#ClimateDiary I don’t know whether anyone else does this, but with so much I read about what is happening right now, like this on #Arizona and heatstroke measures, I can’t help imagining it both as a document read by later historians (“how it all unfolded”) and as a report from the future - ie, this is what I thought would start happening in the future, if we don’t do anything to prevent it.
It is a lot to process that this really is our reality, right now 1/2
#ClimateDiary#Arizona 2/2 But i also feel we need to do these kind of “stepping back”, imagining-reading-about-a -different-time exercises, to appreciate the enormity of what is happening.
Reading it just like that, it can very quickly all seem entirely normal.
Trying to say: Our reality now IS actually pretty dystopian by any measure (not just climate change, also Gaza, AI, etc), but when you are living through it, every day mundanity dominates and you mostly just don’t notice.
#ClimateDiary where i really want to share this graph is in family, friend, neighbourhood, etc WhatsApp groups. Which is what I used to do, 2019-2023. I know, in theory i could just post. But in practice it really does become impossible to keep on doing it for 5 years when the messaging from everyone is clear: we don’t want to hear; you’ve told us before. Deathly silence, every time.
@enoch_exe_inc yes, it’s the combination of graphs, your experiences, and of course daily horrific climate news from many different parts of the world (85 dead on India’s heatwave, birds falling dead from sky, etc etc). It couldn’t be any clearer; all the evidence is there. #ClimateDiary
"Subramaniam stresses it is not that non-native species can’t, in some cases, go on to be real concerns. (...) “Instead of just blaming the plant and telling the story of the invading foreigners coming to take over, let’s retell it and hold human hubris to account,” she says.
Her takeaway message when it comes to plant science: “Botany, like everything, is political. Question received wisdom.""
#ClimateDiary I want to add this post to our collective Climate Diary, as it’s a good one for noting shifting official discourses. The IEA still talking about 2050, still 1.5°C (an impossible combination, as is evident by now), but at least there is more and mor official recognition of the need for fossil fuels to stop altogether. There ARE changes, just maddeningly slow ones.. https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/112569345405741429
#ClimateDiary#GE2024 I take it back! Two weeks in and I AM excited about these elections. I am hopeful that apart from Tory annihilation (yay) and Labour majority (no to neg feelings on this), this will be the election where the #GreenParty really surges, and where hopefully independents like Jeremy Corbyn, Faiza Shaheen and Andrew Feinstein win some seats. In other words, an election where we (eco-socialists) can and do vote for the actual people we want. It’s a start. https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112488900685395946
#ClimateDiary Germany floods: Firefighter dies during rescue in Bavaria
A firefighter was killed when the rubber dinghy he was riding on capsized during severe flooding and at least two people are missing in south Germany as the region braces for more rainstorms. DW has the latest.#Floods#Germany
Expertenrat veröffentlicht Einschätzung, wonach die Erreichung der Klimaziele fragwürdig ist.
Am gleichen Tag lassen sich Politiker:innen verschiedenster Parteien mal wieder in Gummistiefeln in Hochwassergebieten ablichten und versprechen zu helfen. Also, nicht mit stringenteren Maßnahmen zur Emissionsreduktion oder sinnvollen Anpassungsmaßnahmen. Wo kämen wir denn da hin! Freiheit!
Today at the allotment I met a new mum and she brought her beautiful child with her. When I got home I read of the floods in Italy and watched the last moments of life of three young people swept away. I'm filled with horror and rage and I don't know how to articulate to family and friends how bad the situation is and how that little child I met will maybe suffer in the not too distant future. #ClimateDiary
May was the 28th month in a row to be the hottest on record.
Spring was also one of the 4 wettest on record, with ~50% more rain than an average spring.
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TIL that Graham Stringer, who has been the Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton since 1997, and is running again, has been a Trustee of the disaster-capitalism, climate science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) since 2015.
That’ll really help build Great British Energy
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#ClimateDiary ‘An intergenerational crime against humanity’: what will it take for political leaders to start taking climate change seriously?
“Forget the critical decade, what happens every single month during the next handful of years is crucial in determining how quickly we drain the remaining carbon budget needed to achieve the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.”
Diese ganzen gekauften Halbhirne in Regierungen haben einfach nicht verstanden welche Stunde für das Überleben der Menschheit (unter anderen!) schon geschlagen hat, aber wenn sie es verstanden haben, dann sollte man sie geteert und gefedert aus den Ämtern jagen. #ClimateDiary
#ClimateDiary my heart goes out to everyone in Delhi, especially the workers and street vendors, children and elderly, the many without AC. Water scarcity and rationing; overflowing morgues in Rajasthan.
"Though #heat has killed hundreds of people in Maricopa County every summer for the past four years, the idea that heat can be deadly is newly shocking to many decision-makers.
"While suggesting that there is individual work to be done often gets derided as ‘neoliberal’, it’s often the personal connections we can make and the way we can use data to show people how climate crisis affects their lives that can help us mobilise for broader forms of advocacy at structural levels." (@roopikarisam)
Immer wieder schlechte Nachrichten in bezug auf eine verantwortungsvolle Klimapolitik: in Österreich wie in Gesamteuropa. Was ist da los? Verleugnung, Ausdruck hegemonialer Verhältnisse, Dummheit? Geht den Demokraten die Luft aus?