I updated my post from yesterday on @sternaparadisaea.net@sternaparadisaea.net with a very brief overview of some of the damage caused by the #StormSurge and how to think about these extreme weather events in the future.
Also, following a question I've added a bit of background as to why we would expect to see more hundred year floods, even if an individual flood is not "caused by" #ClimateChange (though it may well be somehow supercharged by it).
The National Hurricane Center has issued their most aggressive intensity forecast ever for a newly-formed tropical depression: a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds in five days.
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They're marketing the climate crisis. Global warming is a selling point. I don't know how to react, so for now, I'm just noting it in my #ClimateDiary
Widespread flash flooding in Fife yesterday. For every 1C the planet’s temperature rises the atmosphere holds 7% more water. This isn’t evenly distributed across the globe. Higher volumes of rain here are extremely likely long term. It’s time to seriously consider region-wide flood planning and decarbonisation of our own lifestyles as well as measures to save our housing. We can’t afford to wait but also Fife can’t solve this problem on its own. #StormGerrit#ClimateDiary
Breaking: Australian🇦🇺 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signs agreement with Tuvalu PM Kausea Natano at the Pacific Islands Forum offering Tuvalu🇹🇻 residents the right to resettle in Australia, as climate change 'threatens its existence' due to #SeaLevelRise
New visa cartegory wil be created for 280 residents per year. (Tuvalu has a population around 11,000) In return, Australia will have effective veto power over Tuvalu's security arrangements with any other country.
Activists across #SouthAsia had been loudly warning back-to-back climate disasters can permanently end harvests:
“The agricultural economy in all districts..is now three short crops in succession. Matured rice crops were swept away when the fields flooded in July, but over the next three months (i.e. Jul-Sep), we used to sow and harvest maize. Hopes for both crops are now gone.”
#ClimateDiary Nothing positive here but I do feel slightly vindicated in that, when i did a few posts about #Climateflation a while ago, many responded that it was wrong to even talk about this as it was the narrative of those trying to hide the effects of #Brexit and #greedflation. Yes these (and war etc) are hugely important too in rising food prices - nothing is monocausal - but good to recognise and start talking about #Climateflation too.
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I always thought the shareholder value cartoon was pure satire, but this suggestion that Danish investors should invest in oil shares from Danish bank Saxo is naked tragi-farce..
(Especially when considering vulnerability of country to #SeaLevelRise)
People are going to pay 50.000$ to see the last glaciers before they die. and they dont mind catching covid or getting stuck.
"The number of cruise ships in Greenland has risen 50 per cent in the past year to 600, Jensen said. Last year, the Joint Arctic Command did one medical evacuation and so far this year has done five"
#ClimateDiary conversation about #ClimateCrisis with people we met in #SanFrancisco; someone who works in Venture Capitalism. She said: “i think about climate all the time too. So much is being done and we will manage but the next 20-30 years will be tough”.
That was an interesting new take for me. Acknowledging the problem but still so rooted in techno-optimism that you see it as a problem for the next 20-30 years only, one that will be sorted by then.
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La Sambuy, a town which runs a family skiing destination near Mont Blanc in the French Alps, has decided to dismantle its ski lifts because global warming has shrunk its ski season to just a few weeks, meaning it’s no longer profitable to keep them open.
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“What we're seeing in #Maui is a "compound" climate catastrophe, where an immediate factor (in this case, unusually strong winds from the outer bands of a passing hurricane) interact w/ background state (extreme drought that has been in place for a month):”
Of course, Antonio #Guterres (❤️ ) is shouting 'we are BOILING', and #Vanuatu's #Regenvanu and other small island leaders have been shouting for years, too. But no major political leader is standing up and saying: this really is an Emergency, let's do everything right now. Like, noone. It is just not happening! 1/3
This Anchorage Daily News article may be paywalled, but if you can read this piece by Seth Kantner, please do. It speaks to my heart on how climate change is impacting our beloved #Alaska before our very eyes. For some of us of a certain age, solastalgia, the sadness and mourning for the environment we loved but that's been lost, is very real.
#ClimateDiary Note to #Freedom lovers: stop shouting about climate laws restricting your driving or flying. It’s nothing compared to the loss of freedom #Heatwaves and #Floods bring
‘She says being kept indoors by the prolonged extreme temperatures feels reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic. “It’s like being in lockdown again. It brings back the old feeling of staying out as little as possible.”’
Begging people to understand that solar geoengineering is literally genocide. I'm having difficulty understanding why people in a solarpunk lemmy instance think a project that has the potential to cause two mass extinctions, droughts, and social murder of millions of disabled folk is solarpunk.
Dumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight—a project called solar geoengineering—would cause mass ecological shocks to ecosystems worldwide that have adapted to a warmer climate and then shocked into a cooler one all of the sudden. Then there's the risk that solar geoengineering would stop due to all kinds of political reasons. Stopping the dumping of sulfur dioxide would cause the climate to rapidly warm again, which will then cause shocks to ecosystems that survived the original shock. That's two mass extinction events that can be caused by solar geoengineering.
Then there's the people who rely on wild and domesticated ecosystems that would be affected by less sunlight and cooler climates. We'd see droughts and famines.
Then there's the obvious fact that sulfur dioxide emissions will kill disabled people by the millions.
There are no technological solutions to social problems. Our climate crisis is a social issue and cannot be solved by a technological fix like solar geoengineering.
I don't know why it needs to be said, but genocide is not solarpunk.
#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