Morning folks! Here are your #BadNewsOfTheDay.
1. The more #climatecatastrophe, the less climate literacy:
Only 48% of Americans believe climate change results from human activity, a lower percentage than 2019 & 2022."
That confirms the Verdrängungshypothesis.
@UniversidadxClima
Thanks for sharing the research & info for Spain! 🙏🏻 Including: “Projections for the next 50 years suggest that Southern Europe, including Spain, will experience a combination of rising temperatures, increased drought frequency, and aging infrastructure.” 😐
Re infrastructure, could say “aging & inappropriate infrastructure - certainly for my country, Australia, where for instance, our storm water drains are often overwhelmed because they were not built to carry the volumes of water we now experience as rain becomes torrential & all the hard built surfaces (pavement, concrete, brick) increase the runoff & overwhelm the existing infrastructure which often has a huge maintenance backlog already. Nothing like torrential rain to test a water removal system built when Queen Victoria was a girl! [metaphor for old & antiquated]
#Spain #Australia #infrastructure #ClimateCatastrophe #agingInfrastructure #SouthernEurope #climateProjections #risingTemperatures #increasingDrought #torrentialRainfall
https://thoughts.pivic.com/leave-github-a-few-quotes-about-why-its-more-than-a-good-idea
To leave GitHub is a good idea, for several reasons.
#GitHub #microsoft #capitalism #ArtificialIntelligence #ClimateCatastrophe #programming #AI
@SeaFury
Yes, it’s a helpful tag 🙂 to accumulate people’s actual experiences & observations (such as plants blooming earlier or additionally) which sometimes says more than the graphs & charts…
A lot of the differences getting noticed now are quite stark. ☹️
@SeaFury
A fairly big change/difference to previous… another one for the Climate Diary. ☹️
'Poised to disintegrate': Antarctica's '#DoomsdayGlacier' is set to lose its #IceShelf this year
#WestAntarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises.
By Patrick Pester
"A vital ice shelf is about to break away from Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier," further destabilizing one of the world's largest and most vulnerable glaciers.
The #ThwaitesGlacier is nicknamed the "Doomsday Glacier" because its collapse would send so much ice into the Southern Ocean that #GlobalSeaLevels would rise by 2.1 feet (65 centimeters or 26 inches), flooding coastal communities worldwide. This collapse could take centuries, but there is an imminent threat to Thwaites' eastern ice shelf, which will likely accelerate the glacier's demise.
"Researchers say that satellite images reveal that the Thwaites eastern ice shelf is about to detach from the glacier, New Scientist reported last week. While the glacier sits on land, the ice shelf is a floating body of ice that is attached to the glacier's mouth. Researchers still have a lot to learn about the glacier, but this shelf acts as a buttress, restraining the flow of ice from the glacier into the sea."
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"Thwaites Glacier's slow collapse is part of a wider concern among scientists for the future of the West #Antarctic ice sheet. Thwaites is a key pillar of the ice sheet, protecting other ice from slipping into the ocean. If the whole ice sheet were to go, sea levels would rise by 10.8 feet (3.3 m), according to the British Antarctic Survey. The collapse of ice sheets like this one are considered tipping points, or 'points of no return,' in the fight against climate change — meaning that once they are crossed, they bring about permanent changes that cannot be reversed for many thousands of years."
‘Mind-bogglingly crazy’: #climate experts alarmed by deadly spring #heatwaves searing Europe
"In 2024, summer #heat in the #EU claimed roughly three times more lives than car crashes, 16 times more than murderers, and more than 10,000 times more than terrorists"
France, showing Dante's Levels of Hell thermostat settings - or short-term forecast for this week.
#ClimateCatastrophe #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #Environment #GlobalWarming
The first heatwave of 2026 have reached Iran. Temperatures are above normal in certain areas of the country. And in some others, way over normal.
Situation is far worse in southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
#GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #WestAsia #ClimateChange
6/23/88 was the day James Hansen testified before Congress. And there was bipartisan consensus to do something. Briefly
#exxonknew and their scientists were aware of what was going to happen in 1977. #gm and #ford knew not long after
None of this is a surprise, perhaps the speed, chosen ignorance and number of people who could care less about their kid’s future is a surprise though #climatechange #climatecatastrophe
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
Tadzio Mueller
Su_G
Niklas Pivic
DoomsdaysCW
Sabine Hiller 💔🇵🇸🇬🇱🇺🇦
The Gaffer
Farhad A.
Skim Shady (331.36 ppm)