Climate change

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Climate crisis: Drought hitting more than half of Europe - these are the consequences

Prolonged hot and dry weather leaves EU countries grappling with withering harvests, lowered energy production and emergency water handouts, just as the war in Ukraine prompts a spike in food and energy prices.

news.sky.com

Almost two thirds of European Union land is currently under a drought warning or in the most severe "alert" status, hampering agriculture, energy production and water supply, the European Commission has confirmed.

From water handouts in France in the west and fish deaths in Serbia in the east, to an evaporating river in Germany and withering olive trees in Spain and Italy, much of the territory is suffering what is set to be its worst drought in 500 years.

There is NO CLIMATE CHANGE.

 

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The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979 - Communications Earth & Environment

Over the past four decades, Arctic Amplification - the ratio of Arctic to global warming - has been much stronger than thought, and is probably underestimated in climate models, suggest analyses of observations and the CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations.

www.nature.com

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979.

In recent decades, the warming in the Arctic has been much faster than in the rest of the world, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification.

Numerous studies report that the Arctic is warming either twice, more than twice, or even three times as fast as the globe on average.

Here we show, by using several observational datasets which cover the Arctic region, that during the last 43 years the Arctic has been warming nearly four times faster than the globe, which is a higher ratio than generally reported in literature.

We compared the observed Arctic amplification ratio with the ratio simulated by state-of-the-art climate models, and found that the observed four-fold warming ratio over 1979–2021 is an extremely rare occasion in the climate model simulations.

The observed and simulated amplification ratios are more consistent with each other if calculated over a longer period; however the comparison is obscured by observational uncertainties before 1979.

Our results indicate that the recent four-fold Arctic warming ratio is either an extremely unlikely event, or the climate models systematically tend to underestimate the amplification.

 

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US passes historic climate bill as Europe suffers worst drought in decades.

The US Congress is on the verge of approving an historic package of measures to tackle climate change, after senators agreed a $370 billion bill to slash America's greenhouse emissions and move the country away from fossil fuels to greener, renewable energy.

 

[gaby]

Done...adopté par la CHAMBRE...great.....incontournable move.

 

[gaby]

Roughly 370 billions into energy security and climate change programs/next decade.....yep...that deserves a big smile.....

 

[sene5hos]

Last Month Was among the Hottest Julys Ever Recorded

July 2022 became one of the planet’s top three hottest Julys amid a summer of record-shattering heat for the Northern Hemisphere

www.scientificamerican.com

Copernicus also found that southwestern Europe — which suffered record-breaking heat over the last few weeks — saw its hottest July of all time.

The report comes amid a summer of record-shattering temperatures, both for Europe and for other parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
Numerous studies show that climate change is causing heat waves to become more frequent, more intense and longer lasting across much of the world.

Temperatures in the United Kingdom rose above 104 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time ever observed, shattering the country’s previous all-time heat record of 101.7 degrees multiple times in a single day.
Just days later, a scientific study concluded that climate change made the heat wave at least 10 times more likely to occur.

Extreme heat also struck parts of China last month, with “red alert” heat warnings going into effect across much of the Yangtze River Basin. In Shanghai, the country’s most populous city, temperature rose to nearly 106 degrees Fahrenheit, matching its all-time temperature record. In other cities, temperatures rose as high as 111 degrees.

 

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Climate change: Drought highlights dangers for electricity supplies

Dry conditions in the UK and Europe are stress on facilities including nuclear, say experts.

www.bbc.com

Climate change: Drought highlights dangers for electricity supplies.

The ongoing drought in the UK and Europe is putting electricity generation under pressure, say experts..

Electricity from hydropower - which uses water to generate power - has dropped by 20% overall.

And nuclear facilities, which are cooled using river water, have been restricted.

There are fears that the shortfalls are a taste of what will happen in the coming winter.

In the UK, high temperatures are hitting energy output from fossil, nuclear and solar sources.

