Climate Extremes as the Norm

"In the absence of effective global climate mitigation actions, we may thus witness a qualitative regime shift from a world dominated by individual climate-related hazards and impacts to one where compound occurrences become the norm."
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Messori, G., Muheki, D., Batibeniz, F., Bevacqua, E., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., & Thiery, W. (2025). Global mapping of concurrent hazards and impacts associated with climate extremes under climate change. Earth's Future, 13, e2025EF006325. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF006325
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF006325
#Fossilfuels #impacts #CompoundHazards #ClimateExtremes #RegimeShift #bushfires #ExtremeHeat #floods #droughts #CropFailures #climate #hypernormalisation

"Crops will fail," I've said,
wishing it's me who's crazy,
and not the whole world.

I should ditch the future tense,
now that such tense truth presents.

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #SmallPoem #ShortPoem #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #collapse #food #FoodInsecuity #FoodSecurity #CropFailures #crops

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/11/as-england-suffers-one-of-its-worst-ever-harvests-ever-what-could-disappear-from-shop-shel

Humans have A/C
To ease stress in deadly heat.
Food crops sadly don't.

#haiku #senryu #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #heat #ExtremeHeat #AirConditioning #famine #collapse #CropFailures #FoodSecurity

“While the planet has warmed 1.2 degrees since the 19th century, when humans first started burning #FossilFuels at an industrial scale, Canada has warmed at twice that rate, and the Arctic at four times. ..An Earth that’s two degrees hotter translates to a #Canada at least four degrees hotter, on average. .“A hot, dry summer ..in the Canadian context that means forest fires, that means #CropFailures, that means urban #droughts .”

[1977] #WhiteHouseMemo
“A rapid #ClimateChange may result in large scale #CropFailures at a time when an increased world population taxes agriculture to the limits of productivity.” [9/16]
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/14/1977-us-presidential-memo-predicted-climate-change

It seems that many people misheard the news about the ban on exportation of non-basmati from India. They are panic-buying Basmati too. #climatecrisis #foodsecurity #inflation #cropfailures

Cereal crops decimated by Europe's heatwave

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/cereal-crops-decimated-by-europes-heatwave/681361.article

The 2023 European cereal harvest is set to be its lowest since 2007 – at 256 million tonnes, some 9.5% lower than the five-year average of 283 million tonnes, European farming organization Copa Cogeca said this week.

Harvests in Portugal, Spain and Italy, where temperatures have regularly topped 40°C in July, are expected to be hardest hit by the heatwave.

#cropfailures #gettingworse #climatecrisis #foodchaincollapse #governmentinaction #bribery #starvation #climatedisplacement

Rampant #heatwaves threaten #FoodSecurity of entire planet, scientists warn

After hottest day ever, researchers say #GlobalHeating may mean future of #CropFailures on land and ‘silent dying’ in the oceans
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/21/rampant-heatwaves-threaten-food-security-of-entire-planet-scientists-warn
#ClimateCrisis #Environment #Food #Health #Sustainability #AgeofExtinction

Scientists Raise Alarm Over Risk of 'Synchronized' Global #CropFailures
New research exposes an underestimated risk of simultaneous global #food supply shocks due to #climatechange. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m3k3/scientists-raise-alarm-over-risk-of-synchronized-global-crop-failures #climate #climatecrisis #crops #farming #agriculture