Brutal Heat and Flooding in Southeast Asia

Climate Emergency Forum discusses the unprecedented heatwaves and flooding affecting the region of Southeast Asia and India.
This video was recorded on May 8th, 2024, and published on May 19th, 2024 and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.
The discussion highlights the extreme temperatures, with places like Myanmar reaching 48.2 degrees Celsius and India experiencing temperatures of 45.9 degrees Celsius. These conditions have led to significant human suffering, including deaths from heatstroke, crop failures, and disruptions to daily life, particularly for vulnerable populations such as children.
In terms of scale, 800 million people in Southeast Asia and India are enduring these extreme conditions. There is a UNICEF press release stating that 243 million children are exposed to record dangerous heatwaves, exacerbating their already precarious living conditions. The direct link between these extreme weather events and global warming, driven by greenhouse gas emissions is underscored. The lack of adequate response from governments and international bodies is criticized with a call for immediate and substantial action to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
The broader implications of these climate events are noted including the disruption of education for children, which has long-term consequences for societal stability and development. The concept of "eco-anxiety," particularly among young people in affected regions, and the urgent need for political leaders to take meaningful action to address the climate crisis is mentioned. The forum concludes with a call to action, urging individuals and governments to prioritize climate mitigation efforts to ensure a livable future for the next generations.
Links:
- Thailand Reels Under Heat Wave As Some Regions Set New Records
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/thailand-...
- Summer of 2024: Sizzling Temperature, heat wave to hit food prices, water, polls too
www.forbesindia.com/article/t...
- Sweltering heat across East Asia and the Pacific puts children’s lives at risk - UNICEF
www.unicef.org/eap/press-rele...
- Seasonal forecasts
climate.copernicus.eu/seasona...
- ‘Inside an oven’: sweltering heat ravages crops and takes lives in south-east Asia
www.theguardian.com/environme...
- Radio Ecoshock
www.ecoshock.org/
- B.C. winemakers rethinking industry after climate catastrophes
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...
- Brazil flooding will take weeks to subside
www.reuters.com/world/america...
- The IPCC just published its summary of 5 years of reports - here's what you need to know
climatechampions.unfccc.int/t...
- The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels
www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
- To Hot to Handle (CEF Video)
• Too Hot to Handle
- We asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future ...
www.theguardian.com/environme...
- Eco Grief (CEF Video)
• Eco Grief
Regular Panelists:
Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa's Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University
Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate
Video Production:
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader
Heidi Brault - Video production and website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP team lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum; BA (Psychology); Climate Reality Leader
Our Website:
climateemergencyforum.org/
Attributions:
Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
- Source: Free Music Archive
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Image and Video: climateemergencyforum.org/ass...

[@irisstasinski8893]

Most of my life , have I've been angry about wonton overpopulation , overconsumption , and degradation of every place on earth . All do to greed , indifference , selfishness and stupidity .

[@StabilisingGlobalTemperature]

If CO2 were cut too rapidly there would be a collapse of crop yields, and a starvation crisis on a scale never before experienced. The key is to cool the planet using SRM / SOS. CO2 will gradually come down anyway, as we are already past peak oil and peak gas. In reality, that is what is going to lomit CO2 emissions, not carbon credits or political hot air.

[@Silks-]

And whenever you mention we’re overpopulated, the vast majority say ‘nahh we can fit loads more people.’ Unless it’s on a subject that directly affects them such as traffic, housing, etc. Even then they can blame infrastructure and lack of housing. It’s exasperating, like where do you even start if they actually wanted to learn. When I was growing up I thought most adults were clever, but it’s the other way around.

[@TheDoomWizard]

Agreed

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

Congratulations for having spent your life in anger. Did you get around to trying to change things or did you go ahead and consume products like everyone else?

[@ivanhunter3907]

And your point is?

[@vmw0710]

India has nukes but no air conditioning. Make sense of that💤

[@thepolycerateblacksheep]

describe the complexity of human society in one sentence. ✔

[@rickobrien1583]

Air conditioning is one of the false promises of modernity. "Nukes" are yet another

[@marktwain368]

Blame their neighbors. They are also quite friendly with Russia. This tilts the balance of power in the world.

[@junglie]

Rubbish ! every good hotel in india has aircon if you can afford it....

[@donniemoder1466]

A/C will only increase the greenhouse gasses more and the temps will go higher and they will need more a/c which will only increase ...

[@markhasleton6403]

"Cannot be witnesses to this " ? Well you're JUST ABOUT TO BE BUDDY. I'm living in SE Asia , working for a tiny privately funded charity , attempting to identify tropically adapted high value vegetable varieties. Which the locals will need within about 4 years , when the local in shore fishery will COLLAPSE. I come from Australia, I am familiar with heat, ambient air temperature of 47c , etc. But those were with minimal relative humidity. Today , where I am , it's 33c and about 80% rh... horrifying. Last night at about midnight I went for a swim in the ocean , the sharks have already been eaten and in about 50 metres of depth , I ran into several of my neighbours...it's literally too hot to swim during the day. I feel I'm living in a fkng blast furnace

[@showme360]

I am so sorry for your suffering, please for give us!

[@7hilladelphia]

Oh my gosh !!! I'm writing you from Queensland... so you a good ways out in the water & its your neighbors in the night swim... too hot to go cool off in the water, in the day time.... omigosh. 😢😢😢

[@jonquiljones]

Have you read Chapter One of 'The Ministry for the Future'?

[@robertmarmaduke186]

The atmosphere has warmed about 1.6°C in 40 years or +0.04°C per year. It takes 8.3 BTU to increase a gallon of water temperature 1°F. There are 7.4 gallons in a cubic foot of water so about 60 BTUs per cubic foot. But it only takes 0.13 BTU to heat a cubic foot of air by 1 degree. So the oceans will heat by 0.04 x (0.13/60) = +0.000087 degrees per year. It will take 11,538 years to heat the oceans by 1°F. _The math and physics is irrefutable!_ And by the way I lived mid-Pacific in lagoon water you could swim naked in that was full of sea life and corels, the same as Suluwesi. Pesticides and herbicides from palm oil plantations together with raw sewage is what kills fisheries.

