CBS News says Rio de Janeiro was 111F on February 17, 2025. The actual temperature was 95F, which was the hottest temperature of the month.
Rio de Janeiro recorded its hottest day in at least a decade when temperatures on Monday reached 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit) — about 145 degrees warmer than Bismarck, North Dakota — as residents flocked to the ocean to try to cool off.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Weather Calendar | Weather Underground
h/t Bob G
$86 million to reduce cow burps in California.
“EXPANDS MARKETS FOR CLIMATE SMART DAIRY PRODUCTS IN CALIFORNIA AND SUPPORTS FARMER IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING OF CLIMATE SMART PRACTICES.”
Two weeks ago :
“Great Lakes continuing to lose ice coverage, experts warn”
February 6, 2025
Great Lakes continuing to lose ice coverage, experts warn | Bridge Michigan
Lake Erie ice cover has been far above average for the past month.
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Christmas 2023 was warm in Omaha, so the New York Times announced the end of snow. Now there is record snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere and Omaha is under an extreme cold watch.
“This past year was an Omaha year, and we arrived on the 22nd to find that the weather was very mild — almost 50 degrees — and there was no snow. More unusually, there had been no snow for the entire month of December. Aside from some brief and very sparse flurries, it hadn’t snowed in Brooklyn, either, in November or December. I’m an incorrigible heat seeker, and the phrase “wintry mix” fills me with despair. But even so, the lack of cold and ice in 2023 felt unsettling.”
Opinion | The End of Snow – The New York Times
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CBS News says the problem with NAZI Germany was free speech.
A news story from last week.
“Great Lakes continuing to lose ice coverage, experts warn”
Great Lakes continuing to lose ice coverage, experts warn | Bridge Michigan
Lake Erie ice cover has been far above the fifty year average for the past month.
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It seems unlikely there will be a lot of melting going on there this week.
Dec 26, 1909
The question as to whether or not there is intelligent life on Mars has now been a mooted one with astronomers for years, the consensus of opinion being now distinctly in favor of it. At the head of the believers stands Professor Percival Lowell, who has made a study of the planet for years at his own observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in an atmosphere peculiarly adapted for careful observation, he has one of the finest telescopes in the world. He regards the Martian canals as evidence of a scientific method of irrigation worked out with remarkable precision.
Dec 26, 1909, page 12 – Daily News Advertiser at Newspapers.com
Analyzing 90 years of predictions that New York is about to drown.
“Anti-science conservatives must be stopped
Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake.”
Anti-science conservatives must be stopped – Global warming – Salon.com
In 1986, the New York Times predicted the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the US would lose between 100 and 1,000 feet of shoreline by 2026.
“MANY scientists are so sure that the sea level will rise visibly in the coming decades that they are advising planners to adopt new strategies now. A predicted rise in sea level of one foot within the next 30 to 40 years will drive much of the Atlantic and Gulf shoreline inward by a hundred feet and some of it by more than a thousand feet, according to marine geologists.”
SIGNIFIGANT RISE IN SEA LEVEL NOW SEEMS CERTAIN – The New York Times
