Global heating

Will Republicans In Congress Torch OSHA’s Heat Standard?

September 1, 2026 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Strategize! climate crisis, Global heating, OSHA, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Workers around the country experienced brutal heat this summer, with July the hottest month on record. It’s creating a safety crisis on the job, as workers report severe nausea, dizziness, exhaustion, and worse. The heat is making members “dread going to work and fear for their health,” said Nicole Hernandez-Hammer, Director of Climate and Environmental Justice for the Service Employees (SEIU). “Some have had to be hospitalized for heat stroke symptoms while employers denied medical help.” But U.S. employers still face no national heat safety regulation. And if Republicans in Congress get their way, they never will.

James Hansen Super-Duper El Niño 2027 Outlook

August 24, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, El Nino, Extreme weather, Global heating

Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate, New York Times, June 24, 1988: On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist Dr. James E. Hansen testified before the U.S. Senate, stating he was “99 percent certain that human-induced global warming had begun.” Over the intervening 38 years, Dr. James Hansen has proven to be climate science’s most reliable academic voice expecting a climate-disruptive future. Now, it’s officially here and it’s a rising star on nightly news broadcasts across the world, if it’s not wildly burning, it’s flash-flooding. The leadership of the world has failed the science. Yet, today’s dangerous disruptive climate system did not have to happen.

Climate Crisis Report Predicts Four Billion Dead By 2050

August 22, 2026 Cameron Baillie, The Canary. Educate! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Food, Global heating, Mass Deaths, Migration, Water

A new climate-focused campaign group, 4 Billion Dead, has launched in response to a buried report that its name could become reality. It urges people to wake up to our impending disaster of untold proportions. 4 Billion Dead takes its name from a 2025 report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, in conjunction with the University of Exeter. Its superficially cheery-sounding name glosses over its worst predictions: Planetary Solvency – finding our balance with nature: Global risk management for human prosperity The report comes from professionals whose entire careers and profits are based on being able to accurately predict and “risk price” the future. It flew almost entirely under the radar.

Europe’s Summer Is A Preview Of What’s Coming

August 10, 2026 Christopher Logstrup, Canadian Dimension. Educate! climate crisis, Deaths, European Union (EU), Extreme weather, Global heating

Every year, we are told the latest summer of climate disaster will finally be a wake-up call. Europe has had its wake-up call. The evidence is written in the dead. Germany alone has recorded an estimated 9,800 heat-related deaths since the start of the year, while more than 5,000 of those deaths were tied to the late-June heatwave that pushed temperatures toward 42 degrees Celsius in some regions. Across the continent, the record-breaking heatwave is believed to have caused more than 20,000 deaths in a single week. Over the past four years, the World Health Organization estimates that heat has killed more than 200,000 people across the continent.

Shocking Revelations Out Of West Antarctica

July 18, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Antarctica, climate crisis, Glaciers, Global heating, Sea level rise

It’s mid-winter but a large area of West Antarctica that should be frozen solid is not frozen. What’s up? Antarctica is the coldest spot on the planet where the average winter temperature is -34.4°C (-30°F), but it does vary by region. For example, inland locations like the South Pole average around -60°C (-76°F), while coastal areas such as the Antarctic Peninsula range between -12°C and -20°C (10°F to -4°F). The area recently experienced a winter heatwave, but that has passed. Winter heatwaves happen on occasion, but the ice always, always, always refreezes for as long as anybody can remember.

Extreme Heat Takes Farming To The Brink

July 11, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, Farming, Food and Agriculture, Fossil Fuels, Global heating

Ever since the landmark Paris ’15 UN climate agreement wherein 195 nations agreed to cut fossil fuel CO2 emissions via NDCs 30% to 60% by 2030, the opposite has happened. It’s now ten (10) years since Paris ’15, and according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have reached an all-time high, peaking at an average of 432.3 ppm in May 2026. This is the opposite of what the parties agreed to do and based upon current and proposed cuts, Paris ’15 is dead. The nations of the world have failed. Their failure is now showing up in climate change

Stay Out Of The Heat, Officials Said, But Apps Sent Workers Into It

July 9, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. Educate! climate crisis, Global heating, Platform Workers, Workplace Safety

In the first week of July 2026, a heat dome settled over the central and eastern United States. Heat indexes reached 115 degrees. More than 185 million people were under heat alerts, and more than 30 people died before the heat broke. The real count will rise, because heat often kills through the heart, kidneys and lungs and is recorded as something else. Millions of people were told to stay indoors. Delivery workers were sent into the streets. That is the app economy’s business model in physical form. When the weather becomes dangerous, those who can afford to stay inside order food, groceries and medicine.

Europe Is Burning: Deadly Heatwave Exposes Criminality Of Fossil Capitalism

July 3, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. Educate! Capitalism, European Union (EU), Fossil Fuels, Global heating

Europe is on fire. Record-shattering heat waves have gripped the continent, pushing temperatures above 40°C (104°F) in multiple countries, buckling infrastructure, overwhelming hospitals, and claiming thousands of lives. This is not a natural disaster. It is the foreseeable, profitable outcome of decades of fossil fuel addiction and capitalist extraction. According to a sobering analysis by The Economist, the late-June heat spike could cause around 12,000 excess deaths across Europe. The study, covering 854 cities, shows that human-caused climate change has made the event far more lethal than it would have been otherwise.

