Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

@Walter Hinteler,

The Copernicus climate service reports a historic negative record. The sea ice extent continues to shrink significantly. This will fuel the climate crisis.

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6 March 2025

February 2025 highlights:

• February 2025 was the third warmest February globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 13.36°C, 0.63°C above the 1991-2020 average for February, and only marginally warmer, by 0.03°C, than the fourth warmest of 2020.

• February 2025 was 1.59°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level and was the 19th month in the last 20 months for which the global-average surface air temperature was more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.

• The average temperature over European land for February 2025 was 0.44°C, 0.40°C above the 1991-2020 average for February, ranking it well outside the 10 warmest months of February for Europe.

• The average sea surface temperature (SST) for February 2025 over 60°S–60°N was 20.88°C, the second-highest value on record for the month, 0.18°C below the February 2024 record.

• Arctic sea ice reached its lowest monthly extent for February, at 8% below average. This marks the third consecutive month in which the sea ice extent has set a record for the corresponding month.

• In February 2025, Europe saw predominantly below-average precipitation; this coincided with below-average surface soil moisture in much of central and eastern Europe, south-eastern Spain and Türkiye.

Copernicus

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@Walter Hinteler,

Fortunately, USAmericans will no longer have to hear this incessant drumbeat of doom.

DOGE Fires Hundreds of Weather Forecasters From Agency Focused on Climate Disasters

Problem solved!

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The Peruvian farmer taking on global energy giant

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As new EPA head Lee Zeldin promises to sink a 'dagger' into climate and clean energy initiatives, taxpayers are set to pay the price for extreme weather and the dismantling of a booming green economy.

The false economy of Trump's climate cuts

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A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial era.

State of the Global Climate 2024

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Key messages

Key climate change indicators again reach record levels

Long-term warming (averaged over decades) remains below 1.5°C

Sea-level rise and ocean warming irreversible for hundreds of years

Record greenhouse gas concentrations combined with El Niño and other factors to drive 2024 record heat

Early warnings and climate services are vital to protect communities and economies

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Climate change is affecting Australia's coral reefs: both the Ningaloo Reef off the west coast and parts of the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast are currently affected by coral bleaching. Both are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Coral bleaching occurs when corals are under heat stress due to rising water temperatures. They then shed the small algae living inside them, which they need to survive. This causes the corals to turn white and die.

Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events

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Christians around the world are being encouraged to take legal action against polluters and those who finance them.

In a new climate justice handbook, the World Council of Churches sets out practical ways faith organisations can help protect young people and future generations from the climate crisis.

Drawing on Christian teachings on stewardship and justice, it presents strategic litigation as a tool to “create hope and hold responsible parties accountable”.

Many faith leaders have spoken up about the climate crisis, including Pope Francis, who published a powerful 2015 encyclical and has continued to exhort Catholics to action.
The Guardian

Hope for Children Through Climate Justice

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Legal Tools to Hold Financiers Accountable
2025

The urgency of the climate catastrophe demands strong and effective responses. With fossil fuels driving over 75% of global CO2 emissions, we need to hold accountable those who still finance their expansion, harming us and future generations.

This publication helps to empower people of faith and partners in WCC’s global constituency with the knowledge for legal action. It provides a menu of strategies particularly aimed at financial institutions, one of the most powerful levers to accelerate climate solutions. It is a call to answer the pleas of the scientific community and young people to tackle the root causes of harm to creation and protect future generation’s right to life.

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Arctic winter sea ice at record low in 2025, scientists say
Annual peak is lowest on record, covering 5.53m sq miles – about 30,000 sq miles below the previous low in 2017

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Despite significant financial benefits from the clean energy spending program in their constituencies, Republican congressmen are reluctant to speak out against Donald Trump's calls to eliminate subsidies for renewable energy.

Clean energy spending boosts GOP districts. But lawmakers are keeping quiet as Trump targets incentives

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Germany is warming faster than the rest of the world.
This is one of the findings of the German Weather Service's climate report presented today [in German only]. There were no extreme heatwaves last year, and the floods - for example in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in June - were not quite as catastrophic as in previous years. The summer of 2024 was “only” the fifth warmest summer since 1881, but with an annual mean temperature of 10.9 degrees Celsius, the scientists have set an all-time record.

The climate crisis has long since arrived in Germany. In some years, the consequences are particularly noticeable, for example when people in cities groan for weeks under heatwaves, the Rhine almost dries up and becomes impassable for ships or heavy rainfall floods entire areas and destroys houses. People become homeless, ill or die.

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@Walter Hinteler,

I had no idea it had gotten so ban.

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@Walter Hinteler,

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There were no extreme heatwaves last year...

Unless there's a climate disaster people don't notice what's happening. Our summer last year wasn't particularly hot – but it didn't cool off at night, raising the seasonal mean temperature when we weren't looking.

And in the meantime, with the exit of a key ally, Europe has to begin building up its defensive forces while the USA jettisons any concerns about the climate.

The advanced economies have established their priorities. Full speed ahead!

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