From earlier this year - well worth a read. From @gerrymcgovern and Sue Branford.

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods? https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/a-tale-of-two-cities-what-drove-2024s-valencia-and-porto-alegre-floods/

#DANA #ValenciaFloods #PortoAlegreFloods #WaterCycle

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly will be again, as bouts of extreme drought, followed by deluge, become more frequent and fierce. The media cameras are gone from 2024’s inundations, but in Valencia 100,000 wrecked cars remain to be disposed […]

Mongabay Environmental News

The oceans keep score in a year of record heat around Australia

Australia’s red centre captured by the Himawari satellite.(Himawari) Standing in the heart of central Australia, you’d be forgiven…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #algaebloom #AU #Australia #coralbleaching #cycloneseason #extremerainfall #greatbarrierreefbleaching #hurricatehelene #hurricatemilton #NingalooReefbleaching #NSWfloods #queenslandfloods #recordoceanheat #valenciafloods #warmingoceans
https://www.newsbeep.com/158682/

…Ok, I know everyone has JavaScript (except when they don’t), but consider this:

1. The web was engineered to be resilient in ways that @adactio brilliantly talked about in 2019: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111844078858504140

2. Maybe notice that things that ‘just work’ are in the process of having more frequent and extended periods of *not working*, and that that process is only just getting started

#SouthKoreaFloods
#valenciaFloods

3. Too many platforms built on stacks like React are built to *be fragile*

Floods in Valencia claimed over 200 lives in 2024. Climate change turns extreme weather into deadly disasters. #ValenciaFloods #ClimateEmergency
Floods in Valencia claimed over 200 lives in 2024. Climate change turns extreme weather into deadly disasters. #ValenciaFloods #ClimateEmergency

The Ocean Surface Is Warming Over 400% Faster Than in The 1980s : ScienceAlert…

The unexpected jump in global #temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning #LAfires and the deadly #Valenciafloods... #climatechange #globalwarming #oceans

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/the-ocean-surface-is-warming-over-400-faster-than-in-the-1980s-sciencealert-2/

The Ocean Surface Is Warming Over 400% Faster Than in The 1980s : ScienceAlert…

The unexpected jump in global #temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning #LAfires and the deadly #Valenciafl…

for much deliberation

The Ocean Surface Is Warming Over 400% Faster Than in The 1980s : ScienceAlert…

The unexpected jump in global #temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning #LAfires and the deadly #Valenciafloods... #climatechange #globalwarming #oceans

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/the-ocean-surface-is-warming-over-400-faster-than-in-the-1980s-sciencealert/

The Ocean Surface Is Warming Over 400% Faster Than in The 1980s : ScienceAlert…

The unexpected jump in global #temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning #LAfires and the deadly #Valenciafl…

for much deliberation