[✔️] March 25, 2024 Global Warming News | Texas more muggy, UN weather increased 2023, Fires in China are early, Chaos casino, 2002 meeting realy.

[Richard Pauli]

/*March*//*25, 2024*/

/[ In Texas even the humidity is bigger ]/
*Texas Heat Index Rising Faster Than Temperature, Study Finds*
Yale Environment 360 DIGEST

MARCH 22, 2024
A new study of summer weather in Texas finds the heat index — an 
indicator of how hot it feels outside — is rising much faster than the 
temperature.

The reason, scientists say, is that warming is leading to a rise in 
humidity. Historically in Texas, the relative humidity would fall when 
the temperature rose, making it possible to cool off by sweating. But 
now Texas is seeing high heat and high humidity together. On hot, muggy 
days, the air is so saturated with water that sweat sticks to the skin 
rather than evaporating. As a result, the weather feels much warmer than 
a thermometer alone would suggest.

In 1979, physicist Robert Steadman developed the heat index to indicate 
how such weather actually feels. But Steadman did not calculate the 
index for the high levels of heat and humidity routinely seen today. In 
2022, scientists at UC Berkeley recalculated the heat index to account 
for more extreme weather. And in 2023, Berkeley physicist David Romps 
applied the updated heat index to the summer heat in Texas.

He found that while Texas has warmed by around 3 degrees F (1.5 degrees 
C) on average since the preindustrial era, on some scorching summer days 
last year it felt up to 11 degrees F (6 degrees C) hotter than it would 
have without climate change. His study was published in Environmental 
Research Letters.

Romps wrote that, compared to the temperature, the heat index offers “a 
more accurate picture of the extent to which global warming has 
increased heat stress.”
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/heat-index-climate-change



/[ from the UK Independent ]/
*UN weather agency issues 'red alert' on climate change after record 
heat, ice-melt increases in 2023*
The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, 
citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and 
water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice
Jamey Keaten
Seth Borenstein
3-29-2024

The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, 
citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and 
water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and warning that 
the world's efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate.

The World Meteorological Organization, in a “State of the Global 
Climate” report released Tuesday, ratcheted up concerns that a 
much-vaunted climate goal is increasingly in jeopardy: That the world 
can unite to limit planetary warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius 
(2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels.

“Never have we been so close – albeit on a temporary basis at the moment 
– to the 1.5° C lower limit of the Paris agreement on climate change,” 
said Celeste Saulo, the agency's secretary-general. “The WMO community 
is sounding the red alert to the world.”
The 12-month period from March 2023 to February 2024 pushed beyond that 
1.5-degree limit, averaging 1.56 C (2.81 F) higher, according to the 
European Union's Copernicus Climate Service. It said the calendar year 
2023 was just below 1.5 C at 1.48 C (2.66 F), but a record hot start to 
this year pushed beyond that level for the 12-month average.

“Earth’s issuing a distress call,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio 
Guterres said. “The latest State of the Global Climate report shows a 
planet on the brink. Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos off 
the charts.”
The latest WMO findings are especially stark when compiled in a single 
report. In 2023, over 90% of ocean waters experienced heat wave 
conditions at least once. Glaciers monitored since 1950 lost the most 
ice on record. Antarctic sea ice retreated to its lowest level ever.

“Topping all the bad news, what worries me the most is that the planet 
is now in a meltdown phase — literally and figuratively given the 
warming and mass loss from our polar ice sheets,” said Jonathan 
Overpeck, dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and 
Sustainability, who wasn’t involved in the report.

Saulo called the climate crisis “the defining challenge that humanity 
faces” and said it combines with a crisis of inequality, as seen in 
growing food insecurity and migration.
WMO said the impact of heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires and 
tropical cyclones, exacerbated by climate change, was felt in lives and 
livelihoods on every continent in 2023.

