Peter du Toit

Europe braces for a new Heat Dome, Heatwave brings back 40s °C across France, Italy, and the Balkans The heat dome is returning to Europe, bringing temperatures up to 40 °C and worsening drought and wildfire conditions.

Coming up in Europe - the northern hemisphere summer of 2025 is not done yet.

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More stations here:

This at a 12-month running mean of +1.54ºC (using the ERA5 dataset Aug 2024 - Jul 2025)

Every 0.1ºC from here on in is going to make these events more intense.

Ensuring that people can stay cool and the power stays on in this area should be a high priority if it is not already!

Image of former pilot George Hibberd with the cockpit window showing him flying over clouds.

"Climate-based conscientious objection" as @ggrimalda.bsky.social likes to call it, is making people make some radical choices.

Case in point former pilot George Hibberd.

It's also great to hear these individuals tell their stories!

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Graphic indicating percentages of people who think climate change will be personally harmful.

There are many places where people think they will be immune to what is coming.

That is truly terrifying.

Data: climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/u...

If you were to count non-stop (without sleep or breaks) at about one count per second, counting to 3.6 billion would take 3.6 billion seconds, ie. around 114 years!

3.3 - 3.6 billion people live in hotspots of high vulnerability to climate change

A staggering amount of people are on the brink of chaos.

Graphic source: Pg 16 www.ipcc.ch/report/a...

Future climate change is projected to increase the severity of impacts across natural and human systems and will increase regional differences Examples of impacts without additional adaptation

Given the global lack of urgency and political will to radically curb emissions (2025 emissions are projected to rise by 0.8% - see bsky.app/profile/gle... - when they are meant to be *falling* by 5.5% per year to attempt staying below 2ºC) prudent risk management requires studying this map!

Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

“If the behavior that this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone.”

Not “if” rather “when”

A true fall form grace.

Warmest July on record for the People's Republic Of China. In fact, their warmest month on record overall. 🔥

Thick #wildfire smoke across Canada in recent days predicted to cross the N Atlantic & reach Ireland/UK on 5 Aug with 2nd plume following. #CopernicusAtmosphere 5-day aerosol optical depth forecast from 4 Aug atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

something like that

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

As the US continues to trash it's ability to track the unfolding #ClimateCrisis www.npr.org/2025/08/...

Thank goodness for the satellites launched by:

Japan wmo.int/media/update... and

France/UK: www.eoportal.org/sat...

Calling for support after destruction of over 100 structures in fires PLETTENBERG BAY AND SEDGEFIELD NEWS - More...

This happened last night just east and west of where we are.

We have had a couple of unseasonably hot days/nights over the last while ahead of cold fronts passing through.

When a fire starts in an informal settlement the results can be catastrophic. 100 homes lost, 600 individuals displaced. 😢

The public comment period on the US EPA's plan to stop regulating greenhouse gases is open until 9/15.

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In addition, the DOE's recent climate report (used to argue that carbon dioxide is not so bad) will take comments until 9/2.

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July 2025 was the third warmest July on record in the ERA5 dataset at 1.25C above preindustrial levels, though it was notably down from the prior records set in 2023 and 2024.

🔥Wildfires are growing more frequent and intense, fuelled by climate change and extreme weather. How do we measure their true impact? With near real-time data, CAMS tracks wildfire emissions, while C3S provides a range of fire-related datasets.

Ocean souring? The “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate” came out last week. I’ve made some broad comments on it already, but I’ve been reading the s…

Ocean souring?

A closer look at the section on Ocean Acidification in the recent DOE Critical Review. Frankly, it's a bit of a shambles.

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/o...

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions".
Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam.
Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled.
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

South Africa Is Considering Flood Insurance for Large Cities South Africa is studying whether some of its largest cities should take out flood insurance after a series of disasters in recent years led to bailouts from the government.

They are talking about parametric insurance here.

So insurance companies hedging their bets and passing some of the risk onto the insured.

www.bloomberg.com/ne...

America CAN'T Keep Up with China’s High-Speed Revolution! In this video, I'm discussing why the U.S. struggles to keep up with China's infrastructure development. China has decades of experience constructing cutting-edge metro systems and an extensive high speed rail network, and the U.S. just does America CAN'T Keep Up with China’s High-Speed Revolution!

Reuters Aug 1, 2025: “ The U.S. government said on Friday it canceled an environmental review of a long-delayed proposed high-speed rail project between Washington and Baltimore, and scrapped $26 million in grants, effectively ending the project.”

Meanwhile in China: youtu.be/sJKB-TR2x2o

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

Nothing every changes except the climate When I became a climate scientist nearly 22 years ago, I started accumulating books on the subject. One of the first was called something1 like “Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air?” …

Nothing ever changes but the climate

Thorts on a repought.

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/n...

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Long time admirer of Luke Kemp’s thoughtful work.

Looking forward to this read!

www.theguardian.com/...

#RiskManagement

Historical cumulative fossil COz emissions since 1850

One thing we know *for sure* is this move will solidify their position as the world’s leading atmospheric polluter.

Graphic: robbieandrew.github.io

Any bets on whether the US will fall below India’s growth?

They will *definitely* not catch the world’s first electrostate!

Graphic from here: www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

🔥 Wildfire emissions data from #CopernicusAtmosphere shows intense fire activity in Canada, southern Europe & the UK in June and July. Read about the the latest updates on wildfire emissions and impacts in our article atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-tracks-...

Graph showing: Monthly Indian coal statistics

In 6 of 7 months this year, Coal India's production has been lower than the same months of last year. This is because of large stocks of coal both at mines and power stations, as power demand was lower than normal with the early monsoon and renewables are growing.
robbieandrew.github.io/india/

Our American neighbours are trying to reverse the global #energytransition. It’s a fool’s errand, and Canada should not join it. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ⚡️