Floods, Fires, and Heat Domes (the climate change thread)

Had to look at this twice to be sure…

Seems pretty woke.

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I guess land votes for solar!

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This is actually quite interesting.

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This covers conditions at the Great Salt Lake, as well as the air and soil problems that begin when a lake completely dries up: :grimacing:

The problem continues to spread in other areas, too:

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Helsingin Sanomat reports that Finnish enthusiasm for climate change action appears to have dropped since 2019.

HS wrote that according to the 2023 Climate Barometer commissioned by the government’s climate communication steering group, fewer people in Finland are choosing their parliamentary candidates based on climate issues.

A majority of respondents, 61 percent, still wanted to see climate issues tackled as a main priority. However, a similar 2019 survey in the lead-up to the previous general election said that 70 percent of respondents wanted climate change to be a top issue.

Fewer people also said they believed that climate change mitigation is urgent. In 2019, 83 percent of respondents thought that the situation was urgent, whereas only 72 percent thought so this year.

However, there was a significant change in a different direction in regards to energy saving.

Seventy-four percent were now ready to save on electricity consumption when demand is highest. Four years ago, that figure was 62 percent.

The results reflect dips in soncumption, as energy saving campaigns have produced results in Finland. In December Finnish consumers used some 10 percent less electricity than in the same month in 2021.

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Try :new_zealand:, where the whole country is at present a shuddering mud-puddle, slipping several suburbs at a time into the Pacific.

It would probably long have disappeared were it not for the bonus feature that, at a frequency quite compatible with written history, it generates the worlds most powerful recent volcanic eruptions, violently plonking 200m thick layers of ash back on itself.

I need to ask a bookie what the over/under is on climate change versus geological apocalypse for the endgame.

:thinking: If you needed evidence of short-term thinking on the part of billionaires, their having an NZ bolt-hole would be pretty decisive.

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It’s getting more and more turbulent up there in the skies. It’s not even Summer yet.

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No paywall: https://archive.ph/OwdtU

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WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?

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I “like” how it’s always called methane when it’s being talked about for climate change and natural gas when it’s being talked about in regards to jobs or the economy.

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If you enjoy creating digital illustration, painting or drawing, photography or video making, and you also care about the environment, we invite you to participate in the Art Contest “The Planet is your Canvas”, through which we seek to make visible the contribution of the Montreal Protocol and the Kigali Amendment to combat accelerated climate change and to protect our ozone layer.

This first edition will focus on highlighting the importance of the Montreal Protocol in reducing ozone-depleting substances and the impact of the Kigali Amendment on the reduction of greenhouse gases, such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

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