World's hottest day since records began

This link gives some context, Antarctic sea ice has been more variable in recent years and is in a declining phase in 2023.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_sea_ice

I've read that the warming is enough to mitigate even the north atlantic drift shutting down by now. That will buy us a few years/decades of moderate temperate increases here and in Scandinavia or even stabilised temps as the rest of the world burns, eventually though it will start getting crazy warm even here. Its going to take a massive volcanic event to stop this now.

So your saying we should prepare for an ice age in Ireland as opposed to being burnt up?

Thats climate change.

Well if the AMOC shuts down, it is believed that may be a trigger for a galciation event. Strictly speaking, we have been in an Ice Age for about as long as humans have been around - 3 million years. During this time, large parts of the northern hemisphere are under a large ice sheet a couple of km thick and sea levels fall a lot. These are called glacial periods. Occasionally during this ice age, it warms up a bit and you get conditions such as we have been experiencing for the last 12,000 years or so. These are called interglacials. So when the Ice returns, it's just yet another glacial period within the Ice Age.

Well that depends on whether you are a faithful follower of the church of climate change and fully subscribe to the dogma or not and so believe climate change caused it. It would be a catastrophe for mankind, but that has probably always been the case.

The clique of climate 'scientists' who did the the original chicken little and said CO2 levels are rising (Mann et al), we are all going to die and it's man's fault, pulled off an amazing trick, they managed to kill off the terms that were originally used - Global Warming or Anthropogenic Global Warming - and get everyone to call it Climate Change instead.

I think that is because they knew perfectly well that atmospheric CO2 and global average temperatures both rise dramaticially and very rapidly just before the onset of glaciation events. The other thing that is believed to happen is the AMOC shutting down. There is a fourth thing, involving Antarctic icebergs drifting way further north than normal, up around the lattitude of New Zealand, but that's most likely a consequence of the warming you get rather than a cause.

By calling it Climate Change, they could then claim that if things start cooling, instead of warming, that they were right all along. They can't lose, no matter what the climate does, it can always be mans fault and they were right. Very clever insurance.

Past interglacial periods have been shorter than this one, longer and of roughly the same span, so if the next interglacial period were to happen now or soon, it would be perfectly normal timing wise.

If the next glaciation event were to kick off in my lifetime, I wouldn't believe for a second that it was caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

Looks like the extreme heat in parts of the Med region has backed off a bit with more seasonable temperatures on Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday saw some readings between 45 and 50 and a suspect higher max at Desfina, Greece near 60 C on Tuesday 25th (somebody might want to research whether that was fire-related).

The severe heat is spreading in from the Sahara because of the depressed state of the jet stream over the Atlantic, forcing the normal superheated Saharan air masses to move northeast into the central and eastern Med. Coastal Tunisia had readings near 48 C on Tuesday, and this spread into parts of Sicily and southern Italy, Greece and western Turkey.

Wednesday was quite a bit cooler in Sicily, readings between 30 and 35 C.

It's a similar story in North America with severe heat confined to the southern half of the U.S., temperatures have been close to normal in the northern states and most of Canada.

the GOP it seems, will not rest until the planet is no longer inhabitable

Sigh

You're doing the equivalent of walking into a burning building and pointing at some of the furniture that hasn't burst into flames yet to say 'nothing to see here'

This entire discussion is of course meaningless unless we could somehow accurately state what the temperatures would have been in Sicily or anywhere else, in the absence of a fossil-fuel advanced economy on the planet. If the answer to that is 48.0 instead of 49.0, then is that really something we could "fix" since 48.0 is more or less the same problem for the residents of Sicily as 49.0?

I looked at climate stats for Catania, the all-time record was 46.0 and the max on Tuesday was 45.6, on Monday 45.4. Today has moderated further after 34.1 on Wednesday, to 31.4 C.

I don't dispute that it was scorching hot there, just the assumption that my driving a gas-powered car is actually related to this fact in any more than a minor, incidental way. And I don't think anyone here can disprove my skeptical assessment, no matter how forcefully you state your opinion.

An opinion is not a fact.

But what will the collapse of the AMOC do to Irelands weather?

Like are we in for a few decades of cold weather or what- seen as we are further north than Calgary Canada which experiences average temps of -11 C in winter.

Agreed. Don't add more humans, that's just cruel.

What exactly has started to happen broadly along what theory exactly?

Point to one thing that has happened that hasn't happened before? Spain hot in summer? Ireland wet in summer?

Christ break the emergency glass, things have turned upside down worldwide.

So how do we plan if we don’t know what’s gonna happen?