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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Destroying the Future Is the Most Cost-Effective


    "Given the sheer enormity of climate change, it’s okay to be depressed, to grieve. But please, don’t stay there too long. Join me in pure, unadulterated, righteous anger."


    "I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. Once you start to act, the hope is everywhere."

    "Our best scientists tell us insistently that a calamity is unfolding, that the life-support systems of the Earth are being damaged in ways that threaten our survival. Yet in the face of these facts we carry on as usual."

    “We’ve got to stop burning fossil fuels. So many aspects of life depend on fossil fuels, except for music and love and education and happiness. These things, which hardly use fossil fuels, are what we must focus on.”

    A nejde o to, že na to nemáme dostatečné technologie, ty by na řešení použít šly, ale chybí nám vůle a představivost je využít. Zůstáváme při zemi, přemýšlíme až moc rezervovaně. Technologický pokrok to sám o sobě nevyřeší. Problém jsme my, ne technologické nástroje.

    Rostouci hladiny oceanu, zmena atmosferickeho proudeni, zmeny v distribuci srazek a sucha. Zmeny karbonoveho, fosforoveho a dusikoveho cyklu, okyselovani oceanu. Jake jsou bezpecnostni rizika a jake potencialni klady dramatickych zmen fungovani zemskeho systemu?
    Ale take jak funguji masove dezinformacni kampane ropneho prumyslu a boj o verejne mineni na prahu noveho klimatickeho rezimu post-holocenu.
    rozbalit záhlaví
    CHOSIE
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    Slender-billed Curlew, a migratory shorebird that once bred in western Siberia and wintered around the Mediterranean is now extinct according to scientists. This is the first known global bird extinction from mainland Europe, North Africa and West Asia.
    https://www.birdlife.org/news/2024/11/18/new-publication-indicates-devastating-extinction-of-the-slender-billed-curlew/
    SHEFIK
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    Mezitim SuperTajfun Cat4 Kong-Rey se riti na Taiwan. Narazy vetru az krasnych 299km/h, siroky az 193km.

    Na ctvrtek v Taipei vyhlaseny Typhoon Holiday's.

    x.com
    https://x.com/NbergWX/status/1851471152348020973?t=lUOHwCyDv_DhKC-1BRBKKA&s=19

    https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-issues-land-warning-ahead-arrival-typhoon-kong-rey-2024-10-29/

    Citujme nahodne:

    Typhoon #KongRey is titanic. At 150 mph (240 kph) and 925 mbar, he is a near-historic specimen of a cyclone. It’s very rare to see a storm of this size sustain such an extreme and dangerous intensity, and it’s even more unusual for a Cat 4 Typhoon to track as far north as #Taiwan in late October.
    TUHO
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    PALEONTOLOG: Ad Alpy a doby ledovy: Jo? Tak tech linii mohlo bejt vic.
    Nicmene je mozny, ze to tam zjednodusil moc, mam za to, ze mluvi o praci Louise Agassize a mam totiz zato, ja to cetl i v jinym zdroji o historii klimatologie, ale za boha si ted nemuzu vzpomenout kde...

    Jinak trosku vic rozepsany ma ten popis Weart tady:
    Past Climate Cycles: Ice Age Speculations
    https://history.aip.org/climate/cycles.htm

    jinak prispevek na wiki o Agassizovi

    The vacation of 1836 was spent by Agassiz and his wife in the little village of Bex, where he met Jean de Charpentier and Ignaz Venetz. Their recently announced glacial theories had startled the scientific world, and Agassiz returned to Neuchâtel as an enthusiastic convert.[10] In 1837, Agassiz proposed that the Earth had been subjected to a past ice age.[11] He presented the theory to the Helvetic Society that ancient glaciers flowed outward from the Alps, and even larger glaciers had covered the plains and mountains of Europe, Asia, and North America and smothered the entire Northern Hemisphere in a prolonged ice age. In the same year, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Before that proposal, Goethe, de Saussure, Ignaz Venetz, Jean de Charpentier, Karl Friedrich Schimper, and others had studied the glaciers of the Alps, and Goethe,[12] Charpentier, and Schimper[11] had even concluded that the erratic blocks of alpine rocks scattered over the slopes and summits of the Jura Mountains had been moved there by glaciers. Those ideas attracted the attention of Agassiz, and he discussed them with Charpentier and Schimper, whom he accompanied on successive trips to the Alps. Agassiz even had a hut constructed upon one of the Aar Glaciers and for a time made it his home to investigate the structure and movements of the ice.[4]

