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Deadly street protests over Iran water shortages

Khuzestan is one of the country's hottest regions, where temperatures can reach 50C.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Security forces in Iran's southwest Khuzestan province have been firing bullets at people protesting due to severe water shortages.

The shortages are happening in one of the country's hottest regions, where temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius.

 

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Although, just based on the past few months of heat domes, wild fires and flooding, that distribution isn't going to be quite as uneven as 1st world countries have assumed.

 

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Power outages cripple parts of the Middle East amid record heat waves and rising unrest

Temperatures in several Middle Eastern countries this summer have topped 122 degrees Fahrenheit — 50 degrees Celsius — including in Iran, which hit 123.8, and Iraq, which nearly matched last year’s record of 125.2. Decades of neglect and underinvestment have left power grids unable to cope. Drought has crippled hydroelectric generation. Economic crises roiling several countries mean governments are now even struggling to purchase the fuel needed to generate power.

What isn't reflected in climate change models is the social/political unrest that inevitably ensues as living conditions deteriorate.

 

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fable

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fable

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27 year-old who hasn’t woken up before 9:30am in 8 years thinks he could run farm if society crumbles

VANCOUVER - Despite never waking up with the sunrise in his entire life, local 26 year-old Jamie Pasternak believes that he could own and operate an entire farm if Canadian society collapsed into some sort of primitive anarchy.

www.thebeaverton.com

 

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My, isn't she special?

Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemption

Monarch used secretive procedure to become only person in country not bound by a green energy rule

www.theguardian.com

 

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Historic floods fuel misery, rage in Detroit

DETROIT — Repeated, disastrous storms offer a foreboding glimpse of Detroit’s new reality in a warming world: flooding intensified by high water levels on Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes, coupled with an ongoing debate over how to manage the problem.

www.eenews.net

 

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Ignoring climate change will yield 'untold suffering,' panel of 14,000 scientists warns

A few big climate policies could change everything — but we have to act fast.

www.livescience.com

Unsurprisingly, the authors of the new paper find that Earth's vitals have only deteriorated over the last two years, with 18 of the report's 31 categories showing new all-time record highs or lows, the authors wrote. Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, while glacial ice thickness is at its lowest point in 71 years of record keeping, the report found.

They referenced this possible future scenario:

Society is right on track for a global collapse, new study of infamous 1970s report finds

A steep downturn in human population and quality of life could be coming in the 2040s, the report finds.

www.livescience.com

 

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‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site

At Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border, the water line has dropped to a historic low, taking a heavy toll on the local industry

www.theguardian.com

Chaos erupted at Bill West’s business in Page, Arizona, last week when he was forced to tell dozens of paid clients their summer vacations were either canceled or on hold – effective immediately.

West, the owner of a houseboat timeshare company, was scrambling after record-low water levels at Lake Powell – one of the most popular motorized boating destinations in the US – disrupted recreational and tourism activities throughout the region.

The National Park Service abruptly announced earlier this month that houseboats could no longer use the Wahweap Launch Ramp, the busiest boat launch site in the area. Boats already cast out into the water were warned they had less than a week to return to land, or risk getting marooned.

 

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Washington Post: Scientists expected thawing wetlands in Siberia’s permafrost. What they found is ‘much more dangerous.’
A 2020 heat wave unleashed methane emissions from prehistoric limestone in two regions stretching 375 miles, study says

Scientists have long been worried about what many call “the methane bomb” — the potentially catastrophic release of methane from thawing wetlands in Siberia’s permafrost.

But now a study by three geologists says that a heat wave in 2020 has revealed a surge in methane emissions “potentially in much higher amounts” from a different source: thawing rock formations in the Arctic permafrost.

The difference is that thawing wetlands releases “microbial” methane from the decay of soil and organic matter, while thawing limestone — or carbonate rock — releases hydrocarbons and gas hydrates from reservoirs both below and within the permafrost, making it “much more dangerous” than past studies have suggested.

 

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Plastic pollution and ocean acidification reduce Antarctic krill development

Plastic pollution combined with ocean acidification hinders the development of Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean, research published today (4

www.miragenews.com

 

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A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security

Record extreme weather in the U.S., Brazil, China and elsewhere is impacting food production this year, with the future expected to be far worse. Agriculture requires “transformational change” to meet the climate crisis, say experts.

news.mongabay.com

 

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Ugh.

Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse

A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say

www.theguardian.com

 

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Climate contrarians predicted the world would cool—it didn’t

The anticlimate-science blogosphere’s trophy cabinet is bare.

arstechnica.com

 

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