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Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the mainland’s solid ground.
#globalnews #Environment #World #Caribbean #ClimateChange
https://globalnews.ca/news/10539114/caribbean-panama-island-evacuation-rising-sea-levels/
“Simply put, the (fossil fuel) industry’s lies can cost consumers their health, their money and their security. “
- Texas A&M Professor
#climatechange
#fossilfuel #lies
Vermont became the first state to hold oil companies financially liable for climate damages.
The Climate Superfund Act directs the state to charge major fossil fuel companies potentially billions of dollars to pay for climate impacts to which their emissions have contributed.
Unsurprisingly, the law is expected to face legal challenges from the industry.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/31/vermont-oil-companies-climate-superfund-act
#climatechange #climate #Vermont #ClimateintheCourts
‘Game-changing’: Vermont becomes first state to require big oil to pay for climate damages
Climate Superfund Act compels oil companies to pay potentially billions of dollars for climate impacts caused by their emissionsDharna Noor (The Guardian)
A boy cools off as a red alert is issued for extreme temperatures that topped 50C (122F)
Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA
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Women are 14 times more likely to die in a climate disaster, new study shows.
#climatechange #genderInequality #science
Women are 14 times more likely to die in a climate disaster than men. It’s just one way climate change is gendered
Women and gender-diverse people bear the brunt of climate change’s negative affects. If Australia wants to be taken seriously on climate action, this needs addressing.The Conversation
Giant hail as large as DVDs bombards Texas 📀 ⚡ ⛈️
The hail in Texas was so big Tuesday that it required a new description
Forecasters warned of “DVD-size hail” as stones larger than grapefruits bombarded an area near Lubbock.
Time to cue up some James McMurtry! 🎸
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-D824LHti4
#Texas #Levelland #DVD #Hail #DVDSizedHail #Blockbuster #Music #Weather #JamesMcMurtry #ClimateChange #Twisters #MemorialTuesdayStorm
James McMurtry - Levelland
Music video by James McMurtry performing Levelland. (C) 1995 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENTYouTube
Climate and health benefits of wind and solar dwarf all subsidies: By displacing fossil fuels, wind and solar saved the US $250 billion over 4 years.
"The researchers find that, in the US, wind and solar have health and climate benefits of over $100 for every Megawatt-hour produced, for a total of a quarter-trillion dollars in just the last four years. This dwarfs the cost of the electricity they generate and the total of the subsidies they received."
Delhi heat claims first victim — 40-year-old factory worker from Darbhanga
The doctor said once he arrived at the hospital, he was immediately admitted to the Heat Stroke Unit – a special unit set up for the first time at the hospital on May 8 because of the rising temperature.
#delhi #heatwave #HeatStroke #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #environment #india
11/ snip "Crop production depends on a stable #climate. It is not a matter of “if” but of “when” a significant #catastrophe occurs. A globally significant #famine is going to happen. It could happen in 2 years or it could take 10–15. I can’t know that. But trends are clear. When it happens, the import-dependent US will not be spared. The biggest, most critical failure of imagination is how people assume the US govt will respond to this catastrophe. Capitalism solves shortages by increasing price. Other countries may take a more humane approach to #food rationing, but the US govt is absolutely not going to supply emergency rations to the public. The poor will simply starve.
The US govt is preparing for #ClimateChange by hiring 100,000 additional police officers, an approximately 15% increase to our already obscenely bloated, militarized, domestic occupation force of ~680,000. This is America’s climate change adaptation plan: more #police."
8/ snip "Bill Rees is one of a number of #climate scientists who portray #climatechange as one symptom of a larger planetary problem of ecological #overshoot. In this excellent lecture (https://youtu.be/9oVTHKzC7TM) he briefly touches on: ocean acidification, freshwater contamination, #deforestation, soil #erosion, #desertification, overfishing and species #extinctions."
Key quotes:
“It’s not just mammals. Wild bird populations are also tumbling. Domestic poultry now constitute 70% of the world’s avian biomass. Average populations of thousands of monitored species of wild vertebrates, birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, have declined ~60% since 1970. Populations of #invertebrates, including essential #pollinators, are also in free-fall: Butterflies down 53%; beetles down 49%, bumblebees down 46%… All species monitored by WWF are down 68–70% in just 50 years.”"