    Agassiz visited England, and with William Buckland, the only English naturalist who shared his ideas, made a tour of the British Isles in search of glacial phenomena, and became satisfied that his theory of an ice age was correct.[10] In 1840, Agassiz published a two-volume work, Études sur les glaciers ("Studies on Glaciers").[13] In it, he discussed the movements of the glaciers, their moraines, and their influence in grooving and rounding the rocks and in producing the striations and roches moutonnées seen in Alpine-style landscapes. He accepted Charpentier and Schimper's idea that some of the alpine glaciers had extended across the wide plains and valleys of the Aar and Rhône, but he went further by concluding that in the recent past, Switzerland had been covered with one vast sheet of ice originating in the higher Alps and extending over the valley of northwestern Switzerland to the southern slopes of the Jura. The publication of the work gave fresh impetus to the study of glacial phenomena in all parts of the world.[14]

    Familiar then with recent glaciation, Agassiz and the English geologist William Buckland visited the mountains of Scotland in 1840. There, they found clear evidence in different locations of glacial action. The discovery was announced to the Geological Society of London in successive communications. The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were understood to have been centres for the dispersion of glacial debris. Agassiz remarked "that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel (boulder drift) is found; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc."[15]

    Louis Agassiz - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz
    TUHO
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    How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state. The authors bring perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, their chapters engaging with the concept of transnational democracy by tracing its development in the past, assessing its performance in the present, and considering its potential for survival in this century and beyond. Coming from a wide array of intellectual disciplines and policymaking backgrounds, the authors share a common conviction that our global institutions—both governments and international organizations—must become more resilient, transparent, and democratically accountable in order to address the cascading political, economic, and social crises of this new epoch, such as climate change, mass migration, more frequent and severe natural disasters, and resurgent authoritarianism. This book will be relevant for courses in international relations and political science, environmental politics, and the preservation of democracy and federalism around the world.

    https://www.routledge.com/How-Democracy-Survives-Global-Challenges-in-the-Anthropocene/Holm-Deese/p/book/9781032111278?srsltid=AfmBOorJhgAYRzRGq11lqys7PTEPkABRY2OcpaVPDhU3gqtaDWqDvzSB
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    New Delhi recorded its highest temperature ever on Wednesday — 126 degrees Fahrenheit, or 52.3 degrees Celsius. For weeks now, temperatures in several Indian states have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/world/asia/india-delhi-hottest-day-ever.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytime
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    April Heat Waves from Gaza to the Philippines Were Made Worse by Climate Change | Scientific American
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/april-heat-waves-from-gaza-to-the-philippines-were-made-worse-by-climate/

    Extreme heat has left hundreds of millions of people sweltering in record-breaking temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past few weeks across a broad swath of Asia. From the Palestinian territories in the west to India, Thailand and the Philippines to the east, scorching conditions have caused at least dozens of deaths, ruined crops and forced thousands of school closures. Relentless heat waves have worsened the already precarious conditions for those living in refugee camps and in makeshift housing in dense urban areas. And the 1.2 degrees C of warming the world has already experienced has significantly cranked up such events’ severity, a new analysis shows.
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    Chaos in the Heavens:
    The Forgotten History of Climate Change

    POLITICIANS AND SCIENTISTS HAVE DEBATED CLIMATE CHANGE FOR CENTURIES IN TIMES OF RAPID CHANGE

    Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth century, by the European imperialists in Asia and Africa until the Second World War.

    Climate change was at the heart of fundamental debates about colonisation, God, the state, nature, and capitalism. From these intellectual and political battles emerged key concepts of contemporary environmental science and policy. For a brief interlude, science and industry instilled in us the reassuring illusion of an impassive climate. But, in the age of global warming, we must, once again, confront the chaos in the heavens.

    Chaos in the Heavens: The Forgotten History of Climate Change | Verso Books
    https://www.versobooks.com/products/2725-chaos-in-the-heavens
    CHOSIE
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    Hundreds of thousands of fish die off in Vietnam as heatwave roasts Southeast Asia
    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/02/climate/mass-fish-die-off-vietnam-intl-scli/index.html
    MARSHUS
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    SHEFIK: i jaro není co bývalo

    India saw a 55% rise in deaths due to extreme heat between 2000-2004 and 2017-2021, a recent study published in the medical journal, The Lancet, has found.

    Exposure to heat also caused a loss of 167.2 billion potential labour hours among Indians in 2021, the study noted.

    This, it adds, resulted in loss of incomes equivalent to about 5.4% of the country's GDP.

    India has faced increasingly intense heatwaves in recent years.