[@SiriusBlue-bl8sx]

​@@robertmarmaduke186so why are we seeing such extreme temps in the North Atlantic then?

[@mirandakoggan3914]

Can’t help but notice the few people watching this important information on climate!

[@MyLoganTreks]

Deniers are alive and well, and in November they will take the USA ideology back to the middle ages, we need to vote for education science math and physics to be taught in school and have people in politics knowledgeable about these issues.

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

I don't think many of the General Public are actual deniers. Rather they are poorly educated in the subject and Mainstream News has certainly made it sound like Climate Change has been called off. The few people I have talked to who acknowledge Global Heating believe it is not anthropogenic. As far as better science education, do not hold you breath considering the mess the tranz agenda has made in the education system. We will not devolve to the Middle Ages. At least they could smelt iron and make steel. Do you have any idea where to get Anthracite Coal in your area. Moreover do you know how to make the Coke required to heat steel to working temperatures. It will be Paleolithic at best ... if anyone survives and they know how to knap flint and chert.

[@Andreas-hh9yg]

That's the whole problem. It's not (only) Big Oil and the politicians. It only needs one view at our western streets to recognise that far too many people and voters take the problem of global warming not seriously: The steadily increasing flood of SUV's. And it goes on with holiday flights and the results of elections. The vast majority of the electorate in I think nearly all democracies is deliberately ignoring the problem or sees it as a minor issue.

[@dot1298]

Our civilization is doomed. Just live your life today and try to be happy, avoiding bad news like the plague. (my longer comment was deleted by YT)

[@DiscipleofHim]

@@dot1298 That about sums it up. Live free in your spirit, find sustained peace. Here in Florida, I have seen CC felt CC and it has made me reverse course; I will be retiring BACK up north to Michigan. The heat and overdevelopment and now homelessness are the reasons. Florida is a peel of its former Orange glory.

[@rociomiranda5684]

Nothing is going to change. We're living the end of the world we know.

[@paulburick1506]

Climate change is cyclical, you can't treat it as being linear!

[@Lyra0966]

Terrifying already, but if it gets much worse the consequences could be catastrophic.

[@EmeraldView]

It's no longer a matter of IF, it's now a matter of when.

[@Patrick_Ross]

It’s going to continue getting worse.

[@Silks-]

It’s catastrophic already, just not for you yet.

[@frankblangeard8865]

define catastrophic

[@tordkarl]

Could be? So they aren’t already?

[@alanattfield7174]

In the UK we have had severe flooding due to constant rain. This has affected crops in the field, cattle can't pasture. Building and construction has been badly affected. this is going to affect food shortages, population and jobs.

[@GregoryJWalters]

Good point Paul: The Politicians ought to defray Eco-Anxiety, but they are too concerned with their Privileged lifestyles. Pathetic.

[@Silks-]

Politicians are for rent, oil companies being clients. If you think the current politicians can enact any meaningful change you haven’t been paying attention.

[@Magik1369]

I blame the politicians and rightfully so. The US President and US Congress were warned in 1987 by Dr. Carl Sagan and Dr. James Hansen that climate change posed an existential threat to all Life. Reagan buried the information like an ignorant dumb ass and the US Congress did not lift a finger. The only member of Congress to act responsibly was Al Gore. The US largely created climate change and is largely responsible for the carnage that is coming and that is already here.

[@garyssimo]

And then there is Bobby Kennedy! Hes been fighting for our Earths health all his adult life. He has my vote!

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Regina, your'e right. The destabilisation of society is a key problem, and we can see it happening everywhere, now. From Canada to New Zealand, and Asia through to Europe. The destabilisation is caused directly by the climate and indirectly and just as effectively by the politicians. It's very difficult to see just how we're going to "vote" our way out of this. Many political parties are now bought and paid corporatists. The only question to consider is are we going to be sufficiently organised to minimise the chaos that's just starting, and what does that mean and entail?

[@Debbie-henri]

Oh, I agree entirely with the problem of voting strategically to force politics into combatting climate change - even beginning to combat it. The main batters are left and right wing politics, and neither seem to want to do anything other than undo each other's work. Climate is definitely at the bottom of their to-do lists, we've all gathered that by now. But we know that voting for the Greens is pretty much a wasted vote, because most ordinary citizens are driven to backing traditional parties, the young voters lured by promises (until they learn to know better), following policies that are favoured by their families, their status, their level of wealth. No one with an economic situation (that's most people now) are going to be as concerned for the environment if they still think money is most important, and money will help get them out of their situation. As for American politics...well, I find it hard to believe these people stem from Europeans at all. Their lust for money, power, and the lengths to which they'll go to get I find extremely distasteful. So the Greens will consistently lose to traditional parties until we're at the last gasp.

[@JamesCurcio]

Been saying this for well over a decade. Very like being strapped to a train track, you can see the train coming, but... what can you do 🎉

[@Bushman9]

18:42 Regina, you are correct about the effects on education and what it leads to. But I don’t blame the fossil fuel companies; it’s the politicians and their greed for money and power that have allowed this carnage. Here in Canada, we have handcuffed our standard of living with a carbon tax that accomplishes nothing. The hypocrisy of our current government is that while we play the green cards like we’re champions of climate change, we export over 30 million tons of coal to the world’s largest polluters every year. We’re doomed.

[@lopinjop]

People deserve to be informed about the damning trajectory we're on and currently experiencing. Thank you for organizing these reports/discussions.

[@heidibrault1313]

You're welcome. Thanks for your support!

[@geoffreygottfried2385]

Finally, intelligent human beings conversing, talking about important topics. Why can't most people be like these two? Our society has truly been dumbed down. These should be the main topics of conversations on a daily basis.

[@DiscipleofHim]

Like minds think alike. I was enjoying all this. My narcisster, meanwhile, who claims she is Mensa from some 60 year old test she took, is a denier. Mensa with a Dunce cap.

