"Hottest La Nina year to date on record"

[suffragette]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/13/heatwave-sees-record-high-temperatures-set-around-world-this-week

Record high temperatures have been set across much of the world this week as an unusually prolonged and broad heatwave intensifies concerns about climate change.

The past month has seen power shortages in California as record heat forced a surge of demand for air conditioners. Algeria has experienced the hottest temperature ever reliably registered in Africa. Britain, meanwhile, has experienced its third longest heatwave, melting the roof of a science building in Glasgow and exposing ancient hill forts in Wales.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the rising temperatures were at odds with a global cyclical climate phenomena known as La Niña, which is usually associated with cooling.

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Globally, the warmest year on record was in 2016, boosted by the natural climate cycle El Niño. Last year, temperatures hit the highest level without that amplifying phenomenon. This year, at the other cooling end of the cycle, is continuing the overall upward trend.

Now, temperatures are increasingly high even in the ‘cooling’ phase of weather.
Bad, bad news.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Not surprised...

Earth is in distress and it is already too late to save a lot of it. Humans did this!

[defacto7]

2. All we can do is

slow it and survive it. There's no going back. Everying will be different from here on.

[suffragette]

3. Yes, humans did this.

[anarch]

4. hate to say it, but I fear we may have gone beyond the "point of no return"

as far as climate change is concerned...over the last two decades or so, if humans had collectively/globally made a concerted effort to mitigate it, there may have been a chance to prevent major damage to civilization, but now...with the melting of the polar ice caps and the rise in sea levels accelerating, and utter and complete fuckheads in charge of major nations...not to say we shouldn't do everything in our power to reduce our carbon footprint, etc., but I have a feeling humans (and other animals) are in for a rough couple hundred years coming up....

[suffragette]

5. Yes, rough times now and rougher ahead, especially with more damage than healing taking place.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Hear hear!

You said it a lot better than I could ever hope to!