"L'Alsace a été l'une des régions les plus chaudes d'Europe ce jeudi avec 29,6° C à Strasbourg et 29,7° C à Colmar : villes les plus chaudes d'Europe en ce 1er mai 2025 !"
Yesterday, our region was one of the hottest in Europe. Today we have a typical August day with possible thunderstorms tomorrow, which will then switch back the temperatures to normal.
#Alsace #Colmar #Strasbourg #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisisIsNow
Within transport, cars are by far the highest source of emissions, as ScotGov it's self admits
https://www.transport.gov.scot/our-approach/environment/20-reduction-in-car-km-by-2030/
However, due to an abject failure of Leadership, ScotGov has abandoned it's own targets...
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/coral-reef-bleaching-worst-global-event-on-record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reef scape, one conservationist says
How petrostates succeeded in watering down the world’s plan to cut shipping emissions
https://theconversation.com/how-petrostates-succeeded-in-watering-down-the-worlds-plan-to-cut-shipping-emissions-254638
@cdarwin Excellent! How about we stop drilling for oil altogether? #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCrisisIsNow
I do actually worry about bananas, but anything with dates even as high as 2050, much less 2080, seem like either risks safely far away (unlikely, but possible) or overly optimistic timelines.
I'm not making light of the Climate threat. Rather, I'm saying all of humanity is in imminent peril of deadly famines and the resource wars that will accompany them, long before such far-off dates. Just to name only one of many nearer-term risks.
People seem to think that the big Climate risks are first-order ones like drowning due to rising seas or heat so high people can't in any way survive. But not everything we depend on is as robust as we are, so if our primary food supply dies (just for example), it won't really matter that our air conditioners still work or that a few bananas still grow somewhere. We will have killed each other in bloody uprisings long before.
It's the second- and third-order effects of climate, the domino effects of seemingly small things, that we should be tracking better. For example, if a country exporting bananas in exchange for other foods finds no one offering those other foods for trade, yes, we're short bananas, but what will those countries do that have an excess of bananas and a paucity of other needed goods. It won't take much before borders start to tighten up.
And then on top of it, we see the felon creating both tariff policy and international bad will that causes people to think about closing down trade for other reasons, hastening a problem that was maybe going to come. That won't make things better. It could just force a crisis even sooner.
But the idea that we'll be able to survive with global society intact doing what we're doing now in the world for another 50+ years until there's a banana crisis just does not pass the laugh test with me.
#climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisisIsNow
A striking new visualization looks like a flower in bloom but tells an alarming story about what’s happening to the warming planet. #ClimateCrisisIsNow
https://www.yahoo.com/news/striking-visualization-looks-flower-bloom-113000099.html
Where Hollywood — and the Oscars — still miss the mark on climate representation
https://grist.org/looking-forward/where-hollywood-and-the-oscars-still-miss-the-mark-on-climate-representation/
Climate themes have long been the purview of sci-fi and fantasy films. Advocates say we need more representation in realism as well.
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisisIsNow
#ClimateCrisis
#climatecrisis_ignorant
US has exited climate deal that helps developing nations switch to green energy, South Africa says
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/03/07/us-has-exited-climate-deal-that-helps-developing-nations-switch-to-green-energy-south-afri
The initiative is intended to help emerging economies move away from coal and other non-renewable energy sources.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisisIsNow #ClimateCrisis #climatecrisis_ignorant
UK plans to adapt to climate crisis ‘fall far short’ of what is required
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/uk-climate-crisis-plans-fall-far-short-of-what-is-required-ccc-says
Government has no credible plan for effects of extreme weather, says Committee on Climate Change
I have seen no credible planning since I did my research degree on the potential effects of climate change 20 years ago... Just heads in the sand!! 😱
EU carmakers to be allowed to break CO2 limits for two years
https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/eu-carmakers-to-be-allowed-to-break-co2-limits-for-two-years/
A leaked document obtained by Euractiv confirms that Ursula von der Leyen is moving to shield polluting carmakers in the EU from fines this year.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climatecrisis_is_now #ClimateCrisisIsNow
Attribution Science: Linking Climate Change to Extreme Weather
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/10/04/attribution-science-linking-climate-change-to-extreme-weather/
No amount of head in the sand policy is going to make this problem disappear...
BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3374ekd11po
Climate emergency anyone?
South Sudan closes schools after students collapse due to extreme heat
https://www.africanews.com/2025/02/21/south-sudan-closes-schools-after-students-collapse-due-to-extreme-heat/
'Dangerous climate breakdown' warning as hottest January on record shocks scientists
https://news.sky.com/story/dangerous-climate-breakdown-warning-as-hottest-january-on-record-shocks-scientists-13303929
Temperatures last month were 0.1C above the record set in January 2024. And it comes after a year in which temperatures topped 1.5C, the target for climate negotiations, for the first time.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisisIsNow #ClimateCrisis #DontLookUp
Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/temperatures-at-north-pole-20c-above-average-and-beyond-ice-melting-point
Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole.
Senior Labour figures are warning of a serious fight if Keir Starmer tries to give the go-ahead to a giant new oilfield off Shetland later this year.
Yeah right…. I will believe it when they act…
Catastrophic tipping point in Greenland reached as crystal blue lakes turn brown, belch out carbon dioxide
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/catastrophic-tipping-point-in-greenland-reached-as-crystal-blue-lakes-turn-brown-belch-out-carbon-dioxide
Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide.
Original paper here https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413855122
Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/temperatures-rising-nasa-confirms-2024-warmest-year-on-record/
Hello, hello, is anyone listening...?
Surge in potent form of climate pollution at oil site https://theferret.scot/surge-form-climate-pollution-shetland-oil-site/
The Sullom Voe oil terminal on the island released 422 tonnes of methane in 2023, more than it has in any year since 2015, analysis of figures from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) shows. In 2022 the site emitted 226 tonnes of the gas.