[@gregrolles9854]

I've lost all hope, but I'll keep doing frontline activism anyway, in my 42 years I've had a stupidly privilieged life even though I'm poor by first world standards. Make justice your full time job, you won't regret it.

[@DoomsterInc]

Hi Greg. Hats off to you if you can keep fighting the good fight despite being hopeless. I was actively involved with Extinction Rebellion in the UK for a while in 2019, got myself arrested a couple of times, but then came to the conclusion that it's not just the government or the oil companies that are too blame...... people generally are struggling to survive, financially, and are very unlikely to be in favour of 'degrowth' if this means a lower standard of living.....and even 'degrowth' is probably not enough.....we need the whole edifice of materialist capitalist consumerist society to collapse...... I think that will only be bright about by 'mother nature'.....this is the apocalypse that is required to bring humanity back into some sort of harmony with nature...... overshoot is the fundamental predicament and they're are no easy, painless solutions, sorry to say, my friend.....but keep fighting!! It's good for the soul to act according to your conscience, regardless of whether those actions can achieve 'success'. 🙏🏼

[@raybod1775]

I’m getting more involved in politics in Chicago in the Midwest of the U.S. because this region will become a place for global warming refugees and this region needs to prepare for the influx.

[@DiscipleofHim]

@@raybod1775 I am retiring out of Florida back to Michigan soon. Florida has become a mess with heat homelessness, growth....I am outta here to your point.

[@brooksschneider3441]

As we approach Memorial Day Weekend in the US, air and automobile travel volumes are expected to set new records. Most people still aren't paying attention.

[@cm5691cm]

Excessive heat, no water will stop excessive driving it is only a matter of time.

[@nathanhallisey441]

I am an Australian in the southern part of the mainland. Seasons have changed. I am not worried about my 20 year child. The collapse has started around the world. I feel my life will face disaster.

[@Debbie-henri]

It wasn't so long ago that I thought that at least my son (28) would see out most of his life in reasonable safety. Then I adjusted that to thinking I might see out my life in reasonable safety. Now I realise that my husband, 17 years older than myself, will likely suffer from a climate driven death. It should be considered that heatstroke has a very curious effect. I had it once, and afterwards fell prey to hot days much more easily. It does something to your level of heat tolerance. I thought it was just me at the time, but seems it's a common after-effect. I honestly don't understand why people in other parts of the world are still dismissing these extreme heatwaves so lightly. I guarantee you, heatstroke is no fun. I've moved further and further north up my country, the extremes following me. Last year, when it hit 31C, I sat by the stream for 2 days with my feet in the water, unable to move, talk or eat. Meanwhile, back in the place where I came from, it was 41C. I'm taking daily actions to lower my emissions and/or practice carbon sequestering techniques. My neighbour, a staunch climate change denier, seems to do otherwise as if to spite me (since he knows my opinions of the matter). Yesterday, he lit his fireplace and went outside to sit. That's the type of mentality we're up against. What do you do against such recklessness?

[@roanbainbridge5109]

Yes it is here now

[@Silks-]

You said ‘I feel my life will face disaster’ and at the same time you’re ’not worried about [your] 20 year child’ ? I don’t get what you’re trying to say

[@7hilladelphia]

​@@Debbie-henrii got mild heat stroke this last summer (heat exhaustion) Yes its weird - the sense of even less heat tolerance... happened to me too. Queensland, AU

[@DiscipleofHim]

@@Debbie-henri You got this.

[@albert2395]

It's not only the storms, heat😊 and flooding, even though they are bad enough! But the rising temperatures will bring diseases, and dangerous creatures, being able to survive in areas that they couldn't before!😢

[@Silks-]

The death sentence is inescapable at this point. Our train’s (Earth) been approaching a steel wall (death of ecosystem) for decades now. The driver (politicians), instead of putting their foot on the breaks (policies/reform), have put their foot on the accelerator, whilst more passengers joined the ride. We can’t expect at the moment right before we hit the wall for the brakes to work. TrainCorp (Big Oil) has a strictly ruled policy against drivers taking their foot off the accelerator and braking, and obfuscate the fact it’s heading towards a brick wall to passengers. The passengers in first class (1%) have safety pods (bunkers) on the train, but they can’t survive forever in them, and there’s nobody to rescue them.

[@LivingNow678]

It's interesting to see how many people now have a clear image of what is happening not following in panic

[@heyitsalanhere]

Eh eh... calm down, calm down...as the Scousers would say...😂 It's not good living in fear 💜

[@raybod1775]

There’s nothing to fear, but reality.

[@TimFrench-tx1xj]

Globally we devote massive resources to the military industrial complex/war. If that energy was redirected towards our climate predicament………

[@kateoneal4215]

Exactly what Jill Stein is saying she'll push for if we make her president.

[@garyssimo]

And one of many resons Bobby Kennedy Jr. has my vote! hes for the planet.and more peace .not profit

[@DiscipleofHim]

So true....If only JFK had been allowed to continue. JFK was gonna eliminate the Federal Reserve and Cold War. .... then Gore too losing ( Bush made sure Florida was given to him) Then , 9/11 all part of the plan by the politicians/ industrial complex. Greed and evil . Our founding fathers must be ashamed.

[@carinwiseman4309]

A few industries are causing it. Really? We are the people who drive all industries. Are you living at home without heat, air conditioning, a car, a washer, a stove? Somehow I don't think so. If not, then you and I are the people driving all these industries. So don't be unrealistic. It is not "them." It is us.

[@solarwind907]

Yes, the industries have lied to you for decades. They told you that global warming was a farce. They told you greenhouse gases didn’t matter. The oil industry lobby wrote the environmental laws and bought the politicians. Do you remember!? Or are you too brainwashed to even know anymore? The great majority of the blame falls on the fossil fuel industry. PERIOD.

[@danielfaben5838]

Is the natural response to undo us? Will massive surrender to the void be the justice demanded? I like natural history at work. When the castle walls are breached it will be quite a show.

