Climate Letter #1164

A Pakistani city set a new world record high temperature for the month of April, 50C (122F).  The normal peak of the mid-summer heating season in the Northern Hemisphere is around the middle of July, still two months away.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/pakistani-city-breaks-april-record-with-day-of-50c-heat-nawabshah

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–The daily Weather Maps published by the University of Maine will keep you well-informed on this important subject in the days ahead in all vulnerable locations, at the link below.  Scroll down for the global view, taking care to stay on “Max”.  The dark blackish patches start at around 100F, the grayish ones inside of them around 110 and up, and where you see white, 122, at which level the scale stops but really needs to be extended.  The Sahel desert region in Africa is regularly dotted these days with light grays.  Humans do not function well under that kind of heat.
http://cci-reanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#t2max
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Another new study highlights the importance of reducing methane emissions for realizing climate targets.  It has real leverage compared with CO2 because levels retained in the atmosphere will decline much more rapidly due to its shorter life.  Just making a greater effort to plug leaks from natural gas production and piping would be very helpful, as well as cutting back the size of cattle populations.
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asl.821?af=R
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Increasing ocean acidification favors the growth of weedlike species, enabling them to replace forests of slower growing kelp.  Kelp is a much better provider of ecological services including support for biodiversity.  Similar to the better-known situation with coral reefs, hundreds of marine species rely on kelp forests for shelter and food resources.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uoa-wto050318.php
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Ice cover in the Bering Sea plunged to a record low this winter (Scientific American).  There has been nothing remotely like it going back more than 160 years.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/shock-and-thaw-alaskan-sea-ice-just-took-a-steep-unprecedented-dive/
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One more reason for China to reverse its burning of coal.  Contamination of rice from airborne mercury pollution that originated in far off power plants is more widespread than realized, and in places like central China that are so affected rice is still a big part of the people’s diet.

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-problem-china-coalmercury-rice.html?

Carl

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