""It is critical that we act now both to make changes to our buildings, community connections and economic systems to be more capable of dealing with extreme events (e.g., insulating buildings help to keep people comfortable in heat and cold, while also save energy/money) and we act to decrease creation of heat-trapping gasses from burning oil, coal, gas and other activities,"
Well, they finally scaled the Y-axis to 21.5 C. I have removed the annual lines for the block of years used to give the mean and 2 sigma lines. Doing this shows how more recent years are creeping above the mean. How much of the planet will be able to grow and harvest food this year?
We have recently seen catastrophic fires in places that either are used to having them and dealing with them effectively, (California, Chile, Hawaii, Texas, Greece, Canary Islands, Spain, Italy) or in places that rarely have them (parts of Canada, UK). The fires are fed with high winds and extreme drought, are not able to be controlled, cause loss of human life and apocalyptic loss of the environment including animal and plant life. This is becoming more and more common and seasons are lasting longer or year round. The fires are burning deep under snow to spring back to life at first thaw.
So what can we do to minimize the danger to ourselves? There are a few things we can do and have been doing, but we must up the ante. Fire smart communities must go farther than sweeping leaves off patios and trimming trees. We need accelerated training of as many people as possible in firefighting and management. We need firebreaks around communities, and huge scale equipment such as community perimeter sprinklers and water reservoirs to go with them. We need massive organized groups that deal with evacuations, temporary housing, and rebuilding in the aftermath. We need regular folks to get trained and knowledgeable in a lateral way with professional firefighting. We need large scale plans of evac routes, plan B, plan C with emergency shelters for people, pets, livestock.
My family spent 1000s of dollars of savings and retirement money to have danger trees removed, power line avenues limbed and some brushing done this past summer. It's barely enough and we are broke now. The rest we must do ourselves as the brush grows, and the trees shed. But so many more people out there can't even afford that or have the means to do it themselves. We need taxes to pay for fire mitigation across the board, in every back yard and every community. We need to do this together. And we need to do this AT THE SAME TIME that we use less energy, travel less, consume less, as we transition rapidly away from any form of fossil fuel. It's hard, it's daunting, it's almost impossible, but not quite. Every area, every country has unique challenges to all of this, but if we on the ground all start now, today we might have a chance to make it better and survive.
I just saw a whole bunch of idiots on X carrying on about the Texas fire... "it must be arson", "Texas DEW", "I suppose they will blame it on climate change", "yeah, like there are no fires anywhere else, just here, must be started by climate activists", "yeah, just like Maui- started by arson", "must be either food or oil being burned..", "they are blocking the roads on purpose".
on rapidly rising methane emissions that threaten the future of life on this planet
> Scientists also have ideas for reducing methane emissions from livestock. Some experiments show that changing the diet of cattle by adding fats or seaweed, for instance, can reduce the amount of methane animals expel.
absolutely INSANE. how many scientists does it take to realize we already have the solution??? we’ve always had the solution! stop fucking eating cows and stealing their milk. the solution is not to take years of research to make one of the most damaging, exploitive, unnecessary industries on earth slightly less destructive so it can keep chugging along.
these sick fucks can comprehend a world where life ceases to exist but not a world without their precious beef. the future is in the hands of some of the brightest people on earth, truly 🤡
I wake up every morning with anxiety and exhaustion. The combination is nearly debilitating some mornings. I think about the natural world struggling to survive air pollution, plastic pollution, soil depletion, pollutant runoff into our waterways and oceans, the whirl of climate collapse as we see it happening around the world. I see the monetization of every action, every thought, every need, the politicization of every organizational structure, every dream, every cause. I see the exploitation of those that struggle to survive, pushing labour onto others, the force of power structures to rule our lives as burn-out overtakes us. I see and acknowledge others with a much heavier load of racism, bigotry and marginalization than I have dealing with all of this in addition. And I see many that are giving up, on the brink of ending their existence, or mentally and emotionally checking out. The exhaustion is across the board, putting one foot in front of the other is too high a mountain to climb.
