Open Mind

Google maps is showing their true face: stupidity and cowardice, by bending over for Dumbass Trump and pretending he gets to re-name Lake Ontario, or anything else.

I monitor climate-related data, including the total wildfire area burned in the USA according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).

I’m prepared to predict, even two weeks before it’s over, that summer 2026 will end up as England’s hottest on record.

Until recently, the hottest month on record for USA48 (a.k.a. the “lower 48 states” of the USA) was July 1936, with two of the five hottest months from the 1930s (the “dust bowl” era).

Definitely worth watching: Who’s really to blame for wildfires?

Note: I reserve the right to make posts NOT about climate change.

The forest in Canada is burning, and the smoke is a big problem for both Canadians and Americans as it makes its way across their country and into ours.

The Berkeley Earth surface temperature project provides monhly averages of high temperature, and high temperature anomaly (how different it is from “nominal”), on an equal-area grid over all the land areas on Earth.

Most of the world shows a notable, and statistically significant, rise in extreme summer heat.

Like most of Europe, England has suffered through extreme heat this June.