Global Warming

Global temperatures dropped a minuscule amount after two days of record highs, making Tuesday only the world’s second-hottest day ever.The European climate service Copernicus calculated that Tuesday’s global average temperature was 0.01 Celsius (0.01 Fahrenheit) lower than Monday’s all-time high of 17.16 degrees Celsius (62.8 degrees Fahrenheit), which was .06 degrees Celsius hotter (0.1 degrees Fahrenheit) than Sunday.

Two encore Water Quality Report columns by Tom Bayles can help put global warming into perspective and some hints from the NYT can provide pointers on slowing climate change

An important point for politicos on the entire spectrum, and we speak to them all, is how often DeSantis sends taxpayer dollars to the Everglades restoration, in this case $750 million a year

Most stormwater retention ponds emit more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than they store at the bottom

Some corals were left behind during an evacuation of many corals off Florida despite water temperatures that rose far above 87 degrees.

Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi all recorded their all-time high August average temperatures, and the heat is expected to persist until the end of October.

If Florida’s iconic strawberry industry is going to survive climate change brought on by carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions, those involved must be willing to embrace major changes in how nearly everything is done – and quickly. That’s according to University of Florida agricultural researchers working with the Environmental Defense Fund, who have issued a new report detailing the grave threat global warming is posing to the state’s $400 million strawberry industry

Southwest Florida’s airports do not have climate change action plans to map out how they are reducing their carbon footprints to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

An Orlando climate change conference by VoLo Foundation brought speakers on global warming and ways to lessen the global threat, including the Infrastructure Reduction Act

Florida’s climate hit a new record in 2022. According to NOAA, last year marked the 5th hottest year the state’s recorded history. An unusually warm January followed in the new year, with most weather stations in Florida trending three or four degrees above normal in the past month.