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VOV1 - Thế giới đang trải qua các hiện tượng thời tiết cực đoan chưa từng có do tác động cộng hưởng của biến đổi khí hậu và hiện tượng El Niño. Trong khi châu Âu và Mỹ đang hứng chịu sóng nhiệt nguy hiểm, châu Á đối mặt với mưa lũ diện rộng và bão lớn.Hàng loạt vụ cháy rừng lớn tiếp tục bùng phát tại Tây Ban Nha, Bồ Đào Nha, miền nam nước Pháp và Hy Lạp trong tháng 7, khi một số khu vực ở Tây Âu đang phải đối mặt với đợt nắng nóng thứ 3 trong vòng 6 tuần. Cháy rừng nghiêm trọng tại tỉnh Almeria, miền đông nam Tây Ban Nha, đã khiến 13 người thiệt mạng và trở thành một trong những vụ cháy rừng gây thương vong nghiêm trọng nhất trong lịch sử Tây Ban Nha. Pháp đang trải qua đợt nắng nóng nghiêm trọng và kéo dài với nền nhiệt độ tại các khu vực dao động từ 37–39°C, một số nơi ở miền Tây nước Pháp ghi nhận mức nhiệt lên tới 40°C.Tại châu Á, bão Bavi, cơn bão mạnh nhất đổ bộ vào Trung Quốc trong năm nay, đã gây mưa lớn và gió giật mạnh tại khu vực ven biển miền đông nước này trong ngày 12/7, khiến hơn 2,8 triệu người phải sơ tán, hàng trăm chuyến bay phải huỷ. Trước khi đổ bộ vào Trung Quốc, bão Bavi đã quét qua phía bắc Đài Loan (Trung Quốc), khiến 134 người bị thương. Philippines ghi nhận 17 người thiệt mạng do mưa lớn dưới tác động của bão Bavi. Mưa gió mùa kéo dài nhiều ngày đã gây ra lũ lụt và sạt lở đất nghiêm trọng tại khu vực đông nam Bangladesh, khiến ít nhất 51 người thiệt mạng và hơn một triệu người bị mắc kẹt. Bà Jhinu Barua, một người dân chia sẻ:"Nước lũ đã cuốn trôi hầu hết tài sản của tôi. Tôi đã cố gắng mang theo một vài thứ. Phần còn lại đã mất hoặc bị hư hại do nước. Khắp các phía của ngôi nhà đều bị tàn phá. Tôi trở về hôm nay, nhưng giờ không thể ở được nữa. Tôi đã đến một nơi trú ẩn tạm thời bên cạnh."Trong khi đó, Hàn Quốc hôm qua đã lần đầu tiên kích hoạt hệ thống cảnh báo khẩn cấp về nắng nóng cực đoan tại hai thành phố Gyeongsan và Pohang, sau khi cơ chế cảnh báo mới được đưa vào áp dụng từ tháng 6 năm nay. Theo Cơ quan Khí tượng Hàn Quốc (KMA), nhiệt độ tại khu vực này được dự báo có thể lên tới 39°C.Trước tính hình thời tiết cực đoan đang diễn ra trên khắp thế giới, các nhà khoa học cũng nhấn mạnh tác động của biến đổi khí hậu do con người gây ra khiến các đợt nắng nóng trở nên thường xuyên và nghiêm trọng hơn. Tổ chức Khí tượng Thế giới (WMO) dự báo, hiện tượng El Niño ở mức độ vừa phải hoặc có thể mạnh, kèm theo những rủi ro khí hậu cực đoan trong những tháng tới. Dự kiến, phần lớn 48 bang của Mỹ sắp trải qua một đợt nắng nóng diện rộng và kéo dài do hiện tượng “vòm nhiệt” (heat dome) khiến nhiều bang như Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Bắc Dakota và Nam Dakota có thể ghi nhận mức nhiệt trên 38°C và phá vỡ nhiều kỷ lục nhiệt độ. Ông Daniel Swain, nhà khoa học khí hậu thuộc Đại học Nông nghiệp và Tài nguyên Thiên nhiên California, Mỹ, cho biết:“Đợt nắng nóng sẽ trải rộng gần như đến tận Bờ Tây và về phía đông đến Thung lũng sông Ohio. Đó là một phạm vi rất lớn, trải dài hàng nghìn dặm trên khắp đất nước. Có vẻ như đợt nắng nóng đang bắt đầu hình thành trong vài ngày tới và có thể sẽ kéo dài ít nhất một tuần hoặc 10 ngày. Và trong một số trường hợp, đợt nắng nóng thậm chí có thể kéo dài đến hết tháng 7."Thời tiết cực đoan đang gây ra những hậu quả nghiệm trọng về người và tài sản tại nhiều khu vực trên thế giới. Theo dữ liệu từ mạng lưới EuroMOMO, hơn 10.650 ca tử vong được ghi nhận tại 27 quốc gia châu Âu trong tuần từ ngày 22 đến 28/6, khi đợt nắng nóng kỷ lục bao trùm khu vực Tây Âu. Các chuyên gia nhận định nhiệt độ cực đoan là nguyên nhân chính dẫn đến tình trạng gia tăng tử vong. Nắng nóng có thể gây sốc nhiệt hoặc làm trầm trọng thêm các bệnh tim mạch và hô hấp, đặc biệt ở người cao tuổi./. Thiều Dương/VOV1Tổ chức Khí tượng thế giới dự báo khả năng El Nino diễn ra trong khoảng thời gian từ tháng 7 đến tháng 9 là 70-80%. (Ảnh minh hoạ: Reuters)

El Niño conditions ‘developing rapidly' with ‘extreme weather events' more likely, WMO warns. Jonathan discusses this further with  Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather.

