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Professor Bill McGuire Is A Highly Respected Climate Scientist In The UK... #climateemergency #climatebreakdown #ClimateCrisis #wakeup #connect #mothernature #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #glamour #vogue #love #kindness #feminism #makeup #JustStopOil #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #quotestoliveby #berniesanders #bluewave #environment #socialactivism #sustainability #vegan #cosmopolitan

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The microplastic was so concentrated in the samples researchers collected that it is thought to be causing clouds to form while giving off greenhouse gasses. “If the issue of ‘plastic air pollution’ is not addressed proactively, climate change and ecological risks may become a reality, causing irreversible and serious environmental damage in the future,” the study’s lead author, Hiroshi Okochi, a professor at Waseda University, said in a statement. The peer-reviewed paper was published in Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the authors believe it is the first to check clouds for microplastics. The pollution is made up of plastic particles smaller than five millimeters that are released from larger pieces of plastic during degradation. They are also intentionally added to some products, or discharged in industrial effluent. Tires are thought to be among the main sources, as are plastic beads used in personal care products. Recent research has found them to be widely accumulating across the globe – as much as 10m tons are estimated to end up in the oceans annually. Waseda researchers gathered samples at altitudes ranging between 1,300-3,776 meters...That is potentially a problem because microplastics degrade much faster when exposed to ultraviolet light in the upper atmosphere, and give off greenhouse gasses as they do. A high concentration of these microplastics in clouds in sensitive polar regions could throw off the ecological balance, the authors wrote. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/09/microplastics-clouds-study-mount-fuji-mount-oyama #ClimateChange #climateemergency #climatebreakdown #ClimateCrisis #wakeup #connect #solarpower #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #fastfashion #glamour #vogue #kindness #feminism #makeup #plasticpollution #JustStopOil #biodiversity #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #quotestoliveby #berniesanders #bluewave #environment #socialactivism #sustainability #vegan #cosmopolitan

The damage caused by the climate crisis through extreme weather has cost $16m (£13m) an hour for the past 20 years, according to a new estimate. Storms, floods, heatwaves and droughts have taken many lives and destroyed swathes of property in recent decades, with global heating making the events more frequent and intense. The study is the first to calculate a global figure for the increased costs directly attributable to human-caused global heating. It found average costs of $140bn (£115bn) a year from 2000 to 2019, although the figure varies significantly from year to year. The latest data shows $280bn in costs in 2022. The researchers said lack of data, particularly in low-income countries, meant the figures were likely to be seriously underestimated. Additional climate costs, such as from crop yield declines and sea level rise, were also not included. The study also found that the number of people affected by extreme weather because of the climate crisis was 1.2 billion over two decades. Two-thirds of the damage costs were due to the lives lost, while a third was due to property and other assets being destroyed. Storms, such as Hurricane Harvey and Cyclone Nargis, were responsible for two-thirds of the climate costs, with 16% from heatwaves and 10% from floods and droughts. Read a lot mote here. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/09/climate-crisis-cost-extreme-weather-damage-study #ClimateChange #climateemergency #climatebreakdown #ClimateCrisis #wakeup #connect #solarpower #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #fastfashion #glamour #vogue #kindness #feminism #makeup #JustStopOil #biodiversity #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #quotestoliveby #berniesanders #bluewave #environment #socialactivism #sustainability #vegan #cosmopolitan

‘Unprecedented’ warming indicates climate crisis is taking place before our eyes, experts say The rapid acceleration of ocean temperatures in the last month is an anomaly that scientists have yet to explain. Data collated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), known as the Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) series, gathered by satellites and buoys, has shown temperatures higher than in any previous year, in a series stretching back to 1981, continuously over the past 42 days. The world is thought to be on the brink of an El Niño weather event this year – a cyclical weather system in the Pacific, that has a warming impact globally. But the El Niño system is yet to develop, so this oscillation cannot explain the recent rapid heating, at a time of year when ocean temperatures are normally declining from their annual March and April peaks. Warming oceans are a concern for many reasons. Seawater takes up more space at higher temperatures, accelerating sea level rise, and warmer water at the poles accelerates the melting of the ice caps. Hotter temperatures can also be dire for marine ecosystems, as it can be difficult or impossible for species to adapt. Corals in particular can suffer devastating bleaching. Some scientists fear that the rapid warming could be a sign of the climate crisis progressing at a faster rate than predicted. The oceans have acted as a kind of global buffer to the climate crisis over recent decades, both by absorbing vast amounts of the carbon dioxide that we have poured into the atmosphere, and by storing about 90% of the excess energy and heat this has created, dampening some of the impacts of global heating on land. Some scientists fear we could be reaching the limit of the oceans’ capacity to absorb these excesses. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis #wakeup #connect #mothernature #fyp #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #climateemergency #glamour #vogue #feminism #makeup #stopwillow #JustStopOil #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #bluewave #quotestoliveby #socialactivism #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture

