(2/4) This month, researchers return to the Antas Valley, Sardinia, to investigate the long-term pollution impacts of the manual (#preindustrial) silver mining in that region, at its height in the 12th-13th centuries. For preliminary survey results see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25001476
#preindustrial
The Inaugural Session of the International Conference on Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World, with Guy Geltner introducing the methodology of healthscaping, and the field of the #preindustrial public health at large, has now started. đ
Join us tomorrow for the Inaugural Lecture of a conference focusing on #preindustrial #publichealth in #Mughal India and the Indo-Islamic world. Guy Geltner will provide a research methodology of #healthscaping. Brochure and registration: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1471
Move over, Med diet â plantains and cassava can be as healthy as tomatoes and olive oil, say researchers
Findings from Tanzaniaâs Kilimanjaro region indicate traditional eating habits in rural Africa can boost the immune system and reduce inflammation
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/17/mediterranean-diet-african-food-tanzania-heritage-traditional-healthy
#health #diet #research #preindustrial
Archaeologists Unearth 2,500-Year-Old Ice Maiden with One of the Earliest Recorded Tattoos
In 1993, Russian archaeologist Dr. Natalia Polosmak led a groundbreaking excavation on the Ukok Plateau, a region that spans across Russia, Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan and is known for its harsh climate and layers of permafrost. This excavation centered around a burial mound, or kurgan, that had been untouched for over 2,500 years.
Inside the mound, the research team discovered the remarkably preserved remains of a woman, laid to rest in a wooden coffin and surrounded by elaborate burial artifacts. The frigid environment of the area played a crucial role in preserving her skin, hair, and clothing. Numerous items were found at the site, including textiles, tools, and six horses equipped with saddles and bridles, indicative of her high social status.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Ice Maiden was her detailed tattoos, which are among the earliest known and have been exceptionally well-preserved due to the permafrost.
'#InsatiableGreed': Richest 1% Have Already Burned Through Their #CarbonLimit for 2025
"The #SuperRich continue to squander humanity's chances with their lavish lifestyles, polluting stock portfolios and pernicious political influence. This is theftâpure and simple."
Jake Johnson, Jan 10, 2025
"An #Oxfam analysis published Friday shows that the richest 1% of the global population has already blown through its global carbon budget for 2025âjust 10 days into the New Year. The figures, which arrive amid catastrophic fires in Los Angeles that may turn out to be the costliest in U.S. history, highlight the disproportionate role of the #UltraWealthy in fueling a #ClimateEmergency that is causing devastation around the world.
"Oxfam calculates that in order to keep critical climate goals in reach, each person on Earth must have a CO2 footprint of roughly 2.1 tons per year or less. On average, each person in the global 1% is burning through 76 tons of planet-warning carbon dioxide annuallyâor 0.209 per dayâmeaning it took them just over a week to reach their CO2 limit for the year.
"By contrast, the average person in the poorest 50% of humanity has an annual carbon footprint of 0.7 tons per yearâwell within the 2.1-ton budget compatible with a livable future.
"'The future of our planet is hanging by a thread,' Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam International's climate change policy lead, said in a statement Friday. 'The margin for action is razor-thin, yet the super-rich continue to squander humanity's chances with their lavish lifestyles, polluting stock portfolios and pernicious political influence.'
"'This is theftâpure and simpleâa tiny few robbing billions of people of their future to feed their insatiable greed,' Dabi added.
"'Rich polluters must be made to pay for the havoc they're wreaking on our planet.'
"Oxfam's new analysis came as the @CopernicusEU Climate Change Service confirmed that 2024 was the hottest year on record and 'the first calendar year that the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above its #PreIndustrial level.'
"'All of the internationally produced global temperature datasets show that 2024 was the hottest year since records began in 1850,' Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. 'Humanity is in charge of its own destiny, but how we respond to the climate challenge should be based on evidence. The future is in our handsâswift and decisive action can still alter the trajectory of our future climate.'
"Oxfam called on governments to move urgently to curb the emissions of the rich, including by implementing #WealthTaxes, banning #PrivateJets and #Superyachts, and imposing strict new regulations on #polluting companies.
