There has been no draw down in #Minnesota, BTW. Communities are reaching a breaking point while the rest of the country looks away. Here's a way to help:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/smitten-kitten-x-nhn-rental-relief-fund

#fuckice #iceout #abolishice #resist

“North collateral of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims”

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/europe/france/grand-est/north-collateral-of-the-cathedral-of-notre-dame-de-reims/

📅 28 April 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/2.8, 1/25 s

#Travel #TravelPhotography #Europe #France #GrandEst #Photography

Sorry, Europe — but all those pleasant years of mild temperatures and reliable weather are now gone. Human industry and greedy billionaires are cooking your continent.
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"Heat, drought and fire: Europe’s year of extremes in 2022 will not be a one-off, new report finds"

Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world, and has been heating up twice as fast as the global average for the last four decades.

The climate crisis is taking an enormous toll on Europe, which was ravaged by extreme heat, drought, wildfires and glacier melt last year. Several countries, including the UK, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy, saw their hottest years on record in 2022.

“Unfortunately, this cannot be considered a one-off occurrence or an oddity of the climate,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service. He added that current understanding of the climate system “informs us that these kinds of events are part of a pattern that will make heat stress extremes more frequent and more intense across the region.”

Many parts of the continent saw very low levels of precipitation last year, with France experiencing its driest January-to-September period on record. In Spain, water reserves plunged to just over 40% of capacity.

Persistent drought and high temperatures fueled intense wildfires. Europe experienced the second-largest burned area on record in 2022, with Central Europe and the Mediterranean, in particular, seeing large areas scorched by fire.

Glaciers in the European Alps had a bad year, experiencing a record loss of ice mass due to low snowfall, warm temperatures and Saharan dust, which makes glaciers darker, meaning they absorb more heat and melt faster.

And oceans were unusually warm, with average sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic the hottest on record. Rates of warming in parts of the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic and Black Seas, and the southern Arctic were more than three times the global average.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/19/europe/europe-state-of-climate-heat-drought-intl/index.html

#Environment #GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Drought