That is because the technology in power plants and solar panels work much less well in high temperatures.

The prolonged dry spell is putting further pressure on energy supplies as Europe scrambles for alternative sources after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 

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Wildfires raged around the town of Anon de Moncayo in the province of Zaragoza, northeastern Spain on Sunday, threatening homes and forcing the evacuation of at least 1,500 local residents.

The fire, which started on Saturday and has been fanned by strong winds, has already burned 8,000 hectares (19,800 acres) in less than 24 hours according to preliminary data, Aragon’s regional president Javier Lambán told the media on Sunday.

Around 300 firefighters, including 187 military reinforcements, were trying to bring the fire under control on Sunday.

“We are still in a really critical situation with the fire around Moncayo. During the night, the behaviour of the fire was very virulent,” said the region’s general director of Natural Environment and Forestry Management, Diego Bayona.

 

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A new 'extreme heat belt' with 125 degree temps could cut through U.S.

A new report uses hyperlocal data and climate projections to show that cities as far north as Chicago could have many more days of extreme heat each year.

www.nbcnews.com

An "extreme heat belt" reaching as far north as Chicago is taking shape, a corridor that cuts through the middle of the country and would affect more than 107 million people over the next 30 years, according to new data on the country's heat risks.

The report, released Monday by the nonprofit research group First Street Foundation, found that within a column of America's heartland stretching from Texas and Louisiana north to the Great Lakes, residents could experience heat index temperatures above 125 degrees Fahrenheit by 2053 — conditions that are more commonly found in California's Death Valley or in parts of the Middle East.

2053? I won't be surprised if it starts hitting around 2038. Yep, this is the world we're leaving to future generations

 

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An unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of Europe.
It is damaging agriculture, forcing water restrictions, causing wildfires and threatening aquatic species. Water levels are falling on major rivers such as the Danube, the Rhine and the Po, endangering shipping.

There hasn't been significant rainfall for almost two months in the continent's western, central and southern regions. Britain on Friday declared a drought across southern and central England amid one of the driest summers on record.
Human-caused global warming is exacerbating conditions as hotter temperatures speed up evaporation and reduced snowfall limits fresh water supplies for irrigation

 

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A Warning? Centuries-Old Hunger Stones Emerge From Dry Riverbeds In Drought-Stricken Europe.

Water levels have dropped in major rivers across Europe as the region suffers under a historic drought. In those dry riverbeds, centuries-old warning messages have emerged, locals report.

 

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Federal water restrictions in the West underscore severity of climate crisis.

The federal government on Tuesday announced a second round of water restrictions to states that depend on the Colorado River Basin.
The move comes as the American West faces unprecedented challenges to preserve water that continues to recede rapidly.

 

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Residents living near a tributary of the Yangtze River, in the southwestern region of Chongqing, clambered along the dry riverbed on Thursday amid an unprecedented drought across the region that could last another month.

"I've never seen, indeed, never seen (drought like this). People older than me have also never seen anything like this, " said one resident.

Though not completely dried up, dead fish were visible on the exposed flats of the Jialing, a long winding tributary that flows through three provinces before joining the Yangtze in Chongqing.

China warned on Wednesday that the severe dry spell along the Yangtze could last well into September as local governments race to maintain power and find fresh water to irrigate crops ahead of the autumn harvest.

 

[wetnose]

Got a condo in Miami? Maybe a good time to SELL:

Most bleak federal report yet on high-tide/sunny-day tide floods » Yale Climate Connections

Remember the octopus in the Miami parking garage in 2016? Think of it as today’s modern-day canary in the coal mine.

yaleclimateconnections.org

Scientists at NOAA’s National Ocean Service – the agency’s water counterpart to the National Weather Service – earlier this month reported threefold and fivefold increases since 2000 in sunny-day, high-tide flooding for the southeastern U.S. and western Gulf Coast, respectively. Despite an ongoing La Niña in the eastern Pacific, which can temporarily dampen sea levels along the U.S. coast, the frequency of relentless saltwater flooding – unrelated to extreme weather – has continued to accelerate across the U.S. in 2022.