Hello Interactors,Welcome to summer where Interplace turns its attention to physical geography and the environment. It's already a crazy El Niño — thanks in large part to global warming — and the United States is having a big birthday. How might these be related and what to do about it?What follows is not a celebration or a condemnation, but more of a reckoning. I look at what was built, what was deliberately forgotten, and what is now continually arriving, season by season, in forms of weather the founders could not have imagined.Although Alexander Humboldt — one of the world's most famous scientists at the time — did warn Jefferson of the effects of human-induced climate change in 1804. He based his prediction on changes he observed in forests and water systems as a result of mono-crops and industrial “steam and gas”. Jefferson ignored him.BUILDING, BURNING, BILLOWING BACKOn this momentous 250th Fourth of July, when the world is experiencing record level extreme weather events, let's reflect on how over the last 250 years the United States helped build, extract, and then burn the material and political conditions that made climate change possible. From the beginning, it tied itself to land, extraction, mobility, and expansion. Over time those commitments became an energy system built on coal, oil, gas, highways, suburbs, industrial agriculture, and a development model that treated nature as an inexhaustible storehouse. That legacy is now legible in the atmosphere itself. Let's light a Roman Candle in celebration!Even before the 4th of July fireworks celebrations create another nationwide 42% average increase in fine particulate matter (Seidel, et al., 2015), the United States bears the single largest share of cumulative historical CO₂ emissions of any nation . We represent roughly 20 percent of the global total since 1850 contributing approximately 0.2°C of warming to date (Carbon Brief, 2021; UNEP, 2023). To represent four percent of the world's current population and be responsible for nearly a fifth of its cumulative warming is not a coincidence of geography or fake news. It is the outcome of deliberate choices about how a republic would be organized, energized, and expanded across two and a half centuries.The United States has long imagined freedom in spatial terms: movement, property, settlement, mastery, frontier, and circulation. Those abstract ideals were made real through land theft and remade landscapes, as well as through infrastructure built in significant part by African and African American enslaved labor. Each step along the way depended on ever-greater throughput of energy, labor, and material. In that sense, the country's history is also a history of how thought became organized around extraction and exploitation, until those thoughts and actions themselves became a kind of common sense. But by the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries increased industrialization meant emissions grew. They surged during the postwar era and peaked in the early 2000s — a trajectory that maps almost exactly onto the spatial project of suburban expansion, highway construction, and fossil-fuel-dependent agriculture (Climate Change Tracker, 2024). Two-thirds of the country's cumulative warming impact derives from fossil CO₂ alone. The built environment of American freedom is as inseparable from the chemical footprint it left behind as a firecracker's scattered debris and carbon residue.This leaves us with a climate crisis that is not just the result of a few bad policy choices in the late twentieth century. We exist in a cumulative outcome of a long national project that normalized combustion as prosperity and treated atmospheric consequence as some distant abstraction. Kind of like turning up the radio to drowned out the sound of your car making a funny noise. The federal state government played a central role in this process. Not only through direct policy and subsidies, but through the development of roads, ports, power systems, agricultural regimes, and military logistics that expanded the scale of fossil dependence at every scale of national life.The fossil fuel industry understood this trajectory earlier than the public was permitted to know. A systematic analysis published in Science found that ExxonMobil's own scientists accurately projected and skillfully modeled global warming due to fossil fuel burning from as early as 1977. These projections are consistent with subsequent observations. And yet, for decades, the company publicly pushed doubt and denial (Supran, Rahmstorf, & Oreskes, 2023). Consequently, what America projects as “economic growth”, fueled enormously by the fossil fuel industry, is embedded not only in a collective national memory but in the scientific record.The irony is that America's confidence in its own permanence rested on a false sense of geography. The landscape seemed stable because the costs were displaced in the form of upstream mining, downstream pollution, hidden emissions, imported and exported harm, and deferred climate effects. The effects on the atmosphere made that displacement impossible to sustain. The ‘progress' that had been scattered across space and time returns as heat, drought, fire, flood, and increasingly volatile weather. We built a world in which the rewards of extraction were immediate while the penalties were delayed. Call it what you will — the climate crisis is just the debt of delay, dressed as disaster.KNOWING, NEGLECTING, NEUTERING KNOWLEDGEThe USA did not simply keep burning and expanding on autopilot. By the late twentieth century, it had also begun to lose the institutional capacity to understand what its own trajectory meant. The problem was no longer that the 1970's scientific picture Exxon had already portrayed was absent. The evidence was clear. By the early 1990s the United States had ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and formally accepted the goal of returning greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by the end of the decade.The barrier to progress was not ignorance, but a degraded relationship between knowledge and power. This was engineered in part by more fossil fuel industry campaigns to sow doubt about science it privately accepted. Historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway documented how a loose-knit network of industry-connected scientists ran effective campaigns to mislead the public on issues from tobacco to climate change. They exploited the media's tendency toward false balance and keeping controversy alive long after scientific consensus had been reached (Oreskes & Conway, 2010). The strategy was to make certainty seem uncertain, and it worked. For decades, political inaction persisted through every window of action that may have helped.By the mid-1990s, climate change had become legible enough for federal institutions to name, study, and plan around, but the machinery of governance was being bent in the opposite direction. Newt Gingrich and the Republicans who rose with him may not have invented anti-government politics, but they weaponized it. Curiously, through pro-governmental politics. While their rhetoric promised efficiency and modernization, in practice it often meant cutting staffs, weakening committees, abolishing subcommittees, and treating the legislature less as a site of deliberation than as a theater of permanent combat. After all, their own staffers affectionately referred to Gingrich and his wrecking crew as ‘jihadists' — even as those same politicians promulgated and attached that term as a slur toward Muslims. One of the most consequential acts of this period was the 1995 defunding of the Office of Technology Assessment. This was a bipartisan, independent body that had produced over 750 reports on complex scientific and technical questions since 1974, including major studies on energy policy, environmental risk, and the long-range consequences of atmospheric change. Gingrich had vowed to kill the OTA during his 1994 election campaign. He kept his promise, and with it eliminated one of Congress's primary mechanisms for converting scientific knowledge into durable legislative capacity (Wikipedia, Office of Technology Assessment; AAAS Science, 2019).A legislature cannot respond intelligently to a long-range atmospheric crisis if it has stripped away the very mechanisms designed to synthesize evidence, test assumptions, and tackle complex questions over time. What replaced deliberations mediated by experts was a vacuum quickly filled by industry lobbyists — the same industry that, amongst themselves, knew exactly what Gingrich was doing. Research on institutional dynamics in climate governance consistently finds that fragmented policy, weak intergovernmental coordination, and the erosion of technical capacity are among the most significant barriers to effective long-range climate action (Jaisridhar et al., 2025; Birchall, Bonnett, & Kehler, 2023).The thinning of Congress's own cognitive infrastructure in 1995 was a bureaucratic adjustment that disabled the country's capacity to govern on topics beyond the timescales and dimensions of a single administration. The political system was becoming less capable of converting recognition into sustained action precisely as the need for that conversion became most urgent. The United States not only helped create the conditions for warming but undermined its own capacity to govern the effects warming created. The atmosphere was warming and so was the willful weakening of the world's most powerful potential partner in planetary protection.CASCADES, CRISES, AND COMING TO TERMSWhat follows is not simply a warmer world, but a less legible and actionable one. Once a political system weakens its own capacity to think long-term, it becomes ill-equipped to face a future that arrives not as a single rupture but as a cascade of self-reinforcing disruptions. We've all experienced or read about hotter summers, fire, more erratic rainfall, stressed coasts, shifting storm tracks, and weather that no longer behaves as the old seasonal calendar once did. Anthropogenic warming is already increasing variability in frequency and severity of weather systems. This in turn can alter local precipitation variability, storm behavior, and the climatic conditions on which seasonal expectations have long depended (Robinson, 2021; Wang et al., 2017; Scher & Messori, 2019). In several regions, climate change is expected not only to shift average conditions but to change seasonal predictability itself — especially for rainfall — making the future harder to read through the calendars and risk assumptions modeled and built from the past (Le et al., 2023; Delsole et al., 2014).Even now, the atmosphere offers a live demonstration of this instability. On June 11, 2026, NOAA officially declared that El Niño has arrived — with a 63 percent probability of reaching “very strong” intensity, defined as sea surface temperature anomalies of at least +2°C in the equatorial Pacific. This would rank it among the largest events in the historical record (NOAA, 2026). What makes 2026 categorically different from prior super events is not just its projected intensity but its baseline. This El Niño begins from the warmest ocean temperatures in human history, layered onto anthropogenic warming that has already pushed the planet to 1.55°C above preindustrial levels.As one paper argued in April, the El Niño is the accelerant; the fuel was already stacked (Hansen et al., 2026). The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has placed an 86 percent probability on at least one year between 2026 and 2030 surpassing 2024 as the warmest on record, with 2027 — when El Niño's thermal lag typically produces its most extreme global signals — as the most likely candidate (WMO, 2026).When that variability is layered onto long-term warming, the result is not just discomfort but a deeper erosion of climatic predictability. ENSO — the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the coupled ocean-atmosphere system that drives El Niño's periodic warming and its counterpart La Niña's cooling across the tropical Pacific — is not a new phenomenon, but its behavior is changing. Model evidence indicates that ENSO-related rainfall variability is likely to intensify and shift eastward under greenhouse warming, creating more severe and sometimes novel climate conditions across the terrestrial tropics (Cai et al., 2021; Rifai, Li, & Malhi, 2019). The question is no longer whether the climate will change, but how many of the social and political structures built on climatic regularity can survive that change.Climate change is often presented as a technical or environmental problem to be solved. Especially amidst a culture of pervasive techno-optimism. But climate change is way more fundamental than this. It's a reordering of the relationship between how we need to think and the geography in which we exist. This includes political geography and a reordering of political imagination as it relates to physical geography. The old originally envisioned republic of the USA assumed that land could be mastered, seasons could be predicted, and institutions could absorb shock without losing coherence. Those assumptions no longer hold.The old assumption that infrastructure could be planned around stationary baselines is increasingly at odds with the evidence. We can already see how energy systems show measurable vulnerability to climatic uncertainty and extremes. Modeled systems evidence declines in reliability and large performance gaps when future weather variation is not adequately incorporated into planning (Perera et al., 2020; Ouyang et al., 2023).As a result, the challenge ahead is not adaptation to these changes in the narrow sense, but reconstruction of our relationship to them in the broad sense. This may seem impossible in today's American political system, but truly Democratic societies will need stronger scientific institutions, more durable legislative capacity, and trustworthy public agencies able to interpret risk before disaster becomes routine. They will need not only infrastructure, but intelligence. Embodied intelligence — embodied engagement with physical and social environments rather than as a purely singular-brain augmented by LLM computation. This includes a renewed ability to gather, preserve, and act on knowledge over long horizons.The literature on adaptation governance is clear that resilience depends on organizational learning, intergovernmental collaboration, inclusive planning, and long-term institutional capacity. Short-term, reactive, market or donor-driven interventions that respond to emergencies without building the durable frameworks that prevent them won't work (Birchall et al., 2026; Rahman & Islam, 2024). What this means practically is the reconstitution of the kind of congressional expertise that was dismantled in 1995. We need not merely revive the OTA but to imagine a broader democratic intelligence infrastructure capable of thinking on the timescales that climate change demands — decades, generations, and centuries. Without that, climate change will continue to be experienced as a succession of emergency, political, or market conditions rather than as a governable transformation.We can do this. After all, a country that once imagined itself through movement, expansion, and mastery made a certain kind of freedom seem natural. A new kind of freedom can be made to seem natural too. But right now our current system returns prosperity for many — but heat, flood, instability, and constraint for all. What was built now must be lived within — good and bad — while what was extracted must now live in the atmosphere — all bad. What gets burned today, will burn more later. The political order that was built through extraction, combustion, and territorial expansion must confront the atmospheric and hydrological consequences of those choices.That confrontation will only intensify. Past century's cumulative emissions have already committed the planet to changes that will outlast any government, living generation, or institution that exists. Including you and me. The next 250 years will belong less to societies that imagine escape than to those that can build the institutional intelligence, infrastructural redundancy, and long-term public capacity required to inhabit a less legible and hospitable climate (Ouyang et al., 2023; Jaisridhar et al., 2025).So, as you watch the rocket's red glare and bombs bursting in air — sending even more smoke, chemicals and debris everywhere — know the flag will still be there. But to endure, it must repair an institution to be once again knowledgeable and fair.ReferencesBirchall, S. J., Villeneuve, K., Rose, D., Baran, N. 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Atmospheric Environment.World Meteorological Organization. (2026). Global annual-to-decadal climate update 2026–2035. WMO. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

El Niño conditions ‘developing rapidly' with ‘extreme weather events' more likely, WMO warns. Jonathan discusses this further with  Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather.

VOV1 - El Niño 2026 có thể trở thành một "cú sốc tổng hợp" đối với an ninh lương thực, nguồn nước và năng lượng của Châu Á.Không chỉ là một hiện tượng khí hậu theo chu kỳ, El Niño 2026 đang được các tổ chức quốc tế và giới khoa học cảnh báo có thể trở thành một "cú sốc tổng hợp" đối với an ninh lương thực, nguồn nước và năng lượng của Châu Á. Khi biến đổi khí hậu làm gia tăng cường độ các hiện tượng cực đoan, câu hỏi đặt ra không còn là El Niño có xảy ra hay không, mà là các quốc gia trong khu vực đã chuẩn bị đến đâu để ứng phó với những tác động kinh tế ngày càng sâu rộng."Cần chuẩn bị ngay từ bây giờ cho một đợt El Niño có khả năng mạnh". Đó là thông điệp được Tổ chức Khí tượng Thế giới (WMO) đưa ra trong bản cập nhật mới nhất về khí hậu toàn cầu. Theo WMO, xác suất El Niño hình thành trong giai đoạn từ tháng 6 đến tháng 8 năm 2026 là 80%, và tăng lên khoảng 90% trước tháng 11. Các mô hình dự báo cũng cho thấy hiện tượng này có thể phát triển với cường độ mạnh, dù mức độ chính xác sẽ được cập nhật trong các tháng tới.Điều khiến giới khoa học đặc biệt lo ngại là El Niño năm nay diễn ra trong bối cảnh Trái Đất đã ấm lên khoảng 1,3 độ C so với thời kỳ tiền công nghiệp. Điều đó đồng nghĩa, cùng một hiện tượng khí hậu nhưng tác động sẽ nghiêm trọng hơn, với các đợt nắng nóng gay gắt hơn, hạn hán kéo dài hơn và mưa cực đoan khó lường hơn. Ông Wilfran Moufouma Okia, Trưởng bộ phận Dự báo Khí hậu của WMO, nhận định: "Việc phân loại El Nino, dù mạnh hay yếu, không phải là điều thực sự quan trọng, bởi vì El Nino sẽ gây ra hậu quả bất cứ khi nào nó xảy ra. Tùy thuộc vào thời điểm, tùy thuộc vào mức độ dễ bị tổn thương của quốc gia, đó mới là điều quan trọng nhất. Chúng tôi cung cấp thông tin về hiện tượng El Nino và hy vọng thông tin đó sẽ giúp chuẩn bị ứng phó với mối đe dọa này."Dưới góc độ an ninh kinh tế các chuyên gia cho rằng, Châu Á được đánh giá là một trong những khu vực dễ tổn thương nhất. Thời tiết khô nóng đã bắt đầu ảnh hưởng đến hoạt động sản xuất nông nghiệp ở nhiều quốc gia châu Á. Từ các cánh đồng lúa tại Thái Lan, những vùng trồng cọ dầu của Indonesia cho tới các khu vực sản xuất ngũ cốc ở Australia, lượng mưa thấp hơn trung bình đang buộc nhiều nông dân phải điều chỉnh kế hoạch gieo trồng. Điều này làm gia tăng nguy cơ thiếu hụt nguồn cung và tạo áp lực tăng giá đối với lương thực toàn cầu. Bà Dunja Dujanovic, cán bộ cấp cao về cấp cứu và phục hồi chức năng, của FAO cho rằng: “El Nino ra những hiện tượng khí hậu cực đoan, gây ra những hậu quả lớn, đặc biệt là đối với nông nghiệp và an ninh lương thực, vốn phụ thuộc vào thời tiết . Vì vậy, chúng tôi rất lo ngại rằng điều này sẽ gây ra khủng hoảng lương thực trên quy mô đáng kể vào cuối năm nay và cả đầu năm 2027. Đó là chu kỳ tự nhiên của hiện tượng El Nino”Theo bà Dunja Dujanovic, hiện tượng El Nino mặc dù rất đáng lo ngại, nhưng cũng là một hiện tượng giúp dự đoán các yếu tố khí hậu dễ dàng hơn. “Dựa trên tất cả các mô hình lịch sử, chúng ta có thể dự đoán điều gì sẽ xảy ra ở khu vực nào trên thế giới. Ví dụ, ở Châu Á, chúng ta có thể tập trung vào các cây trồng chủ lực, chẳng hạn như phân phối các giống cây trồng có khả năng chống chịu tốt hơn với điều kiện khô hạn. Chúng ta có thể khôi phục hệ thống thủy lợi. Chúng ta có thể đảm bảo cung cấp nước, thức ăn và chăm sóc thú y cho vật nuôi  khi hạn hán xảy ra. Trong trường hợp lũ lụt, chúng ta có thể sửa chữa bờ sông, khơi thông các dòng chảy" -Bà Dunja Dujanovic cho hay.Trong một thế giới ngày càng chịu tác động của biến đổi khí hậu, El Niño không còn đơn thuần là một hiện tượng thời tiết lặp lại theo chu kỳ. Đó đang trở thành phép thử đối với năng lực quản trị, khả năng chống chịu của nền kinh tế và mức độ sẵn sàng của mỗi quốc gia trước những cú sốc khí hậu trong tương lai.Người  nông dân Indonesia ứng phó với hạn hán kéo dài do hiện tượng El Nino gây ra , tại huyện Cirebon, tỉnh Tây Java, Indonesia, tháng 6 năm 2026. Ảnh: REUTERS

