#EU puts digital Earth in orbit for climate-change fight
"She cited the possibility for mayors to better prepare cities for #ExtremeWeather events and for EU institutions to implement the bloc's Green Deal, meaning leaders "cannot escape their responsibility of acting with the tools they get"."
"In the six months since the COP28 UN Climate Summit concluded in Dubai last December, the research calculates #ExtremeWeather events have caused at least $41bn of damage worldwide - although it stresses the calculation is almost certain to be a significant underestimate.
The figures cited in the research relate only to reported insured losses."
Incredible what a hail storm did to an Austrian Airlines plane (A320), it landed safely, the pilots didn't see the bad weather coming on their weather radar. OS434 Palma to Vienna #AirbusA320#hail#extremeweather#austrianairlines
"Dozens of active and idle laboratories and manufacturing and military facilities across the nation that use, store or are contaminated with radioactive material are increasingly vulnerable to #ExtremeWeather. Many also perform critical energy and defense research and manufacturing that could be disrupted or crippled by fires, floods and other disasters."
"Searing #heatwaves could be a common theme this summer in parts of the United States and might make it one of the hottest on record, according to an updated outlook released Thursday by The Weather Company and Atmospheric G2.
The West Coast, from California to southwest Washington, might be the exception. "
"#ViệtNam is forecast to see more than usual #ExtremeWeather events in 2024, including heatwaves and hailstorms, as climate change continues to have an impact."
"#Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use #Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat, wildfire smoke and other #climate-related disasters.
If Oregon can help enrollees avoid a costly trip to the doctor or the ER after #ExtremeWeather, other state Medicaid programs may ask the federal government if they can adopt the benefit."
"The country has witnessed days of #ExtremeWeather, killing scores of people and destroying property and farmland. Experts say #Pakistan is experiencing heavier #rains than normal in April because of #ClimateChange.
In the mountainous northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been hit particularly hard by the deluges, authorities issued a flood alert because of the melting of #glaciers in several districts."
Today, learn about the 32 U.S coastal cities, affecting up to 500,000 people, that are at an increased risk of experiencing one or more major flooding events in the next twenty years, due to land subsidence and sea-level rise. https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/01/research-sinkingcoasts.html
"Most of the funding, $621 million, will go toward 36 projects aimed at bolstering the resilience of existing infrastructure through things like improving draining, moving roadways, and lifting up bridges.
An additional $119 million will go toward protecting, strengthening, or removing at-risk coastal infrastructure like highways."
"Since the start of this year, Africa’s most populous nation #Nigeria has faced prolonged stretches of severe #heat.
With records of heat and its impacts lacking in Nigeria, Carbon Brief speaks to doctors, farmers and meteorologists about how this episode of #ExtremeWeather is affecting the country."
The growing reality of climate refugees - a resonating article by Wambui Mbuthia.
Climate change is not a sudden eviction notice for millions of displaced people. It is a slow and relentless erosion, chipping away livelihoods and forcing difficult choices.
In 2022 alone, more than 7.4 million people across #Africa were displaced due to climate shocks, adding to existing conflicts and instability.
This week's #ExtremeWeather :
– freak path of Cyclone #Gamane veered into Madagascar, resulting in at least 11 deaths;
– significant flash #floods and a landslide in #Sumatra, Indonesia left at least 19 people dead with seven others missing;
– #Calima winds brought unseasonably high temperatures - and #SaharaDust - to Spain and Portuga, as well as Greece.
"#ClimateChange kills. Since 2000, nearly four million people worldwide have lost their lives due to floods, wildfires, heat waves, droughts, and other #ExtremeWeather events that have been linked to a steadily warming planet."
But the non-fatal consequences add up to a litany of ill health. And that is - so far -not included in the cost estimates for these events.
A state of emergency was declared in San Diego after parts of the city were left underwater due to more than a month's worth of rain in a single day.
By Jesse Ferrell
Published Jan 23, 2024
"Mudslides, evacuations and water rescues were reported across Southern #California Monday as heavy rain inundated the region. Videos showed cars underwater and floating away in parts of San Diego, one of the areas hit the hardest by the deluge. Multiple states of emergency were declared across San Diego County.
