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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest98
Date: September 5, 2023, 4:16 pm
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African leaders call for fairer climate financing | DW News
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> African leaders are calling to change what they say is an
unfair system of climate financing, and have criticized richer
nations for failing to deliver on their yearly climate pledges.
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> Officials met in the Kenyan capital for a second day of
Africa's first climate summit. African countries contribute
little to global greenhouse gas emissions, but suffer
disproportionately from the effects of climate change. Speakers
at the summit are asking rich nations to increase their
investments in green energy.
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HTML https://youtu.be/9ucD4ZqoLVs?si=eOCBUdz2mhdE1L6S
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: HeatTransfer
Date: September 6, 2023, 1:14 pm
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Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer Really Shutting Down?
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> With unprecedented heat waves and record-breaking global
temperatures, it’s hard to believe that there might be a place
on earth that has actually COOLED since the industrial
revolution. But, it turns out, there is such a spot. The COLD
BLOB off of Greenland mystified scientists for years, but new
studies have uncovered a scary reality - this cool patch might
be a warning of the impending collapse of a vital earth
circulation system. And the consequences would be dire.
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> In this episode of Weathered, we travel to the Gulf Stream
with the new PBS Terra show Sharks Unknown to experience the
AMOC first hand. And we ask, what is the likelihood that the
AMOC will collapse, and what would the consequences be?
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CXZi-gFgX4
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest98
Date: September 6, 2023, 4:42 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/6/un-announces-climate-breakdown-after-record-summer-heat
UN announces ‘climate breakdown’ after record summer heat
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> “Climate breakdown has begun”, the United Nations chief has
warned as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported
that the world went through its hottest Northern Hemisphere
summer on record.
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> The WMO, citing data from the European Union’s Copernicus
Climate Change Service (C3S), said on Wednesday that last month
was the the hottest August on record “by a large margin” and the
second hottest ever month after July 2023.
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> “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are
biting,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a
statement after the report’s release.
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> Scientists blame ever-warming [western]human-caused climate
change on the burning of coal, oil and natural gas with an extra
push from a natural phenomenon El Nino, which is a temporary
warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather
worldwide.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: Floods
Date: September 8, 2023, 10:44 am
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Scorching heat and 'biblical' floods: What is the Omega weather
system? | DW News
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> At least four people have died and several are missing in
Greece after storm Daniel swept through. The storm triggered
floods and landslides destroying roads across the country.
Officials had to issue evacuation orders and said the situation
was unprecedented.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFsagzC07sg
Flooding claims lives in Spain after record rainfall - BBC News
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> Heavy rain has caused major flooding across Spain with Madrid,
Toledo and Cádiz regions especially badly affected.
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> A number of people have lost their lives after become trapped
in flood waters.
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> Residents in Madrid have been asked to stay at home due to
"the exceptional and abnormal" rainfall, the city’s mayor said.
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> The record amounts of rainfall were due to a slow-moving
storm.
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> The rains have caused mudslides on many roads and train
services have been suspended in affected areas.
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> The extreme rain follows a scorching summer in Spain and much
of southern Europe. Climate scientists are warning that extreme
weather events are becoming far more common due to global
warming.
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> Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Guy Hedgecoe
in Madrid.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlyfydvWrKY
Hong Kong hit with heaviest rainfall since records began 139
years ago
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> Hong Kong reported 158.1mm of rainfall in the space of an
hour, the highest since records began in 1884. Local authorities
said various districts had been flooded and emergency services
were conducting rescue operations. Members of the public were
instructed to stay in a safe place.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5gIwKtjbs
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: LibyaFloods
Date: September 11, 2023, 2:18 pm
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At least 150 killed as devastating Storm Daniel sweeps eastern
Libya
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> A powerful storm and floods in eastern Libya have killed at
least 150 people in Derna city, according to the Red Crescent in
Benghazi.
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> The head of the organisation in the city, Kais Fhakeri, told
Al Jazeera on Monday that the death toll could rise to 250 after
water levels in the city rose as high as 3m (10 feet).
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> Dozens are also missing, authorities said. Othman Abduljaleel,
the health minister of a self-proclaimed government based in
Libya’s east, said that at least 50 others were missing as a
result of the storm, which hit the region on Sunday and Monday.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: Louisiana
Date: September 18, 2023, 12:04 am
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Louisiana battles unprecedented wildfire season
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> (18 Sep 2023) Stoked by record-breaking heat, drought and
plentiful dry vegetation to fuel the flames, more than 550 fires
ravaged thousands of acres of Louisiana land, engulfed homes and
forced entire towns to evacuate. (Sept. 18) (AP Video: Stephen
Smith)
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM2JOWTBpAE
Comments:
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> Doesn't matter when if fairly recent. What's terrifying is
this is a very boggy state. If burning its either dried up or
spewing fossil fuel leaks.😮
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> this ia really old news
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> Nature way of getting rid of old growth
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> Yeah.. But the point is, that climate change is affecting
areas not known for this type of activity.
