I think many people are sure they'll be among the survivor's because they live in a wealthy country, but civilizational collapse will be ugly all around. This is why billionaires are buying land and building bunkers.
"Catastrophic population decreases are survivable. Terrible but survivable."
Many people, even young healthy people will not survive this week because of #ClimateBreakdown
#ClimateCrisis is hitting us already. Not sometime in 2030 or 2040 when we have fresh targets to not hit.
This is genocide.
Indian authorities won't be able to keep an accurate tally of the dead. It is a crisis that #FossilFuel companies gave us. we need to sue them out of existence.
Actually, the last John Oliver about Corn is quite good - not just for farmers, gardeners and climate activists. He explains how subsidy policies in the US have favoured monoculture and are actively destroying life on this planet. He explains how nitrates used as fertilizers pollute fresh and ground water sources. All of this is neither new, nor exclusive to the US. Quite similar here in Germany. Agriculture policies have a massive impact on the #ClimateCrisis.
"If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO₂"
I'm so disgusted, I can't find the words... 🤬
SUVs accounted for 48% of global car sales in 2023, reaching a new record and further strengthening the defining automobile trend of the early 21st century – the shift towards ever larger and heavier cars.
There are now more than 360 million SUVs on the roads worldwide, resulting in combustion-related CO2 emissions of one billion tonnes, an increase of around 100 million tonnes from the previous year.
Despite advances in fuel efficiency and electrification, the trend toward heavier and less efficient vehicles such as SUVs, which produce 20% more carbon emissions than an average medium-sized car, has largely nullified the improvements in energy consumption and emissions achieved elsewhere in the world’s passenger car fleet in recent decades.
Yesterday we looked at the problem of feedback loops in the northern forests of Canada and Siberia, where a warming climate dries out vegetation, making wildfires more frequent and more intense, with those fires then releasing tons of CO2, methane, and black carbon which warm up the climate even more, and so on.
But another related problem is plaguing forests further south, in the United States. Trees there are threatened not only by drought, but also by infestations of bugs, such as bark beetles in the Rocky Mountains, and by fir borers in Oregon, Washington, and California.
These bugs are much more common now than they used to be, doing far more damage to forests, and it's all because of warmer, dryer weather brought on by — you guessed it — climate change. It's a vicious cycle that only gets worse, decade after decade.
Here's one story about the sad decline of fir trees in Oregon, where experts worry that forests there may be disappearing forever.
Temperatures in India's capital soared to a national record-high of 52.3 degrees Celsius (126.1 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, the government's weather bureau said.
"Many governments, companies and communities are taking action to reduce their use of fossil fuels. The petroleum industry is responding to this threat by ramping up their campaigns to manipulate public opinion. People like to believe they aren’t susceptible to the dark art of marketing, but Canadian advertisers...."
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This is one of the scariest statistics I have ever heard...
🟥 Our oceans are 30% more acidic today than they were 150 years ago.
Think about that: 30% more ‼ in such a brief span of time. It's no wonder our whole ecosystem is crashing down.
For millions of years, the exchange of CO₂ between the surface of the ocean and the atmosphere remained constant. In the past 150 years, humans have greatly increased the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and changing land-use practices. As a result, the ocean has absorbed about 29% of this additional carbon.
This added CO₂ has had significant effects on the ocean. Surface waters are now 30% more acidic than they were at the start of the industrial era. Ocean acidification is now happening at a faster rate than at any point in the last 66 million years, and possibly in the last 300 million years. And projections show that by the end of this century, ocean surface waters could be more than twice as acidic as they were at the end of last century if we do not reduce our carbon emissions.
You’ve probably already seen some of the heartbreaking stories about monkeys falling dead from trees during the unprecedented killer heat wave now besieging Mexico.
Unfortunately, more bad news is on the way…
The extreme heat smothering much of Mexico has already killed dozens of people, but the hottest temperatures are yet to come, officials say.
"In the next 10 to 15 days, the country will experience the highest temperatures ever recorded," researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) said in a statement earlier this week. They called the heat wave "unprecedented."
And it’s not just the searing heat. The nation’s capital, Mexico City — one of the largest cities in the world — is also experiencing extreme water shortages which are expected to get worse.
Maximiliano Herrera (@extretemps) is a professional climatologist on Mastodon. He also posts at Xitter under an account called Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) and has been VERY busy there lately.
He says, for example, that Mexico City recently had their hottest day in history 🔥 (more on that in my next post). New temperature records also are being set throughout Africa — in Senegal, Niger, Mali, Chad, and Libya — along with record heat in China, southeast Asia, Pakistan, South America... the list goes on and on.
In summary, Herrera writes: “160 countries/territories have broken heat records so far this month. This is 300% more than any single month before mid-2023, and more than any month before February 2024. Many more countries will join in the next few days with record heat waves all over the world.”
2024 is not just an election year. It is THE election year.
64 countries—representing a combined global population of about 49%—are holding national elections, the results of which will prove massively consequential as we head deeper into the #ClimateCrisis