Climate change: World's hottest day since records began

[Smiggles]

The summer we love is slipping away

From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.

grist.org

There was a time when summer felt easy to recognize. In childhood, summer was a time of freedom and adventure. Even into adulthood, it is a time many of us feel most free to enjoy each other and the natural world — from lazy afternoons at the beach to camping trips and swimming holes, from family cookouts and neighborhood block parties to the simple pleasure of biting into peaches and tomatoes so ripe the juice runs down your wrist. It’s when our time of dreaming through the cold comes to fruition. The time when the vegetables and fruits we planted in the spring are harvested, the time when we finally spend our precious accrued vacation time and hard-earned cash, when we treat our children to the best of what life has to offer.

But summer is changing. Over the past half-century, annual hot-season temperatures in parts of the United States have warmed by as much as 4 or 5 degrees Fahrenheit, driving heat waves, droughts, and downpours. This past July was the hottest month ever recorded for the contiguous U.S., according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. We are witnessing the slow erosion of our old summer normal. As climate change makes the season more extreme, our habits, traditions, and pastimes are also evolving, in ways both subtle and truly seismic.

 

[Maurice Kitching]

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-quick-action-world-hotter.html

Still waiting for the ice to disappear.

 

[tetrasect]

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

www.carbonbrief.org

 

[Gordon_R]

Another record month:

August ties for hottest month on record as global heat climbs

Climate change and the rising influence of El Niño saw August reach the record for warmest month.

www.bbc.com