“Waiting for grants from rich countries is like waiting for Godot"
... $2tn a year would be needed to transform the economies of developing countries to cut emissions and enable them to deal with the effects of extreme weather. While this sum seems large, it is not much greater than the investment that is currently poured into fossil fuels and high-carbon infrastructure."
Extreme weather conditions in Europe have killed almost 195,000 people and caused economic losses of more than 560 billion euros since 1980, the European Environment Agency said Wednesday.
Of the 560 billion euros in losses, only 170 billion, or 30%, were insured, the EEA said, as it launched a new online portal collating recent data on the impact of extreme weather.
Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “#climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising #FoodScarcity and higher death rates.
By late this century, according to a study published last month in the journal Nature Sustainability, 3 to 6 billion people, or between a third and a half of humanity, could be trapped outside of that zone, facing #ExtremeHeat, food scarcity and higher death rates, unless emissions are sharply curtailed or mass #migration is accommodated.
...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.
Snow early Tuesday morning in the greater Glennallen area. Apparently just a brief dusting in the immediate Gulkana & Glennallen areas (Ahtna country) but from FB looks like 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8cm) of snow at Tolsona (west of Glennallen slight higher elevation). The Glennallen cooperative station reported 0.90 inches (22.9mm) precipitation Tuesday morning. This is the second highest daily precip on record there. Only higher was May 28, 2001 #akwx#ClimateDiary#ExtremeWeather@Climatologist49
North Pacific (35-60N) average sea surface temperatures have been rising since ~1980 and are uncorrelated with #ENSO. If, as expected, El Niño develops/persists through the coming Northern Hemisphere winter, storms will interact with #sst significantly higher than previous El Niños. More water vapor available through evaporation and the potential for stronger storms. Atmospheric rivers anyone? #akwx#bcwx#wawx#orwx#cawx#ExtremeWeather@Climatologist49
"Concerns that the summer might bring# restrictions on #water use have focused attention on environmental issues.
Almost 9 in 10 Spaniards say they are worried about #drought, according to a recent poll. A similar majority acknowledges humans' role in driving #ClimateChange and the increase in #ExtremeWeather events."
Storms, avalanches, floods and drought killed dozens of people over the past year, as once exceptional disasters become a regular part of life, leaving the government scrambling for answers.
"Climate change is here and we are living the consequences. It isn't some remote prospect, it is the new normal," said Paola Pino d'Astore, of the Italian Society of Environmental Geology.
Sitka Airport appears to have briefly reached 82F (27.8C) early Thursday evening. This is the highest temperature on record at Sitka Airport in May: the previous record was 80F (25.7C) set on May 30, 1964. Other high temps in the Sitka area of Thursday included 83F (28.3C) at both the NOAA Tide Gauge and the Climate Reference Network Station. #akwx#ExtremeWeather#ClimateDiary#Alaska
To tune in to the thunderstorm session: a shot taken in 2004 with a 35 mm lens on slide film in Heidelberg, Germany. A surprise when days later I got received the processed film from the lab. During exposure, I was blinded by the light and frightened by the bang … Full: https://www.silberspur.de/BltzHD.jpg
I've been thinking for a while that it would be good to have a collective Climate Diary (along the lines of the Sussex Mass Observation project): people from across the world recording and sharing everyday observations, experiences, thoughts, feelings relating to the #ClimateCrisis
I would like to try out simply using a #Hashtag - #ClimateDiary - here on #Mastodon to create this and I would like to invite you all to join in and share widely! 1/4
The idea is to create something that captures and helps record #ClimateChange in all its different manifestations, large and small, throughout the world. We all (most of us) know it's happening, but it's so slow, so on and off, that it's often really hard to grasp. And whilst #ExtremeWeather events are recorded, smaller changes, and how people experience them and how it affects their lives, is largely completely unrecorded, uncaptured. It would be good to try and do this, I feel 2/4