'“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform and fucking awful.

“It’s a graveyard out there.”

#climatechange #climatediary

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis

Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’

Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

^{Mike Bowers (The Guardian)}

I visited a regenerative farm this week. Seeing a field of cowslips again took me back in time. They were once common place, now seeing them feels extraordinary.

A mix of 17 green manures in a mob grazed herbal ley is the way to boost soil biodiversity and provide nutrition for the cash crops to follow. They have dung beetles back again on their land. #RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateDiary #RegenAg #SoilBiology #Biodiversity

In Wien blühen die ersten Rosen.

Hundsrosen und auch Zuchtformen mit großen roten Blüten.

#wien #ClimateDiary #phänologie #phänologischerkalender #Naturkalender #österreich

#ClimateDiary

Scotland to ditch key climate change target

What’s with all this ditching of climate targets at the moment? It’s positively trendy! Meanwhile Dubai flooding, Arctic permafrost officially becoming a source of greenhouse gases, etc etc etc

[*EDIT: I shouldn’t have shared this and headline uncritically and thrown SNP together with everyone else “ditching”. Reasons are more complicated - Westminster related - in Scotland. See replies].

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68841141

Scotland to ditch key climate change target

The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.

^{By Kevin Keane (BBC News)}

#ClimateDiary Just came across this. Quite major flooding in Kazakhstan and Russia at the moment. It is frightening in itself how with more and more climate disasters everywhere, they may well cease to be news; nobody in other areas will know or care.

Somehow news of Israel’s AI use shifted me - now feel it may all *really* be dystopian quite soon, in many related ways at once (climate,economy, democracy, AI, military, human relations). Cheery Sunday morning thoughts!

https://crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2024/04/russia-kazakhstan-flooding-likely-to-continue-in-parts-of-countries-through-at-least-mid-april-update-1

Widespread flooding reported in Urals and Siberia, Russia, and in parts of Kazakhstan as of April 6;...

Widespread flooding reported in Urals and Siberia, Russia, and in parts of Kazakhstan as of April 6; flooding likely through mid-April.

^Crisis24

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Thousands of schools in the Philippines have stopped in-person classes due to unbearable heat. In Indonesia, prolonged dry weather has caused rice prices to soar. In Thailand’s waters, temperatures are so high that scientists fear coral could be destroyed.

In Vietnam, water levels were so low in canals earlier this year that farmers in some areas reportedly struggled to transport their crops.
"""

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/schools-close-and-crops-wither-as-historic-heatwave-hits-south-east-asia

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary

Schools close and crops wither as ‘historic’ heatwave hits south-east Asia

Governments across region grappling with how to respond as temperatures soar to unseasonable highs

^{Rebecca Ratcliffe (The Guardian)}