TUHO:
Suffering from drought and water shortages since March, they've taken to the streets in the last couple of weeks to express their anger with the government and its poor management of water resources.
"We've known about the problem of water scarcity and the threat it poses to national security for more than 30 years,"
According to official figures, Iran now has 192 dams — around 10 times it did some 40 years ago. "The government is seeking quick solutions that promise short-term success.

"As, for example, when you point out that you shouldn't, on principle, build large dams in a dry country like Iran, because too much water evaporates from the reservoirs."
Environmental experts have said the current water shortage is also the consequence of a mistaken understanding of agriculture development and progress. The government continues to be focused on maximizing self-sufficiency, not least as a response to sanctions and pressure from abroad.

It has been promoting agriculture and allowing the digging of deep wells, which have exhausted the available water resources. The traditional crops in Khuzestan are rice and sugar cane, both of which require large amounts of water. Around 90% of Iran's total water consumption is used up by agriculture.


tldr: lets blame clima change for everything

Současné požáry na Sibiři mohou být nejhorší v historii. Dosud shořely skoro dva miliony hektarů lesa. Do Jakutska, který je nejvíc postiženou oblastí, poslala vláda armádu. Teploty v regionu letos dosáhly rekordních téměř 40 stupňů Celsia. Roztává i místní permafrost. Podle úřadů je to další doklad změn klimatu.

https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/svet/3346784-na-sibiri-shorely-dva-miliony-hektaru-lesa-vlada-poslala-na-pomoc-armadu

Íránskou provincií Chúzistán otřásly před několika dny krvavé protesty. Lidé demonstrovali kvůli nedostatku vody. Na videích pořízených na demonstracích lze vidět, jak tvrdě byl protest bezpečnostními jednotkami rozehnán. Na některých záběrech policisté dokonce střílí do protestujících.

https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/video-vedra-az-50-stupnu-v-iranu-vypukly-nepokoje-kvuli-nedostatku-vody-170610

Eliot Jacobson
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1419996328726126598?s=19

As of July 25, Arctic sea ice is the 4-th lowest. Last year's record low was 6.328 million km^2 on July 25. No Blue Ocean Event this year -- lucky humans! Another La Nina means no BOE in 2022, so we've got another year at least. But fire/flood/drought/heatwaves will continue.

How to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’
By David Wallace-Wells
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/how-to-live-in-a-climate-permanent-emergency.html

This year suggests the possibility of a new arrival — the age of adaptation, or what climate-and-energy researcher Juan Moreno-Cruz yesterday called “climate realism.”

Alarmism, he said, was “useless,” and even efforts to decarbonize have served as a kind of distraction. “Stop dreaming up climate solutions, think of climate managing strategies,” he admonished.

Talking climate solutions has left us unprepared for actual climate change. We keep running models and fighting over which “solution” is the best, but we have done nothing to address the impacts of climate change.


Managing climate change is not as sexy as solving climate change, but it’s what we need. Yes, we need real action to achieve deep decarbonization in our economy. There is no amount of adaptation we can do if we don‘t get emissions under control. But we already baked in so much warming we need to deal with it now. We painted ourselves into this corner, and we need to navigate our way out of it. Dreaming about a future carbon-free system will do nothing for people in India and Pakistan today.


Perhaps the great awakening on warming has already happened — or keeps happening and keeps being forgotten, among other reasons so that we can continue to believe we stand just at the threshold of climate suffering rather than well beyond it. But the great awakening on adaptation probably still lies ahead of us. Or maybe that “permanent emergency” is beginning right now.