November 20th in western Massachusetts. The temperature is 20° above average.

We’ve had very little rain - not just this month, the autumn, summer or spring but - this calendar year.

It’s no surprise that we have wildfires breaking out all across the state.

Yesterday, a fire broke through in south county - idiot humans who can’t be bothered to give a crap about the land and its creatures. The fire had grown to 1,110 acres as of midday today. I live 50 miles north of the fire and before sunset we could already see the haze and smell of smoke.

#ClimateDiary #ClimateChange

#ClimateDiary We are reaching #DontLookUp levels of warning by scientists about the catastrophic effects of the (very probable!) stopping of #AMOC. Nordic countries plunged into cold, rest of planet boiling. Please do read this.

But guess what: #DontLookUp!

en.vedur.is/media/ads_in_heade…

I spent this week in southern Spain, where both to the east and south massieve floods caused incomprehensable loss of life and livelihood. It has been disconcerting how life just goes on, even at this close proximity, and how little one hears about this (inter)national crisis as a visitor.

This is not a critique of #Spain specifically, we had a similar reaction in northern NL to the recent floods in southern NL, BE and DE.

#ClimateDiary #photography #alhambra #Pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN

Thinking about these floods in #Valencia, a city I nearly lived in, and looming massieve cuts to #HigherEd in the Netherlands by our far-right government, just about had me give up on humanity. But visiting the Alhambra filled me with quiet hope.

We as humanity *can* create stunningly beatiful things and keep them for a thousand years. And people visit there genuinely interested in its history.

#ClimateDiary #pentax #photography #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN #Unesco #UnescoHeritage

Another day, another "a year's worth of rain fell in one day" unexpected flood. This time in Valencia, Spain.

aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/30/…

#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #flooding #Espana

At least 64 dead after torrential rain and floods in Spain

Spain has declared three days of mourning in memory of the people who lost their lives to the deadly floods.

^{Al Jazeera}

#ClimateDiary Everything is fine, everything is normal. Ignore, ignore, ignore.

Scores feared dead after torrential rain and floods in Spain. Officials say at least 51 people have died in south and east of country but death toll is expected to rise.#Spain #Valencia #Floods

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

The Schumacher College - close abruptly this year by the Dartington Trust - is now try to reestablish itself as an independent organisation. The newly funded Satish Kumar Foundation is raising funds.
Leaving it here for anyone who was sad for the Schumacher College to end, and maybe is able to contribute
(disclaimer: I'm not affiliated to it in any way, just know some people around here cared for it)

satishkumarfoundation.co.uk/su…

#SchumacherCollege #ecology #education #fundraising #ClimateDiary

"Oxfam’s research found that the world’s fifty richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime."

theguardian.com/environment/20…
#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Climate

Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam

Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5C

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}