Global Food Supplies (Crops, Livestock, Fisheries) Are Pushed to Brink by Extreme Heat: New UN Study

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAz5wuv-4dQ

The United Nations (UN) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has combined with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to produce a new report describing in detail how extreme heat waves are putting global food production on the brink of failure...

#UN #FoodSupplies #Collapse #FAO #WMO #ExtremeHeat

Climate Extremes: A Divergent Picture Emerges

Are hot and cold extremes declining in the US? See regional data and scientific debate on temperature changes since 1899.

#ClimateData, #USWeather, #ExtremeHeat, #ColdSnap, #ClimateScience

https://newsletter.tf/us-heat-cold-extremes-mixed-regional-trends/

New data shows mixed trends for US temperature extremes. While some regions see fewer heatwaves, others experience more, and cold snaps are less frequent than in the past.

#ClimateData, #USWeather, #ExtremeHeat, #ColdSnap, #ClimateScience
https://newsletter.tf/us-heat-cold-extremes-mixed-regional-trends/

Heat Claws Across India, 40°C Barrier Shattered

India faces severe heatwave as over 20 cities exceed 42°C. Learn which regions are affected and what this means for residents.

#IndiaHeatwave, #ExtremeHeat, #ClimateChangeIndia, #WeatherAlert, #40DegreeCelsius

https://newsletter.tf/india-heatwave-cities-exceed-42c-40c-barrier/

Temperatures in over 20 Indian cities have now passed 42°C, a significant increase compared to normal conditions.

#IndiaHeatwave, #ExtremeHeat, #ClimateChangeIndia, #WeatherAlert, #40DegreeCelsius
https://newsletter.tf/india-heatwave-cities-exceed-42c-40c-barrier/

BBC: Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

Japan has unveiled a new name for days that reach 40C (104F) or above, after the country experienced its hottest summer on record last year.

The term - kokushobi - has been translated as "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr185nx0n9o

#heatwaves #extremeheat #Japan

The US is built for cars running on cheap gas, but we can absolutely change things for the better:

-Insulate buildings

-Heat and cool with heat pumps, geothermal, and solar. Electrify everything.

-Build district geothermal

- Rethink earth-sheltered, earth-bermed...

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#bike, #cleanenergy, #communitygarden, #compost, #earthsheltered, #energyefficiency, #EV, #extremeheat, #fossilfuels, #gardening, #geothermal, #pedestrian, #permaculture, #solar, #transit, #urban, #vegetable, #wind

AMOC?

More certain than previously thought https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4298
And Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought

Okay. Or not. But what does it mean, regionally, on the way to the OFF state?
Do we, us alive today experience any changes in our lifetime?

I would say yes.
Disclaimer: it's conjecture. and I am no expert in anything.

So. From tipping to OFF, it takes 100 to 150 years.
What happens during this slowdown phase?
I read in another paper that because AMOC slowdown intensifies the #ColdBlob, it also changes how the Lows and Highs over the Atlantic are distributed, which changes the jetstream, which in turn causes more extreme heat events in Europe.

More #ExtremeHeat events?
How do those affect our biosphere in Europe?
Well, I don't know exactly. But IPCC AR6 WG2 has mapped the impact on European plants, insects and mammals if we let global 3.2C become reality.
As you can see, 3.2C spells extinction level for European insects – due to heat events and related processes that come with 3.2C.

And I believe, a slow-ING #AMOC mimics heat events of such high-emission scenarios.
So we, us alive today, will watch our European insects AND soil…! die right in front of our eyes. I think.

According to a study published in March in the journal Nature Communications, extreme heat has already created what the co-authors called "non-survivable" conditions for human beings, leading researchers to find that people may be more susceptible to rising temperatures than previously thought.

https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/extreme-heat-human-survivability-study-2023/
#ExtremeHeat #climatechange