Viele Einsätze wegen Dauerregens - Saarland besonders betroffen
Dauerregen hat vor allem im Westen und Südwesten Deutschlands für steigende Wasserstände in Flüssen und viele Feuerwehreinsätze gesorgt. Aktuell ist vor allem das Saarland betroffen, wo der Pegel der Saar weiter ansteigen dürfte.
Well referenced article by a thinktank based in #Pakistan summarizing the mechanism for #ClimateChange derived food inflation being observed in the country.
Doesn't add anything new except the fact none of the listed issues are predictions - they are observations and cited.
#ClimateCrisis is here, and as in the Global North, farmers/gardeners can see it clearly, but the rest barely.
#ClimateDiary Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.
Last year did a post about how I wasn’t motivated by hope but by #DesperateDetermination. I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isn’t just fluffy “things will be alright”. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have “hope”. Less now, but will keep going.
@pvonhellermannn We will not turn this shit show around. We might be able to limit the extreme damage to our children’s* and grand children’s lives* but only if people undertake massive behavioural change starting now.
*I don’t have any children and I’m at a loss to understand why so many parents care much less about doing something now than I do. All parents care but not enough to significantly change their behaviours.
The busy lives bullshit excuses don’t wash with me. It’s the convenience paid for by fossil fuels that people don’t want to give up.
Sorry kids, we were too selfish to limit the huge environmental damage we knew you were going to suffer but our lives would have been massively inconvenienced at the time. #ClimateDiary
Saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, an ex-intelligence officer has told the BBC.
#ClimateDiary UK’s Nationwide Won’t Lend to Some Homes Over Flood Risk
“The UK’s second biggest mortgage provider has stopped making loans on some homes at risk of flooding, over fears they may become uninsurable — and therefore, unsellable — over the coming years.”
#ClimateCrisis percolating through everything so much already in the UK, like everywhere else - #Harvest, #Insurance and now also #Mortgages. Surely this will become really significant.
#ClimateDiary more on #UK harvest disaster this year. Particularly heartbreaking to read about struggles of an #agroecology farmer, who fears her veg box business might go bust. These are people who are trying to provide alternatives, pathways to transition - it worries me deeply that climate change is making this impossible.
Reminded again of Roger Hallam’s trajectory (founder of XR): it was his struggles as a #permaculture farmer that brought him to protest.
“State of the Cryosphere Report shows that 2°C of warming will lead to catastrophic loss of Earth’s ice sheets, mountain glaciers and snow, sea ice, and permafrost.
Advances in cryosphere science research since the 2015 Paris Agreement confirm that 1.5°C is not merely preferable to 2°C – it is the only option.”
Yet we are currently speeding towards 1.5°C like there is no tomorrow. well…
EDIT: just saw this is from Nov ‘23. Completely missed it then
#ClimateDiary I am in a very good mood this evening so somehow this is not even particularly touching me, but …
“Rising temperatures, heavier rainfall and more frequent and intense extreme weather are projected to cause $38tn (£30tn) of destruction each year by mid-century, according to the research, which is the most comprehensive analysis of its type ever undertaken, and whose findings are published in the journal Nature.”
“The hefty toll – which is far higher than previous estimates – is already locked into the world economy over the coming decades as a result of the enormous emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere through the burning of gas, oil, coal and trees.
This will inflict crippling losses on almost every country, with a
disproportionately severe impact on those least responsible for climate disruption, further worsening inequality”
#ClimateDiary Just came across this. Quite major flooding in Kazakhstan and Russia at the moment. It is frightening in itself how with more and more climate disasters everywhere, they may well cease to be news; nobody in other areas will know or care.
Somehow news of Israel’s AI use shifted me - now feel it may all really be dystopian quite soon, in many related ways at once (climate,economy, democracy, AI, military, human relations). Cheery Sunday morning thoughts!
#ClimateDiary year and 1/2 ago, chipdrop arborists used a stump grinder and chopped up a lot of iris bulbs with the tree and brought the bulbs with the drop. I planted all of them and some are flowering now… a couple months early.
And this winter was so mild, squirrels planted peanuts in the yard last fall and they survived and grew. Replanted them in the garden.
“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”
#ClimateDiary West Sumatra is the home province of my main research partner in #Sumatra (for my #PalmOil research). Just recently, we have been in touch to perhaps develop a new joint project on the palm oil sector and climate mitigation and adaptation in Sumatra. Horrible to read this now.
Dear @electrek
This part, especially, resonates with me:
"Small-scale solar accounted for 30.9% of all solar generation and provided more than 1.7% of US electricity supply last year."
Never , for a minute, disbelieve the actions of individuals, no matter how small, don't have meaningful impact.
#climateDiary
We’ve constructed a culture which venerates something we’ve made up – money – and ignores something we’re made of – carbon.
Which makes us less intelligent than frogs.
“As the temperature of the water is gradually increased, the frog will eventually become more and more active in attempts to escape the heated water. If the container size and opening allow the frog to jump out, it will do so.”
We need to be better at recognising and showing everyone that all our interests are aligned - it shouldn’t be farmers against #JustStopOil or whatever; we should all be fighting #inequality and billionaires together. #WeAreThe99Percent