Extreme Temperature Diary- Friday November 7th, 2025/Main Topic: At a COP30 Without the U.S., Allies and Rivals Call for Action – Guy On Climate
Dear Diary. Today is the start of Conference of the Parties #30 being held in Belim Brazil. I hold little hope for substantial climate protection and Earth change from this meeting given what has come out of the last fee meetings. Also, fossil fuel interests have made many undesirable inroads into meeting activities in in recent years, undermining policy unfortunately.
Nevertheless, at least member nations are talking despite the United States being absent.
"COP28 has become a shameless exercise in the fight against climate change. But can we afford to walk out?" | My op-ed in @latimes.com (via @yahoonews.com) w/ Susan Joy Hassol from 2 years ago remains highly relevant as #COP30 gets underway in Belém (Brazil): www.yahoo.com/news/opinion... — Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T18:41:04.994Z
There is hope, though:
10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are www.nytimes.com/interactive/... — Andreas Schmittner (@andreasschmittner.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T18:25:13.065Z
Comparing the two most active natural cycles in the Atlantic (NOAA AMO chart at top) and the most recent period (now) still produces 2X more extreme hurricanes!!
1940-1970 vs 1995-2025
But wait. It’s not a fair comparison! Why?? … 1/ — Jeff Berardelli (@weatherprof.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T17:42:27.335Z
Here are many more details from the New York Times:
COP30 Begins With U.S. Allies and Rivals Alike Calling for Action – The New York Times
At a Climate Summit Without the U.S., Allies and Rivals Call for ActionThe calls for action on opening day stood in sharp contrast to the position of the President Trump, who has called global warming a “con job.” Leaders meeting on Thursday in Belém, Brazil. The conference is scheduled to run through Nov. 21.Credit…Pablo Porciuncula/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
   By Somini Sengupta Brad Plumer and David Gelles
Reporting from Belém, Brazil
Published Nov. 6, 2025 Updated Nov. 7, 2025, 11:35 a.m. ET
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The international climate summit opened on Thursday in Belém, a Brazilian city on the edge of the imperiled Amazon rainforest, with several of America’s global allies and rivals alike making the case that slowing down global warming is today key to economic growth and energy security.
It was a sharp counterpoint to President Trump, who has called climate change a “con job” and attacked global efforts to transition away from coal, oil and gas.
Few speakers named Mr. Trump, who has launched a full-throated and somewhat successful attack on global efforts to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels. The Trump administration has withdrawn from the landmark Paris climate agreement, and no senior American government officials are present at the meeting in Belém.
The summit comes at a time when international cooperation is lagging on virtually everything, war and trade disputes are raising prices of basic goods, and extreme weather events, aggravated by the burning of coal, oil and gas, has heightened human suffering. In the last two weeks alone, storms and hurricanes supersized by climate change clobbered Mexico, Jamaica and Haiti.
Globally, 2025 is on track to be the second- or third-hottest year on record, part of a decade that witnessed the hottest 10 years on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The cost of extreme weather hazards to the global economy: around $1.4 trillion a year, according to Bloomberg NEF.
“We can choose to lead or be led to ruin,” António Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, told the audience. He used the podium to scold the fossil fuel industry, as he often does, and leaders who he said were “captive to fossil fuel interests, rather than protecting the public interest.”
The leaders who came represented large countries and small ones, industrialized nations and emerging economies. They spoke to the world as much as they spoke to their constituencies at home. Limiting global warming, they said, was crucial for their citizens’ current health and well-being as well as their national security and economic competitiveness.
Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, said homegrown energy — wind and nuclear power in Britain’s case — enable countries like his to become energy independent from “dictators like Putin.” His government has sought to rapidly expand renewables but, at the same time, has struggled to keep electricity prices down.
“Investment for climate change is the growth and prosperity plan for this century,” said Finland’s President, Alexander Stubb.
 From left, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of Brazil, and Prince William in Belém on Thursday.Credit…Wagner Meier/Getty Images
Prince William, heir to the British throne, lauded the chance for countries to create jobs and new technologies. “It’s a profound opportunity to build a cleaner economy,” he said.
Vice premier Ding Xuexiang of China talked about China’s path of “green and low carbon development” as the means to promote economic growth and new jobs. That was a clear sales pitch to the many countries from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean assembled here. Chinese companies dominate the global production of clean energy technologies. Little wonder, then, that he called on countries to “remove trade barriers and ensure the free flow of quality green products.”
And the summit’s host, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has embraced Chinese investments in electric vehicles and wind power in Brazil, said “extremist forces invent untruths for electoral gains.”