[@jaydinledford6990]

You miss the whole part about fossil fuel subsidies or do you literally work for British petroleum

[@SachinGanpat]

I can't safely cycle to work if there is no bicycle infrastructure. I can't take public transport if there is no public transport infrastructure. We see how these fossil fuel companies lobby to continue their business as usual. Even the COP process is compromised. Systems matter and no amount of personal responsibility can change that.

[@oldgeezer8038]

Exactly, we're not nir can we change. Economies would collapse. As I stated in an earlier comment, this is the perfect storm.

[@nickl5658]

Heat and rain are not the only problem to crops. Indirectly, the two are also causing outbreaks of fungal damage to crops.

[@researchcooperative]

Thanks for that. For many years I’ve been working (based in Japan) as a crop historian in SE Asia. I have a lot of hope that people will help each other and be able to develop new polycultural crop-production systems from the resources they already have. As a researcher I hope my efforts will help support the creative efforts of small-holder farmers.

[@toms.7257]

@researchcooperative: Where can I find information online about the research you and others do? This is vital work. I too think smallholder farming is the extinction rebellion. Thanks!

[@GregoryJWalters]

And Thank You Regina, your constant concern for all Life Species is well noted and has been much appreciated through the years of the climate emergency forum.

[@adamnoir5014]

I remember talking about a likely mass die-off due to global warming about 10 years ago. I 've been talking to people whenever I can, but usually I find people's minds are already made up one way or the other. What changes people are who asleep is when something happens in their experience that wakes them up. The media are not highlighting the weather extremes that are happening around the globe enough. At some point there is going to be a mass panic.

[@kateoneal4215]

It's a crime the issue has been politicized. (And Jill Stein is the only politician addressing it.)

[@marlenechicoine4005]

Young couples are not having children, either.

[@cm5691cm]

ALL our children are looking at us and saying "Why didn't you do something to change this?" Hard to take so we live in delusion as it is too depressing to deal with. Most of us live in the moment and do nothing. We all must protest with our buying habits. Stop consuming, take action as our Governments continue to delude, lie and take no action. I am 66 and have a 26 yo daughter, she says "no children" and I support this 100%. Had I known what I know now I would never had had her (sad to say this). I do not tell her this but we have stopped talking about Climate Change because it is so distressing and situation so dire. I know I will see her suffer in my lifetime. You think you will escape and not see your children's pain and distress, think again ...

[@relaxingmusiceames4249]

Why don't you do a show on the pollution that military equipment and wars cost

[@jaydinledford6990]

They have

[@7hilladelphia]

YES EXACTLY

[@ameetasanghavishah3977]

Yes 💯

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

The Nine Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Heat, Drought, Fire, Flood, Disease, Infestation, Famine, War and Chaos. Enjoy!

[@polandturtle]

You know the original four, famine, war, disease, and the “pale horse death”, which some interpret as despair and social collapse, capture it pretty well. If you had a fifth called extreme weather you’d have it really covered.

[@DiscipleofHim]

Thats ten if we Enjoy.

[@TheDoomWizard]

Planet on fire!

[@user-lw6qj1yn7h]

And in the south of Brazil, a whole state flooded

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

This is looking like the impacts of extreme heat are going to a major issue way before the projected impacts of a 4 Celsius world. Mass migration and food impacts are likely to be grossly underestimated.

[@sedonars1]

Grossly underestimated by design. Don't panic is the only policy evident so far to deal with ACC. Homo-Idioticus reigns supreme!

[@jededge]

its just starting, when you see indian cycle taxis stopping work due to heat ,you know its bad, it could be the new norm or coming later, it would seem as the oceon is heating up this is here to stay and worse to come, they are in a fix

[@trench6920]

June 2023, early summer heatwave here in joshua tree California, lasted almost 2 weeks, got me watching closely this year.

[@inappropriatejohnson]

Home owner's insurance companies are aware of this. They're not stupid......they're too chickenshit to speak out. That must change. Thank you.

[@ChickpeatheTortie]

2.28 precisely. Its the animals that I feel sorry for as they are the innocent victims in all this. I actually lost a cat to 'heat stroke' two years ago - he was a Russian Blue so just not designed for this heat we've been having - I'm in London UK. I see that the demo you have pictured is taking place in London the city of cars, cars, cars, cars and more cars the air in this city is also absolutely rancid the pollution levels are a disgrace and nothing but nothing truly truly effective is being done about it. I notice though that there is no mention whatsoever about 'animal agriculture' not a word as usual

[@MyKharli]

I heard the word vegan being used , !

[@ChickpeatheTortie]

@@MyKharli Just once. The sad brutal truth is that 'animal agriculture' produces far more green house gases than the entire 'transport industry' but no-one wants to talk about it.

[@sundaydriver915]

There’s a metaphor about closing the barn door after the horses are gone

[@KatsCorner]

We owed the world a future but it is too late the time for action was the 1970s. We are going to see famine on an unprecedented scale now. I am glad I saw this coming years ago and never had kids. I feel for the animals of this world.

[@garyssimo]

katscorner...no kids for me either, and instead I spay and neuter ferals and drive an ev. I also feel for children with a sad future.

[@niqjaw5009]

No kids either. You'd have to be naive, ignorant and egocentric to voluntarily want to add more innocent human beings into this massively overpopulated and dying planet. Human overpopulation is the number one cause of this predicament.

[@carlosbcn2020]

In Jacobabad , Pakistan, will have 50 and 51 C the next days.

[@Spacemonkeymojo]

Wow, I just checked and you are right. 46c to 51c by next Monday... that's horrific WTF!

[@heidibrault1313]

Thanks for sharing.

[@dagmaranja888]

Terrifying! 😖

[@poigmhahon]

.Here where I live in N. Idaho rapid and evident decline in bird populations...weird abnormal weather events....catastrophic decline in insects....beetle kill forest die offs...Canadian persistent wildfires...this is just a snippet of what I observe on a dally basis...overkill...or overreach, whatever description suits you...we are observing the collapse.

[@eustaciogriego1912]

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. Collapse of what?