“This list of record-smashing events is truly distressing, though not a 
surprise given the steady drumbeat of extreme events over the past 
year,” said University of Arizona climate scientist Kathy Jacobs, who 
also wasn't involved in the WMO report. “The full cost of 
climate-change-accelerated events across sectors and regions has never 
been calculated in a meaningful way, but the cost to biodiversity and to 
the quality of life of future generations is incalculable.”
But the agency also acknowledged “a glimmer of hope” in trying to keep 
the Earth from running too high a fever. It said renewable energy 
generation capacity from wind, solar and waterpower rose nearly 50% from 
2022 to a total of 510 gigawatts.

The report comes as climate experts and government ministers are to 
gather in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on Thursday and Friday to 
press for greater climate action, including increased national 
commitments to fight global warming.

“Each year the climate story gets worse; each year WMO officials and 
others proclaim that the latest report is a wake-up call to decision 
makers,” said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver, a 
former British Columbia lawmaker.

“Yet each year, once the 24-hour news cycle is over, far too many of our 
elected ‘leaders’ return to political grandstanding, partisan bickering 
and advancing policies with demonstrable short-term outcomes," he said. 
"More often than not everything else ends up taking precedence over the 
advancement of climate policy. And so, nothing gets done.”
___
/Borenstein reported from Washington, D.C./
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/world-meteorological-organization-ap-geneva-antonio-guterres-glaciers-b2514997.html 




/[  this fire in China is early ]/
*China is on fire! The fire has reached residential areas! Severe forest 
fires in Sichuan*
Painful Earth Shorts
Mar 24, 2024  СЫЧУАНЬ
China is on fire! The fire has reached residential areas! Severe forest 
fires in Sichuan
In Sichuan province, a forest fire rages on, with firefighters deploying 
helicopters and drones for support.
A primary school's playground has been transformed into a makeshift 
landing zone, hosting several helicopters on standby.
The blaze has prompted urgent measures, with authorities coordinating 
aerial efforts to contain the inferno.
Drone technology aids in assessing the fire's spread and identifying 
hotspots for targeted extinguishing.
Despite the challenging conditions, concerted efforts continue as 
Sichuan grapples with the ongoing forest fire emergency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esfjNPp-a4s



/[ Climate Emergency Forum - frank talk from 3 doomerists communicators ]/
*Chaos in the Climate Casino*
Climate Emergency Forum
Mar 24, 2024  #climatescience #climatecrisis #climateresearch
The Climate Emergency Forum welcomes Dr. Eliot Jacobson, a retired 
professor turned climate researcher. The discussion delves into the 
complexities of the 1.5-degree IPCC global average temperature goal.

This video was recorded on March 4th, 2024, and published on March 24th, 
2024.

In the detailed dialog provided, Dr. Eliot Jacobson, a retired professor 
turned climate researcher, delves into the complexities of the 
1.5-degree IPCC global average temperature goal and the challenges in 
accurately measuring temperature anomalies above the pre-industrial 
baseline. He criticizes the varying methods used by different sources to 
calculate these anomalies and highlights discrepancies in reporting, 
emphasizing the need for a more standardized approach to convey this 
crucial information.

Furthermore, Dr. Jacobson discusses his own analysis based on Copernicus 
data, revealing a higher rate of warming at 0.3 degrees Celsius per 
decade compared to previous estimates. This leads him to assert that the 
current temperature anomaly is around 1.38 degrees Celsius above the 
pre-industrial baseline, indicating a faster pace of warming than 
commonly acknowledged. He predicts that at this rate, the world is 
likely to surpass the 1.5-degree goal by 2028, highlighting the urgency 
of addressing climate change.

The discussion also extends to how insurance companies are grappling 
with escalating risks due to abrupt weather changes, hinting at broader 
societal implications and challenges posed by a rapidly changing climate 
landscape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-szQI_MhQ


/[The news archive history of lost opportunities  ]/
/*March 25, 2002 */
March 25, 2002: The Associated Press reports:

    "Environmentalists say their requests for a meeting with Energy
    Secretary Spencer Abraham in the months prior to the release of the
    Bush administration's energy report were rebuffed by an aide who
    cited Abraham's' busy schedule.

    "John Adams, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council,
    said Wednesday the refusal to meet with the environmentalists stands
    in sharp contrast to the eight meetings Abraham had with energy and
    business groups in early 2001 to discuss the energy plan."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/green-groups-we-had-no-say/


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