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bcuster
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Another fantastic article on global warming from waPo:
www.yahoo.com
A melting glacier, an imperiled city and one farmer's fight for climate justice
THE CORDILLERA BLANCA, Peru - Once, this was where Saúl Luciano Lliuya came to find peace. The mountain's pristine beauty ensured his livelihood as a guide; its steady stream of fresh water sustained his family farm. The everlasting ice that gleamed from its rugged crest spoke of a world in...
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Seems a 27cm sea level rise from melting ice in Greenland is baked in now
www.theguardian.com
Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’
Loss will contribute a minimum rise of 27cm regardless of what climate action is taken, scientists discover
bcuster
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Water shortages scare me more than anything else. Drought has caused more human misery than anything I can think of
www.propublica.org
As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis
The megadrought gripping the western states is only part of the problem. Alternative sources of water are also imperiled, and the nation’s food along with it.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The glaciers in the Alps are melting fast. That's going to cause problems for Europe once they're gone. 
Switzerland's vanishing glaciers threaten Europe's water supply
Ice in the Swiss Alps provides water for rivers, crops and the cooling of nuclear power stations.
www.bbc.co.uk
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince - acclimatising to crisis
This well-sourced book sets out where will be habitable in our future hothouse world and how we should manage the transition
This looks to be an essential book on climate change and how countries need to adapt to the reality, including accommodating billions of climate refugees.
Anyone here read it? This FT review by Anjana Ahuja makes me want to buy it.
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This well-sourced book sets out where will be habitable in our future hothouse world and how we should manage the transition
This looks to be an essential book on climate change and how countries need to adapt to the reality, including accommodating billions of climate refugees.
Anyone here read it? This FT review by Anjana Ahuja makes me want to buy it.
paywall busted:
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince — acclimatising to crisis | Financial Tim…
archived 23 Aug 2022 14:31:50 UTC
petee
no gods, no malarkey
"Almost all hail is created in supercells, or storms with updrafts of rising air that slowly rotate. Small pieces of ice, called embryos, get swept into those updrafts like “a fountain of particles,” said Matt Kumjian, a meteorologist at Penn State University who studies the internal dynamics of storms. The embryos smash into water droplets, becoming hailstones that continue to grow until they are too heavy to stay suspended and then fall to the ground"
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince - acclimatising to crisis
This well-sourced book sets out where will be habitable in our future hothouse world and how we should manage the transition
This looks to be an essential book on climate change and how countries need to adapt to the reality, including accommodating billions of climate refugees.
Anyone here read it? This FT review by Anjana Ahuja makes me want to buy it.
paywall busted:
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince — acclimatising to crisis | Financial Tim…
archived 23 Aug 2022 14:31:50 UTC
Will order that, thanks.
RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
European Youth Bet on Authoritarian States to Fix Climate Change | OZY
They care deeply about climate change. They just don't think democracy can solve the problem.
bcuster
Well-Known Member
Global potable water shortages and a huge ice cube melting away in the brine:
www.yahoo.com
'Doomsday glacier' is melting faster than thought, study finds
A glacier in Antarctica the size of Florida that could dramatically raise global sea levels is disintegrating faster than previously predicted, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Yes, it's very bad, butGlobal potable water shortages and a huge ice cube melting away in the brine:
'Doomsday glacier' is melting faster than thought, study finds
A glacier in Antarctica the size of Florida that could dramatically raise global sea levels is disintegrating faster than previously predicted, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Please Stop Calling It the 'Doomsday Glacier'
Losing Thwaites Glacier would be troubling, but the overly alarming nickname might do more harm than good.
www.cnet.com
bcuster
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ok, i will be glad to...Yes, it's very bad, but
Please Stop Calling It the 'Doomsday Glacier'
Losing Thwaites Glacier would be troubling, but the overly alarming nickname might do more harm than good.
RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan
Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English
A reasonably interesting podcast about how California is the first American state to introduce the kind of no petrol/diesel car sales after X legislation that we've got. They reckon New York state might be the next, and between them they've got just shy of 60m residents.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Shell memo\policy says not net zero investment
teqniq
DisMembered
No-one should really be surprised by this:
www.theguardian.com
Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims
Fury as ‘explosive’ documents reveal largest oil companies contradicted public statements and wished bedbugs upon critical activists
spring-peeper
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'Unheard of': Tens of thousands of salmon found dead in B.C. creek as drought conditions persist
B.C.'s sunny, dry weather is leading to major drought conditions in parts of the province, causing devastating impacts for some wildlife.
bcuster
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More coastal flooding in Alaska. In October! where's the cold weather , climate deniers?
www.adn.com
Another storm threatens Northwest Alaska with high wind and coastal flooding
Arctic communities along the Chukchi Sea are expected to be hit hardest through Thursday.
teqniq
DisMembered
Will there be any takers?
cleantechnica.com
Switching The World To Renewable Energy Will Cost $62 Trillion, But The Payback Would Take Just 6 Years
Mark Jacobson and his team have published renewable energy study in which they argue the payback time is just 6 years.
cleantechnica.com
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Wasn't sure where to post this thoughtful article about the problem with a lot of clifi, by Rebecca Tamás in the FT:
Paywall busted: archive.ph
Why does imagining the end of the world feel easier than saving it?
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Hilldweller
Active Member
Not quite sure if it fits here, but I've just started skimming this House of Lords report which I thought was interesting and worth sharing here
petee
no gods, no malarkey
climate change giveth, climate change taketh away.
It’s a grim inside joke among glacial archaeologists that their field of study has been one of the few beneficiaries of climate change. But while retreating ice and snow makes some prehistoric treasures briefly accessible, exposure to the elements threatens to swiftly destroy them.
Once soft organic materials — leather, textiles, arrow fletchings — surface, researchers have a year at most to rescue them for conservation before the items degrade and are lost forever. “After they are gone,” Dr. Taylor said, “our opportunity to use them to understand the past and prepare for the future is gone with them.”
E. James Dixon, former director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, agreed. “The sheer scale of the loss relative to the number of archaeologists researching these sites is overwhelming,” he said. “It’s like an archaeological mass extinction where certain types of sites are all disappearing at approximately the same time.”
It’s a grim inside joke among glacial archaeologists that their field of study has been one of the few beneficiaries of climate change. But while retreating ice and snow makes some prehistoric treasures briefly accessible, exposure to the elements threatens to swiftly destroy them.
Once soft organic materials — leather, textiles, arrow fletchings — surface, researchers have a year at most to rescue them for conservation before the items degrade and are lost forever. “After they are gone,” Dr. Taylor said, “our opportunity to use them to understand the past and prepare for the future is gone with them.”
E. James Dixon, former director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, agreed. “The sheer scale of the loss relative to the number of archaeologists researching these sites is overwhelming,” he said. “It’s like an archaeological mass extinction where certain types of sites are all disappearing at approximately the same time.”
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
This doesn't bode well.
teqniq
DisMembered
What a fucking joke:
www.opendemocracy.net
Egypt hires ‘greenwash’ PR firm to help organise COP27
The US agency has a “shameful track record of spreading disinformation” but has been hired by the Egyptian government
www.opendemocracy.net
Signal 11
also programmed for conversational english
What's the source for this "estimated death toll is 2-3 billion" in "20-30 years" claim? The IPCC doesn't say anything like that.
The tweeter seems to be some kind of new age grifter who says he got the image (which doesn't seem to include that claim) at "a psychedelic symposium" from "an influential financier". Was that his mum after she lent him money to buy more drugs?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
This is a pretty damn good bit of news, concretes a massive co2 producer
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