[@frankblangeard8865]

I go hiking in Oregon. Lately I can hike all day and not see a mammal (squirrel, chipmunk etc.). Few birds in the woods, few if any reptiles, few if any amphibians or insects. The good part is few mosquitoes or flies. Maybe it's just the areas that I hike in. I know some places where I could find swarms of mosquitoes but of course I avoid those.

[@dagmaranja888]

Right, and I remember Maikäfer as a kid and the windscreen was always full of insects when we went on a journey! Now, there is hardly anything left! I'm worried about what the birds find to eat and I keep feeding the birds all year round! For blackbirds I put pears or old apples on the ground!

[@DiscipleofHim]

@@eustaciogriego1912 The collapse of a nature as we have known? I notice here in Florida, the birds too are not as frisky or abundant.

[@thomaswwwiegand]

Oh, from 8.5.2024 - was wondering already as I live here in Thailand North ... and extrem heat is gone, but more humid and rain now, but the SMOG is gone. Deaths in Thailand last I see 61, compare to 30 in 2023 ... top here about 42 C Chiang Mai (300 NN), about near 45 Lampang (200 NN) 100 km and 100 meter lower also. I am happy have enlarged Solar last Autumn, and we use it for AirCon. Until now we do not face much rain, but Rain season is just starting ...

[@heidibrault1313]

Thanks for sharing.

[@martiansoon9092]

In Finland 2 weeks since very late winter storms with 20-30 cm of snow, when it should have been +15C. Then rapid 20C temp change. And now we are under a drought that has turned to wildfires (18 in a single day). These late snowing events kills our seeds and makes farming extremely unpredictable. Can't wait a summer of drought and heavy rains on harvesting season (trend in last years). Our local seeds are running so low that there is high likelihood that we have none for the next year. And buying seeds from elsewhere makes them even more vulnerable even for our normal climate (yea, whisful thinking on that normal climate...)... Current heatwaves are WEIRDly dry and drawing out the very moisture from the surface. And oh boy when it rains it pours.

[@martiansoon9092]

Oh yea, when the snow came the migrating birds have just came to ou country. And it was even in the main news that feed them or they won't survive. Just total climate change driven destruction. A destruction that is not often even seen from the appartments that we live in.

[@martiansoon9092]

And yes, the situation is much worse in SE Asia.

[@ClimateEmergencyForum]

Thanks for sharing

[@sixvee5147]

Enjoy what you can, while you still can. Pity the generations to come.

[@dagmaranja888]

Yes, those rapid changes are frightening! Everywhere!

[@jokalopes3784]

Climate Emergence Forum needs to include video of an extreme meteorological event involving hot air masses enclosing a cold front with intense rain and flooding in southern Brazil. At the beginning of May.

[@martiansoon9092]

It is reasonable to ask: Have we already broken the climate system?

[@LivingNow678]

sure we are destroying thousands and thousands of habitats every day since many years; the climate change in course is cyclical and we are not prepared for it in a 'natural' way cause killing the Earth antibodies (example: Oceans system and micro plastic impact) we are not helping us

[@marktwain368]

If you have to ask, you know the answer. Get a hard hat. Big hail is coming to a location near you.

[@Atimatimukti]

Just two days ago, from Italy to Benelux, big flooding in Europe

[@briankelly2037]

México has been slammed by heat in the last two weeks, with many states running at highs of 45+ degrees. Humidex readings of up to 60 degrees have been recorded and people are dying by the dozens. As per Regina´s comments, there are reports from southern México of monkeys dying of heatstroke. Mexico City is still "fine" with temps staying below 35 degrees but it is experiencing day after day of very poor air quality. Meanwhile much of the country remains in a severe drought with municipal water supplies under threat everywhere, including in the Valley of México with its 25+ million inhabitants. We all pray for an early start to the rainy season to hopefully alleviate these problems.

[@eustaciogriego1912]

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. Thanks for your article and don’t forget Acapulco.

[@louishennick6883]

Mexico City which is 8400 feet above sea level has been experiencing temperatures 5C above average daily since mid march. It may be livable in comparison to the lower altitudes but the increase is still substantially surprising for that region

[@louishennick6883]

And yes the air quality is bad as the “rainy season” hasn’t kicked in yet. Usually starts in June.

[@briankelly2037]

@@louishennick6883 yes, CDMX has been consistently above avg but still livable. I wonder though what the (near?) future holds for folks living in the coastal states where at times temps are way too close to 50C - with humidity. Migration to higher elevations or north to the US may be in the cards but the lowlands grow our tropical fruits, so is it adios to bananas, pineapples and papayas? Probably.

[@frankblangeard8865]

Dozens of people in Mexico dying from heat you say. The population of Mexico increased by over 900,000 from 2022 to 2023. Probably another million from 2023 to now.

[@jennifergraber7531]

Yes indeed, we are sleepwalking towards climate breakdown and unlivable conditions. Thank you for being frank about the coming disaster. As a person who has bern reading about the unrelenting changes and accelerating catastrophes I am deeply concerned for the future and the plight of millions of people. I still cannot fathom the ineptitude, the ignorance and the callousness of our so called leaders..and due to the impopular nature if the subject they avoid it. . Its really depressing and frustrating. I sincerely hope young people wake up and manifest for change and we can do something proactive..

[@polandturtle]

I don’t know how bad it’s going to get, but I think the survivors will never allow systems like we have today, where people can get off the hook responding to a catastrophe by not believing it. Things are gonna be way more strict.

[@marktwain368]

Some sources say that many eco-minded and spiritual souls are being incarnated at this time, under the rubric of Gen Z. You see this in folks like Greta Thunberg.

[@StabilisingGlobalTemperature]

Thank you for this update. I think it is inevitable that countries such as China, India and those in the Middle East will just get on with SRM / SOS. Irrespective of international moratoria etc.

[@jellaoud9712]

I just want to understand, how do they know El Niño is over? The oceans are still boiling hot, right?

