Found this article interesting and somewhat uplifting - discusses how the pandemic has potentially hastened the demise of the fossil fuels industry: https://futurecrunch.substack.com/p/fc100-its-carnage-out-there
More not great news
Worth reminding that a decrease in emissions doesn’t help us that much.
We have a certain amount of CO2 left that we can emit and stay beneath 1.5 degrees of warming, 2 degrees etc.
A year at 90% emission just consumes that carbon budget a little slower.
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Today’s high temps in freedom units
127.6 Kuwait
127.4 Iraq
126.5 Iran
125 yesterday in Baghdad.
Wonder how many people died?
Just 117 in Phoenix today.
Relatively chilly 'round my parts, but we have had above average temperatures literally every single day for over a month.
Hottest July on record here in Ottawa. We had eight days where it got over 100F with humidity, one day where it reached 110. It was so hot the igloos almost melted.
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Geez, what do you get like one day in Spring and one day in Fall when it’s livable?
The whole region has just been super shitty this summer. The kind of weather we used to have maybe 4 or 5 days a year when I was a kid has become routine, and this year it’s just been non-stop.
It’s 73 degrees in my basement right now, quite likely for the first time ever in the 100 years since it was built.
Canadians talking in Fahrenheit is treason!
The weather has been great 5 blocks from the beach in SoCal. I don’t think it’s hit 85 once this summer. I went camping last weekend and it was like 65 in Big Bear at 8000 feet, then 97 in San Bernardino at the base of the mountain, and then 65 again at home.
It’s been legit cold in my place the last few days. I’ve been wearing a shirt and even closed my sliding glass door. I didn’t close all the windows though.
It took at least a decade for me to get used to this weather and not feeling like I’m cheating somehow.
33C today, hottest of the year so far.
made you click to pay for using freedom units - it’s 91F
Well, might as well eat lots of cookies before the climate apocalypse.
Update: For the first time in many weeks I have the windows and doors open, the air conditioners off, and I am not covered in a thin film of sweat. Climate change confirmed a hoax. Roll coal everybody.
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One muncipal in Germany ran out of water in the last few days. They had to use tank trucks for sanitary water and you had to buy drinking water in the supermarket. Now a 2nd muncipal is close to it and issued bans on the usage of lawn sprinklers for example.
Whereabouts is this? How long has it been since it had substantial rain or was it a very dry winter?
Its a region of Lower Saxony, west of Hannover. The other regions is in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Reason is apparantly not enough rain during 2018 and 2019 which couldnt be compensated during the winters. Rain during May, June and July wasn’t enough.
So its a mix of high temperatures, high humidification and low amounts of rain.
Why does a freighter going from Singapur to Brazil have to get that close to the islands and riffs when they should know its dangerous?
eta:
Forbes has a really thorough article on the ships track - why was it so close to Mauritius?
Vessel transponders tracked from space show the ‘MV Wakashio’ crossed the Indian Ocean and entered the national waters (Exclusive Economic Zone) of Mauritius on 23 July just before midnight local time, two days prior to it’s grounding on Sunday 25 July at 7.15pm local time. This raises questions about why the vessel’s GPS tracking did not indicate that it was heading toward an impact with land, or why local authorities did not intervene with sufficient warning, given the clear trajectory toward the island.
Satellite data can also reveal the speed of the vessel. With the ‘MV Wakashio,’ it reveals that the vessel was travelling at 11 knots, which is standard for bulk carrier ships at sea, but more importantly did not show any slow down prior to impact.
Over 2000 vessels passed by Mauritius in the month of July 2020 alone (shown in green).
Source: Windward
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