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2024-07-03 at 6:18 PM UTC in Hurricane Beryl Isn’t a Freak Storm—It’s the Exact Nightmare Meteorologists PredictedHurricane Beryl Isn’t a Freak Storm—It’s the Exact Nightmare Meteorologists Predicted
Hurricane Beryl’s record-shattering intensification into a scale-topping Category 5 storm has stunned even the most seasoned experts. This storm is the nightmare scenario that meteorologists were worried about heading into the 2024 hurricane season.
All the warning indicators were blinking red in the weeks and months leading up to Beryl’s formation. The ocean is a veritable sauna ready to support any tropical disturbance that can get its act together this year. -
2024-07-03 at 6:11 PM UTC in Disastrous fruit and vegetable crops must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, say farmersDisastrous fruit and vegetable crops must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, say farmers
The country suffered the wettest 18 months since records began across the 2023-24 growing year, leaving soil waterlogged and some farms totally underwater. The impact on harvests has been disastrous. Data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs shows that year-on-year vegetable yields decreased by 4.9% to 2.2m tonnes in 2023, and the production volumes of fruit decreased by 12% to 585,000 tonnes.
Scientists say that climate breakdown caused by the burning of fossil fuels is likely to bring more extreme weather to the UK, including more frequent floods and droughts. -
2024-07-03 at 12:18 PM UTC in Project 2025Project 2025
Project 2025 envisions widespread changes across the government, particularly economic and social policies and the role of the federal government and its agencies. The plan proposes taking partisan control of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and sharply reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuel production.[9][11] The blueprint seeks to institute tax cuts,[12] though its writers disagree on the wisdom of protectionism.[13] Project 2025 recommends abolishing the Department of Education, whose programs would be either transferred to other agencies, or terminated.[14][15] Funding for climate research would be cut while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be reformed along conservative principles.[16][17] The Project urges government to explicitly reject abortion as health care[18][19] and eliminate the Affordable Care Act's coverage of emergency contraception.[20] The Project seeks to infuse the government with elements of Christianity.[8] It proposes criminalizing pornography,[21] removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,[21][22] and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs,[4][22] as well as affirmative action.[23] Some conservatives and Republicans also criticized the plan for its stance on climate change[24] and foreign trade.[13] Other critics believe Project 2025 is rhetorical window dressing for what would be four years of personal vengeance at any cost.[25] The project's authors also acknowledged that most of the proposals would require controlling both chambers of congress.[25] Other aspects of the plan have recently been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and would face court challenges, while others still are norm-breaking proposals that might survive court challenges.[26]
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2024-07-03 at 12:06 PM UTC in need opinions on whether to go back to the blonde
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2024-07-03 at 12:15 AM UTC in need opinions on whether to go back to the blonde
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2024-07-02 at 11:56 PM UTC in need opinions on whether to go back to the blonde
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2024-07-02 at 11:13 PM UTC in need opinions on whether to go back to the blondeJust go full platinum bimbo blonde, get some lip filler too.
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2024-07-02 at 8:57 PM UTC in Air Europa plane diverts to Brazil after severe turbulence injures dozensAir Europa plane diverts to Brazil after severe turbulence injures dozens
Scientists say that clear air turbulence, which is invisible to radar, is getting worse because of the climate crisis.
Research by Reading University has shown that higher temperatures resulting from the climate crisis were leading to significant increases in turbulence across transatlantic flights. -
2024-07-02 at 8:52 PM UTC in Hurricane Beryl’s Unprecedented Intensification Is an ‘Omen’ for the Rest of the SeasonHurricane Beryl’s Unprecedented Intensification Is an ‘Omen’ for the Rest of the Season
Such strong hurricanes typically don’t form this early in the season or so far east because conditions are usually much less ripe for them. Ocean temperatures tend to be cooler this early in the summer. And the low-pressure systems that trickle off the western coast of Africa every few days—which can become the seeds of hurricanes—often encounter Saharan dust storms that quash storm development.
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2024-07-02 at 8:43 PM UTC in Biden Administration to Announce First National Heat Protections for WorkersBiden Administration to Announce First National Heat Protections for Workers
Heat waves last longer now than they did decades ago, according to an Environmental Protection Agency report also expected to be released on Tuesday. In recent years heat waves in major U.S. urban areas have lasted, on average, about four days, a full day longer than the average in the 1960s, it found.
