Electricity demand in the Lower 48 states exceeded previous peaks on two days in the last week of July. Hot weather, which increases electricity demand for cooling, combined with an underlying trend of demand increases, pushed coincident peak demand for the Lower 48 states to a high of 758,053 megawatts (MW) … [continued]
I wrote a story yesterday about Monday being the hottest day ever recorded by humans. It turns out, the next day, Tuesday, was hotter. And then yesterday was hotter still. Maybe I shouldn’t write and publish this article until tomorrow to see if we go for 4 days in a … [continued]
No fossil fuels, no problem? Texas investments in wind and solar pay off, generating record-breaking renewable power to meet all-time high electricity demand during nearly 10-day heat dome—despite fossil fuel plant failures.
If it felt exceptionally hot to you on Monday, that’s because it was. Monday was the hottest day ever recorded by humans. The global average temperature on Monday was 17.01°C (62.62°F). That’s up from 16.92°C (62.46°F), the previous record set in August 2016. Of course, the heat doesn’t hit everywhere … [continued]
THIS IS NOT A NATURAL CYCLE – “Spain recorded its hottest ever temperature for April on Thursday, hitting 38.7C according to the country’s meteorological service. The record figure was reached in Cordoba airport in southern Spain just after 17:00 local time (16:00 BST)”
From the hottest oceans on record to billions of dollars in climate-related disaster in 2021, here are three short summaries of climate & cleantech news stories from Nexus Media. Heat in World’s Oceans More Than Ever Recorded The world’s oceans broke heat records, again, in 2021, according to new research from … [continued]
A new record high temperature for Antarctica was set on March 24, 2015, and just recently confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization. The new record high was set at an Argentine research base (Experanza) near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula, where temperatures climbed as high as 63.5° Fahrenheit (17.5° Celsius) on the day in question.
Originally published on Sustainnovate. February 2016 was the most anomalously warm month — 2.43° Fahrenheit (1.35° Celsius) warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980 — in 135 years of record keeping, according to NASA. February 2016 was the warmest February on record by a substantial margin as well — … [continued]
In yet another reminder why we do what we do here on CleanTechnica and Important Media as a whole, here’s the intro to a new post on Climate Central: The calendar may have turned to 2016, but temperatures are picking up where 2015 left off. January was record warm, according to … [continued]
