Now it's Global Boiling. Prepare for the apocalypse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/29/un-what-is-global-boiling/"The U.N. warns ‘an era of global boiling’ has started. What does that mean?"The U.N. chief issued a stark warning on climate change this week: “
The era of global warming has ended; the
era of global boiling has arrived,” António Guterres declared in a news briefing, as scientists confirmed that July is set to become Earth’s hottest month on record.
“Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning,” he said at a briefing at U.N. headquarters in New York on Thursday, as he described “children swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames [and] workers collapsing in scorching heat.”
He added that data showed that “July has already seen the hottest three-week period ever recorded; the three hottest days on record; and the highest-ever ocean temperatures for this time of year.”
His speech has sparked a surge of interest in the term “global boiling” and what it means — although scientists are divided on its use, with some pointing out that it is not a scientific term, even as others say it could be relevant.
“He [Guterres] tried to come up with an even more compelling and sensational wording to try and get people’s attention, and I think we all understand why he’s doing that, because we have to make the governments take climate change seriously and put it at the top of their agendas,” Piers Forster, professor of climate physics at the University of Leeds in England and chair of Britain’s Climate Change Committee, said in an interview Saturday.
