In the dead of winter, the Antarctic Peninsula, an 800-mile extension of the Antarctic continent, temperatures hit 32°F. (Source: It’s Even Hot in Antarctica, Where it’s Winter, Vox, July 13, 2023) Global warming has been on a hot streak, accelerating its rec…

Europe's heat wave is already catastrophic. It could have been much worse.

The United States was scorched by record-setting heat in the West and South, lashed with flood-triggering rain in the Northeast, and choked by wildfire smoke in the Midwest.

The transition to an environmentally sustainable economy has begun, but it will be a generation (about twenty years) before we will see moderation of global warming. The cost of reducing climate pollution faster would be an economic and political disaster. Sl…

“I don’t think there is a climate crisis. I think the key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by a factor of about 200.” The post Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #559 first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

Reconsider nuclear power.

Experts have created sombre depictions of tourist spots ravaged by climate change, including London's Big Ben and the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Predictions of historic heat hung over swathes of Asia, Europe and the United States. Japan issued heatstroke alerts to tens of millions of people in 20 of its 47 prefectures as near-record high temperatures scorched large areas and torrential rain pummelled…