Here's what a sunny day flood looks like:

 

[wetnose]

1 in 1,000 year events used to be rare 30 years ago, but in the last MONTH, they happened 6 times

6 rare '1,000-year' rain events within a month? Climate change may force NOAA to update criteria

Six extreme events reached the local threshold to be classified by the National Weather Service as a "1-in-1,000-year" rainfall event, yet all occurred within the same month, much less a millennium.

news.yahoo.com

 

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Heatwave in China:

It's the most extreme heat event ever recorded in world history. For more than 70 days, the intense heat has blasted China's population, factories and fields. Lakes and rivers have dried up. Crops have been killed. Factories have been closed.

More than 900 million people across 17 Chinese provinces are subjected to record-breaking conditions. From Sichuan in the southwest to Shanghai in the east, temperatures have been topping 40C.

"There is nothing in world climatic history which is even minimally comparable to what is happening in China," weather historian Maximiliano Herrera told New Scientist. "This combines the most extreme intensity with the most extreme length with an incredibly huge area all at the same time."

China heatwave: 'Most extreme heat event in world history'

China is experiencing a heatwave causing potential chaos and food shortages.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

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Heavy rain has pounded large areas of Pakistan as the government declared an emergency to deal with monsoon flooding it said had affected more than 30 million people.

 

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Months of heavy rains have left behind a path of unprecedented damage and devastation in Pakistan.
Caryn Ceolin with what makes this year’s monsoon season the worst in decades.

Two days later, there are more than 1100 dead.
It's estimated that it will take at least 10 billion dollars to erase the damage.

 

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Record drought in the US West can be seen from 35000 kilometers above the Earth Nasa Publishes image.

The record drought in America's Southwest can be seen from 35,000 kilometers above Earth.
Recently released surveillance from the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) showed areas where the historic «mega-drought» has left gigantic «bathtub rings» on the country's largest reservoirs and vast, parched areas, which now can be seen from outer space, Xinhua reports.
Federal officials announced new water cuts to states that rely on the Colorado River in a suite of emergency moves to reinforce reservoirs that have hit record-low levels due to climate change and decades of drought.

According to the latest plan, Arizona and Nevada would lose 21 percent and 8 percent respectively of their annual allotment of Colorado River water.
Mexico, which also receives water from the river, will see its annual allotment reduced by 7 percent. Earlier this summer, the federal government gave the states two months to figure out how to stop using 2 to 4 million acre-feet of Colorado River water to help prop up the reservoirs -- or face the prospect that the federal government would step in and make the cuts itself.

However, water managers in Arizona, California and Nevada last week failed to agree on a plan to cut water in the lower basin after weeks of heated negotiations.

The graphic images underscore the dire threat to some 40 million Americans in seven western states that an anticipated water shortage will create, and were released last week by NASA from its satellites that circumnavigate the globe from 35,000 kilometers high. NASA satellites have been monitoring waterways in the West for years and documenting how the region is drying up reported Friday.
It's part of a trend lasting almost two decades, making it the worst drought in 1,200 years.
Part of the severity of this 'mega-drought' has been worsened by climate change,» the report added. Pictures taken from far above the planet show drastic water level drops in Lake Mead and Lake Powell and the tell-tale «bathtub rings» on canyon walls, which illustrate that water levels were dozens feet higher in just the past few years.

The Colorado River system is down to 34 percent capacity, another drop from its 40 percent capacity last year.Lake Mead, a reservoir held by the Hoover Dam and located between Nevada and Arizona, is the largest U.S. reservoir in water capacity and can hold 9.3 trillion gallons of water, a level not seen since 1999.

 

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California Heat Wave: It was a historic day in Sacramento as official readings measured a temperature of 116 degrees.

Climate change are more and more catastrophic.