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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: NoBrakes
Date: September 28, 2023, 3:30 pm
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What's behind European glaciers' alarming melting speed? | DW
News
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> Glaciers in Central Europe have been melting faster than ever
before, reaching their highest rates of disappearance since
records began, according to a report published by the Swiss
Commission for Cryospheric Observation (SCC) of the Swiss
Academy of Sciences on Thursday. The SCC report said
Switzerland's glaciers have lost 10% of their volume in just two
years of extreme heat. The glaciers lost a record 6% of their
volume in 2022 and 4% in 2023. Up until now, years with an ice
loss of 2% were described as "extreme." According to the data in
the report, as much ice was lost in the last two years alone as
was lost in the three decades between 1960 and 1990. Consecutive
years of low winter snowfall and high summer temperatures have
led to the disintegration of glacier tongues, it added. At the
same time, many small glaciers have disappeared. Earlier this
year, an EU climate report said 2022 had the most Alpine glacier
retreat of any year.
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> What is behind the record melting rate?
> In the south and east of Switzerland, the rate of glacier
melting in 2023 almost matched the record rate from 2022. An
average ice melt of 3 meters was recorded at altitudes above
3,200 meters, far more than was recorded during the unusually
hot summer of 2003. That is an altitude at which glaciers were
in equilibrium until recently.
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> The situation has been exacerbated by low snowfall. The warm
winter at the end of 2022 into 2023 left the measuring sites
with much lower snow coverage than usual. Conditions were
slightly different at altitudes of over 1,000 meters. In the
first half of February, snow coverage was somewhat higher than
it had been in the low-snow winters of 1964, 1990 and 2007, but
this changed in the second half of the month when depths dropped
to new record lows and were around just 30% of the long-term
average. In spring, the situation briefly returned to normal.
However, the dry and very warm June caused the snow to melt two
to four weeks earlier than usual. The third warmest summer since
measurements began and temperatures at times hitting the limit
of zero degrees until September were responsible for the fact
that isolated summer snowfalls mostly melted quickly doing
little to help the glaciers.
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Comments:
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> I blame Germany for backtracking on carbon free nuclear power.
Completely unforgivable
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> And the funny part is that then, if they don't have enought
energy, they buy it from France (who uses Nuclear).
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> I blame western civilization for the industrial revolution and
the subsequent population explosion that occurred on planet
earth afterwards. I also blame western civilization for
exporting it's industrial revolution around the world via
western colonialism and forcing said industrialization down
everyone else's throats at gun point...
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: Brooklyn
Date: September 29, 2023, 12:33 pm
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Cars abandoned, towed amid serious flooding in hard-hit Brooklyn
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: Myanmar
Date: October 11, 2023, 2:40 am
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Floods displace thousands of people in Myanmar
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> (11 Oct 2023) Nearly 20,000 people have been forced to flee
homes as flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains continued to
rise in Myanmar’s southern region.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: GreenWaves
Date: October 19, 2023, 12:21 pm
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The ocean is turning green: What does this mean for the marine
ecosystem?
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> -56% of the ocean has become greener — an area larger than
Earth's total land mass, a threat to the ecosystem.
> -The increase in ocean greenness is likely due to a
combination of factors, including climate change, pollution, and
overfishing.
> -As the planet warms, we can expect to see more changes in the
ocean ecosystem, with potentially serious consequences for
marine life.
> -Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web, and their
blooms can deplete oxygen levels in the water, endangering the
marine ecosystem.
>
> More than half of the deep blue sea is turning green, but
scientists aren’t sure why.
>
> In the past two decades, 56 percent of Earth’s oceans have
become greener — an area larger than the planet’s total land
mass, according to a new study by a team of scientists from the
United States and the United Kingdom.
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> “The reason we care about this is not because we care about
the colour, but because the colour is a reflection of the
changes in the state of the ecosystem,” said lead author of the
study B. B. Cael, an ocean and climate scientist at the National
Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, as The Guardian
reported.
