After a very warm September, here in the Netherlands, we had an extremely warm first ten days of October: 1.6⁰C warmer than ever recorded before (1901-2022)!
The average temperature in the first ten days of October, here in the Netherlands, was the same as the average for July + August in the 20th century: 16.6⁰C!
These days this year were around 4.5⁰C warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for this period, and around 5.5⁰C warmer than its 20th century average.
Incredible heatwave in Perú: coming from 39.8⁰C before this year, its October all-time high temperature went up almost every day this month, and now it's 41.6⁰C, a record for any month too! Via @thierrygoosebc on the birdsite. #globalwarming#ClimateChange#heatwave
Quote from a PepsiCo executive in @petergleick 's The Three Ages of Water: "The biggest enemy is tap water . . . We're not against water-- it just has its place. We think it's good for irrigation and cooking." #water
Temperature here in central the Netherlands was over 30⁰C again today (31.1⁰C, in the end). In September, that happened: 2 times before 2013 4 times in 2013-2022, and 2 times in the last three days.
July 2023 was by far the hottest July on record globally. And the hottest month on record in general. And the month with the largest departure from the normal for that month. In short: ridiculously hot. Graph via @hausfath on the birdsite.
Amsterdam's city council voted to shut down the city's cruise terminal to reduce mass tourism. The city: Yes, the cruise ships do bring in €100 million per year, but half of that is for their fossil fuel suppliers here. And they cause a lot of air travel to and from Amsterdam.
Just got a reminder from my Google Calendar: I told my boss 5 years ago that solar PV capacity in the Netherlands would triple from 5 GW to 15 GW in 5 years time. In reality, it quadrupled, to 20 GW ;) #solarenergy#SolarPV#renewables#energytransition
Based on 23 daily values, the December average of atmospheric CO2 concentration at Maunakea, close to Mauna Loa*, was 419.0-419.1 ppm. That's 2.3-2.4 ppm more than a year ago.
Welcome to 2023. It took less than an hour for us to experience the warmest January temperature ever recorded here: 15.6⁰C (60.1F), beating the previous high in the 122-year record by 0.5⁰C (0.9F)!
2022 was the warmest year in the UK since the Met Office’s annual records began in 1884 – and also since the Central England temperature series began in 1659. The top 10 hottest years have all occurred since 2002. https://t.co/ukTaVWquJ0 Via @richardabetts
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