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2024-07-02 at 8:35 PM UTC in Alaskan Ice Field Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ PaceAlaskan Ice Field Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ Pace
The Juneau Ice Field, which sprawls across the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, lost 1.4 cubic miles of ice a year between 2010 and 2020, the researchers estimated. That’s a sharp acceleration from the decades before, and even sharper when compared with the mid-20th century or earlier, the scientists said. All told, the ice field has shed a quarter of its volume since the late 18th century, which was part of a period of glacial expansion known as the Little Ice Age.
As societies add more and more planet-warming carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, glaciers in many areas could cross tipping points beyond which their melting speeds up rapidly. -
2024-07-02 at 7:03 PM UTC in Antarctica's melting ice is reaching a "tipping point" due to climate changeAntarctica's melting ice is reaching a "tipping point" due to climate change
When warm water moves under a grounding line, the ice melts at an accelerated pace and could pass a threshold where the body's ultimate collapse is inevitable. While this process occurs, sea levels will rise at a much faster rate than currently predicted, resulting in millions of people from coastal communities being displaced
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2024-07-02 at 6:49 PM UTC in Can you blame heat wave on climate change? Eye-popping numbers suggest so.
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2024-06-28 at 6:17 PM UTC in Potential Use of This Site
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2024-06-26 at 10:56 PM UTC in We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From RealityMay we ever stand ready to speak God's truth, even if we, too, are yelling into the void, for it is a far better place to be than living in it.
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2024-06-26 at 9:06 PM UTC in Can you blame heat wave on climate change? Eye-popping numbers suggest so.
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The same people who are pushing the Climate Cult Hoax and who are daily up on their pulpits spewing their climate nonsense are also buying up beachfront properties in the billions of dollars, and also flying tens of thousands of miles a year in their private jets, burning off millions of tons of fossil fuels in the process.
You going to do anything about it?
Didn't think so. -
2024-06-26 at 8:33 PM UTC in We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From RealityWe’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality
But what happens when overlooking and tolerating greater levels of harm becomes a shared cultural habit? Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, we acclimate to ignoring more and caring less at our own peril. In the short term, living in a state of peak denial helps us cope. In the long run, it will be our undoing. Because the danger here is desensitization: that we meet this unprecedented litany of “wicked problems,” from climate change to the rise of fascism, with passive acceptance rather than urgent collective action.
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2024-06-26 at 8:20 PM UTC in Everything’s About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensive Due to Climate ChangeEverything’s About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensive Due to Climate Change
It goes beyond groceries, though. It applies to every basic building block of modern life: labor, immigration, travel, and materials for homebuilding, transportation, power generation, and necessary appliances. Climate effects have been disrupting and raising the prices of timber, copper, and rubber; even chocolate prices were skyrocketing not long ago, thanks to climate change impacts on African cocoa bean crops. The outdoor workers supplying such necessities are experiencing adverse health impacts from the brutal weather, and the recent record-breaking influxes of migrants from vulnerable countries—which, overall, have been good for the U.S. economy—are in part a response to climate damages in their home nations.
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2024-06-26 at 3:51 PM UTC in New study links political ignorance and national narcissism to climate change denialNew study links political ignorance and national narcissism to climate change denial
Michalski’s team discovered that individuals with lower levels of current and theoretical political knowledge were more likely to believe in climate change conspiracies. Furthermore, national narcissism (but not national identification) partially acted as a mediator in this relationship, meaning that those with less understanding of their country’s political system were more likely to identify with their nation in a narcissistic way, which was associated with a denial of climate change.
The researchers concluded, “it seems that political education [provides] young people with both dimensions of political knowledge … could be an important factor influencing their attitudes regarding climate change. Providing young people with information about the principles of democracy could also potentially have an impact on various negative outcomes of this type of in-group identity, such as resistance to pro-environmental policies, out-group hostility, support for populism, or endorsement of other types of conspiracy beliefs.” -
2024-06-25 at 11:09 PM UTC in Can you blame heat wave on climate change? Eye-popping numbers suggest so.Can you blame heat wave on climate change? Eye-popping numbers suggest so.
"Potentially deadly and record-breaking temperatures are occurring more and more frequently in the U.S., Mexico and Central America due to climate change," said study co-author Izidine Pinto, a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
“The results of our study should be taken as another warning that our climate is heating to dangerous levels," he said.