    India heatwave: High temperatures killing more Indians now, Lancet study finds
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63384167
    CHOSIE
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    A k tomu ještě dodám, že ať už Indie, nebo Jihovýchodní Asie jsou velmi důležitými producenty základních potravin jako rýže, pšenice, a nebo kukuřice, a tyto plodiny potřebují specifické podmínky pro růst a i samotný výnos s rostoucí teplotou prudce klesá.

    Dovolím si sdílet rozhovor s thajským vědcem a vládním poradcem, který byl zveřejněn před dvěma dny.
    Uninhabitable earth pattern is coming, says analyst as Southeast Asia scorches | ABS-CBN News
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzBGeRwIL3g
    TADEAS
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    Extreme heat in Southeast Asia leads to school closures and health warnings for millions | DW News
    https://youtu.be/9rXdPEcn7to?si=WnHDtNRniDRcbFB7
    TADEAS
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    Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert | Climate crisis | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/25/mosquito-borne-diseases-spreading-in-europe-due-to-climate-crisis-says-expert

    Prof Rachel Lowe who leads the global health resilience group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain, has warned that mosquito-borne disease outbreaks are set to spread across currently unaffected parts of northern Europe, Asia, North America and Australia over the next few decades.
    SHEFIK
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    1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles - CleanTechnica
    https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/09/1-8-million-barrels-of-oil-a-day-avoided-from-electric-vehicles/

    Two- and three-wheeled EVs account for about 60% of the oil demand avoided in 2023 due to their rapid adoption and large fleet, particularly in China, Southeast Asia and India.

    ...

    Naturally, less oil being burnt means less CO2 emissions. BNEF estimates that electric vehicles currently prevent 112 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. And this is net emissions reductions, also taking into account the emissions from extra electricity generation.
    SHEFIK
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    Green world, renewables and watwr world

    Kazakhstan addresses the climate change challenge – EURACTIV.com
    https://www.euractiv.com/section/central-asia/news/kazakhstan-addresses-the-climate-change-challenge/

    Kazakhstan generates more than 70% of its electricity from its abundant coal resources, which is among the cheapest to produce in the world, but the country has big green ambitions to move away from its dependency on fossil fuels.

    ...

    According to a World Bank report, temperatures in Kazakhstan are projected to rise faster than the global average and most other Asian countries, with a potential warming of 5.3°C by the 2090s, a risk that is increasingly being considered by citizens and lawmakers alike.

    ...

    The region has experienced several tensions over using existing water infrastructure, such as the floods in southern Kazakhstan in the winter of 2003.

    Kazakhstan then failed to deliver coal to upstream Kyrgyzstan, which had to release water from the Toktogul dam to generate electricity, causing massive flooding in downstream Kazakhstan and prompting an emergency meeting between the two countries presidents.
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    Rising methane could be a sign that Earth's climate is part-way through a 'termination-level transition'
    https://theconversation.com/rising-methane-could-be-a-sign-that-earths-climate-is-part-way-through-a-termination-level-transition-211211

    In the past few million years, Earth’s climate has flipped repeatedly between long, cold glacial periods, with ice sheets covering northern Europe and Canada, and shorter warm inter-glacials.

    When each ice age ended, Earth’s surface warmed by as much as several degrees centigrade over a few millennia. Recorded in air bubbles in ice cores, sharply rising methane concentrations are the bellwethers of these great climate-warming events. With each flip from a glacial to an interglacial climate there have been sudden, sharp rises in atmospheric methane, likely from expanding tropical wetlands.

    These great climate flips that ended each ice age are known as terminations. Each has a Roman numeral, ranging from Termination IX which happened about 800,000 years ago to Termination IA which initiated the modern climate less than 12,000 years ago. For example, around 131,000 years ago during Termination II, the British climate suddenly flipped from glaciers in the Cotswolds to hippopotami wallowing in what is now Trafalgar Square.

    Full terminations take several thousands of years to complete, but many include a creeping onset of warming, then a very abrupt phase of extremely rapid climate change that can take a century or less, followed by a longer, slower period during which the great ice caps finally melt. In the abrupt phase of the great change that brought about the modern climate, Greenland’s temperature rose by around 10°C within a few decades. During these abrupt phases, methane climbs very steeply indeed.

    ...

    Methane fluctuated widely in pre-industrial times. But its increasingly rapid growth since 2006 is comparable with records of methane from the early years of abrupt phases of past termination events, like the one that warmed Greenland so dramatically less than 12,000 years ago.

    There is already lots of evidence that the climate is shifting. Atlantic ocean currents are slowing, tropical weather regions are expanding, the far north and south are warming fast, ocean heat is breaking records and extreme weather is becoming routine.

