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Peter du Toit
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I speak about climate futures, mitigation and adaptation in the face of the climate crisis. 🇿🇦

April temperature records broken today (27th)

🌡️41.3C in Marrakech & Ben Guerir, new April record for Morocco

🌡️38.8C in Córdoba, new April record for Spain and for Europe

🌡️36.9C in Mora, new April record for Portugal

Apr 26th CO2 424.34 ppm

Avg global temperature above pre industrial +1.27°C

Can I be so bold as to request the 4th?

We are mid autumn. These temperatures are not normal for this time of year.

We are not in the El Niño phase yet, which hit us hard in 2015/16, this does not bode well for the remainder of 2023 and 2024.

I am so conflicted right now 🫣

Do you know offhand what the 2015/16 El Niño impact was on Japan?

Good people of Nostr…

All I can say about this, is, if this Sea Surface Temperature doesn’t dip down soon, then what is already set to be an unprecedented 2023/24 is going to be *off the charts* unprecedented.

We are literally in uncharted territory.

#ClimateLiteracy #ElNino #SST

Record breaking heat projected for #Portugal and #Spain this week.

The northern hemisphere spring started with heatwaves in Asia and now possibly in Europe.

#HeatWave

Using the combined data from 50 satellite surveys of Antarctica and Greenland to determine their rate of ice melting scientists found that Earth’s polar ice sheets lost 7,560 billion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2020.

“The polar ice sheets have together lost ice in every year of the satellite record, and the seven highest melting years have occurred in the past decade.”

“After a decade of work we are finally at the stage where we can continuously update our assessments of ice sheet mass balance as there are enough satellites in space monitoring them, which means that people can make use of our findings immediately.”—Prof Andrew Shepherd, Northumbria University

Melt acceleration is now well documented.

#SeaLevelRise

https://newsroom.northumbria.ac.uk/pressreleases/polar-ice-sheet-melting-records-have-toppled-during-the-past-decade-3247262

As we continue to heat many costal communities will come under threat from sea level rise and people will have to be relocated.

This is already underway in some places (See https://www.cbsnews.com/news/panamanian-tribe-to-be-relocated-from-coastal-island-due-to-climate-change-theres-no-other-option/)

#SeaLevelRise #Adaptation https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_acbaa35a695a43a367e2b6a3e2ecce0d587b44bd113571e0164b4d44e084f6f9.mov

Yesterday the WMO released its State of the Global Climate 2022 report.

Here are the key messages

(Full report here: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=11593)

I have been watching the conversation around this topic from the sidelines but I think something is being missed as highlighted here by Jack two months ago :)

Reposts AND/OR zaps are what can replace likes.

If you can’t zap for whatever reason you can still repost, quote (or comment)

That little extra effort makes it more valuable. For me a “like” has always felt so lightweight that they are almost meaningless. 🤔

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