The great outdoors
was the outdoors, particularly in reference to a large park or wilderness area, especially when expressed as healthy or favorable.(wiktionary.)
The great outdoors at 56.7 °C (134.1 °F)?
The effects of climate change on workers
When heat kills (documentary) is "the story of the many migrant laborers who arrive in Qatar in good health, but who die on the job. The deaths are officially put down to natural causes. But they are linked to the inhumane temperatures that prevail in the region."
East of #Greenland, there’s a stretch of open water about 1,300 miles across where the #Arctic can pour its icy heart out to the #NorthAtlantic. Those flows include increasing surges of cold and fresh water from melted ice, and a new study in the journal #Weather and #Climate Dynamics shows how those pulses can set off a chain reaction from the ocean to the atmosphere that ends up causing summer #heatwaves and #droughts in #Europe.
"This particular #research found that sites such as the #ChelseaPhysicGarden and #RoyalBotanicGardens at Kew in London, or the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, reduced air temperatures during #heatwaves in the city streets around them by an average 5C.
Out of control fire west of Ballarat. #Bushfire smoke casting Orange light in #Melbourne. Temps 35C at 5.30pm.
There are now over 1000 firefighters battling this bushfire, including a heavy air tanker from NSW.
Fire weather forecast for most of central and western Victoria was Extreme.
Rising temperature and extreme Fire Weather are driven by #FossilFuel emissions. Every new coal mine, new gas project adds to the #climateCrisis adding to #heatwaves and #wildfires
We got married in our home town of #Lahore last Sunday & decided to use the opportunity of our friends & family gathered under one smog-filled sky to raise awareness about the #ClimateCrisis & platform local climate activists.
Its going to take time to get our own snaps sorted, but heres a thread of the highlights with links to sites/socials:
#ClimateChange is a huge topic, even when talking locally, so we decided to focus on the two most immediate threats to the city - #Smog (air pollution) & #Heatwaves.
We shot short videos on these topics & placed their QR codes at the #ClimateWedding for our guests, explaining the issue & what could be done about it.
(p.s. english subtitles for the videos are still being worked on)
What is the contribution of human-induced emissions to recently observed #Arctic marine heatwaves? More than 99% according to Barkhordarian et al. They show that anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing coinciding with abrupt sea-ice melt when solar radiation is strongest triggers these #heatwaves to occur. With rising GHG emissions moderate marine heatwaves in the Arctic will very likely persistently reoccur. More: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01215-y
Hi Mastodon, do you have ideas about what people in #Lethbridge, #Alberta, should do this summer, when we expect some degree of #water scarcity, to manage extreme #heat emergencies, that is, #heatwaves and #heatdomes?
World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
February 8, 2024
By Mark Poynting, BBC News climate reporter
"For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service.
"World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts.
"This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.
"Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists say.
"'This far exceeds anything that is acceptable,' Prof Sir Bob Watson, a former chair of the UN's climate body, told the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.
"'Look what's happened this year with only 1.5C - we've seen #floods, we've seen #droughts, we've seen #heatwaves and #wildfires all over the world.""
…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.
Arctic 21: Atmospheric Rivers and the Antarctic Ice Sheet
"Two connected papers came out in print today, analyzing the record-breaking March 2022 East Antarctica heat wave, including its impact on the Antarctic ice sheet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoeljrOIhac#Antarctic#Cryosphere#Heatwaves
"When designing homes for extreme heat, the overarching goal is simply to keep the building occupants cool enough to avoid health risks, particularly when the power is out or A/C is not available. Consider the following when designing a house to be resistant to extreme heat and extend the "hours of safety" that it can provide:" #heatwaves#retrofit#homes#survival#DisasterPreparedness