EuroNews: France heatwave: hospitals adapt urgently ahead of new hot spell

https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/07/01/france-heatwave-hospitals-adapt-urgently-ahead-of-new-hot-spell?

#climateemergency #healthcare

Judith Curry is possibly the most confusing and infuriating scientist in the entire climatological arena. She contributed to major understandings around the changes in the jet stream, the Arctic, and other processes that helped explain the impact climate change has already had on our day to day weather.

But then she left academia and essentially became a mouthpiece for Neo-denialism, claiming others were being “alarmist” and that while CO2 was the main cause, we really shouldn’t be spending money on reducing emissions.

Her final blog announcing its retirement is an interesting combination of declaring victory, mostly thanks to Trump and his acolytes (like Carney) who have pivoted fully into the arms of the fossil fuel industry, and declaring she was tired of it all and just wants to be in her garden and stop the flow of now $16,000 (!!) to maintain her Wordpress blog for the past 15 years.

She has done real damage to efforts to stop CO2 emissions. But another part of me wonders if this is an admission of guilt. Very often people come to a point, even subconsciously, where they realize they’re in with the wrong crowd.

I wonder if she has had that moment with Trump. She probably thinks it’s all irrelevant and out of her hands now. Other players, namely the oil industry, Trump, Putin, etc. will decide what happens and scientists like her will have no impact.

I am glad she is tapping out, as so many deniers inevitably do, but it is clear she is doing it because she thinks she’s won, and that is very very bad for the world.

https://judithcurry.com/2026/06/23/rip-climate-etc/

#climateChange #carney #cdnpoli #canpoli #climateEmergency #climateDenial #science #JudithCurry #theAmericanFascist

Labour’s priorities are totally wrong

This week, the government published the long-delayed Defence Investment Plan, which increases military spending by a further £15 billion, with military spending planned to rise even more to nearly £80 billion per year by 2029. This will be at the expense of other much-needed projects.

Keir Starmer said that the government will be spending £64 billion on nuclear weapons over the next four years. This is 20% of our defence spending. It’s enough money to build 64 brand new hospitals or 18 massive offshore wind farms, which would make us much more self-reliant. 

Labour’s priorities are totally wrong. I acknowledge the threat of Russia, but what use are nuclear weapons against them? Relying on nuclear weapons drags the world closer towards a nuclear conflict. Should they ever be used, they won’t just kill millions, if not billions, of innocent people, but they would throw so much ash up into the atmosphere that it would lead to a nuclear winter, where the sun is blocked out. This would mean ecocide as well as genocide, and it would be impossible to grow food.

Using drones in warfare is deeply concerning. In Gaza, Israel has programmed drones to broadcast the sound of Palestinian babies crying or children shouting “I want my mother”. Of course, this brings out concerned residents, looking for the child, at which point the soldiers shoot them. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3agkSGX7Vs

Defence spending should be directed to defence, not to weapons of mass destruction.  What we need are systems that can protect us from drone warfare.

Meanwhile, our greatest security threat is the climate crisis. We need our forces ready to set up emergency flood barriers, rescue flood victims, fight wildfires and support the NHS when heatwaves overwhelm it. Governments’ priority should be urgently reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and preparing our nation to cope with the more extreme weather just around the corner. 

#Glossary #glosario
Useful list of terms and definitions #climateemergency
I e #Anthropocene #Antropoceno
Relating to or denoting the current geological age
Blue Ocean Event: A complete absence of Arctic sea ice (a common threshold is when the area is less than 1 million square km
#cryosphere The frozen water part of the Earth system

https://climateemergencyforum.org/glossary.html

The Guardian: Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June

European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/01/ocean-surface-temperatures-hit-a-record-high-for-june

#climateemergency

AFP: Paris funeral homes overwhelmed after record heatwave

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/paris-funeral-homes-overwhelmed-record-171255271.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9ub2FpLmR1Y2tkdWNrZ28uY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM8FiDieOeTfHf_hZ0LZLpQQR12lJNVa23yDGaXD9I_hcYrzMm1EwekFIpmqy20qZeU7LvQG9cEEr3lc6IJeJ3v_FjvSerPqc6KzXdW7I7Ns5NY1E8gq_ND7YkBBt1Ndg159sOyG5yD8fjnTJilSntsBiPIYm9efcLUusqPNd4DC

#heatwave #death #europe #climateemergency

ABC News: Life-threatening heat dome puts 175 million under extreme heat alerts

https://abcnews.com/video/134360805/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#heatwave #climateemergency