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Satire for Sanity
Nice little typhoon. You do realize these are normal, right? (apparently not)
The abnormal ones are not. Squeeze your eyes shut and they'll go away.
Nice little typhoon. You do realize these are normal, right? (apparently not)
Facing Rapid Rise in Sea Levels, Israel Could Lose Large Parts of Its Coastline by 2050
Haaretz investigation reveals that the Environment Ministry is predicting a one-meter rise in sea levels by 2050 due to the climate change. The consequences will be dire – but the government is woefully unprepared
https://www.haaretz.com/science-and...oastline/00000183-577f-d3b0-a9bf-f77f87500000
Thank you for the repeats. You make a good Denier Aunt Sally.
Inversion fallacy. You are describing yourself again. You deny and discard science. You deny and discard mathematics. You mindlessly repeat yourself and even talk to yourself.
The abnormal ones are not. Squeeze your eyes shut and they'll go away.
It would take a scientist to answer. You're a sociopath.
Well, well- who'd have thought that climate change would actually do the world some good. .
Haw, haw....................................haw.
I guess they'll just try to steal somebody else's.
Hogwash. You are an idiot.
Haw, haw....................................haw.
I am a scientist and engineer.
I realize your fundamentalism requires you to try to insult anyone that doesn't agree with your religion. It nevertheless won't work. Throwing insults accomplishes nothing.
Climate cannot change.
Where is all this water coming from?????!?
Thousands call for ‘climate reparations and justice’ in global protests
Fridays for Future ‘strikes’ in about 450 places demanded rich countries pay for damage from global warming
Thousands of young people have staged a coordinated “global climate strike” across Asia, Africa and Europe in a call for reparations for those worst affected by climate breakdown.
From New Zealand and Japan to Germany and the Democratic Republic of Congo, activists walked out of schools, universities and jobs to demand rich countries pay for the damage global warming is inflicting on the poor.
In the latest day of action by the Fridays For Future movement, strikes “for climate reparations and justice” were planned in about 450 locations worldwide.
The protests take place six weeks before the Cop27 climate summit, where developing countries plan to push for compensation for climate-related destruction to homes, infrastructure and livelihoods.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...te-reparations-and-justice-in-global-protests
UN ups flood aid appeal as Pakistan enters ‘second wave of death’
Nearly 1,700 people, including more than 600 children, lost their lives and a total 33 million people were affected after record-breaking rains began lashing Pakistan in June.
In its latest report on Saturday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 8.62 million people in 28 assessed districts were estimated to be in crisis and enduring the emergency phases of food security between September and November 2022, “including some 5.74 million people in flood-affected districts covered by the assessment”.
The OCHA report also noted that “water-borne and vector-borne diseases” are of “growing concern”, particularly in the hard-hit provinces of Sindh and Balochistan.
It added that close to 1.6 million women of reproductive age, including nearly 130,000 pregnant women, need urgent health services.
Addressing the UN General Assembly late last month, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said his country has been facing the wrath of climate crisis – even though it had little responsibility in causing it.
“Pakistan has never seen a starker and more devastating example of the impact of global warming … Nature has unleashed her fury on Pakistan without looking at our carbon footprint, which is next to nothing. Our actions did not contribute to this,” he said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...ppeal-as-pakistan-enters-second-wave-of-death
Scotland 'snow-free' for fourth time in six years
Scotland is completely snow-free for the fourth time in the last six years.
The Sphinx, in the Cairngorms, which is historically the longest-lasting patch of snow in the UK, has melted.
Snow expert Iain Cameron reported on Friday that the famous patch had disappeared in the last 24 hours.
It is the fourth time it has gone in the last six years, having only melted nine times in the past 300 years. Mr Cameron said climate change was a likely factor.
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The Sphinx, on remote Braeriach, a 1,296m (4,252ft) Munro, has melted away more frequently in the last 18 years.
According to records, it previously melted fully in 1933, 1959, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2017, 2018, 2021 and now 2022.
Before 1933, it is thought to have last melted completely in the 1700s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-63184780
Pakistan floods: Six month wait for water to recede, warn relief agencies
In a fresh appeal for international support, the UNICEF worker described desperate scenes.
“Roads and bridges have been washed away; I’ve just come from the field and the water is not going anywhere,” Ms. Birukila continued, speaking via Zoom from Quetta.
As had been feared, life-threatening illness and disease have now spread among displaced communities, including cerebral malaria, for which there is no available medicine.
Please, give me clothes
“There is no shelter...people don’t even have clothing,” Ms. Birukila continued. “One lady asked me, ‘Please, give me some clothing, I ran away two weeks ago.’ She is still wearing the same dress she wore two weeks ago because she cannot change. You just run with what you have on your back.”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1127051
Climate change: UN warns key warming threshold slipping from sight
There is "no credible pathway" to keep the rise in global temperatures below the key threshold of 1.5C, according to a bleak new UN assessment.
Scientists believe that going beyond 1.5C would see dangerous impacts for people all over the world.
The report says that since COP26 last year, governments carbon cutting plans have been "woefully inadequate".
Only an urgent transformation of society will avoid disaster, the study says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63407459
Lula ally pays tribute to Dom Phillips and vows to protect the Amazon
With Bolsonaro gone, Marina Silva promises to honour murdered environmental activists by ending deforestation
The politician tipped to become Brazil’s new environment minister has paid tribute to the murdered British journalist Dom Phillips and said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s incoming government will battle to honour the memory of the rainforest martyrs killed trying to safeguard the Amazon.
Speaking to the Guardian after Lula’s historic election victory on Sunday, Marina Silva said Brazil now had the chance to build “a new democratic ecosystem” in which conservation, sustainability and the climate crisis will take centre stage after Jair Bolsonaro’s era of Amazon destruction.
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“It’s so sad to know that many people who dreamed of this moment and fought for this moment are no longer here. That is what lies behind this great effort to honour them,” said Silva, an Amazon-born environmentalist who was Lula’s environment minister from 2003 until 2008 and was recently elected to congress.
Silva paid tribute to Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who were killed in the Amazon in June – a crime that shocked the world and exposed the environmental catastrophe playing out under Bolsonaro.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...tect-amazon-environment-minister-marina-silva