If I... we... all of us give up and give in to this upside down world, who will be there for the littles? My 3 year old grandson that looks up at the world with hope, trust and innocence expects me to be there for him. And I am, and I will be. My animals trust that I will love and feed them and I will. This small plot of land I live on Turns the Wheel with me or without me. It will face whatever the future throws at it and it will adapt, grow when it can, rest when it must, and always strive for abundance. It's the least I can do to match the effort of the land while being a part of it, the planet and the universe.
Some day all the systems of greed will destroy themselves, and many of us with it. But we don't have to go resignedly or without a fight. We can Turn our own Wheel, be the Gods and Goddesses that we were born to be. We can use every resource, every source of knowledge, every act of will, and every force of love to continue on through the exhaustion and despair. This life, this land, this Earth is magic and we are a part of it, now and forever. Sometimes I forget, and then I remember.
"Owing to the ever-increasing food insecurity globally and the deteriorating quality of crop production, the role of duckweed in the human diet, which uses no arable land for its cultivation, becomes quite crucial. The capability of producing rapidly and possessing high protein content makes the researchers keen for exploring the possibilities of utilizing duckweed for human consumption on large scale."
Downloadable white papers on the use of duckweed is available on the website here as well as more information:
New research that #Amoc tipping within this century, even quite soon, is a definite possibility:
Sea levels would rise by a metre in some regions, inundating many coastal cities. The wet and dry seasons in the Amazon would flip, potentially pushing the already weakened rainforest past its own tipping point. The southern hemisphere would become warmer. Europe would cool dramatically and have less rainfall.
I think part of the reason why it's so easy for bad faith actors, conspiracy theorists, and alternative agenda types to convince the average person that climate change is a hoax is because, for instance, in my area and many others, the changes are subtle. Aside from that horrific heat dome a couple of years ago, the type of weather we are seeing is actually not that unusual. When I was a little kid, (an undisclosed number of years ago) we normally got 4 or 5 ft. of snow. Then as my kids were very small and growing, we rarely got much snow for Christmas, a skiff that melted and then maybe 8 to 12 inches in January. Then, the snow load slowly increased again and then in Feb. of 2017 we got a 5 ft. snow fall over about 3 days. For at least a dozen years, 3 or 4 feet was usual. Now we are back to warmth and rain with El Nino. This winter will again be very little snow with a lot of cloudy, rainy days.
But here's the thing. The changes are very apparent if you are paying attention, if you garden, spend a lot of time outside, use phenology for the timing of planting, harvesting and make written notes. The drought is not just lack of rain, it is deep drying of the earth so that foundations of very old houses are shifting as the soil structure degrades. It is forests so dry they burn so fast and unabated and like last summer in one area, freakily burned silently. Forest fires that burn towns so suddenly, people have to run for their lives even with our modern equipment and communications. It is weird diseases I've never seen in the garden before like asters yellow, tree stress and disease that is slowly killing off our fir forests. It is massive lack of bugs and insects, not just pollinators but all kinds. Forty years ago, the only rats were in coastal areas, now inland up in the mountains, my whole area is infested with Norway and Roof rats, not just the usual pack rats. The Norway rats are taking over and it's a losing battle for many of us. And it's a complete lack of typical patterns that we use to count on, now the weird weather is rapid fire changing from one week to the next. Forecasts are less reliable even with much better equipment and methods.
People will argue until the flood waters have gone over their head whether it's man-made or not. But, at the end of the day, all we can do, should do, must do, is try to live lighter on the planet, take care of this precious land we live on, and provide as much education and knowledge that we have so that we can help the next generations as much as possible.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell At 3:15 minutes into the video is a scary chart. Notice the trend of the red line. In Mar and Aug it is already up close to +1.5C, and the trend in August is up, like it is in all El Nino origin years. In fact the temperature anomaly will likely continue to go up at the minimum 5-to 7 more months, easily going above +1.5C. Might even be enough to have the whole year avg over +1.5C. #ClimateChange#OnePointFiveCelsius#ClimateDisaster#WeatherMastodonhttps://youtu.be/jNaA7WrQnTE