Posted ig/jjessiicalynn Something that makes me very uncomfortable is how people have started to normalize heatwaves - first because it should be an obvious sign that the Earth is extremely stressed - second - in the face of such unprecedented heat, one would think the world would wake up to the urgent need to decarbonize energy systems & transition to a low carbon economy (aka stop doing all the things that are making it get hot!) but none of that is really happening. It seems there is still a lot of confusion and ignorance on the most existential crisis to ever face humanity. The heatwaves of today are the normal temperatures of the future - unlivable for millions …eventually billions… around the world. Is our cognitive dissonance really that strong? Are we unwilling to accept that we might fail even if we do try? What is the alternative? #wakeup #connect #mothernature #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #extinctionrebellion #glamour #vogue #love #kindness #conservative #republican #berniesanders #jesus #climatecrisis #feminism #makeup #sunrisemovement #quotestoliveby #naturelovers #nature #eu #uk #bluewave #environment #socialactivism #cosmopolitan

It’s as if the world doesn’t understand that we must immediately cut global carbon emissions. TODAY, RIGHT NOW. “Why is everyone not terrified and desperately changing their lives. I don't understand.” I don’t understand it either. A woman in the UK, who says she knows just how bad climate change is going to become, told me that she only cuts carbon emissions when it saves her money, but that she wants to keep flying across Europe, even though domestic aviation in Europe generates 82 million tons of carbon emissions each year. She blames the rich, even though private flights only generate one million tons of carbon dioxide per year. [ Wouldn’t staying local save money and carbon emissions? ] She also blames the UK government, which is certainly part of the problem, but the people also voted the conservatives into power. Moreover, 500,000 in the UK will protest in the streets for higher wages, but only a handful will protest for more aggressive climate change mitigation. Millions in America will write letters to the President about climate issues, but only a handful will protest, and many refuse to drastically cut emissions in their personal lives, even though the IPCC says that consumers can cut global carbon emissions up to 70% by changing what they BUY. https://www.ipcc.ch/2022/04/04/ipcc-ar6-wgiii-pressrelease/ #wakeup #connect #mothernature #climatejustice #gretathunberg #love #earthday2023 #earthday #teenvogue #fashion #climateemergency #glamour #vogue #feminism #makeup #stopwillow #JustStopOil #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #bluewave #quotestoliveby #socialactivism #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #vegan #cosmopolitan

We must start upscaling technologies to feed the world with oceans of algae and fungi... More than a fifth of UK shoppers’ favourite grocery items are at risk from climate breakdown, a new report has found. Consumers could also face shortages of bananas, grapes, avocados, cashews, cocoa, peas, canned tuna and tea in the coming years, as the countries they come from are hit by changing weather patterns because of CO2 emissions, the charity Christian Aid has said. Of the 25 biggest food exporters to the UK, eight – Brazil, South Africa, India, Vietnam, Peru, Colombia, Ivory Coast and Kenya – faced high climate vulnerability, according to research by the charity. It found 22% of the items in a typical British grocery shop were at risk. Some effects have been seen already. Earlier this year, UK supplies of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, peppers and citrus fruits ground to a halt as drought hit parts of Spain and Morocco. Yadira Lemus’s family has been farming coffee in the hills of Honduras for generations, with their farmland almost perfect for the crop. “We would plant coffee and it produced almost by itself,” she said. But old certainties can no longer be relied upon. “It is harder to predict the weather,” Lemus told researchers from Christian Aid. “Before we could say which is winter or summer, and when we can plant. Not any more.” Further global heating would mean more harvest-destroying extreme weather events, researchers say, leaving consumers facing further shortages and long-term prices rises. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/sep/13/uk-grocery-items-climate-breakdown-risk #climateemergency #climatebreakdown #ClimateCrisis #wakeup #connect #mothernature #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #glamour #vogue #love #kindness #feminism #makeup #JustStopOil #biodiversity #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #quotestoliveby #berniesanders #bluewave #environment #socialactivism #sustainability #vegan #cosmopolitan

