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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: January 10, 2023, 3:26 pm
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Millions in California under weather alert as ‘much more rain
coming,’ officials say
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> More than 65 million Californians are under a weather alert as
strong wind and heavy rain brought flooding along the state’s
coastline, killing at least a dozen people. Director of the
Santa Barbara Office of Emergency Management, Kelly Hubbard,
joins News NOW to share how first responders are coping with the
extreme conditions and what people should do if they’re impacted
by the storm.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: January 15, 2023, 5:19 pm
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Mass evacuations in California due to severe flooding
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California faces new round of rainfall, flooding
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> Historic rainstorms continue to batter the state of California
leaving millions of residents are under a flood watch and over
13,000 are still without power. “Its been tough,” said a Felton
Grove homeowner.
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Violent tornadoes wreak havoc in southern US states
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> Recovery efforts continue after severe storms damaged power
lines, severed tree limbs and sent debris flying into streets in
Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky, where at least 35 preliminary
tornado reports were recorded.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: January 17, 2023, 3:02 pm
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Oil giant ExxonMobil predicted climate change in 1970s,
scientists claim - BBC News
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> Researchers have claimed one of the world’s largest oil
companies accurately forecast how burning fossil fuels would
warm the planet decades ago.
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> Scientists claim ExxonMobil - which has made billions from
selling fossil fuels - publicly denied the link.
>
> The oil giant denied the allegations, telling the BBC: “Those
who talk about how 'Exxon Knew' are wrong in their conclusions.”
>
> The study, by Harvard University and the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Change, analysed data in ExxonMobil’s internal documents
and found predictions made in the 1970s were often more accurate
than Nasa scientists.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: January 17, 2023, 4:15 pm
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How a Humble Mushroom Could Save Forests and Fight Climate
Change
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> Inoculating trees with an edible fungi can produce more
protein per hectare than pasture-raised beef, while reforesting,
storing carbon and restoring biodiversity.
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> The conversion of forests to agricultural land is happening at
a mind-boggling speed. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of
deforestation was estimated at around 10 million hectares every
year.
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> Compared to 2012, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) is predicting a massive increase in agricultural demand of
50% by 2050. In South America, around 71% of rainforest has been
replaced by pasture and a further 14% has been lost to the
production of animal feed. One of the key successes of COP26 was
a pledge from world leaders to end deforestation by 2030.
>
> From a climate and carbon point of view, we know that cutting
down trees at this scale is devastating. But the impacts run
deeper: 75% of the world’s accessible fresh water arises from
forested watersheds. And with 80% of the world’s population
facing a threat to their water security, trees play a very
significant role in stemming desertification and preventing soil
erosion. They also protect against flooding in coastal areas as
well as being home to a huge number of species, many of which
are important crop pollinators...
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> Miraculous Mushrooms
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> This is exactly what our latest research focuses on, looking
at fungi that grow in partnership with trees, in a mutually
beneficial arrangement. This is a common association and some
species can produce large mushroom fruiting bodies, such as the
highly prized truffle. Aside from this delicacy, cultivation of
these species is a new and emerging field. But progress is
especially being made in one group known as milk caps, that
include a beautiful and unusually bright blue species known as
Lactarius indigo, or the blue milk cap.
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> High in dietary fibre and essential fatty acids, this edible
mushroom’s blue pigmentation means they are easy to identify
safely. With extracts demonstrating antibacterial properties and
an ability to kill cancer cells, the blue milk cap could also be
a source of pharmacological potential...
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> [...]The agriculture on cleared forested land is dominated by
pastoral beef production where around 4.76-6.99kg of protein per
hectare per year is produced. But, if this system was replaced
with planting trees hosting the milk cap fungus, the same parcel
of land could produce 7.31kg of protein every year. The
mushrooms can be consumed fresh, processed or the protein
content can be extracted to produce other food items...
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Entire article:
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest98
Date: March 2, 2023, 1:15 pm
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The fact that no effective action is being done to address
global warming must mean that it's ok for climate change to be
"white".
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: Climate
Date: March 2, 2023, 8:26 pm
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> The fact that no effective action is being done to address
global warming must mean that it's ok for climate change to be
"white".
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True.
The other reason that there is no meaningful action on climate
change is because in order to fix the problem a leader will need
to do what is unpopular with the majority of westerners, that
solution being forcing human-beings to change their behavior.
