SiR_GameZaloT

SiR_GameZaloT, 25 days ago to pakistan

Multiple #heatwaves in #Pakistan are NOT the regular annual phenomenon media, and even local people now, would have you believe

Its been happening so frequently the past decade, and media have been repeating it so often, its taken as routine now

ITS NOT

"WITH the mercury alrea­­dy touching the dreaded 45C mark in many parts of #Punjab, the three heatwaves forecast .. over the next four weeks "

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #Heatwave #SouthAsia #India

https://www.dawn.com/news/1834203/sizzling-punjab-dreads-imminent-heatwave

SiR_GameZaloT, 28 days ago to pakistan

Well referenced article by a thinktank based in #Pakistan summarizing the mechanism for #ClimateChange derived food inflation being observed in the country.

Doesn't add anything new except the fact none of the listed issues are predictions - they are observations and cited.

#ClimateCrisis is here, and as in the Global North, farmers/gardeners can see it clearly, but the rest barely.

https://pide.org.pk/research/the-silent-crisis-how-climate-change-is-driving-food-inflation-in-pakistan/

#ClimateDiary #SouthAsia #Agriculture #PIDE #Inflation #Food

SiR_GameZaloT, 1 month ago to pakistan

As usual, #IMF enforcing capitalists' debts over #Pakistan by forcing #austerity over a #ClimateCrisis stricken country, while (2 years on) promised funds by international banks remain #Greenwashing stunts.

'..why there has been a delay, Mr Ye said that the amount pledged was for reconstruction.. "..the new climate risk profile and the possibility that these areas may be flooded again,”...'

No shit sherlock!

https://www.dawn.com/news/1833000/adb-links-support-with-imfs-clean-chit

#GlobalSouth #ClimateChange #PakistanFloods #ClimateDiary

SiR_GameZaloT, 1 month ago to climate

Editorial in Dawn - Pakistan's oldest English Daily:

"The writing is on the wall. The time for incremental steps is over. The scale of the challenge requires bold, decisive actions that reflect the urgency of the moment."

https://www.dawn.com/news/1830280

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #Pakistan #India #Bangladesh #SouthAsia #Asia #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming

SiR_GameZaloT, 1 month ago to climate

"n K-P, the consequences of #GlobalWarming and #ClimateChange are evident in the changing of the #monsoon season, which now falls at a time when the #strawberry cash crop, a speciality of Charsadda, is to be cultivated."

".. unusual rains .. destroyed approximately 80 per cent of the fruit’s crop, leaving farmers in a deplorable state... "

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2464344/strawberry-production-suffers-due-to-climate-change

#Pakistan #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #SouthAsia #GlobalSouth

SiR_GameZaloT, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to pakistan

Understanding #Pakistan's electricity conundrum

"The ‘rooftop #solar conundrum’ is another issue, where increased tariffs have spurred demand for rooftop panels, leading to a decline in demand from the national grid.

...contribute to the ‘capacity payment conundrum’, ..purchasing agreements obligate the gov to make payments even when plants are not generating electricity."

https://www.dawn.com/news/1825812

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Renewables #SouthAsia #GlobalSouth #Capitalism
#ClimateDiary

SiR_GameZaloT, 1 month ago to pakistan

Brilliant article on the challenges facing transition to renewables, and why its unlikely

"while the cost of renewable power is now lower than that of fossil fuels, renewables are not a profitable business. The particularities of the .. market structure are the causal factors here... Making sure that capital gets its pound of flesh has crippled the country."

https://www.dawn.com/news/1828292/rethinking-renewables

#Pakistan #GlobalSouth #RenewableEnergy #Solar #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #SouthAsia #ClimateDiary

SiR_GameZaloT, 1 month ago to Dubai

Desert city of #Dubai flooded.

This wasn't cheap or poorly designed infrastructure, Dubai is too vast and has too many drainage channels for it to be an infrastructure problem

Dubai received over 200mm/9inches of rain in less than 24hrs. That more rain than some monsoons

Dubai is also a DESERT

#ClimateChange is real.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast

On the other side of the Arabian Sea, #Pakistan is facing currently floods as well

#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #UAE #DubaiFloods #Floods #MiddleEast

SiR_GameZaloT, 1 month ago to solar

Buying and installing #Solar Panels in #Pakistan is almost 50% cheaper compared to the #UK

Even factoring in the currency, inflation,& excluding labour/installation costs in UK

With NO state credits or supports or financing

Having seen both, I can safely say #Lahore alone has more solar installations than all of #London

No kidding when people question why is UK a "developed" country...

