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[Kalel]

you think storms are bad now... Just wait..

A Key Atlantic Current Is Weakening—But Could It Collapse Completely?

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could be at risk. But don't freak out quite yet. (About it, anyways. Climate change is still a nightmare.)

gizmodo.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Free]

Let me guess: It's the same effects as happens to any other people.

And, it's not good.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Washington Post: The Greenland ice sheet experienced a massive melting event last week
This could have short-term and long-term implications for sea-level rise.

“When ice from the ice sheet melts, the remaining ice is at lower altitudes and can therefore melt easier. Even if we stopped all emission of greenhouse gases today, the sea level would continue to rise for the next several hundreds of years,” Stendel wrote. “In other words, what happens now has a relevance for the future.”

 

[Soen Eber]

you think storms are bad now... Just wait..

A Key Atlantic Current Is Weakening—But Could It Collapse Completely?

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could be at risk. But don't freak out quite yet. (About it, anyways. Climate change is still a nightmare.)

gizmodo.com

I've read a total collapse would be pretty devastating, but the current prediction is for less than that. Western Europe would be colder and drier.

What would be the equvalent North American climate? North Dakota? Minnesota/Wisconsin? Maine? Alberta? It's surrounded by enough water that it shouldn't get that dry, but we would certainly have to say goodbye to French, German & Czech wines (although we even do have a smallish vinyard in Minnesota). I'm just making speculations without any real knowledge, other than it will be colder & dryer. I know living mid-continent U.S. we still have pretty decent agriculture despite having a Moscow type climate so it'll be a changed world, not a deathworld, at least in Europe. Taking no bets on anywhere else, though.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Climate Change Creates New Challenges for Russian Firefighters

Russia's president once declared that climate change is caused by "invisible changes in the galaxy." Now, large parts of Yakutia in Siberia are on fire. The permafrost is threatened and the government response has been inadequate.

www.spiegel.de

 

[Archer]

Here's some perspective.

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

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The California tourist town that’s running out of water: ‘It’s a shock’

Lush Mendocino draws nearly 2m visitors a year. But drought is threatening to sink its key industry

www.theguardian.com

 

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A bit of climate change history.

 

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Most of the power sector’s emissions come from a small minority of plants

Shutting down the worst 5% would cut electricity's carbon emissions by 75%.

arstechnica.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Daily dose of dread:

Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report

Group of scientists release draft IPCC report as they fear it will be watered down by governments

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

July was world’s hottest month ever recorded, US scientists confirm

Global land and ocean surface temperature last month was 0.9C hotter than 20th-century average, beating July 2016 record

www.theguardian.com

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[Beebo Brink]

A Sicilian Town Sends an Omen of a Much Hotter Future (Published 2021)

Floridia may have hit 124 degrees Fahrenheit this week, possibly the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe, offering Italy and the entire Mediterranean a preview of things to come.

www.nytimes.com

On Friday afternoon, that temperature dipped to a brisk 96 degrees. But days earlier, the unprecedented heat rendered Floridia a blindingly bright ghost town, with its bars deserted, its baroque and sand-colored churches darkened, its piazzas emptied.
In the surrounding fields, the area’s famed snails burned in their shells. The relentless sun branded the verdello green lemons with yellow blots and stewed their flesh within. Everyone holed up in their houses. The air-conditioning they blasted prompted blackouts. The digital sign outside the local pharmacy showed an unofficial temperature of 51 Celsius, or nearly 124 Fahrenheit.

 

[Beebo Brink]

As wildfires worsen, more California farms are deemed too risky to insure

Stu Smith got an email from his insurance company last summer with some bad news: His premium was more than quadrupling. Smith is the co-owner of Smith Madrone, a wine operation in the mountains near California’s Napa Valley, and he had held a wildfire insurance policy with the company for more...

grist.org

Insurance companies in California have taken a staggering blow from wildfires — the industry’s losses in 2017 and 2018 eclipsed its total profits from the previous 25 years — and have started to drop customers by the thousands, leaving wineries and ranches unable to find insurance for properties worth millions of dollars. The state has stepped in to provide a short-term fire insurance solution of last resort, but the crisis foreshadows a larger confrontation over so-called managed retreat in one of the country’s all-important breadbaskets.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Large-scale solar and windfarm investment in Australia records major drop this year

Clean Energy Council report shows the average quarterly investment in new renewable energy capacity is 70 % below 2018 levels

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

It’s now or never: Scientists warn time of reckoning has come for the planet

The IPCC is unequivocal: we must take urgent action to curb global heating and prevent catastrophe. Will our policymakers and the Cop26 conference be up to the task?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[danielravennest]

Large-scale solar and windfarm investment in Australia records major drop this year

Clean Energy Council report shows the average quarterly investment in new renewable energy capacity is 70 % below 2018 levels

www.theguardian.com

Australia has as many homes with solar panels as the US, but with a population 13 times smaller. So overall they are doing reasonably well. They just need to stop electing shithead governments.