Sydney Morning Herald (August 28)
“The hottest winter day ever recorded for Australia was this week: 41.6 degrees at Yampi Sound.” Temperatures are more comfortable in Sydney where “trees are blossoming, cafe dining has shifted outdoors, and Sydneysiders have flocked to beaches and parks.” The freakish heat “has also sent local and national climate records tumbling, sparked wildfires around NSW, and led to early closures and patchy snow at many ski resorts.”
Tags: 41.6 degrees, Australia, Beaches, Blossoming, Climate records, Freakish heat, Hottest, Outdoors, Parks, Ski resorts, Sydney, Temperatures, Wildfires, Winter
Institutional Investor (August 26)
Multistrategy funds “are no longer the hottest thing in hedge funds. Investors fear too much money, and overcrowding of trades could pose systemic risk.” There is now growing interest in “single manager market-neutral funds.”
Tags: Fear, Hedge funds, Hottest, Investors, Market-neutral, Money, Multistrategy funds, Overcrowding, Single manager, Systemic risk, Trades
Forbes (July 23)
“The planet recorded its hottest day ever Sunday… as an unrelenting string of heat waves continue to topple daily record high temperatures across the U.S.—and more records are expected to fall as heat alerts remain in effect along the West Coast and northern Rocky Mountains.”
Tags: Daily records, Heat alerts, Heat waves, High temperatures, Hottest, Planet, Rocky Mountains, Sunday, Topple, U.S., Unrelenting, West Coast
CNN (March 7)
“February was 1.77 degrees Celsius warmer than the average February in pre-industrial times… and it capped off the hottest 12-month period in recorded history, at 1.56 degrees above pre-industrial levels.” The recent data from the EU’s Copernicus climate monitoring service also confirmed that February was “the ninth month in a row that global records tumbled” and “global ocean temperatures were also off the charts,” especially the North Atlantic, which “has set a new daily temperature record every day since March 5 last year.”
Tags: 1.77 degrees, Climate, Copernicus, EU’s, February, Global records, History, Hottest, North Atlantic, Ocean temperatures, Pre-industrial times, Warmer
The Guardian (December 31)
2023 was “the hottest year on record” and may mark “the year humanity put its stamp on Antarctica in ways that will be felt for centuries to come.” The continent “has suffered dramatic shifts that raise serious concerns about its immediate health.” These coincide with “evidence that longer-term transformations linked to the climate crisis have started much sooner” than expected. Beyond “ramifications for local wildlife,” there will be ripple effects “across the globe in ways that are often less well understood.”
Tags: 2023, Antarctica, Climate crisis, Concerns, Evidence, Hottest, Humanity, Ramifications, Record, Shifts, Transformations, Wildlife
Washington Post (August 3)
“The world just got its first real taste of what life is like at 1.5 degrees Celsius.” July was far and away the hottest month ever recorded. Previously, “the world had briefly passed over 1.5 degrees for a few times” but always during the Northern Hemisphere’s winter, which muted “impacts on the largest population centers. This was the first month where temperatures were that far above preindustrial levels and most of the world’s population was under hot, summer conditions.”
Tags: 1.5 degrees, Hot, Hottest, Impacts, July, Northern Hemisphere, Population centers, Preindustrial levels, Records, Summer conditions, Temperatures, Winter
AP News (January 13)
“Earth simmered to the sixth hottest year on record in 2021.” This “did not represent a cooling off of human-caused climate change” as La Nina lowered temperatures. Indeed, 2021 was the hottest La Nina year ever and “part of a long-term warming trend that shows hints of accelerating.” Data from both NASA and NOAA show “the last eight years have been the eight hottest on record.”
Tags: 2021, Accelerating, Climate change, Cooling, Earth, Hottest, Human, La Nina, NASA, NOAA, Record, Temperatures, Warming trend
CBC News (June 29)
“Lytton, B.C., has broken the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada for a third straight day, hitting a scorching 49.6 C on Tuesday. The latest record was broken as a historic heat wave continues to scorch Western Canada, leading to a spike in sudden deaths in B.C. and dangerous wildfire conditions.”
Tags: 49.6 C, B.C., Canada, Dangerous, Heat wave, Historic, Hottest, Lytton, Record, Scorching, Spike, Sudden deaths, Temperature
BBC (January 15)
“According to Nasa, Noaa and the UK Met Office, last year was the second warmest in a record dating back to 1850.” Moreover, “the past five years were the hottest in the 170-year series” and “the Met Office says that 2020 is likely to continue this warming trend.”
ABC News (December 18)
“Australia has sweltered through its hottest day on record as the ongoing heatwave starts to bite across parts of the country. The Bureau of Meteorology says the national average for yesterday was 40.9 degrees, eclipsing the previous record set just six years ago. But forecasters say the record could be broken again, with the heat set to intensify over the next two days.”
Tags: Australia, Broken, Forecasters, Heat, Heatwave, Hottest, Intensify, National average, Record, Sweltered