"'Governments need to stop pandering to the richest,' Dabi said Friday. 'Rich polluters must be made to pay for the havoc they're wreaking on our planet. Tax them, curb their emissions, and ban their excessive indulgencesâprivate jets, superyachts, and the like. Leaders who fail to act are effectively choosing complicity in a crisis that threatens the lives of billions.'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rich-carbon-limit
#EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism #CorporateGreed #TechBros #CEOSeason
In May, a group of researchers conducted a geochemical survey in the Antas Valley, Iglesiente region, Sardinia, to explore the environmental (and health) impacts of pre-industrial mining from a silver-mining boom in the 12-14th centuries.
This year set to be first to breach 1.5C #GlobalWarming limit
by Mark Poynting
November 6, 2024
"Global temperatures have been so high through the first 10 months of 2024 that only an implausibly sharp drop in the final two months would prevent a new record from being set.
"In fact, it is likely that 2024 will end up at least 1.55C hotter than #preindustrial times, according to data from the European #Copernicus #ClimateChange Service."
The Pliocene Warm Period is a key period of past #climate to study if we want to understand warmer climate conditions of the #future .This data-model comparison shows that it was about 3-4 degrees warmer than the #preindustrial climate, which is warmer than previous estimates.
2/ 𧔠Presentations are by leading scholars in #preindustrial mining communities and the history of science and technology: Pamela H. Smith, Tina Asmussen, Nicolas Minvielle Larousse, Guy Geltner, +
Registration for our hybrid #Colloquium on #Preindustrial #PublicHealth closes tomorrow for in-person, Monday for online attendance. Programme in the link.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOE8hSiUoYhNoHfau2EsHPFbFV66rR2l6lWKosutIClvah3Q/viewform
#premodern #medievaltwitter #mughalhistory #medici #intellectualhist #crusades #envhist
EU climate service: Earth records 12 straight months of record high temperatures
By Clyde Hughes, UPI
July 8 (UPI) -- "June 2024 was hotter than any June previously on record, leaving people exposed to life-threatening temperatures and more extreme weather, the European Union's #Copernicus #ClimateChange Service said Monday.
"Copernicus researchers found that temperatures worldwide each month for the past 12 months were 1.5 degrees Celsius greater than the average before the #preindustrial age.
"The report said temperatures in Europe were higher on average than in the southeast regions. It added the countries and regions with the hottest temperatures outside of #Europe were eastern #Canada, the western #UnitedStates, western #Mexico, #Brazil, northern #Siberia, the #MiddleEast, northern #Africa, and western #Antarctica.
"'Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,' said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, according to The Guardian.
"'This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.'
"The report said its review of the oceans, air temperatures were higher than average in the #AtlanticOcean and #IndianOcean along with most of the #PacificOcean. Temperatures were below average in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and smaller regions around the world, like the Bering Sea.
"Copernicus uses measurements from various sources, including airplanes, weather stations, ships and satellites to capture vital climate information worldwide.
"'This is not good news at all,' said Aditi Mukherji, the co-author of the newest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 'We know that extreme events increase with every increment of global warming and at 1.5 degrees Celsius, we witnessed some of the hottest extremes this year.'"
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCatastrophe
Combining archaeological, historical + paleo sciences: our project reconstructs #preindustrial #mining #landscapes of workshops, shafts, hotspots of toxic metals, w/ rich archival data of the Iglesiente trade and legislative history, to understand human-environment entanglements.
The long-standing research agenda of @prosanitate
is to understand #preindustrial #publichealth. This Iglesiente field research lays the groundwork for understanding how a significant medieval mining community observed and responded to toxic impacts of mining + metallurgy.
At least 29 people killed as #HeavyRain and #flooding lashes #Brazil
By Michael Rios, Stefano Pozzebon and Lianne Kolirin, CNN
Published May 3, 2024
"#RioGrandeDoSul has been increasingly hit by #ExtremeWeather events in recent years. More than 30 people died in the state in September after heavy rains.
"The #ClimateCrisis, caused primarily by humans burning #FossilFuels, is supercharging extreme weather around the world, making many events more intense and more frequent.