[@DiscipleofHim]

Google is our friend. What I was able to find seems to indicate just a weakening. I am in curious agreement with you ; with warmer temps how can they seem to predict a weakening. I never was a fan of that whole El Nino principle. The water is getting warmer ( and warmer deeper) and wont get any better.

[@emanuelsvedin9404]

its so bad

[@sixvee5147]

Enjoy what you can, while you still can. Pity the generations to come.

[@remodeledcatidea5324]

how about giving a federal tax discount of 100% of the cost to paint house roof white. How many millions of houses will partake of it. Equaling how many square miles of reflection.

[@garyssimo]

GREAT IDEA WHITE ROOFS! Ive done that to 3 homes and the temps in summer inside went down about 5-7 degrees. I see all these new homes in California with almost BLACK ROOFS. arrrgh...stupidity.

[@everythingmatters6308]

Great idea. I got a white roof last year.

[@DiscipleofHim]

White or lighter shade...I agree. The simple answers yet so distant for some to incorporate.

[@minetuncer6830]

We HAVE TO CHANGE our way of living. Many of us will find this very disturbing but we have to do it. Not to stone age but we must willingly give up certain comforts for the sake of humanity's future (if we can be successful). A few examples would be finding new ways of transportation, living locally, giving up unnecessary consumption in every aspect of our lives...many more can be named. We have exhausted the planet and now it is turning against us. We didn't respect its sources. Now its time to pay the bill.

[@polandturtle]

It’s a small wealthy group of people who can afford to actually do that. The rest of us drive 180 miles a week working to jobs to pay rent. If any of it stops, we go on streets and die.

[@ChrisBGramz4u]

Shoot been up and around 40c here in central Vietnam for months. Thank the Lord the rains are starting. So many crops were already lost, people laid off.

[@snebis]

Here in India the spring season has vanished for last few years. Now, weather is transitioning from winter to summer quickly causing early and long summers

[@dagmaranja888]

Yes, similar in Europe!

[@ricksmall5240]

32c in Bangladesh, but those are shade temperatures, add 10c when in sunlight, temperatures recorded are shade temperatures

[@bobhiggins4276]

And thank you all for your climate militance.

[@solarwind907]

Is that sarcasm?

[@62Cristoforo]

“the weather could get warmer in the next 50 to 100 years” Is that the best climate scientists can do? I blame the climate scientists from not taking this problem seriously enough. They’re afraid to make bold statements, so they stay conservative in their opinions, afraid of any backlash from the oil lobby and their paid mouthpieces. Scientists generally, as a group, avoid conflict; they’re not fighters. They don’t have that kind of personality required to confront loud, obnoxious and pushy oil industry lobbyists. The end result is millions more people will die from extreme weather events.

[@LivingNow678]

Lobbyists love money and power, not a problem to use lies to not panicking folks

[@glenncivale6824]

Hope or Faith? The absence of reason in the grips of reality/

[@johnkintree763]

The underlying problem is a structure of political power that favors special interests such as the fossil fuel industry. We can build a global digital platform that can have conversations with millions of people at the same time, and merge those conversations into representations of the collective will of humanity.

[@nancypurves587]

What is clearly visible is that most of this destruction is on continents that have the greatest populations, polution centers and are unwilling to do anything about it. We are not responsible for saving those who think it's every body else's responsibility to end polution and over population. I live in Florida and it gets hotter and more humid every year just like every other place on Earth. We also get hurricanes and are preparing for a pretty drastic season starting in June. Tell me how we live without fossils fuels when just about everything is made with it. Terrance Howard has been trying to tell them but they (big oil)refuse to listen.

[@DiscipleofHim]

I too live here 30 plus years. Get this ; I am soon retiring out of Florida, back to more stable Michigan. The heat, overdevelpoment and homelessness here are beyond my tolerance level. I am in Jax.

[@garyssimo]

I cant do much but...I had no children and drive an electric car. Its a tiny help but at least I am trying.

[@marktwain368]

That you BELIEVE that mere mortals can do something, anything, and then ACT is a great thing, Gary. Heroes are found in the unlikeliest places.

[@MyLoganTreks]

Thank you all and love all your work, great job Peter Carter and Paul Beckworth. I like to leave deniers with information about how atmospheric rivers work (1 degrees is 7% more water vapor), ecology principle "Tragedy of Commons" and lastly why and how Dunning Kruger effect isn't important to politicians and policies. Go Vote and let your Actions be your Legacy!

[@kentkearney6623]

Tell Nestle to put the aquifer water back and things will improve immediately.

[@robertemmett347]

Thank you for providing this important information, it is a sad situation, but the data that is shown is crucial for all of our futures.

[@alanattfield7174]

Knock on effect food, education, economy, social, political, health, climate, war etc

[@aboyer9828]

The Radio Ecoshock podcast is a fantastic listen.

[@7hilladelphia]

Cool i'll check it out

[@Encephalitisify]

Mexico is currently cooking too.

[@TennesseeJed]

Thanks y'all!

[@ClimateEmergencyForum]

You're welcome

[@pamelajoyvanderwal3547]

I sense undersea volcanism is a possible factor, along with the recent Tonga eruption’s effects, leading to w warming from underneath…🤷‍♀️

[@louishennick6883]

Wow.! You must alert the entire scientific community now! I guess your assumption overrides all the research and discovery over so many decades.

[@7hilladelphia]

Spot on... some of us know about that stuff.. far out 😮

[@EmeraldView]

Can't even imagine what the next El Nino will bring us. It's going to be hell. I don't know how many subsequent El Ninos we'll have in us.

[@bobhiggins4276]

This is way too reminiscent of the book Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson - in which this region of the world suffers this kind of killing heat, but in ~2050 and therefore even worse. And that is surely to come given our current trajectory.

[@sedonars1]

Well noted. We are on a trend line that is exponentially worse than the IPCC's most pessimistic publication. The "COPS" are created to satisfy the "DUPES" = us!

[@marktwain368]

Toronto Ontario Public Library has 23 copies and 93 holds. That tells you something. I'm on the Wait List now.

