'Rising Tides,' a year-long climate arts project, continued with fantastic performances at the first installment of its outdoor series, 'Rising Seas.' Gene Kahane shares the performances and invites the community to the next free installment on June 21. Photos by JZLim Photography. https://alamedapost.com/features/arts/first-rising-seas-installment-success/
#dance #performance #RadiumPresents #RhythmixCulturalWorks #RisingSeas #RisingTides #SeaplaneLagoonPromenade #WestEndArtsDistrict
Rising Seas, a free outdoor series presented by Rhythmix Cultural Works, connects culture and climate awareness through live music, dance, and theater at Alamedaâs waterfront parks this May through August. Check out the line-up of performers and hands-on activities. Photo by Maurice Ramirez. https://alamedapost.com/features/arts/rising-seas-art-meets-community-shape-sustainable-future/
#alameda #art #environment #performance #RhythmixCulturalWorks #RisingSeas
HT @btschumy
And this is why we need to #RethinkNotRestart and #ShutDownAllNuclearPlants -- especially the aging ones! This article outlines a very possible #Doomsday scenario -- but it could be a number of things, including a large #SolarFlare...
2030 Doomsday Scenario: The Great #Nuclear Collapse
A timeline of the #EndGame for human civilization
"Humanity has constructed a doomsday Deadman switch that threatens civilization. Climate destruction will make it increasingly difficult to avoid the looming global nuclear catastrophe we've created.
"Here's how our future might unravel:
Late 2020s: Climate Red Alert and Infrastructure Strain
"By the late 2020s, Earthâs climate is in unprecedented turmoil. Global average temperatures are consistently 1.5âŻÂ°C above pre-industrial levels. Each year brings record-breaking heatwaves, âfreakâ floods, and droughts that batter infrastructure. Coastal cities flood more frequently, roads buckle in extreme heat, and power grids strain under surging demand for cooling.
"This cascade of climate disasters sets the stage for a systemic collapse: as societies grapple with runaway warming, the resilience of #Criticalnfrastructure (power, water, transit) erodes.
"Energy systems enter a crisis even before 2030. Nuclear power, which in 2025 still provided about 9% of the worldâs electricity from ~440 reactors, becomes increasingly unreliable. Many nuclear plants struggle with climate stresses: cooling water sources heat up in summer, forcing reactors to reduce output or shut down to avoid unsafe temperatures. For example, a 2028 European #heatwave pushes river and sea temperatures above 25âŻÂ°C, triggering emergency shutdowns at multiple reactors that cannot be cooled effectively.
"At the same time, stronger storms and floods threaten reactor safety. Dozens of reactors worldwide are unprepared for #ExtremeFlooding, meaning a dam failure or #StormSurge could lead to a Fukushima-scale accident. Worrisome reports emerge of power plants in #floodplains and #coasts where defenses are overtopped by #RisingSeas and torrential rains.
"By 2029, global carbon output remains high, and natural feedback loops are kicking in. In the Arctic, permafrost thaws and releases methane creating a vicious warming cycle where initial warming triggers more emissions, leading to even more warming. Scientists caution that a tipping point is near, beyond which climate change becomes self-perpetuating (a true ârunawayâ scenario).
"Society approaches 2030 in a precarious state: aware of looming catastrophe yet unprepared for its speed. The stage is set for the coming collapse, with power grids and nuclear facilities - the backbone of the industrial world - already under severe strain.
Early 2030s: Blackouts and the First Reactor Crises
"2030 marks the breaking point.
"A confluence of climate catastrophes collapses power grids across multiple continents. A severe global heatwave in the summer of 2030 brings record electricity demand while many power plants (nuclear and coal alike) are derated or offline due to overheating coolant water.
"Then powerful Category 5 storms strike in succession: one hurricane inundates the U.S. Eastern seaboard, while an unprecedented typhoon swamps Southeast Asia. These #disasters knock out transmission lines and flood key substations, leading to prolonged blackouts in dozens of major cities. Emergency systems are overwhelmed. With communications down and transportation paralyzed, manpower shortages become acute - many operators and engineers cannot reach their stations.
"Nuclear power plants are among the first to feel the emergency. Grid failure triggers automatic reactor SCRAMs (rapid shutdowns) at plants from Florida to France. Control rods halt the fission reactions, but decay heat in reactor cores still needs cooling for days to prevent meltdown.
"Normally, backup diesel generators would power the cooling pumps, but the scale of the #blackout means diesel resupply is uncertain and some generators fail in flooded facilities. In a grim reflection of 2011âs Fukushima disaster, several coastal reactors lose all power as storm surges drown their backup generators.
"Within hours to days, the first meltdowns occur.
"In 2031, a reactor in South Asia becomes a flashpoint: its cooling pumps falter after the grid collapse, leading the core to overheat. The reactorâs heart melts through containment in a matter of days, releasing a plume of radioactive steam and debris.
"Nearby, an even greater danger unfolds: the plantâs spent fuel pool, packed with years of highly radioactive spent rods, boils dry without cooling. Exposed to air, the zirconium cladding of the fuel ignites, triggering a fire that belches long-lived radioisotopes directly into the atmosphere. This nightmare scenario - once narrowly avoided at #Fukushima by heroic ad-hoc measures - now plays out in full."
