255 #ClimateCosts #EarthSystemBoundaries'

Warning: If you find this video #Boring ...
you may be never have the opportunity to complain again about the cost of measures taken to mitigate #ClimateChange !

If you're not up to date with the financial repercussions of the #ClimateEmergency you may want to watch this video before the main one:

"The money men know the truth about planetary boundaries!" [search by title on YT]

Even if you're not able to do math, you can grasp to colloquialism: #PennyWisePoundFoolish

"Global Economy or Climate Emergency. Is that our choice?" [11:54 min]
by Just Have a Think [as usual lots of research links in the description]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A8YIc6Ru6g

Quote by JHaT:
"12 mei 2024
If you want to know the truth...FOLLOW THE MONEY! The people who control the world's money rely on financial risk assessors to give them accurate data about future scenarios that could adversely affect their vast portfolios. The message coming from those risk assessors right now is...your money is in grave danger if the world does not act urgently to mitigate the worst consequences of our rapidly warming climate. Now a new report sets the challenge out in painful detail."

Canada is back in the news. And not in a good way…

HEADLINE: "Canadian wildfires forcing thousands to evacuate"
➡️ https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/canadian-wildfires-forcing-thousands-to-evacuate-210857029869

During the winter, numerous blazes in Canada — known as 'zombie fires' — smoldered beneath the snow. The combination of a warm and very dry winter set the stage for flames to quickly expand this spring.

Belts of extreme to exceptional drought are draped across the zone from central British Columbia to northern Alberta, where many of the worst fires rage. More than 100 fires were burning in British Columbia on Monday morning, and four dozen in Alberta. Other large blazes were scorching provinces to the east.
➡️ https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/13/canadian-wildfire-smoke-minnesota-wisconsin/

And what happens in Canada doesn't necessarily stay in Canada...

HEADLINE: "Canadian wildfire smoke chokes Upper Midwest for second straight year"
➡️ https://apnews.com/article/canadian-wildfires-air-quality-midwest-smoke-569be65d172bae427cd93ad8703c75ff

🔥 We are in a climate emergency. 🔥

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

To keep us distracted from what’s really going on in the world, our rulers constantly provide more and more circuses — a new Marvel superhero movie, the latest celebrity scandal of the week, a huge sale at Amazon — because if everyone was paying attention to *genuine* reality, the whole capitalist charade might just collapse.

But guess what: Earth's climate and environment pay no heed to such circuses. Instead, they respond directly to real physical inputs, the continual burning of fossil fuels, the ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, the enormous heat being trapped and absorbed...
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March 2024 was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high.

It is the latest red flag in a year already marked by climate extremes and rising greenhouse gas emissions, spurring fresh calls for more rapid action to limit global warming.

Every month since June 2023 has beaten its own "hottest ever" tag – and March 2024 was no exception.

The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that March globally was 1.68ºC hotter than an average March between the years 1850-1900, the reference period for the pre-industrial era.

Huge swathes of the planet endured above-average temperatures, from parts of Africa to Greenland, South America, and Antarctica.

March was not only the tenth consecutive month to break its own heat record, but capped the hottest 12-month period on the books – 1.58ºC above pre-industrial averages.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/04/09/global-temperatures-hit-record-highs-for-tenth-consecutive-month-in-march_6667824_114.html

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

208 #ClimateEmergency #Coral

More bad news: nature is evolving...
who would have thought ?

"A parasite tied to bleaching in global coral reefs has infected B.C. marine life
By Rochelle Baker for Canada's National Observer

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/04/17/news/parasite-tied-bleaching-global-coral-reefs-has-infected-bc-marine-life

Quotes:
"The presence of the microbial parasite will have a big ripple effect on their study across the Pacific and how they might impact marine life in both warm and cold waters, said Keeling."

"If corals in tropical waters are more vulnerable to bleaching and warming waters because of the parasite, this may also pose concerns for marine life infected with corallicolids in cold-water ecosystems as ocean warming occurs."

"The parasites have probably been in B.C. waters for some time but simply weren’t found because people weren’t looking for them, he said, but also due to a scientific “blind spot” because typical water-testing methods would not readily identify the parasite."

"Finding the corallicolids in B.C. waters means more research is needed to learn more about how and which cold-water animals the parasites may affect most, Trznadel said."