[@WightMoon61]

nice to see some people are bringing up the socio-economic effects and the "knock on " effects of climate change, the classic "10 plagues of egypt" scenario where one disaster brings about another seems to appear more relevant when considering the future.

[@mirandakoggan3914]

Not until it effects the doubters will they pay attention.

[@klondike444]

And the many straight-out deniers.

[@dennisroland5654]

The companies that are profiting from pollution would go bust if we stopped buying their products. Please don't drop the issue after blaming them. Let's try try to figure out how the average person can make a real difference by changed behavior. How realistic is de-consumerism?

[@solarwind907]

Dr. Carter, thanks for saying the quiet part out loud. We have to plan for 3° C now. Because it’s coming. Maybe by the time it gets here we will have enough marine cloud brightening equipment installed, enough solar and wind installed that we can limit it to 3°. Thank you!

[@MarneeMadsen]

As a physician Dr Carter should know large mammals and their habitats cannot survive at those temps... But we should be taking about it and planetary hospice

[@briangain9836]

The Himalayan mountains block cool air from drifting south into India , etc ..

[@kallekarlsson1054]

Just checked. Next weekend the temperature will probably reach 50 degrees celsius in Pakistan and western India. 😳

[@julienrockingham-ip4co]

I say bring it on.No one wanted to listen 20/15 years ago.I'm just throwing my hands up and I'm letting the weather do its thing now.I don't really care what happens anymore

[@LivingNow678]

It was the 1991 when Freddie mcCoy dit Ahmed Sofi told me about his song (197?) The Next President album: On My Way Boomplay 🎵🎶 Now ? To care about the present is enough 😊

[@shivsankar2185]

Least use of fossil powered cars,racing bikes,buses,personal vehicles or not buying them is the least we can start from today and that will come from the people who really understands what we are getting into..!!

[@eduBH]

Obrigado, Eduardo - Brazil.

[@robertinget1613]

May is also beating local heat records. 2024 fixing to be hotter than "23 earth's hottest.

[@anamariacarvalho6738]

All over the tropics, high valyes of UVAcand UVB

[@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302]

Wholeheartedly agree Peter. Explicitly abandon 1.5 Deg C and Focus and Expound on Avoiding 3 Deg C !

[@jonovens7974]

don't think we can avoid +3...seen a few lectures where +4 is already baked in.

[@karavi2000]

Can someone share the link to the February paper on Southeast Asia that Peter was referring please.. Thank you!

[@iancameron5536]

Thank you Regina for linking failure to attend school to crime and really the total breakdown of society in general. It is interesting to see the western countries that by enlarge refuse to acknowledge the damage they have been doing to the world at large , are only in recent times being forced to swallow the ramifications of their actions. Up until now third world countries were being inundated not them, third world countries were being driven beyond poverty, not them, so frankly they did not give a dam as long as their bellies and banks were full. However we have seen the crime factor driven by poverty you mentioned driving 100,000's of thousands a month in sheer desperation flooding across American and European boarders, what county can sustain such a humungous influx of people? Bit like ignoring the plastic or teflon problem isn't it, it is coming back on our own plates and we, like it or not are being forced to swallow it in the form in this instance of microplastics, which we all now contain, what that is doing to our health the Lord only knows, one thing is certain, there is a price to pay, and like it or not our heads are going to be dragged out of the sand, and we are going to be forced to pay it!!!!

[@jamesprivet]

Thank you. Also affecting Pakistan, 48C shade temperature expected in the next week in Lahore and Multan, similar to Amritsar and New Delhi in India. With 35% to 40% humidity during the day that is a death sentence for anyone exerting themselves outside or without water and many animals. Extreme heat index or wet bulb temperature and indeed hell.

[@juliebarks3195]

I'm scared. Not for myself as I have had the good seasons in my life. But the fruit of our loins we suffer.

[@suziperret468]

The source of anxiety is that the big fossil fuel companies and politicians collaborate to keep the hot house gasses exceeding limits, that cause tipping points and disaster. Our leaders must step in to save us. Big oil must invest in alternative sources of energy. The planet must have all on board to save life on Earth!

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

Another dimension is cyclones followed by extreme heat that will be devastating with significant infrastructure damage. There could be no shelter, little water and delayed emergency response and burials in extreme heat. Simultaneity of crises is hugely devastating and difficult to prepare for and recover from.

[@marktwain368]

Excellent observation, friend. And this is just what we can expect. Overlapping disasters with diminishing infrastructure like hospitals.

[@GalaxianGamer]

Back here again :-) temprature at my farm in MP, India is 46-47*C today. This is crazy, it is 1 month early and we are yet to see june which is usually the hottest. My green gram crop is maturing early as a result and I know yield will be lower. But I worry more about the animals and birds in the National park nextdoor.

[@ClimateEmergencyForum]

Thanks for sharing.

[@lokin4truth]

And what's the population of India and why????

[@irisbyrne6010]

Towns need better planners. If I were going to build a structure in a hot place or a barn, I would build a root cellar plus a drainage area around the structure. They need to have covered parking with solar panels for a roof and a green drainage ditch between parking lots. White roofs and trees along the roads.

[@thefishisdead]

Regina, just at the beginning of this episode You mention something I´ve been thinkiing about quite alot lately. We´ve learned alot about wet bulb temperatures and how they affect us human beings (with the ability to sweat). But do we know anything, are there any studies about what how other animal creatures could or could not cope with heatstress? From cattle to crocodiles, from bugs to birds ? I read about a mass die-off of some of the Australian flying fox populations a couple years ago, simply falling of the trees dead from overheating ... Anyhow, thanks alot for Your work.

