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"The hottest day ever recorded on the planet happened this past Sunday, July 21, coming in at 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit (17.09 degrees Celsius)."

Globally, humans have become boiling frogs.

In the USA, Americans have become broiling frogs, broiled in their own oil.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/changing-climate-south-florida/worlds-hottest-day/3369830/#:~:text=The%20hottest%20day%20ever%20recorded%20on%20the%20planet%20was%20this,Union's%20Copernicus%20Climate%20Change%20Service.

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Sunday was the world's hottest day on record, data says
Data tracking for temperatures dates back to the mid-1900s.
By Chelsea Ambriz • Published 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago

NBC Universal, Inc.
The hottest day ever recorded on the planet happened this past Sunday, July 21, coming in at 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit (17.09 degrees Celsius).

The hottest day ever recorded on the planet was this past Sunday, July 21.

July 21, 2024 came in at 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit (17.09 degrees Celsius). It was the hottest day on Earth since at least 1940, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

The previous record was set last July, coming in at 17.08 degrees Celsius. Global climate records are typically broken by very small margins, fractions of a degree. In this case, it was just 0.01 degrees Celsius above 2023’s record.

This considers all the overnight temperatures and the afternoon temperatures averaged across the globe.

A new report from scientists at Climate Central, the Red Cross, and World Weather Attribution found that climate change added nearly a month’s worth of extremely hot days over the last year. Florida, Arizona, and Hawaii felt some of the biggest increases in heat waves driven by climate change domestically. National climate reporter Chase Cain explains what it could mean for this summer.
Locally, Miami tied the daily warm-low record of 82 degrees previously set last year (2023) on July 21. The afternoon daily high temp reached 93 degrees. In Fort Lauderdale, the day started at 80 degrees and topped out at 90 degrees, and neither broke daily records.

These were not record-breaking temps locally, but globally, the heat wave allowed for the record to be broken collectively.

Hundreds of cities across the United States have experienced record heat for an elongated period already this summer. This has been the hottest summer on record for the Western U.S. and the Northeast while global heat waves also hit Europe and Russia.

The global average temperatures are known to peak during the summer months in the northern hemisphere – June through August.

Before 2023, the warmest global temperature was 0.3 degrees cooler, which is significant.

Human-caused climate change has an increasing likelihood of record-breaking heat and continues to be a driving factor for other extreme weather events.

17 degrees C is not hot. WTF?

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 1:59pm:

17 degrees C is not hot. WTF?

Ask an Eskimo...

... or indeed ask a Canadian. They don their shorts when the temperature gets above -5C. They start screaming drought when it doesn't rain for a week.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:01pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 1:59pm:

17 degrees C is not hot. WTF?

Ask an Eskimo...

... or indeed ask a Canadian. They don their shorts when the temperature gets above -5C. They start screaming drought when it doesn't rain for a week.

Thou hath started a thread with an obviously false premise.
Should it be deleted or sent to Fringe?

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:08pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:01pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 1:59pm:

17 degrees C is not hot. WTF?

Ask an Eskimo...

... or indeed ask a Canadian. They don their shorts when the temperature gets above -5C. They start screaming drought when it doesn't rain for a week.

Thou hath started a thread with an obviously false premise.
Should it be deleted or sent to Fringe?

Bobby, the temperature is the global average temperature. Its the highest-ever global average temperature.

Do you want a photo of Grappler and Gnads in shorts, together in the biblical sense, as evidence?

And the official figures don't come out until the end of the month.

Oh Copernicus. They use models not actual temperature derivation.

"This catalogue entry provides daily and monthly global climate projections data from a large number of experiments, models and time periods computed in the framework of the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). "

https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/portfolio/dataset/projections-cmip6

Projections are NOT data. ::)

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:14pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:08pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:01pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 1:59pm:

17 degrees C is not hot. WTF?

Ask an Eskimo...

