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Ocean temperatures are off the charts right now, and scientists are alarmed

Naučnici koji dokazuju da je napuštanje politike stalnog ekonomskog rasta jedini način da se zaustave dalje emisije štetnih gasova koji ubrzavaju klimatske promene vele da novine neće o ovome čak ni da pišu jer je bilo koji diskurs koji kritikuje politiku rasta tabu:

'Isn't Journalism about Finding New Stories?' The Climate News the Media Ignores

World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3

Tooze pre par meseci, okačiću i na Energetiku:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qFCsoJ4IVY

Nije da se ovo ne zna, ali ovo je nova studija sa malo drugačijom metodologijom:


Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows

QuotePrevious research has shown that even the lowest-impact meat – organic pork – is responsible for eight times more climate damage than the highest-impact plant, oilseed.

Al Gor je malo nervozan

What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

Research finds reducing consumption of just one food item would be like taking 8 million cars off the road: 'It would make a really big difference' 

Naravno, jasno je da  su ljudi nespremni da menjaju ovakve navike, ali eto...

The world has just experienced the hottest summer on record – by a significant margin

Earth 'well outside safe operating space for humanity', scientists find

QuoteTheir assessment found that six out of nine "planetary boundaries" had been broken because of human-caused pollution and destruction of the natural world. The planetary boundaries are the limits of key global systems – such as climate, water and wildlife diversity – beyond which their ability to maintain a healthy planet is in danger of failing.The broken boundaries mean the systems have been driven far from the safe and stable state that existed from the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, to the start of the industrial revolution. The whole of modern civilisation arose in this time period, called the Holocene.

Obogaćivanje okeana gvožđem ponovo dolazi u fokus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/opinion/geoengineering-climate-change-ocean.html

For the present, the point of interest is that everywhere on the Earth today chemical power is available and in most places a fire can be lit. Indeed, it would require only an increase of about 4 per cent in the atmospheric level of oxygen to bring the world into danger of conflagration. At 25 per cent oxygen level even damp vegetation will continue to burn once combustion has started, so that a forest fire started by a lightning flash would burn fiercely till all combustible material was consumed. Those science fiction stories of other worlds with bracing atmospheres due to the richer oxygen content are fiction indeed. A landing of the heroes' spaceship would have destroyed the planet.

World's richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report

Naravno, ovo možda nije sasvim tačno ali, nije da nije indikativno.

Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn

Malo dobrih vesti:


Exclusive: Amazon rainforest destruction slows sharply year to date, report says

Denializam klimatskih promena je promenio kožu

Crack Down On New Climate Denial! Nonprofit tells YouTube

Ah, stara dobra Sabine.

Sabine ponovo udara. Ovo je video koji treba pokazati svakom sumljaocu u ljudski izazvane klimatske promene. Ko zna, možda je ovo video koji će ubediti i scallopa.

How do we know climate change is caused by humans?

Sabine se baš aktivirala na polju klimatskih promena. Doteralo cara do duvara.

I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.

Pa kad gorimo.

The Engine That Drives Our Oceans Is Slowing—And That Could End Life as We Know It

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The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—the engine that drives our oceans—could happen as soon as 2100, according to a study from Utrecht University published last month in the journal Science Advances. And while the world may not suffer a fatal flash freeze like in the 2004 action flick The Day After Tomorrow, an AMOC breakdown would probably reduce average air temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by around 40 degrees Fahrenheit or more, spelling out disaster for life on our planet.
But last year, a brother-sister science team in Denmark made their own prediction about the tipping point. Their model found that the AMOC could shut down as early as 2025 (though the duo says it's more likely to happen toward the middle of the century). The controversial study, published in Nature Communications in June 2023, sparked a media frenzy and a sizable amount of backlash.

 We asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future... 

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They are terrified, but determined to keep fighting.   

Dim na ulicama Malmea: Haos uoči Evrovizije, policija je svuda

QuoteNa protestima je viđena i mlada istaknuta aktivistkinja Greta Tunberg. 

to keep fighting sve dok se ne poturci zapad. sad jos samo kad bi kvalitetno povezali kakve veze ima turcenje sa klimom...

Dete poraslo, osamostalilo se...

Sabina smoždila ćaknutog nobelovca

"Climate Change is a Myth" -- A Nobel Prize Winner's Embarrassing Ideas

Lovci na maglu.

Turning vapor into drinking water - Catching fog in response to drought

Video je dug 42 minuta, ali je zanimljivo.

To da pokažemo ovima u Barajevu i Majdanpeku, bog da ih vidi. 