Bringing world leaders to Belém, one of Brazil’s poorest provincial capitals, is central to Mr. Lula’s efforts to draw attention, and money, to the Amazon rainforest and the people who depend on it for their economic and cultural sustenance. “It is the time for the people of the Amazon to ask what is being done by the rest of the world to avoid the collapse of their house,” he said.
 Vice premier Ding Xuexiang of China.Credit…Mauro Pimentel/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Brazil announced a new investment fund to reward countries for protecting their standing tropical forests. The Brazilian government said $5.5 billion had been promised, including $1 billion from Brazil’s own coffers and $3 billion from Norway.
And yet, only weeks before the summit began, Mr. Lula gave his blessing to oil drilling in the Amazon. And even as deforestation rates have gone down during his tenure, the drive to increase soy exports, mainly to China, has destroyed a critical ecosystem of grassland and forest known as the Cerrado.
The summit in Belém marks the 30th year of global diplomacy to limit global warming, and it comes 10 years after the landmark Paris agreement, which urged all countries to set increasingly ambitious climate targets and urges rich countries to help poor countries shift their economies away from fossil fuels that cause climate change.
The summit opened as scientists warned that the world is now virtually certain to blow past a much discussed goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels. For years, many vulnerable countries and climate activists had said average warming above that level would bring greater risks from heat waves, fires and storms. That would have required countries to collectively cut their emissions nearly in half between 2019 and 2030. But nations have not come close to doing so, and global emissions are instead higher than they were in 2019.
 Cruise ships, brought in to house delegates, near Belém on Thursday.Credit…Carlos Fabal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The latest U.N. estimate suggests that the world is more likely headed for somewhere around 2.7 degrees Celsius of warming, compared with preindustrial levels, under current policies.
“The hard truth is that we have failed to ensure we remain below 1.5 degrees,” Mr. Guterres said. “This is moral failure, and deadly negligence.”
On display at the summit was also the split-screen reality of global climate action. Renewable energy technology and electric vehicles have taken hold in rich and poor countries alike, even if the pace hasn’t been fast enough to meet some of the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris agreement.
The price of solar energy in particular has fallen faster than projected. This year, the world is set to invest a record $2.2 trillion in low-carbon energy technologies like solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. That’s twice as much as will be spent investing in oil, gas and coal technologies.
As Gabriel Boric, the president of Chile, pointed out in his remarks at the summit, “Ten years ago, we did not have electric buses. This year, 60 percent of the buses in our capital city, Santiago, are electric.”
Ana Ionova contributed reporting.
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Somini Sengupta is the international climate reporter on the Times climate team.
Brad Plumer is a Times reporter who covers technology and policy efforts to address global warming.
David Gelles reports on climate change and leads The Times’s Climate Forward newsletter and events series.
Here are more “ET’s” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports
Avalanche of records again in EUROPE
Most important records in GERMANY were
10.5 Zugspitze previous last year, data since 1900!
18.6 Wernigerode-Schierke
Summer continues in CYPRUS with more tropical nights:
Min 21.3 Kyrenia Record again
Air conditioning in November 24/7:Insane — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T13:57:48.989Z
Exceptional warmth in the United Kingdom:
Two (and a third coming) consecutive nights with widespread Minimums 13C/15C with several records.
Max. temperatures up to 19C,despite overcast skies and no sun contribution. — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T10:00:16.921Z
Unprecedentedly warm November day in eastern Finland, especially in North Karelia.
Multiple monthly heat records, including
Tohmajärvi Kemie 11.8 °C
Liperi Joensuu airport 11.1 °C
Juuka Niemelä 11.2 °C
Lieksa Lampela 10.9 °C
Nurmes Valtimo 10.8 °C
(shown with magenta in the map) — Mika Rantanen (@mikarantane.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T13:17:44.494Z
CYPRUS AND TURKEY HISTORIC NOVEMBER HEAT
Part 2-A historic day with temperatures typical of July in this infinite summer
CYPRUS
34.2 Astromeritis 0.1C from Cypriot November record
TURKEY Records smashed again
33.3 Osmaniye
32.3 Iskenderun
etc
One more summery week ahead ! — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T19:27:36.526Z
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN TURKEY AND CYPRUS
Part #1-HOTTEST NOVEMBER NIGHTS EVER
Mind blowing MINIMUMS
🇹🇷
25.3 Samandira
22.8 Alsancak
22.7 Iskenderun
🇨🇾
24.2 Famagusta
24.1 Pentakomo
23.1 Cavo Greco
23.0 Lefke
21.8 Iskele
21.0 Kyrenia
21.1 Larnaca
20.9 Akotriri — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T18:35:28.648Z
MIDDLE EAST HISTORIC HEAT
Absolute insanity in the Levant:
NOVEMBER RECORDS
Min 23.2 Max. 32.6 Jerusalem
BOTH RECORDS BROKEN BY NEARLY 3c (data since 1880s) Like a JULY DAY
JORDAN
32.8 Irbid
31.8 Amman
MIN 18.5 Safawi
EGYPT SINAI
35.0 Nekhel — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T18:46:21.570Z
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER ASIA AND AFRICA
Every single country from Indonesia to Morocco is smashing records. Some more last hours:
37.8C Chabhar IRAN coast
32.0 Safawi ,30.5 Maan JORDAN highlands
HISTORIC
35.2 Praia ties
CAPE VERDE HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN HISTORY — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T18:39:36.479Z
Record warmth has been widespread in the Sahara and Sahel for weeks with widespread >40C.
