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  1. Dr. #EmilySchoerning interviews Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq on #ClimateImpacts and #resilience in #Pakistan #Punjab

    "1000% more rain than usually happens.[...] 2525, 4500 villages and towns were flooded,[...] and the people make less than 2$ a day. The most climate resilient people of the world."

  2. Until recently, I used to focus on reducing #GHGs. As the #climateimpacts of #climatechange became apparent, I switched focus to #adaptation. But most early impacts are on poor places. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

    ‘I don’t want to be here. But ...

  3. ‘I don’t want this #landscape to change’: the #UKEnergy head making the local case for #CleanPower -

    The critical point in danger of being lost, she argues, is that everyone will benefit if cheap, clean #energy is built and if #ClimateImpacts, which will ultimately be more destructive to the #countryside than pylons, are minimised.'
    theguardian.com/environment/ar
    #ClimateCrisis

  4. Millions kept home from school as Southeast Asia swelters under weeks-long heat wave cbc.ca/news/world/southeast-as

    Temperature tops 48C in #Myanmar; dozens dead in #Philippines so far this year.

    Millions of students in all public schools across the Philippines ordered to stay home after authorities cancelled classes for 2 days... avoid outdoor activities & drink plenty of water, but the young & the elderly were told to be especially careful.

    #Cambodia this year is facing the highest temperatures in 170 years. #Thailand's Department of Disease Control said last week > 30 people have died from heat stroke, compared to 37 for all of last year.

    #ClimateCrisis #HeatRisk #ClimateImpacts

  5. The rate of emergency room visits caused by heat illness increased significantly last year in large swaths of the country compared with the previous five years, according to a study published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    NYTimes paywall busted: archive.is/B17Xq

    “The heat you were asked to manage 10 years ago is not the heat you’re being asked to manage today,” she said. One of the first symptoms of heat illness can be confusion, she added, making it harder for someone to respond without help from others.

    #ClimateCrisis #ClimateImpacts #Heat

  6. Gitanyow Nation Hereditary Chiefs now calling on 🇨🇦 governments to address "deceptive ad campaigns" #greenwashing #climateimpacts of #LNG in #BritishColumbia

    Ads such as “BC LNG will reduce Global Emissions” are misleading.

    #Methane, a primary ingredient of LNG, is "a powerful greenhouse gas that creates more than 80 times as much heat in the short-term as carbon dioxide and 25% of global warming".

    #BillC372 #Climate #Vancouver

    nationalobserver.com/2024/03/0

  7. The WWW of #carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information & communications #technology's #climateimpacts
    "By assessing over 60 published sources in the past 10 years of this debate (including scientific papers, gray literature, corporate publications, & public comments by researchers) we explore how efforts to quantify immensely complex and globally distributed industries can fracture attempts at political articulation."

    journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

  8. Wer hätte das gedacht? 😱

    "#WhiteHouse Said to Delay Decision on Enormous Natural Gas Export Terminal

    Before deciding whether to approve it, the #Energy Department will analyze the #climateImpacts of CP2, one of 17 proposed #LNG export terminals."

    #endfossilfuels #energiewende #Erdgas #fossilfuels #fossileRohstoffe

    nytimes.com/2024/01/24/climate

  9. All the smoke around Sydney this week is from hazard reduction burns. i.e. controlled burns conducted by the rural fire service to mitigate this summer's bushfire's risk, which has been assessed as particularly high, after three very wet La Ninã years and with a likely El Niño developing.

    The #RFS is way behind schedule on this due to all the rain and other complicating factors causing many delays. With temperatures topping 30ºC this weekend, they are rushing to get as much done as they can before the window closes.

    Speaking of which, make sure all your windows are closed.

    It's a nasty trade-off: to reduce the risk of a climate disaster hitting hard this summer, we conduct an activity with its own risk of air quality for five million people dropping into the toilet for a week. These days of bad air (and even worse nights) will result in premature deaths, increased hospitalisations, and some long-term damage to everyone's respiratory health (esp children).

    Once more, given the direct impacts on air quality and the long-term global worsening of #wildfire risk, this moment is another salutary reminder that #DirtyEnergy sends our future up in smoke.

    #NSWpol #BushfireRisk #bushfire #ElNino #ClimateImpacts #ClimateDisruption #Auspol
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    EDIT: added climate context.

  10. Climate Change Is Driving Ever-Higher Food Prices

    "The standout example of how extreme weather can drive up food prices is olive oil. The Mediterranean staple has more than doubled over the last 12 months to $8,000 a metric ton, a record high according to statistics tracked by the International Monetary Fund back to 1990. Extreme heat was the culprit as Spain, the world’s largest producer, was hard hit by drought."

    #climatechange #climateimpacts

    barrons.com/articles/food-pric

  11. “We can say now that people are dying from climate change, and that’s a different kind of statement than we would have made before”

    "By 2050, the number of people suffering from a month of inescapable [extreme] heat could further grow to a staggering 1.3 billion."

    washingtonpost.com/climate-env

    via @therockyfiles

    #climatechange #climateimpacts #climatemigration

  12. In areas most vulnerable to climate change-enhanced disasters, like Florida, the cost of home insurance has gone up so much that it’s now affecting how much lenders will give — potentially pushing many out of the home ownership market altogether.

    Others are risking having no insurance at all, gambling on complete financial ruin should their home be damaged or destroyed.

    🧵 #climatemigration #climateimpacts #climatechange

    wsj.com/personal-finance/ameri

  13. Evidence of America’s — and the world’s — climate migrations are mounting.

    In this thread, I’ll collect all the papers, news items and anecdotes I find on the subject. Feel free to contribute by using this tag:

    #climatemigration

    It’s starting with insurers. When homes are destroyed and homeowners lose everything, with no recourse, market forces herd people away from the zones of greatest vulnerability:

    washingtonpost.com/business/20

    #climate #climatechange #adaptation #climateimpacts

    🧵

  14. I like this piece by @andrewdessler on the inequality that people face in dealing with #climateImpacts.
    I'm afraid I too often say things like "we can adapt" without adding the obvious caveat "but there's going to be suffering which will overwhelmingly affect already disadvantaged groups".

    The Danish #ClimateAtlas is at least an attempt to make sure everyone has the same high quality information freely available. But that doesn't mean the same capacity to act on it

    mastodon.world/@andrewdessler/

  15. The Christian Science Monitor published a detailed article today entitled "Cruel summer: Will 2023 mark a tipping point for climate change?"

    Gives an overview of #ClimateImpacts the world has been reeling from due to #ClimateChange. 5 reporters contributed.

    csmonitor.com/Environment/2023

    (CSM used to be THE go to paper for outstanding journalism. They're still doing unique things like you can hit the 'quick read' button for a shorter version, and articles are sorted via values like #responsibility