LA Times: Trump’s FCC delays multilingual emergency alerts for natural disasters, sparking concern in L.A.
#politics #emergencies #disasters #climatedisasters #climateemergency #fema
LA Times: Trump’s FCC delays multilingual emergency alerts for natural disasters, sparking concern in L.A.
#politics #emergencies #disasters #climatedisasters #climateemergency #fema
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration #NOAA announced its well-known “billion-dollar #weather and #ClimateDisasters ” database “will be retired,” a move that will make it next to impossible for the public to track the cost of #extremeweather and climate events...
#trumpadministration
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/climate/noaa-ends-disaster-database
Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters https://arstechni.ca/BUZjB #trumpadministration #climatedisasters #extremeweather #climatechange #wildfires #Science #Weather #Policy #doge #NOAA
The Guardian: Trump cuts will lead to more deaths in disasters, expert warns: ‘It is really scary’
Layoffs and funding cuts to Fema and Noaa will impact how they predict and respond to disasters, warns professor Samantha Montano
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ #climatedisasters struck world in #2024 - #UN
#Floods, #heatwaves and supercharged #hurricanes occurred in hottest #climate human society has ever experienced
#WMO's report on 2024, hottest year on record. Heatwaves in Japan left hundreds of thousands of people struck down by heatstroke. Soaring temps during heatwaves peaked at 49.9C at Carnarvon in Western Australia, 49.7C in city of Tabas in Iran, and 48.5C in nationwide heatwave in Mali.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/19/unprecedented-climate-disasters-extreme-weather-un-report
In the year preceding the devastating LA county #wildfires, big oil fiercely lobbied to kill a “polluter pay” bill that moved through the California senate and would have forced major fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of #ClimateDisasters
Report:
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WMO’s State of the Global Climate report confirmed that 2024 was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era, with a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average. This is the warmest year in the 175-year observational record.
WMO’s flagship report showed that:
Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide are at the highest levels in the last 800,000 years.
Globally each of the past ten years were individually the ten warmest years on record.
Each of the past eight years has set a new record for ocean heat content.
The 18 lowest Arctic sea-ice extents on record were all in the past 18 years.
The three lowest Antarctic ice extents were in the past three years.
The largest three-year loss of glacier mass on record occurred in the past three years.
The rate of sea level rise has doubled since satellite measurements began.
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#climate #wmo #extremeweather #climatedisasters #climateemergency
Tucson Sentinel: Utilities are shutting off power to a growing number of households
BBC: Tornadoes tear through southern US leaving dozens dead | BBC News
Crazy how there was massive flooding in Kentucky this past weekend and this is the first I've seen about it. I guess we are getting to the point where #ClimateDisasters are just day-to-day life instead of news.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/17/us/deadly-winter-storm-eastern-us
h/t @AndrewHenry
Why misinformation spreads during climate disasters, and how to stop it #misinformation #climatechange #climatedisasters
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-misinformation-climate-disasters-1.7451982
🌪️🔥💧 #ClimateDisasters 2024 saw record-shattering weather chaos: $402B in damages, with 21 insured billion-dollar events (highest ever). Severe storms ruled, fueled by U.S. growth, not just climate change. Helene ($79B) and Milton ($34B) joined China’s floods ($31B) in history’s costliest. Deadly heat, wildfires, and "weather whiplash" gripped Earth, warning of worse to come. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/01/the-planet-had-58-billion-dollar-weather-disasters-in-2024-the-second-highest-on-record.html
Gardeners spewing gasoline fumes into the air next door for leaf blowing. At least it's not the leaf blowing that was going on here when we had 50-70mph winds 😬
(Gripe: we're in a freaking climate crisis--cities burning down--and gasoline powered leaf blowers, a major source of pollution due to the inefficiency of two stroke engines, are not yet outlawed here.)
Inside Climate News: Wildfire Rebuilds Are an Opportunity to Build More Resilient and Sustainable Homes. But That Comes With Controversy https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20012025/wildfire-rebuild-opportunity-for-sustainable-homes/
#wildfires #recovery #climate #climatedisasters #climateemergency
I'm just on the vanguard. I refuse to let #ClimateDisasters be ignored for what they are and so should you, ESPECIALLY if you live in or love the place currently ON FIRE.
It gives me zero joy to say it, it just has to be said. Unfollow at will
Head's up on your next climate disaster: See Jesse Ferrell's post about an arctic outbreak which was showing ("off the charts")
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /10
This week as #LosAngeles becomes the latest city forced to evacuate as yet another climate-worsened #wildfire licks the city's edge I'll reiterate: 9 episodes in & this #BigOil championing show HASN'T EVEN ONCE mentioned #ClimateDisasters. It's not just propaganda. It's DEADLY propaganda.
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /6
Haven't had the stomach to watch last week's show yet but absent from all 8 previous #Landman episodes is any mention whatsoever of the ever-worsening #ClimateDisasters we now all face. That's what makes #JohnHamm, #BillyBobThornton & #TaylorSheridan's show actually monstrous & unforgivable.
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Today as #Malibu becomes the latest city forced to evacuate as yet another climate-worsened #wildfire licks the city's edge I'll reiterate: 9 episodes in & this #BigOil championing show HASN'T EVEN ONCE mentioned #ClimateDisasters. Not just propaganda. DEADLY propaganda. bsky.app/profile/bent...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3lfagkk3q7k27
Haven't had the stomach to watch last night's show yet but absent from all 8 previous #Landman episodes is any mention whatsoever of the ever-worsening #ClimateDisasters we now all face. That's what makes #JohnHamm, #BillyBobThornton & #TaylorSheridan's show actually monstrous & unforgivable.