Japan Swelters Through Hottest Summer While Parts of China Log Warmest August on Record (theguardian.com) 52
Japan has recorded its hottest summer on record after a sweltering three months marked by thousands of instances of "extreme heat," with meteorologists warning that unseasonably high temperatures will continue through the autumn. From a report: The average temperature in June, July and August was 1.76C higher than the average recorded between 1991 and 2020, the Japan meteorological agency said, according to Kyodo news agency. It was the hottest summer since comparable records were first kept in 1898 and tied the record set in 2023, the agency said. Japan has recorded 8,821 instances of "extreme heat" -- a temperature of 35C or higher -- so far this year, easily beating the previous record of 6,692 set in 2023, it added. The brutal heat was not confined to Japan. Swathes of China logged the hottest August on record, the weather service said.
The hot weather prompted delays to the start of the new school year in some Chinese cities. State media reported on Tuesday that some schools and universities in Jiangxi, Chongqing, and Sichuan provinces had pushed the return to school out to 9 September, citing high temperatures. China Daily said Chongqing authorities had extended school holidays for all kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, and at least a dozen colleges and universities, "to ensure the safety and health of teachers and students amid the extreme heat."
The hot weather prompted delays to the start of the new school year in some Chinese cities. State media reported on Tuesday that some schools and universities in Jiangxi, Chongqing, and Sichuan provinces had pushed the return to school out to 9 September, citing high temperatures. China Daily said Chongqing authorities had extended school holidays for all kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, and at least a dozen colleges and universities, "to ensure the safety and health of teachers and students amid the extreme heat."
Records (Score:5, Insightful)
Any record breaking summer in a single region, of course, could be just statistical variation.
But it is pretty disturbing that records high temperatures are being broken not merely in one place, but around the world.
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Pull up the chart of % of the US that exceeded 90*F during the summer for the past 100 years.
There are clear patterns and they don't match anybody's narrative.
Smoothed data is useful.
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Smoothed data is useful.
Indeed. And the smoothed data shows the rise pretty clearly.
But breaking records makes climate newsworthy. People love to hear about breaking records, even when the record breaking is within measurement errors .
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Smoothed data is useful.
Indeed. And the smoothed data shows the rise pretty clearly.
But breaking records makes climate newsworthy. People love to hear about breaking records, even when the record breaking is within measurement errors .
In a way, the count of "extreme" days is more important. If the average temperature increases by 2 degrees because the temperature at all times of all days is exactly 2 degrees higher, then no one would notice or care. It's the really hot days that matter.
As others have pointed out, we've always heard about super hot days from many decades back. What is noteworthy isn't that cities have hot days but rather that there are so many cities all around the world that are having hot days.
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I'll never tire of posting this. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wi... [explainxkcd.com]
This time with citations for all the data. So feel free to make your own graphic to disprove it. But I imagine your next excuse is to mumble something about bad data or the measurement being flawed.
All the scientists are wrong yet nobody can disprove the data. Why?
Re:Records [including heat strokes] (Score:3)
Yeah, it's a powerful "comic". Your final paragraph needed a sarcasm tag? Not sure if the comment as a whole should be moderated Funny. I'm all for humor, but the story doesn't feel like a rich topic for humor.
Rather the topic feels hot and sweaty and with too many warnings about possible heat strokes. I'm sure getting tired of them and the associated ambulance sirens. Apparently we are having a couple of cool days now, with a return to heat stroke conditions next weekend... The rain and coolness was a resu
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Re:Records (Score:4, Interesting)
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A fact is not a "narrative."
An Inconvenient Truth was fact too, which turned out to be narrative, and in the end, not very accurate.
When researchers seek to confirm bias, they usually succeed. It is not as though they have been free to report any doubts, caveats, misgivings, or alternate explanations.
So, yeah, it is a narrative. Were it not, so called progressives should be imprisoned for continuing to take more flights, and fly more miles every year than everyone else. Your indifference to the destructi
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You'd have to invoke some kind of magic or obfuscatory voodoo to deny it.