"'Never seen anything like this in San Diego,' one Mountain View resident told ABC10. In the Southcrest neighborhood, located just southeast of downtown, hundreds of families were rescued after a creek overflowed.
"A state of emergency was declared in San Diego due to the extreme rainfall. 'Our emergency responders will continue to address the impacts around the clock,' Mayor Todd Gloria said.
"Over 5 inches of rain fell northeast of downtown San Diego, which triggered the intense flooding. At the city's airport, 2.73 inches were measured, setting a record for the most rain on any January day. Monday also ranked as the fourth-wettest day on record. The historical average rainfall in San Diego for all of January is 1.98 inches.
"San Diego will have an extended break from the stormy pattern following the record-setting rainfall Monday, with dry weather in the offing for the rest of the week and into the upcoming weekend."
Part of me can see how much nicer our world might be without any humans in it. Ecosystems could find their own equilibrium, unhindered by industrial pollution. Species could expand again and diversify, free of competition from the endless growth of factory farms, freeways, and parking lots.
It would take much time, centuries or even millennia, for the sky to regain its natural clarity, the forests to regrow, and the rivers to run clean. Even longer than that, probably, for all of the plastic eventually to degrade and disappear.
But someday, someday… the Earth would once again be a beautiful place.
It’s a lovely vision, and yet I’m torn. Because to get there means the suffering and death of billions of people. I wish there was a way to prevent that.
Love all of this and agree with all of it, except 'the peak of the Industrial Age is near'.
I believe we are already past it, or what I call #PeakCivilisation and are already on the downward slope.
I put the peak at either the 2008 financial crash or the 1973 oil crisis. The current rising food prices and increase in general inflation are not going down as the #ClimateCrisis increasingly makes agriculture more difficult and #ExtremeWeather events cause increasingly serious financial loses worldwide. We are on the downward slope and not going back.
‘Astounding’ #ocean#temperatures in 2023 intensified #ExtremeWeather, data shows - Record levels of #heat were absorbed last year by Earth’s #seas, which have been #warming year-on-year for the past decade - The #oceans absorb 90% of the heat trapped by the #carbon#emissions from the burning of #FossilFuels, making it the clearest indicator of #GlobalHeating. Record levels of heat were taken up by the oceans in 2023, scientists said, and the data showed that for the past decade the oceans have been hotter every year than the year before."
#ExtremeHeat Is Endangering America's Workers—and Its Economy
"Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C., based consumer rights advocacy group, estimates that extreme heat contributes to between 600 and 2,000 deaths a year, along with 170,000 injuries, making heat one of the three main causes of death and injury in the American #workplace.
In most American states, you can be fined for leaving a dog outside without water or shade."
[Workers don't have such protection].
The world’s #GarmentWorkers are on the frontlines of climate impacts
To expose how #ClimateChange is impacting workers throughout #fashion’s supply chain, The Fuller Project tracked products from several brands — including Walmart, Primark, H&M, Gap, and Old Navy — across several countries. At each stage, women play a vital role in the global business of fashion yet their livelihoods — and lives — are being increasingly threatened by #ExtremeWeather."
"The total value of the U.S. #housing market is roughly $52 trillion, according to Zillow.
Across the nation, roughly $22 trillion in residential properties are at risk of "severe or extreme damage" from flooding, high winds, wildfires, heat or poor air quality, Realtor.com found."
"One in three Australians know someone who has been forced to relocate from their homes due to an #ExtremeWeather event, and almost 85 percent are worried about the prospect of their #insurance becoming unaffordable due to worsening extreme weather events. "
Of course the insurance crisis is not only for home owners
"#ClimateChange will continue to drive up #insurance costs for #CommercialRealEstate owners and significantly impact the profitability of insurers, according to Deloitte’s “Financial Services Industry Predictions” report.
Current monthly costs could more than double for states facing the highest risks from #ExtremeWeather."