Current severe weather around the world!

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BOOO!!! Scary scary weather!

[Quato]

Horrible weather conditions in Greece...of course all "normal" happenings....

https://www.ekathimerini.com/

[quodec]

So, while we enjoy some lovely early September weather, in the Balkans...

[quodec]

Another disaster unfolding in North Africa, with catastrophic flooding in NE Libya. 1000s are feared dead.

[isha]

Libya has been having a horrendous time. 25% of the buildings in Derna were washed into the sea with their inhabitants. Because three dams failed. Over 10,000 people missing

[CelticRambler]

Not on the same level as Libya, but "severe" for those concerned all the same:



Flash-flooding in southern France yesterday, after the region received in one day roughly the same amount of rain that falls on Dublin in a year.

Worth noting that the towns and villages in this area have lived with flash floods for centuries and most of the relevant municipalities have invested in decent quality flood defences ... but they're just not enough any more.

[CelticRambler]

Another day, another deluge, this time more to the east of southern France ...



Not wanting to be left out, the northern quarter offered this impressive anomaly:

[quodec]

[CelticRambler]

The new normal - so banal now that it hardly makes the international news any more:



These are all my local rivers; the main one (La Creuse) rose almost 7.5m above its usual level, and that's with flood-mitigation measures in place. Those measures help us in this area, but obviously didn't do anything for the folks living downstream.

Interesting that almost every report I saw on this over the weekend featured at least one English couple hauling their sodden worldly goods out of what was probably the dream home in which they expected to spend their retirement. And an aged Frenchman/woman saying how they'd never seen the like of this before.

And yet ... and yet ... twenty years ago this was one of the hard red lines I set for our property search; we wrote off many a picturesque riverside ruin and magical mountain house because I wouldn't discount the very likely risk of flooding and/or rain-induced landslide. It's twenty years this weekend since we moved in, and I

This weekend's events came about as a result of torrential rain on Friday; now we're back to the usual weak sunshine and howling gales.

[Quato]

Yes- the new norm.
Nobody gives a damn.
It is all about "me me me". I want my twice a year holidays in a far away warm country. I want to eat meat every day. I want a new car every few years. I want my own home. I want to consume whatever I like- whenever-wherever. I want to create as much rubbish as I want. Free country- and nobody has the right to stop me.
This is the world we live in- insanity rules. We feck up our own world and think it is a great way to live.
Sooner or later the party will be finally over.....

[knownunknown]

Weather is higher than average, therefore global warming. Do people even know what averages are?

https://www.galwaybeo.ie/news/ireland-n ... ts-9275180

[marhay70]

Weather is higher than average, therefore global warming. Do people even know what averages are?

https://www.galwaybeo.ie/news/ireland-n ... ts-9275180

I've given up on all this shite about global warming and climate change. How can we know what is climate change when we are basing our findings on <200 years of figures which start when the world was emerging from a mini ice age? The world is 4.5 billion years old FFS, how can you take statistics from the last 200 years and say this is representative of global climate? There will have been warm periods and cold periods, I'm certain of that. There will have been species which existed in one extreme that couldn't exist in another. There is no way of categorically proving what the climate was like a relatively short time, like one million years, ago. I remember reading that the eruption of Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, caused more air pollution than all the internal combustion engines ever made, would do for the next thousand years. Yet here we are.

[kadman]

I have never seen any article about dropping bombs causing climate change until this one .

Is anyone responsible for this and paying for it, yes you Mr Citizen where ever you are. Will any country stop dropping bombs, no. Will it be reported in the media, no. Will anything change, yes carbon tax will go up. Will you ever stop getting fucked , no, never.

[quotehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/e ... ate-change][/quote]

The vast majority (over 99%) of the 281,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2 equivalent) estimated to have been generated in the first 60 days following the 7 October Hamas attack can be attributed to Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers in the UK and US

[knownunknown]

I have never seen any article about dropping bombs causing climate change until this one .

Is anyone responsible for this and paying for it, yes you Mr Citizen where ever you are. Will any country stop dropping bombs, no. Will it be reported in the media, no. Will anything change, yes carbon tax will go up. Will you ever stop getting fucked , no, never.

281,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide is nothing. It’s a drop in the ocean.

Look at the headline of that article, and then read the first paragraph. It’s gibberish. It means nothing. It’s written by an idiot. I’ve come to expect nothing less from self entitled “ Climate justice reporter” especially when they work for the guardian. Most of the emissions from the study come from aircraft not munitions and the article does nothing to argue how 281,000 metric tonnes can affect climate change or by how much, they only claim that 281,000 metric tonnes is more emissions than 20 of the world’s most vulnerable country’s carbon footprint.

It’s like me trying to prove Santa Claus is real by arguing that the amount of shit he shites out is heavier than the amount of apples you have. It’s stupid beyond belief quite frankly.

The claim

Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe

The proof:

The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, new research reveals.

The analysis, which is yet to be peer reviewed, includes CO2 from aircraft missions, tanks and fuel from other vehicles, as well as emissions generated by making and exploding the bombs, artillery and rockets

My emphasis.

The nations the author refers to are : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.

Bangladesh alone emits more much, much, more carbon than 281 metric tonnes(-100 million tonnes and it’s less than half a percent of the world’s total emissions.) so also the author is very mis-leading here. Co2 emissions and carbon footprint are two entirely different things. Somehow, Bangladesh has a carbon footprint of zero.


Carl Sagan did make the idea of nuclear winter popular but those are nuclear bombs.