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Extreme Temperature Diary- Friday May 19th, 2023/Main Topic: “Heatwave Amoco” Damages Canadian Oil and Gas Production – Guy On Climate [1]

['Joseph Jones']

Date: 2023-05-19

The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉

Main Topic: “Heatwave Amoco” Damages Canadian Oil and Gas Production

Dear Diary. In an ironic twist of events, western Canadian oil and gas production is being curtailed by wildfires induced by a system I’ve dubbed as Heatwave Amoco. Perhaps Mother Nature is trying to tell us go leave fossil fuels in the ground, otherwise heatwaves like Amoco or worse with more smoke choking wildfires will be an end result.

The heat wave in Western Canada is going on unabated with another day with 34C/93F at Lytton,while yesterday the warmth was exceptional in the Northwest Territories with 32.3C/90F at Deadmen Valley.

Next week the heat will leave British Columbia to settle in the Arctic/Subarctic. https://t.co/2WXlARFnRY — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 18, 2023

The geographic extent of smoke & poor air quality from this event is enormous, extending from portions of Canadian Arctic to central & eastern U.S. This episode of extreme wildfire activity was well predicted in advance due to prolonged record-breaking heat. #ABwx #BCwx https://t.co/Z80zPIFciJ — Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) May 19, 2023

This is what it's like to get close to a wildfire…



Featuring unseen, close-range footage from northern Alberta.



WATCH:https://t.co/BARb5nsbJ5#abfire #abwildfire pic.twitter.com/qWX22DYQX9 — Kyle Brittain (@KyleBrittainWX) May 19, 2023

Here are more details from the New York Times about this fossil fuel curtailment:

Canada’s Wildfires Have Been Disrupting Lives. Now, Oil and Gas Take a Hit. – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Canada’s Wildfires Have Been Disrupting Lives. Now, Oil and Gas Take a Hit.

By Hiroko Tabuchi

May 17, 2023

The News

Wildfires sweeping across western Canada that have driven thousands of people from their homes are also striking the heart of Canadian oil and gas country, forcing companies to curb production.

As flames bore down on wells and pipelines, major drillers like Chevron and Paramount Resources together shut down the equivalent of at least 240,000 barrels of oil a day, according to the energy consulting firm Rystad Energy.

Firefighters near Fort St. John, British Columbia, on Sunday.Credit…Kamloops Fire Rescue, via Reuters

What It Means: Fires are sending oil prices higher.

The damage to oil and gas production was likely to significantly surpass current tallies, Thomas Liles, vice president of Rystad’s upstream research, said in a note. A large part of Alberta’s shale gas producing regions remained under “extreme” or “very high” wildfire warnings. Another 2.7 million barrels a day of oil sands production was also at risk.

The disruptions from the fires in Canada, a major oil- and gas-producing nation, have helped push oil prices higher. Chevron said it had shut down all production at its Kaybob Duvernay oil and gas fields in central Alberta. Paramount temporarily shuttered a natural gas processing plant along with production in several gas fields, the company said in its latest update on Sunday. Both companies said they were prioritizing the safety of their workers.

Background: Oil and gas are also vulnerable to climate change.

It isn’t the first time Canada’s oil and gas fields have been hit by fires, and the shutdowns, for now, affect a small proportion of the country’s total oil and gas output. Still, they underscore how the production of oil and gas, the main driver of climate change, is also vulnerable to the increasingly dire consequences of a warming planet.

As climate change intensifies, the risk of devastating wildfires around the world will surge, the United Nations warned in a landmark report last year. Researchers found that in regions with long histories of wildfires, like the western United States and Canada, the burning has become larger and more intense over the last decade.

The fires come amid a multiyear drought and much warmer temperatures than are normal in western Canada, which climate scientists attribute to climate change. And in recent years, Alberta has been more affected by climate-related disasters than almost any other part of the country, including severe floods in 2013, a previous round of devastating wildfires in 2016 and thunderstorms that brought billions of dollars in damage in 2018.

While it’s hard to say how much climate disasters will affect Canada’s oil and gas industry, the country can expect more shutdowns, said Ryan Ness, director of adaptation research at the nonprofit Canadian Climate Institute.

