General world climate crisis articles

[LDC]

Well, we have a UK articles one, but think we need a world reflections/analysis one rather than just news. Here's 2 to start:

An interview with the trade unionist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj about the climate crisis in India:

Interview: Sudha Bharadwaj on the Climate, Trade Unions and a Just Transition – The Wire Science

science.thewire.in

And something from the Berliner Gazette on the economic/ecological crisis:

The Deadly Logics Of Capital In The Vicious Economic-Ecological Cycle

The economic and ecological crises of capital have long been intertwined. This can be seen not least in the heat-induced mass deaths among poor and vulnerable sections of the population – and not onl…

blogs.mediapart.fr

 

[teqniq]

This was published in the Graun yesterday:

‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?

Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist

www.theguardian.com

 

[LDC]

This was published in the Graun yesterday:

‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?

Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist

www.theguardian.com

Yeah been mentioned somewhere else too. Pretty grim outlook.

 

[stavros]

I've posted it on the iplayer thread, but this three-part doc on the fossil fuel lobbying in the US over the decades is excellent.

 

[RD2003]

‘Wake-up call’ for climate-sceptic Czechs as blaze devastates national park

Sentiment shifting among politicians and the public as beloved region of forested mountains goes up in flames

www.theguardian.com

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’

Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

 

[bluescreen]

This in the FT. So grim. "There are many hands on the axe" says Alison Richard, senior research scientist at Yale.

Why famine in Madagascar is an alarm bell for the planet​

The UN says it is the first famine caused by climate change. Those caught up in it describe a desperate fight to survive

Subscribe to read | Financial Times

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

www.ft.com

paywall busted, but with gaps where image/text overlays are. Scroll down anyway, you won't miss much.

archive.ph

 

[Artaxerxes]

Iraq is about to hit 50 degrees.

 

[bcuster]

Satellite imaging shows Antarctic ice shelf melting faster than anticipated

Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world's largest ice sheet over the past 25 years, a satellite analysis showed on Wednesday.

www.thedailystar.net

 

[bcuster]

Blue-green algae blooms, once unheard of in Lake Superior, are a sign that ‘things are changing’ experts say

The blooms are cropping up regularly, likely from warming waters and intensifying storms.

www.jsonline.com

 

[bcuster]

Climate activists fill golf holes with cement after water ban exemption

French environmentalists sabotage golf greens to protest against their exemption from water bans.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[WhyLikeThis]

In recent decades, the warming in the Arctic has been much faster than in the rest of the world, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. Numerous studies report that the Arctic is warming either twice, more than twice, or even three times as fast as the globe on average. Here we show, by using several observational datasets which cover the Arctic region, that during the last 43 years the Arctic has been warming nearly four times faster than the globe, which is a higher ratio than generally reported in literature. We compared the observed Arctic amplification ratio with the ratio simulated by state-of-the-art climate models, and found that the observed four-fold warming ratio over 1979–2021 is an extremely rare occasion in the climate model simulations. The observed and simulated amplification ratios are more consistent with each other if calculated over a longer period; however the comparison is obscured by observational uncertainties before 1979. Our results indicate that the recent four-fold Arctic warming ratio is either an extremely unlikely event, or the climate models systematically tend to underestimate the amplification.

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979 - Communications Earth & Environment

Over the past four decades, Arctic Amplification - the ratio of Arctic to global warming - has been much stronger than thought, and is probably underestimated in climate models, suggest analyses of observations and the CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations.

www.nature.com

 

[teqniq]

Just come across this article from May this year regarding an obviously dangerous idiot:

This New Style of Climate Denial Will Make You Wish the Bad Old Days Were Back

The bizarre claim that what we need, right now, is more fossil fuels.

slate.com

 

[teqniq]

New blog and Twitter account:

Climate Uncensored: Telling it as it is.

Robust, unflinching commentary and assessment of the scale of the climate challenge and our responses to it.

climateuncensored.com

 

[bcuster]

The Coming California Megastorm (Published 2022)

A different ‘Big One’ is approaching. Climate change is hastening its arrival.

www.nytimes.com

 

[bluescreen]

The Coming California Megastorm (Published 2022)

A different ‘Big One’ is approaching. Climate change is hastening its arrival.

www.nytimes.com

Paywall busted version (minus graphics):

The Coming California Megastorm - The New York Times

archived 18 Aug 2022 15:29:32 UTC

archive.ph

Daniel Swain, cited in the article, is worth following on twitter
@Weather_West

 

[Karl Masks]

Paywall busted version (minus graphics):

The Coming California Megastorm - The New York Times

archived 18 Aug 2022 15:29:32 UTC

archive.ph

Daniel Swain, cited in the article, is worth following on twitter
@Weather_West

jesus! Is that really likely?

Move over Hollywood....er, literally!

