Who holds bragging rights to being Australia's coldest town?
By Tyne Logan
Temperatures have been plummeting in large parts of the country as we are closing in on the shortest day of the year. But during the depths of winter, which town holds bragging rights as the coldest in the country?
#Weather #WeatherPhenomena #WeatherStatistics #WeatherForecasts #WeatherWarnings #ExtremeWeatherEvents #TyneLogan
NASA’s Hurricane Science, Tech, Data Help American Communities https://science.nasa.gov/earth/nasas-hurricane-science-tech-data-help-american-communities/ #NASA #Earth #ExtremeWeatherEvents #HurricanesTyphoons
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-world-wealthiest-contributed-thirds-global.html
research sheds new light on the links between income-based #emissions inequality and #climateinjustice, illustrating how the consumption and investments of wealthy individuals have had disproportionate impacts on #extremeweatherevents. These impacts are especially severe in vulnerable tropical regions like the #AmazonBasin, #SoutheastAsia, and southern #Africa—all areas that have historically contributed the least to #globalemissions.
Arkansas Tornado victims blocked from federal recovery aid after Traitor Trump denied request
MAGA Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ request denied for individual & public assistance following an outbreak of severe storms and tornadoes that also affected neighboring Mississippi & Missouri & left more than 40 people dead.
The denial follows executive orders signed by Trump as #ExtremeWeatherEvents become increasingly destructive & costly in a warming world
#ClimateCrisis https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/weather/trump-denied-disaster-aid-arkansas-tornadoes/index.html
NOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match it. The agency’s fleet of satellites, ocean buoys and sensors on airplanes provide the data that forecasters all over the country use to accurately predict weather. #Climate #NOAA #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Environment #Disasters #weather #ExtremeWeatherEvents #coup #AmericanCoup #politics #USPol
Tent safe heater instructions thanks to the 2021 Portland Heater Bloc! We keep us safe!
#MutualAid #PolarVortex #ExtremeWeatherEvents #HeaterBloc #heating #FireSafety #Unhoused
https://archive.org/details/heater-blocs-guide-to-building-a-copper-coil-alcohol-heater-2021_202203
I see.
Thought so.
So many, more frequent #ExtremeWeatherEvents every (still other?) globaly seem to be pointing in the same direction: #ClimateChange is, indeed,, still accelerating:
A powerful “bomb cyclone” will combine with an atmospheric river to unleash over a month’s worth of rain, hurricane-force wind gusts and feet of mountain snow to parts of the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. #ClimateCrisis #globalwarming #ExtremeWeatherEvents https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/weather/bomb-cyclone-atmospheric-river-california-climate/index.html
Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimates the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes, which is more than three times the emissions of the #billionaires’ private jets... This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person in the world, and 5,600 times the average of someone in the global poorest 50%.”
#climatecrisis #extremeweatherevents
#fossilfuels #Shell #profits #richpeoplesyachtmoney
Our little #Mauerbach has turned into a grown-up river, but trains are still running
#Vienna #ExtremeWeatherEvents #flooding #ClimateChange
NASA’s ECOSTRESS Maps Burn Risk Across Phoenix Streets https://www.nasa.gov/missions/ecostress/nasas-ecostress-maps-burn-risk-across-phoenix-streets/ #NASA #EcostressECOsystemSpaceborneThermalRadiometerExperimentOnSpaceStation #EarthScience #ExtremeWeatherEvents #JetPropulsionLaboratory #WeatherAndAtmosphericDynamics
While everyone is freaking out that Biden can't govern. Biden proposes new rule to protect 36 million workers from extreme heat
#VoteBideHarris2024 #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateCrisis #infrastructurepolicy https://apnews.com/article/biden-heatwave-climate-change-deaths-workplace-osha-b70273c6b266a8e3785da1f52c4d1a79
Six Killed, Five Missing After Landslide in Sikkim, 1,500 Tourists Left Stranded
After the damage from the landslide, the National Highway 10 is now blocked, thus completely isolating north Sikkim.
