If you drive in #France and suddenly see something milky on the roads, it's not a new farmers' protest. It's called "lait de chaux".
This #whitewash consisting of lime and water is a try to protect the bitumen in the roads from melting due to more and more heatwaves: https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/evenements-meteorologiques-extremes/vagues-de-chaleur-canicules/canicule-du-lait-de-chaux-repandu-sur-les-routes-pour-eviter-la-chaleur-du-bitume_7326369.html The streets are about 10 degrees cooler due to the white colour.
This week-end, we will have up to 37°C.

#climateDiary #ClimateAdaption #ClimateCrisis #white #colours #heatwave #road #roadSafety

Real-world return on climate adaption investments wildly underestimated, report finds | NEWS

This restoration project in Costa Rica was part of a country-led effort to change the dynamics of land…
#Climate #ClimateChange #Climate-Change #climateadaption #climatechange #cop30 #globalwarming
https://www.europesays.com/2169728/

#ClimateResearch, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaption are experiencing hurricane conditions in some parts of the world today (hello USA) but... play the long game. Here's a review and perspective with a touch of #LongNow thinking:

"All possible—but currently unknown—worlds in 2050, with a larger global population, unprecedented climate conditions with higher temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, sea level rise, disrupted ecosystems, changes in habitability and increased climate-induced displacement and migration, and the emergence of new geopolitical tensions, will require limiting society’s vulnerability both through mitigation measures to minimize further warming and through the implementation of innovative adaptation initiatives. The development of a skillful climate information system, based on the most advanced Earth system science, will be required to inform decision-makers and the public around the world about the local and remote impacts of climate change, and guide them in optimizing their adaptation and mitigation agendas. This information will also help manage renewable resources in a warmer world and strengthen resilience to the expected interconnected impacts of climate change. "

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2025.1554685/full

@abcfeeds this strikes me as a singularly bad attempt at #ClimateAdaption. Cows still burb methane (a potent greenhouse gas) and require an unsustainable amount of feed.

Saw this at the current exhibit at Wash U's Kemper Art Museum. The whole exhibit is about seeds and the art is lovely, but this really stunned me. The drawers are full of seeds taken from plants growing locally, which you can take.

#stl #stlouis #saintlouis #washu #art #seeds #plants #library #ClimateAdaption #solarpunk

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#LivableFuture #CircularEconomy #ClimateAdaption #LandUse #GeoData

@S4F @NFDI @BERD_NFDI @nfdi4earth @konsortswd

Dal and naan: easy, simple home-cooked lunch

As someone who works from a tiny home, lives on a tiny budget and makes an effort to limit unnecessary driving, I have a diet that relies on home cooked food, much of it purchased in bulk. It's a fairly healthy and inexpensive diet that's easy to prepare. I am not a baker, not a cook, not a foodie. And yet, dammit, my meals are tasty! Lunch today: dal and naan...

#ClimateDiary #ClimateAdaption
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2024-10-01.html

The increasing awareness and demand for more investment in #ClimateAdaption although righteous in itself, is a consequence of the utter failure and gross negligence of decision makers and governments to address #climatechange

The more they fail, the more climate adaption is needed, and the more difficult or even impossible adaption will become.

#climatecrisis

"Zuni farmers in the southwestern United States made it through long stretches of extremely low rainfall between A.D. 1200 and 1400 by embracing small-scale, decentralized irrigation systems. Farmers in Ghana coped with severe droughts from 1450 to 1650 by planting indigenous African grains, like drought-tolerant pearl millet.

Ancient practices like these are gaining new interest today. As countries face unprecedented heat waves, storms and melting glaciers, some farmers and international development organizations are reaching deep into the agricultural archives to revive these ancient solutions."

#ClimateChange #drought #agriculture #farming #archeology #ClimateAdaption

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ancient-farmers-climate-political-power.html

@Rural_Canadian
I think it’s called “distraction”.

While creating a pointless and mean #culturewar, they are also ramping up #fossilfuel #extraction, slowing #ClimateAdaption, spreading #fud, and getting otherwise wonderful people to vote for candidates they would have opposed if they were not all riled up about how someone else self-modifies.

