#climatedisasters — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climatedisasters, aggregated by home.social.
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Gardeners spewing gasoline fumes into the air next door for leaf blowing. At least it's not the leaf blowing that was going on here when we had 50-70mph winds 😬
(Gripe: we're in a freaking climate crisis--cities burning down--and gasoline powered leaf blowers, a major source of pollution due to the inefficiency of two stroke engines, are not yet outlawed here.)
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Six Killed, Five Missing After Landslide in Sikkim, 1,500 Tourists Left Stranded
After the damage from the landslide, the National Highway 10 is now blocked, thus completely isolating north Sikkim.
#sikkim #mangan #landslides #ExtremeRainfall #SikkimLandslide #NH10 #environment #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateDisasters #ClimateChange #india
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Locations around the globe are experiencing #ClimateDisasters on a regular basis.
Some of the most #marginalized populations experience disasters so often it has come to be normalized.
A #NewStudy from #UniversityOfKansas found residents of a #Seoul #SouthKorea, neighborhood have grown so accustomed to living through extreme #climate events they've developed a “disaster subculture” that challenges views of reality & how social agencies can help.
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#Activist, 97, among dozens arrested in #Australia #climate protest
26 November 2023
Sydney, Australia, Nov 26 (EFE).- "Dozens of protesters, including a 97-year-old man, were arrested on Sunday during a #ClimateChange protest off Australia’s east coast that disrupted operations at the country’s biggest coal export port.
"#ClimateActivist group #RisingTide had organized the protest to block the traffic of coal cargo ships in the port of Newcastle since Saturday.
"The group said on its Twitter account that at least 59 people have been arrested so far.
"Since Saturday, groups of 50 to 60 protesters have been taking turns in rostered two-hour shifts getting on canoes and inflatable boats and preventing ships from leaving the port.
"Among the protesters who went out to sea was Alan Stuart, a 97-year-old religious pastor.
"Stuart said he was doing it for his grandchildren and future generations after being pulled out of his boat by the police.
"'I am doing this for my grandchildren and future generations because I don’t want to leave them a world full of increasingly severe and frequent #ClimateDisasters,' he said. 'I am so sorry that they will have to suffer the consequences of our inaction. So, I think it is my duty to do what I can and to stand up for what I know is right.'
"Rising Tide claims that the protest prevented more than half a million tonnes of coal from leaving the Newcastle port by the time the demonstration ended.
"Protesters demand that the Australian government stop all new projects that involve the use of fossil energy and confront the #ClimateCrisis more decisively.
"The climate crisis is one of the big issues of political debate in Australia, a country exposed to the effects of #droughts and #ExtremeTemperatures.
"Australia is the world’s second largest exporter of thermal coal and the largest exporter of cooking coal."
#DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #BigOilAndGas #BigCoal
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Climate Change Is Killing Languages
Forced migration is a major cause of language extinction. Environmental disasters are driving these displacements in the very regions richest in languages.
#language #ClimateChange #ForcedMigration #environment #ClimateDisasters #LanguageExtinction
https://thewire.in/society/climate-change-is-killing-languages
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WaPo - after a series of intense moisture-laden storms known as #atmosphericrivers, most of California has seen #rainfall totals 200 -600% above normal over the past month w 24T gallons of water having fallen in since late December. #ClimatePredictionCenter seasonal precipitation outlook issued bef winter leaned toward below-normal precipitation for 1/2 of CA - water manager are lamenting the unreliability of #seasonal #forecasts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/15/california-seasonal-forecasts-noaa-missed/ #ClimateDisasters #defying #prediction
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Via NOAA note this is a web page download & PDF data before it disappears - The U.S. has sustained 341 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2022). The total cost of these 341 events exceeds $2.475 trillion. #ClimateDisasters #Economy #Insurance #infrastructure NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information #NCEI U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2023). #NOAA https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/