VOV1 - Đợt nắng nóng cực đoan kéo dài từ cuối tháng 6 tiếp tục gây ra những tác động nghiêm trọng trên khắp châu Âu, bùng phát nhiều vụ cháy rừng, gây áp lực lớn lên hệ thống y tế và làm tăng số ca tử vong. Các chuyên gia cảnh báo tình trạng nắng nóng có thể tiếp tục gia tăng trong những ngày tới.Nhiều quốc gia châu Âu như Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Tây Ban Nha... đã ban bố cảnh báo nắng nóng và đối phó với cháy rừng lan rộng. Tại Hy Lạp, hai người đã thiệt mạng sau khi một vụ cháy rừng gần làng Liti, cách thành phố Thessaloniki khoảng 25 km. Tại Croatia, hàng chục lính cứu hỏa cùng nhiều máy bay chữa cháy được huy động để khống chế các đám cháy rừng trên đảo du lịch Vis và khu vực gần thị trấn Orebic. Tây Ban Nha cũng đang nỗ lực dập tắt một vụ cháy rừng tại vùng Aragon đã thiêu rụi khoảng 2.200 ha đất. Trong khi đó, Albania đã kiểm soát được một đám cháy lớn gần làng Klos sau khi nhiều diện tích cây bụi và vườn ô liu bị thiêu hủy.Các vụ cháy rừng trên khắp châu Âu là hậu quả của đợt nắng nóng kỷ lục từ cuối tháng 6 trong khi các vụ tử vong liên quan đến nắng nóng tiếp tục gia tăng tại Cyprus và Ba Lan. Đáng chú ý, trong tuần qua, Pháp đã ghi nhận ít nhất 1.000 ca tử vong và con số này nhiều khả năng còn tiếp tục tăng. Phần lớn nạn nhân là người trên 75 tuổi. Bác sĩ Nicolas Gonzales, Trưởng khoa Cấp cứu Bệnh viện Paris-Saclay, Pháp, cảnh báo về tình trạng quá tải khi số lượng bệnh nhân nhập viện do nắng nóng tăng mạnh: “Trong số 150 bệnh nhân chúng tôi tiếp nhận mỗi ngày, thông thường có từ 15 đến 20% cần nhập viện. Giờ đây, tỷ lệ bệnh nhân nhập viện đã tăng từ 20% lên 40%, tức là tăng 100%. Chúng tôi ngay lập tức gặp phải tình trạng tắc nghẽn. Tình trạng này không cho phép chúng tôi nhập viện tất cả những bệnh nhân này ngay lập tức.”Dự kiến, nắng nóng tiếp tục tác động tiêu cực đến nhiều quốc gia châu Âu khi một đợt nắng nóng mới nhiều khả năng sẽ quay trở lại từ đầu tháng 7, ảnh hưởng đến Pháp, Đức, Italy, Tây Ban Nha, Thụy Sĩ và một phần nước Anh. Trưởng bộ phận thông tin khí hậu của Tổ chức Khí tượng Thế giới (WMO), John Kennedy, cho biết, khí hậu thay đổi và nắng nóng cực đoan sẽ xảy ra thường xuyên hơn, kéo dài hơn, với cường độ lớn hơn khi hiện tượng nóng lên toàn cầu tiếp tục diễn ra.“Nhiệt độ cao mà chúng ta đang thấy vào ban ngày thu hút nhiều sự chú ý, nhưng nhiệt độ ban đêm cũng đặc biệt cao. Khi nhiệt độ duy trì trên 20 độ C suốt đêm, các khu dân cư không thể thoát bớt nhiệt lượng dư thừa, khiến cơ thể không thể phục hồi sau cái nóng ban ngày, và kéo dài trong nhiều ngày. Sự căng thẳng không được giải tỏa này là nguyên nhân dẫn đến số ca tử vong tăng trong các đợt nắng nóng vừa qua. Những vấn đề này có thể trở nên trầm trọng hơn ở các khu vực đô thị, nơi nhiệt độ, đặc biệt là vào ban đêm, cao hơn do môi trường xây dựng.”Đợt nắng nóng lịch sử đang cho thấy mức độ nghiêm trọng ngày càng tăng của các hiện tượng thời tiết cực đoan tại châu Âu. Từ thiệt hại về người, cháy rừng, quá tải hệ thống y tế đến áp lực đối với hạ tầng năng lượng, các tác động đã vượt ra ngoài phạm vi một hiện tượng thời tiết đơn thuần. Trong bối cảnh các dự báo cho thấy nắng nóng có thể tiếp tục kéo dài và tái diễn trong thời gian tới, các quốc gia châu Âu sẽ phải tăng cường các biện pháp ứng phó khẩn cấp, đồng thời thúc đẩy các chiến lược thích ứng với biến đổi khí hậu trong dài hạn./.Thiều Dương/ VOV1Nắng nóng cực đoan đang gây ra những tác động nghiêm trọng trên khắp châu Âu. Ảnh: Reuters.

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Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina. Katika mkutano wa 19 wa Nchi Wanachama wa Mkataba wa Haki za Watu Wenye Ulemavu uliomalizika wiki iliyopita baadhi ya wahudhuriaji walikuja na wakalimani wao, kutoka Tanzania Mbunge Nassriya Nassir Ali mwenye ulemavu wa kusikia au Kiziwi aliambatana na mkalimani wake Tusajigwe Ernest. Baada ya mkutano huo Leah Mushi aliketi na Tusajigwe na hapa anaanza kwa kueleza kuhusu taaluma yake. Pia tunakuletea muhtasari wa habari.Kauli za chuki zinaendelea kuhatarisha mshikamano wa jamii na amani duniani, ameonya Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa António Guterres akisema mara nyingi ndizo chachu ya vurugu, migogoro na uhalifu mkubwa dhidi ya ubinadamu. Katika ujumbe wake wa Siku ya Kimataifa ya Kupambana na Kauli za Chuki, leo Juni 18, Guterres amesema makundi kama wanawake, wahamiaji, wakimbizi, watu wenye ulemavu na jamii ya LGBTQIA+ mara nyingi hulengwa na ujumbe wa chuki. “Kauli za chuki ndio hatua ya kwanza katika njia ya kuwanyima watu utu wao, njia ambayo mara nyingi hupelekea vurugu, migogoro na uhalifu wa kutisha.” Pia ameonya kuwa mitandao ya kijamii imeongeza kasi ya kusambaa kwa chuki duniani.Ujumbe wa Umoja wa Mataifa wa Kulinda Amani nchini Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo, MONUSCO, umetangaza kwa masikitiko hii leo kifo cha mfanyakazi wa kampuni iliyokuwa ikitoa huduma kwa ujumbe huo, aliyefariki dunia kutokana na Ebola mjini Bunia. MONUSCO imesema mfanyakazi huyo alikuwa ameacha kufanya kazi na ujumbe huo tangu Mei 22 mwaka huu na hakuwa amefika katika maeneo ya MONUSCO kwa zaidi ya siku 21 kabla ya ugonjwa huo kuthibitishwa. Ujumbe huo umetuma salamu za rambirambi kwa familia, ndugu, marafiki na wafanyakazi wenzake na marehemu.Na Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya Hewa Duniani, WMO, limesema matukio mabaya ya hali ya hewa na mabadiliko ya tabianchi yaliathiri takriban watu milioni 13 barani Afrika mwaka 2025 na kusababisha vifo zaidi ya watu 3,000. Ripoti mpya ya shirika hilo iliyotolewa leo mjini Geneva Uswisi inaeleza kuwa mafuriko yalikuwa janga lililoripotiwa zaidi, huku yakisababisha hasara kubwa za kiuchumi na kibinadamu. WMO pia imeonya kuwa barafu katika maeneo ya milima ya Afrika, ikiwemo Mlima Kilimanjaro, inaendelea kutoweka kwa kasi, wakati kina cha bahari katika baadhi ya maeneo ya pwani kikipanda kwa kiwango kikubwa kuliko wastani wa dunia. WMO imesisitiza kuwa Afrika bado ina pengo kubwa katika mifumo ya tahadhari za mapema, ingawa maendeleo yanaendelea kufanyika.Mwenyeji wako ni Feissal Kirwa, karibu!

Výtah Respektu: „Věda hovoří jasně. El Niño se k nám blíží s devadesáti procentní jistotou. Svět to musí brát jako naléhavé klimatické varování,” řekl generální tajemník OSN Antonio Guterres v prohlášení, ve němž apeloval na přípravu na tento jev i na to, jaké by mohl mít dopady. Podle Světové meteorologické organizace (WMO) by El Niño mohlo na některých místech způsobit výraznější deště, na jiných ještě výraznější sucho. A přestože se jev vrací v pravidelných intervalech, tentokrát by mohl být silnější než dřív. Klimatolog Radim Tolasz z Českého hydrometeorologického ústavu, který je českým zástupcem v Mezivládním panelu pro změnu klimatu a dlouhodobým spolupracovníkem WMO v pondělní epizodě přibližuje, co El Niño znamená pro Evropu a Česko, jaké projevy očekávat, a také co to znamená pro běžného člověka i vlády. Moderuje Zuzana Machálková.

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Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina inayotupeleka nchini Jamhuri ya Kidokrasia ya Congo DRC katika mji wa Mavivi jimboni kivu kaskazini Mashariki mwa nchi hiyo kusikia ni kwa jinsi gani walinda amani kutoka Tanzania wanaohudumu chini ya MONUSCO. wanavyochangia katika ulinzi wa amani na msaada wa kibinadamu.Umoja wa Mataifa umezitaka nchi zote duniani kuimarisha mifumo ya tahadhari za mapema baada ya kuthibitisha kuanza kwa hali ya El Niño, ukionya kuwa mabadiliko hayo ya joto la Bahari ya Pasifiki yataleta viwango vya juu vya joto kuliko kawaida karibu kila mahali duniani kati ya mwezi Juni mpaka Agosti na kuchochea matukio mabaya zaidi ya hali ya hewa. Akizungumza na waandishi wa habari jijini Geneva Uswisi Katibu Mkuu wa Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya hewa duniani WMO, Celeste Saulo amesema "Taarifa hizi ni muhimu kwa sababu El Niño ni kichocheo kikubwa cha hali ya hewa duniani na mifumo ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi, bahari yenye joto, huongeza joto na unyevu kwenye mfumo wa hali ya hewa ambao unaweza kutumika kuzidisha hali mbaya ya hewa ikiwa ni pamoja na joto kali, na mvua kubwa.”.'Zinakaribia siku 100 sasa tangu kuanza kwa mzozo wa Mashariki ya Kati ambao athari zake zimesambaa duniani kote kwani umevuruga njia za usafirishaji na umeongeza gharama za usafiri na kuchelewesha utoaji wa huduma muhimu. Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa linalohusika na masuala ya watoto UNICEF limeeleza kuwa fedha nyingi sasa zinatumika kwenye usafirishaji badala ya kununua vifaa vya kuokoa maisha ya watoto. Gharama za kusafirisha chanjo kwenda baadhi ya nchi barani Afrika zimeongezeka kwa hadi asilimia 70, huku gharama za kusafirisha chakula tiba, na vifaa vya elimu, nazo zikipanda kwa kiwango kikubwa. Shirika hilo linaonya kuwa hali hiyo inalazimisha kufanya maamuzi magumu kuhusu ni watoto gani wapate msaada kwanza". Mlipuko wa ugonjwa wa Ebola uliogundulika nchini Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia Congo DRC na Uganda mwezi uliopita wa Mei ambapo mpaka sasa watu 49 wamepoteza maisha, 48 nchini DRC na mmoja nchini Uganda. Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la afya ulimwenguni WHO Dkt. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus amezihimiza jumuiya za kimataifa kutoa usaidizi unaohitajika ili kudhibiti mlipuko. Pia amelihimiza nchi kutoweka vikwazo vya usafiri kwa DRC, ili kuhakikisha msaada wa kiafya na kibinadamu unaweza kufikia kiwango kinachohitajika.Na katika kujifunza lugha ya Kiswahili hii leo mtaalam wetu Onni Sigalla, Mhariri mwandamizi wa Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa nchini Tanzania, BAKITA. Anafafanua maana za neno "CHOTORA"Mwenyeji wako ni Rashid Malekela, karibu!

