Notices by O=C=O (tuxom@mastodon.at@mastodon.at)

A child born today faces two possible futures. In one, the world continues to burn #FossilFuels, making the child more likely to develop #asthma from #AirPollution, at greater risk of vector-borne diseases, and more vulnerable to anxiety as #ExtremeWeather events threaten his community.
In the other, those risks are diminished because the world has responded quickly and adequately to #ClimateChange, with a large-scale shift away from fossil fuels.

https://skepticalscience.com/2019-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_46.html

#ClimateCrisis

Fossil fuel big five 'spent €251m #lobbying #EU' since 2010

The five biggest #oil and #gas companies, and their #industry groups, have spent at least €251m (£217m) lobbying the #European #Union over #climate #policies since 2010, research has revealed.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/24/fossil-fuel-big-five-spent-251m-lobbying-european-union-2010-climate-crisis

#ClimateCrisis #Capitalism

The #Oceans are in #Peril—and the #IPCC Report Confirms It

The results are not looking good. In line with previous estimates, the new report drives home what scientists and policymakers already knew: The world’s oceans are in dire shape, and the actions taken in the coming years will have an outsized impact on the consequences of global #ClimateChange for centuries to come.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/oceans-are-peril-and-ipcc-report-confirms-it

#ClimateCrisis

Schwerere Autos, heißeres Klima

Der Trend zu den #SUV frisst laut der #IEA die #CO₂-Einsparungen mehr als auf, die bei der restlichen Autoflotte durch sparsamere Motoren, mehr Effizienz und den Umstieg auf E-Autos erzielt werden. Die #Klimaziele bei den Autoflotten wie auch im Verkehr insgesamt sind so nicht zu erreichen.
Global sind 40 Prozent der Neuwagen inzwischen SUV, vor zehn Jahren waren es erst 20 Prozent.

https://www.klimareporter.de/verkehr/schwere-autos-heisseres-klima

#Klimakrise #Mobilität

Qatar now so hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors

Temperatures in #Qatar – one of the hottest places on Earth – have risen so much that authorities have installed a#AirConditioning in the open air including in #streets and outdoor #markets.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/qatar-air-conditioning-temperature-weather-heat-climate-change-athletics-world-cup-a9160751.html

#ClimateCrisis

Worst storm in over a century hits Spain, major floods and tornadoes reported

A slow-moving storm system pummelled a massive area of #Spain, spawning #floods, #hails, #thunderstorms, and #tornadoes on September 12, 2019. Torrential rains put Costa Blanca around Benidorm and Alicante under red weather alert and killed two in Valencia region. The storm was described as the worst in more than a century.

https://watchers.news/2019/09/12/spain-flood-tornado-september-12-2019/

#ExtremeWeather

Climate Change and Land

An #IPCC special report on #ClimateChange, #desertification, #LandDegradation, #SustainableLandManagement, #FoodSecurity, and #GreenhouseGas fluxes in #terrestrial #ecosystem*s

Factsheet (PDF)
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2019/08/SRCCL-leaflet.pdf

Summary (PDF)
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2019/08/4.-SPM_Approved_Microsite_FINAL.pdf

Download Report
https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl-report-download-page/

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/

#Australia’s climate stance is inflicting criminal damage on humanity

The top priority of government is security of the people. Yet on the greatest threat of all, most governments are failing abysmally.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/03/australias-climate-stance-is-inflicting-criminal-damage-on-humanity

#ClimateCrisis

1 in 5 #Cities Is About to Have a #Climate Unknown to Any Place on Earth

Scientists from the #CrowtherLab at #ETHZurich have for the first time visualised how these climate shifts will play out on a global scale, looking at how conditions in 520 major cities around the world are predicted to change in just three decades.

"By using optimistic #ClimateChange scenario, we represent conservative changes in conditions ..."

https://hooge104.shinyapps.io/future_cities_app/

https://www.sciencealert.com/one-in-five-cities-is-about-to-inherit-an-alien-climate-unknown-to-any-city-on-earth

As #Brazil's #Bolsonaro Wages War on the #Amazon, #Rainforest Communities Battle #ClimateEmergency

"We know what happens when the state does nothing. We know how quickly the forest can disappear."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/06/brazils-bolsonaro-wages-war-amazon-rainforest-communities-battle-climate-emergency

#ClimateBreakdown

As of yesterday, 11 June 2019, measurements from #ESA’s #SMOS mission are being fully integrated into #ECMWF’s forecasting system, allowing for a more accurate description of water content in #soil.

#RemoteSensing #Environment

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/SMOS/SMOS_joins_forces_with_top_weather_forecasting_system

Rising demand for #AirConditioning could make #ClimateChange even worse

Between 1992 and 2016, more than 22,000 people in India died as a result of heat exposure. In 2015 alone, the death toll reached 2,300.

Authoritative projections indicate that under a high-emissions scenario, 75 percent of the country’s population will face dangerous levels of heat and humidity by 2100. Cities that now house millions would become uninhabitable.

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/06/rising-demand-for-air-conditioning-could-make-climate-change-even-worse/

8 million salmon have died in Norway over the past week, and algae is the cause

A surge of #algae has killed an estimated 8 million #salmon at Norwegian fish farms over the past week, wiping out more than half of this year’s expected sales growth.
The algae, which has spread at the coast of northern #Norway, sticks to the gills of the fish, suffocating them. Wild fish can swim away from the algae belt while farmed fish is trapped.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/surge-of-algae-kills-millions-of-salmon-in-norway

#ClimateBreakdown

#Brazil cancels Latin American #climate #summit

After backing out of hosting the 2019 #UN climate summit, the #Bolsonaro administration has changed its plan to hold a week-long event in #Salvador

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/05/14/brazil-cancels-latin-america-climate-week-national-media/

Feinstaub ist gesundheitsschädlich - und noch nicht hinreichend erforscht

Die Debatte über #Luftschadstoffe aus Verkehr und Industrie drehte sich lange Zeit um #Stickoxide. Eine Stellungnahme der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina rückt jetzt den #Feinstaub in den Vordergrund. Da hat #Deutschland viel zu tun, denn die Grenzwerte entsprechen noch nicht den internationalen Empfehlungen.

https://www.spektrum.de/wissen/feinstaub-ist-gesundheitsschaedlich-und-noch-nicht-hinreichend-erforscht/1639880

This is a growing movement, with children from over thirty towns across the #UK participating and the union of headteachers supporting it. Every day we hear more reports about climate and ecology -related disasters, the origins of which are man-made, the consequences of criminal responsibility on the part of countless so-called ‘grown-ups’. Young people are standing up and saying enough is #enough.

https://rebellion.earth/statement-from-extinction-rebellion-in-support-of-youth-strike-4-climate/

#YouthStrike4Climate
#RebelForLife #ClimateJusticeNow
#ClimateAction

Waiting for politicians ...
is like
Waiting for Godot

or

if #climate-change could stopped just with discussing, earth should entirely frozen now ...

#climate #klima #COP24 #CO2 #pollution #politics #conference #COP