It’s very easy to despair at you despite being supportive. Please stop being so nice and instead try to get some some serious political clout to save the planet. Be practical instead of nice and accomodating. So with those split roles, split them so you have X addressing these issues Y addressing these issues … got it?
The sort of pitch to take. Make speeches with catchphrases to grab the headlines. You could discuss desperate times needing something actions, votes wasted on the 2 main parties because their policies are indistinguishable, climate deniers and destroyers, denying and destroying the planet … get the idea?
Announce looking into electoral pacts – those desperate times again. FFS get as many MPs elected as you possibly can – desperate times.
Dozens of people spend time at Silgar beach, on 30 September, 2023, in Sanxenxo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. (Photo: Elena Fernandez/Europa Press via Getty Images)
“We’ve never seen a record smashed by anything close to this margin,” one climate scientist said.
In another sign of the climate crisis, September of 2023—following the hottest summer ever recorded over June, July, and August—also seems to be one for the record books.
A data set out of Japan found that September 2023 was 0.5°C warmer than the previous warmest September on record and around 1.8°C warmer than temperatures in the preindustrial era, climate scientist Zeke Hausfather wrote on Tuesday on the social media site formerly known as Twitter.
“This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist—absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” he said.
The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels. pic.twitter.com/mgg3rcR2xZ
Hausfather was looking at the the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55), which draws on a wide range of weather observations dating back to 1958. The more than half-a-degree jump from the previous September record is the steepest increase between monthly records to date, The Washington Post reported.
“We’ve never seen a record smashed by anything close to this margin,” Hausfather told the Post.
“This September would not have been out of place as a typical July this decade in terms of global temperatures,” he added on X, formerly Twitter.
Similarly, we can look at a heatmap of every day of the year so far, where September stands out like a sore thumb: pic.twitter.com/kdOQwylmdQ
Another data set, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ ERA5, also shows September shattering the previous record by around the same margin, according to Hausfather.
“I’m still struggling to comprehend how a single year can jump so much compared to previous years,” Finnish Meteorological Institute researcher Mika Rantanen tweeted of the ERA5 data. “Just by adding the latest data point, the linear warming trend since 1979 increased by 10%.”
The JRA-55 and ERA5 data sets are more immediately available than the monthly analyses from NOAA and NASA, which take longer to complete, The Washington Post explained. The satellite-based data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville is also showing a record September.
The UAH satellite dataset just came out with a monster warm September, largest anomaly of any month in their record.
I'm expecting to see reanalysis and surface datasets coming out with similarly extreme results over the next two weeks. pic.twitter.com/gMjE6yqDQL
2023 has been a record-breaking year in part because an El Niño weather pattern emerged in June, but the primary driver is atmospheric warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of natural carbon sinks. This year has been much hotter than the previous El Niño years in 2015 and 2016.
On a local and regional level, many countries experienced their hottest Septembers on record, among them Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, and Switzerland, according to The Guardian. France’s September beat the previous record by more than 1°C, and Belgium’s September was even hotter than its July and August for the first time since 1961.
“Belgium has never experienced a month of September this warm,” David Dehenauw of the Belgian Royal Meteorological Institute told The Guardian.
On the other side of the world, Japan also had its hottest September at 2.66℃ higher than normal.
JMA confirms that it was the HOTTEST SEPTEMBER on record for Japan. The nation's monthly temp was 2.66℃ higher than normal, significantly surpassing the previous record of 1.51℃ set in 2012.
“We can’t believe just how high temperatures got,” a representative from the Japan Meteorological Agency toldJapan Today. “It became a record-breaking phenomenon after multiple factors overlapped on top of climate change.”
September also saw a number of extreme weather events, from deadly flooding in Libya to record-breaking rainfall in New York. Warmer temperatures are linked to heavy rainfall, as warmer air can hold more moisture. Separate studies also said the climate crisis made both events more extreme.
So far, October looks set to continue the historic weather trend. The central U.S. began the month with record heat, according to The Washington Post. And Spain had its warmest start to October on record, Reuters reported.
Spain just witnessed its hottest October day on record with 38.2°C (101°F) at Montoro.
“The bad news is that we don’t see any sign of global temperatures reverting to what is normal for this time of year,” Hausfather tweeted. “They remain close to to the highest anomalies we saw in the month of September as we go into October.”
Masked hard-Left activists were among hundreds of protesters who yesterday tried to ambush the Tory party conference.
Activists from the Young Communist League wore face coverings as they carried a red banner past the conference centre saying ‘Resist Tory Rule’.
Hundreds of trade unionists also marched carrying hateful banners saying ‘F*** the Tories: rebuild our railway’ and ‘Guy Fawkes had a point’.
Eco-zealots from Extinction Rebellion and protesters from offshoot Just Stop Oil also marched, as well as Bully XL dog owners who chanted: ‘Muzzle Rishi, not our dogs!’
Former PM Theresa May has said the UK’s net zero target should be seen as “the growth opportunity of the century”, not an “act of economic harm”.
Mrs May said the UK had a chance to lead “the green revolution”, in a speech at the Conservative conference.
The former PM’s government passed a law that committed the UK to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
At a conference event, Mrs May said she did that “because climate change is the greatest threat to civilisation”.
But the UK’s approach to net zero has come under intense scrutiny since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced an overhaul of some green policies last month.
The policy changes, including a delay to the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, provoked a backlash, with the government’s climate change adviser saying the UK had “moved backwards” on net zero.
Image of InBedWithBigOil by Not Here To Be Liked + Hex Prints from Just Stop Oil’s You May Find Yourself… art auction. Featuring Rishi Sunak, Fossil Fuels and Rupert Murdoch.
As a competent adult and member of the human race there’s a responsibility on me to not feck it up for future generations – in this case not to destroy the planet, cause intolerable living conditions and drive the human race as well as many other creatures extinct. I know that the Conservative Party receives huge amounts from the fossil fuel industry and associated cnuts. Are you such a whore to this money that you’re willing to abdicate your responsibilities as an adult, a parent and prime minister?
