Dave-a-roni @dave_roni48162

“To me, here’s the story: We are preparing for the wrong disaster almost everywhere,” said Rob Young of Western Carolina University. “These smaller changes will be a greater threat over time than the next hurricane, no question about it." wapo.st/3JYXTcp

“Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking because of water extraction and the increasing weight of their rapid expansion, researchers say. Some cities are subsiding rapidly, with one in six exceeding 10mm per year.” bbc.com/news/science-e…

Blackouts could trigger an extreme heat Katrina: A study last year estimated that if power went out in Phoenix for two days during a heat wave, 789,600 people would require emergency department care and 12,800 people would die. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells

6 days ago

“Over the last decade, severe storm outages increased by 74% compared with the previous 10 years. High winds, rains, winter storms and tropical cyclones including hurricanes, accounted for 80% of all power interruptions over the last 20 years.” theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

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We are fast approaching another environmental limit: this time it’s groundwater. According to new a study, researchers found that peak ground water withdrawal will happen around 2050 & expose nearly half of the global population to groundwater stress. nature.com/articles/s4189…

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

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Loving the cover design of the @CopernicusECMWF European State of the Climate report. Flower petals showing European annual temperatures since 1980. Designed by @annalom87. The report highlights how extreme the climate of 2023 was for Europe: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2023

Our best estimate is that 100% of the warming the world has experienced is due to human activities. Natural factors – changes in solar output and volcanoes – would have led to slight cooling over the past 50 years: carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-s…

It's finally dawning on ppl that #overshoot is driven largely by c.83m net new people on Earth each year, all naturally wanting decent lives. Prioritize addressing Population Growth and Women's Rights at the 57th Commission on Population & Development - populationmedia.org/the-latest/pri…

12 month running average surface temperature now 1.6°C above the historical baseline!

Chris Parker @HyperHydr0

a month ago

The 12 month running average surface air temperature now up to 1.57°C relative to the historical baseline (1900-1850). Reminder: this does not mean the Paris target has been exceeded however, it does mean that we are getting closer. data: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

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1️⃣Around ⅓ of all warming has happened since 2000, which doesn't seem that long to me. At that rate, by 2050, after roughly the same time, we'll reach 2°C. To avert catastrophe, we must mobilise on a wartime footing to kick our fossil fuel habit. berkeleyearth.org/global-tempera…

5️⃣It's not just about fossil fuels. Land use change and animal agriculture are a major cause of warming - and ecosystem collapse. Eating less meat would make a big difference, but Governments are ignoring this. Industrial food lobbies are too strong. x.com/sioldridge/sta…

Simon Oldridge @SiOldridge

2 weeks ago

This is serious folks. 🚨Food shortages🚨 1️⃣The UK uses 70% of its own land ✚ roughly its own land area overseas to feed its population. 2️⃣Climate change is hitting output already, both at home and abroad, and it'll worsen. 3️⃣You can feed 4 times as many people per hectare on a…

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If your reaction is: "Americans just love huge trucks," consider this: French gas tax: $2.81/gallon American gas tax: $0.184/gallon (unchanged since 1993) French vehicle: 54 MPG American vehicle: 21 MPG

Hunter📈🌈 @StatisticUrban

2 weeks ago

Best-selling vehicle in the USA vs the best-selling in France.

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What the paper says is that those damages are now locked in *regardless* of emissions pathways. The cost of net-zero is just a fraction of those damages, the authors say, but decarbonizing fast won’t eliminate that impact, just avoid *additional* costs. (2/2)

A lot of folks are sharing this harrowing estimate of the economic impacts of warming (19% reduction in global incomes by 2050, amounting to $38 trillion in annual damages) to say decarbonization would be cheaper. But that isn’t what the paper says (1/2) nature.com/articles/s4158…

Short thread on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC, which brings a huge amount of heat to the northern Atlantic. If it slows, the region west of Britain cools. And the Gulf Stream moves closer to the US coast, causing warming there. Both are already happening,…

"No-one is coming to save us. In the next few years, we’re highly likely to experience weather extremes we’ve literally never experienced before." I was interviewed by @IanJSinclair for the @M_Star_Online about the urgency of #ClimateAction. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/there-…

Is AMOC, a major Atlantic Ocean circulation system, approaching a tipping point, asks @rahmstorf "A full collapse wld be a massive, planetary-scale disaster…That IPCC only has 'medium confidence' it won't happen this century is anything but reassuring" tos.org/oceanography/a…

🚨BREAKING🚨 Election victory for Trump could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030 – new @CarbonBrief analysis 🎯US would blow past climate goals 😳would wipe out impact – twice over – from 5yrs of global clean energy growth 🥵would likely end 1.5C hopes 1/…

Climate change. The world’s biggest exporter of olive oil, Spain, has halved its production due to drought and extreme heat, increasing its price (at origin!) 112% since 2022. It’s happening to other food crops too. Olive oil today, everything else soon.

melraunch @melraunch1

3 weeks ago

Sorry but wtf is going on with the price of olive oil??

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Only 2.9% of 🌎's land remains ecologically intact. Consumption growing at 3.2% a year Resources extracted from 🌎3x faster than 1970 even though population has only doubled. EARTH AT RISK REPORT: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti… #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency