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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: ZombieVirusAgain Date: March 9, 2023, 7:32 pm
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Scientists warn about "zombie" virus
[quote]It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie but this
one is real life. Scientists are warning about the potential
threats of viruses being thawed out from rapidly melting
permafrost.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ2xWPrp_aw
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: RainInCali Date: March 11, 2023, 6:14 pm
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News Wrap: Heavy rains wreak havoc in California, with more on
the way
[quote]In our news wrap Saturday, California’s deadly storm
season continues to trigger flooding and evacuations, COVID-19
was declared a pandemic three years ago today, three American
women are missing in Mexico, Indonesia’s most active volcano
erupted, and U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin broke a World Cup
record with her 87th victory in Sweden.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzvZueeQVXE
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: Whales Date: March 11, 2023, 6:31 pm
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What Could THOUSANDS of Mysterious Whales Tell Us About Our
Weather?
[quote]The Arctic is experiencing global warming much faster
than the rest of the world. A new study shows four times faster,
in fact! One of the effects of this accelerated warming is the
melting sea ice in the Arctic. And researchers off the southeast
coast of Greenland have started to notice some surprising and
alarming new guests.
A variety of exotic marine life have begun to move in, now able
to live in the warmer waters. And while this may serve as a boon
to some of the inhabitants of the region and its fishing
economy, it also signals profound and likely permanent ecosystem
changes and points toward the kinds of tipping points we may see
if we continue emitting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
Tune into this episode of Weathered to learn about what some of
the unexpected consequences might be from the warming Arctic to
our jetstream and our Weather.
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and
produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common
natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and
what we can do to prepare.
This episode of Weathered is licensed exclusively to
YouTube.[/quote]
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: guest98 Date: March 15, 2023, 12:27 pm
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It's OK for cyclones to be "white"?
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/freddy-malawi-madgascar-1.6779288
[quote]Death toll from record-breaking cyclone Freddy jumps to
225 in Malawi
Cyclone is set to be the longest ever recorded
The death toll in Malawi from tropical cyclone Freddy has risen
to 225, the country's disaster management agency said on
Wednesday, up from 190 reported on Tuesday.
The Department of Disaster Management Affairs also said in a
statement that 707 people had been injured in the storm and 41
reported missing, as heavy rain continued to affect several
parts of the southern African country.
"The numbers will only increase in the coming days," said
Guilherme Botelho, the emergency project co-ordinator for
Doctors Without Borders in Malawi's financial hub of Blantyre.
A regional cyclone monitoring centre on the island of Réunion
projects that Freddy will move back out to sea by late Wednesday
afternoon. It's unclear whether the cyclone — now set to be the
longest ever — will then dissipate or move away from land after
that.
"Even rich countries that are advanced democracies would have
been no match for the level of destruction this cyclone has
brought," said Kim Yi Dionne, a political scientist at the
University of California Riverside. Freddy has accumulated more
energy over its journey across the Indian Ocean than an entire
U.S. hurricane season.
Scientists say climate change caused by mostly industrialized
nations pumping greenhouse gases into the air has worsened
cyclone activity, making them more intense and more frequent.
The recently ended La Nina that impacts weather worldwide also
increased cyclone activity in the region.
African nations, who only contribute about four per cent of
planet-warming emissions, are "once again paying the steepest
price to climate change, including their own lives," said Lynn
Chiripamberi, who leads Oxfam's southern Africa humanitarian
program.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 15, 2023, 5:56 pm
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This is why we must make it as easy as possible for:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/
to relocate to the countries mainly to blame for causing global
warming.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: Yip Date: March 21, 2023, 12:45 am
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'Near point of no return': New UN report issues stark climate
warning | ITV News
[quote]A new climate change report will warn time is running out
for humanity to avoid passing a dangerous global warming
threshold.
Scientists from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) have advised urgent climate action is
required if we are to adapt to human-caused climate change.
The report was approved by countries at the end of a week-long
meeting of the IPCC in the Swiss town of Interlaken, meaning
governments have accepted its findings as authoritative advice
on which to base their actions.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebujv7l7Mlc
We definitely need more meetings and authoritative advice! If
only we had more of those over the last decade I'm sure
something would have been done about the problem already! What
were we all thinking?
Since Switzerland is in other news this week I'll link my
previous article about that country here, I find it somewhat
fitting:
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: guest98 Date: March 21, 2023, 2:47 pm
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HTML https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canada-will-take-a-hard-long-look-at-un-call-to-speed-emissions-reduction-minister
It's OK for emissions to be "white"?
[quote]
Canada to take 'hard long look' at UN call to accelerate
emissions targets: Guilbeault
A new report warns the world is getting dangerously close to
missing its critical targets to keep global warming in check
OTTAWA — Canada will take a “hard long look” at a call from
global climate scientists to hit its long-term greenhouse gas
emissions targets 10 years earlier than planned, Environment
Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday.
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But he wouldn’t promise that it’s possible.
The panel’s previous reports have warned that global warming
must be limited to less than 2 C, and as close to 1.5 C as
possible.
After 1.5 degrees, “the risks are starting to pile on,” said
report co-author Francis X. Johnson, a climate, land and policy
scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute. The report
mentions “tipping points” around that temperature of species
extinction, including coral reefs, irreversible melting of ice
sheets and sea level rise on the order of several metres.
The latest report published Monday said the world is getting
close to its last chance to prevent the worst of climate
change’s future harms.
Canada has set at least eight different emissions targets since
1988, and has failed to meet any of them to date. Its next
target in 2030 hinges heavily on being able to ratchet down
emissions from the oil and gas sector.
“The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have
impacts for thousands of years,” the report said, calling
climate change “a threat to human well-being and planetary
health.”
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: PBSTerra Date: March 28, 2023, 4:15 pm
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What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit?
[quote]A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small
amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to
another suddenly and dramatically. This can be a chair falling
backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing.
The IPCC recently identified 15 potential climate-related
tipping points that scientists have grown increasingly worried
we are getting close to crossing due to global warming. In this
episode of Weathered, we look at 6 of the major candidates, how
they are all interconnected and influence each other, and what
it would mean if they were triggered. These tipping points or
tipping elements are the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the
Amazon rainforest, global monsoons, the AMOC (Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation) and the earth’s permafrost
and coral reefs.
The consequences for any of these systems being pushed over the
edge would be truly catastrophic and would encompass everything
from massive droughts, loss of biodiversity, increased flooding,
heat waves, large scale climate migration, food shortages, and
much more.
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and
produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common
natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and
what we can do to prepare.[/quote]
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: guest98 Date: April 1, 2023, 3:24 pm
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HTML https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/31/landmark_un_resolution_holds_countries_accountable
Landmark U.N. Resolution Holds Countries Accountable for Climate
Crisis
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The United Nations has adopted a landmark resolution that seeks
to hold countries accountable for failing to respond to the
climate crisis, while protecting more vulnerable nations. The
nonbinding resolution was introduced by the low-lying Pacific
Island nation of Vanuatu and calls on the International Court of
Justice to establish obligations under international law for
nations to protect their populations from the impacts of global
heating.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: 2ThaSun Date: April 19, 2023, 12:06 pm
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Flash droughts increasing due to climate change
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjha_6BACs
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