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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day
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    The United Nations on Thursday recognised a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent, confirming a reading of 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) made last year.
    The record heat was reached at Argentina's Esperanza research station on the Antarctic Peninsula on February 6, 2020, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said.

    UN confirms 18.3C record heat in Antarctica
    https://phys.org/news/2021-07-183c-antarctica.html
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    Our Ocean | Timelapse in Google Earth
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHf-xSvpF-Y
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    Dalsi uspech klimaticke zaloby statu u soudu. Tentokrat z Francie

    Emmanuel Macron’s government has been ordered to take much more decisive action to meet its climate targets – or face being fined.

    The unprecedented injunction handed down on Thursday by the country’s highest administrative court means the government, which cannot appeal the ruling, is legally bound to do all it can to cut emissions before the end of March next year.

    The case dates back to February 2019, when Grande-Synthe, a suburb of Dunkirk in northern France, alongside Oxfam, Greenpeace and the climate campaign group Notre Affaire à Tous, began legal action against the government for not meeting its national, European and international climate commitments. The coastal town is particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by a warming world.

    Court Orders France to Take Swifter Action on Climate Change - DeSmog
    https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/02/court-orders-france-to-take-swifter-action-on-climate-change
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    Top! Nová “přednáška” Nata Hagense a jeho kolegů.

    Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality
    https://youtu.be/qYeZwUVx5MY
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    PER2: no ale tohle mereni je zpochybnovany ne?
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    globalna to nebude, u nas bolo tak do 30
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    PER2: ja to pochopil tak, ze Michael E. Mann myslel globalni teplotu. Protoze jestli myslel lokalni teplotu, tak asi u nej v obyvaku ;)
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    PER2: ale celkom sranda ze v ten isty den :)
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    TUHO: fake news?

    The world record for the highest recorded temperature was 134 degrees on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, according to Guinness World Records.
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    TUHO: 🍾 na klimato-thanatologii!
    MARSHUS
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    SHEFIK: otevři to v browseru co normálně nepoužíváš a máš tam jeden článek zdarma.

    MARSHUS:

    We’re Right to Worry About Nightmare Climate Scenarios
    The economist Martin Weitzman got scientists and politicians to think about the worst-case outcomes of global warming. We’re seeing them happen right now.

    It’s hot out. It’s getting hotter. The climate memes practically write themselves: “Think this summer is hot? Consider it the coolest of the rest of the 21st century.”

    It’s these events—the extreme hot days, droughts, floods, and other weather phenomena made worse through climate change—that the late, great Martin Weitzman thought about when writing about the “fat tails” of climate change, including in our joint book, Climate Shock.

    Weitzman, who died two years ago this summer, got economists to think about just how bad the worst-case scenario of global warming could be. It’s not only about rising means, medians and averages of global temperatures, which themselves should have prompted the world to cut CO₂ decades ago. Climate change, he argued forcefully in a series of academic papers in the early 2000s, was a serious concern precisely because of what we don’t yet know and can’t quantify: the unknowns and unknowables.

    The “fat tails” here refer to the long, right tail of the bell curve depicting eventual global average warming due to a doubling of CO₂. Most scientists have been focused on what’s “likely,” as, in many ways, they should. But while it’s good to plan for what’s in store, insurance is all about the low-probability, high-impact event—the long right tail of potential nightmare scenarios.

    https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i00B1cB3xneU/v0/800x-1.png

    If all of that sounds theoretical and far off, it is. It was to Weitzman, too. He himself was much more worried about the present, and about extreme weather events and their impacts.

    Here’s a typical Weitzman thought experiment that came up on a walk we took near his home on a small marsh island in Gloucester, Massachusetts. What would happen if an intense hurricane hit Boston? A powerful storm making landfall along the Gulf coast was bad enough—people would lose their jobs, maybe even their lives. But Florida has seen hurricanes before and knows it will see them again. There are emergency plans in place. Highways have marked evacuation routes. In Boston, the consequences would be devastating. Nobody in New England, including Weitzman, was prepared for that.

    Thus, he focused on climate as an insurance problem. Cutting carbon now, he argued, was valuable not just because it lowered global average temperatures, but more so because it lowered the chance of catastrophic events.

