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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: guest78 Date: September 6, 2022, 4:49 pm
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This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives
[quote]Heat waves broke temperature records around the world
this past summer, but it will still be one of the coolest
summers of the next few decades[/quote]
[quote]Extreme heat has been a constant in the news this past
summer: In July a punishing heat wave in Europe pushed
temperatures across parts of the U.K. above 104 degrees
Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) for the first time in history.
That same month was viciously hot across China, including in
Shanghai—home to 26 million people—which tied its highest-ever
July reading of 105.6 degrees F (40.9 degrees C). And even
before the summer officially began, searing heat settled over
the U.S. South in May. Amarillo, Tex., recorded its earliest day
with temperatures topping 100 degrees F (37.8 degrees C), and
Abilene, Tex., endured 14 straight days of 100 degrees F or
higher, doubling its previous streak.
Those were just a few of the events that contributed to the
Northern Hemisphere’s land areas experiencing their
second-warmest June and third-warmest July on record, according
to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But
temperatures that make big news today may seem ho-hum—even
relatively cool—within a couple of decades, as the continued
burning of fossil fuels pushes baseline temperatures ever
higher. Heat waves are also becoming longer and more frequent.
Not every summer will be hotter than the one just before it, of
course, but global warming means that the heat records set today
will eventually fall down the charts. As U.S. Secretary of
Commerce Gina Raimondo said during the July launch of Heat.gov,
a government website for heat information, “The reality is,
given the scientific predictions, this summer—with its
oppressive and widespread heat waves—is likely to be one of the
coolest summers of the rest of our lives.”
In a world without human-caused climate change, we would expect
to see records set fairly randomly, following the whims of our
planet’s natural variations in climate. But global warming has
effectively loaded the dice, with record heat outpacing record
cold. This imbalance is starkly evident in the famous “warming
stripes” graphics created by climate scientist Ed Hawkins of the
University of Reading in England. These graphics render each
year’s average temperature as a shade of red or blue, depending
on how much above or below the long-term average it is. The
version below shows summer temperatures going back to the
mid-19th century for the land areas of the Northern Hemisphere,
relative to the average for 1971–2000. Though there is the odd
pink or orange year scattered throughout the record, the pileup
of deep red bars in recent decades immediately jumps out. Even
1998—which at the time was far and away the hottest summer (and
year) on record because of an exceptionally strong El Niño
event—has been far surpassed. Similarly, the 1990s were
supplanted as the hottest decade by the 2000s, which were then
replaced by the 2010s. The 2020s will eventually follow
suit.[/quote]
Entire article:
HTML https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-hot-summer-is-one-of-the-coolest-of-the-rest-of-our-lives/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
#Post#: 15574--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 11, 2022, 3:17 am
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What else did you expect from colonialist bloodlines?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Wy3qJ0Cus
(And why are those guys all wearing Western suits FFS?! Don't
they feel hot dressed like that in the midst of global warming?)
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 3, 2022, 9:23 pm
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Even Harris is now saying it:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-silent-kamala-harris-141514595.html
[quote]The White House is defending Vice President Kamala Harris
over her recent comments that "equity" needs to be at the center
of the response to hurricanes.
The controversy erupted after Harris was asked during a
Democratic National Committee event about the White House's
efforts to respond to climate change-related weather disasters
within the U.S. and abroad.
"It is our lowest-income communities and our communities of
color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and
impacted by issues that are not of their own making," she
continued. "So we have to address this in a way that is about
giving resources based on equity."[/quote]
The less you contribute to global warming, the more you suffer
its consequences. This is how Western civilization works.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 4, 2022, 7:06 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kamala-harris-tell-conservatives-where-153600035.html
[quote]Vice President Kamala Harris’ team and the White House
are in full damage control mode after she said earlier this week
that the federal government would focus on racial equity in its
response to the Hurricane Ian disaster.
