"The winds that roared out of a supercell thunderstorm Thursday night leaving a deadly trail across Houston are on the rise in a warming #climate, though researchers are still teasing out the exact relationship between a rapidly heating planet and relatively small-scale weather patterns."
@MorpheusB when the proposed solutions are always decades away, this justifying ‘transition fuels’, it stinks like extending fossil fuels rather than solving the problem. We have technologies now that can help, but no, let’s delay the solution. #auspol#climate#fossilfuels
Lethal heat will make Australia's north 'unliveable'
— Australia's leading news site
Australia's north will be “unliveable” in the coming decades because the heat and humidity will be so intense that it will be deadly for humans
This group of climate activists aims to pressure Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz into issuing a government declaration about the dire concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the importance of shifting course. Despite the demands of the activists, a spokesperson for the government claims that Scholz is not inclined to comply
Arctic 12-month running temperatures as the difference from the 1951-80 average, updated through April 2024. The 10-year smoothed average shows the long term trend, the 2-year average captures some of the short term variability. OISSTv2.1 courtesy of NOAA/PSL/ESRL
ERA5 courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus. #Arctic#ClimateChange#Climate @Climatologist49
Eight arrested after #climate activists breach German airport
"Climate group #LastGeneration said six individuals had seated themselves on airport asphalt at 4:45 a.m. local time (0245 GMT) to block planes, and it criticised Berlin for subsidising #airlines at the expense of #rail.
Germany's transport minister, Volker Wissing, said new laws were needed to punish such actions as criminal, with up to two years in prison. Current laws classify them as minor offences."
Election season is underway in scorching temperatures but in spite of repeated extreme climate scenes, voters still don't demand climate accountability
If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...
Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.
Until we can call out #humanrights violations anywhere, I think we'll continue to fail to address either #climate or historical injustices. Giving one country a pass because they produce more #EVs or have more solar panels is merely kicking the can down the road.
"Persistent rains and destructive flooding in the southern Brazilian state have left 150 people dead, 2.1 million affected, 620,000 residents #displaced and 807 people injured.
The Guaíba River in #PortoAlegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, could reach unprecedented levels of over 18 feet in the coming days, according to local officials.
"As #climate-driven disasters become more regular and more extreme, inevitably more people will be displaced by those events.""