Do major natural disasters, like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, lead to short- or long-term changes in population migration? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39108842/
🔴 🌡️ 🎥 Summer heat record puts world on track for hottest year ever
“Scientists have confirmed that the summer in the northern Hemisphere has just broken global heat records for the second consecutive year. That means that 2024 is likely to be the hottest year ever recorded.”
🔴 Temperature-related mortality burden and projected change in 1368 European regions: a modelling study
“By 2100, based on our modelling, heat-related deaths in Europe could increase to more than 234 455 deaths annually in the worst scenario, compared with around 43 729 deaths for the current scenario (1991–2020), potentially shifting the mortality peak from cold to warm seasons in certain regions.”
🔴 Temperature-related mortality burden and projected change in 1368 European regions: a modelling study
“By 2100, based on our modelling, heat-related deaths in Europe could increase to more than 234 455 deaths annually in the worst scenario, compared with around 43 729 deaths for the current scenario (1991–2020), potentially shifting the mortality peak from cold to warm seasons in certain regions.”
🔴 Temperature-related mortality burden and projected change in 1368 European regions: a modelling study
“Our results suggest that climate change could pose unprecedented challenges to public health systems, especially during periods of extreme heat. Projections for the end of this century indicated a rise in heat-related mortality across all regions of Europe. This increase was projected to be be more pronounced as warming intensifies, particularly in a north to south direction across Europe.”
🔴 🌡️ What is the hottest temperature humans can survive? These labs are redefining the limit
“As climate change heats the Earth, blistering days have become a regular feature of weather reports worldwide. Last month, the record for the world’s hottest day was broken twice, and the United Nations made a global call for action on extreme heat, to help vulnerable people, workers and economies to cope using science. Around 70% of the global workforce — 2.4 billion people — are now at high risk of extreme heat, it said.”
🔴 🇦🇺 Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger
“Climate model analysis confirms that human influence on the climate system is responsible for the rapid warming in recent decades. This attribution, together with the recent ocean temperature extremes, post-1900 warming trend and observed mass coral bleaching, shows that the existential threat to the GBR ecosystem from anthropogenic climate change is now realized.”
Henley, B.J., McGregor, H.V., King, A.D. et al. Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger. Nature 632, 320–326 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07672-x
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet’s cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the health of their inhabitants.
I'm invited to be jury of a #PhD thesis in #Porto 🇵🇹 which defence could be attended either in person or remotely. I find a decent route by #train from #Marseille 🇫🇷 , via #Madrid 🇪🇸 for a total of 4 trains to reach the destination and about 2 days in the train / stations, both ways for 2 days in Porto.
Regardless of the cost,, and considering the potentiel benefit in terms of exemplarity, would you attend in person ?
🇳🇴 Inside the Extreme Plan to Refreeze the Arctic | WSJ Future of Everything
“A method normally used to create ice-skating rinks is now coming to the rescue of melting sea ice in the Arctic. Since satellite records began in 1979, summer Arctic sea ice has shrunk by around 13% per decade. Could making more ice be a potential solution to this issue?”
#Video length: eight minutes and eighteen seconds.
"Traditional print publishing comes with a high carbon footprint.
[...]
But digital reading seems to have a considerable eco-advantage over print because it is paperless, so it saves trees, pulping and shipping [...] But digital devices also come with a substantial carbon footprint, predominantly at the manufacturing stage."
"Details about oil majors contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to top universities to build relationships that could help the industry avoid taking climate action were inside thousands of pages of documents unveiled Tuesday by Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability and the Senate Budget committees.
Of the files released Tuesday, many show the extraordinary lengths energy giants have gone to in order to maintain public support for the oil industry — a major employer that’s also one of the nation’s top corporate climate polluters.
Companies have acknowledged, then flat-out ignored, stark warnings about the fate of the planet in relation to their activities."
"Our overarching finding is that except for very high northern latitudes, ESMs project ongoing and future extreme temperature acceleration beyond background warming levels during the hottest months."