Imma need them to stop it, because Harris told no lies and said
nothing she needs to be equivocal about. She told a truth, a
truth that’s been true for a long time and moreover a truth
that, if the world around us is any indication, will only be
more true as time goes on.
...
What Harris didn’t say is the thing that scares racist white
folks the most—that poor Black people would get priority in
determining how hurricane relief money was spent. But so the
hell what if she had?
The fact that extreme weather conditions impact poor people—who
in this country disproportionately tend to be Black and Hispanic
and live in places and under conditions more prone to the
consequences of natural disasters—made the Fox News crowd’s
heads pop completely off their shoulders.
...
the reality is that government responses to natural disasters in
this country have nearly always centered on race and class. It’s
just that until now, that dynamic has only been actualized in
ways that hurt poor people. The best examples, of course, were
the local, state and federal government responses to Hurricane
Katrina. Poor and working class Black folk were more likely to
have lived in low-lying parts of New Orleans, close to the
bodies of water where breached levees failed to hold back the
deadly flood.
As a result, overwhelmingly Black neighborhoods like the Lower
Ninth Ward, New Orleans East and Gentilly is where the most
people were left stranded when the water rose. It was residents
of those neighborhoods who were left to fend for themselves,
wading through floodwaters or walking miles to shelter inside
the then-named Superdome after being stranded for days on
rooftops and overpasses without food or water or the protection
of police, who had largely abandoned the city. And it’s those
communities that, nearly two decades later, still haven’t fully
recovered.
But you don’t need to look to a natural disaster a quarter
century ago to get Harris’ point. Jackson, Mississippi, a
majority-Black city that also happens to be the capital of its
state, suffered a near total failure of its municipal water
system just last month. That failure was preceded by record
flooding, which was fueled by the same climate change feeding
megastorms like Ian and Katrina before it.
Those storms are expected to happen more frequently and to leave
more death and destruction in their wake. The people who stand
to lose the most—who stand to die the most—are the ones who have
always been on the wrong side of structural inequity in this
country. As we speak, conservatives are pretending the vice
president of the United States saying hurricane relief needs to
happen in an equitable way is bad thing, while every Florida
House Republican last week voted against a bill that includes
federal disaster relief funds that could be used to help their
own state.
They can afford to talk out of both sides of their mouths
because the people hurt worst by their inaction aren’t wealthy
whites who tend to vote GOP and have enough insurance to
rebuild. In the meantime, Black Floridians are wondering if
anyone will help them.
Harris looks like the only politician even talking about that,
and she shouldn’t walk back from it.[/quote]
I agree.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 26, 2022, 9:18 pm
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 7, 2022, 7:42 pm
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Now in headline form:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-climate-burdens-fall-heaviest-162445093.html
[quote]Where climate burdens fall heaviest: Nations with
lightest emissions[/quote]
This is the message we must keep pushing!
[quote]Climate change is deeply unfair, with those countries
that have contributed least to the problem feeling the most
devastating consequences.
...
“It’s the underdeveloped countries that suffer the most,” says
Nafi Fall, a college student marching down a wide boulevard in
Dakar’s Medina neighborhood a week ago, part of a protest meant
to call attention to the disastrous effects of climate change in
Africa.
...
“While we’re all experiencing the climate crisis, it is falling
disproportionately on the poorest and most marginalized people,
who contributed the least to the problem,” says Rachel Cleetus,
policy director with the climate and energy program at the Union
of Concerned Scientists based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “And
it’s the richer nations, like the United States, the nations of
the European Union, who bear much of the responsibility.”
...
“People in developed countries must realize that people in
Pakistan, the poorest of the poor, have paid for the quality of
life and luxuries [Western societies] enjoy due to advanced
industrialization in their societies,” said Pakistani Planning
Minister Ahsan Iqbal in a recent press briefing.
...
