When this story of the disappearing Alaska crab stocks first broke a couple years ago, was quick to state overfishing as the cause. (Can't dare upset the right-wing CEO or Big Oil sponsors!) I was swift to reply on then-Twitter that over the past decade the seas around Alaska have been heating up causing devastating die-offs on a yearly basis.

This time they finally state .

"...CNN  Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022. It wasnt overfishing, scientists explained it was likely the shockingly warm water that sent the crabs metabolism into overdrive and starved them to death."

(Sigh)

How do we fight whilst we have war
Seems to me they are totally related.
I'm interested to understand otherwise... Anyone

Approval for a multi-billion pound subsea cable to transfer renewable electricity between Scotland and England has been given.
Purpose: Move energy around the grid on low-wind days or high demand
Cost: Originally assessed at 3.4bn, now expected to cost 4.3bn
Impact: Large enough to power two million homes, with eventual capacity for 7.5 million homes
Importance: Vital for modernizing the transmission network and improving energy security

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the

Carbon dioxides powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain better than any computer model.

Joseph Howlett - Writing Intern
August 7, 2024

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A numerical coincidence helps molecules wiggle in a certain way, trapping far more of Earths infrared radiation than they otherwise would.
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Introduction

In 1896, the Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius realized that carbon dioxide (CO2) traps heat in Earths atmosphere the phenomenon now called the greenhouse effect. Since then, increasingly sophisticated modern climate models have verified Arrhenius central conclusion: that every time the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere doubles, Earths temperature will rise between 2 and 5 degrees Celsius.

Still, the physical reason why CO2 behaves this way has remained a mystery, until recently.

First, in 2022, physicists settled a dispute over the origin of the logarithmic scaling of the greenhouse effect. That refers to the way Earths temperature increases the same amount in response to any doubling of CO2, no matter the raw numbers.

Then, this spring, a team led by Robin Wordsworth of Harvard University figured out why the CO2 molecule is so good at trapping heat in the first place. The researchers identified a strange quirk of the molecules quantum structure that explains why its such a powerful greenhouse gas and why pumping more carbon into the sky drives climate change. The findings appeared in The Planetary Science Journal.

Its a really nice paper, said Raymond Pierrehumbert, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford who was not involved in the work. Its a good answer to all those people who say that global warming is just something that comes out of impenetrable computer models.

To the contrary, global warming is tied to a numerical coincidence involving two different ways that CO2 can wiggle.

If it werent for this accident, Pierrehumbert said, then a lot of things would be different.

: Today's North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly is 1.03C above the 1982-2011 mean.

Data source:

AUSSIE WINTER HEAT

Australia on Monday registered a record-high winter temperature, with the mercury hitting 41.6 degrees Celsius (106.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in a part of the countrys rugged and remote northwest coast.

The Bureau of Meteorology said it logged the scorching reading which was 0.4 degrees Celsius hotter than the previous record from a military training facility at Yampi Sound at 3:37 pm local time.

Masterful talk by Johan Rockstrm on planetary tipping points that mitigate human impacts and the importance of maintaining healthy .

We have the solutions to ensure a safe, stable and socially just future, we need the will.

More Americans are having to choose between food and energy bills

A growing number of Americans face energy poverty, struggling to afford to heat or cool their home. Health officials and climate experts are sounding the

"Temperatures across the Kimberley have exceeded 40 degrees Celsius today, setting a new all-time national record for winter."

Hokkaido, which got 40% of its electricity from renewable energy sources in fiscal 2023, is looking to raise this share to 60%. But its local grid was never designed with renewable energy in mind.

Plans for a new gas import facility is outright climate denial by the NZ Government

New Research Paper published at the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

"Connecting Audiences with Climate Change: Towards Humanised and Action-focused Data Interactions", Marta Ferreira, Nuno Nunes, Pedro Ferreira, Henrique Pereira, and Valentina Nisi we explore innovative ways to engage people with climate change data.
Read the full paper here:

Sure it's "nice" you have a huge in ground pool however did you stop to think of the children facing drought and polluted water

I am not sorry I can't share your joy after purchasing a huge gas guzzling pick up truck or suv when you only use it for city driving.