Diese Woche mit Verena Kern und Sandra Kirchner. 01:45 WMO warnt vor neuen Hitzerekorden Eine ungewöhnlich frühe Hitzewelle hat weite Teile Westeuropas erfasst – mit Temperaturen von bis zu 38 Grad in Spanien und neuen Rekordwerten in Großbritannien. Laut einem Bericht der Weltwetterorganisation WMO sind solche Extremereignisse kein Ausreißer, sondern Teil eines klaren Trends: Mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit werden die kommenden Jahre bis 2030 noch heißer als das bisherige Rekordjahr 2024. 08:04 Fußball-WM mit Klima-Problem Die Fußball-WM 2026 dürfte nicht nur die größte, sondern auch die klimaschädlichste Weltmeisterschaft der Geschichte werden. Durch das neue XXL-Format mit 48 Teams und Austragungsorten in den USA, Mexiko und Kanada steigen die Treibhausgasemissionen massiv an. Gleichzeitig bedrohen die Folgen der Klimakrise längst auch den Sport. Extreme Hitze wird für Spieler und Fans zunehmend zum Gesundheitsrisiko – und könnte viele Stadien künftig zeitweise unbespielbar machen. 15:03 UN-Beschluss stärkt internationales Klimarecht Die UN-Generalversammlung hat eine Resolution verabschiedet, die die Verpflichtung aller Staaten zum Klimaschutz stärkt. Grundlage ist das wegweisende Gutachten des Internationalen Gerichtshofs in Den Haag vom Juli 2025. Mit dem UN-Beschluss wird die völkerrechtliche Klimaschutz-Verpflichtung von Staaten weiter gestärkt – und zugleich steigen die Chancen, Regierungen künftig juristisch für unzureichenden Klimaschutz oder entstandene Klimaschäden zur Verantwortung zu ziehen. -- Das klima update° wird jede Woche von Spender:innen unterstützt. Wenn auch du dazu beitragen willst, geht das HIER https://www.verein-klimawissen.de/spenden. Wir danken hier und jetzt - aber auch noch mal namentlich im Podcast (natürlich nur, wenn ihr zustimmt).

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All Things Sustainable is the official podcast of the inaugural Climate Week Zurich taking place May 4-9, and all week we've brought you special daily episodes from Zurich.    In our final episode of the week, we're talking to Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Geneva, Switzerland, that facilitates worldwide cooperation on monitoring and predicting changes in weather, climate, water and other environmental conditions.   Celeste says Climate Week Zurich is helping raise awareness of the need to build climate resilience in the public and private sectors through collaboration and data sharing.  "If we speak about food security, you speak about climate; if you speak about water security, you speak about climate; if you speak about transportation and logistics and security associated with aviation or marine operations, you're also speaking about weather and climate," Celeste says. "The quality of climate information is not guaranteed unless every player plays an active role."   Celeste explains how the WMO is building consensus at a time when geopolitical tensions are high.   "We need to trust science," she tells us. "Scientists are also needed to provide objective information for decision-makers. It's not for scientists to decide on what to do, but it's for scientists to provide the right level of knowledge for those that are going to take decisions."   Learn about the S&P Global Climate Center of Excellence: Climate Center of Excellence | S&P Global  Copyright ©2026 by S&P Global    DISCLAIMER  By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation as to the accuracy or sufficiency of the information featured in this Podcast. The information, opinions, and recommendations presented in this Podcast are for general information only and any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk.    Any unauthorized use, facilitation or encouragement of a third party's unauthorized use (including without limitation copy, distribution, transmission or modification, use as part of generative artificial intelligence or for training any artificial intelligence models) of this Podcast or any related information is not permitted without S&P Global's prior consent subject to appropriate licensing and shall be deemed an infringement, violation, breach or contravention of the rights of S&P Global or any applicable third-party (including any copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary rights).     This Podcast should not be considered professional advice. Unless specifically stated otherwise, S&P GLOBAL does not endorse, approve, recommend, or certify any information, product, process, service, or organization presented or mentioned in this Podcast, and information from this Podcast should not be referenced in any way to imply such approval or endorsement. The third party materials or content of any third party site referenced in this Podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of S&P GLOBAL. S&P GLOBAL assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of the content contained in third party materials or on third party sites referenced in this Podcast or the compliance with applicable laws of such materials and/or links referenced herein. Moreover, S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty that this Podcast, or the server that makes it available, is free of viruses, worms, or other elements or codes that manifest contaminating or destructive properties.    S&P GLOBAL EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL'S USE OF, REFERENCE TO, RELIANCE ON, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS PODCAST OR THE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THIS PODCAST.

00:00 - Introduction: The WMO's Dire Climate WarningsSetting the stage for the WMO's latest climate report and its significance.Connecting global averages to real-world weather impacts.01:01 - Record-Breaking Warmth: 2024 and BeyondConfirming 2024 as the warmest year on record, surpassing 1.5°C.Contextualizing 2025's warmth within the broader trend.02:03 - The Paris Agreement & the 1.5°C Target: Is it Dead?Clarifying the difference between annual breaches and long-term climate goals.The "fever spike" analogy for understanding 2024's significance.03:06 - Future Projections: The Sharpening ConcernWMO's 2025-2029 outlook and the increasing probability of exceeding 1.5°C.The alarming increase in chances for the five-year average to surpass 1.5°C.04:08 - Oceans and Ice: Critical Climate Indicators**The unabated heating of oceans and its vast energy absorption.Record high ocean heat content and its impact on marine systems.Flashing warning signs from Arctic and Antarctic sea ice and glacier melt.05:11 - Accelerating Sea Level Rise & Earth's Energy ImbalanceThe doubling rate of sea level rise and its cumulative effects.Introduction of Earth's Energy Imbalance as a key climate indicator.Explaining why a cooler year doesn't negate the underlying warming trend.06:13 - Understanding Climate Tipping PointsDefining tipping points as self-perpetuating shifts in the climate system.Examples: Greenland ice sheet and permafrost thaw.07:15 - Key Tipping Elements Under ScrutinyCurrent global warming's proximity to tipping point thresholds.Major tipping elements and their implications (ice sheets, coral reefs, etc.).08:18 - Interacting Tipping Points: Climate DominoesThe compounding effect of crossing multiple tipping points.The risk of "tipping cascades" and their potential timescales.09:34 - Every Fraction of a Degree MattersThe non-linear impact of warming on extreme weather events.1.5°C as a "danger zone" rather than a hard cliff.10:34 - Hope, Responsibility, and AgencyThe narrowing window for avoiding the worst outcomes.Required emission cuts to meet the 1.5°C target.Individual, local, and political actions to address climate change.11:42 - The 2026 Climate Picture: A Summary of Red FlagsRecap of key findings: record warmth, ocean heat, ice loss, and tipping points.The urgency of using climate warnings for action and preparation.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Professor Demetris Koutsoyiannis presents a 2020 talk arguing the “climate change agenda” is political, tracing it to Henry Kissinger's 1974 UN speech and subsequent WMO, CIA, U.S. agency actions, leading to the CO2 program, world climate conferences, and the IPCC's 1988 creation. He reviews Time magazine's shifting narratives from global cooling to warming and CO2, then describes elite networks and philanthropy—especially Rockefeller-linked funding—aimed at moving climate from science to policy, promoting carbon pricing, and expanding global governance. He draws a historical analogy to Rockefeller-supported eugenics and warns of emergency politics limiting rights. In discussion, he contrasts Greek and U.S. belief levels and says COVID fears waned in Greece while climate remains influential.00:00 Intro and Talk Setup01:43 Roadmap and Sources03:15 1973-74 Power Players05:45 Kissinger Career Background06:44 Five Labors Overview10:16 Climate Alert at UN12:38 Cooling Scare and Agencies14:38 CO2 Program to IPCC Birth16:42 Climategate and IPCC Politics19:00 Time Magazine Narrative Shift19:30 From Ice Age to CO2 Villain22:57 Rio to Kyoto Green Industry24:47 Panic Marketing and Activism26:38 Greta and Climate Migration28:15 COVID vs Climate Messaging31:09 Part Three World Saviors31:30 Rockefeller Web of Influence33:34 Money Geography and Oil Roots35:32 Big Oil Meets Big Green37:11 Grantmaking and Consensus37:56 Rockefeller Climate Strategy39:29 Divestment and Multi Agenda Grants41:14 Foundation Funding Machine42:53 Podesta Emails Elite Coordination44:26 Big Green Mega Projects45:27 Climate Emergency State48:35 Climate as Global Governance Vehicle51:58 Supranational Solutions Go Mainstream55:12 Paris COP Influence Network56:53 Eugenics Historical Parallel59:25 From Consensus to State Policy01:02:31 Epilogue Doom Predictions01:04:09 COVID Pivot and World Order01:08:56 Closing Truth and Freedom01:11:22 Q and A Wrap UpHome page: https://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/dk/Substack: https://climath.substack.com/The political origin of the climate change agenda: https://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/docinfo/2035/=========Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

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Светска метеоролошка организација (WMO) објавила је нови извештај о стању глобалне климе, у којем се наводи да се свет у периоду од 2015. до 2025. суочио са 11 најтоплијих година у историји мерења температуре. Такође, метеоролози упозоравају да се наша планета не само загрева, већ и складишти више енергије него што је ослобађа – убрзавајући тако климатске промене.