Uragan Helena se pokazao kao vrlo smrtonosan. 65 osoba je do sada poginulo. Nekada su ovakvi uragani harali jednom u sto godina, a sada jednom u deset. Previše je energije u ekosistemu.

Broj poginulih od Helene se popeo na 230, a došao je Milton. Kažu biće pete kategorije. Florida baš nema sreće. Neki meteorolog se unezverio pred kamerom. Amerika će morati da naštampa još para da se oporavi od ovogodišnjih neprilika.

'We don't really consider it low probability anymore': Collapse of key Atlantic current could have catastrophic impacts, says oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf 

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The Atlantic Ocean's most vital ocean current is showing troubling signs of reaching a disastrous tipping point. Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf tells Live Science what the impacts could be.


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BT: So what would climates around the North Atlantic look like if AMOC were to collapse? What regions would be the worst affected?
SR: There would be many impacts. The most immediate one that people probably already know about is the cooling around the northern Atlantic, which is already there in the form of the cold blob. It's also in the air temperature around that region, it's the only part of the world that has not warmed, but has been getting colder, in the last 100 years.
So we already have the symptom there, but when the AMOC really gets much weaker still and collapses, then the cold blob would expand and cover land areas as well — like Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, Iceland, they would likely get several degrees colder and also drier.
That would then enhance the temperature contrast across Europe, because Southern Europe would still be warm and Northern Europe would be cool. These temperature differences drive extreme weather events, bringing a lot more variability and storms. The sea level would also rise by up to half a meter [1.6 feet] in the northern Atlantic in addition to the global average rise that is happening anyway.
There would also be an effect on ocean carbon dioxide uptake. Currently, the ocean takes up 25% of our CO2 emissions just by gas exchange at the sea surface. The ocean can do that because a lot of that CO2 is then transported to the deep ocean by the AMOC. If the overturning circulation stops, that CO2 will stay near the surface and quickly equilibrate with the atmosphere. That would make it [C02 concentrations] rise faster in the atmosphere.
The AMOC also transports oxygen into the deep ocean. This is also bad news [if this process stops], because if you get an oxygen-depleted ocean it would disrupt the entire web of life in the northern Atlantic, and that would disrupt fisheries.

Sad mi pade na pamet scenario u kom će globalna temperatura povremeno padati, ali ne zato što ceo svet to želi. Dakle, postoje asteroidi sačinjeni od metala. Teoretski je moguće dovesti te asteroide na Zemlju, i onaj ko to izvede dobiće ogromnu ekonomsku prednost. Najprostije je prosto dozvoliti da asteroid padne na tvoju teritoriju, i onda pokupiti ono što nije sagorelo u atmosferi. Tako mogu Kina i Rusija, jer imaju ogromna nenaseljena prostranstva, i nemaju legalnih prepreka da to urade. Ali kada takav asteroid padne na zemlju digne se ogromna prašina, i ostane par godina visoko u atmosferi, kao da je veliki vulkan eruptirao. To će sprečiti izvestan procenat Sunčevih zraka da stigne na površinu, što bi moglo privremeno da smanji globalnu temperaturu. Posle par godina atmosfera se raščisti i temperatura nastavi da raste. ALI, ako redovno baciš na Zemlju asteroide, jedan na deset godina, u sledećih 50-100 godina, to bi definitivno moglo da utiče na klimu na duge staze. I ne samo na klimu. Smanjenje sunčevih zraka bi uticalo i na fotosintezu. Ako ostatak sveta dozvoli Kini da to radi, a moglo bi da se desi, ako Amerika nekako uspe da uradi isto na svojoj teritoriji, onda bi SAD+Kina izazvali smanjenje prinosa u celom svetu. Razvijenim zemljama to ne bi bio problem, jer bi se tehnološki prilagodile situaciji. Kini ne bi bio problem jer od dobijenog metala može da kupi koliko hoće hrane od ostatka sveta. Ali naseljenim nerazvijenim zemljama, kao što su Indija, Bangladeš, Indonezija, to bi predstavljalo veliki problem. Ali ne bi mogle ništa da urade po tom pitanju, jer ne možeš istovremeno i protiv Kine i protiv SAD.

Istorijska odluka suda u Montani, po kojoj je država u obavezi da sprovodi ustav, u kome postoje neke odredbe za zdravu okolinu.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/20/montana-supreme-court-rules-that-the-state-constitution-means-what-it-says

Sajmon Klark je rekapitulirao 2024. godinu na temu klimatskih promena

2024: A Year In Climate Change