The data from scientific institutions around the world is pouring in here in the beginning of October, regarding September, 2023, and the consensus is that it was freakishly hot, unprecedentedly torrid, off-the-charts sweltering. It was the Frankenstein’s monster of months.
Source: Frankenstein’s Monster of a Climate Emergency: Dangerous Global September Heat Spike
So what’s going on with the climate, and why are we seeing all these records tumbling at once?
Source: Why are so Many Climate Records breaking all at Once?
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A battering winter storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across the United States on Saturday, left millions more to worry about the prospect of further outages and crippled emergency response efforts and an airport in snowbound New York state.
Source: Winter Storm Batters US Power, Snarling Christmas Travel | HuffPost Latest News
Brits have been warned to stay indoors as ‘ferocious’ and life-threatening ‘day and night’ temperatures are due to blast the UK for the first time in history
Source: Met Office says UK heatwave could hit 43C tomorrow – with hottest area NOT in South – Mirror Online
Meanwhile, Murdoch’s little Rowan Dean the unmade bed still keeps telling us it’s cold and wet outside.
The scorching temperatures have reached as far north as the UK, where its Met Office weather agency has issued its first-ever “red warning” of extreme heat for Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures in southern England may reach 40 degrees for the first time. That will still be relatively bearable compared with the 47 degrees recorded in Portugal’s northern town of Pinhao on Wednesday, establishing a new national record.
Source: Heatwave-related deaths soar in Europe amid France, Spain wildfires
On Sunday, the town of Kodiak in southern Alaska hit 67°F—seven degrees warmer than the daytime high in San Diego—and shattering the December record for Alaska by nine degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The town also broke the local December record by more than 20 degrees.
Source: Hotter in Alaska Than San Diego This Week as Temperature Record ‘Pulverized’
As records tumble on east coast, politicians debate the energy mix they need to combat climate change and ensure supply
Source: Australia swelters in heatwave and argues about energy future | Australia news | The Guardian
Victoria and South Australia both had records for the hottest ever starts to October while in Sydney the temperature reached 37 degrees
Mark Dreyfus leaves Question Time after being ejected. Source: News Corp Australia
NO-NONSENSE Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has already broken through a very large barrier – she has ejected more than 300 Labor MPs from Parliament.
Today she marked the impressive tally by turfing out a Labor shadow minister for 24 hours after a bitter clash over her handling of the chamber.
It was a rowdy afternoon, with Prime Minister Tony Abbott telling Question Time he had not promised Japan the multi-billion contract for 12 submarines which shipbuilders in Adelaide are chasing.
Here we can see Mr Dreyfus listening intently to Mrs Bishop. It was about to turn sour. Source: News Corp Australia
Mrs Bishop kicked out Labor frontbenchers Anthony Albanese and Mark Dreyfus today, to reach a total of 309 MPs removed since she became Speaker on November 12, 2013. Of that total, 304 were Labor MPs and five were from the Coalition.
She throws them out, usually for an hour, as punishment for actions she believes breach standing orders, usually loud interjections.
But in addition today, Mr Dreyfus was “named” and booted out for 24 hours today after he objected to being removed for one hour and clashed with the Speaker.
Mr Dreyfus leaves the chamber after being named by Mrs Bishop. Source: News Corp Australia
He had been objecting to a large sheet of paper being waved by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who was accusing her Labor counterpart Tanya Plibersek of believing Africa was a country.
“As an audition for a first year uni revue, Julie Bishop was great. As an audition for the Prime Ministership she was empty and pathetic,” tweeted Labor’s Tim Watts.
But Speaker Bishop had the last word.
Usually Speakers, including the current one, act quickly to stop MPs using “props” in Parliament. But this time Mrs Bishop didn’t intervene and even refused to recognise Labor protests.
That angered Mr Dreyfus, who was originally ejected by the Speaker for one hour, but the penalty was raised to 24 hours after he pointed a rolled up document and berated the Speaker as he moved to the exit door next to her chair.
Bye Mark. Source: News Corp Australia
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