Well yes, it is an ambitious target, but not ambitious enough.

Even if we stick to it, and even if other countries do the same, it still means we'll continue to pump more CO2 into the atmosphere for at least another 11 years.

Look at what's happening with the climate this year, and just imagine what it will be like with another 11 years of warming.

We need to act faster.

#ValenciaFloods #StormBoris #HurricaneHelene #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #COP29

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly0gzxgzrmt?post=asset%3A027e3c3e-fbb1-453d-9256-cbc2a2ec1921#post

BDG news: Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation Delivers Flood Relief in Poland

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/yhevuudj

#buddhism #engagedbuddhism #tzuchi #mahayana #taiwan #poland #stormboris #floods #compassion #masterchengyen #humanitarianaid

Sunday musing...

This piece about the aftermath of the #StormBoris floods in Czech, Poland, Austria etc:

" “How many more wake-up calls are needed?” asked Kurt Seinitz, a columnist at the tabloid newspaper Krone, on Monday. “What else needs to happen to make people aware of the need for urgent action against global warming?” "
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/21/austrian-city-st-polten-faces-up-to-scale-of-damage-left-by-deadly-flooding

...lead to the thought that although extreme weather changes due to global warming have very large impacts, the rate of change -- despite being instantaneous on a geological timescale -- are long enough on a human timescale that their power to affect public attitudes towards adaption and mitigation actions is far less than we might hope.

When catastrophic regional floods like those return once a decade, rather than once a century, it will only take two or three cycles until it's established as normal. People will say, well, we've had these huge floods / ridiculous heatwaves / droughts / storms once a decade all my adult life; it's nothing new.

The peri-warming climate of my early life in the last decades of the 20th century will be a vague, functionally mythological image in the collective consciousness of history -- like life without mobile phones, or mass horse powered transport, or washing clothes by hand.

This ties in quite neatly with Dr Jeff Masters' observation that gigantic extreme weather disasters haven't moved the dial on public demand for emission reductions so far (and thus are unlikely to do so in future.)

Video version: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/video-can-a-colossal-extreme-weather-event-galvanize-action-on-the-climate-crisis/
Slightly longer, more discursive version: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/can-a-colossal-extreme-weather-event-galvanize-action-to-respond-to-the-climate-crisis/

#climateCrisis #globalWarming #adaptionAndMitigation
#PoliticalTechnology #climatePolicy

Danube waters reach parliament’s steps as Storm Boris floods Hungary | News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/danube-waters-reach-parliaments-steps-as-storm-boris-floods-hungary

#StormBoris #ClimateCrisis

Britain's far right proto-party, 'Reform' (sic) conferences and prioritises opposition to so called #NetZero

In other news:

Floods brought by #StormBoris – the worst storm “in at least two decades” in central Europe – killed at least 21 people, & dumped 5 times the average amount of rainfall expected in September across the region.

>5,000 firefighters have been fighting around the clock to rescue people in Portugal from multiple #wildfires

#NewNormal #ClimateDenialists

Internazionale by Internazionale
La Commissione europea stanzia dieci miliardi di euro per i paesi colpiti dalle alluvioni

La presidente della Commissione europea Ursula von der Leyen ha annunciato lo stanziamento di dieci miliardi di euro per i paesi che sono stati colpiti dalle inondazioni provocate dalla tempesta Boris. Leggi

Translated:
The European Commission allocates ten billion euros to countries affected by floods.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced €10 billion in funding for countries affected by the floods caused by Storm Boris.

#stormboris #flood #storm
https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie/2024/09/20/la-commissione-europea-stanzia-dieci-miliardi-di-euro-per-i-paesi-colpiti-dalle-alluvioni

Italia - Internazionale by Internazionale
Alluvioni in Emilia-Romagna, più di mille sfollati e due dispersi

Il 19 settembre gli abitanti dell’Emilia-Romagna hanno reagito con rabbia al passaggio della tempesta Boris, che ha causato due dispersi, accusando le autorità di non aver attuato misure di prevezione dopo le alluvioni del 2023. Leggi

Translated:
Flooding in Emilia-Romagna, over a thousand displaced and two missing.

On September 19th, the inhabitants of Emilia-Romagna reacted with anger to the passage of Storm Boris, which caused two missing persons, accusing the authorities of not having implemented preventive measures after the floods of 2023.

#Italy #stormboris #EmiliaRomagna #storm #flood
https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie/2024/09/19/italia-alluvioni-emilia-romagna-sfollati-dispersi