Nothing scares human-beings more than change, it can threaten
their survival after-all, or at the least the survival of their
way of life that they have become accustomed to. No politician
in a western democracy will be reelected by a majority if they
become unpopular. Western democracy is as responsible for
climate change as much as are the machines that came out of the
western industrial revolution.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 2, 2023, 9:09 pm
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"Nothing scares human-beings more than change"
If this were the case, why do they keep inventing new machines
which change how everyone lives? (Similarly, why are they
excited by space travel etc.?)
"the machines that came out of the western industrial
revolution."
If they were truly scared of change, there would have been no
Industrial Revolution. That there was an Industrial Revolution
tells us they are not scared of change in general. What they are
scared of is regress. In contrast, progress is superlatively
exciting to them:
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: Climate
Date: March 3, 2023, 11:43 am
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I see what you're saying, regression would still be change as
well to though wouldn't it? Perhaps it would be better to say
that they are scared of change that causes them a perceived loss
of wealth then? Wealth in their minds being directly tied to the
convenience which machines have afforded them?
#Post#: 18245--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest98
Date: March 3, 2023, 3:39 pm
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Mankind, more specifically western man will have to let go of
his addiction to environmentally damaging machines. This can be
done in an orderly way through the force of the state, which
would minimize long term environmental damage if done asap.
Because it's clear that it will be impossible to fix the problem
under western democracy. In the future if we continue down this
same road there will come a point where it wont be ok for
climate change to be "white" and the weather will start
destroying large parts of life on a frequent basis(including
"white"), and at that point it will be too late.
And you still hear these idiot politician's talk about "growth",
as if ceaseless growth didn't cause this problem in the first
place, these fools need to get there mind checked.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: CycloneFreddy
Date: March 9, 2023, 7:23 pm
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Tropical cyclone Freddy to become the longest-lasting tropical
cyclone on record as it continues its "dangerous journey" across
Southeast Africa countries
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> A storm that traveled across the South Indian Ocean and has
already slammed three Southeast Africa nations is heading back
for round two – and is set to break a record in the process.
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> The World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday that
Tropical cyclone Freddy, which hit Madagascar, Mozambique and
Zimbabwe in February, is lashing the region again. As of now,
the storm "is on track to break the record as the
longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record," the organization
said.
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> A 1994 storm known as Hurricane/Typhoon John currently holds
that record. It lasted for 31 days. As of Wednesday, Tropical
Cyclone Freddy is at the 30-day mark.
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> Freddy first formed off the coast of Australia at the
beginning of February and then traveled more than 4,000 miles to
Africa. At its strongest point during that journey, NOAA's
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service
said the cyclone was "equivalent to a Category 5 Atlantic
hurricane."
>
> By the time it made landfall in the island nation of
Madagascar on Feb. 21, the NOAA agency said it hit at about the
equivalent of a Category 3 cyclone. When the storm hit
Mozambique just three days later, it was a tropical storm, but
the MWO said it lingered over that nation, as well as Zimbabwe,
for several days.
>
> That path alone broke a record for "all-time accumulated
cyclone energy (ACE), a measure of the storm's strength over
time, for the Southern Hemisphere, as well as globally, since
Cyclone Ioke in 2006," NOAA said. it was also the first tropical
cyclone in that hemisphere to have four "separate rounds of
rapid intensification."
>
> "No other tropical cyclones observed in this part of the world
have taken such a path across the Indian Ocean in the past two
decades," NOAA said. "In fact, it is one of only four systems
that have crossed the southern Indian Ocean from east to west."
>
> And by the time it completed that path, the storm was already
responsible for the deaths of at least 21 people, according to
the United Nations, and has displaced "thousands more."
>
> But its path of destruction isn't over yet.
>
> After leaving the mainland, the tropical cyclone "looped back
towards the Mozambique Channel and picked up energy from the
warm waters and moved towards the south-western coast of
Madagascar," the WMO said. Throughout Wednesday, between nearly
4 and 8 inches of rain are expected to accumulate on Madagascar,
only adding to the above-normal rainfall the island's gotten in
the past week, which is already three times the monthly average,
WMO said.
>
> As of Tuesday's update, Freddy has started to leave Madagascar
on a path back toward Mozambique, a journey in which the storm
is only "expected to intensify," WMO said, and could potentially
make another landfall as a tropical cyclone. Mozambique has
already gotten more than 27.5 inches of rainfall this month,
which according to WMO is above the annual average.
>
> "Meteorologically, Freddy has been a remarkable storm," the
WMO said on Tuesday. "...This kind of super zonal track is very
rare."
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