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Entire article:
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The Ocean’s Turning Green (That’s Bad)
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> Computer models of climate change have long predicted that the
ocean would turn green as a result of warming. But the change
can't be seen by the human eye, so scientists weren't sure how
they'd measure this effect... until it turned out NASA's
MODIS-Aqua satellite had the goods all along.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: NoVisasNeeded
Date: October 20, 2023, 12:59 pm
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STORM BABET: Cars underwater in Dundee street as more rain
forecast
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> Flooding from Storm Babet has led to properties being damaged
in Dundee, with roads closed around the city.
>
> The council has opened a rest centre for those affected by the
severe weather.
>
> Dundee City Council said: “Storm Babet is bringing incredibly
challenging conditions, particularly in the north and west of
the city. “This includes roads disruption, flood damage to
properties and fallen trees.”
>
> It continued: “Flood gates at Broughty Ferry and Riverside
have been closed due to the heavy rain and high winds. “Sepa has
issued a flood alert for Dundee and Angus. “Residents in
flood-prone areas are recommended to stock up on their own flood
prevention including sandbags or door flood stops from DIY
stores and builders’ merchants.”
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Re: EU
DIR By: England
Date: October 21, 2023, 8:39 pm
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-67157208
Man dies as Storm Babet floods sweep England
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> A man has died after being swept away by flood waters in
Shropshire, as Storm Babet wreaks havoc across England.
>
> Homes have been flooded, schools closed and motorways and
railway lines submerged as the storm batters England.
>
> An amber warning for persistent heavy rain is in place until
06:00 on Saturday. Up to 60mm of rain is likely, with the
potential for up to 120mm on higher ground, the Met Office said.
>
> People have been warned of fast-flowing or deep floodwater,
causing danger to life.
>
> The storm is causing disruption across the country
>
> In the East Midlands, heavy rain is causing disruption, with
roads blocked by flooding and fallen trees, and across the West
Midlands schools are shut and several roads are impassable.
>
> There has been flooding in parts of the east of England, with
residents in Hemsby in Norfolk nervously watching high tide.
>
> The village has been ravaged by coastal erosion and residents
fear more land could be lost, along with properties. However,
there were reports the village had avoided the worst at high
tide at 11:21.
>
> Storm Babet has already caused damage across the country,
including a beach bar being swept into the sea in Torquay,
Devon.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 25, 2023, 2:45 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXpAgVPLUbY
Of course False Left TYT is wrong again about blaming global
warming on decisions motivated by profit. People in the
pre-modern world also made decisions motivated by profit, which
however did not lead to global warming. Western civilization is
to blame for setting things up such that decisions motivated by
profit do many orders of magnitude more harm now than they used
to do for almost all of history.
Western scientists (praised by TYT) are more to blame than oil
executives for global warming. The former, not the latter,
introduced organic chemistry to the world:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg16015/#msg16015
In an alternate universe without organic chemistry, the oil
executives would have been some other type of (much less
harmful) business executive. In an alternate universe without
organic chemistry, the Western scientists would yet again
discover organic chemistry! That is how much worse Western
scientists are than oil executives!
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: Otis
Date: October 25, 2023, 12:29 pm
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Hurricane Otis unleashes a ‘nightmare scenario’ Category 5
strike on Acapulco and southern Mexico
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> Hurricane Otis unleashed a “nightmare scenario” on Acapulco in
southern Mexico Wednesday morning after the storm rapidly
intensified into a Category 5 just before landfall and gave
officials and residents little time to prepare.
>
> Otis strengthened from a tropical storm to an extremely
dangerous Category 5 hurricane in just 12 hours before it
slammed ashore near Acapulco as the strongest storm on record to
hit this area and the Pacific coast of Mexico.
>
> The sudden burst of power gave people little time to prepare
and get to safety as Otis bore down on Acapulco, a popular
tourist destination that’s also a permanent home to roughly
800,000 people.
>
> As Otis kept strengthening as it neared the coast forecasters
at the National Hurricane Center warned that a “nightmare
scenario is unfolding.”
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> “There are no hurricanes on record even close to this
intensity for this part of Mexico,” the hurricane center said
late Tuesday.
