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‘One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer
From Hawaii to Canada, searing heat and deadly wildfires are raising the alarm about global warmingCNN
In a record year of catastrophes, FEMA’s disaster fund is slipping into the red before hurricane season even peaks
BBC ffs
Do you mind if I ask what sources you follow mate? Podcasts, forums or whatever. Since post-musk twitter and the uni's are off for summer I don't get as much info regularly and would be keen to keep up to date.
Air pollution exposure early in pregnancy increases gestational diabetes risk
USC study: prenatal depression, with disrupted immune and hormonal functions, could make the case worse.
Damn wokies have ruined America's past-time. Actually, this is a cool paper written by some of my colleagues:
journals.ametsoc.org
If you're a Cubs fan like me, you can expect some high-scoring games in the future (assuming we don't blow ourselves up before that).
Global Warming, Home Runs, and the Future of America’s Pastime
Abstract Home runs in baseball—fair balls hit out of the field of play—have risen since 1980, driving strategic shifts in gameplay. Myriad factors likely account for these trends, with some speculating that global warming has contributed via a reduction in ballpark air density. Here we use...
If you're a Cubs fan like me, you can expect some high-scoring games in the future (assuming we don't blow ourselves up before that).
Fossil fuel corporations and the right wing politicians who bat for them are bio-terrorists
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Politicians front and centre on this imo -- we/they knew how Corporations operate and not only allowed them to continue as they were in light of the information above decades ago, but relaxed legislation, helped them dominate policy, permitted GDP to become synonymous with carbon usage and massively increased the public's dependence on such.
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Libya floods wipe out quarter of city, death toll passes 2,000
More than 2,000 people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern coastal city of Derna.
Libya floods wipe out quarter of city, death toll passes 2,000
More than 2,000 people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern coastal city of Derna.www.reuters.com
As devastating as that is, it is clearly no comparison to the slight inconvenience of giving up your SUV. Now that is worth taking to the streets and protesting.
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It's probably me being a duffer like, but I was listening to a scientist yesterday whilst I was shelling beans and he was saying that in the UK when the media/gov. are speaking about reducing carbon consumption the discourse is always in terms of an average and how that's very misleading as there is an extreme wealth disparity here. The poor majority have far less consumption to reduce than the top ten percent with their multiple flights, vehicles, houses and attendant consumption and this needs to be reinforced as much as possible. I'd just never considered that aspect before, because, as he claims, it's usually presented as an average like 'we're all in it together' whereas we certainly aren't.
Its presented that way both for honest and dishonest reasons, one of the concepts currently discussed is how to reduce doom-ism and keep people engaged in a concept they believe can be achieved, also public opinion and public pressure are important weapons, and you again want people to feel engaged and empowered, few things are more discouraging than being a passive stakeholder in your own environment.
There is no doubt of course that it is lower income folk that both cause the least climate damage and also suffer the greatest impacts, and corporations and the wealthy take advantage of the presentation as an average. I would say I personally don't see this as a reason to not make the sacrifices I am capable of without greatly reducing my life, while also still campaigning against corporate and government bio-terrorism.
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