methane from the Arctic Ocean and permafrost......

These are all more likely to happen the more we delay action on climate change. It's an emergency that requires immediate global action.

If we can't get everyone to act, we need to get a critical mass of countries to unite to at least give us a fighting chance

So your saying we can’t really meaningfully prepare for what’s coming and we don’t really know what’s coming but we should all feel really guilty about consuming meat and partaking in any activity that might be generating CO2 such as driving to work to contribute to the economic betterment of the countries economy………is that correct?

Yeah I'm not even vegan but once you go oat in coffee there's no going back

Im not vegan or even veggie but it is lovely

I am talking about long term global climate change. In fact I have a fascination with really long term climate change on a geological time scale. The months and decades being referred to were not measures of the extent of climate events, they were referencing the time scale on which the climate altered dramatically.

Glaciation events have characteristics that are the complete opposite of what you suggest: They are not regionally localised, and they are not short term. We are currently in an inter-glacial period within an ice age that is probably on-going. The only thing short-term during this ice age is the incredibly brief length of interglacial periods, such as the one we are in and possibly most of the way through.

We are at 0 on the time line. The last glaciation period was not regionalised nor was it short lived. Suggestions that current CO2 levels and temperatures are abnormal for interglacials and the incredible catastrophism that is based on these assertions, seem somewhat questionable. In terms of the big picture, the claims seem exceptional..

Climate change is a thing, and there is nothing new about it and it can change a lot, very rapidly. Claims about hottest day on record and oceans boiling are nonsense.

😂 I bet your great craic at parties!

Economic expansion is always going to trump enviromental health and that’s just the way it is- until economic expansion is impeded by enviromental health.

Spain was under a severe drought but I think they had a bit of a reprieve around May.

This is from early/mid April.

MADRID (AP) — Drought now affects 60% of the Spanish countryside, with crops like wheat and barley likely to fail entirely in four regions, the main Spanish farmers’ association said on Thursday.

Spain’s long-term drought is causing “irreversible losses” to more than 3.5 million hectares of crops, the Coordinator of Farmers’ and Ranchers’ Organizations (COAG in its Spanish acronym) said in a new report.

Some cereals need to be “written off” in the prime growing regions of Andalusia, Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura and Murcia, and are likely to be lost in the driest areas of three other regions, according to the report. In the wine-growing region of La Rioja, farmers were in the exceptional situation of “having to irrigate cereals ... when normally they are never watered,” the association said.

The lack of available water was further impacting the ability of farmers to irrigate corn, sunflowers, rice and cotton, likely leading to reduced sowing of these crops over the summer, it added.

Three years of very low rainfall and high temperatures have put Spain officially into long-term drought, the country’s weather agency said last month. Last year was Spain’s sixth driest — and the hottest since records began in 1961.

Spain’s agriculture ministry has called a meeting with farming representatives on Wednesday to discuss the crisis. COAG will plead for immediate financial relief, it said.

“This has been the most expensive planting season on record, and with harvests ruined or reduced by 60-80%, there will be many farms that will have a very tough time surviving if they don’t receive an injection of capital,” said Javier Fatas, head of water and the environment for the association.

In addition to crop failures, ranchers will struggle to feed cattle due to dried-up pasture, the farmers’ association further warned. This will also be the third consecutive season without honey for beekeepers, as bees lack vegetation and flowers to feed from in the mountains due to a shortage of water.

Anyway it goes on and on. The farmers coordinator says droughts are nothing new in Spain but the problem is that in recent years we have also suffered from a lack of precipitation against the backdrop of a noticeable increase in temperatures.

Milankovich's prediction of ice age cycles does not match with actual geological records. He predicted a periodicity of 41,000 years, but the measured period is more like 100,000 years. It's called the 100,000 year problem.

Your speaking with assurance about the actual timing of the start of the next glaciation period, as if it were fact, is not based on any established or accepted theory. The timing of glaciation events can not currently be predicted and is purely speculative.

A few years ago there was panic over the measured slowing of the Atlantic Meridian Overturning Current (AMOC):

"Concern grows over Atlantic Ocean ‘conveyor belt’ shutdown...But the effects of anthropogenic climate change have diminished the flow of this vast conveyor belt system, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and recent scientific research suggests it may even be headed for collapse." and then in the blink of an eye, there's a new study claiming it may not be that simple.

By the way, that atribution of a slowing of the AMOC being due to anthopogenic warming is as much of a nonsense as claiming glaciation event timing is understood... because it's probably not slowing!

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021GL093893

And even the prevailing theory that melting ice slows or stops the AMOC, has been challenged:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-ice-caps-ocean-current.html

So given the AMOC was thought linked to glaciation events, perhaps being causative, and that's it's clear the AMOC is not as well understood as thought, it's clear that there is not any great understanding of the mechanisms that presage glaciatiation.