#Hurricanes, cold waves, #tornadoes: #Weather #disasters in #USA dominate natural #disaster losses in 2021

source: https://www.munichre.com/en/company/media-relations/media-information-and-corporate-news/media-information/2022/natural-disaster-losses-2021.html

The images of natural disasters in 2021 are disturbing. Climate research increasingly confirms that extreme weather has become more likely. Societies need to urgently adapt to increasing weather risks and make climate #protection a priority. Insurers meet their responsibilities by covering a portion of the risks and losses. By applying risk-adequate premiums, they put a price on natural hazards, thereby encouraging carefully considered behaviour to limit the losses. At the same time, severe volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in 2021 showed that we should not overlook these categories of natural disasters either.

#climate #crisis #politics #economy #problem #future #earth #nature #hurricane #tornado #flood #warming #volcano

Copernicus: Globally, the seven hottest years on record were the last seven; #carbon #dioxide and #methane concentrations continue to rise

source: https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-globally-seven-hottest-years-record-were-last-seven

Anyone who still claims not to believe in #climate #change is just a hopeless idiot.

#warming #temperature #crisis #earth #environment #nature #future #humanity #science #statistics #problem #news

'Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years,' scientists say.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/13/thwaites-glacier-melt-antarctica/

'Will the owners of the #blue #planet between #Venus and #Mars please attend to your #vehicle.

It is #overheating.'

#Scientists have discovered a series of worrying #weaknesses in the #ice #shelf holding back one of #Antarctica’s most #dangerous #glaciers, suggesting that this important #buttress against #sea-level-rise could #shatter within the next three to five years"

#antarctic #thwaites #glacier #ice-shelf #itgc #collapse #climate #environment #warming #ocean #audio

Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say

Scientists fear the collapse of this important buttress against sea level rise would unleash the fast-moving glacier behind it

Wildfires are erasing Western forests. #Climate #change is making it permanent.

source: https://grist.org/climate/climate-change-forest-loss/

The driving force here is that the rising global temperature is wiping out seedlings. In many spots around the U.S. West, summer temperatures are already high enough to cook young trees before they can develop thick protective bark. Others have become so dry that seedlings shrivel before their roots can grow deep enough to reach #groundwater. Both circumstances can thwart forest regeneration. Mature trees can survive in these areas long after they stop reproducing. But when fires wipe out these forests and seedings can’t get a foothold, they are replaced with grasses and dense #brush.

#nature #crisis #warming #temprature #usa #fire #tree #forest #plants #future #news

Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent.

The evidence is clear: Climate change is turning forests into scrublands across large swaths of the Western U.S. after wildfires.

Global #temperature curve plotted for 24,000 years

source: Nature.com

#warming #climate #nature #environment #earth #news #science

Gonna Get Worse Before it Gets Better....if it Does

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/07/weather/weather-extreme-rainfall-climate-change/index.html

#climate #warming #weather

New high-resolution climate model predicts more extreme weather events in the future

A first-of-its-kind study uses a new high-resolution climate model showing local climate-fueled extreme weather risks projected decades in advance -- and the results aren't good.

Sir David Attenborough ~ Forests and Land Use

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lt7kII0xM

"To have any chance of keeping #below 1.5°C of #global #warming, we must halt #deforestation" ~ #SirDavidAttenborough
#UPDATE: Over #130 #countries, covering #90% of the #world’s #forests, have now #committed to #halt and #reverse #forest #loss and #land #degradation by #2030.

#davidattenborough #land-use #COP26 #climatechange #un #summit #restore #natural #world #environment #ecology #nature #indigenous #guardians #ecosystems

Mysteries of massive #holes forming in Siberian #permafrost unlocked by scientists

source: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/world/siberia-craters-arctic-climate-change-scn/index.html

The craters are thought to be linked to #climate change.

#Siberia #warming #environment #future #warming #mystery #news

Mysteries of massive holes forming in Siberian permafrost unlocked by scientists

Drone photography, 3D modeling and artificial intelligence are now helping scientists understand how a number of massive craters have formed in the Siberian tundra -- a dramatic and new geological phenomenon thought to be linked to climate change.

#COP26 - Actionable #Climate #Science for Policymakers

Source: http://berkeleyearth.org/policy-insights/

That is well above the goals of the #Paris climate #agreement and would lead to catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate. To keep global #warming below 1.5°C this century, the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement, the world needs to halve annual #greenhouse gas #emissions in the next eight years.

