Mucho más que una DANA: así son los "monstruos" que el calentamiento puede crear en el Mediterráneo vía @eldiarioes https://www.eldiario.es/1_9f7e18

#crisisclimatica #calentamientoglobal
#ClimateChange #climaticdisaster
#climaticchange

What are #climate tipping points?

Climate tipping points are termed positive feedback loops or positive reinforcers.

Basically, Increasing the "X" variable increases the "Y" variable.

For example, #ClimaticChange (X) is increasing the risk of #wildfires (Y) https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=wildfires+climate+change&hl=nl&as_sdt=0,5

Wildfires are fundamentally Carbon being burnt (Carbon Based lifeforms. e.g., plants and animals) which releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere.

Human activities are burning carbon-based fuels ("Fossil" fuels & Biomass [e.g., wood fuel]), which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere, which in turn cause more wildfires, which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere - that's a positive reinforcer (although not "positive" for humans or animals in general).

Wildfires are only one of many known positive climate heating reinforcers (there may be some unknown reinforcers).

"State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes" Nature. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08745-6

Generally speaking, humans are not mitigating climate change, the effect of climate change is mitigating humans. However, whilst it's not impossible (it's an unknown unknowns) that human greenhouse gas emitting activities could cause a climate heating runway effect due to positive reinforcers, the general scientific literature (evidence), infers that the fewer greenhouse gases humans emit, the fewer ecological limiting factors will curtail humans.

Mitigating the existential threat of human caused climate change is a precautionary approach. However, the data on greenhouse gas emissions clearly shows that industries are not taking the precautionary approach. https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions

Of course, industries supply the fuels, the machinery, etc, that enable people to take part in activities that burn fuels, etc. Many industries are evidently aiming to continue to burn fuels as are many consumers. Many businesses are aiming to continue to farm ruminents (e.g., sheep & cows that emit relatively high amounts of methane)

The question is, what is it going to take to prevent humans from emitting greenhouse gases? For example, in many contexts, even when adults are informed that their fuel-burning activities are causing the climate to change in harmful ways, many don't even try to reduce their fuel-burning activities. When they're informed that eating meat is a leading cause of climate change, they generally ignore this information.

This blog post generally considers the psychology of those that are evidently not trying to reduce their fuel-burning activities (quite the opposite). https://empiricalperspective.home.blog/2023/04/30/the-gross-simplification-of-the-capitalist-that-lacks-knowledge-of-and-avoids-talking-about-ecology-though-bangs-on-on-about-technology/

#psychology #sustainability #AgroEcology #Degrowth #technology

What are #climate tipping points?

Climate tipping points are termed positive feedback loops or positive reinforcers.

Basically, Increasing the "X" variable increases the "Y" variable.

For example, #ClimaticChange (X) is increasing the risk of #wildfires (Y) https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=wildfires+climate+change&hl=nl&as_sdt=0,5

Wildfires are fundamentally Carbon being burnt (Carbon Based lifeforms. e.g., plants and animals) which releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere.

Human activities are burning carbon-based fuels ("Fossil" fuels & Biomass [e.g., wood fuel]), which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere, which in turn cause more wildfires, which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere - that's a positive reinforcer (although not "positive" for humans or animals in general).

Wildfires are only one of many known positive climate heating reinforcers (there may be some unknown reinforcers).

"State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes" Nature. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08745-6

Generally speaking, humans are not mitigating climate change, the effect of climate change is mitigating humans. However, whilst it's not impossible (it's an unknown unknowns) that human greenhouse gas emitting activities could cause a climate heating runway effect due to positive reinforcers, the general scientific literature (evidence), infers that the fewer greenhouse gases humans emit, the fewer ecological limiting factors will curtail humans.

Mitigating the existential threat of human caiused climate change is a precautionary approach. However, the data on greenhouse gas emissions clearly shows that industries are not taking the precautionary approach. https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions

Of course, industries supply the fuels, the machinery, etc, that enable people to take part in activities that burn fuels, etc. Many industries are evidently aiming to continue to burn fuels as are many consumers. Many businesses are aiming to continue to farm ruminents (e.g., sheep & cows that emit relatively high amounts of methane)

The question is, what is it going to take to prevent humans from emitting greenhouse gases? For example, in many contexts, even when adults are informed that their fuel-burning activities are causing the climate to change in harmful ways, many don't even try to reduce their fuel-burning activities. When they're informed that eating meat is a leading cause of climate change, they generally ignore this information.

This blog post generally considers the psychology of those that are evidently not trying to reduce their fuel-burning activities (quite the opposite). https://empiricalperspective.home.blog/2023/04/30/the-gross-simplification-of-the-capitalist-that-lacks-knowledge-of-and-avoids-talking-about-ecology-though-bangs-on-on-about-technology/

#psychology #sustainability #AgroEcology #Degrowth #technology

What are #climate tipping points?

Climate tipping points are termed positive feedback loops or positive reinforcers.

Basically, Increasing the "X" variable increases the "Y" variable.

For example, #ClimaticChange (X) is increasing the risk of #wildfires (Y) https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=wildfires+climate+change&hl=nl&as_sdt=0,5

Wildfires are fundamentally Carbon being burnt (Carbon Based lifeforms. e.g., plants and animals) which releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere.

Human activities are burning carbon-based fuels ("Fossil" fuels & Biomass [e.g., wood fuel]), which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere, which in turn cause more wildfires, which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat into the atmosphere - that's a positive reinforcer (although not "positive" for humans or animals in general).

Wildfires are only one of many known positive climate heating reinforcers (there may be some unknown reinforcers).

"State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes" Nature. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08745-6

Generally speaking, humans are not mitigating climate change, the effect of climate change is mitigating humans. However, whilst it's not impossible (it's an unknown unknowns) that human greenhouse gas emitting activities could cause a climate heating runway effect due to positive reinforcers, the general scientific literature (evidence), infers that the fewer greenhouse gases humans emit, the fewer ecological limiting factors will curtail humans.

Mitigating the existential threat of climate change is a precautionary approach. However, the data on greenhouse gas emissions clearly shows that industries are not taking the precautionary approach. https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions

Of course, industries supply the fuels, the machinery, etc, that enable people to take part in activities that burn fuels, etc. Many industries are evidently aiming to continue to burn fuels as are many consumers. Many businesses are aiming to continue to farm ruminents (e.g., sheep & cows that emit relatively high amounts of methane)

The question is, what is it going to take to prevent humans from emitting greenhouse gases? For example, in many contexts, even when adults are informed that their fuel-burning activities are causing the climate to change in harmful ways, many don't even try to reduce their fuel-burning activities. When they're informed that eating meat is a leading cause of climate change, they generally ignore this information.

This blog post generally considers the psychology of those that are evidently not trying to reduce their fuel-burning activities (quite the opposite). https://empiricalperspective.home.blog/2023/04/30/the-gross-simplification-of-the-capitalist-that-lacks-knowledge-of-and-avoids-talking-about-ecology-though-bangs-on-on-about-technology/

#psychology #sustainability #AgroEcology #Degrowth #technology

World’s oldest #tree: “Known as the “Great Grandfather,” the trunk of this tree measuring 4m in diameter and 28m tall is also believed to contain scientific information that could shed light on how the planet has adapted to #ClimaticChange.”

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2023/04/24/2003798535

Caspian Sea levels over the last 2200 years, with new data from the S-E corner https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108136 #IMBEpapers #CaspianSealevel
#Radiocarbon date calibration
#ClimaticChange #RiverDiversion
#HumanIntervention #Palynology

According to digitalbeacon.co, the Blogpocket.com home page produces 0.164 grams of CO2 and weighs 221.034 KB on the first visit and 0.019 grams and 26.06 KB on a return visit. Blogpocket.com is rated amazing when it comes to its carbon footprint.
Climate change is expected to cause 250,000 deaths per year between 2030 and 2050. You can try to remedy this by making your website emit as little CO2 as possible.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health

#sustainability #climaticchange

Una entrevista molt interessant sobre com adaptar-se al canvi climatic. (En francès)

#changementclimatique #canviclimatic #climaticchange

https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/62559ee3c946f200129a9f59/e/62822189d26f7e00121d0066/media.mp3

Empfehlenswerter neuer Docufilm über die Macht & Finanzkraft der Ölkonzernen und deren Einfluss auf die Politik.
Der Film sorgt auf der #COP27 für heftige Diskussion
https://www.theoilmachine.org/ #klimawandel #climaticchange

Morgen ist mein Geburtstag. Früher war es immer so, dass an diesem Tag immer der erste Schnee gefallen ist. Das letzte Mal hab ich es erlebt, als ich vor 13 Jahren mit meinem heutigen Mann zusammen gekommen bin. Die Höchsttemperatur für morgen beträgt 15°C.

#climatecrises #climaticchange