Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history

 

 JEFFREY ST. CLAIR > 

+ For the first time in 155 years, the weather station at Kew Botanical Gardens in London measured no precipitation for an entire month.

+ It wasn’t just the July air temperatures that cracked records; the temperature of global ocean waters also hit new highs. The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that average sea surface temperatures outside polar regions hit 20.96C last month, topping the previous high of 20.89C in 2023.

+ This was the week the Arctic hit 90F.

+ The UK’s MetCast 4 Weather:

Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history – around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age.  We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

+ Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

The extreme heat, fire, droughts displacing > 200000 and killing > 20000 in Europe, happens on a 1.4°C planet. We are inevitably breaching 1.5°C and heading towards 3°C. It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adaptation.