Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

[Raffy.Roma]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1760951423028584896

The trend is clear: the planet is warming.
The first days of February 2024 have proven to be the hottest on record since 1940.

Get ready for a new hottest February month on record.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1761428774602567749

Also the ESA Earth Observation Department is worried for the trend of the Global Temperature Deviation at the beginning of February.
Our planet keeps breaking records and is warming!
This situation is really WORRISOME, so don't look up this post.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1761607468289798360

France bans short haul domestic flights. This is a great initiative we need other countries to follow.

Plane flights enter in the calculation of the Carbon Footprint. Let's fly only if it is strictly necessary and lower this way the Carbon Footprint of everybody.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a row

The extent of ice floating around the continent has contracted to below 2m sq km for three years in a row, indicating an ‘abrupt critical transition’

www.theguardian.com

For the third year in a row, sea ice coverage around Antarctica has dropped below 2m sq km – a threshold which before 2022 had not been breached since satellite measurements started in 1979.

The latest data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center confirms the past three years have been the three lowest on record for the amount of sea ice floating around the continent.

Scientists said another exceptionally low year was further evidence of a “regime shift”, with new research indicating the continent’s sea ice has undergone an “abrupt critical transition”.

Antarctica’s sea ice reaches its lowest extent at the height of the continent’s summer in February each year.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

Earth’s ‘vital signs’ worse than at any time in human history, scientists warn

Life on planet is in peril, say climate experts, as they call for a rapid and just transition to a sustainable future

www.theguardian.com

Life on planet is in peril, say climate experts, as they call for a rapid and just transition to a sustainable future.

Earth’s “vital signs” are worse than at any time in human history, an international team of scientists has warned, meaning life on the planet is in peril.

Their report found that 20 of the 35 planetary vital signs they use to track the climate crisis are at record extremes. As well as greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature and sea level rise, the indicators also include human and livestock population numbers.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

Climate Trial Against Oil Giant Eni Opens in Italy

The opening of Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni, alleging the company contributed to global warming, coincides with a new report by Greenpeace Italy, that shows Eni’s technical consultants in the...

www.desmog.com

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming.

The hearing comes alongside a new report by Greenpeace Italy and ReCommon, which describes how Eni’s technical consultants in the case have deep ties to the fossil fuel industry and climate deniers.

The lawsuit "aims to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030,” as DeSmog has previously reported.

So it looks like also here in Italy we are doing efforts to cut carbon emissions. Let's get rid of fossil fuels as soon as possible.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/25/climate/mexico-city-water-crisis-climate-intl/index.html

 

[Raffy.Roma]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/25/climate/mexico-city-water-crisis-climate-intl/index.html

Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert

Water scarcity threatening agriculture faster than expected, warns Cop15 desertification president

www.theguardian.com

The world is likely to face major disruption to food supplies well before temperatures rise by the 1.5C target, the president of the UN’s desertification conference has warned, as the impacts of the climate crisis combine with water scarcity and poor farming practices to threaten global agriculture.

 

[mspohr]

‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming

Biodiversity campaigner Isabella Tree says wild areas work ‘hand in glove’ with food production as her Sussex estate boasts return of endangered species

www.theguardian.com

Exquisite illustrations by the printmaker and fine artist Angela Harding reveal how, step-by-step, wilderness and wildlife then returned to Knepp. “Nature bounces back, if you let it, wherever it can.”Some of the rarest creatures in Britain have now made Knepp their home, including kingfishers, hazel dormice, scarce chaser dragonflies and purple emperor butterflies. The river has returned to its natural course and the soil is now storing as much carbon per hectare as a 25-year-old plantation of trees does, according to recent tests.That’s really exciting, because rewilding has been seen as fantastic for wildlife and recovering biodiversity, but people say it doesn’t answer the problem of climate change. We can say now, categorically, it does. That, actually, you can restore your soils by allowing an area to rewild – and just the soils alone will be the same as a carbon storage in a plantation.”This comparison is important, Tree says, because putting trees in the ground with a spade is not good for biodiversity. “What you’re creating as a single generational plantation with standing trees is a closed canopy woodland, which is very species poor.” By contrast, Knepp has wetland, scrubland, mature trees and deadwood, as well as mycorrhizal fungi and root systems under the ground. “All of that is way more significant for storing carbon than just planting trees.”Surrounding agricultural land with wild land is the only sustainable way forward. “Rewilding works hand in glove with food production. We can have both,” she says. “We’ve got the space for both.”

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/25/climate/mexico-city-water-crisis-climate-intl/index.html

Apparently, water supply is being redirected to the wealthier enclaves. Some are not getting water for months and are being forced to pay for running water (which is not happening) still.

The city has 20M+ residents.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1758534572554211451

Satellites from NASA show a very large increase in absorbed sunlight over the combined North Pacific, North America and North Atlantic region.

This is a consequence of the increasing Energy Imbalance and the decreasing ALBEDO caused by the GHE.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals

Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents

www.theguardian.com

The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which is 20% more than was previously thought.

