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#ClimateDiary Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks.

Ongoing UK floods, etc, etc.

Reflecting on
1. How rapidly things have deteriorated- when we started #ClimateDiary 3 years ago, we did not yet have constant extreme weather (in Global North at least).

2. How quickly, awfully, we get used to this. Weather events as main news items: completely normal now. So much #normalisation, of course, in HOW it’s all reported.

#ShiftingBaseline syndrom

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/09/weather-tracker-spain-and-portugal-hit-by-third-fatal-storm?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2/2 If you prefer reading a blog article: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/ (It is not a transcript, it's just using a small thought of the podcast episode above), showing some photos of this "Catholic magic" from an exhibition in our museum.

#culturalHeritage #15August #Assumption #myths #rituals #shiftingBaseline #knowledge #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary

1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
#Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".

How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-08-shifting-times/id1630784381?i=1000629684574

#NatureMatchCuts #culturalHeritage #shift #Himmelfahrt #extinction #ShiftingBaseline

My neighbour mows the #lawn. Temperatures: minus 5 to plus 5°C. "I have to profit while it's so cold to get rid of all the "merde" (=💩 ).
Walkers: "Yes yes, it's bad what dirt accumulates from nature in winter." Quite young people. Mows in the frost!🥴

By dirt, they mean leaves, #SoilLife, twigs, and withered flowers. In short: #nature.
#ShiftingBaseline #gardening #GardensOfHorror #BiodiversityLoss https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-01-ep-01-the-mess-we-hate-and-the-beauty-of-brambles/id1630784381?i=1000574989496