Panama’s government recently presented keys to the new houses it was providing for about 300 families from a small island in the San Blas Archipelago. What spurred the kind gesture? Increasing floods and damage from storms caused by climate change. The Atlantic shares more in this photo feature that spotlights the country’s relocation efforts for Indigenous communities threatened by a rising sea and staggering lack of space. https://flip.it/3vegLI #Science#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#Panama
Temperatures in India's capital soared to a national record-high of 52.3 degrees Celsius (126.1 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, the government's weather bureau said.
Scorching pavement blisters uncovered skin. Pus oozes from burned feet and bacteria-teeming wounds fester under sweat-soaked bandages for people living on the street.
#GlobalWarming EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MEXICO 🇲🇽 🔥
19 STATES >45c !
Incredible 48.0C at Valle Nacional, hottest day ever recorded in Oaxaca State
Also stunning 48.0C in Veracruz State
There has never been anything remotely close to this.
Map by SMN
Catastrophes that affect the poor, esp. to POC, only make an appearance on MSM for a few hours. And journalists usually don’t cite #climatechange as the culprit. As the Papua New Guinea villagers mourn the loss of their fellow farmers & loved ones, they look to their govt & NGOs to help, bc they’ve lost everything💔. FF companies bear much of the responsibility. They must be held to account, & progress must be made to mitigate… https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/26/papua-new-guinea-landslide-death-toll-exceeds-670-says-un-agency
At the poles, more heat radiates out into space than is absorbed from the sun.
Rocket Lab launches NASA cubesat to study heat lost from Earth's poles
"The PREFIRE duo "will criss-cross over the #Arctic and #Antarctica measuring thermal infrared radiation — the same type of energy emitted from a heat lamp — that will make #climate models more accurate and help predict changes caused by #GlobalWarming," Rocket Lab wrote in a mission description."