Keynote Lecture: Prof. (Emeritus) William E. Rees - Climate change isn't the problem, so what is?
הרצאה מרכזית: Prof. (Emeritus) William E. Rees Climate change isn't the problem, so what is?University of British Columbiaממציא המושג "טביעת רגל אקולוגית" וא...YouTube
From BloombergNEF via Justin Guay.
#co2 #emissions #ClimateChange
Cars, Cars, and More Cars– the Future of Transportation?
The personal jet packs promised in animated media from the 20th century are just not going to happen. Can you imagine tens of thousands of jet-packed individual commuters descending on downtown San Diego? Who thinks up this stuff, anyway? Perhaps the…Doug Porter (Words & Deeds)
HITTING WHERE IT HURTS 🔥
That burning smell coming from your wallet...
An increase in the number of hot days as climate change warms the globe WILL damage the economy over the long-term, according to research published on Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis #Breaking #BreakingNews
"It's excessively hot, almost like it is raining fire"
- New Delhi School Principal
One of the world's largest cities melts as New Delhi, India gasps with its record setting temperature Wednesday of 52.3C (126F)
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis #Breaking #BreakingNews #NewDehli #India
52.3 degrees Celsius in Delhi, highest ever for capital
Breaking all the records, northwest Delhi's Mungeshpur area on Wednesday recorded maximum temperature of 52.3 degrees Celsius, highest ever for the caTOI City Desk (Times Of India)
SUVs are setting new sales records each year – and so are their emissions – Analysis - IEA
SUVs are setting new sales records each year – and so are their emissions - A commentary by Laura Cozzi, Apostolos PetropoulosIEA
📈 Record Heatwave: Mohenjo Daro in #Pakistan 's Sindh province experiences temperatures above 52°C (125.6°F), nearing the country’s all-time high, which according to my records, is 53.5°C again in Mohenjo Daro (26/05/2010)🔥
📈 Record Heatwave
India is currently experiencing a severe #heatwave, with temperatures in Delhi reaching a record high of 49.9 Celsius (121.8 Fahrenheit). This is an all-time high for the city, significantly above normal. 🔥
The IMD has issued a red alert for northwest India due to a severe heatwave, indicating a high risk of #heat illnesses and advising extreme caution, especially for vulnerable individuals.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-indian-capital-highest-temperature-celsius.html
#india #extremetemps #climatechange
Indian capital records highest temperature of 49.9 Celsius
Temperatures in India's capital have soared to a record-high 49.9 degrees Celsius (121.8 degrees Fahrenheit) as authorities warn of water shortages in the sprawling mega-city.Bhuvan BAGGA (Phys.org)
There are disputes on how to talk about climate change so that individuals care more about or "buy" climate protection. Not too alarmist, mainstream, positive enough?
Meanwhile CO2 emissions - the primary driver of #climatechange - are still rising globally and atmospheric CO2 reaches new record values.
"Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study.
Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) looked at transport emissions by income, gender, location, ethnicity and age. The study broke down the transport emissions into international and domestic flights, private road transport and public transport." https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/29/wealthy-white-men-uk-biggest-transport-polluters #Transportation #ClimateChange #Plutocracy
Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds
IPPR research examines transport emissions by income, gender, location, ethnicity and ageMatthew Taylor (The Guardian)
Aamir Khan, 24, an auto-rickshaw driver covers his face with a scarf to avoid warm air during a hot summer day, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, the temperature rose above 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit), as the heatwave continues in Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
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Weather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it?
Here’s a quick look at one of the key forces that can determine whether a storm will become a destructive hurricane:
https://theconversation.com/what-is-wind-shear-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-how-it-can-tear-down-hurricanes-213527
PS: Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1
#climatechange #weather #hurricanes
What is wind shear? An atmospheric scientist explains how it can tear apart hurricanes
Vertical wind shear can keep tropical storms in check, particularly during El Niño years. When El Niño is gone, it’s a different story.The Conversation
CO2 and Ocean Acidification: Causes, Impacts, Solutions
Rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are changing the chemistry of the ocean, and putting marine life in danger.Union of Concerned Scientists
When non-violent protest - non-violent protest to save the world, no less - is criminalized, the world should worry.
"Five members of Letzte Generation, Germany’s equivalent to Just Stop Oil, have been charged with “forming a criminal organisation”, a move civil rights campaigners say could in effect criminalise future support for the climate campaign."
