How will the US cope next summer when it could be even hotter?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/us-climate-crisis-heat-temperature-heatwave
This year’s heatwaves have been a huge challenge – and scientists predict 2024 will likely break records again
It’s been a record-breaking summer of heatwaves across large parts of the US and the world, and trying to stay cool and safe has been an unprecedented challenge.
There has been a rise in heat-related fatalities; companies and organizations have been under greater pressures to protect workers; and officials from small towns to the White House have been scrambling to respond.
All of this could be the start of the “new normal”.
Climate scientists say the heat and other extreme weather is in line with three decades of scientific prediction amid humanity’s relentless carbon emissions. It might, in fact, be the tip of the iceberg compared with what is to come.
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Next year will probably not only see record or near-record heat, it will also likely see a surge in flooding events. The influence of El Niño will cause the US to experience three times the number of “nuisance” flooding events next year than it did in 2000, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Oliver Milman
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/us-climate-crisis-heat-temperature-heatwave
Water firms illegally spilled sewage on dry days – data suggests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66670132
Three major water companies illegally discharged sewage hundreds of times last year on days when it was not raining, a BBC investigation suggests.
The practice, known as “dry spilling”, is banned because it can lead to higher concentrations of sewage in waterways.
Thames, Wessex and Southern Water appear to have collectively released sewage in dry spills for 3,500 hours in 2022 – in breach of their permits.
Water UK, the industry body, said the spills “should be investigated”.
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Collectively throughout 2022, Thames, Southern and Wessex illegally started releasing sewage on dry days 388 times – research by the BBC’s climate and data teams suggests – including during last summer when these regions were in drought.
There even appears to have been spills by all three companies on 19 July 2022, the hottest day on record, when temperatures topped 40C in some places and many people tried to cool off in rivers.
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Skwawkbox Exclusive: Starmer regime removes all Corbyn-era videos but one
Original article republished from The Skwawkbox.
Starmer cannot allow voters to see what might have been or how he is outshone by his predecessor
Keir Starmer’s cowardly purge of the Labour left has extended even to the party’s YouTube page – every Jeremy Corbyn-era video but one (Corbyn’s 2019 conference speech) has been deleted from the channel in an attempt to airbrush Corbyn out of history, leaving a staggering nine-year gap in the video record:
Starmer is right to be afraid: Corbyn’s sincerity, authenticity and actual vision for the UK backed by actual policies shed a merciless light on the craven, empty and deceitful moral vacuum that is Keir Starmer.
The move is reminiscent of the infamous image in which Soviet leader Josef Stalin had a lackey who had fallen out of favour airbrushed out of a photograph as if he had never existed:
The UK has been robbed of the prospect of real change for the better, for the many – and has had an Establishment ventriloquist’s dummy foisted on it instead, to create the clearly inauthentic illusion of choice in this broken democracy.
And the spinelessness and dishonesty of Starmer and his ghoulish hangers-on know no bounds.
Original article republished from The Skwawkbox.