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This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives
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Heat waves broke temperature records around the world this past summer, but it will still be one of the coolest summers of the next few decades
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Extreme heat has been a constant in the news this past summer: In July a punishing heat wave in Europe pushed temperatures across parts of the U.K. above 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) for the first time in history. That same month was viciously hot across China, including in Shanghai—home to 26 million people—which tied its highest-ever July reading of 105.6 degrees F (40.9 degrees C). And even before the summer officially began, searing heat settled over the U.S. South in May. Amarillo, Tex., recorded its earliest day with temperatures topping 100 degrees F (37.8 degrees C), and Abilene, Tex., endured 14 straight days of 100 degrees F or higher, doubling its previous streak.

Those were just a few of the events that contributed to the Northern Hemisphere’s land areas experiencing their second-warmest June and third-warmest July on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But temperatures that make big news today may seem ho-hum—even relatively cool—within a couple of decades, as the continued burning of fossil fuels pushes baseline temperatures ever higher. Heat waves are also becoming longer and more frequent. Not every summer will be hotter than the one just before it, of course, but global warming means that the heat records set today will eventually fall down the charts. As U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said during the July launch of Heat.gov, a government website for heat information, “The reality is, given the scientific predictions, this summer—with its oppressive and widespread heat waves—is likely to be one of the coolest summers of the rest of our lives.”

In a world without human-caused climate change, we would expect to see records set fairly randomly, following the whims of our planet’s natural variations in climate. But global warming has effectively loaded the dice, with record heat outpacing record cold. This imbalance is starkly evident in the famous “warming stripes” graphics created by climate scientist Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading in England. These graphics render each year’s average temperature as a shade of red or blue, depending on how much above or below the long-term average it is. The version below shows summer temperatures going back to the mid-19th century for the land areas of the Northern Hemisphere, relative to the average for 1971–2000. Though there is the odd pink or orange year scattered throughout the record, the pileup of deep red bars in recent decades immediately jumps out. Even 1998—which at the time was far and away the hottest summer (and year) on record because of an exceptionally strong El Nińo event—has been far surpassed. Similarly, the 1990s were supplanted as the hottest decade by the 2000s, which were then replaced by the 2010s. The 2020s will eventually follow suit.
Entire article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-hot-summer-is-one-of-the-coolest-of-the-rest-of-our-lives/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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What else did you expect from colonialist bloodlines?



(And why are those guys all wearing Western suits FFS?! Don't they feel hot dressed like that in the midst of global warming?)

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Even Harris is now saying it:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-silent-kamala-harris-141514595.html

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The White House is defending Vice President Kamala Harris over her recent comments that "equity" needs to be at the center of the response to hurricanes.

The controversy erupted after Harris was asked during a Democratic National Committee event about the White House's efforts to respond to climate change-related weather disasters within the U.S. and abroad.

"It is our lowest-income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making," she continued. "So we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity."

The less you contribute to global warming, the more you suffer its consequences. This is how Western civilization works.

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg15316/#msg15316

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg15113/#msg15113

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg14839/#msg14839

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg14809/#msg14809

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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kamala-harris-tell-conservatives-where-153600035.html

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ team and the White House are in full damage control mode after she said earlier this week that the federal government would focus on racial equity in its response to the Hurricane Ian disaster.

Imma need them to stop it, because Harris told no lies and said nothing she needs to be equivocal about. She told a truth, a truth that’s been true for a long time and moreover a truth that, if the world around us is any indication, will only be more true as time goes on.
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What Harris didn’t say is the thing that scares racist white folks the most—that poor Black people would get priority in determining how hurricane relief money was spent. But so the hell what if she had?

The fact that extreme weather conditions impact poor people—who in this country disproportionately tend to be Black and Hispanic and live in places and under conditions more prone to the consequences of natural disasters—made the Fox News crowd’s heads pop completely off their shoulders.
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the reality is that government responses to natural disasters in this country have nearly always centered on race and class. It’s just that until now, that dynamic has only been actualized in ways that hurt poor people. The best examples, of course, were the local, state and federal government responses to Hurricane Katrina. Poor and working class Black folk were more likely to have lived in low-lying parts of New Orleans, close to the bodies of water where breached levees failed to hold back the deadly flood.

As a result, overwhelmingly Black neighborhoods like the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans East and Gentilly is where the most people were left stranded when the water rose. It was residents of those neighborhoods who were left to fend for themselves, wading through floodwaters or walking miles to shelter inside the then-named Superdome after being stranded for days on rooftops and overpasses without food or water or the protection of police, who had largely abandoned the city. And it’s those communities that, nearly two decades later, still haven’t fully recovered.