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #GlobalSouth #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #SouthAsia #SEA

SiR_GameZaloT, 2 months ago to pakistan

"#Pakistan could face up to 30-35 per cent water shortages during the upcoming kharif cropping season starting April 1. This could negatively affect some of the key cash crops like #cotton and revive inter-provincial controversy over water allocations."

Most of the article deals with water sharing and canal and power generation, but does devote one or two paragraphs to the actual culprit - low precipitation

https://www.dawn.com/news/1824769/kharif-crops-likely-to-face-35pc-water-shortages

#SouthAsia #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #Water #ClimateCrisis

SiR_GameZaloT, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to climate

Shameless self-promotion:

Watching the #AmbaniWedding makes me so proud of our last month

On one hand, you have billionaires burning 1000 tons of carbon to fly into an airport granted "international status" to accommodate so many private jets, for a multi-day bash that will release even more CO2 into our atmosphere

On the other hand, Risham & I went up against centuries of tradition to have a one day #ClimateChange themed #ClimateWedding, winning friends&fam over to the cause
🥰
#ClimateDiary

SiR_GameZaloT, 3 months ago to climate

Folks, Risham and I had a #ClimateWedding!

We got married in our home town of #Lahore last Sunday & decided to use the opportunity of our friends & family gathered under one smog-filled sky to raise awareness about the #ClimateCrisis & platform local climate activists.

Its going to take time to get our own snaps sorted, but heres a thread of the highlights with links to sites/socials:

Link - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3h91V0I7rS/

#ClimateDiary #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #JibRish #Pakistan

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video/mp4

SiR_GameZaloT, 4 months ago to climate

Guys, hosting a small event among friends and family for climate change awareness soon.

Need ideas on how to spread the awareness without boring people to death 😅

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #GlobalSouth #Desi #Pakistan #India #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAwareness #ClimateEducation #Paktodon

SiR_GameZaloT, 6 months ago to uk

"Britain is broken. What will fix it? Lots and lots of money"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/22/britain-money-bank-bailouts-state-failure

Monbiot does the work, estimating how much it will cost to refund public services across England

#Britain #UK #Labour #PublicService #NHS #PublicTransport #England

SiR_GameZaloT, 6 months ago to asia

"Poor people in the developing world have a right to medicine"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/poor-people-in-the-developing-world-have-a-right-to-medicine

"..the Boston-based drug company Vertex is neither selling a transformative new treatment for cystic fibrosis in the developing world, nor allowing other local companies to produce it..."

We have seen this with #covid19 - #vaccines are STILL being hoarded by the West

#GlobalSouth #MRNA #BigPharma #GSK #Vertex #Asia #Africa #SEA #Healthcare #Medstodon #MedTwitter #BernieSanders #Bernie #SouthAsia #Medicine

SiR_GameZaloT, 6 months ago to TaylorSwift

#TaylorSwift fan dies before #Brazil concert amid sweltering conditions

"Pop star ‘devastated’ by death of woman, named in media as Ana Clara Benevides, 23, who reportedly fainted and had cardiac arrest"

Love how there isnt a single mention of the unusual #HeatWave #SouthAmerica, or even #ClimateChange / #GlobalWarming, in the entire article.

Im sure it isnt mentioned in Taylor's post either.

When will this state of #ClimateDenial end?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/18/taylor-swift-fan-dies-before-brazil-concert-amid-sweltering-conditions

#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis

SiR_GameZaloT, 6 months ago to animals

Most stray animals are hiding all day, she says, but when they do come out, Saeed Al Err is always there waiting for them with food and water.