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> Studies have shown that rapid intensification of tropical
systems is happening more frequently , especially as storms
approach landfall, as as oceans warm because of human-caused
climate change.
>
> Otis’ center slammed into Mexico’s coast, near Acapulco, at
around 12:25 a.m. local time with sustained winds of 165 mph,
the National Hurricane Center said.
>
> Within hours, the storm’s maximum sustained winds had slowed
to 110 mph, the hurricane center said, with the dangerous
hurricane-force winds extending up to 30 miles from Otis’
center.
>
> The hurricane was about 60 miles north-northwest of Acapulco
as of 8 a.m., the center said.
>
> The storm is expected to rapidly weaken as it presses inland
and over southern Mexico’s higher terrain, where it will likely
dissipate Wednesday night, the hurricane center said.
>
> On Tuesday night, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
Obrador implored coastal residents of the state of Guerrero,
which includes Acapulco, to seek shelter and stay away from
rivers, streams and ravines ahead of the storm’s landfall.
>
> Wednesday morning, Guerrero Gov. Evelyn Salgado Pineda
announced temporary shelters were open in Tecpan de Galeana,
Coyuca de Benítez and Acapulco.
>
> A hurricane warning is in effect for coastal Punta Maldonado
westward to Zihuatanejo.
>
> The winds near Otis’ core are “extremely destructive,” the
hurricane center cautioned early Wednesday. Upper floors of
high-rise buildings are at greater risk of severe winds than
those closer to ground level, the center said.
>
> Otis is also forecast to create storm surge that will likely
whip up “large and destructive waves” and life-threatening
coastal flooding around the area where it made landfall.
>
> Additionally, between 8 to 16 inches of rain totals are
expected through the end of the week, with some areas seeing up
to 20 inches of rain. The heavy rainfall could lead to flash and
urban flooding as well as mudslides in higher terrain areas, the
hurricane center warned.
>
> Otis had been rapidly intensifying throughout Tuesday, gaining
90 mph in a 12-hour period. It became the fastest intensifying
hurricane over a 12-hour period in Eastern Pacific history,
according to Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist in the
atmospheric science department at Colorado State University.
>
> For context, rapid intensification for hurricanes means the
storm’s maximum sustained winds increased by at least 35 mph in
24 hours or less. Otis more than tripled this definition when it
gained roughly 115 mph in 24 hours from early Tuesday to early
Wednesday.
>
> Otis tops strength of 2015 record-setter
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> Before Otis, there had not been a Category 5 landfall for the
East Pacific, according to the NOAA Hurricane Database. The
previous strongest landfall was Hurricane Patricia in 2015,
which made landfall as a Category 4 Hurricane with winds of 150
mph.
>
> Unlike Otis, which has made landfall close to a major urban
area, Patricia plowed through a sparsely populated and
mountainous stretch of the coast, sparing Puerto Vallarta and
Manzanillo.
>
> And while Patricia hit the coast as a Category 4 storm, it
quickly degenerated and left a narrow path of severe damage it
its wake, according to the National Hurricane Center. Two deaths
were reported as a direct result of the storm, the center said.
>
> CNN Meteorologists Taylor Ward, CNN’s Karol Suarez in Mexico
City and CNN’s Duarte Mendonca in London contributed to this
report.
>
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: earth
Date: October 25, 2023, 6:42 pm
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My body and the earth are one, they harm and the earth gets
harmed
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: england
Date: October 29, 2023, 1:48 am
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HTML https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-heavy-rain-to-risk-flooding-in-part-of-uk-already-hit-by-storm-babet-12994607
UK weather: Heavy rain to sweep across country - risking further
flooding in Storm Babet-hit areas
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> The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for the
eastern coast of Scotland, South East England, and Northern
Ireland, with heavy rain expected.
>
> A flood warning has been issued in Tewkesbury,
Gloucestershire, where high water levels could be seen around
Tewkesbury Abbey and vehicles have been left stranded in a
flooded car park in the town.
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> There are also 39 tidal and river flooding warnings in place,
including several in East Sussex and Kent.
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