But you don’t need to look to a natural disaster a quarter century ago to get Harris’ point. Jackson, Mississippi, a majority-Black city that also happens to be the capital of its state, suffered a near total failure of its municipal water system just last month. That failure was preceded by record flooding, which was fueled by the same climate change feeding megastorms like Ian and Katrina before it.

Those storms are expected to happen more frequently and to leave more death and destruction in their wake. The people who stand to lose the most—who stand to die the most—are the ones who have always been on the wrong side of structural inequity in this country. As we speak, conservatives are pretending the vice president of the United States saying hurricane relief needs to happen in an equitable way is bad thing, while every Florida House Republican last week voted against a bill that includes federal disaster relief funds that could be used to help their own state.

They can afford to talk out of both sides of their mouths because the people hurt worst by their inaction aren’t wealthy whites who tend to vote GOP and have enough insurance to rebuild. In the meantime, Black Floridians are wondering if anyone will help them.

Harris looks like the only politician even talking about that, and she shouldn’t walk back from it.

I agree.

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Now in headline form:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-climate-burdens-fall-heaviest-162445093.html

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Where climate burdens fall heaviest: Nations with lightest emissions

This is the message we must keep pushing!

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Climate change is deeply unfair, with those countries that have contributed least to the problem feeling the most devastating consequences.
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“It’s the underdeveloped countries that suffer the most,” says Nafi Fall, a college student marching down a wide boulevard in Dakar’s Medina neighborhood a week ago, part of a protest meant to call attention to the disastrous effects of climate change in Africa.
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“While we’re all experiencing the climate crisis, it is falling disproportionately on the poorest and most marginalized people, who contributed the least to the problem,” says Rachel Cleetus, policy director with the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “And it’s the richer nations, like the United States, the nations of the European Union, who bear much of the responsibility.”
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“People in developed countries must realize that people in Pakistan, the poorest of the poor, have paid for the quality of life and luxuries [Western societies] enjoy due to advanced industrialization in their societies,” said Pakistani Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal in a recent press briefing.
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“The climate crisis is so deeply unfair,” says Dr. Cleetus. “On so many levels, it’s veered off into this space of continued unfairness. Now the question is, can we try to set some things right?”

Yes, most immediately by ceasing to obstruct:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/

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‘It’s humiliating’: activist says Indigenous voices are being ignored on climate crisis
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A Kulkalgal activist from the Torres Strait Islands has said the way the world often treats Indigenous people is an insult and he is attending the Cop27 conference in Egypt 'fighting for our home'.  Yessie Mosby, who in September was part of a group of claimants who made history in a landmark legal case that found the Australian government should compensate Torres Strait Islanders over climate crisis failures, said: 'Whether it's us in the saltwater, people of the Pacific Islands, or the people of the plains and the mountains, the swamps, who are facing climate change, we really want our voices to be heard. And we really need action.'


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I'm Stepping over corpses daily on my way to work because of climate change here in the UK 🇬🇧 and the whole experience has just been truly heartbreaking and horrifying 😪💔
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it's the people who are impacted the most and with the most knowledge that are also ignored the most
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Indigenous and ignored. OK. But what's he against exactly?  What's his issue? All I heard was a load of empty words. He came across as a stooge to push a non-specific and non-defined message. He wants his voices to be heard? OK the Guardian are there for you... now say something
"We really need action" was my major take-away from what the guest was saying....
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I wish more people cared about earth as much as they cared about who created it
We can be sure of one thing, "who" ever created the planet did not care about consent and the fact that the living would be forced to eat each other here! 

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WION Climate Tracker: Scientists revive 48,500-year-old ‘zombie virus’ buried in ice | English News
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French scientists have revived a 48,500-year-old "zombie virus" buried under a frozen lake in Russia. Scientists have long warned that the thawing of permafrost due to atmospheric warming will worsen climate change by freeing previously trapped greenhouse gases like methane.


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Best Historical Weapon VS Zombie Hordes (Might Surprise You)
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What would be the most practical choice to defend yourself against shambling undead hordes in the apocalypse? Believe it or not, I don't think it's a spear, for a few reasons. Nor a longsword either. Yeah... try to recover from that shock. :p




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The race for the Arctic is ramping up. Here’s why.
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Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

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The cooling effects of a volcano, if there are any, only linger for one to three years, so we can't count on erupting our way to a cooler planet...

Bummer...

