Global Climate Change Science News

Post Reply
User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6938
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by macdoc » Sun Dec 12, 2021 4:28 pm

Weather porn ...y'all might be correct about a climate change link.

Image

Image
Kentucky tornadoes: Desperate search for survivors as death toll rises
Published1 hour ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59623970

damn 97 and she has the presence of mind AND the physical ability to climb in a bathtub and survive it. :o
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6938
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by macdoc » Sun Dec 12, 2021 5:13 pm

It was not until the courts got involved that acid rain was curbed.

C02 a tougher ask but more of an existential risk....maybe the ball is rolling in the courts now.
Why climate lawsuits are surging
:tup:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2021 ... ate-change
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
Brian Peacock
Tipping cows since 1946
Posts: 37953
Joined: Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:44 am
About me: Ablate me:
Location: Location: Location:
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Dec 27, 2021 7:52 am

Cost of world’s 10 most expensive natural disasters rises to $170bn, aid group finds

The 10 most expensive weather disasters this year caused more than $170bn in damage, $20bn more than in 2020, a British aid group has found.

Christian Aid said the upward trend reflects the effects of manmade climate change and added that the 10 disasters in question also killed at least 1,075 people and displaced 1.3 million.

Each year, the aid group calculates the cost of weather incidents like flooding, fires and heatwaves according to insurance claims. In 2020, it found the world’s 10 costliest weather disasters caused $150bn in damage, making this year’s total an increase of 13%.

The most expensive disaster in 2021 was Hurricane Ida, which lashed the eastern United States and caused around $65bn in damage. After crashing into Louisiana at the end of August, it made its way northward and caused extensive flooding in New York City and the surrounding area.

Spectacular and deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July was next on the list at $43bn in losses.

A cold snap and winter storm in Texas that took out the vast state’s power grid cost $23bn, followed by flooding in China’s Henan province in July that cost an estimated $17.6bn...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... roup-finds
Rationalia relies on voluntary donations. There is no obligation of course, but if you value this place and want to see it continue please consider making a small donation towards the forum's running costs.
Details on how to do that can be found here.

.

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

Frank Zappa

"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
.

User avatar
Woodbutcher
Stray Cat
Stray Cat
Posts: 8178
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:54 pm
About me: Still crazy after all these years.
Location: Northern Muskeg, The Great White North
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by Woodbutcher » Tue Dec 28, 2021 12:35 am

At times I think it would be nice to visit a warm country, but everywhere you have to deal with fucking humans...The coronavirus epidemic from Mother Earth was a disappointing pandemic. There is still hope, the virus will mutate again because people refuse to be vaccinated! Let's hope the next mutation is Omygod strain!
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.-Red Green
"Yo". Rocky
"Never been worried about what other people see when they look at me". Gawdzilla
"No friends currently defined." Friends & Foes.

User avatar
pErvinalia
On the good stuff
Posts: 59295
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:08 pm
About me: Spelling 'were' 'where'
Location: dystopia
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by pErvinalia » Tue Dec 28, 2021 1:44 am

The outback of Australia is warm and there's not many people.
Sent from my penis using wankertalk.
"The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007.
"Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that..
"Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt.
"I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.

User avatar
Woodbutcher
Stray Cat
Stray Cat
Posts: 8178
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:54 pm
About me: Still crazy after all these years.
Location: Northern Muskeg, The Great White North
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by Woodbutcher » Tue Dec 28, 2021 8:30 am

Too warm. Anything above 23C is too uncomfortable.
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.-Red Green
"Yo". Rocky
"Never been worried about what other people see when they look at me". Gawdzilla
"No friends currently defined." Friends & Foes.

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6938
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by macdoc » Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:07 am

You can freeze to death easily enough in the outback as it is desert.
You would not like Cairns now as daily temps are 29-33 but that's only for 3-4 months. After that it's wonderful.

Average temperatures range from 17.5 - 26°C (63.5 - 78.8°F) and there is low rainfall. In spring average temperatures range from 20.5 – 29°C (68.9 - 84.2°F).

Even tonight at peak summer it is 23 for sleeping. We rarely ever run the AC and have no heat in the house.
But January is wet.....
Inches 6 hours...................mm
8.17 January 29, 2020.... 207.5
10.90 January 27, 2019... 276.9
8.57 March 26, 2018..... 217.7
5.32 October 19, 2017.... 135.1

But where the Rainforest meets the Great Barrier reef is lovely.
https://www.gtamotorcycle.com/xf/thread ... 39/page-35

Oh yeah very few people.
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47197
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:25 am

Disaster movie sparks discussions:
The Earth system is breaking down now with breathtaking speed. And climate scientists have faced an even more insurmountable public communication task than the astronomers in Don’t Look Up, since climate destruction unfolds over decades – lightning fast as far as the planet is concerned, but glacially slow as far as the news cycle is concerned – and isn’t as immediate and visible as a comet in the sky.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... 1640787169
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
pErvinalia
On the good stuff
Posts: 59295
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:08 pm
About me: Spelling 'were' 'where'
Location: dystopia
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by pErvinalia » Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:30 am

Watched Don't Look Up. It was just ok.
Sent from my penis using wankertalk.
"The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007.
"Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that..
"Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt.
"I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6938
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by macdoc » Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:42 am

unsubtle perhaps
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
Brian Peacock
Tipping cows since 1946
Posts: 37953
Joined: Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:44 am
About me: Ablate me:
Location: Location: Location:
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:33 pm

More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021.
More than 400 weather stations around the world beat their all-time highest temperature records in 2021, according to a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years.

Maximiliano Herrera keeps track of extreme weather around the world, and publishes an annual list of records broken in the previous year. He and many other climatologists and meteorologists who follow these issues closely expect that 2021 will probably not be the hottest year in history (Noaa and Nasa will publish their results in the next few days).

But it is likely to be in the top five or six, continuing the long-term upward trend. The past six years have been the six hottest on record.

And, as is now the norm, a sheaf of new heat records have been broken, according to Herrera. Ten countries – Oman, UAE, Canada, the United States, Morocco, Turkey, Taiwan, Italy, Tunisia and Dominica – broke or tied their national highest record, 107 countries beat their monthly high temperature record, and five beat their monthly low temperature record...
Rationalia relies on voluntary donations. There is no obligation of course, but if you value this place and want to see it continue please consider making a small donation towards the forum's running costs.
Details on how to do that can be found here.

.

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

Frank Zappa

"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
.

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6938
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by macdoc » Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:50 am

What is not tracked well is the record night time temperatures.
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
Svartalf
Offensive Grail Keeper
Posts: 40340
Joined: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:42 pm
Location: Paris France
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by Svartalf » Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:46 am

what we need is more nuclear power stations to make sure the AC will never run out of juice.
Embrace the Darkness, it needs a hug

PC stands for "Patronizing Cocksucker" Randy Ping

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6938
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by macdoc » Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:53 am

Yes
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6938
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

Post by macdoc » Wed Jan 26, 2022 6:54 am

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/10755607 ... -baltimore

When the courts got involved with Acid Rain/NO2 damage the progress in cleaning up was rapid.
Been a much longer journey for CO2 but maybe finally some progress.

Took a while for Big Tobacco to cough up...Big Sugar might have dodged entirely.
Big Oil might just get nicked
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests