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New data reveals climate change might be more rapid than predictedThe study, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Yi Ming of Princeton University and Dr. Janni Yuval of MIT, is sure to make waves in the climate conversation. Until now, climate models have projected a human-caused intensification of winter storms only toward the end of this century. In the new study, Chemke and his team compared climate model simulations with current storm observations. Their discovery was bleak: It became clear that storm intensification over recent decades has already reached levels projected to occur in the year 2080.
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-reveals-climate-rapid.html
Pakistan's mango production to fall by 50% due to heatwave, water shortage
Pakistan witnessed an extreme heatwave this month, with temperatures in the south crossing 50 degrees Celsius. The south Asian nation had jumped from winter to summer without experiencing a spring, according to the country's Climate Change Ministry.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/pakistans-mango-production-fall-50-due-heatwave-water-shortage-2708156
Torrential rains in China kill 15 people as floodwaters sweep away children from families
Eight people died in two building collapses from landslides in Fujian province, near China's east coast, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the Wuping county information office.
Five others died and three were missing in Yunnan province, about 1,200 kilometres away in south-western China, state broadcaster CCTV said in a report posted online.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-28/china-rains-torrential-15-dead-3-missing-fujian/101107966
California drought could nearly halve hydropower output, boost electricity prices
May 26 (Reuters) - The extended drought in California could lead to hydropower producing 8% of California's electricity generation compared with 15% under normal precipitation conditions, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Thursday.
In its supplemental outlook, the EIA expects that the dip in hydropower generation would lead to an 8% increase in electricity generation from natural gas, an increase in energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 6%, and a roughly 5% increase in wholesale electricity prices throughout the West, it said in a press release.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-drought-could-nearly-halve-hydropower-output-boost-electricity-prices-2022-05-26/
Elephants Are Attacking Humans As Climate Change Pushes Them to the Brink
"What does happen is that wildlife becomes more desperate for food and water as climate change affects the things that they depend upon to survive,"
"Unfortunately, we do not know the full picture of the long-term impacts of climate change on elephants ... The number of elephants being killed due to conflict has increased. In Kenya where I work, we are witnessing more and more drought years, which is having a devastating impact on both humans and elephants."
https://www.newsweek.com/elephants-attack-humans-climate-change-pushes-them-brink-1710102
Seven ways climate change is already hitting Texans
More intense climate and weather events beyond natural climate variability have already damaged people and nature. Those threats are becoming increasingly evident in Texas. The ongoing heat wave, which brought unseasonably high temperatures and once again raised concerns about the capacity of the state’s power grid, is just one example.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/18/climate-change-texas/
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There are some pretty smart people posting there...
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1127
A sign of the times...
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/mlo.html
https://e360.yale.edu/features/beyond-magical-thinking-time-to-get-real-about-climate-change
Two to three feet of sea level rise may not sound like much, but it will transform human societies the world over. In south Florida, residents will lose access to fresh water. Sewage treatment plants will fail, large areas will persistently flood, and Miami Beach and other barrier islands will be largely abandoned.
sea level rise is accelerating at a dangerous pace. In 1900, global sea levels were rising 0.6 millimeters a year. After 1930, as ocean warming and water expansion kicked in, the rate of sea level rise doubled and doubled again, reaching 3.1mm a year by 1990. Since then, as ever-warmer oceans have driven polar ice melt, the rate of sea level rise has quickened further. Today, oceans are rising 6 mm a year (over two inches a decade), and this pace will continue to dramatically accelerate.
on current trends, we will be lucky for seas to rise “only” 8ft by 2100. The reason is that the computer models used by Noaa and others do not reflect what we know about how seas have risen in the past. These models assume that sea level rise unfolds gradually, but the geological record shows that in fact it can occur in rapid pulses. Warmer temperatures following the previous ice age caused disintegration of one polar ice sector after another, causing seas to rise in pulses of three to 30ft per century. Today, accelerating ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica are almost certainly the beginning of a new pulse of rapid sea level rise.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2021/apr/13/sea-level-rise-climate-emergency-harold-wanless
