Satellite data shows up climate forecasts
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Valid good news about climate change would seem to fit well in this thread, too (and perhaps OP would like that).
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The OPs original primary defence was rainfall. What he didn't factor is that climate change is not unidirectional. It involves massive changes in climate events.
For example the Gipplsand region of southern victoria experiences drought and fire followed by flooding in a matter of months, According to the OP the increase overall rainfall means climate change isnt happening but he's ignoring the fact that temperature is also increasing with rainfall and that conditions go back to being dry in summer in a matter of days.
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"Almost half the world’s population could be at risk from dengue due to global warming"
Analysis from Airfinity, a science data analyst company, shows that the incidence of dengue has already increased by at least 30-fold over the past 50 years.
Half a million cases were reported to the WHO in 2000, rising to 5.2 million in 2019, with the true number of annual infections now estimated to be up to 96 million.
Once specific to small pockets of Asia, the disease is now considered endemic in more than 100 countries globally and its geographical reach is continuing to spread, according to the WHO.
Global warming is driving increasingly hotter and wetter climates in which mosquitos, the main transmitter of dengue, can survive, breed and further spread.
"Scientists are sounding the alarm about a dangerous problem that will soon affect 2 billion people — here’s what to know"
However, the new study found that with the current laws, population growth, and environmental conditions, the world will likely reach about 4.8 degrees Fahrenheit above the preindustrial benchmark, per Science Hub.
The researchers then looked at which areas would be most affected if the temperature increased to that level. They defined “unprecedented heat” zones as areas where the average temperature throughout the year, counting all seasons, is 84.2 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
Science Hub reported that 40 years ago, only 12 million people worldwide lived in regions with temperatures surpassing that heat. Today, thanks to the warming we’ve already experienced, about 60 million people are affected.
The study found that by 2100, 2 billion out of the world’s projected population of 9.5 billion will live in areas with an average temperature higher than 84.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The most affected areas will be countries around the equator, noted Science Hub: India, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Pakistan.
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"Comprehensive study of West Antarctic Ice Sheet finds collapse may be unavoidable"
The melt process would likely take several centuries, Steig said. Other processes are contributing to sea level rise, including the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet, the loss of mountain glaciers and the expansion of ocean water due to warming. Researchers are scrambling to understand these complicated ice sheet dynamics and whether there are critical thresholds for runaway melt.
So...no need to rush out and buy a swimsuit just yet.
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As they retire, scientists are starting to speak their minds.
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"Climate disasters did nearly $400 million in damage daily for 20 years: research"
"Headed to 'Potential Collapse': Alarm Bells Are Blaring in New Climate Report"
"Life on Earth under 'existential threat': climate scientists"
Their stark assessment: "Life on planet Earth is under siege".
They said humanity had made "minimal progress" in curbing its planet-heating emissions, with major greenhouse gases at record levels, and subsidies for fossil fuels soaring last year.
The damning assessment comes just a month ahead of UN COP28 climate negotiations to be held in oil-rich United Arab Emirates.
"We must shift our perspective on the climate emergency from being just an isolated environmental issue to a systemic, existential threat," the authors said.
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"World on brink of environmental tipping points, UN says"
"Once these thresholds are passed, the system fails to function as it normally would, and you get new risks cascading out, and these new risks can transfer to other systems," said UNU-EHS researcher Jack O'Connor, lead author of the report.
"We should be expecting these things to happen because in certain areas they are happening already."
Is there any good news on climate change?
Or...are there any suggestions on how to survive despite climate change?
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People can deny climate change all they like, but the world's incurrence companies aren't. Climate change impacts insurance industry.
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Yes.
Thats actually an old story. Since the Seventies insurance companies have had to revise their actuarial tables to account for climate change on the damages to property.
I remember mentioning that to a family friend of my parents even back then...who was a Republican who happened to be a lawyer working for some lobby. Because he was a lawyer, and a grownup, and I was just a teen, he was able to talk rings around me.
But I got my revenge. One time at Thanksgiving he said that "Canada is three times of the US" (he lived in upstate New York, right near the Canadian border). And I corrected him and said "No, Canada is only about five percent bigger than the US". I turned out to be right. It took him years to get over it.
But I digress.
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"Global heating is accelerating, warns scientist who sounded climate alarm in the 80s"
The Earth’s climate is more sensitive to human-caused changes than scientists have realized until now, meaning that a “dangerous” burst of heating will be unleashed that will push the world to be 1.5C hotter than it was, on average, in pre-industrial times within the 2020s and 2C hotter by 2050, the paper published on Thursday predicts.
This alarming speed-up of global heating, which would mean the world breaches the internationally agreed 1.5C threshold set out in the Paris climate agreement far sooner than expected, risks a world “less tolerable to humanity, with greater climate extremes”, according to the study led by Hansen, the former Nasa scientist who issued a foundational warning about climate change to the US Congress back in the 1980s.
Hansen said there was a huge amount of global heating “in the pipeline” because of the continued burning of fossil fuels and Earth being “very sensitive” to the impacts of this – far more sensitive than the best estimates laid out by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“We would be damned fools and bad scientists if we didn’t expect an acceleration of global warming,” Hansen said. “We are beginning to suffer the effect of our Faustian bargain. That is why the rate of global warming is accelerating.”
"False claim 'climate crisis hoax' statement signed by thousands of scientists | Fact check"
A Sept. 14 article circulating on Facebook claims a large group of scientists downplayed the dangers of climate change in a signed declaration.
"Thousands of Scientists Unite to Expose ‘Climate Crisis’ Hoax," reads the headline of the article, which was published on the website News Addicts.
The article was shared more than 400 times in six weeks on Facebook, according to Crowdtangle, a social media analytics tool.
Our rating: False
Thousands of scientists did not sign the document referenced in the article. The document lists only around 1,600 purported signatories, the vast majority of whom have no listed expertise in climate science. Hundreds of the purported signatories are not listed as being scientists of any kind, according to a USA TODAY count.
Related news:
"Catch 22: How cutting pollution heats up the planet"
but experts say efforts to clean the air - may actually speed up climate change.
It's an unintuitive finding that scientists found...
...after poring over the results of China's decade-long 'war on pollution'.
Six leading climate experts, say its highlighted what amounts to a catch-22.
The drive to banish sulphur dioxide from the atmosphere has saved thousands of lives...
but it has also removed an effective shield against the sun's heat... albeit a toxic one...
“We're actually heating the planet by improving the air quality..."
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"Scientists fear rising temperatures may release ancient threat from Siberian permafrost: ‘It could be a danger to us’"
Though that virus wasn’t dangerous to humans, scientists worry that a disease that infects humans could be freed from the melting ice. The World Health Organization has prioritized “Disease X” in its efforts to prevent future pandemics.
additional bad news...
"Cheesemakers are pushing back against France's strict rules as some say climate change is making it impossible to meet the traditional standards"
French cheesemakers told The New York Times that climate change is impacting their ability to follow traditional methods for quality cheeses, including some of the 46 cheeses that carry the prestigious AOP label, which stands for "Appellation d'Origine Protégée" or "Protected Designation of Origin."
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I've taken advantage of the climate change to grow a camellia plant in central Connecticut. It is 15 years old and blooms most years. It started blooming this year on Halloween! I also my blue Hydrangea to bloom for the first time in over twenty years! Normally it gets whacked by winter and won't bloom in my yard.
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USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
It sounds like the charts might need updating!
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