No I don't want to see your photos from the second trip this year to far off vacation destinations via air flight.

No I am not a "Debbie Down", I simply desire a safe functioning planet for young people.

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40 in

It's no secret the world is . In fact, 2024 is shaping up to be the on record. is upon us. Historical averages are becoming just that: a thing of the past.

That's why this winter heat is concerning. The warming trend will continue for at least as long as we keep burning fossil fuels and polluting the atmosphere. Remember, this is only August. The heatwaves of spring and summer are only going to be hotter.

Cows obstruct Nigeria's capital as climate change and development leave herders with nowhere to go

As the population grows and development extends to rural areas where herders live and graze their cattle, they are now forced to move into the city center

Dir geht es gut Ja Verstehe ich nicht.

Pakhtakor glacier, largest in Tashkent region, faces rapid melting

An expedition to the Pakhtakor glacier, the largest glacier in the Tashkent region, conducted by the Scientific Research Institute of Hydrometeorology, the German Earth Research Center, & the Green Central Asia initiative, has revealed alarming accelerated melting of the glacier

Inspired by professor of climate science Ed Hawkins climate warming stripes, scientists at the University of Edinburgh have devised colourful air quality stripes, which depict particulate matter (PM) concentrations in 176 cities worldwide since 1850.

Which Conservative leadership hopeful is best hope for UKs climate goals

None of the candidates may seem like a good option, but some pose a greater danger to net zero than others

Snowy Mountains ski resort closes doors but holds out hope for more snow
By Floss Adams

Warm winds "like a hair dryer" on the snow have resulted in a NSW ski resort closing its doors and another shutting slopes.

40 degrees in August Here's why it's ridiculously hot right now

It's winter in Australia, but as you've probably noticed, the weather is unusually warm. The top temperatures over large parts of the country this weekend were well above average for this time of year.

Unseasonal heat breaks Australia's winter temperature record
By Tom Saunders

Temperatures across the Kimberley have reached 42 degrees Celsius today, establishing a new national record for winter temperatures.

Unseasonal heat breaks Australia's winter temperature record
By Tom Saunders

Temperatures across the Kimberley have reached 42 degrees Celsius today, establishing a new national record for winter temperatures.

India's green energy wind drive hits desert herders hard

It illustrates the hard balance faced as India, the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter, scrambles to boost its non-fossil fuel capacity to stem the rising impacts of climate change

Albanese government accused of trying to bury bad news about health of Great Barrier Reef

Major report released at 4pm on Friday with no media release or a press conference from Tanya Plibersek

A good news story..

"Not only is the cohort of southern Africas oldest and largest baobabs enduring, but most baobab populations in Africa are healthy and stable, with very low mortality rates. Indeed, nothing I saw supported the notion that Africas baobabs are dying as a result of climate change"

Ecologist Sarah Venter writes on how Africas unique trees defy climate challenges.

Ok, I've seen this article make the rounds with lot's of applause. I'm a bit more skeptical:

"Those environmental groups also wanted to be sure the bill sped up only wind, solar and transmission projects not nuclear ... Democrats, who control Minnesotas Legislature, moved the bill forward over objections from Republicans who wanted it to include ... nuclear."

I think tilting the table against nuclear is exactly not what we need and is in fact extremely harmful to the change we need towards zero emissions.

Transformation pillar too RT CelloMomOnCars: "Attempts to establish legal obligations for businesses to pay for the impacts of have been largely unsuccessful.

The UN Rapporteurs report on Climate Justice: pushes for international legal development here.
It is within the remediation pillar that the most noteworthy proposal is found. It calls for businesses and countries with high GHG emissions to pay for the impacts of climate change."

Have peaked The answer is critical to limiting global warming

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based attribution

- Estimated From Most Recent Deglaciation

"When climate warms, ice sheets melt, shrink, and reflect less solar radiation back to space, which in turn causes faster warming. data over the past 15,000 years shows this feedback takes less than 4000 years. This feedback will continue to propagate current for thousands of years into the future."

The biomass furphy

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Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.