The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉
Main Topic: Trump Won So What’s Next for Our Climate?
Dear Diary. My heart aches after last night’s thumping of V.P. Kamala Harris in the most important election of our lifetime. I’m going to hold Dr. Michael Mann to his word that a Trump win will spell doom for our climate. So, after four drill baby drill years with the U.S. probably scuttling the Paris Accords and most Inflation Reduction Act climate measures, what’s next? I don’t think that the world will stay below +2.0° Celsius, but we as climate people should continue to fight for every tenth of a degree that Earth can potentially warm. If we see +3.0° and warmer above preindustrial conditions, civilization might end.
So how do we fight? Continually peacefully protest and as climate scientists keep tabulating data showing continued warming. Nature bats last no matter what political party is in power, so in the years between 2025 to 2029, perhaps it will drive enough fear into the general public for action.
My heart also aches for our generation Z youth, who voted mostly for Harris on the issues of guns and yes climate. They may become so distraught that complete apathy would be the result for the next couple of elections. Perhaps the opposite will occur, and their protests will indicate that they want to burn the entire system down. Also, Trump will never be brought to justice because of his many crimes, which also will disgust just about everyone who isn’t MAGA.
Climate people not only will get a black eye in this losing fight, but we could get blinded. Trump will try to disband the climate section of NASA and scuttle NCEI. If that is the case only outside of the U.S. entities will be measuring what is happening with our warming world. I will not be able to continue my research and reports on record temperature trends if NCEI goes away.
Still, personally I will do what I can keeping this site going and reporting on records as long as possible. Sigh…
More on this sad day:
Here are more “ETs” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
Here is more brand-new October 2024 climatology (More can be found on each past archived daily November post.):
Here is More Climate News from Wednesday:
(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)
“A TRUMP victory spells doom for our climate”
is not a science based notion, it is a cult idea promulgated by hysteria.
We influence the climate but we cannot doom the climate.
Science is discredited by such broad strokes of the paint brush by such narrow minded statements