Extreme Temperature Diary- Saturday October 4th, 2025/Main Topic: Pope Leo Condemns Climate Change Critics – Guy On Climate
Dear Diary. In an over fifty-year-old T.V. Show, the main character Maude used to joke, “God will get you for that.” Well, many believe that this is God’s world that he made, which reacts physically to what we do to it. Yes, if we release a lot of carbon into its atmosphere it will warm. God’s current Catholic leader is Pope Leo, who is also proclaiming to carbon polluters and climate change deniers, “God will get you for that.”
Like Pope Francis before him, Pope Leo is a man of science. He also can see many increasingly bad reports of what climate change is doing to our big blue marble. Here are more details from the British Broadcasting Company:
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
Pope Leo condemns climate change critics10/02/2025
Matt McGrath Environment correspondent
 Pope Leo XIV speaking at the Raising Hope climate conference near Rome
Pope Leo XIV has hit out at those who minimise the “increasingly evident” impact of rising temperatures in his first major statement on climate change.
Reiterating the words of his predecessor Pope Francis, the new pontiff lambasted critics who “ridicule those who speak of global warming”.
The Pope’s remarks, at a speech in Castel Gondolfo near Rome, will be seen as an implied criticism of US President Donald Trump, who last month called climate change a “con”.
Pope Leo also called for greater action from citizens the world over on climate change, saying there was no room for indifference or resignation.
The Pope was speaking at a conference to mark 10 years since the publication of Laudato Si’.
That landmark document, written by his predecessor Pope Francis, made the issue of climate a central part of the church’s concerns.
Many credit it for helping set the tone that led to the Paris climate agreement in 2015.
But the new Pope, who was elected in May, was worried that the question of climate change was now becoming more divisive.
Referring to his predecessor’s writings, he said: “Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor for the very thing that affects them the most.”
Just two weeks ago at the UN General Assembly in New York, US President Donald Trump criticised the climate movement as the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, and rebuffed the use of renewable energy.
“The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they’re heading down a path of total destruction,” he said.
Pope Leo, the first pontiff born in the US, has previously clashed with Trump’s White House on issues including migration and national security.
 Pope Leo told the meeting that citizens needed to put more pressure on politicians over climate change
In Wednesday’s speech, the Pope called for people all over the world to put increased pressure on politicians.
Citizens need to take an active role in political decisions, he said, as “only then will it be possible to mitigate the damage done to the environment”.
The Pope said that each of us will have to answer a question from God.
“God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters – what will be our answer, my dear friends?”
The Raising Hope conference was held just over a month from the start of COP30 in Belém, in Brazil.
World leaders and climate diplomats will meet in the Amazonian city as efforts to tackle rising emissions of planet warming gases have fallen down the political agenda.
Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva invited the Pope to COP30 on behalf of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“I am convinced in this way His Holiness will make an indispensable contribution so that COP30 may go down in history as the great moment of implementation,” she said.
Today’s meeting also heard from former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said the Pope was a real world “action hero”, as he had committed to putting solar panels on all the Vatican’s buildings.
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Here are more “ETs” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
Let's give some context this crazy and historic day in Europe:
Seville max temperature 35.8C grossly equals its JULY average max.
Kraljevo partial max. temperature (up to 18utc) of 4.2C
would be slightly below its JANUARY average max. (4.7C).
Map H/T:http://Meteociel.fr — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-03T19:12:31.173Z
🌡️RECORD HEAT ALLOVER ASIA
Exceptional MINIMUMS from Middle East to Japan, records everywhere
Mins still locally >30C in Middle East (including Dead Sea),29C+ India ,SE Asia and even Japan.
SOUTH KOREA OCT HOTTEST NIGHT EVER:
Min 24.9 Sogwipo,24.5 Jeju
NORTH KOREA mIN.20.7 Sinpo — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T12:53:38.906Z
🌡️RECORD HEAT ALLOVER ASIA
Exceptional MINIMUMS from Middle East to Japan, records everywhere
Mins still locally >30C in Middle East (including Dead Sea),29C+ India ,SE Asia and even Japan.
