{"id":50311,"date":"2019-12-24T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50311"},"modified":"2019-12-24T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:54:49","slug":"its-the-hottest-decade-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50311","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the hottest decade\u2013ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/climatezone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Heat-and-hot.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/climatezone.org\/2019\/12\/its-the-hottest-decade-ever\/\">It\u2019s the hottest decade\u2013ever\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As the decade comes to a close, environmentalists are looking back over the last ten years of supposedly \u2018natural\u2019 disasters and extreme weather. It\u2019s alarming: there are absolutely no signs that the global climate crisis is under control. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It just keeps on getting hotter. While Canadians are enjoying a balmy winter (which officially started on December 21, when temperatures were way above seasonal in Toronto), Australians are once again being scorched half to death.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Temperatures peaked on December 21-22 in Victoria and South Australia with\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/dec\/17\/australian-heatwave-records-forecast-to-be-broken-as-temperatures-surge-past-40c\">several areas<\/a>\u00a0exceeding 48\u00b0C.\u00a0 The heat and bone dry conditions have sparked numerous bushfires. New South Wales has been placed under a total fire ban as firefighters battle to contain more than 100 fires burning around the state, including the 400,000-hectare Gospers Mountain megafire in Wollemi national park in the Blue Mountains.\u00a0 Across the globe in California, the 2019 fire season, which so far has counted close to 7000 fires, is still not over. Moreover, fires are flaring up in places where they have rarely been seen before\u2014in the Arctic tundra and in Siberia above the Arctic circle. The chart on the left shows the startling spike in carbon emissions from Arctic wildfires that has occurred this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/climatezone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/arctic-co2-rev-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3923\"\/><figcaption>Emissions of CO2 from Arctic wildfires<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not hard to figure out that the increasing number of wild fires might be sparked and fanned by rising global temperatures. Meteorologists are already saying that 2019 is the planet\u2019s second-warmest year on record, rounding off the hottest decade on Earth since those records begun. Eight of the ten warmest years have occurred\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/18122019\/decade-climate-heat-drought-extreme-storms-arctic-sea-ice-antarctica-greenland?\">this decade<\/a>,\u00a0and the other two were just a few years before. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) headlined their latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public.wmo.int\/en\/media\/press-release\/2019-concludes-decade-of-exceptional-global-heat-and-high-impact-weather\">assessment<\/a>\u00a0by saying that \u201c2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat and high-impact weather\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the hottest decade\u2013ever\u00a0 As the decade comes to a close, environmentalists are looking back over the last ten years of supposedly \u2018natural\u2019 disasters and extreme weather. It\u2019s alarming: there are absolutely no signs that the global climate crisis is under control. \u00a0 It just keeps on getting hotter. 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