Scientists are now saying we are “out of time” to keep global heating at under 1.5°C. It’s simply too late. We’ve delayed any action far too long.
All our talk and meetings and phony “Net Zero” pledges don’t mean anything to an overstressed climate system that is rapidly breaking down.
You can’t fool Mother Nature.
The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea.
“We’ve run out of time because change takes time,” said Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climatologist at Australia’s University of New South Wales.
As climate envoys from the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters prepare to meet next month, temperatures broke June records in the Chinese capital Beijing, and extreme heat waves have hit the United States.
Parts of North America were some 10C (18F) above the seasonal average this month, and smoke from forest fires blanketed Canada and the US East Coast in a hazardous haze, with carbon emissions estimated at a record 160 million tons.
In India, one of the most climate-vulnerable regions, deaths spiked as a result of sustained high temperatures, and extreme heat has been recorded in Spain, Iran, and Vietnam, raising fears that last year’s deadly summer could become routine.
Countries agreed in Paris in 2015 to try to keep long-term average temperature rises within 1.5C, but there is now a 66% likelihood the annual mean will cross the 1.5C threshold for at least one whole year between now and 2027, the World Meteorological Organization predicted in May.
@breadandcircuses What plans are countries making to house & feed #ClimateCrisis refugees? And what plans are you making for when your fancy development in #Florida, #Arizona etc., becomes unlivable & that #refugee is you ?
When impacts of unprecedented heat are expressed not in monetary terms but in numbers of exposed people …
The paper shows that #climatechange has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside the ‘human climate niche’ (defined by mean annual temperature ≥29 °C).
By end-of-century (2080–2100), current policies leading to around 2.7 °C global warming could leave one-third (22–39%) of people outside the niche.
5 adult men squeezed into a "mini van" sized submersible with no seats, no standing room, no back up plan, no GPS & one window. It's bolted on the outside while piloted with a game controller. Insane.
Most people can't even earn 250k a year and here we have 4 people (not counting the pilot) spending that amount to travel in a cramped submersible run by a actual video game controller.🤦🏻♀️
It may very well be their coffin if they are not found soon. 😳
#Palestinian health officials say at least 15 people were killed in an #Israeli attack in the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the #Gaza Strip.
#BBC Arabic filmed some of the destruction left by the airstrike.
#Israel bombed the densely-populated #Jabalya#refugee camp in northern #Gaza for the 2nd time in 2 days Wednesday, prompting warnings of #WarCrimes by the UN #HumanRights Council (#OHCHR) & some nations took diplomatic measures & condemned Israel’s offensive in the besieged enclave.
You have to scroll a bit on the #UN news website, here (pic 1) is the entry re their concerns that #Israel’s #Jabalya#Refugee camp #airstrikes may be #WarCrimes. + a screenshot of the cited social media post (pic 2).
But oh, it gets worse, as #Refugee charity, #Care4Calais is now reporting the government did NOT inform #Refugees about the presence of #Legionnaire's disease on the #BibbyStockholm prison barge, or immediately move them off once they knew it was there.
Worse, there is the possibility they were still moving refugees onto the barge even once the problem was known.
Escalating #violence across the #Darfur region in #Sudan has sparked fears that #atrocities committed two decades ago could be repeated, the #UN#refugee agency, #UNHCR , said on Friday, voicing grave concern over the development.
More than 4.8 million people have been #displaced inside Sudan since fighting broke out in April between the army & a #paramilitary group known as the #RapidSupportForces (RSF). 1.2 million have sought #refuge in neighbouring countries.
"Strikes on the Jabalya #refugee camp in northern #Gaza killed and injured hundreds of people Tuesday...
The breakdown of dead and wounded has yet to be determined amid ongoing rescue efforts. Footage from the scene streamed by Al Jazeera showed dozens of people digging through rubble to reach victims trapped underneath." #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3SmyQFo
With the number of #refugees worldwide at an all-time high, there is a need to hear the stories of lesser-known #refugee communities, especially in #Asia.
Review on "When Stars are Scattered" by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed
Such an intense and moving book. No wonder it won many awards. Very real and practical. Finding it hard to write a review without giving away spoilers. If you have been living a life where you didn't have to worry if or not you will have another meal in the past 3-5 years then please read this book.
Hello from New New Hong Kong!
Hello from Brisbane which is new new HONG KONG we have more HK refugees than any other place in the world! WELCOME HK TO BRISBANE KEEP EM COMIng!