This is one of the best descriptions I've lately ran into.

And again, just to see how truly mind-blowingly gobsmackingly bananas current global sea surface temperatures are, here is the graph of global sea surface temperatures with the year 2023 omitted.

May 2024 was the warmest May on record by a large margin, beating the prior May record set in 2020 by nearly 0.2C and coming in at 1.52C above preindustrial levels. With 5 months of data in, 2024 is broadly on track (~75% chance) to beat 2023 as the warmest year on record:

Earth just experienced its hottest June day ever recorded. This beats the old record from June 23, 2023. The planet has experienced unprecedented warmth over the last 12 months with clear links to climate change.

🌡️New global temperature record. #CopernicusClimate preliminary data show the daily global average temperature reached 17.09°C (21 July 24), very marginally above the previous record of 17.08°C (6 July 23). Find out more 👉 climate.copernicus.eu/new-record-dai…

Bacterial nanomotors spin at up to 20,000 rpm x.com/i/status/18020…

What’s actually worth doing to make a climate difference, according to data? informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations…

Classic infographic. Hope there has been some improvement in some of these stats. jackhagley.com/The-World-as-1…

Music Sales by format from 1973+ Good use of a streamgraph by @visualcap visualcapitalist.com/music-industry…

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Un journaliste néerlandais fait la démonstration de lunettes de reconnaissance faciale en temps réel Massimo x.com/froggyups/stat…

Alors que les discours politiques semblent de ✚ en ✚ coupés de la réalité, passant d’une polémique à l’autre… Les températures n’en finissent plus de battre des records. Le Réseau Action Climat demande un traitement plus important du climat et de la transition juste.

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Carl Sagan saw this coming decades away.

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ABSOLUTE MADNESS IN CHINA 42 DEGREES IN MARCH 535 records pulverized + hundreds more of highest minimums. The most extreme weather event in world climatic history,which started 4 weeks ago between Europe and Africa is now in East Asia (100% as your author forecasted 1 month ago).

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

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The Mediterranean region is currently experiencing dangerous and deadly wildfires and heatwaves. It is in situations like these that #EarlyWarningsForAll save lives and livelihoods. Click 🔗 to learn more about Europe's adaptation efforts: bit.ly/3Gbw023