S Radimem Tolaszem o dosluhujících oceánech i cestě z klimatické krize ve světle výroční zprávy o stavu klimatu od Světové meteorologické organizace (WMO). Moderuje Štěpán Sedláček.Klimatická krize nikam nezmizela, jakkoliv by si to asi každý pozemšťan přál. Naopak. Vědci získaná a ověřená fakta hovoří jasně. Lidé narušili křehkou rovnováhu pozemského systému a důsledky pociťujeme všichni. Teplota roste a související dopady včetně extrémních projevů počasí sílí. Na konkrétní projevy upozorňuje nová zpráva o stavu globálního klimatu za rok 2025 od Světové Meteorologické organizace.Vědci v dokumentu mimo jiné upozorňují, že uplynulých 11 let bylo nejteplejších v historii měření, koncentrace skleníkových plynů v atmosféře, jako jsou oxid uhličitý, metan a oxid dusný, dosahují nejvyšší úrovně za posledních nejméně 800 000 let. Průměrná globální teplota je v důsledku o více než 1,4 stupně Celsia vyšší než před průmyslovou revolucí. Zahřívají se také oceány, které ovšem stále pohlcují většinu přebytečné energie, která se dostává do zemského systému. Ale kvůli tomu se okyselují a v důsledku tajících pevninských ledovců a teplotní roztažnosti roste hladina moří, aktuálně zhruba 4,75 milimetru za rok. Vědci v dokumentu mimo jiné upozorňují, že uplynulých 11 let bylo nejteplejších v historii měření, koncentrace skleníkových plynů v atmosféře, jako jsou oxid uhličitý, metan a oxid dusný, dosahují nejvyšší úrovně za posledních nejméně 800 000 let. Průměrná globální teplota je v důsledku o více než 1,4 stupně Celsia vyšší než před průmyslovou revolucí. Zahřívají se také oceány, které ovšem stále pohlcují většinu přebytečné energie, která se dostává do zemského systému. Ale kvůli tomu se okyselují a v důsledku tajících pevninských ledovců a teplotní roztažnosti roste hladina moří, aktuálně zhruba 4,75 milimetru za rok. Pět zpráv z nového zhodnocení vědců OSN vybírá v podcastu Výtah Respektu klimatolog Radim Tolasz z Českého hydrometeorologického ústavu a český zástupce při IPCC. Štěpán Sedláček se ho ptal také na výzkumy, které nasvědčují na zrychlující zahřívání planety i na vnímání klimatické krize v době válek a bourání světových pořádků. Celá zprává o stavu globálního klimatu WMOhttps://library.wmo.int/records/item/69807-state-of-the-global-climate-2025Ve formě storymapy:https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4d50eeb069354888b0ccba346b141c6dMapa extrémních projevů počasí:https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/20bed16019664bd29ef25535e8ebecfc

Die Themen von Jan und Caro am 24.03.2026: (00:00:00) München-Wahl: Warum der neu gewählte Oberbürgermeister Krause keine Zeit zum Feiern hat. (00:01:46) WG-Zimmer: Welche Uni-Städte am teuersten sind und welche noch halbwegs bezahlbar. (00:08:23) Gaza: Welche Folgen der Krieg im Iran für die Menschen in den Palästinensergebieten hat. (00:14:13) Klima-Bericht: Wieso sich vor Griechenland der Rotfeuerfisch ausbreitet. (00:17:42) Spotify Wrapped: Warum 0630 in euren Wrappeds nicht aufgetaucht ist. Hat euch unsere Folge gefallen? Schickt uns gerne eine Sprachnachricht an 0151 15071635 oder ne Mail an 0630@wdr.de. Kennt ihr schon unseren WhatsApp Channel? Den findet ihr hier: https://1.ard.de/0630-Whatsapp-Kanal Oder einfach diesen QR-Code abscannen: https://1.ard.de/0630-bei-Whatsapp Von 0630.

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Der aktuelle Klimabericht der Weltwetterorganisation (WMO) sei eine Warnung, sagt UN-Chef Guterres. "Wir können handeln", sagt Klimaforscher Niklas Höhne, das zeige die Vergangenheit. "Da müssen wir dranbleiben und nicht in Ohnmächtigkeit verfallen." Von WDR 5.

Condemnation as Israeli authorities shut down UNRWA healthcare facilitySyria: Aleppo violence uproots 120,000 as aid teams push for access: OCHA2025 one of the three warmest years on record: WMO

Sudan: UN rights chief Türk condemns spiralling conflict in KordofansMalaria control faces biggest threat from growing drug resistance: WHOArab region pushed to limits by climate extremes: WMO

Hii leo jaridani tukiendelea kukupa taarifa mbalimbali kuhusu siku 16 za kuhamasisha umma kutokomeza ukatili dhidi ya wanawake, leo tunaelekea Mjini Hoima Magharibi mwa Uganda kusikia hisia za wanawake kuhusu ukatili dhidi ya wanawake mtandaoni.Watu takribani 100,000 wamekimbia makazi yao kaskazini mwa Msumbiji ndani ya wiki mbili, huku Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Kuhudumia wakimbizi UNHCR likionya kuwa mashambulizi yanaongezeka na kuyakumba hata maeneo yaliyokuwa salama. Mwakilishi wa UNHCR, Xavier Creach, amesema mgogoro “unazidi kuzorota kwa kasi ya kutisha” huku familia zikikimbia usiku gizani wakati watu wenye silaha wakivamia vijiji vyao. UNHCR inasema linahitaji dola milioni 38.2 kukidhi mahitaji yanayoongezeka.Kaskazini mwa Asia, dhoruba za kitropiki na mvua zisizo za kawaida zimesababisha vifo vya mamia na watu wengi kukimbia makazi yao, imesema WMO. Clare Nullis, msemaji wa shirika hilo, alisema Indonesia, Ufilipino, Sri Lanka, Thailand na Vietnam ndizo zimeathirika zaidi. “Tunahitaji kuzingatia kuwa Asia iko hatarini sana kutokana na mafuriko,” amesema Nullis, akibainisha kuwa dhoruba karibu na Ekweta ni nadra na jamii hazina uzoefu wa kukabiliana nazo. Indonesia pekee, watu 604 wamefariki, 464 hawajulikani walipo, na 2,600 wamejeruhiwa, huku zaidi ya milioni 1.5 wakiathirika na 570,000 wakikimbia makazi yao.Wakati dunia ikiadhimisha Siku ya Kimataifa ya Kukomesha Utumwa leo Desemba      2 Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Kazi Duniani ILO limeonya kuhusu kuongezeka kwa utumwa wa kisasa wa binadamu, likionesha kuwa watu milioni 10 zaidi walikuwa wakiishi katika kazi za kulazimisha au ndoa za shuruti mwaka 2021 ikilinganishwa na mwaka 2016. Makadirio haya mapya yanaweka idadi ya walioathirika duniani kote kuwa watu milioni 50 huku wanawake na watoto wakiendelea kuwa wenye hatari kubwa zaidi.Na katika kujifunza lugha ya Kiswahili, leo mchambuzi wetu ni Dkt. Josephat Gitonga, ambaye ni Mhadhiri katika Chuo Kikuu cha Nairobi nchini Kenya, kwenye kitivo cha Tafsiri na Ukalimani anafafanua maana ya methali "KOTI LA BABU HALIKOSI CHAWA".Mwenyeji wako ni Sabrina Moshi, karibu!

Researchers at ICARUS, Maynooth University's climate research centre, have launched a new citizen science project, seeking help to rescue African weather data that is vital for research about a part of the world that is very vulnerable to climate change. The project, Weather Archive Africa, is seeking volunteers to sift through some four million images of historical weather data from 43 African countries to determine which images are usable for their research. The images come from the African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD) collection. They were transferred to fiche and film by ACMAD, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium and the World Meteorological Organisation in the late 1980s/early 1990s and were subsequently converted to electronic images by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. However, the images are of variable quality, and it is unclear where and when the data were obtained. "Before we can transcribe the data, we need to separate the images that are readable from those that are unreadable," says ICARUS researcher Kevin Healion, who is involved in the project. "We also need to make sure that the station name, month, and year of observation are recorded; otherwise, rescuing the data will be all but impossible. Once we know which images are usable and where and when they were taken, we can start the process of rescue." The project, which is supported by the Irish Centre for High-End Computing, is being launched on Zooniverse, a global platform for people-powered research which connects professional researchers with volunteers worldwide. "We have found that those who have helped rescue historical weather data feel that they have made a real contribution towards climate action. I think those who contribute to this project will feel the same," Kevin Healion says. Highlighting the importance of the project for future research, ICARUS director Prof Peter Thorne said: "Rescuing African weather data is vitally important if we are to better understand climate change in this very climate-vulnerable region of the world. This project goes some way towards making this data readily available." Carlo Buontempo, Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), also welcomed the initiative: "We warmly welcome this project to transcribe historical climate records from across Africa. Supported by C3S in collaboration with ACMAD and the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, under the auspices of WMO, this citizen-science initiative will enrich observation databases for next-generation climate reanalyses and shed new light on how the continent's climate has evolved since the early 20th century." Those wishing to volunteer to help classify the data can find out more here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen

with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen

Karibu kusikiliza jarida la habari za Umoja wa Mataifa, leo utasikia mengi ikiwemo mkutano wa kujadili kuhusu tahadhari za mapema unaoenda sambamba na miaka 75 tangu kuanzishwa kwa shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la hali ya hewa WMO. Pia utasikia juhudi za mashirika ya UN kusaidia wananchi huko mashinani na kuboresha maisha yao. UNDP nchini Tanzania na UNMISS huko jimboni Yambui nchini Sudan Kusini. Mtangazaji wako ni Leah Mushi. 

Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa ka Utabiri wa Hali ya Hewa Duniani WMO linaongeza kasi ya jitihada za kulinda maisha ya watu dhidi ya madhara ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi. Mkutano wake Maalum uliofunguliwa leo mjini Geneva Uswisi, unalenga kuharakisha mpango wa kimataifa wa Tahadhari za Mapema kwa Wote, sambamba na maadhimisho ya miaka 75 ya WMO. Flora Nducha amefuatilia na anafafanua zaidi (TAAFIFA YA FLORA NDUCHA)Asante Leah, kwa mujibu wa WMO idadi ya nchi zenye mifumo ya tahadhari za mapema kwa ajili ya majanga ya tabianchi imeongezeka maradufu katika kipindi cha miaka kumi iliyopita lakini bado mamilioni ya watu hawana ulinzi dhidi yah atua hiyo muhimu.Ndiyo maana shirika hilo limewakutanisha mawaziri na wataalamu kutoka nchi wanachama 193 kuharakisha mpango wa Tahadhari za Mapema kwa Wote, uliozinduliwa mwaka 2022 na Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa, António Guterres unatekelezwa kwa vitendo.Katika mkutano huo Celeste Saulo Katibu Mkuu wa WMO amesema “Miaka 75 iliyopita, Shirika la WMO lilianzishwa kutokana na ukweli kwamba hali ya hewa, maji na tabianchi havina mipaka ya kitaifa. Ushirikiano wa kimataifa katika uchunguzi na utabiri ni wa lazima, kwa sababu hakuna nchi inayoweza kufanya hivyo peke yake.”Ripoti mpya ya WMO, iliyopewa jina Tahadhari za Mapema kwa Wote Mtazamo wa Dunia, inaonesha kuwa licha ya maendeleo makubwa katika ubadilishanaji wa takwimu na utabiri wa kidijitali, bado kuna mapengo makubwa, hasa katika nchi maskini na visiwa vidogo vinavyoendelea.Celeste amesisitiza kuwa“Tahadhari za Mapema kwa Wote sasa siyo mpango tena, bali ni nembo ya mshikamano wa dunia. Pamoja, tunaokoa maisha, tunaunda sera, na kuimarisha mnepo.”Takwimu za shirika hilo zinaonesha uzito wa changamoto. Katika miaka 50 iliyopita, WMO inasema majanga yanayohusiana na hali ya hewa na maji yamesababisha vifo vya zaidi ya watu milioni mbili huku asilimia 90 kati yao ni katika nchi zinazoendelea.Na ingawa mataifa 108 sasa yana mifumo ya tahadhari za majanga mchanganyiko, shirika hilo linasema viwango vya vifo bado ni mara sita zaidi katika maeneo yasiyo na mifumo hiyo.WMO inasema teknolojia mpya ikiwemo akili mnemba na matumizi ya takwimu za setilaiti kwa wakati halisi zinabadilisha uwezo wa utabiri, lakini pengo la kidijitali bado linawaacha wengi wakiwa hatarini.“Mafanikio ya Tahadhari za Mapema kwa Wote hayapimwi kwa ripoti au maazimio, anasema Celesto bali kwa maisha yanayookolewa na riziki zinazolindwa. Tunapoelekea mwaka 2027, hebu tuongeze juhudi kuhakikisha hakuna mtu anayeachwa bila ulinzi.”Mkutano huo Maalum wa WMO utaendelea wiki nzima mjini Geneva, huku Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa António Guterres akitarajiwa kuhutubia siku ya Jumatano.Shirika la WMO wakati likiadhimisha miaka 75 ya kile linachoita Sayansi kwa Vitendo  linataka kuhakikisha sayansi hiyo inawafikia wote, kabla ya majanga kutokea.