#sikkim #mangan #landslides #ExtremeRainfall #SikkimLandslide #NH10 #environment #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateDisasters #ClimateChange #india
NASA Announces New System to Aid Disaster Response https://science.nasa.gov/earth/natural-disasters/nasa-announces-new-system-to-aid-disaster-response/ #NASA #AmesResearchCenter #Earth #ExtremeWeatherEvents #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JetPropulsionLaboratory #JohnsonSpaceCenter #LangleyResearchCenter #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NaturalDisasters
This topic and framing has been on my mind for a long time, but the recent news story about Vermont is relevant.
Our oceans have piled up a disproportionate share of heat. It takes an unfathomable amount of energy to have bumped ocean heat as much as we have, and it's not stopping. Amazing the land hasn't long ago cooked, but, speaking metaphorically, there is starting to be no more place for all that trapped heat to go.
Meanwhile an unfathomable ocean of money has piled up from years of rewarding oil companies for the service of putting fossil fuels into play, never for a moment considering or charging for the environmental externality of climate change. No accident that. They knew the consequence. They pumped tons of money, enough to control media empires, enough to corrupt and outright buy politicians, into distracting and denying and defrauding.
Buying public image and buying politicians in this way was reasoned cheaper than what any sane person would ask if they new the truth about the naked greed, about the willingness to knowingly stoke an existential risk to humanity.
Vermont is not being extreme here, though much corrupt money will go into focus groups and A/B testing and AI bots designed to help us think so. What Vermont asks is a drop in the bucket of their wealth. Probably they, and all of us, should pro-actively take back every dime. In that light, it's hard to see Vermont as being at all extreme. They have, even now, responded modestly.
A modern equivalent of pitchforks at the castle gates, though far more poiite. The castle will fight back. It's well motivated and very well capitalized. But its ethical position is the inverse. We must remember that as we see that retaliation play out. The oil companies have no moral authority here, but will tell us they are victims and faithful public servants. That will be lies. We need to say that out loud and frequently to remind ourselves and inform others.
It's not just an issue of penalizing oil companies. There is evil here that needs punishment, but we are not doing that yet. We probably should, but such vengeance would detract and we don't have the luxury of time.
For now the key thing is this, and we must not lose focus: Money is how we set priority. We need to set the collective compass to right, recalibrating for survival.
There needs to be ZERO priority to mining oil. The vast wealth, the ocean of prioritization chits, of individual dollars, that represent represent our colective and ill-informed giving of public priority and permission need to be taken back and redirected immediately from the hucksters who knowingly misled us. A fraud was perpetrated, but that's water under the bridge. The priority and permission that this ocean of money represents must be applied as fully and immediately as possible toward the endeavor of human survival.
Even that may not be enough. But we cannot as an allegedly intelligent species indulge any tolerance of leaving them any control of society's priority if we want to survive at all.
There is no greater urgency nor higher priority.
What Vermont has done is minimal and appropriate. Responses to problems must be proportionate. To do less would not be conservative, THAT would be radical, as it would be meeting an existential threat with a shrug. The other states, the ones doing nothing, are the ones acting radically, by letting these hucksters continue to operate and profit on making the problem worse.
#climate #externality #externalities #morality #responsibility #law #FossilFuels #ExtremeWeather #priorities #economics #sustainability #ExtremeWeatherEvents #fraud #TheyKnew
Deaths Due to Heat and Rains Have Ravaged India This Week
Nearly 80 people have died according to various reports.
#ExtremeWeatherEvents #heatwave #HeatStroke #labour #cyclone #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #environment #india
https://thewire.in/environment/deaths-due-to-heat-and-rains-have-ravaged-india-this-week
Indian Ocean Headed for a Near-Permanent State of Marine Heatwave
Higher water temperatures associated with marine heat waves can cause extreme weather events such as tropical storms and cyclones and disrupt the water cycle, making floods, droughts, and wildfires on land more likely.
#environment #IndianOcean #MarineHeatwave #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeatherEvents #india
https://thewire.in/environment/indian-ocean-headed-for-a-near-permanent-state-of-marine-heatwave
"The sense of skepticism from some about the true cause of the catastrophe highlights a frustrating duality: the public readiness to blame weather tampering directly aligns with a reluctance to accept that other human activities are actively contributing to the climate crisis and ultimately extreme events like this one."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/cloud-seeding-dubai-floods
#CloudSeeding #DubaiFloods #AnthropogenicClimateChange #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateBreakdown
