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Friday 7 July 2023

Earth hit an unofficial record high temperature this week – and

stayed there

Continued from Front are also feeling the effects unusual over the ocean
in Nouakchot, Mauritania’s and especially around the
And for the seven-day peri- capital city, on the shores Antarctic this week, be-
od ending Wednesday, the of the Atlantic. For Abdal- cause wind fronts over the
daily average temperature lahi Sy, a 56-year-old farm- Southern Ocean are strong
was .08 degrees Fahrenheit er who works in the market pushing warm air deeper
(.04 degrees Celsius) higher gardens, environmental south,” said Raghu Mur-
than any week in 44 years changes have reduced his tugudde, professor of at-
of record-keeping, accord- already-meager income. mospheric, oceanic and
ing to Climate Reanalyzer “I have a small shelter built earth system science at the
data. Though the figures from wooden poles and University of Maryland and
are unofficial, many scien- scraps of cloth. I take ref- visiting faculty at the Indi-
tists agree they indicate uge there when the heat an Institute of Technology,
climate change is reach- The San Antonio Fire spreads uphill west of Petaluma, Ca., Friday, becomes unbearable,” Bombay.
June 30, 2023.
ing uncharted territory. Associated Press said Sy, who tries to work Chari Vijayaraghavan, a
And the White House said from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m., or polar explorer and educa-
the data show the need for “We recognize that we are Desert — 50-year-old Fa- noon at the latest. “After tor who has visited the Arc-
legislative action. in a warm period due to toumata Arby said this kind that ... I practically can’t tic and Antarctic regularly
“The alarming extreme climate change, and com- of heat is new. “Usually, at move because of the for the past 10 years, said
weather events impact- bined with El Nino and hot night it’s a bit cool even heat.” Customers don’t global warming is obvious
ing millions of Americans summer conditions, we’re during the hot season. But venture out until 5 p.m. or at both poles and threat-
underscore the urgency of seeing record warm sur- this year, even at night, later to buy fertilizer and ens the region’s wildlife as
President Biden’s climate face temperatures being it’s been hot — I’ve never vegetables. well as driving ice melt that
agenda and the absurd- recorded at many loca- seen anything like it,” said He cited a scarcity of wa- raises sea levels.
ity of continued efforts by tions across the globe,” the Arby, who rarely leaves ter and quality feed for “Warming climates might
Republican lawmakers statement said. her hometown. “I’ve been livestock as causes for ill- lead to increasing risks of
to block and repeal it,” U.N. Secretary-General having heart palpitations ness and even miscarriage diseases such as the avian
spokesman Abdullah Has- Antonio Guterres said the because of the heat. I’m among animals: “It is clear flu spreading in the Ant-
an said. latest numbers help prove starting to think seriously that we are facing pro- arctic that will have dev-
NOAA, whose figures are “that climate change is out that I’m going to leave Tim- found changes in our en- astating consequences for
considered the gold stand- of control.” “If we persist in buktu.” vironment. The earth is be- penguins and other fauna
ard in climate data, said in delaying key measures that Last week, Egypt experi- coming less fertile and less in the region,” Vijayaragha-
a statement Thursday that are needed, I think we are enced one of its many sum- generous.” van said.
it cannot validate the unof- moving into a catastrophic mer heatwaves, with tem- Overall, one of the largest Katharine Hayhoe, The Na-
ficial numbers. It noted that situation, as the last two peratures soaring above contributors to this week’s ture Conservancy chief sci-
the reanalyzer uses model records in temperature 100 degrees Fahrenheit heat records is an excep- entist and a climate scien-
output data, which it called demonstrates,” he said. (37.7 degrees Celsius), ac- tionally mild winter in the tist at Texas Tech, said: “This
“not suitable” as substitutes More frequent and more cording to the country’s Antarctic. Parts of the con- is one more reminder of the
for actual temperatures intense heat waves are national weather fore- tinent and nearby ocean inexorable upward trend
and climate records. The disrupting life around the caster. To combat heat were 18-36 degrees Fahr- that will only be halted by
agency monitors global world and causing life- and humidity, children on enheit (10-20 degrees Cel- decisive actions to wean
temperatures and records threatening temperatures. Thursday frolicked in the sius) higher than averages ourselves off fossil fuels, in-
on a monthly and an an- In Timbuktu, Mali — at the Nile River while pedestrians from 1979 to 2000. vest in nature, and achieve
nual basis, not daily. gateway to the Sahara hunted the shade. People “Temperatures have been net zero.”q

In Trump case, Justice Dept. unseals previously blacked-out

portions from search warrant application

Wednesday disclosed cords at Mar-a-Lago from partment investigators vis-
some of the previously investigators. A magistrate ited the home to collect
blacked-out portions of a judge, Bruce Reinhart, de- records.
warrant application it sub- clined to order the Justice During that June 3, 2022
mitted last year to gain au- Department to unseal the visit, law enforcement of-
thorization to search former search warrant affidavit in ficials were handed an
President Donald Trump's its entirety but did require envelope of 38 classified
Florida property for classi- prosecutors to publicly file documents and told that
fied documents. a less-redacted affidavit. all records sought by a sub-
Key portions of the docu- The newly revealed para- poena were being turned
ment had already been graphs lay out important over and that a "diligent
made public, but media evidence that prosecutors search" of the home had
organizations including had gathered well before been done. But investiga-
A portion of the affidavit in support of a warrant to search former The Associated Press had the search took place, re- tors had reason to believe
President Donald Trump's Mar-a-lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.,
released by the Justice Department, is photographed July 5, pressed for further unseal- counting how surveillance that was not true based
2023. ing in light of a 38-count footage from inside the on the relocation of boxes
Associated Press indictment last month property showed dozens of that they had observed on
charging Trump and his boxes being relocated by video, and that additional
By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — The valet, Walt Nauta, with a Trump aide in the days records remained at the
Associated Press Justice Department on concealing classified re- before FBI and Justice De- house. q