{"id":42053,"date":"2018-12-28T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42053"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:36:05","slug":"2018-was-a-year-of-deadly-climate-disasters-and-an-ear-splitting-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42053","title":{"rendered":"2018 Was a Year of Deadly Climate Disasters and an ‘Ear Splitting Wake-Up Call’"},"content":{"rendered":"

2018 Was a Year of Deadly Climate Disasters and an ‘Ear Splitting Wake-Up Call’<\/a><\/h3>\n
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2018 is set to rank as the fourth warmest year on record \u2014 and the fourth year in a row reflecting a full degree Celsius (1.8\u00b0 Fahrenheit)\u00a0temperature rise from the late 1800s, climate scientists say<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was the year that introduced us to fire tornadoes, bomb cyclones, and, in Death Valley, a five day streak of 125\u00b0F temperatures, part of the hottest month<\/a> ever documented at a U.S.<\/span> weather\u00a0station.<\/p>\n

2018 also brought the world\u2019s highest-ever low temperature, as nighttime temperatures fell to a sizzling 109\u00b0F in Quiryat, Oman, on June 28, smashing a 2011 record-high\u00a0low.<\/p>\n

A startling 95 percent of the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is now gone<\/a> \u2014 and we\u2019re losing Arctic ice at a rate of 14,000 tons per second<\/a>, according to recent research, three times as fast as roughly three decades\u00a0ago.<\/p>\n

It was a year notable both for its overwhelming,\u00a0climate-fueled\u00a0impacts as well as its gut-wrenching predictions for what climate change still has in store for us if we fail to act. So much happened, frankly, that it’s been hard to keep it all\u00a0straight.<\/p>\n

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The year delivered increasingly powerful warnings from scientists and international agencies about the need to shift away from fossil fuels and slash greenhouse gas emissions. In the U.S., 2018 saw a presidential administration<\/a> and Republican-controlled Congress packed with politicians<\/a> and administrators who refuse to recognize the scientific consensus that the climate is changing because of fossil fuel pollution and other human\u00a0activities.<\/p>\n

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2018 Was a Year of Deadly Climate Disasters and an ‘Ear Splitting Wake-Up Call’ 2018 is set to rank as the fourth warmest year on record \u2014 and the fourth year in a row reflecting a full degree Celsius (1.8\u00b0 Fahrenheit)\u00a0temperature rise from the late 1800s, climate scientists say. This was the year that introduced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14994,141,23655,5317,11167],"class_list":["post-42053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-14994","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-disasters","tag-desmog-blog","tag-sharon-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42054,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42053\/revisions\/42054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}