Mauna Loa is erupting in Hawaii. Here are 7 things to know about volcanoes.
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Earth is rumbling and volcanoes are erupting around the world this week.

On Sunday, Mount Semeru in Indonesia began erupting, shrouding East Java province in ash and forcing 2,000 residents to flee. A volcano on the island of Stromboli off the coast of Italy erupted on Monday, triggering earthquakes and forcing schools to close.

Meanwhile, Mauna Loa on Hawaii’s Big Island continued shooting up plumes and oozing out lava after beginning its recent eruption on November 27. It last erupted in 1984. The US Geological Survey warned today that the lava flow is approaching Daniel K. Inouye Highway, the main artery bridging the island, but noted that the flow fronts have slowed.

The nearby Kilauea volcano, one of the state’s youngest and rowdiest, is also erupting, but most of the activity is contained to its crater for now.
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/11/17327564/volcano-eruption-mauna-loa-kilauea-hawaii-lava-science-7-things

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Millions in California under weather alert as ‘much more rain coming,’ officials say
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More than 65 million Californians are under a weather alert as strong wind and heavy rain brought flooding along the state’s coastline, killing at least a dozen people. Director of the Santa Barbara Office of Emergency Management, Kelly Hubbard, joins News NOW to share how first responders are coping with the extreme conditions and what people should do if they’re impacted by the storm. 

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Mass evacuations in California due to severe flooding


California faces new round of rainfall, flooding
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Historic rainstorms continue to batter the state of California leaving millions of residents are under a flood watch and over 13,000 are still without power. “Its been tough,” said a Felton Grove homeowner. 


Violent tornadoes wreak havoc in southern US states
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Recovery efforts continue after severe storms damaged power lines, severed tree limbs and sent debris flying into streets in Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky, where at least 35 preliminary tornado reports were recorded.

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Oil giant ExxonMobil predicted climate change in 1970s, scientists claim - BBC News
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Researchers have claimed one of the world’s largest oil companies accurately forecast how burning fossil fuels would warm the planet decades ago.

Scientists claim ExxonMobil - which has made billions from selling fossil fuels -  publicly denied the link.

The oil giant denied the allegations, telling the BBC: “Those who talk about how 'Exxon Knew' are wrong in their conclusions.”

The study, by Harvard University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change, analysed data in ExxonMobil’s internal documents and found predictions made in the 1970s were often more accurate than Nasa scientists.

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How a Humble Mushroom Could Save Forests and Fight Climate Change
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Inoculating trees with an edible fungi can produce more protein per hectare than pasture-raised beef, while reforesting, storing carbon and restoring biodiversity.
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The conversion of forests to agricultural land is happening at a mind-boggling speed. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at around 10 million hectares every year.

Compared to 2012, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is predicting a massive increase in agricultural demand of 50% by 2050. In South America, around 71% of rainforest has been replaced by pasture and a further 14% has been lost to the production of animal feed. One of the key successes of COP26 was a pledge from world leaders to end deforestation by 2030.

From a climate and carbon point of view, we know that cutting down trees at this scale is devastating. But the impacts run deeper: 75% of the world’s accessible fresh water arises from forested watersheds. And with 80% of the world’s population facing a threat to their water security, trees play a very significant role in stemming desertification and preventing soil erosion. They also protect against flooding in coastal areas as well as being home to a huge number of species, many of which are important crop pollinators...
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Miraculous Mushrooms

This is exactly what our latest research focuses on, looking at fungi that grow in partnership with trees, in a mutually beneficial arrangement. This is a common association and some species can produce large mushroom fruiting bodies, such as the highly prized truffle. Aside from this delicacy, cultivation of these species is a new and emerging field. But progress is especially being made in one group known as milk caps, that include a beautiful and unusually bright blue species known as Lactarius indigo, or the blue milk cap.

High in dietary fibre and essential fatty acids, this edible mushroom’s blue pigmentation means they are easy to identify safely. With extracts demonstrating antibacterial properties and an ability to kill cancer cells, the blue milk cap could also be a source of pharmacological potential...

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[...]The agriculture on cleared forested land is dominated by pastoral beef production where around 4.76-6.99kg of protein per hectare per year is produced. But, if this system was replaced with planting trees hosting the milk cap fungus, the same parcel of land could produce 7.31kg of protein every year. The mushrooms can be consumed fresh, processed or the protein content can be extracted to produce other food items...
Entire article: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-a-humble-mushroom-could-save-forests-and-fight-climate-change?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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The fact that no effective action is being done to address global warming must mean that it's ok for climate change to be "white".