#Heatwaves in Southern Africa
“These findings underscore that [SADC’s] heat-related health risks span direct physiological injury and wide indirect cascades – from infectious disease to food insecurity, mental strain, and economic disruption – demanding integrated surveillance and adaptation.”
Scientists have found an alarming #EnvironmentalImpact of vast #DataCenters
Story by Laura Paddison, March 30, 2026
Excerpt: "They found surface temperatures increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data center started operations. In extreme cases, nearby temperatures increase by up to 16.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
"These increases were consistent across the globe, the researchers found. In #Mexico’s #Bajio region, for example, which has become a data center hub, the study found unexplained temperature rises of around 3.6 degrees over the last 20 years. A similar situation was seen in #AragonSpain, a European center for #hyperscale #AIDataenters, which recorded a temperature increase of 3.6 degrees which was not replicated in neighboring provinces.
"Strikingly, the impacts weren’t limited to a data center’s immediate surroundings; temperature increases affected areas up to 6.2 miles away, the research found, affecting more than 340 million people.
"The findings are particularly alarming, the scientists say, because AI data centers are set to boom over the next few years, and these temperature rises come as planet-warming pollution is already making #HeatWaves more extreme around the world."
#HeatIslands #DataCenterMoratorium #GlobalWarming #NoisePollution #AISucks #SurveillanceState #NoDatacenters #HyperscaleDatacenters
"...The shrinking Arctic sea ice was announced Thursday as temperatures broke March heat records across the United States, all over Mexico, in Australia, across Northern Africa and through parts of Northern Europe. Climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera, who tracks extreme temperatures, called the extreme March temperatures “by far the most extreme heat event in world climatic history..."
Warming coastal waters emerge as primary driver of large-scale humid heat waves https://phys.org/news/2026-03-coastal-emerge-primary-driver-large.html
Rising sea surface temperatures in coastal waters are driving 50 to 64 percent of the increase in large-scale humid heat waves, according to new research. The study, from researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Princeton University and Sun Yat-sen University, implies that coastal sea surface temperatures could be a potential early warning indicator for widespread humid heat extremes. The paper is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Heatwaves mentioned as part of what is destroying a tradition of flying kits in India.
BBC: Thousands of kites once filled the skies above India's cities. Today the tradition is dying out
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260326-kites-vanish-from-the-skies-above-indias-cities
Record-smashing heat spreads: 'Basically the entire US is going to be hot'
by SETH BORENSTEIN, March 23, 2026
"After smashing March heat records in 14 states and the U.S. as a whole, the gigantic #HeatDome that's baked the Southwest is creeping eastward and may end up being one of the most expansive heat waves in American history, meteorologists and weather historians said.
"And it's not going away for awhile, maybe not till the middle of the next week as April starts, said meteorologist Gregg Gallina of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center."
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"The physical area of this heat wave likely dwarfs two other historic heat waves — one in 2012 in the Upper Midwest and Northeast and another in 2021 in the Pacific Northwest — according to weather historian Chris Burt, author of the book '#ExtremeWeather.' It may not be as large as the #DustBowl #HeatWaves of 1936, but that was a series of heat waves over two months during summer, not a single big event like now, Burt said."
Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest
Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.
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