📌 Good background article on #ClimateChange #AttributionScience wrt growing trend in #extremeheat #heatdome #heatwave #wildfires #drought #flood
#fossilfuels companies that extracted oil, coal and gas that have powered our planet for decades... By 2013... just **90 companies contributed 2/3rds of the world’s industrial emissions**.
Richard Heede could even pinpoint the share of those emissions for which companies existing today are responsible.
📌Editorial piece provides balanced, high-level view of #climateattribution
Tarsands companies pushed out #netzero pledge to 2050 -- want taxpayers to pay for carbon capture (expensive band-aid).
Canadian government's larger goal = reduce oil & gas emissions by 40% by 2030. Measures are required to improve long-term standard of health & living for everyone.
#climatecrisis #extremeheat #heatdomes #wildfires #Drought2023 are glaring 🪵🔥🏜️🚰
The West’s heatwave ‘virtually impossible without climate change’
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. The record-breaking heatwave scorching…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/450787/
UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms
Mark Poynting, Climate researcher, March 23, 2026
"The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency has warned.
"The World Meteorological Organization says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release, driven by emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.
"This record 'energy imbalance' heated the ocean to new heights last year and continued to melt our planet's ice caps.
"And scientists fear that a natural warming phase called El Niño – expected to begin later this year - could soon bring further heat records."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203rdxkezwo
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/mAuV7
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#Agroforestry may be just what #Maine needs for agricultural growth
By Marina Schauffler
Published on: January 24, 2021
Excerpt: "Agroforestry, an age-old concept, could provide a path to Maine’s future. Part of the #RegenerativeAgriculture movement, it involves an integrated approach to cultivating #trees with #crops and – sometimes – #livestock. These diversified farm systems nourish #SoilHealth and #wildlife while offering more resilience in a warming world — locking up atmospheric carbon, absorbing floodwaters, and sheltering crops and animals from high winds and #ExtremeHeat.
" 'Diversity is really key to sustainability for small farms and the ecology of farms,' said vegetable farmer Max Boudreau of Winslow Farm in Falmouth. He sees many landowners and #homesteaders 'putting these principles into practice,' but said agroforestry is still 'a foreign concept' in farm service agencies.
"Being interdisciplinary, agroforestry challenges the siloed world of natural resource management. It is routinely ignored in college curricula and by technical service providers, said Meghan Giroux, an agroforestry researcher, technical service provider and practitioner in Vermont. Her nonprofit, #InterlaceCommons, seeks to fill that void by training farmers – including Boudreau – how to implement and maintain agroforestry practices.
"Boudreau was one of the 20 farmers selected among 92 applicants from around the Northeast for a free, agroforestry 'field consultancy' this year. Farmers are eager to learn about agroforestry’s potential to diversify income, and there’s growing consumer demand for its products – from nuts and uncommon fruits (like #honeyberry and #PawPaw) to #mushrooms and #MedicinalHerbs.
"Yet policymakers routinely tell Giroux there’s 'no interest in agroforestry,' she says. 'There’s no institutional will to move these practices forward primarily because people don’t understand them.'
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has supported agroforestry since the 1990 Farm Bill and does exceptional research, Giroux feels, but “a knowledge-exchange issue” prevents guidance from reaching most landowners. A network of trained farmers could help support and train peers – a process that happens informally, Boudreau says, in the permaculture community, a related landscape design approach modeled after natural systems.
"Research has already demonstrated that #NoTill agriculture improves crop yields, reduces costs and improves soil health. Even more economic and environmental benefits could flow from cultivating crops in a layered, integrated mix of annuals and perennials more reminiscent of natural plant communities."
Full article:
https://themainemonitor.org/sea-change-agroforestry-may-be-just-what-maine-needs-for-agricultural-growth/
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Record-shattering March temperatures in Western North America virtually impossible without climate change
The #heatwave poses a significant public health threat, particularly given its timing early in the season. The persistent #HeatDome is creating stable atmospheric conditions, suppressing cloud formation and precipitation, while allowing temperatures to climb, thus expected to cause persistent #heat. #ExtremeHeat is the leading cause of weather-related fatalities in the US. Limited overnight cooling and the lack of air-conditioning is expected to add to the heat stress, particularly for vulnerable populations in these parts who are not acclimatised to the heat, including tourists from cooler countries (CNN, 17 March 2026). This heat dome is breaking records for this time of the year, and is in some ways comparable to the persistent system that caused the 2021 Pacific Northwest (PNW) Heatwave. The PNW event occurred later in the year, in June, with temperatures of up to 48.9℃ (120℉) causing hundreds of fatalities (BBC, 17 March 2026).
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