SOUTH KOREA OCT HOTTEST NIGHT EVER:
Min 24.9 Sogwipo,24.5 Jeju
NORTH KOREA mIN.20.7 Sinpo — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T12:53:38.906Z
CHINA OCTOBER HEAT WAVE
Temperatures up to 37.5C and 5 more October records broke
浙江 普陀 → Zhejiang, Putuo 33.2
浙江 玉环 → Zhejiang, Yuhuan 31.8
浙江 洞头 → Zhejiang, Dongtou 31.0
浙江 大陈 → Zhejiang, Dachen 30.5
吉林 通化县 → Jilin, Tonghua County 27.3
40C on Monday!
Kudos:Xinxin & Qwen — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T16:32:18.185Z
EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER HEAT IN JAPAN
Dozens of records smashed from North to South (see list).
Also crazy Minimum 28.7 Ishigaki
HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT IN JAPANESE HISTORY
Thousands of records have fallen in Japan since June, nearly every single day (many were from 2023 and 2024) — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T09:57:00.233Z
AUSTRALIA EXTREME OCTOBER
Heat & Cold also in Australia with already some monthly records:
Lowest Minimums:
2.5 Cleve
3.9 Brewarrina
Highest Maximum:
37.6 Ngayawili — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T11:45:12.657Z
OCTOBER SUMMER GOES ON
99 Ellsworth SOUTH DAKOTA
93 Appleton MINNESOTA
also 92 in North Dakota,91 Iowa etc
Coming tomorrow
MINIMUMS of 70s
Full Summer conditions next days in a dozens States + 5 Canadian provinces:HISTORIC
100% of your author's forecasts allover the world were nailed.
TBE always — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-03T23:43:21.269Z
Rapid City SD made it as well
96F with an October record tied.
Dozens of records smashed or tied but there will be MANY more records of October warmest night coming.
Minimums into the 70s in October in the Dakotas ??
Yes, there will be a few.
Weekend+Mon+Tue going to the East — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T00:29:53.110Z
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phys.org/news/2025-10... — Silicon Valley North - Citizens Climate Lobby (@cclsvn.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T15:54:24.914Z
#ClimateCrisis "There are also countries that are considered more vulnerable because they depend more heavily on resources from the ocean" Human Impact - Real Concerns
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... — Silicon Valley North - Citizens Climate Lobby (@cclsvn.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T15:21:17.925Z
Incidentally, the very nice schematic of cryosphere changes over both ice sheets was drawn by @jmalumbresolarte.bsky.social Tak! 🙏
New paper out today in @nature Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica
Readcube pdf: rdcu.be/eJiqJ — Ruth Mottram (@ruthmottram.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T10:00:06.739184Z
#ClimateCrisis “We really need boots on the ground to study what’s happening” NSF Funded Consortium that the Arctic shuts down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/c... — Silicon Valley North - Citizens Climate Lobby (@cclsvn.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T15:18:56.911Z
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Interactive Map details where NOAA has an impact.
The services provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are vast.
www.edf.org/media/new-ma... — Silicon Valley North - Citizens Climate Lobby (@cclsvn.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T15:30:33.738Z
Good Morning 🌄 🌞
Stay strong when life hands you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, rise above and show life that you carry a million reasons to smile, shine, and laugh.🌸💐💕🍒 #travel
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#bluesky #nature #life #weather
#news #music #beauty #healthy
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"China is tying its economic future to the clean-energy sector. Last year solar power, electric vehicles (evs) and batteries were responsible for 10% of its gdp" - meanwhile America is tying its future to fossil-energy with inevitably bad economic prospects
www.economist.com/china/2025/0... — Howard Lee (@hlee.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T16:21:54.047Z
"All of the turbine’s parts, among which its mooring cables, turbine gearboxes, and ballast control systems were reportedly designed and manufactured in China."
China unveils world's largest offshore wind turbine.
interestingengineering.com/energy/world... — Silicon Valley North - Citizens Climate Lobby (@cclsvn.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T15:56:55.545Z
Episode 180 - NASA is Closed for Business
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#PlasticPollution
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