“Canada is in a difficult situation in that the oil and gas industry has been a very important part of our economy for a long time,” Mr. Ness said. “But the reality is that the world has to shift away from fossil fuels and meet our greenhouse emissions targets, or else the types of extreme weather and wildfires and the like we’re seeing will just become unsurvivable.”

Hiroko Tabuchi is an investigative reporter on the Climate desk, reporting widely on money, influence and misinformation in climate policy. @HirokoTabuchi • Facebook

Learn More About Climate Change

Here are some 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:

Costa Rica,Nicaragua and Panama are also living one of the harshest heat waves in histories with temperatures at record levels for 6 weeks.

Yesterday 38.8C at Juigalpa Nicaragua ,0.2C from its hottest day on records.

Tmins of 27.6C in Costa Rica.

38C also at Neiva,Colombia. pic.twitter.com/ysIRKfqBN8 — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 19, 2023

Impressive temperature contrasts today in the Mediterranean.

Within Algeria, from more than 44C in the South to an incredibly cold afternoon in the North:

At Setif (1015m) it was raining with just above 7C this afternoon.

More East,hot sirocco and 42C at Sirte,on the Libyan coast pic.twitter.com/4HukmXVVQW — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 19, 2023

(1) Brutal heat in SE Asia:

Today Vietnam had some overngiht Tmin. above 30C, like 31.5C at Dong Hoi,30.8C at Vinh and also in the South 30.9C at Rach Gia.

Next days it will be worse and early next week temperatures might reach 43C and break more records. pic.twitter.com/BwhfE8Zjuy — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 19, 2023

(2) SE Asia Heat

Another day with temperatures near record levels in Central Thailand,from Bangkok to Patthaya and even Koh Samui,which all beat their records earlier this month

In few days showers and thunderstorms should lower max. temperatures but further increase the humidity pic.twitter.com/9xWfjigDIS — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 19, 2023

More cold in SE Australia.

Today 19 May Griffith in New South Wales dropped to -2.3C which is a new record low for May.

Narrandera was close with -2.6C (record -2.8C).

This is the exact area which broke records of high temperatures in March. pic.twitter.com/AFNCm3zQ1u — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 19, 2023

Another hot day in BC Interior.

34.0°C Lytton

33.8°C Ashcroft

33.1°C Kelowna

32.7°C Osoyoos

32.4°C Lillooet & Kamloops

32.3°C Penticton

31.7°C Vernon

31.6°C Clearwater

31.4°C Pemberton

31.0°C Princeton

30.8°C Merritt

30.6°C Summerland

30.4°C Revelstoke

30.3°C Cranbrook#BCstorm pic.twitter.com/sqqi1KYRgb — Thierry Goose (@ThierryGooseBC) May 20, 2023

PDT issues Record Event Report (RER) at May 19, 5:30 PM PDT …NEW DAILY RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY… https://t.co/nOb8rO3Y58 — NWS Record Event Reports (@iembot_rer) May 20, 2023

AJK issues Record Event Report (RER) at May 19, 2:33 AM AKDT …RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY 18 MAY 2023… https://t.co/eNm4NvM8Ch — NWS Record Event Reports (@iembot_rer) May 19, 2023

Some More April Climatology

(Climatology is presented daily on this blog.):

April 2023 in #Mexico had an average temperature of 23.2C which is 0.7C above the 1991-2020 normal and was the 2nd hottest April on records after 2021.

Hot in Yucatan,cooler in some Northern areas (left map).

It was very rainy in most East but very dry in Yucatan (right map). pic.twitter.com/1lyutdk7h1 — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) May 19, 2023

Here is more climate and weather news from Friday:

(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)

Breaking News!!!



Today, 2023 surpassed 2016 as the year with the hottest 60°S-60°N global sea surface temperatures (SST) since record keeping began in 1982.