[@bangelos1380]

All living things die at the latest when their protein decomposes (denatures), there are no exceptions. The decomposition temperature for all proteins is between 40 and 50°C. For us humans, this means a maximum body temperature of 44°C, then our protein decomposes. But we don't get that far. Our body tries to maintain the target temperature of 37-38°C. This puts a strain on the circulatory system and at 41°C body temperature at the latest it becomes life-threatening. That's how we are designed. The coolant limit temperature of water, the wet bulb temperature (WBT), is a hard physical limit. An organism cannot cool any lower through direct evaporative cooling, no matter how effective it is. The WBTis therefore relevant for all living things that pursue a cooling strategy based on evaporation. It's not just us who sweat, but also dogs, for example, who pant, plants that perspire, ... If an organism is based on proteins that decompose at a temperature T, then it is fundamentally unable to survive under permanent conditions with WBTs above T. And because no organism can cool perfectly, even at a lower WBT. For us humans, the maximal WBT is 35°C, other organisms, including other mammals, have different ones. The absolutely possible upper limits are the above-mentioned 40 to 50°C. At the optimal value of 37-38°C, all mammals are relatively equal. There are differences in adaptation in the interval in which the temperature is maintained. We humans are very demanding in this regard. Our body immediately begins to counteract this immediately, when it warms up by sweating, when it cools down by shivering. Gazelles, for example, only begin to counteract this at a body temperature of 44°C, camels at around 41°. Camels can also cool down to 34°C at night, are well insulated and thus gain additional capacity for the hot desert day. But that just means that different species have different WBTs at which the species can just about survive. It doesn't mean that there is no limit. Dinosaurs were probably better than us too, after all it was much warmer back then. But the above-mentioned limit for proteins also applies to them.

[@FrankWhite437]

Yeah flooding here in EU as well (on a smaller scale though and of course with less adverse effects because of more stabe economies). Its getting so much worse every year. Exponential man such a shame

[@Glen-uy4jt]

Regina, do you think that this program will make a difference? Looking at what is happening will not change humans actions, habit is well entrenched. The desire for good feelings and comfort will put this information on the back burner. Does the extinction of the human race really mean anything to the natural world. We had an opportunity to live in paradise but we chose hell and extinction. It has been 38c here for 3 days now, I see the affects upon the natural world but the humans drive off to make money. I think that the main problem is the “ state of mind “, this is a hard thing to modify when people are preoccupied with feeling good.

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

India burns massive amounts of coal and has a nice aerosol masking effect going on. If you don’t believe me look at GISS temp reports and climatereanalyzer. India is heating up relatively slowly. Similar thing happening in eastern US. Again, far more heat records in western US vs eastern. Miami sets tons of record highs but SO2 levels are pretty low in southern FL.

[@Debbie-henri]

Rubbish. Google India heat wave 2024 and look up historical temperature charts. You're only trying to comfort yourself. Besides, if you think having an atmosphere filled with pollution through particulates, look up increased death rates through pollution. They don't make an easy read.

[@caterthun4853]

Thanks for this. Just keep telling people your findings and that they should not listen to experts

[@jededge]

nice aerosol masking effect going on, lols, yeah they are going to leave there cities in mass once heat takes over completely , its started

[@GregoryJWalters]

You are so Right Dr. Peter Carter! In the mainstream media is so lame. And check your email because Air Canada has flights on discount all over the world!

[@souravjaiswal-jr4bj]

From Kolkata, bracing for upcoming cyclone on Saturday.

[@renatomarques4103]

Very Smart! Thank you!

[@myrnasantico679]

Im afraid with this scenario we might not even reach 2030 we might die early. I dont understand why nothing is being done to stop carbon emission and why not a great drive too to plant trees. Here in the Philippines, it like your are in an oven. But, i am more frigthened because we are entering the la nina phase. Our houses are not equip to deal with extreme storm

[@everythingmatters6308]

No one person should have 5200 ducks. Poor ducks.

[@timothyjohnfarr6544]

Fox news Australia and others should take note of this and stop the war on truth!!

[@alanattfield7174]

The jet stream has looped upto Greenland and over the top of the UK. Also we need to be aware of the emissions that come from shipping. Out in the middle of the oceans it's okay but where there's a lot of shipping ie close to land, main shipping routes then you see more heating from the ships

[@7hilladelphia]

The humidity in Bangaladesh at 90f must be horrendous. You get heat exhaustion by nature regardless... I got heat exhaustion a few months ago from doing too much on a hot humid day, took a week or more to recover but what these people are facing, 800 million in extreme heat regardless . This is dire... 45.9c may as well say 50 degrees celcius. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 terrible

[@marktwain368]

In Summer 2023 temps of up to 60C were reported in the media for that region. I remember because they said humans cannot survive at 60C.

[@DelusionalDoug]

The highest recorded temperature since Bangladesh independence was 45.1 degrees Celsius on May 18, 1972.

[@caterthun4853]

Yes you are correct. So let's ignore the experts.. There is a difference between average and peak temperatures.. look at the world temperature graph. It bounced up and down yearly. One low does not indicate average world temperature trend is down.

[@marktwain368]

Last year the media reported temps in that part of the planet as reaching 60C which means lethal effects. People have buried this information ever since.

[@PhilippeOrlando]

Regina, why do you say it's the fault of a few industries? Millions, if not hundred of millions of people in the US have no problem using oil and don't want to switch to electric cars, don't care about having smaller houses, are totally fine eating beef twice a day, I mean the population is as much guilty as a few industries.

[@solarwind907]

The fossil fuel industries, American petroleum institute, coal industry HAS LIED about the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on our climate. They have hired “experts“ to lie for them. They have bought politicians, misrepresented data, etc. Yes, many people want to drive a car, travel too far away places for vacations, throw away tons of plastic because it’s convenient etc. Think of how much lying has gone on with recycling plastics? The fossil fuel industry bears most of the blame for the predicament we’re in, and they are lying still!!

[@basspig]

When Al Gore gives up his 10,000 ft Mega Mansion which uses up as much energy as 500 American homes, and his private jet, Maybe some of the rest of Americans might consider this proposal.

[@jayleeper1512]

We looked for the enemy and we found it was us.

[@jaydinledford6990]

Absolutely fundamentally incorrect, ~90% of emissions are caused by like five mega corporations. What, is the single mother in Philadelphia gonna recycle her way out of complete Armageddon? Hah

[@eustaciogriego1912]

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. Stop using their product. Stop spending money.