"In 2023, the development of El Niño is poised to drive a global upsurge in surface air temperatures (SAT), potentially resulting in unprecedented warming worldwide."
"With stronger freshwater anomalies, our results indicate an increase in the risk of warm, dry European summers and of heat waves and droughts accordingly."
George Monbiot really threw down the gauntlet with this one. I get his frustration. The planet has warmed and we’ve waited to long to start mitigation meaning we need more extreme mitigation efforts. Have I gone vegan after reading it? No. Do I consume large amounts of animal products? Also no. Did it make me think about how so much of what we consider ’better’ alternatives actually aren’t. Yes. #ClimateChange#Regenesis#FoodSecurity#Reading@bookstodon
📣 CSDE Panel on Climate Impacts on Population Health: Data Science, Demography, & Disparities
Fri, Mar 1, 2024
12:30-1:30PM Pacific
Panelists (UW experts Sameer Shah, Karen Chen, Joan Casey, and Kris Ebi) will prove short overviews of their research & how they've approached the challenges of studying climate impacts on population health through integrating data science techniques & demography to further our understanding.
@ucaccessnow approached UC Green New Deal several times about the accessibility issues that keep disabled students & others from being able to use our sustainable transit on campus, but they turned a cold shoulder.
"The overall acceleration of pinning-point loss is striking and paints a bleak future for many Antarctic ice shelves. From 2000 to 2022, the vast majority of pinning points in the 3,000-km stretch of coastline in West Antarctica from George VI Ice Shelf to Hull Glacier, along with an 800-km stretch of coastline in Wilkes Land, reduced in area or completely disappeared."
Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics by Paul G. Harris
This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of global environmental politics.
@1dalm In a non-fiction example, in Amitav Ghosh's "The Great Derangement" the author points out that many of the compontents of fossil fuel consumption like the use of oil and coal are actually much older than we think and were used heavily in places like Burma and China. So the point is that things could have gone differently with different circumstances.
"We show that the drastic increase in the human population at risk of exposure is partly due to historical changes in population density, but that climate change has also been a critical driver behind the heightened risk of WNV circulation in Europe."
Totally excited to be leaving for Czechia on Monday as a Josef Dobrovský Fellow!
Dobrovský was one of the lexicographers of Czech, at the Habsburg times when German was dominating the country. I will spend a few weeks at the #CzechAcademyOfSciences to focus on a project about the presence and absence of #ClimateChange in Czech tv news.
Will report on the progress, promise 😃 @corpuslinguistics @linguistics @irozhlas
Last November, within the wild space of three weeks, I was in Portland, Oregon, then Toronto, Ontario, presenting papers at two conferences. Both talks have everything to do with change, social and ecological.
"We document phases of instability and cooling from ~100 CE onward but more notably after ~130 CE. Pronounced cold phases between ~160 to 180 CE, ~245 to 275 CE, and after ~530 CE associate with pandemic disease, suggesting that climate stress interacted with social and biological variables."
"We document phases of instability and cooling from ~100 CE onward but more notably after ~130 CE. Pronounced cold phases between ~160 to 180 CE, ~245 to 275 CE, and after ~530 CE associate with pandemic disease, suggesting that climate stress interacted with social and biological variables."
#Book 5: Book 5: Sanctuary by Andrew Hunter Murray: A solid, entertaining #audiobook set after #climatechange Thanks to Blackstone Audio and Librofm for the review copy.
"We thus model the committed evolution of all glaciers in the European Alps up to 2050 using present-day climate conditions, assuming no future climate change. We find that the resulting committed ice loss exceeds a third of the present-day ice volume by 2050, with multi-kilometer frontal retreats for even the largest glaciers."
"We thus model the committed evolution of all glaciers in the European Alps up to 2050 using present-day climate conditions, assuming no future climate change. We find that the resulting committed ice loss exceeds a third of the present-day ice volume by 2050, with multi-kilometer frontal retreats for even the largest glaciers."
"We thus model the committed evolution of all glaciers in the European Alps up to 2050 using present-day climate conditions, assuming no future climate change. We find that the resulting committed ice loss exceeds a third of the present-day ice volume by 2050, with multi-kilometer frontal retreats for even the largest glaciers."
"This article goes beyond the aggregated analysis to explore direct and indirect economic consequences of sea level rise (SLR) at regional and sectoral levels in Europe. Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model and novel datasets, we estimate the distribution of losses and gains across regions and sectors."
I've just computed that if you want to #offset ONE #travel by #plane#Paris to #Rio (about 2880 tCO2, according to @labos1point5), by not sending #email (without attachment), I need to completely stop sending emails for the next ...
272 YEARS !
assuming an average of 10 mails per day, each working #day. The #carbon#footprint of an email is considered to be 4g CO2eq.