Hii leo jaridani tunaangazia kiwango cha gesi ya hewa ukaa, yaani carbon dioxide au CO₂, siku ya Kimataifa ya Wanawake wa Vijijini inayotupeleka nchini Kenya kumulika juhudi za wanawake za kumudu mahitaji ya familia zao, na uvuvi na uhalifu katika Ziwa Victoria.Ripoti mpya ya Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya Hewa Duniani, WMO, inasema kiwango cha gesi ya hewa ukaa, yaani carbon dioxide au CO₂, kimeongezeka kwa kiwango cha kuvunja rekodi mwaka 2024, na kufikia viwango vipya vya juu zaidi kuwahi kurekodiwa.Kuanzia Oktoba 15 mwaka 2008 dunia imekuwa ikiadhimisha siku ya Kimataifa ya Wanawake wa Vijijini kama fursa ya kutambua mchango mkubwa wa wanawake hawa katika maendeleo ya kijamii, kiuchumi, na kimazingira.Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Uhamiaji IOM kwa kushirikiana na Ofisi ya Marekani ya Masuala ya Kimataifa ya kupambana na Dawa za Kulevya na Utekelezaji wa Sheria (INL), na mamlaka kutoka Kenya, Tanzania na Uganda wanashirikiana kuimarisha uwezo na kukabiliana na uhalifu wa kimataifa unaotekelezwa katika ziwa victoria ambao ukiachwa unaweza kuleta athari kwa zaidi ya watu milioni 40 wanaotegemea ziwa hilo.Mwenyeji wako ni Assumpta Massoi, karibu!

Ripoti mpya ya Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya Hewa Duniani, WMO, inasema kiwango cha gesi ya hewa ukaa, yaani carbon dioxide au CO₂, kimeongezeka kwa kiwango cha kuvunja rekodi mwaka 2024, na kufikia viwango vipya vya juu zaidi kuwahi kurekodiwa. Flora Nducha ameisoma ripoti hiyo na anatupa tathimini

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ CO2-Konzentration in der Erdatmospäre 2024 so stark gestiegen wie noch nie seit Messbeginn +++ Studie: Der Bundestagsabgeordneten-Job muss sich ändern +++ Wie Musik als Paartherapie wirken kann +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin - No. 21, WMO, 15.10.2025Arbeitsplatz Bundestag. Reformbedarf im Maschinenraum der Demokratie, Bertelsmann-Stiftung, 15.10.2025Entwicklung eines sensorbasierten und KI-gestützten Verkehrsdetektors für die Echtzeit-Analyse der Fahrbahnbeanspruchung – RoadIT1.0, HTWK LeipzigKranichzug, Nabu, 14.10.2025**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok und Instagram .

On September 6th, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released a 96-word statement in which he referred to “climate breakdown” having begun. It was in response to a report from the World Meteorological Organization, which highlighted the impact of record-breaking heatwaves across the globe this summer.  June, July, and August 2023 are the hottest three-month period ever recorded. The WMO says that the increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves we're experiencing are causing air quality to decline, impacting human health. What's the definition of “climate breakdown”? Was this summer expected to be so hot? Is there any way back? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: ⁠How can I beat Monday morning syndrome?⁠ ⁠What is cookie jarring in the dating world?⁠ ⁠How can I beat my work addiction ?⁠ A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. First broadcast: 13/9/2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jaridani leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina kuhusu masuala ya wanawake, tathmini ya miaka 30 ya harakati za kusongesha haki za wanawake na utamsikia maoni ya Balozi Gertrude Mongella kutoka Tanzania. Pia tunakuletea muhtasari wa habari na uchambuzi wa methali.Mjadala Mkuu wa mkutano wa 80 wa Baraza Kuu la Umoja wa Mataifa ukianza Jumatatu ijayo, Rais wa Mkutano huo Annalena Baerbock  amewaambia waandishi wa habari jijini New York, Marekani kuwa “jukumu letu ni Umoja wa Mataifa uwe thabiti kwa miaka 80 ijayo. Michakato ya kuhakikisha hilo ndio itakuwa jukumu letu mwaka huu, ikiwemo kusongesha ajenda ya marekebisho ya Umoja wa Mataifa. Kwa hiyo tukitaka Umoja wa Mataifa thabiti, basi tunahitaji ahadi kutoka serikali zote duniani.Ripoti ya Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa inayotolewa kila mwaka kabla ya kuanza kwa Mjadala Mkuu wa Baraza Kuu inasema Umoja wa Mataifa umeendelea kusimama imara, ukifanya kazi ya kuendeleza amani, kuchochea maendeleo endelevu, na kupunguza mateso ya kibinadamu licha ya majaribu makubwa. Katika ripoti hiyo Antonio Guterres amesisitiza uimara wa watumishi wa Umoja wa Mataifa, ambao wamejitolea kuleta matumaini na msaada kwa wale wanaohitaji licha ya kufanya kazi katika mazingira magumu.ripoti ya Hali ya Rasilimali za Maji Duniani iliyotolewa leo inasema ni takriban theluthi moja tu ya mabonde ya mito duniani yaliyokuwa na hali ya “kawaida” mwaka 2024 ilhali mengine yote yalikuwa na kiwango cha juu zaidi cha maji au chini ya kiwango cha kawaida — ikiwa ni mwaka wa sita mfululizo wa kutokuwepo kwa uwiano wa wazi. Ikitolewa na shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya Hewa, WMO, ripoti inasema mwaka 2024 uliokuwa mwaka wa joto zaidi kuwahi kurekodiwa ulianza na tukio la El Niño ambalo liliathiri vibaya mabonde makubwa ya mito na kusababisha ukame katika maeneo kadhaa ikiwemo kusini mwa Afrika.Na katika kujifunza lugha ya Kiswahili, leo mchambuzi wetu ni Dkt. Josephat Gitonga, ambaye ni Mhadhiri katika Chuo Kikuu cha Nairobi nchini Kenya, kwenye kitivo cha Tafsiri na Ukalimani anafafanua maana ya methali "MZOEA PUNDA HAPENDI FARASI"Mwenyeji wako ni Flora Nducha, karibu!

DR Congo crisis: funding cuts curtail assistance to victims of sexual violence warns OHCHRPakistan's monsoon flood-hit communities face more miseryAir pollution is on the rise but China, Europe offer glimmer of hope: WMO

Wakati mabilioni ya watu wakiendelea kuvuta hewa chafu inayosababisha zaidi ya vifo vya mapema milioni 4.5 kila mwaka, wataalamu wa hali ya hewa wa Umoja wa Mataifa leo Ijumaa (5 Septemba) wamebainisha madhara ya chembe ndogo ndogo za moshi kutoka katika moto wa nyika ambazo husafiri umbali mrefu duniani kote. Philip Mwihava na maelezo zaidi.(Taarifa ya Mwihava)“Ubora wa hewa hauheshimu mipaka,” anasema Lorenzo Labrador, Afisa wa Kisayansi wa Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya Hewa Duniani (WMO). Anaendelea kueleza kwamba, “moshi na uchafuzi unaotokana na moto wa nyika katika msimu huu wa kihistoria katika Rasi ya Iberia tayari umepatikana Ulaya Magharibi, kwa hiyo athari zake hazibaki tu kwenye Rasi ya Iberia, bali zinaweza kusambaa kote barani Ulaya.”Akiwasilisha taarifa ya WMO kuhusu Hewa Safi na Tabianchi, ambayo inakusanya data kutoka vyanzo mbalimbali vya kimataifa, leo jijini Geneva, Uswisi Bwana Labrador ametangaza mwendelezo wa mwenendo wa kuzorota kwa ubora wa hewa duniani.Ameonyesha ramani ya dunia ya mwaka 2024 iliyoonesha alama za chembechembe ndogo zinazojulikana kama “PM 2.5” kutokana na moto wa nyika, zikionekana kwa alama nyekundu kwenye maeneo ya Chile, Brazil na Ecuador, pamoja na Canada, Afrika ya Kati na Siberia. Takwimu hizo zinathibitisha mwenendo wa kuendelea kwa kuzorota kwa ubora wa hewa duniani kama ilivyoonekana katika miaka iliyopita.Kwa upande wa habari njema, mwanasayansi huyo wa WMO amesisitiza kupungua kwa uzalishaji wa hewa chafuzi katika baadhi ya maeneo ya dunia.(Sauti ya Labrador) - sauti ya kiume“Tunaona mwenendo wa kuzorota kwa ubora wa hewa hasa kwa kuhusiana na PM 2.5, na pia tunaona kupungua kwa uzalishaji wa hewa chafuzi katika maeneo fulani ya dunia, hasa mashariki mwa China na Ulaya, mwaka baada ya mwaka.”Mfano mzuri uliotolewa katika taarifa ya leo mashariki mwa China, katika miji kama Shanghai, ambako kumepigwa hatua katika kuboresha ubora wa hewa kwa kufungua bustani zaidi na kupanda miti mingi. Na ingawa bado kuna msongamano mkubwa wa magari, mengi sasa ni ya umeme.Hata hivyo WMO inasema licha ya mafanikio hayo, miji michache tu duniani ina viwango vya ubora wa hewa chini ya vile vinavyopendekezwa na Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Afya Duniani (WHO). Hii inamaanisha kuwa, licha ya maboresho ya karibuni, ubora wa hewa bado ni changamoto kubwa kwa afya ya umma.Umoja wa Mataifa unaongoza juhudi za kupambana na uchafuzi wa hewa majumbani ambao ni mojawapo ya vitisho vikubwa zaidi kwa afya ya umma duniani na hasa ni hatari kwa watoto.

Afghanistan quake: Aid teams scramble to reach most remote survivorsAlert over worsening situation for Myanmar's remaining Rohingya: OHCHRLa Niña likely to return but global temperatures still set to rise: WMO

This week: Etelle Higgonnet, founder of CoffeeWatch talks with Ian Welsh about the environmental and human costs behind global coffee production. From deforestation and biodiversity loss to pesticide overuse and child labour, they explore how agroforestry, living wages and responsible corporate practices can transform the industry.   Plus: UK supermarket Asda launches sustainable supply chain finance; WHO, WMO warn extreme heat threatens workers; and, Nestlé unveils full-pod cocoa processing innovation, in the news digest by Ellen Atiyah.   Host: Ian Welsh   To continue the conversation and dive deeper, join us for the Sustainable Commodities and Landscapes Forum, taking place in Amsterdam on 21-22 October. This leading business conference brings together 250+ supply chain and sustainability professionals to address the greatest risks - and opportunities - in commodity supply chains. Industry leaders and experts will further explore these vital themes and drive nature-resilience throughout the entire supply chain. Click here for information on how to get involved.

