July was the hottest month ever on Earth

[labbe5]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 070418001/

[musher0]

Yeah.

Brazil's Bolsonaro thought it wasn't hot enough; so he allowed more of the Amazon forest
to be burned. He must be wearing this new air-conditioned T-Shirt the Japanese invented.

We'll all have to wear one... if he doesn't start reforesting pretty darn soon.

BFN.

[Sylvander]

We desperately need to be REDUCING the number of people living on this planet...

And yet we are increasing in number.
And I see no reports of any world leader doing anything about it.

[wiak]

it's Hell here

[Flash]

I think August was even hotter than July, around here anyway.

I suppose the reason records are set when it's summer in the northern hemisphere is that most of the land area of Earth is north of the equator and land gets hotter than water when the sun shines on them equally.

[Makoto]

Probably 92% of August, where I live, was triple-digit days. Our July wasn't that bad, by contrast.

[Sylvander]

Here in Scotland we had a relatively short period of high temperatures, and now we are getting lots of rain.

The plants are loving the rain and so am I.

[Burn_IT]

Not EVER, just since the recording of temperatures started.

Please do not take up programming!!!

[linuxcbon]

Not EVER, just since the recording of temperatures started.

Please do not take up programming!!!

Yes, the earth climate changes naturally since billions of years and the earth has known "ice ages" and "hot ages". The latest ice age started 120 000 years ago and finished 10 000 years ago.


But right now, the temperatures are getting higher and the probability that it comes from the mankind activity is extremly high.

Some consequences are seen today : the desert advancing in some african and asian countries forces millions of people to move to colder europe or north america. We see that everyday on tv, and they don't flee their countries only because of wars but also by lack of water and food and the desert advancing !!!!!!!


On the bright side , some countries are now fighting the desert advancing :
Roll of Honour top 10 countries

China China 2.8 billion

India India 2.5 billion

Ethiopia Ethiopia 1.7 billion

Pakistan Pakistan 1 billion - known as Billion Tree Tsunami[16]

Mexico Mexico 789 million

France France 723 million

Turkey Turkey 716 million

Peru Peru 646 million

Nigeria Nigeria 626 million

Kenya Kenya 542 million

Egypt Egypt 500 million

United States United States 315 million

As of August 2018, 12 years since the campaign’s launch, the campaign’s website [1] registered over 15.2 billion planted trees across 193 countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_Tree_Campaign


Now which countries are losing their forests at highest rates ?
Brasil
Indonesia
Togo
Nigeria
etc.

Maybe some rich countries would help them plant billions of trees to fight the desert and the heat.
Note that the situation in Brasil is extremly alarming and their president doesn't care.

(ps : by the way, the cheapest and most efficient way ever to fight the heat and climate change is planting trees, it's obvious, but a recent study by a swiss university scientists proved it.).

[8Geee]

All one needs to do is look at a CO2 graph over the last 40 years. I do remember when in College in the late 70's that CO2 was estimated at 335-340 ppm. Forty years later its 410 ppm, a 20% increase. Back then we were told that at 420ppm the Earth's basic weather would go haywire.

[Puppy_Nurak]

Second place after july 2003.

[bigpup]

World population has gone up about 5 billion since 1950.
1950 world population around 2.5 billion.
2019 it is at about 7.7 billion.

What gases are in a fart (Flatulence)?
A typical fart is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane and 4 percent oxygen. Only about one percent of a fart contains hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans, which contain sulfur

[musher0]

World population has gone up about 5 billion since 1950.
1950 world population around 2.5 billion.
2019 it is at about 7.7 billion.

What gases are in a fart (Flatulence)?
A typical fart is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane and 4 percent oxygen. Only about one percent of a fart contains hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans, which contain sulfur

Relevance to the topic?

[Flash]

Only 7% methane seems awfully low. Why do they burn so blue?

[tallboy]

There is a common mistake that the fires in Amazonas remove so much of the jungle, that the production of oxygen is hemmed. In fact, the jungle use as much oxygen as it produce, spent in the rotting (oxidation) of dead vegetation. Amazonas does not contribute to the general amount of oxygen content in the air at all. But, the fires should be stopped for a number of reasons, and one of them is that the fires require a lot of oxygen to burn. Our main providers of oxygen, are the oceans.

[Puppy_Nurak]

Only 7% methane seems awfully low. Why do they burn so blue?

There is a common mistake that the fires in Amazonas remove so much of the jungle, that the production of oxygen is hemmed. In fact, the jungle use as much oxygen as it produce, spent in the rotting (oxidation) of dead vegetation. Amazonas does not contribute to the general amount of oxygen content in the air at all. But, the fires should be stopped for a number of reasons, and one of them is that the fires require a lot of oxygen to burn. Our main providers of oxygen, are the oceans.

Interesting.

[tallboy]

To be a bit more specific: The oceans are so big, that algae produces 2-3 times the amount of oxygen that the green vegetation on all landmasses produce. Preventing all water pollution would be a far better use of resources, than spending them on any land-based 'rescue' operations. A shitty suggestion, but start with our toilets, the inventor of the WC didn't realize how much crap that gets into the water...

[8Geee]

So, are you saying that the 20% of Oxygen produced (by the Amazon rainforest) tossed around by media is an over-estimate?

[Burn_IT]

Yes, but when have the media ever concerned themselves with being accurate??

I actually had the editor of the Mirror once say to me
"Who cares if it is even correct, as long as it makes a good story and sells papers?"

[linuxcbon]

So, are you saying that the 20% of Oxygen produced (by the Amazon rainforest) tossed around by media is an over-estimate?

Yes, Jonathan Foley shows that the Amazon forest produces 6% of the earth oxygen. 50% of the produced oxygen comes from the oceans, 50% from the forests.