Nights are even getting hotter and break records:
the minimum of 26.0C at Gaoua, Burkina Faso today is the highest November minimum in history.
It can get even hotter next days — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T14:48:30.622Z
EXCEPTIONAL WARMTH IN CHINA
Records keep falling by dozens every single day
Today 51 more records were broken, 48 of high minimums and 3 of high Maximums:
Qinghaihu,Maqu and Yuexi
Record heat will extend to the rest of the country in the weekend. — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T15:51:20.982Z
While mainland Japan has cooled after a record hot and long summer, abnormal warmth continue in the subtropical islands:
the MINIMUM temperature this morning at Chichiima was 27.1C with the maximum hovering 30C.
Temperature typical of full summer. — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T02:54:03.292Z
ENDLESS RECORD HEAT IN SE ASIA
Tonight it was the November hottest night in history in some stations: Minimums
28.2 Ca Mau and Rach Gia VIETNAM
26.3 Malacca MALAYSIA
TAIWAN keeps recording 35C every day and it'll get hotter: Full Summer conditions in November. — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T09:05:21.651Z
HISTORIC HEAT IN SOUTH ASIA
SRI LANKA destroyed with huge margins the records of November High Minimums (up to 3C+)
Most extreme event in a maritime equatorial area
Min 28.0 Mannar,27.5 Colombo etc
HOTTEST NOVEMBER NIGHT IN LANKA HISTORY
Record also in MALAYSIA
Min 26.1 Malacca — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T04:46:10.043Z
SINGAPORE AGAIN
An incredible month in the tiny Asian tiger:
record after record since day 1st
Today the Changi Int. AP rose to 34.6C tying its November highest temperature on record
Guess when were the 2 other cases?
November 2023 and November 2024:
It's perennially record heat
weather gov sg — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T16:51:52.730Z
After a brutally hot October,
November started chilly in AUSTRALIA with some cold records,including in
some stations which had their October high records!
MINS
10.6 The Monument
10.2 Julia Creek
10.1 Mount Isa AP
9.4 Blackall
3.9 Cleve
LOW MAX
21.6 Cloncurry
21.1 Urandangi AP — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T11:51:01.004Z
Record hot night in GUYANA
Min 27.2C at Lethem, a village in the Amazon Region near the border with Brazil
Highest Minimum ever recorded in November — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T15:38:46.511Z
RECORD HEAT IN MEXICO
Temperatures keep rising every day >40C on the plains of Sonora and Sinaloa,but not only that:
Even the highlands are still scorching
32.8C at the current Chihuahua Airport smashed its November record of high temperature.
Record heat will last weeks. — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T03:05:38.444Z
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MEXICO
Insane 43.0C/110F Vinoramas
Record heat also in TEXAS
89F/31.7C Amarillo
Record heat continue in all Caribbean as well: 32.2C/90F St Thomas, US Virign Islands.
>180 countries are breaking heat records, in 4 days more than ANY FULL MONTH in history — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T02:21:12.648Z
In our Heated World it’s not easy to achieve record cold outbreaks anymore. This will be an exception. The early week #winter #cold blast will be the record coldest in the Southeast US (magenta on map) since at least 1979 in the low-mid levels (850-500mb) of our atmosphere… 1/ — Jeff Berardelli (@weatherprof.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T23:01:46.529Z
October 2025 Globally,according to Copernicus,
had an average temperature of 15.14C which is +0.70C above the 1991/2020 normal and was the 3rd warmest on record behind 2023 and 2024.
The most above average country was Canada,the most below
was Albania. — Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T11:43:11.500Z
Antarctica October temperature time series. — Climatologist49 (@climatologist49.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T03:27:57.049Z
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN #climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com/environment/... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T13:59:21.704Z
“Northwestern Ontario bore brunt of province's wildfire season with evacuations, outages and a record blaze” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC Thunder Bay
#DeerLakeFirstNation #ONFire #Ontario #Wildfires — BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More (@bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T23:11:37.249Z
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
#climate
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T11:42:42.376Z
#Scotland Government published #Climate Change Draft Plan.
www.thenational.scot/news/2560265... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T10:09:06.224Z
'#Scotland must be canny enough to seize the economic opportunities within its grasp – most importantly by becoming a global leader in marine #renewables.'