The WMO clip lit a fire: production vs custom. Shane Guidry explains why he runs a Viking 82C and why it works for him—35 knots in 4–5' seas, parts when you need them, and a hull that raises fish. We break down the “passed 11 boats” run, what common parts mean on real trips, and why the interior matters when your family actually stays aboard. Watch and weigh in.Connect with Team Harvey Fishinghttps://www.teamharveyfishing.com/  / teamharveyfishing  SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS:Bloody Battery: www.bloodybattery.comIf you have any requests, want to be a guest, or even just want to chat about fishing feel free to reach out to Mark via: markfarag@thescienceoffishing.comREEL IN SOME MERCHwww.thescienceoffishing.com⁠/merchFOLLOW SCIENCE OF FISHINGInstagram:⁠ ⁠@scienceoffishing   / scienceoffishing  TikTok:⁠ ⁠@scienceoffishing   / scienceoffishing  Facebook:⁠ @scienceoffishing   / scienceoffishing  Twitter: @scienceoffish   / scienceoffish  #boating #fishing #marlin

EnvironMental Podcast leans into the sustainability stories you might have missed.Not to scare you but the quiet comfort of predictable seasons is shattering as our world faces unprecedented storms, searing heat, and alarming shifts.In this episode, Aub and Court deliver a vital climate reality check: exploring shocking global extreme weather impacts, exposing governmental greenwashing in our National Parks, and sharing unexpected good news from around the globe.We then dive into what science says we can do, alongside a provocative take on humanity's true climate position and the challenge of societal inertia. Tune in for essential truths and a powerful call to action. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dandelion Branding is a digital marketing agency that specializes in telling sustainability stories.Show Notes Sources:Save the Flavors list: https://climatebasecamp.org/endangered-food-list/Dolphins are citizens:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/15/korean-activists-dolphins-animal-legal-rights-jeju-islandAP news on EnvironMental Justice:https://apnews.com/article/amazon-uae-environmental-crime-operation-arrests-8361b6e0570a00ac14b40aab62937efcThe California Government shared that "Renewable Energy" isn't "alternative":https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/14/in-historic-first-california-powered-by-two-thirds-clean-energy-becoming-largest-economy-in-the-world-to-achieve-milestone/Lever for Change the Emerging Climate Champions Award:https://leverforchange.org/article/press-release/emerging-climate- чемпионов-announcement/Breakdown of the National Parks Exec order:https://www.cntraveler.com/story/what-make-america-beautiful-again-means-for-national-parksThe Exec order:https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/making-america-beautiful-again-by-improving-our-national-parks/World Weather Attribution (funded by Grantham Foundation, the European Climate Foundation and the Bezos Earth Foundation):https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/State of the Global Climate 2024 WMO (World Meteorological Organization - (member countries, climate funds, and partnerships):https://wmo.int/sites/default/files/2025-03/State%20of%20the%20Global%20Climate%202024_Extremes%20Supplement.pdfEEA, European Environment Agency (funded by the 27 member states):https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in-depth/extreme-weather-floods-droughts-and-heatwavesCenter for Climate & Energy Solutions (independently funded nonprofit):https://www.c2es.org/content/extreme-weather-and-climate-change/The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement & they list their funders on their about page and it's eu govt initiatives and climate foundations:https://climateactiontracker.org/global/cat-thermometer/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Us funding and which is being proposed for serious budget cuts in the US):https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/climate/climate-change-impactsClimate Check - unsure of funding, I think they're a for-profit business:https://climatecheck.com/ (USA)The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - mostly funded by the WMO:https://www.ipcc.ch/documentation/Diary of a CEO with Eric Weinstein:https://youtu.be/I-iyGGPabpI?si=eDY4m_G6zN1zOzNj

Tổ chức Khí tượng Thế giới (WMO) đã lập bản đồ những thay đổi này, cho thấy ảnh hưởng không chỉ trên đất liền mà còn ở các đại dương.

Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kinainayomulika kilimo kinachohimili mabadiliko ya tabianchi katika kaunti kama Kajiado, Kenya, ambayo jamii hukumbwa na hali ya ukame na mazingira magumu, mabadiliko chanya yanaonekana.Mustakabali wa mzingiro wa Israeli kwenye eneo la Palestina la Gaza inalokalia kimabavu ukiendelea kukumbwa na sintofahamu, wanawake na wasichana wamesimulia adha ya ukosefu taulo za kike wakati wanapokuwa kwenye hedhi huku upatikanaji wa maji ukiwa ni wa taabu.Idadi ya wakazi wa nchi zenye maendeleo duni, LDCs na zile za visiwa vidogo, SIDS  wanaopata huduma zilizoboreshwa au za kisasa za maonyo ya mapema kabla ya majanga imefikia takribani milioni 400 na hii ni kutokana na programu ya CREWS iliyoanzishwa mwaka 2015 na shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya Hewa, WMO.Rebecca Kalonji, al maaruf Sista Becky, mwimbaji chipukizi wa mtindo wa kufokafoka kutoka Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo, DRC hii leo ametangazwa kuwa Muungano Mkono wa Ngazi ya Juu wa masuala ya lishe na ulaji wenye afya wa shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Mpango wa Chakula Duniani, WFP katika taifa hilo la Maziwa Makuu. Watu milioni 28 wakikabiliwa na njaa kali nchini mwake, Sista Becky amesema atatumia sauti na kazi yake kupatia vijana changamoto ya sio tu kupaza sauti zao bali pia kuchukua hatua kwenye masuala nyeti yanayogusa mustakabali wao ikiwemo kupata lishe bora na fursa bora kwa wanawake na Watoto wa kike.Na katika mashinani fursa ni yake Christiana, mama wa watoto sita ambaye ni mwathirika wa mashambulizi ya hivi majuzi ya waasi wenye silaha katika wilaya za Mirebalais na Saut-d'Eau yaliyosababisha watu wengi kuyahama makazi yao. Anasema ana matumaini kwani Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kuhudumia Watoto, UNICEF limewapelekea huduma za afya kupitia kniki tembezi.Mwenyeji wako ni Anold Kayanda, karibu!

Hali mbaya ya hewa na mabadiliko ya tabianchi vyaliacha hoi bara la Afrika yaonya WMO.WHO yahaha kukabiliana na kipindupindu Angola.Makala Sharon Jebichii anatupeleka nchini Kenya, kumulika masuala ya wasichana katika ICT.Mashinani leo inaangazia ujumbe wa Umoja wa Mataifa wa wiki ya usalama barababarni.

Europa var under 2024 varmare än något tidigare uppmätt år. Kontinenten värms snabbare än världen som helhet och drabbades av översvämningar och hetta. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Det var varmt och torrt i öster, och blött i väster. Så såg vädermönstret 2024 i grova drag ut i Europa, enligt en rapport som släpps på tisdagen från EU:s jordobservationsprogram Copernicus och världsmeteorologorganisationen WMO.Samtidigt drabbades både Spanien och Polen av svåra översvämningar, och antalet dagar med extrem värmestress ökade, särskilt i sydost.Vad görs för att minska effekterna av klimatuppvärmningen, och för att hejda den? Vi hör Erik Kjellström, professor i klimatologi vid SMHI, Sofie Storbjörk, klimatanpassningsforskare vid Linköpings universitet, och Daniel Värjö, miljöreporter på Klot.Programledare: Camilla Widebeckcamilla.widebeck@sverigesradio.seProducent: Björn Gunérbjorn.guner@sverigesradio.se

250320(3) [헤이 고뉴브] (1) 악플테러 받은 대만 여성 반중 네티즌에 ‘악플 테러' 받은 대만 걸그룹 출신 여성 “탄핵 집회에서 공짜 떡볶이” / (2) 음주뺑소니 김호중 징역 3년6개월 구형 검찰, 김호중 ‘음주 뺑소니 혐의' 2심서 징역 3년 6개월 구형 / (3) 기후재앙 마지노선 WMO '2024 세계 기후 현황 보고서' 발표 '기후재앙 마지노선'이라 불리는 '1.5도선' 처음 넘어 - 이태연

Hii leo jaridani tunaangazia madhara ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi yanayosababishwa na binadamu, na yaliyojiri hapa makao makuu ya Umoja wa Mataifa mkutano wa 69 wa Kamisheni ya hali ya wanawake duniani, CSW69.Madhara ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi yanayosababishwa na binadamu yameongezeka kwa viwango vya kutisha mwaka 2024, na baadhi ya athari hasi zinaweza kuwa zisizoweza kurekebishwa kwa karne nyingi – kama si milenia, imesema ripoti mpya ya Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya Hewa, (WMO).Tukirejea hapa Makao Makuu ya Umoja wa Mataifa, mkutano wa 69 wa Kamisheni ya Hali ya wanawake Duniani CSW69 unaendelea kujadili mafanikio yaliyopatikana na nini kifanyike zaidi kutimiza lengo la miaka 30 iliyopita la azimio la Beijing. Mwanzilishi na mkurugenzi mkuu wa shirika la slums foundation lililoko  jijiniNairobi, Kenya naye anashiriki mkutano huu wa CSW69 na ameueleza Sharon Jebichii wa Idhaa hii  kilichomleta hapa, matarajio yake na ushauri kwa wasichana na wanawake..Makala Flora Nducha wa Idhaa hii anazungumza na Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa shirika la ICCAO kutoka Tanzania, Zahra Salehe, mshiriki mwingine kutoka Tanzania anayehudhuria mkutano wa 69 wa Kamisheni ya hali ya wanawake duniani, CSW69 unaoendelea hapa kwenye makao makuu ya Umoja wa Mataifa, jijini New York Marekani lakini kwanza ni makala ambapo.Na katika mashinani fursa ni yake Dewa Sitabile kutoka Zimbabwe ambaye amezungumza na idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Umoja wa mataifa kandoni mwa mkutano wa CSW69 akisema hatua zimepigwa lakini bado kazi yahitajika kuhahikisha wanawake na wasichana wamepata haki zao.Mwenyeji wako ni Assumpta Massoi, karibu!  

Madhara ya mabadiliko ya tabianchi yanayosababishwa na binadamu yameongezeka kwa viwango vya kutisha mwaka 2024, na baadhi ya athari hasi zinaweza kuwa zisizoweza kurekebishwa kwa karne nyingi – kama si milenia, imesema ripoti mpya ya Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya Hewa, (WMO). Anold Kayanda na maelezo zaidi.

WMO's climate and energy lead Roberta Boscolo on the latest climate report, the 1.55°C average temperature rise and heating oceans. Plus: A wrap of the news in our first podcast of 2025.