"In the past few weeks alone, record rainfall has triggered deadly floods and brought chaos to the desert city of Dubai; reservoirs across Southeast Asia have been drying up in a persistent regional heatwave and ongoing drought, while Kenya is battling floods and heavy rainfall that has burst river banks and killed nearly 200 people.
"Last year was the hottest on record, with air and ocean temperatures climbing beyond many scientistsâ predictions. The world is already 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in #preindustrial times.
"The proportion of high-intensity #hurricanes, or tropical #cyclones, has increased due to the warmer global temperatures, according to the UN. #HeatWaves are becoming more frequent and are lasting longer.
"Scientists have also found that the storms are more likely to stall and lead to devastating rainfall and they last longer after making landfall."
The end of #CoralReefs as we know them
Years ago, scientists made a devastating prediction about the ocean. Now itâs unfolding.
By Benji Jones@BenjiSJones Apr 26, 2024
"More than five years ago, the worldâs top climate scientists made a frightening prediction: If the planet warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius, relative to preindustrial times, 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs globally would die off. At 2°C, that number jumps to more than 99 percent.
"These researchers were essentially describing the global collapse of an entire #ecosystem driven by #ClimateChange. Warm ocean water causes #corals â large colonies of tiny animals â to 'bleach,' meaning they lose a kind of beneficial #algae that lives within their bodies. That algae gives coral its color and much of its food, so bleached corals are white and starving. Starved #coral is more likely to die.
"In not so great news, the planet is now approaching that 1.5°C mark. In 2023, the hottest year ever measured, the average global temperature was 1.52°C above the #preindustrial average, as my colleague Umair Irfan reported.
"That doesnât mean Earth has officially blown past this important threshold â typically, scientists measure these sorts of averages over decades, not years â but itâs a sign that weâre getting close."
Read more:
https://www.vox.com/climate/24137250/coral-reefs-bleaching-climate-change
"We setting sail to a place on the map in which no-one has ever returned..." - #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, Ship of Fools, 1986
Climate change: 'Uncharted territory' fears after record hot March
By Matt McGrath & Mark Poynting
April 8, 2024
"March 2024 was 1.68C warmer than "#PreIndustrial" times - before humans started burning large amounts of #FossilFuels - according to the EU's #Copernicus #ClimateChange Service."
EU #climate service: March 2024 hottest on record; 10th straight record-breaking month
March was the warmest March on record and the tenth straight temperature record-breaking month, according to the European Union's #Copernicus Climate Change Service.
Published Apr 10, 2024 8:27 AM EDT
"The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said Tuesday that at 1.68 degrees Celsius hotter than the '#PreIndustrial' era, March was the warmest March on record and the tenth straight temperature record-breaking month.
"Globally, the temperature in March averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius, 0.73 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average for March and 0.10 degrees Celsius above the previous high set in March 2016, Copernicus said in its latest surface air temperature climate bulletin.
"The new March high was calculated from an estimate of the average March temperature during the 'pre-industrial' reference period, designated as 1850-1900 which also shows a year-round global average temperature from April 2023 to March 2024 period that is 1.58 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average.
"The average global temperature for the same 12-month period also came in at the highest on record, at 0.70 degrees Celsius above the average for 1991-2020.
"The climate group's top scientist called for urgent cuts in the volume of greenhouse gasses being pumped into the atmosphere.
"'March 2024 continues the sequence of climate records toppling for both air temperature and ocean surface temperatures, with the 10th consecutive record-breaking month. The global average temperature is the highest on record, with the past 12 months being 1.58 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,' said Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess.
"'Stopping further warming requires rapid reductions in #GreenhouseGas emissions.'
"The report showed the greatest deviations from average temperatures globally on the eastern side of North America, Greenland, eastern Russia, Central America, parts of South America, many parts of Africa, southern Australia and parts of Antarctica.
"Conversely, temperatures in parts of Australia and Antarctica, as well as northwestern India, were a little below average."
𧔠#Publichealth was not only an urban issue. Rural + mobile community health histories are important for #global + #equitable public health #GPHS24. We research #preindustrial #minors in Europe to understand how they managed population-level health in high-risk spaces. #OHS
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