IS DONALD TRUMP DOING HIS BIT AND TRYING TO PREVENT GLOBAL WARMING BY PREVENTING RUSSIA AND VENEZUELA TO SELL THEIR OIL? ONE WOULD HAVE TO BE SARCASTIC TO SUGGEST THIS CAPER, AS DONALD WANTS HE AND HIS MATES (SAUDIS, ETC) TO HAVE EXCLUSIVE PETRODOLLAR RIGHTS ON THIS WARMING PLANET — A WARMING DUE TO THE HUMAN USAGE OF FOSSIL FUELS...................

The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported.

From October 2024 to September 2025, temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said, with the last 10 years being the 10 warmest on record in the Arctic.

The Arctic is heating up as much as four times as quickly as the global average, due to the burning of fossil fuels, and this extra heat is warping the world’s refrigerator – a region that acts as a key climate regulator for the rest of the planet.

The maximum extent of sea ice in 2025 was the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, Noaa reported on in its annual Arctic report card. This is the latest landmark in a longer trend, with the region’s oldest, thickest ice declining by more than 95% since the 1980s as the Arctic becomes hotter and rainier.

This year was a record for precipitation in the Arctic. Much of this is not settling as snow – the June snow cover extent over the Arctic today is half of what it was six decades ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/artic-record-heat-shrunken-sea-ice-report

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Climate scientists (and communicators like me) have been telling you for years that Arctic Sea ice is dwindling so quickly that it might all be gone as soon as the end of this decade. Now a new research paper published in the American Geophysical Union journal points out that there has been NO statistical reduction in Arctic Sea ice surface area for the last two decades! So what's going on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjjOzOM_Zl8

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Record-breaking flood waters in Washington state have started slowly retreating after days of devastation that saw neighborhoods inundated, emergency rescues from cars and rooftops, and widespread evacuations.

“This is not just a one- or two-day crisis,” Washington’s governor, Bob Ferguson, said during a press briefing. “These water levels have been historic, and they’re going to remain very high for an extended period of time.”

Ferguson confirmed that Donald Trump approved Washington’s request to the president for an emergency declaration.

The flooding followed an exceptionally powerful atmospheric river that dumped more than a foot (30 cm) of rain over parts of western Washington, swelling rivers and saturating the ground. No fatalities have been reported, according to Ferguson.

Although officials have yet to calculate the damage, images and videos reveal entire neighborhoods under water throughout western and central Washington. Dozens of water rescues were carried out while landslides and debris blocked highways, and raging currents destroyed roads and bridges.

On Wednesday, officials issued immediate “go now” evacuation orders for tens of thousands of residents in the Skagit River floodplain north of Seattle, including Burlington, a farming community of about 10,000 residents. By Friday morning, muddy water had spilled over a slough and into homes, prompting renewed evacuation warnings.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/13/washington-state-flood-waters-recede

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