WTF Climate Change News

[Beebo Brink]

‘All that’s needed is a spark’: why the US may be headed for a summer of mega-fire

An explosive spring season has already burned more land than the 10-year average, with summers only expected to intensify

www.theguardian.com

Snow at one of world’s highest observatories melting earlier than ever before

Peak at Sonnblick in Austrian Alps has melted more than a month before previous record time

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

As flood waters recede, disaster weary Windsor residents confront the remnants of lives upturned again

For the fourth time in under two years, locals are cleaning up the grim reality of another crisis. Most agree the latest flood was the worst one yet

www.theguardian.com

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

As flood waters recede, disaster weary Windsor residents confront the remnants of lives upturned again

For the fourth time in under two years, locals are cleaning up the grim reality of another crisis. Most agree the latest flood was the worst one yet

www.theguardian.com

The news about flooding reminds me of when I was at a tour of the Everglades earlier this year. The guide admitted sea levels were obviously rising but insisted it wasn't as much as people say.... it was as if to say he knew it was real, but still wanted to minimize it due to politics.

 

[Beebo Brink]

"Faster than previously thought...."

Where have I heard that before?

Rate of Arctic warming faster than previously thought

The Arctic is now heating up around four times as fast as the rest of the globe, according to several recent studies. Past research has suggested the rate

www.eenews.net

 

[Govi]

"Faster than previously thought...."

Where have I heard that before?

Rate of Arctic warming faster than previously thought

The Arctic is now heating up around four times as fast as the rest of the globe, according to several recent studies. Past research has suggested the rate

www.eenews.net

Perhaps from Dante's Inferno: "Più veloce di quanto si pensasse..."*

*Not a real quote, just a translation

 

[Beebo Brink]

More squandering of resources trying to shore up land that will be swept away, over and over again, more trying to maintain a status quo that is headed for oblivion. Let's hope there are still some resources left over when everyone has to be re-settled on the mainland.

Shifting Sands: Carolina's Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future

Despite the risks of building on barrier islands, developers kept constructing homes on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Now, as sea level rises and storms become more frequent and powerful, the famed vacation spot is fighting an increasingly difficult battle to keep from washing away.

e360.yale.edu

 

[Beebo Brink]

Solution or Band-Aid? Carbon Capture Projects Are Moving Ahead

Long discussed but rarely used, carbon capture and storage projects — which bury waste CO2 underground — are on the rise globally. Some scientists see the technology as a necessary tool in reducing emissions, but others say it simply perpetuates the burning of fossil fuels.

e360.yale.edu

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

More squandering of resources trying to shore up land that will be swept away, over and over again, more trying to maintain a status quo that is headed for oblivion. Let's hope there are still some resources left over when everyone has to be re-settled on the mainland.

Shifting Sands: Carolina's Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future

Despite the risks of building on barrier islands, developers kept constructing homes on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Now, as sea level rises and storms become more frequent and powerful, the famed vacation spot is fighting an increasingly difficult battle to keep from washing away.

e360.yale.edu

Meanwhile, our city is trying to add in more barrier island and places to help the environment locally. And the Fort that's across in Pensacola Beach has some excellent displays explaining the purpose of barrier islands, and with a fair bit of environmental stuff, as well as the historical stuff.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Texas is suffering an unprecendented heat wave - again. It's so hot, that Tesla asked car owners not to charge their EVs betweem 3 and 8 pm.

Furthermore the biggest bitcoin mining companies in Texas stopped mining, which freed up 1000MWh of capacity. Since China banned crypto mining, many miners moved from there to Texas.

The heat wave is expected to get worse over time, and to last for several weeks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/14/texas-oklahoma-heat-wave-plains/

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The world's oldest tree, a great basin bristlecone pine named Muthesaleh and 4500 years old, died due to climate change.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/14/these-trees-have-survived-1000-years-can-they-survive-climate-change/

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

This both scares me and infuriates me.

Scares me in part because I do not handle heat well at all.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Thousands evacuated as wildfires sweep across western Europe

People ordered to leave homes in France and on Costa del Sol while Portugal says heatwave has killed 238 so far

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

ETA : The source apparently lacks credibility, as Bartholomew details below.
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This is the most frightening article yet that I've read about climate change/human's impact on the environment. And that's saying quite a lot, considering the news that I've posted over the years.

Not sure whether this has been corroborated and whether it's valid, but the basic patterns it discusses are certainly nothing new. Acidic ocean water dissolves plankton and diatoms, we already know that. Even before reading this article, it really wasn't a matter of "if this happens", so much as "when this happens." And if the answer is "sooner than expected", well... yeah.

Our empty oceans: Scots team’s research reveals loss of plankton in equatorial Atlantic provoking fears of potentially catastrophic loss of life

An Edinburgh-based research team fears plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in our seas, has all but been wiped out after spending two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic.

www.sundaypost.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Tirellia]

I live about 30 miles from Brize Norton and can confirm, hotter than Satan's bumhole today.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

This is the most frightening article yet that I've read about climate change/human's impact on the environment. And that's saying quite a lot, considering the news that I've posted over the years.

Not sure whether this has been corroborated and whether it's valid, but the basic patterns it discusses are certainly nothing new. Acidic ocean water dissolves plankton and diatoms, we already know that. Even before reading this article, it really wasn't a matter of "if this happens", so much as "when this happens." And if the answer is "sooner than expected", well... yeah.

Our empty oceans: Scots team’s research reveals loss of plankton in equatorial Atlantic provoking fears of potentially catastrophic loss of life

An Edinburgh-based research team fears plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in our seas, has all but been wiped out after spending two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic.

www.sundaypost.com

Actually... no. The original article and linked study is bullshit.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Actually... no. The original article and linked study is bullshit.

Thanks for that info and the debunking.

One of these days it probably will be true, but good to know we aren't there yet.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Why did Sky News' coverage of the heat wave feature this live feed of...just the Sun, up in the sky? Were they hoping to see it do a trick or something?