#ClimateResearch, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaption are experiencing hurricane conditions in some parts of the world today (hello USA) but... play the long game. Here's a review and perspective with a touch of #LongNow thinking:
"All possible—but currently unknown—worlds in 2050, with a larger global population, unprecedented climate conditions with higher temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, sea level rise, disrupted ecosystems, changes in habitability and increased climate-induced displacement and migration, and the emergence of new geopolitical tensions, will require limiting society’s vulnerability both through mitigation measures to minimize further warming and through the implementation of innovative adaptation initiatives. The development of a skillful climate information system, based on the most advanced Earth system science, will be required to inform decision-makers and the public around the world about the local and remote impacts of climate change, and guide them in optimizing their adaptation and mitigation agendas. This information will also help manage renewable resources in a warmer world and strengthen resilience to the expected interconnected impacts of climate change. "
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2025.1554685/full
Saw this at the current exhibit at Wash U's Kemper Art Museum. The whole exhibit is about seeds and the art is lovely, but this really stunned me. The drawers are full of seeds taken from plants growing locally, which you can take.
#stl #stlouis #saintlouis #washu #art #seeds #plants #library #ClimateAdaption #solarpunk
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#LivableFuture #CircularEconomy #ClimateAdaption #LandUse #GeoData
" ... IAG said a climate adaptation framework must ensure costs were shared fairly across distinct groups and generations, and reflected “individual and collective responsibility”.
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... climate adaptation should focus on ceasing to create new property risks, so that over the coming decades, the proportion of homes exposed to flooding would fall because the country was making better land-use decisions."
The increasing awareness and demand for more investment in #ClimateAdaption although righteous in itself, is a consequence of the utter failure and gross negligence of decision makers and governments to address #climatechange
The more they fail, the more climate adaption is needed, and the more difficult or even impossible adaption will become.
"Zuni farmers in the southwestern United States made it through long stretches of extremely low rainfall between A.D. 1200 and 1400 by embracing small-scale, decentralized irrigation systems. Farmers in Ghana coped with severe droughts from 1450 to 1650 by planting indigenous African grains, like drought-tolerant pearl millet.
Ancient practices like these are gaining new interest today. As countries face unprecedented heat waves, storms and melting glaciers, some farmers and international development organizations are reaching deep into the agricultural archives to revive these ancient solutions."
#ClimateChange #drought #agriculture #farming #archeology #ClimateAdaption
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ancient-farmers-climate-political-power.html
In dozens of archaeological discoveries around the world, from the once-successful reservoirs and canals of Angkor Wat in Cambodia to the deserted Viking colonies of Greenland, new evidence paints pictures of civilizations struggling with unforeseen climate changes and the reality that their farming practices had become unsustainable.
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I think it’s called “distraction”.
While creating a pointless and mean #culturewar, they are also ramping up #fossilfuel #extraction, slowing #ClimateAdaption, spreading #fud, and getting otherwise wonderful people to vote for candidates they would have opposed if they were not all riled up about how someone else self-modifies.
Remember when a boy with a piercing was radical? Probably not. It was a thing.
#ClimateDiary Here the Flood Mary website, which is indeed full of good advice - and really quite interesting as a phenomenon itself (at least to me as an anthropologist 😊)
#FloodMary #Flood #Flooding #FloodResilience #ClimateAdaption
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