“The climate crisis is so deeply unfair,” says Dr. Cleetus. “On
so many levels, it’s veered off into this space of continued
unfairness. Now the question is, can we try to set some things
right?”[/quote]
Yes, most immediately by ceasing to obstruct:
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: guest78 Date: November 9, 2022, 12:52 pm
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‘It’s humiliating’: activist says Indigenous voices are being
ignored on climate crisis
[quote]A Kulkalgal activist from the Torres Strait Islands has
said the way the world often treats Indigenous people is an
insult and he is attending the Cop27 conference in Egypt
'fighting for our home'. Yessie Mosby, who in September was
part of a group of claimants who made history in a landmark
legal case that found the Australian government should
compensate Torres Strait Islanders over climate crisis failures,
said: 'Whether it's us in the saltwater, people of the Pacific
Islands, or the people of the plains and the mountains, the
swamps, who are facing climate change, we really want our voices
to be heard. And we really need action.' [/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NriwA1SM59g
Comments:
[quote]I'm Stepping over corpses daily on my way to work because
of climate change here in the UK 🇬🇧 and the
whole experience has just been truly heartbreaking and
horrifying 😪💔[/quote]
[quote]it's the people who are impacted the most and with the
most knowledge that are also ignored the most[/quote]
[quote]Ready4Ye
5 minutes ago
Indigenous and ignored. OK. But what's he against exactly?
What's his issue? All I heard was a load of empty words. He came
across as a stooge to push a non-specific and non-defined
message. He wants his voices to be heard? OK the Guardian are
there for you... now say something [/quote]
"We really need action" was my major take-away from what the
guest was saying....
[quote]I wish more people cared about earth as much as they
cared about who created it[/quote]
We can be sure of one thing, "who" ever created the planet did
not care about consent and the fact that the living would be
forced to eat each other here!
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: guest78 Date: December 1, 2022, 2:22 pm
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WION Climate Tracker: Scientists revive 48,500-year-old ‘zombie
virus’ buried in ice | English News
[quote]French scientists have revived a 48,500-year-old "zombie
virus" buried under a frozen lake in Russia. Scientists have
long warned that the thawing of permafrost due to atmospheric
warming will worsen climate change by freeing previously trapped
greenhouse gases like methane.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IPQq65Sp0w
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BONUS:
Best Historical Weapon VS Zombie Hordes (Might Surprise You)
[quote]What would be the most practical choice to defend
yourself against shambling undead hordes in the apocalypse?
Believe it or not, I don't think it's a spear, for a few
reasons. Nor a longsword either. Yeah... try to recover from
that shock. :p[/quote]
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: guest78 Date: December 5, 2022, 2:51 pm
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The race for the Arctic is ramping up. Here’s why.
[quote]Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures
and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities,
especially the burning of fossil fuels.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRzWzQW2go
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: guest78 Date: December 7, 2022, 9:33 pm
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[quote]The cooling effects of a volcano, if there are any, only
linger for one to three years, so we can't count on erupting our
way to a cooler planet...[/quote]
Bummer...
Mauna Loa is erupting in Hawaii. Here are 7 things to know about
volcanoes.
[quote]Earth is rumbling and volcanoes are erupting around the
world this week.
On Sunday, Mount Semeru in Indonesia began erupting, shrouding
East Java province in ash and forcing 2,000 residents to flee. A
volcano on the island of Stromboli off the coast of Italy
erupted on Monday, triggering earthquakes and forcing schools to
close.
Meanwhile, Mauna Loa on Hawaii’s Big Island continued shooting
up plumes and oozing out lava after beginning its recent
eruption on November 27. It last erupted in 1984. The US
Geological Survey warned today that the lava flow is approaching
Daniel K. Inouye Highway, the main artery bridging the island,
but noted that the flow fronts have slowed.
The nearby Kilauea volcano, one of the state’s youngest and
rowdiest, is also erupting, but most of the activity is
contained to its crater for now. [/quote]
HTML https://www.vox.com/2018/5/11/17327564/volcano-eruption-mauna-loa-kilauea-hawaii-lava-science-7-things
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