While 2016 was at the end of a record El Niño, the SST impact from the coming 2023 El Niño has not yet left its mark. pic.twitter.com/lUN4jP7tq3 — Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) May 19, 2023

"88 companies are responsible for about half the increase in vapor pressure deficit — the dryness indicator… and these emissions are responsible for about 37% of the area burned by wildfires in the western US and southwestern Canada since 1986"https://t.co/mIFq1wt4C4 — Green News Report (@GreenNewsReport) May 20, 2023

The first individual year at +1.5C will not in itself mean that the "Paris Agreement 1.5C" has been exceeded



HOWEVER, even in the IPCC's very low emissions scenario, long-term warming is more likely than not to exceed 1.5C on average over 2021-2040 (🧵)https://t.co/GI0BtLfL2a — Prof Richard Betts (@richardabetts) May 18, 2023

Not just an El Niño, but a strong #ElNino



That's what the model consensus is now for the period beginning during the heart of the 2023 hurricane season pic.twitter.com/tDeOUwziLO — John Morales (@JohnMoralesTV) May 19, 2023

Latest ENSO prediction plume dynamical model average is calling for a strong #ElNino for peak of Atlantic #hurricane season (Aug-Oct), while statistical models are generally less aggressive. El Nino typically reduces Atlantic hurricane activity via increased vertical wind shear pic.twitter.com/91QYuYIPnL — Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) May 19, 2023

🌎📈 422.07 ppm #CO2 in the atmosphere on May 18 2023 📈 Up 1.91 from 420.16 ppm one year ago 📈🌎 @NOAA Mauna Loa data via "MKO": https://t.co/nu6ktMn2wU 🌎 https://t.co/DpFGQoYEwb Daily: https://t.co/PTTkLiPGm2 🌎🙏 Pls. help make this global sustainability # visible 🙏 pic.twitter.com/AlobDxaxdb — CO2_Earth (@CO2_earth) May 19, 2023

"Remember, people, this is an experiment we haven’t run before, and the test tube we’re using is the whole planet."

– Bill McKibben, American environmentalist#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetitionhttps://t.co/TdAAMLr1tr — Keith McNeill (@KeithMcNeill6) May 18, 2023

Climate science has advanced to the point where we can tease out the role of climate change in individual weather events, including daily temperatures. @cbs6steve explains here.



And you can explore the #ClimateShiftIndex yourself: https://t.co/c8lAIahcNs@climatecentral pic.twitter.com/ifCFhn2ylX — Bernadette Woods Placky (@BernWoodsPlacky) May 19, 2023

$5.4 trillion due: “They successfully shaped the public narrative on climate change through disinformation, misleading ‘advertorials,’ lobbying, and political donations to delay action directly or through trade associations and other surrogates”https://t.co/YuDoRWQ1MG @nkus — Rocky Kistner (@therockyfiles) May 19, 2023

Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says studyhttps://t.co/lbiXYAv7Yu — Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈 (@BrianMcHugh2011) May 19, 2023

A dominant narrative in the climate change debate is that addressing population is not relevant for mitigation. Analysis of 30 years of emission data suggests this way of reasoning is not correct.https://t.co/6pv2F4hQpq — Civilization collapse technician Keenan Roberts (@HowKeen) May 18, 2023

Incredible Shrinking Lakes: Humans, climate change, diversion costs trillions of gallons of water annually



"Even areas that are getting wetter because of #ClimateChange are losing lake water because hotter air is sucking more moisture out of the lakes"

https://t.co/QPzCEQvyDk — Prof. Peter Strachan (@ProfStrachan) May 19, 2023

Wait, wait, wait



You mean to tell me the attacks on the right to invest responsibly come from fossil fuel industry scheming not legitimate regulatory concerns?



I am shocked. Just shocked I tell youhttps://t.co/tIjVw1iiPA — Justin Guay (@Guay_JG) May 19, 2023

That's the way! California's grid operator CASIO approved a $7.3 billion plan to build 45 transmission projects enabling more than 40 GW of new clean generation to connect. https://t.co/ZlYaK4RDou

Tens of gigawatts more likely needed in years ahead… — JesseJenkins (@JesseJenkins) May 20, 2023

#Solar panel efficiency to increase 50% with first ‘miracle’ tandem cells



"World’s first commercialisation of perovskite solar cells follows years of breakthroughs with the material"#EnergyTransition #RenewableEnergy #WindWaterSolar #WWS

https://t.co/CYsIoi0Edz — Prof. Peter Strachan (@ProfStrachan) May 19, 2023

Amazing



The nine hours in which #Spain made the 100% #RenewableEnergy dream a reality



“What is relevant is that this is not something cyclical, but on the way to being structural"#EnergyTransition #WindWaterSolar #WWS

https://t.co/G2vifEIfAC via @elpaisinenglish — Prof. Peter Strachan (@ProfStrachan) May 19, 2023

As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, but their editors refused to publish 🤯.

