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[Beebo Brink]

The Arctic just hit an unfortunate climate milestone | Grist

The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in the region: It was the rainiest summer on record, and plant life bloomed across the tundra at a near-record pace.

As the Arctic reacts to the planet-warming gases that humans have pumped into the atmosphere, the region is swiftly transforming and entering what scientists call a “new regime.” That’s one of the findings of this year’s Arctic Report Card, a document published by the U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which shows how wildfires and thawing permafrost have turned the region into a net source of carbon emissions for the first time.

 

[Free]

They've asked for it.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

A premiere: Downtown San Francisco experiences first tornado warning in recorded history.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/14/us/san-francisco-tornado-warning/index.html

 

[Govi]

It hit nearby Scotts Valley with an actual tornado (EF-1) yesterday. We were planning on going over the hill yesterday, but the weather outlook made me chicken out.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/scotts-valley-tornado-19981316.php

Tornado rips through Scotts Valley, several injured as emergency crews respond

After strong winds and rain toppled trees and caused power outages across Santa Cruz County late Friday and early Saturday, a tornado touched in Scotts Valley, demolishing vehicles, tearing down po…

www.santacruzsentinel.com

I shop at that Target, at that Safeway, at the Nob Hill store mentioned in the Santa Cruz Sentinel's story. We were at home, astounded at the ferocity of the brief hailstorm that hit us, apparently simultaneous to the tornado touching down in Scotts Valley, 4 miles away. We're used to high winds, heavy rain, but this is a new twist(er) for us.

 

[Free]

Mexico Is Getting So Hot That Even Young People Are Dropping Dead

Scientists have found that not just older adults are succumbing to dangerous temperatures driven by climate change.

futurism.com

Scientists have found that it's not just older adults succumbing to dangerous temperatures driven by climate change — even younger people may be more susceptible to extreme heat as well.

As detailed in a new study published in the journal Science Advances, researchers found that three-fourths of heat-related deaths in Mexico between 1998 and 2019 were people under the age of 35.

It's a fascinating — and perhaps foreboding — new finding that suggests it's not just the elderly who are at the highest risk of dying from heat.

 

[Beebo Brink]

New data shows insurance model doesn't work for our level of climate disasters | Canada's National Observer: Climate News

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

When evidence of climate change pops up in the most surprising of places

 

[Rose Karuna]

This is actually good news. A innovative young man who came up with a stellar idea to both provide a product made from an invasive species and also to make the product biodegradable, which it's not now.

https://www.cnn.com/world/africa/hyacinth-alien-plant-environment-plastic-spc/index.html

Water Hyacinth is a horribly invasive plant and has really become a problem in Florida: SS-AGR-380/AG385: Waterhyacinth: Florida's Worst Floating Weed

It would be great to be able to get rid of non-degradable plastics AND use an invasive plant here. I hope this really takes off.

 

[Archer]

Earth Passed 1.5C of Heating in 2024

Climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time last year, supercharging extreme weather and causing “misery to millions of people”.
The average temperature in 2024 was 1.6C above preindustrial levels

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Katheryne Helendale]

It got up to 70 here yesterday. 70! In the early middle of January!

Don't get me wrong, it felt great. But I worry about crops here that depend on freezing temperatures, and how much hotter this coming summer will be compared to last summer.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It got up to 70 here yesterday. 70! In the early middle of January!

I love how in the current climate it's not immediately clear if you're talking modern or ancient system.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A Reader of the FT (@a-reader-ft.bsky.social)

Fire and floods: the rise of climate whiplash—ransitions from very wet to very dry allow flammable vegetation to grow abundantly and then dry out. It is not so much boom-and-bust as bloom-and-combust. https://www.ft.com/content/46db85c1-595d-4d2e-be50-353573cbd4ac @financialtimes1.bsky.social...

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[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Daily Mail about what's going on at the WEF related to climate change. Normally not a source which is trustworthy, but they are revealing the full name of their source here.

According to high class escort Salome Balthus, who worked a lot during the WEF in Davos, the consensus in Davos is that climate change cannot be prevented any more.

There are 2 groups according to her, namely:

1. the one group, which thinks it only affects the poor, not-white races, while the others fear that it could get worse but there's no sense in trying to do anything about it so that they just enjoy themselves. The one half is in despair and the other, dumber half is celebrating future mass deaths.

They say in a democracy you have to sell it, to lie to people and tell them "We didn't know better and didn't think it would get this bad", not admitting they knew.

2. the other group, which thinks it might not bo easy, maybe it will also affect us due to unforeseeable chain reactions.

But they think they can't do anything against the others, so they live following the mantra "after us the deluge". They want to enjoy a few more nice years on earth and know there is no future. So they are very cynical and somehow deeply sad.

What the global elite reveal to Davos sex workers

EXCLUSIVE: Salome Balthus, 40, is a high-end escort and author from Berlin who has travelled to Davos, Switzerland, to meet up with clients during the World Economic Forum (WEF).

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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[Beebo Brink]

According to high class escort Salome Balthus, who worked a lot during the WEF in Davos, the consensus in Davos is that climate change cannot be prevented any more.

Yup. We're pretty much screwed.

 

[Free]

According to high class escort Salome Balthus

Yup. We're pretty much screwed.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I just wanted to add my add my avatar to the chain so it's even more confusing.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I just wanted to add my add my avatar to the chain so it's even more confusing.

Yesss, confusion! More Confusion!

 

[Beebo Brink]

The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun – George Tsakraklides

Our powerful, charismatic brain is not designed for long-term planning and projecting. Its impressive capacity to solve problems is at its peak only when these problems are present right here, right now. From a survival point of view, the “right here right now” is much more important than 10 years from now, or even 10 minutes from now. Since there is no point in planning for the future if you cannot survive the next 10 minutes, evolution shaped our brains to focus only on the next few minutes or hours. “Surviving for today” is by far our brain’s main priority, while long-term planning takes the back seat: those who can survive the next 10 minutes are much more likely to pass down their genes. The “right here right now” modality of our brain has been supercharged by evolution to be a dominant driver in our thinking and decision-making.