August Was World's Joint-Hottest Month On Record, Scientists Say
(Friday September 11, 2026 @03:00AM (BeauHD)
from the climate-crisis dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/09/11/060244/august-was-worlds-joint-hottest-month-on-record-scientists-say
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Longtime Slashdot reader [1]AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC:
> August was the [2]joint-hottest month ever recorded , tying with [3]July 2023 , according to the EU's climate service. The record was driven by a combination of climate change and the [4]rising influence of El Nino, pushing heat into the atmosphere across the Pacific. Temperatures for the month were 1.65C above pre-industrial levels -- surpassing the critical 1.5C threshold agreed by countries to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. While a single month above 1.5C does not mean it has been permanently crossed, it shows a trend towards breaching that limit. The month also capped western Europe's warmest summer, with high temperatures pushing the season past the deadly heat of 2003.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93vde0n2l4o
[3] https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/09/1519206/july-was-worlds-hottest-month-on-record-climate-scientists-say
[4] https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/2216202/off-the-charts-el-nino-is-already-the-strongest-since-records-began
> August was the [2]joint-hottest month ever recorded , tying with [3]July 2023 , according to the EU's climate service. The record was driven by a combination of climate change and the [4]rising influence of El Nino, pushing heat into the atmosphere across the Pacific. Temperatures for the month were 1.65C above pre-industrial levels -- surpassing the critical 1.5C threshold agreed by countries to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. While a single month above 1.5C does not mean it has been permanently crossed, it shows a trend towards breaching that limit. The month also capped western Europe's warmest summer, with high temperatures pushing the season past the deadly heat of 2003.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93vde0n2l4o
[3] https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/09/1519206/july-was-worlds-hottest-month-on-record-climate-scientists-say
[4] https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/2216202/off-the-charts-el-nino-is-already-the-strongest-since-records-began
Mister President, have you see the news ?! (Score:2)
by greytree ( 7124971 )
JD: Mister President, have you see the news ?!
Trump: Don't worry, we'll keep shutting down wind turbines until the temperature drops.
Unpossible!11! (Score:3)
The current trumpistani admin says everything's fine while clutching a coffee cup and watching the flames.
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Our orangey-green genius, smartest genius of all geniuses, has also raised the price of oil and meat, worked to reduce the wasteful shipping of goods from China and elsewhere, and is even now attempting to cut down on the amount of goods transported by land to and from Canada.
Our fragile planet is safe in his tiny hands.
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Donald Trump handed Iran the Strait of Hormuz to close at will. That was nuke enough for the Iranian regime to survive the next decade.
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The irony of all the climate change deniers claiming we would have to destroy our economies to address it, and now Trump is actually trying it. Meanwhile the commies are turning it into an economic boom with massive increases in both manufacturing and cheap energy to power the manufacturing.
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> Trump is stopping Iran from selling its oil.
> What have you done?
Railed against Trump online, making Right wing American's mad and ensuring that they went out and voted for him thus destroying much of the oil based economy. There's an honest shift to solar energy in East Asia driven by the Iran crisis that would never have happened without this fortuitous turn of events. China had a massive overproduction of solar panels to the extent that even with the new situation they still have too many for the companies to be profitable. Large amounts of this production have now be