The vast swaths of pine, spruce and larch forest that blanket much of Canada have been prized for generations. Not only do they provide a home to hundreds of species – including some of the most threatened in the country – but they also absorb more greenhouse gases than they emit, acting as a huge carbon sink. This summer, however, as flames devoured one of the largest contiguous stretches of woodland on the planet, 2bn tonnes (2.2bn tons) of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere. Emissions from Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season are probably triple the country’s annual carbon footprint, experts warn, as climate systems reach a “tipping point”. The trajectory of the country’s wildfires has raised questions about how Canada can better tackle the blazes – and whether the issue is a global problem as nations race to reduce the volume of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. Werner Kurz, a recently retired scientist with Natural Resources Canada, estimates nearly 2bn tonnes of carbon have already been released into the atmosphere from the record-breaking wildfire season, which federal officials warn could persist into the winter. “It’s definitely off the scale,” said Kurz, a key figure in developing tools to measure the “carbon budget” of the country’s forests. The figure far exceeds all of the emissions tied to Canada’s economy each year, which emit a total of 670m tonnes. Even emissions from burning in the managed forests, which refers to any part of the country’s hinterland that is logged or stewarded through the park system, has exceeded the total of Canada’s economy, with an estimated 850m tonnes emitted. “First responders on the frontlines understand that ambitious collective action to tackle climate change is now a matter of survival,” he said. But when the final tally is measured in the coming years, the emissions from wildfires will not be counted against Canada’s Paris agreement commitments, a reality that has long frustrated climate scientists, who fear far more carbon is released into the atmosphere than people realize. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/22/canada-wildfires-forests-carbon-emissions #climateemergency #climatebreakdown #ClimateCrisis #wakeup #connect #mothernature #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #glamour #vogue #love #kindness #feminism #makeup #JustStopOil #biodiversity #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #quotestoliveby #berniesanders #bluewave #environment #socialactivism #sustainability #vegan #cosmopolitan

Since Europe Is Warming TWICE AS FAST As The Rest Of The World, America won’t see significant food shortages for a several more years… Shoppers have been warned they face more fruit and vegetable shortages, as temperatures in southern Spain soar to unprecedented levels while the UK growing season gets off to a late start because of cold, overcast weather. Temperatures were expected to reach a new April record of 39C (102F) in parts of Andalucía on Friday amid a long-lasting drought that has affected the production of vegetables in Spain. Córdoba reached a record 38.8C on Thursday. Spain has been in drought since January last year and this is likely to be the hottest, driest April on record. Meanwhile, British growers have also been facing weather challenges, particularly the cold start to the spring growing season and a lack of sunlight. Fresh produce grown in Spain for UK consumption includes tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuces, broccoli and citrus fruit. https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/28/fruit-veg-shortages-weather-uk-spain-crops #wakeup #connect #mothernature #fyp #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #climateemergency #glamour #vogue #feminism #makeup #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #bluewave #love #kindness #quotestoliveby #socialactivism #fastfashion #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #vegan #cosmopolitan #vanityfair #organiclife

The climate crisis had “frightening” impacts in Europe last year, with heatwaves killing more than 20,000 people and drought withering crops, an EU report has found. Its writers said drought was already baked in for many farmers in 2023. The only way to limit the rising damages of global heating was rapidly to cut carbon emissions, they said. The report, from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), said widespread heatwaves had led to Europe suffering its hottest summer on record in 2022, by a large margin. These would have been virtually impossible without global heating and had led to many premature deaths. The heat, plus low rainfall, caused drought that affected more than a third of the continent at its peak, the report said, making it the driest year on record. Flows in almost two-thirds of Europe’s rivers were lower than average. High temperatures also meant that the carbon emissions from summer wildfires were the highest in 15 years and the European Alps lost record amounts of ice from glaciers. Overall, Europe experienced its second-warmest year ever recorded, with temperatures rising at twice the global average rate – faster than on any other continent. Over the past five years, the average temperature has been 2.2C higher than in the pre-industrial era. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/frightening-record-busting-heat-and-drought-hit-europe-in-2022 #love #earthday2023 #earthday #wakeup #connect #mothernature #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #climateemergency #glamour #vogue #feminism #makeup #meaningoflife #stopwillow #JustStopOil #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #bluewave #eu #uk #relationship #nature #naturelover #kindness #socialactivism #cosmopolitan