Some scientists are concerned that this additional source of freshwater pouring into the north Atlantic might mean a collapse of the ocean currents called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is closer to being triggered, with severe consequences for humanity.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant

Plus Power’s Kapolei battery is officially online. The pioneering project is a leading example of how to shift crucial grid functions from fossil-fueled plants to clean energy.

www.canarymedia.com

Hawaii shut down its last coal plant on September 1, 2022, eliminating 180 megawatts of fossil-fueled baseload power from the grid on Oahu — a crucial step in the state’s first-in-the-nation commitment to cease burning fossil fuels for electricity by 2045.

This is the way to go. Let's get rid of fossil fuels as soon as possible.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1762133406555730205

Global sea surface temperatures are once again in record territory, yesterday at 21.11°C, a temperature not seen in any year prior to 2024.

In the reported graph the red line stands for the sea surface temperatures in 2024, while the yellow line is the behavior of the sea surface temperatures in 2023. So you can also have a visual representation of the worsening of the sea surface temperatures.
The graph is worrisome, so please don't look it up.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1762156592672182498

Time is running out. Scientists are telling us that we are in a last decade of action. What we do or fail to do in the next 8 to 10 years to cut our fossil fuel emissions in a half will determine how much of a livable future we will have. So this is the time for a bold action before it's too late to cut our fossil fuel emissions.

Actor and Climate Activist Jane Fonda

 

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Central Texas city to run out of water by 2030, report says
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/georgetown-utilities-18688883.php

 

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Climate change is throwing the water cycle into chaos across the U.S.

As the planet continues to warm, this cycle is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken.

www.nbcnews.com

We have too much/too fast water in the SW, need more options to store them. This is fresh water, so maybe we need to pump it up the mountain and flow down to the Salton Sea.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

Study: From NYC to D.C. and beyond, cities on the East Coast are sinking

Population centers are seeing areas of rapid “subsidence” alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing the risk to roadways, runways, building foundations, rail lines, and pipelines, according to the research.

news.vt.edu

A large area of the East Coast of the USA is sinking at least 2 mm per year, with several areas along the mid-Atlantic coast of up to 3,700 square kilometers, or more than 1,400 square miles, sinking more than 5 mm per year, more than the current 4 mm per year global rate of sea level rise.

So the combined effect of the East Coast Sinking plus the sea level rise caused by the Global Warming issue is responsible of 6 to 9 mm per year of the East Coast disappearing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1762207717735760324

NASA confirms that for many parts of the U.S. East Coast, rising sea levels combined with sinking land are impacting coastal infrastructure, farmland, and wetlands.
As we know the rising of sea levels is caused by Anthropogenic Global Warming. But also the land sinking, called subsidence, is from natural and human changes, like groundwater pumping.

 

[mspohr]

Capitalism doesn't work. It got us into this mess, it can't get us out.

We are taking a devastating risk with the green energy sector – one that might cost us our future | Brett Christophers

Relying on private companies to solve the climate crisis means that the planet’s fate rests in the hands of asset managers, says Brett Christophers, a professor at Sweden’s Uppsala University

www.theguardian.com

We are living through perhaps the biggest and most important policy experiment in human history, without even being aware of it: we have been relying primarily on the private sector to put an end to the climate crisis. But this experiment increasingly looks like a mistake, and one that may cost us our planetary future.

Generally speaking, governments – again, putting China notably aside – have placed responsibility for “solving” the climate crisis squarely on the private sector.

But across the west, let alone parts of the world where governments face far more severe fiscal constraints, the prospect of major public-sector investment in solar and wind power seems politically far-fetched, to say the least. Even relatively modest investments tend to fall foul of heightened concerns about government borrowing and spending. Meanwhile, the idea of forcing private firms to do anything flies against everything governments of our neoliberal age believe. And so we are left to hope that the private sector, nudged by suitable government incentives, will eventually shape up and deliver.

 

[ggies07]

Capitalism doesn't work. It got us into this mess, it can't get us out.

We are taking a devastating risk with the green energy sector – one that might cost us our future | Brett Christophers

Relying on private companies to solve the climate crisis means that the planet’s fate rests in the hands of asset managers, says Brett Christophers, a professor at Sweden’s Uppsala University

www.theguardian.com

We are living through perhaps the biggest and most important policy experiment in human history, without even being aware of it: we have been relying primarily on the private sector to put an end to the climate crisis. But this experiment increasingly looks like a mistake, and one that may cost us our planetary future.

Generally speaking, governments – again, putting China notably aside – have placed responsibility for “solving” the climate crisis squarely on the private sector.

But across the west, let alone parts of the world where governments face far more severe fiscal constraints, the prospect of major public-sector investment in solar and wind power seems politically far-fetched, to say the least. Even relatively modest investments tend to fall foul of heightened concerns about government borrowing and spending. Meanwhile, the idea of forcing private firms to do anything flies against everything governments of our neoliberal age believe. And so we are left to hope that the private sector, nudged by suitable government incentives, will eventually shape up and deliver.

I read this book when it came out in 2015 and it really opened my eyes:

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

 

[mspohr]

I read this book when it came out in 2015 and really opened my eyes:

Amazon.com

Yes, Naomi Klein is a talented and insightful writer.