"It is believed to be the first time the law has been applied to a non-violent protest group."
Alarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’
Action against Letzte Generation could have ‘immense chilling effect’ on climate protest, campaigners sayDamien Gayle (The Guardian)
…the "most extreme event" in climate history.
I think of myself as well informed, but really I’m just well informed about American politics. I had no idea about this nightmare in Asia.
“In the capital Bangkok, authorities said the heat index Thursday was an "extremely dangerous" 125.6 degrees.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/heat-wave-asia-2024-deaths-india-severe-weather-climate-change/
Summer heat hits Asia early, killing dozens as one expert calls it the "most extreme event" in climate history
Much of Asia is sweltering under a heat wave that one expert calls "by far the most extreme event in world climatic history."Arshad R. Zargar (CBS News)
Governments need to build resilience against extreme weather, droughts, and floods.
Intact forest landscapes and other nature areas are our safety net, protecting people against extreme weather and climate crisis impacts.
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #ActNow #environment #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
A mother uses her fingers to give water drops to her child during a hot summer day as a heatwave continues, in Jacobabad, Pakistan. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
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#opensource #climatechange #climate #sustainability #FOSS #freesoftware
OSS for Climate with hosts Richard Littauer and Tobias Augspurger
Hosts Richard and Tobias talk about this new podcast, why open source technology is important for climate change, and what they hope to talk about with future guests!OSS for Climate
"'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose of all its glaciers
Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier, the last in the Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers. "
#Venezuela #SouthAmerica #Andes #Glacier #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #News
'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose of all its glaciers
Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier in Venezuela's Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.Albinson Linares, Noticias Telemundo (NBC News)
1. Oceans and rivers could become unrecognizable, turning into garbage dumps.
2. #climatechange can lead to more extreme weather, making every day an adventure (but not the fun kind).
3. Our beautiful marine life could be replaced with plastic fish and soda can crabs.
Let’s not let these smiles fool us. Our planet is a treasure, and it’s up to us to keep it clean and green.
Stay green, stay clean!
People sleep on the Yamuna river bed under a bridge on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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A woman, leaning out of a train window, receives water on her head to cool off during a hot and humid day at the Hyderabad Railway Station in #Hyderabad, Pakistan. REUTERS/Yasir Rajput
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandonedAlessia Amitrano (The Guardian)
Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/monkeys-mexico-heatwave
>“They were falling out of the trees like apples,” Pozo said. “They were in a state of severe dehydration, and they died within a matter of minutes.” Already weakened, Pozo says the falls from dozens of yards (meters) up inflict additional damage that often finishes the monkeys off.
>By 9 May at least nine cities in Mexico had set temperature records,
#ClimateChange #Environment #BiodoversityLoss
Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave
High temperatures in Mexico have been linked to dozens and perhaps hundreds of deaths of howler monkeysGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Scientists puzzled by colder deep water temperatures in Gulf of Maine
Climate change creates more unpredictable conditions, and the Gulf of Maine may be experiencing something akin to a late season frost.Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public (Bangor Daily News)
George Monbiot says: "Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism – it *is* capitalism."
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Capitalism is not, as its defenders insist, a system designed to distribute wealth, but one designed to capture and concentrate it.
The story capitalism tells about itself – that you become rich through hard work and enterprise – is the greatest propaganda coup in human history.
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LEARN MORE -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers
#Capitalism #History #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism
Exploiting people, exploiting land, and keeping its ugly side secret. Its historical effects are all too recognisable in the Pandora papers now, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
No mow area in a park.
Leaving areas without mowing helps conserving habitats for insects, birds, other invertebrates, small mammals, etc. It also makes the meadow more resilient against heat and drought.
How does your city do this? Are they biodiversity aware or part of the problem?
#biodiversity #NoMowMay #nature #cities #ClimateChange
Floods in south Brazil have displaced 600,000—here's why this region is likely to see ever more extreme rain in future
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-south-brazil-displaced-region-extreme.html
Floods in south Brazil have displaced 600,000—here's why this region is likely to see ever more extreme rain in future
A mighty river is flowing out of the Amazon rainforest, and it's not the one you're thinking of. In the first kilometer above the forest canopy, a "flying river" is transporting moisture evaporated from Amazonian trees southwards along the Andes moun…Marcia Zilli (Phys.org)