... or indeed ask a Canadian. They don their shorts when the temperature gets above -5C. They start screaming drought when it doesn't rain for a week.

Thou hath started a thread with an obviously false premise.
Should it be deleted or sent to Fringe?

OK - it was written in an ambiguous way.

You're right -
it does say

"This considers all the overnight temperatures and
the afternoon temperatures averaged across the globe. "

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:23pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:14pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:08pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:01pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 1:59pm:

17 degrees C is not hot. WTF?

Ask an Eskimo...

... or indeed ask a Canadian. They don their shorts when the temperature gets above -5C. They start screaming drought when it doesn't rain for a week.

Thou hath started a thread with an obviously false premise.
Should it be deleted or sent to Fringe?

OK - it was written in an ambiguous way.

You're right -
it does say

"This considers all the overnight temperatures and
the afternoon temperatures averaged across the globe. "

How else could one express global temperature without placing into service the missing, once-shiny, balls of Grappler's and Gnads' governors?

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:27pm:

How else could one express global temperature without placing into service the missing, once-shiny, balls of Grappler's and Gnads' governors?

Go to the top of the class.

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temperatures averaged across the globe

That is like in hospital where some patients had 37c, others 41c and those in morgue -10c. So the average temperature of all patients in the hospital was normal 37c.

Still some cold weather up here, despite the late winter.

I am going to fall asleep in front of the tv. Get some much needed rest. Then up at midnight to do my assessment.

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 12^th, 2024 at 10:04pm:

I am going to fall asleep in front of the tv. Get some much needed rest. Then up at midnight to do my assessment.

Is USR available to enter Australian politics as an MP.

USR's narcolepsy could be an advantage. USR can't make mistakes when he is asleep.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 1:59pm:

17 degrees C is not hot. WTF?

It equated to over 30 million people have heat advisories in effect this week.

Last time the record was broken a lot of people died. The estimate for this year is for 5 Million people to die due to excessive heat or cold.

Dnarever wrote on Aug 13^th, 2024 at 12:51am:

Last time the record was broken a lot of people died.

The last time the record was broken a lot of people were on their hajj. These people, with a range of conditions, from a range of countries that are cooler, suffered. Although Indonesians also died during hajj, probably because of the dry heat rather than humid heat. Most of those would not have known about the need to keep hydrated, whilst walking 10's of Km /day, in the hottest time of the year.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 12^th, 2024 at 11:09pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 12^th, 2024 at 10:04pm:

I am going to fall asleep in front of the tv. Get some much needed rest. Then up at midnight to do my assessment.

Is USR available to enter Australian politics as an MP.

USR's narcolepsy could be an advantage. USR can't make mistakes when he is asleep.

If I enter politics anywhere, it would be too soon.

I fell asleep for 15 minutes in front of the tv. Then I got up and went to have a decent sleep in bed. Got quite a lot done.

And in other news, The New York Times, as beloved of JM, claims vanilla beans are dying out, due to climate change, citing 2017 figures from a Madagaskan cyclone.

However, in the real world production has almost doubled since 2000, according to UNFAO.

lee wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 6:22pm:

Monk doesn't know -
don't listen to him. ::)

Poor JM. Complaining of no link. He was obviously undone by his search engine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/opinion/vanilla-cooking-climate-change.html
;)

Poor JM. Now he says it doesn't reall say that, but carefully omits what it does say.

The vanilla is not 80% grown in Madagascar. In fact it is about 47%.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/vanilla-production-by-country

There is so much vanilla being grown it has impacted prices. Whether Queensland grows or not is immaterial. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

More from the article -

" This supreme finickiness makes it unusually vulnerable to the growing shocks of climate change and deforestation."

"Most people I know who brood and despair over climate change might know that extreme weather could soon threaten crops like corn and coffee. "

Corn and coffee are at risk? JM, Corn and Coffee are also grown in Australia. ;D ;D ;D ;D

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