The Western US is an empire built on snow. And that snow is vanishing.

Disappearing snowpack is accelerating the historic drought across the Western US, and so far government responses haven't matched the scale of the problem

https://twitter.com/climate/status/1554944145273360384

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government declared a national water shortage Wednesday caused by the hot, dry summer that is parching much of Europe, and formed a national team to draw up measures to manage supplies, while asking the public to also chip in with savings.

“The water shortage is already having a negative effect on shipping and agriculture in particular,” said Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbers.

He urged people “to think carefully about whether they should wash their car or completely fill their inflatable swimming pool. The Netherlands is a water country, but our water is precious here too.”

ako sa riesilo ze muskov tryskac niekto sleduje na twitteri, tak su ucty co to aj prepocitavaju na uhlikovu stopu :)

https://twitter.com/gatesjets

time to move the limits .. again, haha

Pollution: 'Forever chemicals' in rainwater exceed safe levels - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62391069

doom scrolls

Druhy dil serie longreadu o klimatickych dezinformacich je venku. Tentokrat o formovani vedecke shody na ohrivajicim vlivu spalovani fosilnich paliv

Na tom, že za ohřívání klimatu může spalování fosilních paliv je dlouhodobá, jasná a přesvědčivá shoda v odborné komunitě již velmi dlouhou dobu. Bohužel je to zároveň něco, co laická veřejnost ne vždy chápe. Zatímco analýza vědeckých prací ukazuje, že naprosto drtivá většina vědecké literatury se shoduje na tom, že za současnou vlnu oteplení může spalování fosilních paliv, veřejnost o této široké shodě často neví a domnívá se, že vědci nemají o příčinách oteplování stále jasno. Navíc mezi ty nejméně chápavé patří ekonomové a politici. A nejen to, ale s tím, jak pro tuto teorii přibývalo důkazů a shoda se rozšiřovala, začalo docházet k názorovému „protipohybu“ ve veřejné a politické sféře, která naopak toto téma v řadě zemí začala vnímat jako stále kontroverznější a zpolitizovanější.
Pojďme se tedy podívat na dějiny utváření vědeckého konsenzu. Odhalí se před námi fascinující obor s více než stoletou historií, se spoustou zvláštních zákoutí, kontroverzí a pozoruhodných objevů.

Dějiny klimatického konsenzu. Jak moc jsme si jistí změnou klimatu a jejími příčinami? – A2larm
https://a2larm.cz/2022/07/dejiny-klimatickeho-konsenzu-jak-moc-jsme-si-jisti-zmenou-klimatu-a-jejimi-pricinami/

Is it slowing down, and how close is its tipping point?
Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University in Germany, explains the latest scientific insights about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation approaching a tipping point?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iJEcInbyn0&feature=youtu.be

TADEAS: sorry, 0.004 z celku, tj. 0.4 procenta.

RADIQAL: v celkovejch proporcich private jety delaj asi 0.004 procenta dle rychlyho orientacniho propoctu, ale zase proporcne jde o podobne uzkou skupinu lidi (max stovky tisic lidi) ... takze ten graf tohle v tom extremu akorat ukazuje

During the past year, private jet travel has emitted over 26 megatons of CO2, 1 megaton of CH4, and 0.22 megatons of N2O. This equates to a total of approximately 184 megatons of CO2-equivalents. This figure is roughly equivalent to the reduction in energy-related emissions in 2019 that the U.S. strived to achieve (EIA, 2020). The level of increase in emissions from pre-pandemic levels to 2021 were also significant. In 2019, private jet travel accounted for only 6.3% of total aviation related emissions in the U.S. This share was relatively stable from 2014 to 2019; however, the pandemic induced boom coupled with the decline in commercial travel has resulted in private jet travel growing its share of emissions from 6.3 to 7.9% of total commercial plus private aviation emissions - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888033/#s0045

The global aviation industry produces around 2.1% of all human-induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888033/#s0045

Total greenhouse gas emissions reached 40.8 Gt of CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) in 2021 - https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-co2-emissions-in-2021-2

Climate change is intensifying the water cycle, bringing more powerful storms and flooding

Climate change is intensifying the water cycle, bringing more powerful storms and flooding
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-climate-powerful-storms.html

Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate change result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction? At present, this is a dangerously underexplored topic. Yet there are ample reasons to suspect that climate change could result in a global catastrophe. Analyzing the mechanisms for these extreme consequences could help galvanize action, improve resilience, and inform policy, including emergency responses. We outline current knowledge about the likelihood of extreme climate change, discuss why understanding bad-to-worst cases is vital, articulate reasons for concern about catastrophic outcomes, define key terms, and put forward a research agenda. The proposed agenda covers four main questions: 1) What is the potential for climate change to drive mass extinction events? 2) What are the mechanisms that could result in human mass mortality and morbidity? 3) What are human societies' vulnerabilities to climate-triggered risk cascades, such as from conflict, political instability, and systemic financial risk? 4) How can these multiple strands of evidence—together with other global dangers—be usefully synthesized into an “integrated catastrophe assessment”? It is time for the scientific community to grapple with the challenge of better understanding catastrophic climate change.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108146119