#future #environment #problem #politics #fail #earth

Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/rain-falls-peak-greenland-ice-cap-first-time-on-record-climate-crisis

#rain #icecap #arctic #snow #glaciers #polar #regions #climatechange #crisis #environment #warming #weather #rainfall #sea-level #precipitation

#climate #environment #protest #temperature #warming #weather #future #humanity #politics #earth

European #record #temperature of 48.8°C registered in #Sicily

Lucifer heatwave has Italy baking

Source: https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/08/11/european-record-temperature-of-48.8c-registered-in-sicily_6e8ce605-43f3-4542-b913-88fe19718bc8.html

#europe #Italy #weather #warming #climate #environment #problem #news

European record temperature of 48.8°C registered in Sicily - English

Lucifer heatwave has Italy baking © ANSA

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report ~ 09August2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z149vLKn9d8
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
https://t.co/4t8uyqoLXN

' #Climatechange includes both #global #warming driven by #human-induced #emissions of #greenhouse #gases and the resulting large-scale #shifts in #weather #patterns.'
According to the new #IntergovernmentalPanelOnClimateChange #IPCC #climatereport, the #carbon #budget that gives us the best odds of staying below 1,5°C runs out in less than 5 and a half years at our current #emissions rate. The new report contains no real surprises. It confirms what we already know from thousands of previous studies and reports - that we are in an #emergency. It’s a solid (but cautious) #summary of the current best available science. It doesn't tell us what to do. It is up to us to be brave and take decisions based on the #scientific #evidence provided in these reports. We can still avoid the worst #consequences, but not if we continue like today, and not without treating the #crisis like a crisis.
#environment #sixth #assessment #press #conference #climate #2021 #physical #science #basis #weather #global #warming #un #WorldMeteorologicalOrganization #wmo #q-a

Even Noah Would Be Amazed

#WakeUpPeople!

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/19/even-noah-would-be-amazed/

“ #Working” means: to #help #clean-up after the #tragedies “here,” to help other #victims of #tragedy both near and far, and to face up to #global #warming #climatechange and #biodiversity #collapse, with #real and #cooperative #action to help #slow-the-pace of our #expanding #planetary #catastrophe.
#video #noah #apocalypsenow #flooding #globalwarming #climate #science #rainfall #germany #belgium #france #luxembourg #western #europe #humanity #fires #heat #nw #usa #canada #siberia #planetary #reality #climate #weather #biosphere #environment

Even Noah Would Be Amazed

The devastation caused by the rapid massive flooding in the region of Western Europe at the confluence of the borders of Germany, Belgium, France and Luxembourg during the third week of July 2021, when three times the monthly average of rainfall...

Wildfires fueled by heat wave and drought surge across California and western US

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/07/16/fire-j16.html

#Capitalist #free-market #solutions to #climatechange are a #death #trap. The only solution to climate change is a #planned #socialist #response directed by the #working #class, which meets the immediate #needs of #people across the #planet, not the #care and #nurturing of the bottom lines of #billionaires.

#extreme #heat #wildfires #US #Canada #evacuations #California #Oregon #Washington #Idaho #BritishColumbia #environment #heatwave #drought #global #warming #severe #crisis

Wildfires fueled by heat wave and drought surge across California and western US

Extreme heat is triggering wildfires across several US states and Canada, requiring evacuations in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.

#climate #crisis #environment #greta #quote #future #earth #humanity #education #science #gretaThunberg #protest #fff #FridaysForFututre #politics #warming

Thousands of #Sea Creatures Found Boiled Alive After #Canada's Deadly #Heatwave

Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/canada-s-sea-got-so-boiling-it-cooked-thousands-of-shellfish-and-starfish-alive

The #death of these #animals will temporarily affect #water #quality in the area as mussels and clams filter the sea...

Important note for #humanity:
We are part of the environment. If the environment dies, then we also die from the effects.

#climate #crisis #warming #temperature #weather #environment #problem #news #future #science

Thousands of Sea Creatures Found Boiled Alive After Canada's Deadly Heatwave

Tens of thousands of clams, mussels, sea stars, and snails were found boiled to death in a Vancouver, Canada, beach during the country's record-breaking heat wave.

Sixty years of #climate #change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)

source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored

“The climate change began in 1960,” the report’s first page informs us, “but no one, including the climatologists, recognised it.” Crop failures in the #SovietUnion and India in the early 1960s had been attributed to standard unlucky #weather. The US shipped grain to #India and the Soviets killed off livestock to eat, “and premier Nikita #Khrushchev was quietly deposed”.

#invigoration #history #news #problem #future #CO2 #crisis #earth #environment #nature #warming #politics #economy #Exxon #fail

What Can Fungi Teach Us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcIQpmiZ3Y

'Fungi are true #survival #specialists. They can live without #air and #sunlight, and cope with #heat and #cold. Some #researchers believe that #fungi can provide #clues as to how #humans can better #adapt to #global #warming, because they’ve #survived every major #climate #change that’s taken place over the course of millions of years.'
#whatcanfungiteachus #dw #documentary #mushrooms #science #fungal #biotechnology #yeast #chemical #mold #pharmaceutical #diversity

Aren't you glad that the Koch Industries still peddle that we're in a global cooling period?

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/06/ground-temperatures-hit-118-degrees-in-the-arctic-circle/

#global #warming #climatechange