4 July was world’s hottest day on record… for now
(CNS): Tuesday, 4 July, was the hottest day in recorded history, with an average global air temperature of 62.9°F, breaking the previous record of 62.62°F set one day before on Monday, 3 July. After two back-to-back days of record-breaking heat, global experts are warning that this year’s hottest days are still to come.
The United States is suffering under an intense heat dome, and there is a heatwave in parts of China; temperatures in North Africa are reaching 122°F and the Antarctic, which is supposed to be in the middle of winter, is also far hotter than usual, all of which has combined to scorch the earth and offer a taste of what we can expect to see on a regular basis in future, as world leaders continue in their failure to address the climate crisis.
Scientists have said that the climate crisis is being accelerated by the El Niño weather pattern, which the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned this week had begun making it very likely the world temperature record will be broken again and possibly in a matter of days.
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Gulf and Atlantic NOAA buoys are recording ocean temps 10+’F above peak summer norms. Hurricane fuel.
If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the Caymans.
Bobo 9:18, hurricanes do not follow that rule.
Neither do the water temperatures around the Cayman Islands.
There will be no way to escape the heat around Cayman though one can always take a flight to Toronto or London.
Tired of listening to the hypocrites now. We are happy to drive around and make many unnecessary journeys with our CO2 emitting vehicles, we are happy to jet off to other destinations in CO2 emitting aircraft. We even send sports teams abroad to compete and contribute to CO2 emissions. Government isn’t committed, and neither are the public, so just suck up whatever comes.
Speak for yourself. Some of the public are very committed and have been doing their part for years, despite the louts. It’s called being principled and having some character. What do you stand for, other than surrendering to the wrong side of history? How will the next generations remember you?
we can’t even recycle glass
Roy, please let us know what PPM would do to reverse this warming trend if they were elected in office again.
You commenting on eryting else, how would PPM solve this?
Ah waiting……
Tin Foil hat material. Like the Covid hysteria.
Conspiracy nut has entered the chat
Top 5 hottest days on record, worldwide:
1. Thursday (17.23°C)
2. Friday (17.20°C)
3. Wednesday (17.18°C)
4. Tuesday (17.18°C)
5. Monday (17.01°C)
Perhaps when the biggest hurricane ever to hit Cayman hits this year or next people will change their view.
Currently, the Atlantic Ocean is at record high temperatures and there is a direct relationship between the heat of the Atlantic and strength of hurricanes.
Curious if we do t have many hurricanes what will your argument be? Asking for a friend.
Tell your friend the following.
Statistics show that there are 3 times more hurricanes and more powerful hurricanes the past decade than there were in the 80’s and 90’s. There also is a direct relationship between higher Atlantic Ocean temperatures and the increase in hurricanes.
The laws of probabilities are there and insurance companies follow them closely. Why has your home insurance and your friends home insurance gone up so much the past 2 years?
Ask your home insurance agent.
Johnny, Major home insurance companies have started to pull out of Florida because of their concerns about future big hurricanes wiping out their profits.
Get ready Caymanians. You will be losing your home insurance companies too in the next few years.
The hurricane risk is just too high for the insurance industry.
I look at how climate change is impacting the Florida Keys, just north of here, with million dollar homes now being abandoned and water problems impacting properties all along the Gulf Coast of Florida and ask myself what is different here on Grand Cayman.
In the past 12 months 4 American home insurance companies have withdrawn from the Florida market completely. The hurricane last October, that hit Fort Myers, being the deal breaker for Florida insurance companies.
Afraid we are all living on borrowed time here before the next Hurricane Ivan hits here. The sea is getting hotter every year and it is rising too. The coral is dying everywhere in the Caribbean due to rising water temperatures.
People here should start paying attention.
You may dodge a bullet this year but you certainly will not dodge a bullet every year.
Funny it’s your hat of preference. 7 million attributed dead in that “hysteria”. 16% of those in the USA well-after China and European epidemic test cases, mask recommendations, issued hygiene guidance, and they continued apace even test kits, and vaccine availability. Wear it proud, dummies.
Wow! Warmest day ON-RECORD! So what about the other 4.5bn years? 😂
Sod off, science denier
Yeh because the science behind the covid vaccines was so right.
Hey Sagan, Jonny is quoting the real science by stating the 4.5bn years!
The hottest days in the human record, not geological record. Current C02 levels of 420+ ppm were last seen in early Pliocene 5 million years, and at least 10 major glacial and inter-glacial periods ago. By 2100+ they will be at pre-hominid levels from 50,000,000 years ago, between 1000-2000ppm. It’s difficult to breathe that air. Daytime temps might be scalding. Few living things will be able to adapt to pace, without protection and supplemental normalizing oxygen, including many crops. There will be acid rain. Scientist warnings have been blaring for 40 years, their best mitigations published, and mostly ignored by comfortable self-interest, greed, denial and MAGA alt-facts that continue to accelerate our own extinction. The ultimate Darwin Award.
Oh dear, beyond stupid.
No doubt the green campaigners quite happily drove to the fireworks displays to watch more carbon enter the atmosphere as well as discharge it out of the back of their oversized SUV’s
No doubt you’re presumptuous af.
“the green campaigners quite happily drove to the fireworks”
That’s where your mind is? Really? And ppl actually thumbed this up?
we are doomed 😩
The unregulated fireworks raining toxic and radioactive heavy metals on our reefs should have been banned 10+ years ago. These shows are a flag of environmental stupidity and indifference. Also, in many cases, violating Towns & Communities Law (1995 Revision) on noise. RCIPS, RCIFS, and DOE asleep at the wheel as usual.
we’re talking about post industrial times here, stay relevant doofus
‘Stay relevant’ from the dope using the word ‘Doofus’!