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T10:05:58.046Z
🗺️ Climate Engine is looking sharper than ever with new basemaps!
You can now add high-res aerial imagery and topographic layers beneath your computed maps to explore fine-scale landscape detail.
Check out the demo and try it at app.climateengine.org
🌎
#EarthEngine #RemoteSensing #Geospatial — Eric Jensen (@rangespatialist.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:39:08.966Z
🗺️ Climate Engine is looking sharper than ever with new basemaps!
You can now add high-res aerial imagery and topographic layers beneath your computed maps to explore fine-scale landscape detail.
Check out the demo and try it at app.climateengine.org
🌎
#EarthEngine #RemoteSensing #Geospatial — Eric Jensen (@rangespatialist.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:39:08.966Z
Need some reading while delayed in an airport today?
Climate change is adding more bumps to the friendly skies
New research in Weather & Climate Dynamics via @egu.eu: storms are becoming more intense, frequent, & shifting tracks, bringing stronger winds/turbulence, especially during 🛬 &🛫 — Climate Central (@climatecentral.org) 2025-11-07T17:45:39.244Z
Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11) — Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:24:09.683Z
November 6: #Fung-wong is very quickly organizing as it heads towards the Philippines. This could be a very powerful typhoon as it heads through the archipelago.
Parts of the Philippines are still in early stages of recovery following catastrophic flooding from #Kalmaegi. — Steve Bowen (@stevebowen.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T23:17:28.940Z
If you want to understand why the East US will be invaded by Arctic Air down to Florida in… checks notes… early November… look no further than the Arctic being en fuego - relatively speaking. That anomalously warm air/ blocking is “displacing” very cold air far to the South — Jeff Berardelli (@weatherprof.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T18:16:08.257Z
Comparing the two most active natural cycles in the Atlantic (NOAA AMO chart at top) and the most recent period (now) still produces 2X more extreme hurricanes!!
1940-1970 vs 1995-2025
But wait. It’s not a fair comparison! Why?? … 1/ — Jeff Berardelli (@weatherprof.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T17:42:27.335Z
Birds flying above hurricanes? Damaged hospital posing as the actual one? Welcome to the phony world of AI-assisted weather disaster images. @climateconnections.bsky.social
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/imag... — Bob Henson (@bhensonweather.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T21:00:15.156Z
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"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. "
www.economist.com/leaders/2025... — Andrew MacDougall (@ahmacdougall.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:45:15.781Z
Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ‘for generations’
Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets
www.theguardian.com/environment/... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T09:59:58.320Z
Last year, the world added a record 582GW of #RenewableEnergy generation capacity. That’s over 91% of all new power – with nuclear nowhere. In fact, each year, #nuclear adds as much net global power capacity as #renewables add every two days.
#climate
www.newcivilengineer.com/opinion/a-go... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T14:43:54.454Z
French firm seeks approval for #Russia-design #nuclear fuel.
In the middle of a murderous war ...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T10:19:02.967Z
Maps based on climate data show that land next to the #Oldbury #nuclear power station, which is being assessed by the government for potentially building small modular reactors ( #SMRs), is projected to be below the annual flood level by 2050.
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/sitin... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T10:03:22.495Z
davidtoke.substack.com/p/so-why-are... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T11:44:14.790Z
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Floating offshore #wind ‘a once-in-a-generation chance to rewrite the UK’s industrial growth story’.
www.energyvoice.com/renewables-e... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T10:11:51.594Z
U.S’ largest district energy provider has started building a 35 MW heat pump complex in Massachusetts that will replace a natural gas boiler. The system will harness heat from the Charles River to produce carbon-free steam.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/06/w... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T10:12:48.282Z
Norway pledges $3bn in boost for Brazil-led tropical forest fund www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/06/n... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T10:15:02.990Z
Pleased to report that my book on #Sustainability with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social is now available as an #audiobook - available on most audio platforms like Spotify and also Audible cc: @katharinehayhoe.com www.amazon.com/Sustainabili... — Saleem H. Ali (@saleemali.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T20:12:53.893Z
Awesome! 🤩 the caves in Yucatan with their rich ecosystems and archaeological significance must be protected from disastrous developments like the infamous #trenmaya! @pucicu.de @olakwiecien3.bsky.social — Seb Breitenbach (@speleoseb.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T17:45:51.674Z
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