“While more extreme threats are unlikely to be realised, sticking to the precautionary principle is just plain common sense. Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London. “… Research has revealed that climate scientists … and IPCC reports underplay the speed and intensity with which climate breakdown is happening. The reality is that our understanding of potential tipping points and feedback effects remains too poorly constrained for us to be confident of how severe climate breakdown will end up proving to be. Furthermore, minimising the potential impact of climate breakdown is more likely to lead to increased reticence in relation to slashing emissions than any potential exaggeration of the likely endgame. A middle of the road route would be to no one’s advantage – so, as for most situations wherein the risk is hard to quantify, there is only one sensible way forward: to hope for the best, while preparing for the worst.” https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/22/climate-emergency-doomer-appeaser-precautionary-principle #hea#heatwaveli#climatejusticere#gretathunbergee#teenvogueas#fashioni#climateemergencyla#glamourog#vogueem#feminismk#makeupug#eugreendeale#greendealxt#extinctionrebellionlu#bluewavero#droughtli#climateactionnowus#sustainabilityli#climatecrisisuo#quotestolivebyos#cosmopolitanri#fridaysforfuturend#endfossilfuelste#stemm#womeninsciencepi#opinionan#vanityfairli#climatechangelooding .

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"We are at Gatwick due to fly to #Rhodes our hotel has been evacuated and @loveholidays are telling us still to fly and sort ourselves out. 30,000 have already been displaced - how can we take our children there?" Said a Twitter user. loveholidays travel agency is still encouraging people to fly to Rhodes, Greece, for holiday after 30,000 people have been evacuated from the burning island. GREED, Irresponsibility? How is this man still thinking of flying to an island that's on fire with his children for holiday? Titanic, anyone? #ClimateCrisis #wakeup #connect #mothernature #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #glamour #vogue #love #kindness #feminism #makeup #JustStopOil #opinion #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #uk #eu #quotestoliveby #bluewave #environment #socialactivism #sustainability #vegan #cosmopolitan

Conservatives Have A Stranglehold On Most Governments... China is approving new coal power projects at the equivalent of two plants every week, a rate energy watchdogs say is unsustainable if the country hopes to achieve its energy targets. The government has pledged to peak emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2060, and in 2021 the president, Xi Jinping, promised to stop building coal powered plants. But after regional power crunches in 2022, China started a spree of approving new projects and restarting suspended ones. In 2022 the government approved a record-breaking 86 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity. One gigawatt is the equivalent of a large coal power plant. This run of approvals is continuing, potentially on track to break last year’s record, according to analysis by the Global Energy Monitor (GEM) and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, published on Tuesday. It said in the first half of 2023, authorities granted approvals for 52GW of new coal power, began construction on 37GW of new coal power, announced 41GW-worth of new projects, and revived 8GW of previously shelved projects. It said about half of the plants permitted in 2022 had started construction by summer. The analysts said: “Unless permitting is stopped immediately, China won’t be able to reduce coal-fired power capacity during the 15th five-year plan (2026–30) without subsequent cancellations of already permitted projects or massive early retirement of existing plants.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/china-coal-plants-climate-goals-carbon #climateemergency #climatebreakdown #ClimateCrisis #climateactionnow #wakeup #connect #mothernature #wisdom #climatejustice #gretathunberg #teenvogue #fashion #glamour #vogue #love #kindness #feminism #makeup #JustStopOil #biodiversity #extinctionrebellion #sunrisemovement #quotestoliveby #berniesanders #bluewave #environment #socialactivism #sustainability #vegan #cosmopolitan ⁠