 

[bluescreen]

Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood​

The paper by Huang and Swain referred to in the NYT article is free to read:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995

 

[bcuster]

 

[spring-peeper]

 

[bcuster]

In California's water crisis, neighbors turn in neighbors and even celebrities aren't spared

Residents in the Los Angeles area have been getting visits from what is essentially the water police as California struggles with a deep drought.

www.usatoday.com

people turning on each other for water, food & fuel; all thanks to out of control global warming and climate legislation inactivity

Celebrities Accused of Water Abuse During Severe California Drought

Wealthy residents of Calabasas and Hidden Hills in Las Virgenes tripled the daily water use of the city of Los Angeles during last year’s drought, and the problem persists.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[stavros]

France has banned domestic rent increases by landlords whose properties are in the two lowest energy efficiency bands. (Link in French.)

Is there anything to prevent the UK government, such as we have one at the moment, from doing the same?

 

[bcuster]

Russia is now actively and purposefully increasing the planet's temperature:

Climate change: Russia burns off gas as Europe's energy bills rocket

Russia is burning off millions of dollars in gas every day at a plant near the Finnish border.

www.bbc.com

 

[teqniq]

Twitter thread, not an article on the apocalyptic monsoon floods in Pakistan which are being linked to climate change:

 

[lazythursday]

France has banned domestic rent increases by landlords whose properties are in the two lowest energy efficiency bands. (Link in French.)

Is there anything to prevent the UK government, such as we have one at the moment, from doing the same?

From 2025 all new tenancies have to be in properties with EPCs of at least 'C'. Existing tenancies have until 2028 to get there. So the UK government is actually doing something to address poor leaky rented housing - although must be a strong likelihood this will drive up rents as landlords just screw the tenants for the money they had to spend on insulation...

 

[stavros]

From 2025 all new tenancies have to be in properties with EPCs of at least 'C'. Existing tenancies have until 2028 to get there. So the UK government is actually doing something to address poor leaky rented housing - although must be a strong likelihood this will drive up rents as landlords just screw the tenants for the money they had to spend on insulation...

So no, the UK government isn't doing the same thing. They're doing something that gives ministers a soundbite, without protecting tenants.

And not immediately either.

 

[lazythursday]

So no, the UK government isn't doing the same thing. They're doing something that gives ministers a soundbite, without protecting tenants.

And not immediately either.

I didn't say it was the same. I don't think it's right to classify this as a sound bite - rented homes need insulating and landlords have absolutely no incentive to do so without this kind of regulation. Tbh I'm pretty surprised there hasn't been a bigger backlash from whinging landlords - perhaps that's to come.

 

[stavros]

I didn't say it was the same. I don't think it's right to classify this as a sound bite - rented homes need insulating and landlords have absolutely no incentive to do so without this kind of regulation. Tbh I'm pretty surprised there hasn't been a bigger backlash from whinging landlords - perhaps that's to come.

Oh yes, I'm supportive of the end goal of energy efficiency, absolutely. It sounds like, as you suggested, that tenants will ultimately pay for improving someone else's real estate.

I've heard of listed buildings struggling to get permission to put in regular insulation. Are they exempt in any way from this legislation?

 

[lazythursday]

Oh yes, I'm supportive of the end goal of energy efficiency, absolutely. It sounds like, as you suggested, that tenants will ultimately pay for improving someone else's real estate.

I've heard of listed buildings struggling to get permission to put in regular insulation. Are they exempt in any way from this legislation?

It looks like there are exemptions for listed buildings but on a case by case basis, ie the landlord has to show that meeting the requirements can't be achieved without impacting on historic features etc.

 

[yield]

Twitter thread, not an article on the apocalyptic monsoon floods in Pakistan which are being linked to climate change:

Pakistan declares floods a ‘climate catastrophe’ as death toll tops 1,000
Sun 28 Aug 2022

“We are at the moment at the ground zero of the frontline of extreme weather events, in an unrelenting cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events, and now the monster monsoon of the decade is wreaking nonstop havoc throughout the country,” she said in a video posted on Twitter. The on-camera statement was retweeted by the country’s ambassador to the EU.

The heavy downpour started in June and an abnormal monsoon has affected more than 33 million people – one in seven Pakistanis. Nearly 300,000 homes have been destroyed, numerous roads rendered impassable, and electricity outages have been widespread. Local media reported that at least 83,000 livestock had died in the last 24 hours.

Sharif was briefed during his visit to Jaffarabad district in badly hit Balochistan that at least 75% of the province, Pakistan’s least developed and half of its land area, was affected by the flooding.

Rehman told the Guardian that numbers of flood-affected population may rise from 33 million as the flood continues, and that this year has been marked by one extreme season after another after deadly heatwaves in March and April.

“In the 2010 flood, one-fifth of Pakistan was under water. This is worse,” she said.

“What we see now is an ocean of water submerging entire districts of Pakistan by an unprecedented monsoon cycle that just does not stop, nor does it allow space for a rescue and recovery respite.

“Pakistan has never seen unrelenting torrential rains like this. This is very far from a normal monsoon. It is a climate dystopia at our doorstep,” said Rehman.

beggars belief