WTF Climate Change News

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like

I know I know, but be careful of your analogies.

Bad faith actors will take one error and use it to ignore the the central point of an argument.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Researchers Parse the Future of Plankton in an Ever-Warmer World - Yale E360

 

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Why might people believe in human-made hurricanes? Two conspiracy theory psychologists explain (theconversation.com)

People have a fundamental need to feel safe and secure in their environment. If climate change is real, it poses an existential threat, leading some to reject it in favour of conspiracy theories that preserve their sense of safety.

Additionally, individuals desire a sense of control and agency over their environment. When faced with the uncontrollable nature of climate change, people often embrace conspiracy theories to regain that sense of control.

 

[Free]

Why might people believe in human-made hurricanes?

Doesn't explain people who believe in human-made flat earth hurricanes.

 

[Beebo Brink]

First commercial CCS plant is in Illinois. It leaks. | Grist

A row of executives from grain-processing behemoth Archer Daniels Midland watched as Verlyn Rosenberger, 88, took the podium at a Decatur City Council meeting last week. It was the first meeting since she and the rest of her central Illinois community learned of a second leak at ADM’s carbon dioxide sequestration well beneath Lake Decatur, their primary source of drinking water.

“Just because CO2 sequestration can be done doesn’t mean it should be done,” the retired elementary school teacher told the city council. “Pipes eventually leak.”

 

[Beebo Brink]

Climate change: UN report says planet to warm by 3.1 C without greater action

 

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Climate change is radically affecting our brain health

Neuroscientist turned environmental journalist Clayton Aldern reports an unreported crisis in neurological health linked to climate chang

geographical.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The problem is that the power generated by newly-built wind farms or solar plants then needs to travel through cables so people can use it, and cables on unsightly pylons are far cheaper to build and maintain than are cables buried underground.

The pylons are generally unpopular with the people whose views they spoil, which is a problem for local politicians, including the co-leader of the UK Green Party, Adrian Ramsay. It's reassuring that the 61 signatories of this letter are prepared to risk local unpopularity (possibly because they never expected to be elected in the first place, and don't expect to keep their seats in the next election) in order to ensure that wind and solar generators are, in fact, built.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol. 1896.

Evidence - NASA Science

Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of

science.nasa.gov

 

[Beebo Brink]

lol. 1896.

nope. 1856.

Female Scientist Eunice Newton Foote Warned Us About Climate Change in 1856 – NBC LX Home[/QUOTE]

Eunice Newton Foote's 1856 research foreshadowed how both climate change and women would be treated by society for decades. The first kind of, sort of, maybe global action on climate change, the Kyoto protocol, didn't come until 140 years later.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I’d been taking care of myself and the baby. Then the heat came.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Farmers sound the alarm as pantry staple crop becomes increasingly difficult to grow: 'Production is at serious risk'

Vanilla plants normally flourish under the canopy of trees in regions where crops are grown in Mexico. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the country is one of the top five producers of vanilla. But vanilla is sensitive to heat waves and drought, two extreme types of weather seen this year in Mexico.

"Vanilla production is at serious risk as a result of the effects caused by climate change," said University of Veracruz professor Alejandro Quirino Villarreal, per Modern Farmer.

 

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Climate Scientists Can't Explain These 'Hotspots' Appearing Around the World

The global average temperature is rising, but some regions are experiencing extreme heatwaves way beyond what models predicted—and scientists don't know why.

gizmodo.com

With 2024 on track to become the hottetst year on record—surpassing even the unsettling heat of 2023—some regions are having to contend with a new phenomenon that neither climate models nor climate scientists can explain.

Researchers in the U.S. and Austria have created the first world map highlighting regions repeatedly experiencing intense heat waves that greatly exceed global warming models. The map, detailed in a November 26 study published in PNAS, shows these unexplainable hotspots residing on every continent, save for Antarctica. Alarmingly, the associated heat waves have killed tens of thousands of people and destroyed environments by causing droughts and wildfires, according to a Columbia Climate School statement.

“This is about extreme trends that are the outcome of physical interactions we might not completely understand,” Kai Kornhuber of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and lead writer on the study said in the statement. “These regions become temporary hothouses.”

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Buckle up, fuckers!

 

[Beebo Brink]

Could Tenbury Wells be the first UK town centre abandoned over climate change? | Flooding | The Guardian

 

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How Climate Change Exacts a Hidden Toll on Buildings - Bloomberg

Soon after it opened in 2001 as part of a massive waterfront development on the River Clyde, Glasgow’s Science Centre became a top attraction. Queen Elizabeth opened the sleek crescent-shaped complex, which featured a titanium-clad IMAX theater and exhibits that promised to unlock the mysteries of science and the promise of emerging technologies.

But the future — in the form of a shifting climate — quickly caught up. On the Scottish city’s hottest-ever June day in 2018, the building’s stainless-steel roof started to seep black goo, as sealant intended for cooler weather liquified in temperatures that hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius).

 

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Fishing in New England Now Comes with a Catch: You Might Reel in a Prehistoric Beast - WSJ

Tarpons from Florida waters are now showing up in New England.