Remember when a boy with a piercing was radical? Probably not. It was a thing.

#ClimateDiary Here the Flood Mary website, which is indeed full of good advice - and really quite interesting as a phenomenon itself (at least to me as an anthropologist 😊)

#FloodMary #Flood #Flooding #FloodResilience #ClimateAdaption

https://floodmary.com/

As UN talks collapse, the world has no plan to adapt to climate change

Rich countries are dodging responsibility for adaptation aid, infuriating leaders from vulnerable nations.

https://grist.org/international/cop28-dubai-climate-adaptation/

#cop28 #climatechange #ClimateAdaption #climateemergency

Indigenous relationality or a world of mere stuff?

Justice, culture, and relationships: Australian Indigenous prescription for planetary health - Matthews et al

"In Australia, the oldest surviving cultures have adapted their ecological knowledge over millennia and across climatic ages. However, European colonization has severely curtailed Indigenous peoples’ ability to adjust to climate change."

"Colonization, capitalism, and climate change all reflect the continued dominance of Western individualistic (“egocentric”) philosophies that place humans above and separate from their environment, commodifying and exploiting the environment for power and profits. By contrast, the collectivistic (“ecocentric”) Indigenous cultures focus on deep, holistic connections to the environment in which valuable knowledge systems have developed from careful custodianship through which ecosystems flourished over millennia."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh9949
#ColonialLegacies #extractivism #logging #degradation #Polycrisis #RestorativeJustice #Climate #ClimateAdaption #mitigation #Voice #IndigenousRelationality #IndigenousKnowledge #custodianship #environment #care

@Laplantgenetics Yes! A few weeks ago i turned on #BBCRadio4 and, by chance, there was a programme about what to do in a #Heatwave and what the #UK overall needs to do for #ClimateAdaption. Good of course but hearing BBC voices talking about this made it all so much more real; brought home that this really is it now. I found this atrangely upsetting and surreal, even after years of campaigning and asking for more media coverage.

You are interested in Earth Visualization Engines (global climate prediction and information systems)?
In Berlin there is currently the EVE Summit talking about just that.

Registration is free of charge and still open
events.mpimet.mpg.de/event/59/ there are even zoom streams available.
The program looks neat.
eve4climate.org/schedule

#HPC #climatechange #climatescience #ClimateAdaption

Please don't be disruptive ofc. This might be very technical too.

#ClimateDiary yesterday i switched on #Radio4 and this was on - a really informative and useful program on #ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves and impacts on our health; what the #UK is and isn’t doing about it, and what people can do at home.

But wow, hearing #BBC voices talking about #ClimateAdaption and #UK #HeatActionPlans really brought home that this is it now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n8q1?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

@AnnaAnthro
Reading this ⬆️ i was wondering how hot it was in #Mecca just now - I don’t really have a sense of “normal” temperatures during the #Hajj or indeed of what kind of #ClimateAdaption or #HeatActionPlans are in place for this already, but it’s made me think more about wider social, cultural impact of #ClimateChange - might events like Hajj or #Juneteenth in #Houston (where rapper #BigPokey may have died of #Heatstroke during performance) become untenable? #ClimateDiary

#ClimateDiary. In this really excellent #Zero podcast, Akshat Rathi talks with Global Chief Heat Officer Eleni Myrivili, about how cities can be made more resilient to heat, and why aircon is not a solution we can rely on.

All current 8 #ChiefHeatOfficer across the world are women, who lead #ClimateAdaption generally. “it’s women who pick up the pieces”

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zero/id1621556928?i=1000613483954

@raucisona @mongabay i finally managed to finish listening to this and really have to thank you. Fascinating to learn about the 3 pillars of #HeatActionPlan s - information, infrastructure (water bodies) and social networks - and, especially, that all current 7 #ChiefHeatOfficer s across the world are women, who lead #ClimateAdaption generally. “it’s women who pick up the pieces”
#ClimateDiary