OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #139, AUGUST 7, 2023 Compiled by Dick Bennett.
KENNY STANCIL.
“Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global
Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn.”
José Seoane. “The eco collapse we were warned about has begun.”
Ian Angus. “Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene.”
KENNY STANCIL.
“Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global
Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn.”
Common Dreams (July 21, 2023).
"There are
growing risks of simultaneous major crop losses in different regions in the
world," said one scientist. "This is not what we're seeing right now,
but in the coming decades that's one of the things I'm really scared of."
Climate scientists warned Friday that worsening atmospheric
and marine heatwaves threaten food security around the world. Large swaths of the Northern Hemisphere have
been pummeled in
recent weeks by serial heatwaves exacerbated by the fossil
fuel-driven climate crisis. Last month was the hottest June on record, and
July—which saw the hottest day and week in modern
history—is expected to
surpass all previous monthly records. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change has made clear that heatwaves will
increase in frequency, duration, and intensity with each additional degree of
temperature rise.
While extreme heat has long been recognized as a lethal health
hazard that preys upon preexisting patterns of inequality and vulnerability,
experts are trying to alert the public to another deadly dimension of the
climate emergency: Soaring temperatures jeopardize the stability of the world's
agricultural land and its oceans,
putting potentially billions of people at heightened risk of hunger and
conflict. MORE Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global Food System in
Jeopardy, Scientists Warn (commondreams.org)
MARKING
LARGE CHANGES,
José Seoane. “The eco collapse we were warned about has begun.” Editor. mronline.org (8-3-23).
This accumulation of tragic evidence, against
all the denialist narratives, makes it undeniable that the climate crisis is
already here, among us.
Originally published: The Bullet on July 30, 2023 by (more by The Bullet) (Posted Aug 02, 2023). Agriculture, Climate Change, Ecology,
EnvironmentGlobalNewswireEl Niño, Super El Niño. This article was produced by Globetrotter.
In 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that
set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the
global level. Thus, in June, the surface temperature in the North Atlantic
reached the maximum increase of 1.3 degrees Celsius with respect to
preindustrial values. In a similar direction—although in lower values—the
average temperature of the seas at the global level increased. On the other
hand, the retraction of Antarctic ice reached a new limit, reaching the
historical decrease of 2016, but several months earlier in the middle of the
cold season.
The combination of these records has led scientists who follow
these processes to warn of the danger of a profound change in the currents that
regulate temperature and life in the oceans and globally. The heat waves
recorded on the coasts of a large part of the world—in Ireland, Mexico,
Ecuador, Japan, Mauritania, and Iceland—may, in turn, be proof of this.
These phenomena, of course, are not limited to the seas. MORE https://mronline.org/2023/08/02/the-eco-collapse-we-were-warned-about-has-begun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-eco-collapse-we-were-warned-about-has-begun&mc_cid=1441749d62&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e
NAMING and
SITING OUR CALAMITIES
Ian Angus. “Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene.”
Mronline.org (7-13-23). Tiny Crawford Lake, near Toronto, holds a detailed record
of radical global change.
Originally published: Climate &
Capitalism on July 11, 2023 (more
by Climate &
Capitalism) | Culture, History, Movements,
StrategyAmericas, Canada,
GlobalCommentaryAnthropocene, Anthropocene Working
Group (AWG), Earth System, Featured,
Science,
Tiny Crawford Lake
In a major step towards formal recognition of the Anthropocene
as a new stage in Earth System history, scientists have identified a small lake
near Toronto as the best marker of epochal change. The announcement was made at
news conferences in Europe on July 11, 2023.
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