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Pickman's model said:
Yeh could we have a link for this sort of claim?
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Won't give her name but this was the update at Facebook:

We are promised a weather phenomenon on Monday known as the Bestia Africana. It could take temperatures up to 47 degrees. Am thinking this is not the best time to be without a working fridge.
 


I have been on that river, the Lena, and I have been on that boat. And I have been through the smoke from a Siberian forest fire for three days, back in 2018.

That's down around Yakutsk, I saw a film of the Lena pillars - a UNESCO world heritage site - burning the other day, been there too. It's absolutely heartbreaking.
 
Argonia said:
Won't give her name but this was the update at Facebook:

We are promised a weather phenomenon on Monday known as the Bestia Africana. It could take temperatures up to 47 degrees. Am thinking this is not the best time to be without a working fridge.
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Fiona Pitt Kethley ?
 
Argonia said:
No comment to protect the guilty
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dont think she’d have a problem with being named, her posts are mostly public anyway
i enjoy her posts about fun with feral cats and rambling around rural Spain amongst other stuff.
she doesn’t seem to do much of the bawdy stuff these days but her patreon site may be does.
 
cuppa tee said:
dont think she’d have a problem with being named, her posts are mostly public anyway
i enjoy her posts about fun with feral cats and rambling around rural Spain amongst other stuff.
she doesn’t seem to do much of the bawdy stuff these days but her patreon site may be does.
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I think she still has a mouth like a Victorian sewer run by Joseph Bazalgette. Another writer I know complained she was being bombarded with the C word. She's a great writer. Sadly we have lost her to Spain because Brttain is so poorly governed.
 
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farmerbarleymow said:
The SW US is basically fucked by the look of it.

www.theguardian.com

Severe drought threatens Hoover dam reservoir – and water for US west

The wellspring of Lake Mead created by the dam’s blocking of the Colorado River has plummeted to a historic low as states in the west face hefty cuts in their water supplies
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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The engineering might of Hoover dam undoubtably reshaped America’s story, harnessing a raucous river to help carve huge cities and vast fields of crops into unforgiving terrain. But the wellspring of Lake Mead, created by the dam’s blocking of the Colorado River and with the capacity to hold enough water to cover the entire state of Connecticut 10ft deep, has now plummeted to an historic low. The states of the west, primarily Arizona and Nevada, now face hefty cuts in their water supplies amid a two-decade drought fiercer than anything seen in a millennium.

“We bent nature to suit our own needs,” said Brad Udall, a climate and water expert at Colorado State University. “And now nature is going to bend us.”
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the decline of Lake Mead has caused the amount of hydro power generated by the dam to drop by around 25%. The drought is expected to cause the hydro facility at Lake Oroville, California, to completely shut down, prompting a warning from the United States Energy Association that a “megadrought-induced electricity shortage could be catastrophic, affecting everything from food production to industrial manufacturing”. The association added that such a scenario could even force people to move east, in what it called a “reverse Dust Bowl exodus”.

Bernardo said a similar shutdown of the Hoover dam would require more than 100ft in further water level retreat, which is not anticipated, although he finds himself constantly hoping for the rains that would ease the tightening shortages.
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While the midwest is flooding.
 
Yeah this is it. It's too late, but we still need to take action anyway, and California becoming uninhabitable in a scarily rapid timeframe is the only thing that can kick US capitalism into taking more radical action.
 
Flavour said:
Yeah this is it. It's too late, but we still need to take action anyway, and California becoming uninhabitable in a scarily rapid timeframe is the only thing that can kick US capitalism into taking more radical action.
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The flooding of new orleans and new york clearly not severe enough
 
I wonder if there are any climate-related disasters which might happen in the UK, and trigger changes in people's habits? The majority of people here are not really doing anything, except sorting their rubbish. I don't think the floods in Germany/Belgium or the fires in the US will get their attention. People will still buy as many Range Rovers as they can.
 
Scientists were stunned by last week’s rare Arctic lightning storms
Reuters - July 19, 2021
ANCHORAGE — Meteorologists were stunned last week when three successive thunderstorms swept across the Arctic from Siberia to north of Alaska, unleashing lightning bolts in an unusual phenomenon that scientists say will become less rare with global warming.

“Forecasters hadn’t seen anything like that before,” said Ed Plumb, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fairbanks, speaking about the storms that started on Saturday.
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Typically, the air over the Arctic Ocean, especially when the water is covered with ice, lacks the convective heat needed to generate lightning storms.

But as climate change warms the Arctic faster than the rest of the world, that’s changing, scientists say.

Episodes of summer lightning within the Arctic Circle have tripled since 2010, a trend directly tied to climate change and increasing loss of sea ice in the far north, scientists reported in a March study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. As sea ice vanishes, more water is able to evaporate, adding moisture to the warming atmosphere.
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“It’s going to go with the temperatures,” said co-author Robert Holzworth, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

These electrical storms threaten boreal forests fringing the Arctic, as they spark fires in remote regions already baking under the round-the-clock summer sun. Boreal Siberia in Russia gets more lightning than any other Arctic region, Holzworth said.
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stavros said:
Earth Overshoot Day has progressed back to almost as early as 2019, after last year's Covid anomaly.
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farmerbarleymow said:
It looks horrendous in China at the moment - breaches of dams and flooded underground systems. :(

www.theguardian.com

Death toll rises and thousands flee homes as floods hit China

Torrential rainfall and burst rivers swamp Henan cities, with commuters trapped on subway trains
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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I love how the Chinese look back at basic rule - "anyone that can control the Yellow River has divine authority" - this is all in the pre-Maoist spiritual sense. So the Uyghur murdering bastards have karma to roost.
They are kicking all Western journalists out of the area. Because the control of the Yellow River is vital to the divine legend of bullshit horrible modern Chinese image. Free Hong Kong and fuck China.
 
Badgers said:
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I think this may be a new development. Wasn't the original thing (back in May I think) that there was a demo because some people realised that the exhibition was sponsored by Shell and the Science museum called the police to disperse them? Here's a short thread from Channel 4:



www.channel4.com

Revealed: Science Museum signed gagging clause with exhibition sponsor Shell

The Science Museum has signed a gagging clause in its agreement with Shell International to sponsor its climate change exhibition, agreeing to take care not to say anything that could damage the company’s reputation, Channel 4 News has learnt.
www.channel4.com www.channel4.com
 
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