    The math, however, did not yet support his intuition. Attribution science, the work of linking individual extreme weather events to climate change, was still a relatively new discipline in the early aughts. Hurricane scientists like Kerry Emanuel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were already warning about more intense, climate change-fueled hurricanes in the North Atlantic. But such events were simply too rare to draw definitive conclusions at the time.

    Weitzman instead focused on truly long-term extremes: the link between concentrations of CO₂ in the atmosphere and eventual average global temperatures. He showed mathematically how important it was to consider the worst possible outcome of unchecked climate change. Weitzman’s reasoning flipped the standard climate-economic script: the burden of proof was no longer on those arguing that extremes mattered, it was on those arguing that they don’t. Even the low probability of a true nightmare scenario dwarfed almost every other concern.

    In making this point, Weitzman took on two other key figures in climate economics. Yale economist William Nordhaus, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize for his work, had developed a model that showed how climate change warrants only an incremental approach, encapsulated by a relatively low carbon tax. Lord Nicholas Stern, meanwhile, argued for much stronger action. Weitzman thought Stern was right, but that he was “right for the wrong reasons.”

    Now it increasingly looks like Weitzman’s own mathematical argument might prove right for the wrong reasons. It may not be the link between CO₂ concentrations and temperatures playing out over decades and centuries that shows how the effect of climate extremes could overshadow all else. The droughts, floods and heatwaves sweeping across the globe show how climate is an insurance problem, right here, right now.

    Gernot Wagner writes the Risky Climate column for Bloomberg Green. He teaches at New York University and is the co-author, joint with Martin Weitzman, of “Climate Shock.” His book “Geoengineering: the Gamble” is out this fall. Follow him on Twitter: @GernotWagner. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.
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    TUHO: 130 degrees Fahrenheit recorded in Death Valley (54.4 degrees Celsius).

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/09/death-valley-record-high-temperature/
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    Bouchejte sano!

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    Last week’s shockingly high temperatures in the northwestern US and Canada were – and are – very frightening. Heat and the fires it caused killed hundreds of people, and are estimated to have killed a billion sea creatures. Daily temperature records were smashed by more than 5C (9F) in some places. In Lytton, British Columbia, the heat reached 49.6C (121F). The wildfires that consumed the town produced their own thunderstorms, alongside thousands of lightning strikes.

    An initial study shows human activity made this heat dome – in which a ridge of high pressure acts as a lid preventing warm air from escaping – at least 150 times more likely. The World Weather Attribution Group of scientists, who use computer climate models to assess global heating trends and extreme weather, have warned that last week exceeded even their worst-case scenarios. While it has long been recognised that the climate system has thresholds or tipping points beyond which humans stand to lose control of what happens, scientists did not hide their alarm that an usually cool part of the Pacific northwest had been turned into a furnace. One climatologist said the prospect opened up by the heat dome “blows my mind”.

    The Guardian view on the heat dome: burning through the models | Editorial | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/08/the-guardian-view-on-the-heat-dome-burning-through-the-models
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    MARSHUS: paywall :( nemuzes to sem zkopirovat?
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    PAD: s tema tepelnejma cerpadlama mi pripominas tenhle zkusebni projekt v anglii
    4,5km hlubokej vrt (2x - jeden bude vytapet biodomes a druhej bude elektrarna)
    https://youtu.be/o--vpET3e4g
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    David Barnden
    hlttps://twitter.com/dbarnden/status/1412928087302447105?s=19

    BREAKING: It is now officially Australian law that the Environment Minister has a duty to avoid causing personal injury and death to Australian children from carbon emissions when approving a coal extension project.

    Sharma by her litigation representative Sister Marie Brigid Arthur v Minister for the Environment (No 2) [2021] FCA 774
    https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2021/2021fca0774
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    Top @thejuicemedia clip on oil & gas company influence over govt agencies #BOM and #gisera. Draws on @jarrapin Bureau of Meteorology scoops (BOM playing down climate change)

    Honest Government Ad | We Make Everything Good Sh!t
    https://youtu.be/-uXo7wtGW7M
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    Western North American extreme heat virtually impossible without human-caused climate change – World Weather Attribution
    https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-american-extreme-heat-virtually-impossible-without-human-caused-climate-change/

    Za vlnou veder stojí lidé a oteplování, není pochyb, tvrdí vědci - Seznam Zprávy
    https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/za-vlnou-veder-stoji-lide-a-oteplovani-neni-pochyb-tvrdi-vedci-169278
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