Read more:
https://www.collapse2050.com/2030-doomsday-scenario-the-great-nuclear-collapse/
#NoNukes #RenewablesNow #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Radiation #NuclearMeltdowns #Polycrisis #NoMoreFukushimas #NoNukesForAI #CivilizationCollapse #NuclearFuture #ARadioactiveWorld
A terrific visualisation of our rising seas!! Also somewhat mesmerising in itself, as an art form, of a dreadful condition & future. And as you say, it âis only going to get harder to ignore.â đ
#ClimateCollapse
#RisingSeas
#ClimateChange
#dataVisualisation
#Future
Rhythmix Cultural Works is seeking artists whose work has an environmental focus to create and oversee an interactive workshop to increase awareness about climate change. The Rising Seas Climate Arts Workshops will be scheduled between April and May. https://alamedapost.com/features/arts/rising-seas-climate-arts-series-call-artists/
#alameda #CityOfAlameda #RadiumPresents #RhythmixCulturalWorks #RisingSeas #RisingTides #WestEndArtsDistrict
UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres issues a climate SOS at the Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga. Today's cartoon by Rodrigo de Matos. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc
The Drowning South: The new face of #flooding
Rains fall harder, seas are rising.
"In the Fowl Riverâs case, unusually high tides slowed floodwaters as they went downstream to drain. This increased the waterâs depth and flooded a wide expanse â even several miles upstream. The result was deluged roads, washed out cars and damaged houses from a flood that was larger, deeper and longer-lasting due to #RisingSeas."
The #MekongDelta faces #Saltwater intrusion every year, but more intense hot weather and rising sea levels -- both driven by #ClimateChange -- are increasing the risk.
The delta, which provides food and livelihoods for tens of millions of people, faces nearly $3 billion a year in #CropLosses as more #saltwater seeps into arable land. #RisingSeas
#Vietnam #farmers struggle for fresh water as drought brings #Salinisation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vietnam-farmers-struggle-for-fresh-water-as-drought-brings-salinisation/ar-BB1kcyBm?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
The damage would likely centre on the #MekongDelta region, known as "#Vietnam's rice bowl" because it provides food and livelihoods for tens of millions of people, research from the country's environment ministry showed. #RisingSeas #FoodSecurity #Salinisation
Vietnam faces $3bn annual #CropLosses from rising #SaltWater levels
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240317-vietnam-faces-3bn-annual-crop-losses-from-rising-saltwater-levels
The sea level is rising as the earth heats and #glaciers melt. At the same time, land is sinkingâanother detrimental result of #ClimateChange which is making #water scarcer.
Even as water becomes more scarce, Shirzaei says we need to mitigate the sinking of the land in the next decade, or it will severely impact the integrity of #buildings and #infrastructure. #RisingSeas #SinkingLand
I've finally gotten around to connecting all my #RisingSeas toots. You can follow the chain back in time using the link below đ #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
#Udaykani and the other nearby villages once had #wells, #aquifers that were replenished and boreholes for irrigation but repeated cyclones damaged all of them, rendering the #groundwater saline.
Since then, villagers have relied on rain-fed #agriculture, with the major crop being rice - which is a more unpredictable harvest.#ClimateChange
No crops, no brides: how #RisingSeas are killing #Indiaâs coastal villages
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/11/india-odisha-cyclones-coastline-climate-crisis-salinity-farming-migration-cities
#Greenland's bedrock is not only rising, it's doing so at an accelerated pace, with an increase of up to 20 cm over the last decade (2013-2023).
This translates to an estimated uplift of 2 meters per century, a rate that far exceeds Greenland's current sea level rise. #GlobalWarmng #RisingSeas
Greenland no longer has to worry about #RisingSeaLevels
https://www.earth.com/news/greenland-no-longer-has-to-worry-about-rising-sea-levels/
Greenland's land mass, being freed from the weight of it's (melting) ice sheets, is also rising. And it's rising faster than the sea levels rising around it. #Globalwarming #ClimateChange #RisingSeas
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Parts of #Greenland are becoming green again for the first time since the Vikings visited nearly 1,000 years ago.
Greenland ice sheet is melting, turning the country green again
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2024/02/13/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-turning-green/72508699007/
On Islands Swallowed by Water, There Is Nowhere Else to Go
#Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateStruggle #Sundarbans #ClimateEquity #WomenClimateImpact #RisingSeas #Erosion #Islands #IndianSundarbans #LowLyingIslands #SeaLevelsRise #SmallIslands #Sundarbans
https://the-14.com/on-islands-swallowed-by-water-there-is-nowhere-else-to-go/
for anyone doubting that the marshall islands will be uninhabitable by the end of the decade...
this is a bar/club in the capital, Majuro. when i was last there (1995), this club was new and situated well above the sea wall.
#ClimateCrisis #RisingSeas #CoralAtollNations #KeepItInTheGround #ExtinctionRebellion #NoMoreFossilFuels