This week we talk about emissions, carbon credits, and climate reparations.We also discuss Baku, COP meetings, and petrostates.Recommended Book: The Struggle for Taiwan by Sulmaan Wasif KhanTranscriptIn 2016, a group of 195 nations signed the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, usually just called the Paris Agreement, which was negotiated the previous year, and which, among other things, formalized the idea of attempting to keep the global average temperature from increasing by 1.5 C, which is about 2.7 F, above pre-industrial levels.The really bad stuff, climate-wise, was expected to happen at around 2 degrees C above that pre-industrial level, so the 1.5 degrees cutoff made sense as sort of a breakwater meant to protect humanity and the natural world from the most devastating consequences of human-amplified climate change.This has served decently well as a call-to-arms for renewable energy projects and other efforts meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and many nations have actually made really solid strides in that direction since this agreement was formalized, dramatically truncating their emissions in a variety of ways, while also laying the groundwork for long-term reductions by installing a whole lot of solar and wind, reviving old and building new nuclear power facilities, reinforcing and expanding their grids, including adding all sorts of large-scale battery storage, and figuring out ways to reduce energy consumption, which has allowed for the shut-down of coal and oil plants.Shorter-term solutions, like replacing more polluting and emitting sources of energy, like coal, with gas, have also put a big dent in overall global emissions, especially for entities like the US and Europe; this isn't ideal as a permanent measure, because there are still a lot of emissions associated with gas, especially its transport, because of leakage, and gas itself, in the atmosphere, has really significant greenhouse properties, but in the short-term this has proven to be one of the most impactful solutions for some nations and large corporations, and it's increasingly being seen as a transitionary measure, even by those who oppose the use of any fossil fuels long-term.Things have been going decently well, then, even if progress is still far short of where it needs to be for most countries to meet their Paris Agreement commitments, and far slower than many people who are watching this space, and analyzing whether we'll be able to avoid triggering those much-worse climate outcomes, would prefer.One issue we're running into, now, is that those original commitments were a little fuzzy, as the phrase “preindustrial period” could mean many different periods, even if it's commonly assumed to be something like 1850 to 1900, in the lead-up to humanity's full-on exploitation of fossil fuels and the emergence of what we might call the modern era—society empowered by things like coal and oil and gas, alongside the full deployment of electrical grids.Throughout this period, though, from the mid-19th century to today, the climate has experienced huge swings year to year, and decade to decade. The evidence showing that we humans are throwing natural systems way off their equilibrium are very clear at this point, and it isn't a question of whether we're changing the climate—it's more a question of how much, how quickly, and compared to what; what baseline are we actually using, because even during that commonly used 1850 to 1900 span of time, the climate fluctuated a fair bit, so it's possible to pick and choose baseline numbers from a range of them depending on what sort of picture you want to paint.Research from the World Meteorological Organization in 2022 found that, as of that year, we were probably already something like 1.15 degrees C above preindustrial levels, but that it was hard to tell because La Niña, a weather phenomenon that arises periodically, alongside its opposite, El Niño, had been cooling things down and dampening the earth-warming impacts of human civilization for about three years.They estimated, taking La Niña's impact into consideration, that the world would probably bypass that breakwater 1.5 degrees C milestone sometime in the next four years—though this bypassing might be temporary, as global temperatures would increase for a few years because of the emergence of El Niño.Adding to the complexity of this calculation is that aforementioned variability in the climate, region to region, and globally. The WMO estimated that through 2027, the world is likely to fluctuate between 1.1 and 1.8 degrees C above preindustrial levels—and that at that higher range, El Niño might tip things into the especially dangerous 2 degree C territory the Paris Agreement was supposed to help us avoid.By late-2024, it was becoming increasingly obvious that the world had stepped past the 1.5 degrees threshold into unfamiliar climactic terrain.Three of the five leading research groups that keep tabs on this matter have said that in addition to 2024 being the warmest year on record, it will also be the first year we've ever surpassed that 1.5 degree level.Notably, simply popping up above 1.5 degrees doesn't suggest we're now permanently living in that long worried about climate nightmarish world: there are significant, normal fluctuations in this kind of thing, alongside those associated with the El Niño/La Niña patterns; there are a lot of variables acting upon our climate, in other words, in addition to the human variables that are pushing those averages and fluctuating ranges up, over time.The concern here, though, even if we drop back down below 1.5 degrees C for a while is that this temperature band opens up a whole new spectrum of weather-related consequences, ranging from substantial, persistent, crop-killing, barely survivable heat and drought in some parts of the world, to things like larger, more frequent, and more difficult to predict storm systems, like the ones we've already seen in abundance this and last year, but bigger and wilder and in more areas that don't typically see such storms.What I'd like to talk about today is what happened at a recent climate-policy focused meeting, COP29, and the international response to that meeting.—The United Nations Conference of the Parties of the UN Climate Change Conference, or COP meetings, are held every year in a different host country, and they're meant to serve as a formal space where governments can present their goals and boast of their climate-related accomplishments. They also serve as a platform for negotiations related to things like emissions standards and goal-setting, like that aforementioned 1.5 degrees C temperature level we've been trying to avoid hitting.The most recent of these meetings, COP29, was held in Baku, the capitol of Azerbaijan, in mid- to late-November of 2024. And that location was pretty controversial from the get-go because Azerbaijan is a petro-state: its authoritarian government basically funded and sustained by the sale of oil and gas, all of which flows through a state-owned, corruption-laden, local elite-profiting energy company.This isn't the first time a full-on petro-state has hosted a COP meeting, as COP28 was held in Dubai, in the UAE, which was also controversial.But this one was seen as a step even further toward what might read as the appropriation or capture of the COP meetings for the benefit of fossil fuel entities, as the meeting was partly hosted by so-called official partners, which were fossil fuel business interests directly owned by the country's president, while others weren't directly owned, but were connected to his family's other businesses, all of them thus linked to both authoritarian corruption, and the wealth associated with fossil fuel focused economics.As a result, there were allegations that this whole meeting was premised on providing a notorious source of greenhouse gas emissions, which has every reason to try to keep those emitting products available for as long as possible, a venue for greenwashing their efforts, while also giving them the power to moderate discussions related to global emissions targets and other climate change-oriented issues; a major conflict of interest, basically.The Azerbaijani president, leading up to the meeting, countered that critiques of his country's government and human rights record and prominence as a fossil fuel exporter were all part of a smear campaign, and that these unwarranted, preemptive criticisms wouldn't stop those running COP29 from achieving their goal of helping the world “cope with the negative impacts of climate change.”That statement, too, was criticized, as it implies fossil fuel are more interested in pushing the world to adapt to a climate change and its impacts, rather than attempting to halt the emissions that are causing said climate change; many such companies seem keen to keep pumping oil and burning coal and gas forever, in other words, and their efforts in this regard thus tend to orient around figuring out what the new, warmer, more chaotic world looks like, rather than entertaining the idea of changing their business model in any substantial way.So leading up to this meeting, expectations were low, and by some estimates and according to some analysis, those low expectations were met.Article 6 of the Paris Agreement was a big topic of discussion, for instance, as this article outlines how countries can cooperate with each other to reach their climate targets—and this collaboration is predicated on a carbon credit system.So if County A reduces their emissions by more than the targets set by this group, they can sell the gap, the amount of carbon equivalents not emitted into the atmosphere, to Country B, which failed to reach its targets, but which can bring its emissions into accord by acquiring those credits, which according to such a system count as emissions reductions.This same general concept applies to companies, like airlines and even fossil fuel producing energy companies, as well.But while the agreement reached at COP29 does establish a UN-backed carbon credit trading body, which has been heralded as a key step on the way toward concluding Article 6 negotiations that could open up a bunch of new finance for smaller and poorer countries in particular—as they could sell their carbon credits to their wealthier, more emitting fellow COP members—despite that progress, the scaffolding that exists now is generally considered to be leaky and rife with abuse potential, as the UN body doesn't really have the teeth to enforce anything or do much checking into claims made by governments and corporations. A lot of this system is basically on the honor system, and that means just like the stated goals presented by governments and corporations as to when they're be net-zero and when they'll reach the even further-off goal of zero emissions, these claims are often worth little or nothing because there's no mechanism for punishing entities that fail to live up to their boasts and ambitions.A company or government could say they plan to hit net-zero by 2035, then, but if they don't do anything that would allow them to hit that goal in that lead-up to that year, they get to keep claiming to be part of the solution, without having to do any of the work to actually achieve anything. This grants them the veil of sustainability, and without any real consequence.Also notable here is that this meeting's progress on Article 6, establishing that UN body, was pushed through using a questionable procedural move that disallowed negotiation, despite this same proposal having been dismissed after negotiation at previous COP meetings.So while it's arguably good to see progress of any kind on these matters, that this component of Article 6 was voted down previously, but then forced through using what amounts to a technicality early on at COP29 is being side-eyed by a lot of COP watchers who worry about these meetings being coopted by forces that are keen to see this carbon system formalized not because it will help the world reduce emissions, but because it will create a new asset class worth hundreds of billions of dollars, which many of them hope to profit from.It's worth noting, too, that all of the carbon credit markets that have been tried, so far, have either collapsed or served as mechanisms for greenwashing emitting activities; less than 16% of carbon credits issued up till this point represent actual, provable emissions reductions, and most of them are basically just dressed-up money grabs. This new move, despite representing progress of a sort, isn't being seen as substantial enough to change the current carbon credit paradigm, as those issues have not been addressed, yet.All that said, the big news out of COP29 was a deal that requires wealthier nations make a big payout to poorer nations in the form of climate finance; so paying for renewable energy infrastructure, paying for flood walls, things like that, so that poorer countries can leap-frog the fossil fuel era, and so they can deal with and survive the consequences of climate change, which is something they bear a lot less responsibility for than wealthier, far more emitting countries.Those on the receiving end, representing the nations that will receive payments via this plan, were aiming for a minimum of $500 billion, payable in full by 2035, and they were pushing for a lot more than that: something like $1.3 trillion.The final sum was lower than the minimum target, though, weighing in at just $300 billion; which isn't great in contrast to those hoped-for figures, though on the upside, it is three-times what was promised as part of a previously negotiated deal from 2009.Representatives from poorer nations have expressed their discontentment with this agreement, saying that the sum is paltry compared to the challenges they face in trying to shift to renewables while also scrambling to defend against increasingly dangerous temperatures and weather patterns.They've also criticized the meeting's leadership for basically gaveling this version of the agreement through before it could be commented upon by those on the receiving end of these payouts.Summing up the consequences of this meeting, then, a lot of money matters were discussed, which is important, and more money was promised to poorer nations by wealthy nations than at earlier meetings, which is also generally considered to be vital to this transition, and to overall fairness within this context—since again, these nations have contributed very little to the issue of climate change, compared to wealthier nations, and they bear a disproportionate amount of the negative consequences of climate change, as well.There are serious concerns that some of these things were passed without the usual level of democratic consideration, and that some of the money talk, especially related to carbon credits, could represent basically a cash-grab by entities that aren't super-interested in actually changing the status quo, but are very interested in making potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars from what amounts to a fabricated asset class that they can spin-up out of nothing.There's a chance that some of this, even the stuff that's sparking the most concern at the moment, and which seems to be a cynical appropriation of this group and this whole process, could actually lead to more substantial agreements at future COP meetings.COP30 will be based in Brazil, and Brazil's current leadership at least has shown itself to be decently concerned with actual climate issues, as opposed to just the money associated with them. And previous meetings have tended to build upon the agreements of their precursors—so the establishment of a UN body for carbon credits could clear the way for an actually empowered, punishment-capable institution that holds companies and countries to their word on things, rather than simply serving as a symbolic institution that watches over a made-up asset class, which seems to be the case, currently. That asset class could become less prone to abuse and manipulation, and could help with this energy transition as it's ostensibly meant to; but that'll be determined in large part by what happens at the next couple meetings.However this policymaking plays out, we've stepped into a world in which 1.5 C is no longer a far off concern, but a lived reality, at least periodically, and that could nudge things more in the direction of practical outcomes, rather than aspirations and fuzzy goals from this and similar bodies; though the consequences of this and the last few COP meetings have arguably led to luke-warm progress in that direction, at best.Show Noteshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-negotiators-take-key-step-to-global-carbon-deal-1e23433ehttps://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/article-64-mechanismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Azerbaijanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conferencehttps://www.semafor.com/article/11/24/2024/the-cop29-deal-is-even-more-disappointing-than-it-lookshttps://apnews.com/article/united-nations-climate-talks-baku-azerbaijan-finance-8ab629945660ee97d58cdbef10136f35https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/cop29s-new-carbon-market-rules-offer-hope-after-scandal-and-deadlockhttps://www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/4382153/cop29-baku-breakthrough-disappoints-trigger-fresh-wave-climate-financehttps://news.mit.edu/2023/explained-climate-benchmark-rising-temperatures-0827https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-world-temperature-targethttps://grist.org/economics/how-the-world-gave-up-on-1-5-degrees-overshoot/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/27/global-warming-fight-paris-agreement-future/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement This is a public episode. 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