Meanwhile, on planet earth...
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:24 pm
The climate is becoming more bizarre and more threatening.
It's winter in the Chilean Andes. But high temperatures have recently exceeded 100F.https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/ ... ina-chile/
Iran has shut down for two days because of the heat.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran ... -rcna97679
Arizonans suffered second and third degree burns from road surfaces during a record stretch of days where the temperature exceeded 110F.https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/health/a ... index.html
Coral reefs in Florida are dead or dying. Scientists are trying to preserve coral species by moving them to tanks. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/28/11908244 ... -from-heat
The Fertile Crescent is becoming a desert. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/worl ... ation.html
Lakes are drying out at unexpectedly high rates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/ ... te-change/
July 2023 was the first month where the global average temperature exceeded that of pre-industrial times by 1.5C -- the limit the Paris accords tried to set. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- ... threshold/
Collapse of the AMOC, of which the Gulf Stream is a part, was once thought extremely unlikely. A new analysis predicts it will happen between 2025 and 2095, with a central estimate of 2050. https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... y-suggests
House Republicans are determined to repeal the portions of the Inflation Reduction Act that address climate change. They've loaded up the must-pass appropriate bills (including the defense bill and the farm bill) with poison pill amendments to prevent the federal government from not only taking action to facilitate movement away from dependence on fossil fuels, they're doubling and tripling down on drill baby drill. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/1107 ... -spending/
And the Heritage Foundation has published Project 2020, a conservative roadmap to dismantle U.S. climate change policy and boost fossil fuel production. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/1107 ... -spending/
I guess we're doing the full Thelma and Louise.
It's winter in the Chilean Andes. But high temperatures have recently exceeded 100F.https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/ ... ina-chile/
Iran has shut down for two days because of the heat.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran ... -rcna97679
Arizonans suffered second and third degree burns from road surfaces during a record stretch of days where the temperature exceeded 110F.https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/health/a ... index.html
Coral reefs in Florida are dead or dying. Scientists are trying to preserve coral species by moving them to tanks. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/28/11908244 ... -from-heat
The Fertile Crescent is becoming a desert. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/worl ... ation.html
Lakes are drying out at unexpectedly high rates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/ ... te-change/
July 2023 was the first month where the global average temperature exceeded that of pre-industrial times by 1.5C -- the limit the Paris accords tried to set. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- ... threshold/
Collapse of the AMOC, of which the Gulf Stream is a part, was once thought extremely unlikely. A new analysis predicts it will happen between 2025 and 2095, with a central estimate of 2050. https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... y-suggests
House Republicans are determined to repeal the portions of the Inflation Reduction Act that address climate change. They've loaded up the must-pass appropriate bills (including the defense bill and the farm bill) with poison pill amendments to prevent the federal government from not only taking action to facilitate movement away from dependence on fossil fuels, they're doubling and tripling down on drill baby drill. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/1107 ... -spending/
And the Heritage Foundation has published Project 2020, a conservative roadmap to dismantle U.S. climate change policy and boost fossil fuel production. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/1107 ... -spending/
I guess we're doing the full Thelma and Louise.