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Temperatures leap 40 degrees above normal as the Arctic Ocean and Greenland ice sheet see record June melting .  (Washington Post, 6/14/2019) Original 12/12/2018 post, "Heating the Arctic", starts here. Map source :   Arctic report card 2018 .  (NOAA) Reported in Arctic's record warming driving 'broad change' in environment: study.   (PhysOrg News, 12/11/2018) Previous climate change as a matter of fact posts: Africa Cape Town, South Africa .  (1/31/2018) Kenya .  (7/23/2017) Asia Kazakhstan: The melting of Tuyuksu glacier .  (1/21/2019) Record heat in Japan raises concerns over 2020 Olympics.   (7/23/2018) Wet bulb temperatures in India .  (7/21/2018) Lebanon's cedar trees .  (7/19/2018) Rising seas + draining underground aquifers = Jakarta disaster .  (12/22/2017) Australia and the Pacific Dying coral of the Great Barrier Reef.   (4/22/2018) Easter Island .  (3/18/2018) Green sea turtles of the Great Barrier Reef...

San Francisco soars to 100 degrees as record heat wave roasts California and the West Coast .  (Washington Post, 6/11/2019) The epicenter of broiling conditions is California, where records have fallen from south to north. San Francisco Airport soared to a record high of 100 degrees Monday, which is its earliest instance hitting the mark and its hottest June temperature, by two degrees.   About 45 million people are under a heat advisory or excessive heat warning for a third straight day Tuesday because of an unusually strong area of high pressure lodged over the region. Related posts: June 2019 Atlanta, Geogia .  (6/5/2019) Record heat in Pakistan and India .  (6/4/2019) April 2019 Australia suffers through record hot March .  (4/2/2019) March 2019 Seattle's record-breaking winter heat .  (3/19/2019) UPDATE: Central Florida's record-setting February heat.   (3/2/2019) January 2019 Australia, scorched.   (1/16/2019) 2018: Hottest year ever for A...

Companies See Climate Change Hitting Their Bottom Lines in the Next 5 Years . ( The New York Times , 6/4/2019) In 2018, more than 7,000 companies submitted such reports to CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project . And, for the first time, CDP explicitly asked firms to try to calculate how a warming planet might affect them financially.   After analyzing submissions from 215 of the world’s 500 biggest corporations, CDP found that these companies potentially faced roughly $1 trillion in costs related to climate change in the decades ahead unless they took proactive steps to prepare. By the companies’ own estimates, a majority of those financial risks could start to materialize in the next five years or so.   The disclosures show how business leaders expect climate change, and the policy responses to it, to ripple through every corner of the global economy. Previous climate change as a matter of fact posts: Africa Cape Town, South Africa .  (1/31/2018) Kenya ....

Reported in  In the Great Marsh and other coastal wetlands, climate change is harming delicate ecosystems .  (Boston Globe , 6/1/2019) Wetlands such as these are also crucial buffers against the damaging effects of rising sea levels from climate change. Yet the very forces unleashed by global warming are pounding away at the Great Marsh and other saltwater wetlands: higher tides — more than 8 inches here over the past century — and a 20 percent increase in precipitation over roughly the same period.   Fueled by more powerful storms, such as the succession of nor’easters that pummeled the region in recent winters, rising tides have intensified coastal erosion and threatened beachside properties. On Plum Island, a thin, 11-mile-long barrier of sand, a series of winter storms in 2013 destroyed six homes and damaged dozens of others. More storms last year washed away dunes, flooded 20 homes, and left about 10 others at risk of falling into the ocean. Related links: Great Mar...