“The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race is Our Inability to Truly Understand the Exponential Function” Professor Albert Bartlett.
“It’s been a record-breaking day for temperatures across much of the UK today.
The first came before the sun was even up, with a provisional new May high for the overnight temperature 19.C in Kenley, Greater London.
Early this morning our weather team predicted a “bonkers” day – they knew the record for hottest May day would be broken “easily.”
And sure enough, the old record 32.8C, set in May 1922 – was equalled around midday.
But the temperature kept rising, with the previous May record broken by a full 2C after a high of 34.8C was measured at Kew Gardens, west London, late in the afternoon.”
UK records hottest ever May day as temperature climbs to 34.8C in west London
34.8 C record in Britain, it broke the old record by 2c. A quantum leap.
If this margin happened in an Olympic event, you would rightly think that the runner was on “The Juice”, you’d be right, our climate system is responding to destabilisation and the consequences of the cumulative effects of having triggered over six dozen feedback loops that I am aware of, there has to be more yet to be identified.
I worked in the not very United Kingdom in 1986/87, a 25C day in the summer was considered hot, summer hasn’t started yet, it’s still a month away and the consequences of the nascent El Nino have yet to manifest. 2026 Super El Niño could surpass the 1877 record
All of the above information is from the first embedded link via the BBC, an organisation renowned for giving us the ‘edited highlights’ of events but the data is readily available.
“For late May, this is a historic, record-shattering heatwave. An extraordinary thermodynamic plume sends a massive core of extreme warmth over Spain, Portugal, Ireland, the UK, France, and Germany. Temperatures are soaring by 12-16 °C above long-term climatological norms.“Heat Dome Update: Europe Braces for Record-Breaking Late May Heatwave
Below is a fascinating video documentary on the heatwave from “The Outer Layer.”
“A thermometer in a London garden just read thirty-four point eight degrees Celsius — and with that single number, Britain recorded the hottest May day in its entire history. But the number itself is not the signal. The margin is. This record did not creep upward by the tenth of a degree that records normally move by in a centuries-long dataset. It shattered the previous national May mark by a full two degrees, a leap into territory the month had never reached in the entire instrumental era. The Met Office said something stranger still: that this level of heat would be exceptional in the United Kingdom even in the height of summer — and it arrived at the very end of May, with the warm season not yet begun. So is this a freak, a hot day the summer will quietly forget? Or the first move of a machine that is already assembled, already running, and weeks ahead of schedule?”
Britain Just Recorded Its Most Extreme May Heat in History — And It’s a Warning For the World.
The above video and additional information can be found at my previous delve into non-linearity: Non-Linearity in the Climate System
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I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
More evidence below:
It’s so friggin’ hot
Heat Dome Update: Europe Braces for Record-Breaking Late May Heatwave
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“Scientists said the high of 15.4C broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C. “This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen. “It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown | Polar regions | The Guardian
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A portion of the first paragraph of this analysis reads: “an increase in earthquakes and volcanic activity.” As we melt glaciers, drain aquifers and oil wells and as thermal expansion raises sea levels, we alter the pressure on tectonic plates, the resulting movement is described in the literature as “Isostatic rebound.” The projections to 2100 are worse than useless, they are deceiving. Using models that were created based on linear changes in a time of non-linearity is a recipe for failure, that failure is now literally ‘baked in’. The recent heatwave that rocked Europe exposed how unprepared the medical system was for people with underlying health issues. High overnight temperatures don’t allow for the body to recover from the days heat stress, it’s not just your muscles that at are fatigued, your organs are stressed. “Global warming is systematically intensifying these temperature swings in the world’s most populous regions, posing challenges to public health and ecosystem stability. We recommend that relevant international scientific organizations formally recognize it as a new type of extreme weather event.” The authors believe we are witnessing “A new type of extreme weather event”, fancy that.
Science Snippets: Daily Temperature Changes Altered by Climate Change in Mid- to Low-Latitudes
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