    In glacial terminations, the entire climate system reorganises. In the past, this took Earth out of stable ice age climates and into warm inter-glacials. But we are already in a warm interglacial. What comes next is hard to imagine: loss of sea ice in the Arctic in summer, thinning or partial collapse of the ice caps in Greenland and West Antarctica, reorganisation of the Atlantic’s ocean currents and the poleward expansion of tropical weather circulation patterns. The consequences, both for the biosphere in general and food production in south and east Asia and parts of Africa in particular, would be very significant
    TADEAS
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    As the ice melts, a perilous Russian threat is emerging in the Arctic | Barry Gardiner | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/13/arctic-russia-nato-putin-climate

    The eight Arctic states – Canada, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the US and Russia – have long collaborated on scientific research through the Arctic Council, a non-military body. Until now. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Arctic Council meetings ceased. So did cooperation with Russia. This has hampered progress on climate and environmental research and turbocharged the militarisation of the Arctic.

    The success of the Arctic Council depended on its geopolitical balance. It is not a security alliance and has always tried to remain independent from politics. Five of the eight countries were part of Nato; the other three were not. That has now changed. Finland joined Nato in April. Sweden is in the process of joining. Soon, Nato will literally be surrounding Russia in the Arctic.

    To understand why this matters, we must first understand the climate emergency taking place in the region. Summer sea ice has declined by 30% in the past 30 years; 90% of old ice, which is classified as five years old or more, has gone. That ice used to act as the great heat shield for the planet, reflecting back the sun’s rays. But the loss of ice is producing a vicious spiral of heating. The Arctic is now warming three times faster than the global average. This process is called Arctic amplification. It means that scientists now project an Arctic free from summer ice by 2040–45.

    As the ice cover is lost, a trans-polar route is opening to connect east Asia to Europe and the eastern coast of North America. And the ice barrier that once protected Russia’s northern shore will be exposed as never before. Russia represents 53% of the Arctic coastline and the need to protect its northern border as the ice barrier melts is a key national security concern.

    Vladimir Putin already had ambitious plans for the northern sea route, seeking to more than double the cargo traffic. But over the past six years, Russia has also built 475 military sites along its northern border. The port of Severomorsk, on the Kola peninsula, is the base of the country’s northern fleet. In recent years, the Russians have reactivated 50 Soviet outposts in the Arctic and equipped its northern fleet with nuclear and conventional missiles.

    The challenge of all this has not been purely logistical. As the permafrost thaws, the structural base for roads, buildings and other key infrastructure has collapsed. Russia is trying to deploy huge amounts of infrastructure and military capacity to build structures on land that is disintegrating, across roads that are disappearing

    ...

    On a recent visit to the Ny-Ålesund international research station on Svalbard, it was depressing to hear that scientific cooperation with Russia on climate matters has effectively ceased. The Arctic is an environment where cooperation is essential. Arctic science must be done over the long term, and the relationships and trust built up between partners offer predictability and greater stability. In a region that is becoming over-securitised, every opportunity to minimise accidental misunderstandings and avoid a military response should be seized.

    A militarised Arctic would undermine scientific cooperation and pose an existential threat. Somehow, we need a diplomatic effort to separate the politics of war from the imperatives of climate research.
    TADEAS
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    Severe heatwave engulfs Asia causing deaths and forcing schools to close | Asia Pacific | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2023/apr/19/severe-heatwave-asia-deaths-schools-close-india-china

    A severe heatwave has swept across much of Asia, causing deaths and school closures in India and record-breaking temperatures in China.

    Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian, described the unusually high temperatures as the “worst April heatwave in Asian history”.

    https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1648676699846893568?s=19
    TADEAS
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    Scott Duncan
    Scott Duncan - We just observed Earth's 2nd warmest March... | Facebook
    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=937871050928558&id=100041170155733

    We just observed Earth's 2nd warmest March on record. Some of the strongest hotspots with many records were found in Argentina and across a vast area reaching from NW Africa all the way through Asia.

    It wasn't warm for everyone though. Swipe through...

    Intense cold lingered over large portions of North America. Some very striking cold anomalies and particularly stormy weather for the west coast (delivering much needed rain and mountain snow). It was also cold in Iceland & Fennoscandia. Very notable intensity to the cold especially late in the month.

    But the area of significant warmth from Morocco to Kamchatka really is impressive. Large portions of Central Asia averaged more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 baseline.

    A look at the Southern Hemisphere... Relentless heatwaves in South America with the Bullseye in Argentina. Long-standing monthly records were broken.

    Also, no more La Niña...

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    SEJDA: Zaklad je bookovat flighty jako soukroma osoba a ne aktivista ;-)

    https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1621452253751123971
    TADEAS
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    https://twitter.com/PCarterClimate/status/1617668020616433666?s=19
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