🧵, please RT. #BeyondGrowth2023

1/ pic.twitter.com/ymJkoPPwP0 — Prof Julia S. 🌍🌹🌱 #ClimateAction #FightFascism (@JKSteinberger) May 19, 2023

What we must do immediately:

1) End the use of fossil fuels

2) Build massive amounts of solar & wind

3) Electrify everything

4) Localize

5) Conserve

5) Find solutions for the last hard stuff (planes, cement)

6) Stop cutting down trees#ActOnClimate https://t.co/2w5uwXTxMH pic.twitter.com/DW3L3Y8cMK — Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) May 19, 2023

New #Anthropocene paper



The stratigraphic basis of the Anthropocene Event



The Anthropocene is an geological Event – not an Epoch – there is no specific start date – as it is a set of human processes that now have a global impacthttps://t.co/2LqjwB90AI pic.twitter.com/Vw46YI1dxP — Professor Mark Maslin 👍 (@ProfMarkMaslin) May 19, 2023

Vow common sense at last – now make sure it is enforced

A Win-Win for Whales and Air Quality

Novel program on the US West Coast incentivizes cargo ships to slow down to protect marine mammals, reduce emissions.https://t.co/nKbAIWAOPs — GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) May 19, 2023

#ClimateFriday – Meanwhile, far from the boardrooms of #Toyota and #FossilFuel Companies and #Banks. The real people don't like the trajectory of their decisions. https://t.co/inQRv8zStA — Silicon Valley North (@CCLSVN) May 19, 2023

And from the Weather Department:

Significant flash flooding is ongoing near Wilmington, N.C.



A general 3 to 7 inches have fallen in the past 3 hours, and it's likely some folks will top 10 inches by early to mid afternoon as bands of tropical downpours rotate ashore.



Track in the @MyRadarwx app. pic.twitter.com/k0Hyg7DqEl — Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) May 19, 2023

So weird (and creepy) to have smoke so bad you can see and taste it… in May, even while it’s cool and sprinkly here. Yecchh. https://t.co/dUN4moUsTA — Bob Henson (@bhensonweather) May 19, 2023

"Something Moore" goes back 12 years to May 2011. Joplin, MO was the site of a catastrophic EF5 tornado that was the costliest in U.S. history/with 158 fatalities. Our TWC crew was 15 min. away and what they saw was extremely emotional and indescribable!https://t.co/39iAjjDvfE — Tom Moore (@TomMoorewx) May 19, 2023

Tornado warning continues NE of Amarillo, Texas. This image captured 4 mins ago. Watch live at: https://t.co/NYHSOgbcUn @NWSAmarillo #txwx pic.twitter.com/h24AWMJ8Tp — Daniel Shaw (@DanielShawAU) May 19, 2023

More on other science and the beauty of Earth and this universe:

Listen up people – its awesome

Frogs Singing in Malaysian Swamp at Dusk Judged to Be 'Most Beautiful Sound in the World' https://t.co/YCYqu38NGl via @string — GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) May 19, 2023

15 Bizarre Deep Sea Creatures

Many could be destroyed by Deep Sea mining https://t.co/FEFA6NF3OC via @string — GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) May 19, 2023

Much of what we think we know about the connection between weight and health doesn't match up with the science on weight. Joining us is @yrfatfriend, co-host of @MaintenancePod to talk about the history of the Body Mass Index or BMI. https://t.co/US7YGHEg6f — Science Friday (@scifri) May 19, 2023

The Axiom 2 astronauts headed to launch complex 39A in black Teslas this afternoon for a countdown rehearsal. Watch live views of the pad: https://t.co/McQ3KV5CV2 pic.twitter.com/6gS0VQOBJO — Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) May 19, 2023

This was a haunting scene, with a single tree on fire.



Northern Alberta. #ABfire #ABfires pic.twitter.com/G5N4iUYKHf — Kyle Brittain (@KyleBrittainWX) May 18, 2023

Night thoughts



Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the fact that when we harm nature, we harm ourselves.

We need to return to our roots and protect what we have and rebuild what we have destroyed. Nature is priceless.❤️💙💚🌲🌱🌳🌿☘️🍀💚 pic.twitter.com/r7PTKfvWBa — Green is a mission (@Greenisamissio1) May 19, 2023

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Guy Walton… “The Climate Guy”

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