Bulletins and News Discussion from July 17th to July 23rd, 2023 - Heatwaves Everywhere All At Once

Image is of the drying Canelon Grande Reservoir in Uruguay as the country battles three consecutive years of drought, its worst in nearly a century.

Quoting every country and region that is currently suffering under unprecedented climatic conditions and posting every graph showing extremely concerning things happening would make this preamble way too long, so I'm gonna keep it short and merely say that, holy shit, the consequences of fossil fuel executives' actions are looking real fucking bad.

Hundreds of millions of people, if not billions, are currently enduring higher than average temperatures sometimes reaching up 48 degrees Celsius or 120 degrees Fahrenheit or even beyond. Drought is putting pressure on water supplies basically everywhere around the world. And El Nino is activating, which will only do further damage.

Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we've collected.

This week's first update is here in the comments.

This week's second and third update have done the Dragonball Z fusion dance and created this long-ass thing that took me... a while to get done.

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Update for July 17th
Takeaways:
The world is on fire.
Europe's shift to the Pacific continues, as the UK and France (among others) get more involved with the economics and military situation over there, while the EU clearly thinks they're being extremely clever and sneaky by telling the Chinese that none of this is directed towards them. Meanwhile, the debate over whether China's economy is doing well or badly continues to rage on.
Occupied Korea continues to lick America's boots, with them casting off any doubts about whether to supply Ukraine with military equipment after their president went on a visit to Zelensky. Hopefully their sacrifice of military equipment to the Lancet gods reduces some of the pressure on the DPRK?
Russia's involvement in both the Middle East and Africa is set to increase shortly, with some diplomatic moves, electricity grid integrations, and summits coming in the near-future. It's still unclear what Putin is gonna do at the BRICS summit what with the ICC warrant, a month out from the date.
Ukraine's hit the Crimean bridge again - details are still coming in but it doesn't look too awful, the overall structure looks to be intact still. There will be some interesting questions to answer about whether it will affect the military situation, how it was allowed to happen a second time, and whether there will be a Russian response, but we'll probably see that being argued about this week. Seems to me if you can't take out the rail line, all you're really doing is ruining people's holidays, and, well, killing civilians.
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  This one stood out despite every paragraph in that article being worse than the previous
  
  as long as I get fed carrots that are almost as big as my torso

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Update for July 17th

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