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The point is lost on many. The fires are getting harder to put
out and they are also more toxic than ever before because all of
the different types of plastics in people's homes...
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: T
Date: September 20, 2023, 7:55 pm
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/9973700/un-climate-summit-guterres-gates-of-hell/
Humanity has ‘opened the gates of hell’: UN climate summit hears
grim warning
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> The United Nations’ secretary-general issued another stark
warning to world leaders on Wednesday, telling them “humanity
has opened the gates of hell” and action must be taken in the
wake of accelerating extreme weather.
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> “Our focus here is on climate solutions and our task is
urgent,” he said in his opening comments to the summit. “Climate
action is dwarfed by the scale of the challenge. If nothing
changes, we are heading towards a 2.8 degree temperature rise,
towards a dangerous and unstable world.”
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> Guterres spoke about what he called “horrendous heat”
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> Countries that produce the most heat-trapping gases themselves
decided not to attend.
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> Developing nations have right to be angry: Guterres
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> Yet, as Guterres called on nations to increase their speed,
some nations still appear to be moving in the opposite
direction.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: IndustrialFarming
Date: September 22, 2023, 10:29 am
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Our Food is Killing Us
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> In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I
examine the causes and destruction of our current industrialized
food system. Specifically, I dive into the capitalist
commodification of food, and how most of the industrialized
farming that takes place in the imperial core doesn't produce
crops for our consumption. Instead, the majority of the "food"
we grow goes toward animal feed and biofuels. In addition, the
fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that our current
industrialized farming system gobbles up are derived from fossil
fuels. Essentially, fossil fuel corporations are laundering
their dirty fuels through the very chemicals farmers use to grow
their crops. Our food system is broken. We're in desperate need
of a new agro-ecological revolution.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkbop26PMMs
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/farming-vs-ranching/
(Agorism)
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/vertical-farming/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/population-and-demographics/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dietary-decolonization/
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: ECHR
Date: September 27, 2023, 10:40 am
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European Court of Human Rights opens trial on climate inactivity
| DW News
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> The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has started to hear
the large-scale climate case of six young people and children
from Portugal, who are trying to hold the governments of 32
European countries to account for failing to act on climate
change.
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> The young people, supported by the Global Legal Action Network
(GLAN), allege the countries — which include Germany, the UK,
Russia and Portugal — have not enacted the emission cuts needed
to protect their futures. The case focuses on countries whose
policies lawyers argue are too weak to meet the 1.5 degrees
Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) Paris Agreement goal. They cite
the country ratings of the Climate Action Tracker. The
plaintiffs range from age 11 to 24 and come from Lisbon and
Leiria in Portugal. The case states climate change poses a
rising threat to the six young people's lives and their physical
and mental well-being. It invokes human rights arguments —
including the right to life, a home and to family — as well as
claiming discrimination. "Our generation is living in an age of
great danger and uncertainty, so our voice must be heard," Andre
Oliveira told DW in 2020 when the case was initially filed with
the ECHR. Andre is now 15.
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> "It's clearly not the case that young people are the only
people vulnerable to the effects of climate change," said Gerry
Liston, a senior lawyer at GLAN, in 2020. "But because they
stand to endure the worst impacts, we're saying the effects of
failing to adequately address greenhouse gas emissions amounts
to unlawful discrimination on the grounds of age." Andre added
that the case wasn't about "finger pointing" but giving all the
governments being brought to court "a chance to act better and
faster." While there are numerous recent and ongoing climate
cases, many also involving young plaintiffs, this is the first
of its kind to be brought to Strasbourg. The international
court, set up in 1959, deals with alleged violations of civil
and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human
Rights. The pressing need for significant and wide-scale action
among many large emitters warranted going directly to
Strasbourg, rather than through domestic courts which is more
common, explains Liston. According to GLAN, if successful, the
32 countries would be legally bound to tackle overseas
contributions to climate change, including that of multinational
companies, as well as ramping up emissions cuts.
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How the Climate Crisis Amplifies California's Incarcerated
Firefighter Dilemma
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> California relies on incarcerated individuals for
firefighting, yet it hesitates to let them become firefighters
after release. Here are the dilemmas faced by the state as the
climate crisis intensifies.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkUpzu2Jfjo
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: NoBrakes
Date: September 28, 2023, 12:02 pm
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Swiss glaciers lose 10% of volume in last two years
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> Switzerland's glaciers suffered their second worst melt rate
this year after record 2022 losses, shrinking their overall
volume by 10% in the last two years, monitoring body Glacier
Monitoring Switzerland said
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