WTF Climate Change News

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

What part of "Death" do these guys not get?

Obviously the "Death" part. I keep saying that line from Aliens: "Did IQ's drop while I was away."

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Don’t Look Up was once again an underestimation. People are looking up and doing the Lieutenant Dan in the storm scene from Forrest Gump.

 

[Free]

Now that they can no longer deny it, they've become tree huggers.

House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees as they move away from climate change denial

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Olive oil industry in crisis as Europe’s heatwave threatens another harvest | Food & drink industry | The Guardian

Well, bad news for Jamie Olive Oil then...

 

[WolfEyes]

The snow crab are missing. Can a remote Alaskan village survive? | Grist

Some 330 people, most of them Indigenous, live in the village of St. Paul, about 800 miles west of Anchorage, where the local economy depends almost entirely on the commercial snow crab business. Over the last few years, 10 billion snow crabs have unexpectedly vanished from the Bering Sea. I was traveling there to find out what the villagers might do next.

The arc of St. Paul’s recent story has become a familiar one — so familiar, in fact, I couldn’t blame you if you missed it. Alaska news is full of climate elegies now — every one linked to wrenching changes caused by burning fossil fuels. I grew up in Alaska, as my parents did before me, and I’ve been writing about the state’s culture for more than 20 years. Some Alaskans’ connections go far deeper than mine. Alaska Native people have inhabited this place for more than 10,000 years.

As I’ve reported in Indigenous communities, people remind me that my sense of history is short and that the natural world moves in cycles. People in Alaska have always had to adapt.

Even so, in the last few years, I’ve seen disruptions to economies and food systems, as well as fires, floods, landslides, storms, coastal erosion, and changes to river ice — all escalating at a pace that’s hard to process. Increasingly, my stories veer from science and economics into the fundamental ability of Alaskans to keep living in rural places.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Long-lost Greenland ice core suggests potential for disastrous sea level rise | CNN

A recently discovered ice core taken from beneath Greenland’s ice sheet decades ago has revealed that a large part of the country was ice-free around 400,000 years ago, when temperatures were similar to those the world is approaching now, according to a new report – an alarming finding that could have disastrous implications for sea level rise.

The study overturns previous assumptions that most of Greenland’s ice sheet has been frozen for millions of years, the authors said. Instead, moderate, natural warming led to large-scale melting and sea level rise of more than 1.4 meters (4.6 feet), according to the report published Thursday in the journal Science.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Spoiler: 2014

Spoiler: Now

People. Are. Crazy.

Tourists flock to Death Valley to experience possible world record hot temperature

Speed run: Man featured in LA Times story dies in Death Valley amid 121-degree heat

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Phoenix sweltered from heat that will break record for US cities | AP News

What's better than one big city melting in the middle of the desert? Another city in the middle of the desert in the size of Phoenix, Arizona!

Meet: Telosa! A project of Marc Lore, founder of Wonder Group, owner of the NBA.

Telosa | City of the Future

Every great human achievement throughout history has been a result of an individual or group unified by and dedicated to a clear purpose. Telosa will be unified by its founding purpose, to create a more equitable and sustainable future.

cityoftelosa.com

And here's some video burning it.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Former meteorologist begins naming US heatwaves after oil firms

Don't get me wrong I don't think this is particularly useful "action", and I don't expect it to catch on, but I'm also 100% down with it. Heatwave Chevron it is from now on.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Olive oil industry in crisis as Europe’s heatwave threatens another harvest | Food & drink industry | The Guardian

Time to buy a ton of olive oil and sell it on ebay a year from now.

 

[Beebo Brink]

World's biggest permafrost crater in Russia’s Far East thaws as planet warms | Reuters

"We locals call it 'the cave-in,'" local resident and crater explorer Erel Struchkov told Reuters as he stood on the crater's rim. "It developed in the 1970s, first as a ravine. Then by thawing in the heat of sunny days, it started to expand."

Scientists say Russia is warming at least 2.5 times faster than the rest of the world, melting the long-frozen tundra that covers about 65% of the country's landmass and releasing greenhouse gases stored in the thawed soil.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I've taken to saying to any climate denial, "You will die like a dog with the rest of us." and leave them twisting in the wind, flailing for my further engagement.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I'm in the middle of this book:
‘The Heat Will Kill You First’ is a chilling book — and a warning | Grist

Which is a good comparnion to this video:

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I've taken to saying to any climate denial, "You will die like a dog with the rest of us." and leave them twisting in the wind, flailing for my further engagement.

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Why aren’t we more scared of the climate crisis? It’s complicated | Climate crisis | The Guardian

In many cases, these events have caused irreparable damage and trauma to those directly affected, and can certainly feel like they’re encroaching on those people on the periphery. And yet despite the fact that we’re living through a climate disaster, most Americans aren’t cowering in fear every day about the future of our planet. There’s a psychological reason for that.

 

[Free]

Why aren’t we more scared of the climate crisis? It’s complicated | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Frog boiling is a hell of a drug.

 

[Sid]

Time to buy a ton of olive oil and sell it on ebay a year from now.

And while you're at it, buy a lot of wheat too. Prices will skyrocket soon again. Next round of inflation, here we come.

 

[Soen Eber]

While I take global warming seriously, I feel mostly safe in Minneapolis. No serious flooding, forests are well managed and not out of control, no risk of mud slides, and we'll develop a climate mostly like Omaha. Not my idea, but it's survivable.

 

[Sid]

Why aren’t we more scared of the climate crisis? It’s complicated | Climate crisis | The Guardian

People dance on the vulcano.
The others have to fix it (mainly), if..... it is fixable at all (we know so little about the mechanics behind climate changes during eaths lifetime).