Parking Lots Get Hot And Are Bad For Storm Runoff

June 6, 2026 Aya Diab and Alexa St. John, Next City. Create! climate crisis, Flooding, Global heating, Parking Lots

At the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission headquarters in Virginia, staff knew their crumbling asphalt parking lot was in desperate need of repair. But instead of replacing the lot with more dark blacktop, the group chose an alternative. The new parking lot, completed last year, includes porous concrete panels and areas with native plants and recycled materials to make the lot cooler and less prone to flooding. With the new panels, “the rain infiltrates faster than it can puddle and stop on the surface,” said Jill Sunderland, the commission’s senior water resources planner.

Private Water Company Leaves Thousands Dry Amid Heatwave

May 30, 2026 Cameron Baillie, The Canary. Educate! Global heating, Privatization, United Kingdom (UK), Water

One privately-owned water company left thousands of people in south-east England dry and thirsty this week. This comes amid one of Britain’s hottest-ever May heatwaves. South East Water, which covers much of Kent, left over 8,000 people without any tap water. The company claimed that nearby reservoirs at Whitstable were at a “critical level” due to “extremely high demand”. The company’s six-figure CEO David Hinton stepped down from his position in early May over consistent failures, shortages and outages but will remain in-post to allow an orderly transition over the summer period. That and, presumably, to keep earning a slice of his lucrative £457,000 salary a wee bit longer.

Record-Breaking World Heat

April 26, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Global heating, livable future

The world is its hottest in modern human history (circa 1500-present). Yet, fossil fuel CO2 emissions continue unabated, effectively creating an artificial blanket that retains heat. Despite decarbonization efforts, emissions continue to rise, driven by increasing energy demand and fossil fuel use. According to NOAA, over the past 60 years, carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has increased 100-200 times faster than it did during the end of the last ice age. In essence, CO2 is the primary source, the genesis, of record-breaking heat.

Spanish City Resurrects 3,000-Year-Old Solution To Fight Extreme Heat

February 23, 2026 Peter Yeung, Next City. Create! climate crisis, Cooling, Global heating, History, Spain, Water

A few meters below the former site of Seville’s 1992 World Expo, a promising climate experiment blending ancient technology and modern science is underway. Rows of black pipes run along the ceiling and down the bare concrete walls. These, in turn, connect to bright blue and green tubes and enormous silver pumps. In a control room to the side, an array of monitors display the heat, humidity and wind speed above. “We have deployed several types of cooling systems here, each one used depending on climatic conditions,” says Maria de la Paz Montero Gutiérrez, a researcher at the University of Seville, from down in the building’s bowels where she is helping supervise the project.

An Unsettling Climate Warning For Homeownership

February 21, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Global heating, Housing, Insurance

Earth’s climate system has suddenly shifted to a new phase of global warming acceleration that few saw coming. This ups the ante for risks of severe climate-related disaster scenarios following a record-shattering year in 2025. This directly impacts American homeownership, whether it is compatible with current U.S. energy/climate policies. “The last three years are indicative of an acceleration in the warming. They’re not consistent with the linear trend that we’ve been observing for the 50 years before that,” according to Robert Rohde, chief scientist at the Berkeley Earth monitoring group.

Climate Change Sets Workers’ Feet On Fire

October 17, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! climate crisis, COP30, Extreme weather, Global heating, Worker Rights, Working Class

This summer, there were days in tropical cities when it was unbearable to walk out in the sunlight. In Mango, Togo, for instance, the temperature soared to 44°C in March and April. Heat maps depict a world on fire, red hot flames licking the planet from the equator outwards. If the air temperature is around 44°C, then the temperature of asphalt and concrete surfaces can exceed 60°C. Since second-degree burns occur in less than five seconds at 60°C, those exposed to that heat are liable to burn their skin. Walking the streets of these burning cities is hard enough with shoes – imagine what it must be like for the millions of people who lack appropriate footwear but must work outdoors during the hottest parts of the day.

Fundamental Change In The Climate: ‘The World Is Coming Apart Before Our Eyes’

September 9, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Extreme weather, Global heating, Oceans, Sea level rise

The situation with respect to the climate crisis is developing rapidly. Each new study seems to bring worse news. In addition, the media is rife with climate denial and misinformation. To help us understand what is happening on this planet, Clearing the FOG speaks with environmental journalist Robert Hunziker. Hunziker follows climate studies published in scientific journals and translates them into a language the average person can understand. He reports that top scientists are saying there has been a fundamental shift in the climate. Rainforests and tundras are now spewing carbon instead of sequestering it, and the oceans have reached their capacity for storing the planet's heat. Cascading weather events are making areas of the world uninhabitable.

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