A country largely without air-conditioning (click here) was struggling to cope in the heat. Rail service was limited for fear the tracks would buckle, and flights at Britain’s largest air base were halted.
The italics simply indicates a different country from the previous paragraph. Each reporting has authors.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said on Monday that he had visited areas affected by wildfires in the western region of Extremadura. “Climate change kills,” Mr. Sánchez said. “All these waves of wildfires have behind them heat waves caused by the climatic emergency that the planet is experiencing.”
Several areas of France have experienced record-breaking temperatures, approaching or surpassing 100 degrees Fahrenheit in towns including Brest, Saint-Brieuc and Nantes, according to the national weather forecaster. But conditions were expected to quickly shift in the coming hours, with strong winds pushing temperatures down by nearly half in some places along France’s southwestern coast.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said on Monday that he had visited areas affected by wildfires in the western region of Extremadura. “Climate change kills,” Mr. Sánchez said. “All these waves of wildfires have behind them heat waves caused by the climatic emergency that the planet is experiencing.”
Several areas of France have experienced record-breaking temperatures, approaching or surpassing 100 degrees Fahrenheit in towns including Brest, Saint-Brieuc and Nantes, according to the national weather forecaster. But conditions were expected to quickly shift in the coming hours, with strong winds pushing temperatures down by nearly half in some places along France’s southwestern coast.
The Eastern seaboard seems to becoming more tropical with frequent if not daily rains. The entire Eastern seaboard, including the southeast.
We know for a fact schools of fish in the oceans are shifting north. The problem is they aren't necessarily meeting up with their usual diets. That reality could cause fisheries to collapse, but, marine scientists have had their finger on the pulse of that reality for some time now.
But, as to people, other than their diets and where it is going to come from; with shifting temperatures of the ocean the reality of daily storms in the subtropics that was once Florida, is now farther north than before. In that lies the reality that native vegetation growth could easily be encouraged to allow for more removal of CO2.
Temperate rainforests are a strong potential if states pay attention to their rainfalls and the vegetation growth that is being recorded by botanists. If temperate rainforests are developing in these regions, it should be encouraged and protected.
By David Epstein
We’re just about halfway through meteorological summer (click here) — those warmest months of the year — and it’s going to be toasty this week.
If you looked at a chart of average temperature in Greater Boston, you would see that the warmest air typically occurs around July 21, and it’s no surprise that this week is going to be the hottest week of the summer so far.
With a frontal system approaching Monday, clouds will be plentiful yet rain will not. As the moisture moves toward the coastline, it will lose its potency, and the best chance of afternoon and evening showers and storms will be well west of Route 495 and north into New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine....
Yes, the northern reaches of the Climate Crisis could be about temperate rainforests. Not tropical, but, subtropical. Actually, I would expect it. I once made that observation to Former Governor Bev Purdue.
