NOAA: "Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography offsite link at the University of California San Diego announced..."
"...“Over the past year, we’ve experienced the hottest year on record, the hottest ocean temperatures on record and a seemingly endless string of heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and storms,..."
NY Times: Their Florida ‘Paradise’ Keeps Flooding, but Some Can’t Afford a Solution
In the Shore Acres neighborhood of St. Petersburg, rising water has become a constant threat. Many residents cannot afford to elevate their homes or move.
A list of wealthy climate sceptics bankrolling the Reform Party, rightwing Tories, including the shady (and climate change denying) Global Warming Policy Foundation. It comes as no surprise that some are now peers.
Big social media company trumpeting that augment reality helps sustainability... because consumers using AR are "increasing their purchases" of products.
(technology which increases consumption is not helping with sustainability, folks)
" Between 1970 and 1990, the federal government devoted roughly $20 billion per year for roads and highways in inflation-adjusted dollars while allocating just about $3 million annually to bicycle and pedestrian projects, roughly 10,000 times less." #BikeTooter#infrastructure#BikeBus#climateemergency
LA Times: Earth breaks heat and CO2 records once again: ‘Our planet is trying to tell us something’
"...Humanity is ignoring major planetary vital signs as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels soar to all-time highs and Earth records its 12th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, international climate officials warned this week...."
Study: Residential Electric Utility
Expenditures Projected to Reach Record Levels, Highest in 10 years
"Due to the unprecedented rise in summer temperatures and higher rates of extreme heat events
over the last ten years, the cost of summer cooling has risen from $476 in 2014 to a predicted
$719 in 2024. (This increase has been calculated by NEADA, based on NOAA temperature data
and EIA electric usage and price data..."
A good news story about one of the biggest rural tool-sharing libraries in the US.
"The library is like the best neighbor you ever had. Imagine if the person at the end of your block had 1,500 tools and they’d show you how to use them"
Do you know something racism and plutocracy took away from us in the US that will really need as plutocrats continue to push us toward climate disaster?
"...What if, instead, the electricity goes out for several days during a blistering summer heat wave in a city that depends on air-conditioning in those months?... n Dr. Chester’s scenario, a compounding crisis of extreme heat and a power failure in a major city like Houston could lead to a series of cascading failures, exposing vulnerabilities in the region’s infrastructure that are difficult to foresee and could result in thousands, or even tens of thousands, of deaths from heat exposure in a matter of days. " #heatwave#disaster#DisasterPreparedness#climateemergency
"...researchers modeled the health consequences for residents in a two-day, citywide blackout during a heat wave, with electricity gradually restored over the next three days.
The results were shocking: in Phoenix, about 800,000 people — roughly half the population — would need emergency medical treatment for heat stroke and other illnesses. The flood of people seeking care would overwhelm the city’s hospitals. More than 13,000 people would die." #heatwave#disasters#climateemergency#ac#power#heatstroke
AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat - The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records, according to an Associated Press analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. With May already breaking heat records, 2024 could be even deadlier. #GlobalWarming#ClimateCrisis#ClimateEmergency#ClimateChange#PublicHealthhttps://apnews.com/article/11de21a526e1cbe7e306c47c2f12438d
WaPo: How a friend’s flood damage could affect your climate change preparedness
A study suggests links between social learning and flood insurance purchases.
"Researchers compared new and renewed flood insurance policies in the wake of the storms, both in areas that experienced active flooding and those unaffected by the hurricanes...People in areas with stronger social ties to flooded areas purchased more new flood insurance policies in the three years after Harvey and Irma, they found. "
#ClimateDiary adding this Alan Rusbridger article: about @wblau showing the above graph ⬆️ and others to the Dutch king and queen, anongst a room full of journalist; reflecting on the contrasting absence of #ClimateEmergency discussion in UK elections. #GE2024
Damn, these naïve, idealistic protests are just turning the average person against climate protestors. This time they stuck a huge sticker across an unprotected Monet, there's no excuse for that.
I have worked in a non-profit environment org for 30 years, and this sort of protest does nothing for the cause, it just makes people tar all environmentalists with the same brush.
Average people should all be climate activists. That's the problem. Average people have their heads up their asses.
Activists are getting desperate because:
The political processes are BROKEN and NOTHING is being done to legislate change.
The public blames lawmakers and corporations BUT the public also just goes about flying, driving, consuming. NO protesting and a lot of pretending there is no problem.