#GlobalWarming EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MEXICO 🇲🇽 🔥
19 STATES >45c !
Incredible 48.0C at Valle Nacional, hottest day ever recorded in Oaxaca State
Also stunning 48.0C in Veracruz State
There has never been anything remotely close to this.
Map by SMN
Catastrophes that affect the poor, esp. to POC, only make an appearance on MSM for a few hours. And journalists usually don’t cite #climatechange as the culprit. As the Papua New Guinea villagers mourn the loss of their fellow farmers & loved ones, they look to their govt & NGOs to help, bc they’ve lost everything💔. FF companies bear much of the responsibility. They must be held to account, & progress must be made to mitigate… https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/26/papua-new-guinea-landslide-death-toll-exceeds-670-says-un-agency
At the poles, more heat radiates out into space than is absorbed from the sun.
Rocket Lab launches NASA cubesat to study heat lost from Earth's poles
"The PREFIRE duo "will criss-cross over the #Arctic and #Antarctica measuring thermal infrared radiation — the same type of energy emitted from a heat lamp — that will make #climate models more accurate and help predict changes caused by #GlobalWarming," Rocket Lab wrote in a mission description."
"Venezuela is the first country in modern history to lose all of its glaciers after climate scientists declared its remaining glacier little more than an ice field."
Huge jellyfish invasion could disrupt Arctic ecosystems as waters warm.
New Scientist reports: "The Arctic could see a surge of jellyfish as climate change leads to warmer waters and less ice – a process known as 'jellification.'"
Climate change will create more turbulence events due to warmer atmosphere
A 73-year-old British man died and more than 70 people were injured Tuesday in what passengers described as a terrifying scene aboard a Singapore Airlines flight, a Boeing jet, that hit severe turbulence, triggering an emergency landing in Bangkok. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#GlobalWarming#climatecrisis#climatechange
I'm not sure whether to celebrate the Portland gas tax renewal passing when it is still only a $0.10/gal, and basically means PBOT will keep doing what they've been doing, which is totally failing to act on #GlobalWarming or #VisionZero in any meaningful way while spending "safety money" on flashing lights that drivers ignore.