The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or 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 extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😜
Here is a new feature for this blog, which I will add daily. This is the latest inciteful Green News Report from my friends Desi Doyen and Brad Friedman at Progressive Voices. Hit ‘continue reading,’ listen, then hit return to see my daily topics:
Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen
Episode: 11/5/2026 — More info…
Dear Diary. Global warming is uneven with some regions of the world warning faster than others. This is very true across a large country such as the United States since 1980. For the most part, western states have warned faster than eastern states.
A new study has confirmed that. Here are more details from The Good Men Project:
Study Pinpoints States With Steepest Warming Trends Since 1980 – The Good Men Project
Study Pinpoints States With Steepest Warming Trends Since 1980
The findings indicate where adaptive measures are needed most around the United States.
November 6, 2026 by MIT News Leave a Comment
By Mark Dwortzan | Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy | MIT News
Global warming, the observed increase in the Earth’s average global surface temperature since preindustrial (1850-1900) times, currently stands at around 1.63 degrees Celsius. While this number is expected to continue to rise, local temperatures will not go up uniformly around the world. In regions where warming trends are most pronounced, local adaptation and resilience measures will be especially critical to minimizing risks to ecosystems, agricultural productivity, the built environment, human health, and economic well-being.
To that end, a new open-access study in the journal Scientific Data identifies the highest-risk regions for warming within the United States. Using data from well-known, high-resolution climate and weather datasets (MERRA2 and ERA5) covering the years 1980-2022, researchers at the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy (CS3) report global warming-attributed trends in monthly-averaged maximum daily temperature for every U.S. state.
The study finds that Alaska, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada have experienced the strongest average warming trends; the lowest occurred in Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Arkansas. Across the country, warming trends were most pronounced during the summer and fall, particularly in September and November. Alaska has the highest historical maximum daily temperature warming (an average of 2.5 C of monthly-averaged maximum daily temperature increase per degree of global warming), while Hawaii has the lowest average historical warming, at 0.8 C.
The authors expect that barring unforeseen local anomalies, these state-by-state temperature trends will continue unabated as ongoing global emissions from human activities continue to raise the average global temperature.
“Based on these results, we encourage decision-makers to assess states that have undergone the steepest increases in maximum and minimum daily temperatures, and identify where continued trends would indicate a rapid progression toward thresholds beyond which natural and managed resources, ecosystems, and infrastructure can function safely,” says MIT CS3 Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser, a co-author of the study. “In such cases, triaging and adaptive measures would take a high priority. By directing resources to where they are needed most, state and regional planners could significantly reduce climate-related physical and financial risks.”
Unlike previous efforts to report temperature trends across the United States, this study aggregates average maximum, minimum, and mean daily temperature data at the state level for each month of the year, providing actionable information for planners in government, industry, and civil society.
Here are more “ET’s” 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 Climate News from Sunday:
(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.)