Such as christian nationalism and the 3rd rate piss poor facsimile that passes for a conservative these days.
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Re:1.76C increase is "sweltering"? (Score:5, Informative)
You haven't been paying attention, have you? An average 1.5 degree temperature rise globally is cope-level climate change. Above that, it starts getting really serious for some areas of the globe. Above 3.0 is catastrophic due to various tipping points. We're heading towards a 5.0 increase by 2100.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learnin... [ucar.edu]
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Well, since it's an average, yes. (Score:3)
You see, that 1.76 degree increase in average means more extreme weather more often. 1.76 degrees only sounds small. Remember, we're discussing globe scale quantities. The only people who can't see how drastic a 1.76 degree shift is have their eyes squinted tightly shut and their fingers stuffed firmly in their ears.
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When we start converting that 1.76 degrees into joules of energy by multiplying by the volume of the atmosphere it becomes clear that we are talking about a staggeringly large amount of energy.
For reference :
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It's hot here in New Orleans, but it always is....hell my AC comes on in April and generally doesn't shut off till early November.
Where I live, about 200 miles (~320km) south of the Canadian Border, my AC now goes on in April and continues on until Nov.
Up until about 10 or 15 years ago, I did not need an AC. Where I live, lakes hardly ever freezes over and snow is not a common occurrence any more. So were I am, we have seen significant changes to our climate over the past 40 years :(
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I'm afraid the idiocy is found at your end of the spectrum, friend. And it begins at "where I live"...
Don't troll. (Score:3)
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Your brilliant criticism of science is that it doesn't stay exactly the same over time, and values accuracy over the convenience of political rhetoric? What monsters!
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Do we really need to explain the difference between local and global temperature, between weather and climate, and between anecdote and data, yet again? It gets tiring.
Your personal experience one summer in one location is not climate, and doesn't tell us anything about climate.
(Yes, I know you hear people say "we had a really hot summer where I live. It's climate change". They're wrong too. One summer in one location is not global climate change. Global climate change is real, but that word "global" is i
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Thanks. We’ll factor your sample size one into the global average.
Re:Is it true, though? (Score:4, Insightful)
Check the state of your glaciers and get back to us.
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The reason I ask: where I live (Switzerland), we had a bloody cold and rainy April, May, June, and July.M/EM>
And yet, Japan had the hottest summer on record. It's almost as if you take those two extremes you get an average of the temperature and can compare it against other temperature averages to see if that average is higher or lower than before.
Seriously? This kind of idiocy makes me doubt every climate report.
With you lack of reasoning skills, the idiocy isn't with the reports.
Trade ya! (Score:2)
I woke up to 41*F on Labor Day.
This is quite bad for the garden!
Re:Trade ya! (Score:4, Informative)
This is akin to peering into a microscope to count animal populations.
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Trade ya!
Deal! You also have to swap January with me. We average 4 days of rain in the month with an average high of 56(F).
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Ooh, "warm mongers." That's a good one!
Remember, if you don't have any valid arguments, catchy and clever insults work better anyways.
Re: slashdot suffers through highest climate posts (Score:3)
Yeah, keep repeating that "impartial" information that was spoonfed to you by the oil companies. Meanwhile we now know they saw this whole mess coming in the 80's and decided their best course of action was to pay a few scientists to muddy the waters.
That worked out well, judging from the way you still cling to their talking points.
It was a great summer and now Labor Day arrived (Score:2)
It was a great summer. Sunny and hot, great for the shore and the pool. Now Labor Day has arrived and right on schedule it is low 70's F in the middle of the day, 50's at night. Great weather for riding, hiking, biking. I was hoping for another week of summer heat but no such luck. It's time to close the pool for the season.
Japan cherry picking dates (Score:1)
Japan is cherry picking dates when the provable highs were August 6 and 9 with 7,000 F temperature at two places on the ground
The cascades alone would do this. (Score:4, Interesting)
Kicked off by what we did in the last 200 years. On top of that fossil CO2 is still being pumped into the atmosphere at epic scales.
We are screwed. I just hope some form of modern civilization can survive.