Along with flash floods, we're also dealing with flash droughts — a new term for me.

"Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US"
phys.org/news/2024-10-bone-dry…

h/t @primonatura
#drought #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River.

^{Seth Borenstein (Phys.org)}

One of the things about Global Warming that non-scientists seem not to understand is the scale of it.

The fossil carbon that we are now releasing to the atmosphere was sequestered by natural means over millions of years. Modern humans have released most of it over less than a century.

One third of all the fossil carbon we have released to the atmosphere has happened within this century. Just let that sink in, we are now in 2024, this century is only 24 years old

#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis

Glad to see an article mentioning Central America becuase so often we are left out of the conversation

#GlobalWarming #Mexico #CentralAmerica #ExtremeHeat

We're fucked

#GlobalWarming

TODAY IN SPAIN!

The northern Spanish city of Zaragoza was inundated by a heavy downpour in less than 20 minutes. The fire brigade had to rescue desperate people from their cars.
#climate #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #Spain

Cory Doctorow: The Swerve

People are already getting really badly hurt, and it’s only going to get worse. We’re poised to break through key planetary boundaries – loss of biosphere diversity, ocean acidification, land poisoning – whose damage will be global, profound and sustained. Once we rupture these boundaries, we have no idea how to repair them. None of our current technologies will suffice, nor will any of the technologies we think we know how to make or might know how to make.

These boundaries are the point of no return, the point at which it won’t mat­ter if we yank the wheel, because the bus is going over the cliff, swerve or no.

Focus on the swerve.

locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doct…

HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #BusinessAsUsual #TheSwerve #CoryDoctorow #LetsRoll #MassCivilResistance

Cory Doctorow: The Swerve

We’re all trapped on a bus. The bus is barreling towards a cliff. Beyond the cliff is a canyon plunge any of us will be lucky to survive. Even if we survive, none of us know how we’ll climb out of …

^{Locus Online}