“The dogs recognise the sound of the planes right before the bomb drops when the sound of the plane changes, and they all start to cry … they are just as scared as humans,” Annelies Keuleers...

https://www.dawn.com/news/1788752/as-israel-continues-to-bomb-gaza-one-man-waits-for-stray-animals-to-come-out-of-hiding-every-day

#Animals #AnimalRescue #Pets #Rescue #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CeasefireNow #Israel #Gaza #Palestine

SiR_GameZaloT, 7 months ago to Palestine

"Twenty years from now .. someone will win a Pulitzer for telling the truth about this moment. They’ll be celebrated for unequivocally and unapologetically using the words that people are currently losing jobs or being targeted by hate campaigns for saying: occupation, genocide, ethnic cleansing. Only when every single Palestinian is dead or displaced will it be acceptable to treat us as human."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/07/palestinians-human-rights-israel-gaza

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #GazaGenocide #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Hamas

SiR_GameZaloT, 7 months ago to Israel

Hahaha! The Onion on point as always!

https://www.theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439

#TheOnion #Israel #Gaza #Doctors #Medstodon #Newstodon #Palestine #IsraelPalestineWar

SiR_GameZaloT, 7 months ago to Israel

Oxfam was founded in the darkness of the second world war on the courageous principle that the needs of innocent men, women and children caught up in a war transcend political divides, that all of us have a responsibility to act to prevent civilian deaths.

It is truly heartbreaking that, in 2023, those principles at the core of our humanity are being ignored.

Never in Oxfam’s history have we seen a humanitarian crisis like the one in #Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/19/oxfam-history-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-israel-ceasefire

#IsraelHamasWar #Israel

SiR_GameZaloT, 7 months ago to Israel

The #US provided CARRIER-based AIR-COVER for the murder of half a THOUSAND in this hospital today:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-hamas-war-live-iran-warns-resistance-front-may-attack

#Israel, the only 'democracy in the middle east' launches a 'total siege' of 2 million civilians,

shuts their food & water,

calls for their "final" extermination:

drops more bombs on a city (less than quarter the size of London) in 7 days than the US dropped on Afghans in a YEAR,

gets rewarded with 'unwavering support'

#Palestine #IsraelPalestineWar #GlobalSouth #Gaza

SiR_GameZaloT, 7 months ago to climate

Malawi swelters in record heat with temperatures nearly 20C above average

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/malawi-swelters-in-record-heat-with-temperatures-nearly-20c-above-average

20C ABOVE NORMAL HEATWAVES ARE HERE!

Yes, we ignored them when they hit the poles, then Siberia, then Norway, when they almost hit Canada and the US North West.

They have come down to the Equator now. Only a matter of time before they become "the norm" worldwide.

20C. Above normal.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalSouth #Malawi #Africa #EastAfrica #Heatwave #ClimateDiary #Winter ?

SiR_GameZaloT, 7 months ago to uk

"Covid deaths are on the rise again, so what happens? Mask-wearing in hospitals is scrapped"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/covid-deaths-rise-scrap-mask-wearing-hospitals

Great article summarising the status of the Covid pandemic and Covid denialism in the UK (and the anglophile world over)

#Covid19 #Covid #Pandemic #UK #N95 #SarsCov2 #LongCovid #BMA #BMJ #NHS #Winter

SiR_GameZaloT, 8 months ago to climate

Asian apparel hubs face $65bn export hit from extreme weather: study

#ClimateChange is coming for cheap clothes and #fastfashion

https://www.dawn.com/news/1775651/asia-apparel-hubs-including-pakistan-face-65bn-export-hit-from-extreme-weather-study

Ok, its already been here for a couple of years (floods and heatwaves in #Pakistan alone have led to multiple cycles of crop losses), but the fact that its going to happen to upto 22% of production across #Asia

Imagine the consequences of THAT

#ClimateCrisis #India #Bangladesh #SouthAsia #GlobalSouth #Textiles #Agriculture #ClimateDiary

SiR_GameZaloT, 8 months ago to climate

Urban islands of heat:

On #ClimateChange and the #UrbanHeatIsland effect in developing countries blindly following the American style of "development", personal stories from people trying to cope with these both climate and architecturally magnified heatwaves.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1775206

#ClimateCrisis #Pakistan #India #Bangladesh #GlobalSouth #GlobalWarming #Heatwave #HeatIsland #SouthAsia #Lahore #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #Urban #LUMS #ClimateDiary