Japan recorded the highest ever temperature of 41.2 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, beating the previous high of 41.1 C marked in 2018 and 2020. Authorities are strongly urging people to take precautions to avoid risks of heatstroke.
The mercury hit the above-human temperature of 41.2 C in the city of Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, at 14:39, while two cities — Fukuchiyama in Kyoto and Nishiwaki in Hyogo — also recorded extremely high temperatures of 40.6 C and 40 C, respectively.
Climate change is here early. Probably because of undeclared or regulated methane release which is a far worse gas as far as trapping heat. Traps waaay more heat than carbon dioxide, and the US, Russia, and China dump huge quantities of it.
Not to mention the pockets of it in the melting ice caps.
We are on the trajectory that has been foreseen by climate scientists quite well. The problem is that a rise in average temperature does not just mean where it used to be 35°C max. it will be 36.5°C max. but rather the extremes will increase much stronger, so you get 40°C or more even though the average only increased by 1.5°C
As for methane leaks, we can detect them quite well nowadays using satellite imaging. You are correct, that the US, Russia and China show substantial leaks, India, Iran and a bunch of others are also in the mix.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Trio_of_Sentinel_satellites_map_methane_super-emitters
I suspect you’re correct purely because Trump stopped methane monitoring.
Also from all the methane that animals release too