Well doofus in pre industrial times, everyone lit fires to cook and light, burning wood and whatever else would burn, so don’t be fooled into thinking putting carbon in the air is something new.
CNS: Please please look at this graphic.
Not to mention wild fires burned for millions of years unabated.
Not to mention the earth is being raped to make solar panels when safe nuclear and hydrogen energy could have solved every carbon concern real or contrived decades ago and still can. As an example, nuclear powered aircraft carriers run on a single charge of fuel for 20 years and the spent fuel rods are safely stored in cooling ponds or casks.
Not to mention plants love CO2.
Not to mention, nobody is standing on the coast waiting to be drowned from the rising seas.
Not to mention many of the most ardent green supporters own and continue to purchase multi-million dollar coastal properties and have carbon footprints 100x the average person.
Not to mention they gain financing from green virtue signaling banks to purchase these properties.
I just don’t know how anyone can ignore all of this and blindly sign on to green dogma.
easiest thing the world could do is ban commercial meat production.
totally not required for dietry purposes
Your parents should have used condoms. You’re totally not required.
Good one!
wow…what a contribution….zzzzz
If your ancestors didn’t eat meat you probably wouldn’t be here. Remember that!
Undoubtedly cave-dwelling pre-agrarian hominids of yore were faced with some gruesome survival emergency choices, like eating dead Uncle Larry, and a dog or two. They learned that they could disassociate with the macabre butchery and allotment exercise by cooking their former friends. Cudos to them. That doesn’t mean it’s part of our evolutionary design, healthy, or that we should continue this as misplaced tradition, when “protein” is not a dietary deficiency. Most of the “meats” regularly consumed today weren’t on the menu even 100 years ago. We should know better in 2023. Lots of studies a search away on health, planet benefits of feeding our plant-based design. We don’t pull into Esso and pump diesel into an unleaded fuel tank, why would we do that with our own fuel?
Congratulations on offering a counter argument that says nothing.
wrong
future for cayman:
beach erosion and frequent coastal flooding.
widespread loss of beaches
massive and constant influx of sargassum
yearly and numerous massive hurricanes in the carribean
any comment wayne???
we are past the tipping point….
and wayne continues to stick his head in the sand.
NASA LANCE FIRMS shows the patchwork of where fires are actively burning in last 24hrs, all the global wildfires and deforestation slash and burn programs that don’t grab headlines.
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov
This is what animal agriculture looks like with 50 billion livestock to feed. Note DRC, Angola, Zambia where “fire season” peaks in August.
It is hot.
humans do contribute to the climate change by wanting more and bigger and faster things.
Is anyone studying the climate effect of plastic pollution of Earth’s rivers, lakes and oceans? If plastic is now in umbilical cords and mother’s milk, we’ve reached the point of no return…and who know what it does to the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.
Atlantic and Pacific don’t mix.
What happens in the Panama Canal and around Cape of Good Hope then? I guess that’s mingling not mixing.
Being generous in assuming they are focused on El Niño in the world’s largest ocean (and the largest global weather conveyor), dismissing its global impacts, and taking no note of concurrent Saharan Air Layer, Sargassum heat sinks, on the Atlantic side. No doubt one of Juju’s flat Earth graduates.
We need to focus now on diet and reducing GHGE, as the outlook of breathing unfiltered, non-enriched air beyond 2100 slips away. Air, water, shelter, food, fuel, war, acid showers. Those will be the concerns of future generations. They’ll wish they had the leisure time to worry about drinking straws, while condemning those of us that focused energies on the wrong survival issues, even at the tipping point.
You first for 25 years then tell us how effective it is.
Otherwise you are a virtue signalling poser that doesn’t truly believe the propaganda you’re pushing and you need to stick a cork in it.
Ironic timeline. Reading the published science, methane CH4 is 16x more warming as a heat sink than carbon dioxide C02, but with around 20 year lifespan instead of the 20,000 years in the case of atmospheric C02. Estimates are that more than half of the GHGE are coming from the meat and dairy industries, and if we accept that, and apply human behaviour changes to shift from meat to our design for plant-based eating, we can materially trim down CH4 emissions very quickly, and stay healthy. That’s why it is a top recommended published mitigation by the IPCC in their Assessment Reports, mentioned hundreds of times. We might stand a chance of buying decades of extra time to develop net zero fuels and transition without extinction if we just eat something better for us. That would be preferable to having our kids live out the worst case science classes…already underway. Also, lots of people that have been plant-based over 25 years, with remarkable blood labs that clearly attest to the effect of eating proper food.
Yes it was, but until we figure out why The Atlantic and Pacific oceans don’t mix, we have no say in the alleged global warming.
Scientists do say it is density, salinity, temperature, BUT it doesn’t explain WHY mother nature created it this way. What is the grand design?
You lost everyone but science denying nimrods at “alleged”.
But not at the creationist refuting the inter-connectivity of global ocean bodies?
That is a myth, and easy to fact check
Revelation 16:8-9
New King James Version
Fourth Bowl: Men Are Scorched
8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.
Oh will you just STFU with all the god crap.
Why? You’re allowed to speak but he doesn’t?
Stifleth thyself, o cranky heathen, thou.
A heretic! He/she/they are the worst.
Yes, the new King James version, as in the former edition, written by men (with very clever imaginations).