It's the hottest day ever recorded in Europe, as Earth hurtles deeper into the climate crisis

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/28/1867951/-It-s-the-hottest-day-ever-recorded-in-Europe-as-Earth-hurtles-deeper-into-the-climate-crisis?detail=emaildkre

On Friday, France recorded the highest temperature ever experienced at any location in that country. The 44.3° C reading (about 111° F) at the town of Carpentras is an all-time record, but it’s just part of a massive heat wave that has been baking much of Europe. The heat wave has closed schools and businesses unequipped to deal with such temperatures. It’s sparked record wildfires in Spain and led to water-rationing across several nations.
The five hottest European summers in the last 600 years have all come in the last twenty years. And 2019 is looking like it may provide not just the hottest day, but the hottest week, month, and year as the radically destabilized weather system continues to draw scalding air farther and farther north. Germany is experiencing it’s hottest June ever. Temperatures in Italy have turned deadly. And records have been shattered across at least six nations. The wave of hot air is also bringing up dust from the Sahara, prompting health warnings because of both temperatures and air quality.
And it’s not just Europe. The United States is also looking at record temperatures for June. Heat has spread across every region of the country, bringing triple-digit temperatures from the Southwest to the East Coast. The record heat follows record flooding. Record fires. Record storms.
And all of it is part of the climate crisis. All of it is coming because the Earth is now saddled with a level of carbon in the atmosphere that hasn’t been seen in the whole time that human beings have existed as a species. This is a whole new world—one that is distinctly inimical to the lives and civilization we have constructed.
That’s why European leaders are determined to come away from the G-20 with actual, enforceable progress on the climate crisis. And why Donald Trump is likely to find that Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman are his buddies in more than just their love for getting rid of journalists. The United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia are likely to be the three nations that stand in the way of taking serious action on the climate—a toxic trio fueled by ignorance and greed.
Thanks to Trump, the United States is on the wrong side of history. And also thanks to Trump, history itself is at risk.

Hey, it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Gets hot this time of year.

Go to Australia, New Zealand, Argentina. Go to Antarctica. Right now NASA climatologists are estimating the ice pack down there is GROWING at a rate of 100 billion tons per year.

The situation in Greenland isn't alarming. The ice loss is happening on the land mass not in the glacial ice. Planet Earth is a dynamic system, it's hotter than hell at the core, and colder than hell at the poles. In between, we have all kinds of things are going on. Tektonic plates are moving around causing ocean currents to change and water temps to rise or fall, submarine volcanic activity is constantly spewing hot gases and chemicals into the seas, earthquakes make s**t happen.

But above all, there's this huge ball of super hot gases, 800,000 miles in diameter, sitting out there 93 million miles away, that has a lot to say about how things go here on planet Earth. This thermonuclear furnace is around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the surface and 27 million Fahrenheit at its core, it puts off one hell of a lot of energy in the form of heat, radiation, and magnetic fields. It blows out these things called "flares" that produce high energy particles and radiation that are dangerous to living organisms. However, at the surface of the Earth we are well protected by the Earth's magnetic field and our ATMOSPHERE. For lack of a better term, we call this baby the SUN. And wouldn't ya know, it has way more influence on our climate and weather than a herd of cows farting methane or a bunch of people driving cars around.

Don't freak out, the world ain't gonna burn up just because a bunch of ideological assholes are lying to you while trying to fleece every nation on Earth and destroy the engine of prosperity.

Inslee says we are..but he didn't elaborate. I was left wondering what sting this is.

My sister lives in a beautiful house on the beach in Florida. She specifically put a measuring stick on her beach to record as the water rises. The stick is buried in sand. But we still look at it to make sure it is the right stick to measure the rising of the waters in Florida.

This is a serious stick. It is 12 feet tall above ground, and is anchored with a steel rod that was driven 10 feet into the ground.

The water has been at the same level since 1979.