Heat records are tumbling again in parts of China!
“Today, 18 stations broke the highest record and 2 stations tied the record, mainly in Yunnan. 178 stations breaking the record in May, and 15 stations equaling the record. Among them, 61 stations in Guangdong, which is 71% of the stations in the province”—Xin Xin
#China #Heatwave
Cryosphere Early Warning
- Reference glaciers (for which we have long-term observations) experienced an average thickness change of over −1.3 metres between October 2021 and October 2022. This loss is much larger than the average of the last decade. The cumulative thickness loss since 1970 amounts to almost 30 m.
- The European Alps smashed records for glacier melt due to a combination of little winter snow. In Switzerland, 6% of the glacier ice volume was lost between 2021 and 2022 – and one third between 2001 and 2022.
- The Greenland Ice Sheet ended with a negative total mass balance for the 26th year in a row.
- Sea ice in Antarctica dropped to 1.92 million km2 on February 25, 2022, the lowest level on record and almost 1 million km2 below the long-term (1991-2020) mean.
- Arctic sea ice in September at the end of the summer melt tied for the 11th lowest monthly minimum ice extent in the satellite record.
- Global mean sea level reaching a new record high for the satellite altimeter record (1993-2022). The rate of global mean sea level rise has doubled between the first decade of the satellite record.
This story illustrates our general inability to recognise #climaterisk and adapt: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65723447
Sherpas: "[Base Camp] has been there for the past 70 years, why should they move it now? And even if they wanted to, where is the study on a viable alternative?"
Reality: “Mountaineers and officials say streams have now begun to flow right from the middle of the base camp and crevasses are widening dangerously and very quickly.”
Early Warnings
In this peer-reviewed paper scientists looked at 12 locations around the Mediterranean and Middle East to determine when these locations would cross the regular occurrences of 45° and then 50°C days given our current trajectory. They look at the situation at present, Mid-Century (27 years away) and Late Century (77 years away)
They conclude:
“As the hottest European temperatures already verge on 50 °C, the question arises whether extreme climatic conditions similar to neighbouring regions like Northern Africa are migrating into Europe. Our work provides some evidence that this may indeed be the case, at least in areas with the largest warming trends like Southern Spain. Although this northward climate migration is perhaps an unsurprising scientific inference, its associated unprecedented impacts are of great importance to affected European countries.”
Some of these places will become uninhabitable as a result of the life-threatening heat.
Most of this is unavoidable given the amount of CO2 ALREADY in the atmosphere (423 ppm as of April 2023 and rising) The speed at which this arrives can of course change and is absolutely determined by our choices TODAY.
What will the impacts be in the place you live? Do you know?
Paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-023-00377-4
#ClimateLiteracy #ClimateCrisis #Mitigation #Adaptation https://nostr.build/i/0998d33609587d17cd1c5eb63a669e2c2783254f8d1833f204dd1d054688eec9.webp
There was that element obviously but both these guys actually support DeSantis.
Here is Musk in 2022 and Sacks has donated to the DeSantis campaign.
I think that Sapce had a lot to do with this affiliation. 
It’s good to see this topic being researched. Last year during the intense heat wave in #India they had this exact experience.
Heat wave + dramatic increase in air conditioner use = major strain on grid = large area blackouts = vulnerability to heatstroke
How Blackouts during Heat Waves Amplify Mortality and Morbidity Risk: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c09588
#ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves
These 291 weather stations have been collecting a wide range of weather data, including temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation for at least 100 years.
The commitment to keep these running form the backbone of our ability to monitor climate change.
Source: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/centennial-weather-stations-are-vital-climate-monitoring
#ClimateLiteracy #Instruments #ClimateChange 
This data was meticulously recorded by hand. For example there were 65,000 sheets of paper containing hand-written measurements of rainfall taken all across the UK & Ireland before 1960.
These have now been digitised!
See this incredible story here as told by Ed Hawkins who was involved in this process:
These 291 weather stations have been collecting a wide range of weather data, including temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation for at least 100 years.
The commitment to keep these running form the backbone of our ability to monitor climate change.
Source: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/centennial-weather-stations-are-vital-climate-monitoring
#ClimateLiteracy #Instruments #ClimateChange
Every consumption choice we make should have these numbers as the decision guide.
“Will this choice add to these numbers?”
🌡️ +1.27°C (above pre-industrial)
- CO2 data: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
- GHG data: https://worldemissions.io
#Climatiteracy #Leadership 
This may be of interest to anyone looking at this. (They entered the chat in this thread)
France officially ends domestic flights when a train journey can reach a destination in less than 2h30.
This decree notably has the immediate effect of prohibiting air links between Nantes, Bordeaux, Lyon and Paris-Orly.
✈️ fly-less
May 21 CO2 423.75 ppm
Global avg temperature +1.27°C
#ClimateLiteracy #FlyLess 
We *have* to talk about adaptation as a result of the warming we are *already* committed to.
But we need to understand that we are already brushing up against the limits of adaptation. (See pic)
Which is why we also *have* to talk about mitigation because if we don't slam the brakes on emissions our ability to adapt at all will fade into the rearview mirror.
Graphic source material: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateLiteracy #Adaptation #Mitigation 
Latest risk assessment for our rapidly heating world:
At 3.6 - 4.4°C — 4.5 billion people will be “outside of [the] historical climate niche posing an existential risk” to them
At 2.7°C — 3 billion people
“It exposes almost the entire area of some countries (eg, Burkina Faso, Mali) to unprecedented heat, including some Small Island Developing States (eg. Aruba, Netherlands Antilles)—a group with members already facing an existential risk from sea-level rise.”
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6#Fig5
#ClimateCrisis
Every country will have its own emissions profile. This is the US.
There is SO much we can do RIGHT NOW to change these numbers! For example, let’s look at what we can do to slash transportation emissions:
🚶♀️Walk to work if you can
🚲 Cycle to work if you can
🚝 Use public transport
🚙 Use an EV if you can
🏡 Work from home 3 days per week
✈️ Meet/Present online instead of flying
May 20th 2023:
CO2 423.58 ppm
Global temp. +1.27°C
#futureofwork #climateliteracy #mitigation #leadership 
I think part of answering what Nostr’s pull could be is finding a way to decouple its strong perceived connection to Bitcoin.
There many many people that will avoid it a all costs because of that.
Both BlueSky and Mastodon are way more diverse which makes it more appealing for people to join.
Here seems very niche. You can see this when looking at the Nostr firehose vs the BlueSky firehose for example.
I am not sure if changing this perception is even possible.
This escalated rather quickly
#Italy #floods
So when you long press on a photo to save it you onto the phone you use the “save to photos” option?
I am just trying to understand how it’s getting into the downloads folder?
#[3] … 😂
“Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.”—Sheldon
#Japan is also having its share of the Asian April/May temperature records. 