Global warming intensifies droughts and floods

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

Global warming is shifting ocean evaporation towards poles, robbing rain from already drought stricken areas to dump it on already wet areas

by Taimoor Sohail & Jan Zika, 24/02/2022 in The Conversation
Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought: Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can give us the illusion of certainty. Fresh water will always come from the tap. Won’t it? — Unfortunately, that’s not guaranteed. Climate change is shifting where the water cycle deposits water on land, with drier areas becoming drier still, and wet areas becoming even wetter.

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Read this! putting the climate emergency in context

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

This 50th Anniversary interview with a “Limits to Growth” author puts the work in context and shows more to do than just stopping warming

by Richard Heinberg & Dennis Meadows, 22/02/2022 in Resilience.org
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth: Only rarely does a book truly change the world. In the nineteenth century, such a book was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. For the twentieth century, it was The Limits to Growth. Not only did this best-selling 1972 publication help spur the environmental movement, but it showed that the underlying dynamics of the modern industrial world are unsustainable on the timescale of a couple of human lifetimes.

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Facebook still spreading fake climate news & denial

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

Analysis shows that about half the posts from long established and well-known fake news publishers were posted with no warnings from Facebook

by Elizabeth Culliford, 24/02/2022 in Reuters Technology
Facebook did not label posts from top climate change deniers, report says: Facebook did not add labels to half of posts pushing content from top climate change deniers, according to an analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate

  • See also: The Toxic Ten: How 10 fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial

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Easy ways to lower your carbon emissions footprint

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

The article is from America and it lists several ways you can lower your carbon emissions — but no subsidy in Oz for replacing your gas guzzler!

by Washington Post Staff, 22/02/2022 in the Washington Post Climate Solutions
10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint: Small changes alone won’t stop climate change, but your actions are still worthwhile.

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Coral reef ecosystems on the way to being cooked

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

The accelerating heat content of the world’s oceans will soon be forcing coral reef ecosystems towards their collapse into mass extinction

Click here for a detailed explanation of the graph…

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Insane Gov’t stops replacing of burnt community hall

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

COALition Gov’t bureaucracy blocks grant to cover costs to replace Sarsfield (Vic) Community Centre incinerated in Black Summer

by Jedda Costa, 21/02/2022 in ABC News (Gippsland)
Bushfire-ravaged Sarsfield misses out on recovery grant due to ABN issue

The bushfire ravaged town of Sarsfield in eastern Victoria’s Gippsland region has missed out on a $3.6 million recovery grant to build a new community hall at a recreation reserve.

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IPCC’s 28 Feb climate change report will be bad news

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

Part 2 of AR6 – The IPCC’s report on climate change impacts will likely be bad enough. However the actual truth will probably be even worse

by Matt McGrath, 22/02/2022 in BBC News/Science
IPCC: Climate change report to sound warning on impacts

A new report on the impacts of climate change will likely be the most worrying assessment yet of how rising temperatures affect every living thing.

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High Arctic is warming 4x faster than the world

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

The true Arctic zone above the Arctic Circle that drives world climate change is heating at a prodigious rate. Bad news for our one Earth!

See the full article….

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What do you fix first? Methane or CO₂?

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

Methane is more powerful than CO₂ but has a relatively short life in the atmosphere. CO₂ hangs around for centuries. Both are bad news!

by John Lynch, 21/02/2022 in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Fatal distraction: the problem with the methane pledge

Over the past year, the world has experienced severe heatwaves, wildfires, and drought. As global temperature continues to creep upwards, these events will become more frequent and more extreme. Obviously, humanity needs to make a concerted effort to rapidly bring down greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as global leaders agreed to do when they signed the Paris Agreement.

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Interesting: green power can avoid winter blackouts

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

Washington Post analyzes last winter’s Texas Blackout to show renewable energy networks can cope better than fossil fuel based systems

by Kasha Patel, 21/02/2022 in The Washington Post
A year after Texas cold spell, study shows renewable energy could help prevent blackouts

Electricity blackouts could be avoided across the nation by switching to solar, wind and water energy sources, the report argues

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