"Floods and excess rainfall led to crops being destroyed or abandoned, restricted planting, caused livestock losses, and worsened the impact of some pests and diseases on crop yields.
"Price increases in dairy products throughout 2022 were attributed to reduced milk production due to a dry period in parts of the country (and) flooding in other regions."
Australia has already experienced the impact of extreme weather events on food prices, with floods contributing to the start of the cost of living crisis.
"Food prices were impacted by repeated flooding throughout 2022 in major production regions of the east coast of Australia," an interim parliamentary cost of living report said last year.”
…By examining the chemical composition of their (#SeaSponges’) skeletons, which the creatures built up steadily over centuries, the researchers have pieced together a new history of those earliest decades of #warming. And it points to a startling conclusion: #Humans have raised #GlobalTemperatures by a total of about 1.7°C, or 3.1°F, not 1.2°C, the most commonly used value.
#Climate researchers look at the total amt by which humanity has warmed the #planet to predict when we might expect the effects of a hotter #Earth — deadlier #HeatWaves, stronger #storms, more destructive #wildfires — to reach certain levels. If our forebears heated the globe more than previously believed, then the clock on dangerous #ClimateChange might effectively have started earlier than we think.
W/the new findings, “we may have brought things forward by about a decade,” Dr. McCulloch said.
We're out of time folks. We've been trying the education and diplomacy route for decades. But there comes a time when a political problem becomes an undeniable existential threat. Time to start getting our wooden shoes on, and dropping some carefully timed spanners in the works of the carbon emission machine.
"New Zealand’s gross greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have shown no sustained reductions compared with 2005."
"Gross GHG emissions were mainly made up of carbon dioxide (43.7 percent), methane (43.5 percent), and nitrous oxide (10.7 percent)."
"Gross methane emissions were mainly produced by livestock (88.9 percent)... in 2020 were up 8.5 percent from 1990, down 2.0 percent from 2005, and down 0.4 percent from 2019."
Global temperatures hit a key threshold this June. Scientists say it's a sign of things to come
Temporary breach of 1.5 degree threshold is a climate hazard warning: scientists
Unless urgent action is taken to reduce carbon emissions the U.N. says Earth could pass a temperature threshold in the next decade when climate disasters are too extreme to adapt to.
Some people are like: "I don't follow #GlobalWarming issues because it is so depressing and there is nothing we can do about it anyway." Well, the #ClimateCrisis is a huge problem for life on this planet, but not impossible, yet.
The first step is get educated about where we are and what can be done, both on a large scale and at an individual level. You don't have to read every article, but scan @ClimateMigration and read a post or two in honor of #WorldEnvironmentDay today.
...since starting @ClimateMigration yesterday, the vast majority of Followers are from outside the US. Understand this is not a fun subject, but the disparity in attention to this topic is pretty striking.
@koteisaev Was just kind of joking around, certainly not the same thing. That's the beauty of announcing marvelous future features using general language and buzzwords. Everyone imagines that the shiny new thing will be everything they always wanted. Been in this business a long time seen a lot of vaporware strategies.
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