Notices by Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)

By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz, via https://bsky.app/profile/mweinstock.bsky.social

Last night in the Netherlands: Boy (14) dies, another boy (13) loses hand, dozens need eye surgery, more fine particles emitted than all road vehicles do in a year, €118 million blown up instead of put to use, millions of pets in fear, wildlife disturbed. Private fireworks: great tradition.

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels. Around 2014, we lost 1,200 km³ and it didn't come back. More droughts, and higher rain runoff due to uneven distribution over the year.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-nasa-satellites-reveal-abrupt-global.html#google_vignette

In our rapidly changing climate, clinging on to "1-in-100 year event" characterizations - based on statistics from the stable era - have been reduced to a description of how unusual the event was back in those days.

It's a what-used-to-be-1-in-100- year event now. No more.

#extremeweather #climate #ClimateChange

An investigation found 36 Facebook groups posing as separate grassroots movements opposing the expansion of London's ultra-low emission zone schemes to reduce air pollution. They were set up by the Conservatives as part of a coordinated political campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/27/tory-staff-running-network-of-anti-ulez-facebook-groups-riddled-with-racism-and-abuse
#airpollution #london #ukpolitics #democracy

February 2024 was the warmest February on record globally, with an average surface air temperature 0.81°C above the already warmed 1991-2020 average for February. The month was 1.77°C warmer than an estimate of the February average for 1850-1900.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

June 2023 was the warmest June on record.
July 2023 was the warmest July on record.
August 2023 was the warmest August on record.
September 2023 was the warmest September on record.
October 2023 was the warmest October on record.
November 2023 was the warmest November on record.
December 2023 was the warmest December on record.
January 2024 was the warmest January on record.
And now February 2024 was the warmest February on record.

I'm starting to see a pattern here.

#ClimateChange

After a very warm September, here in the Netherlands, we had an extremely warm first ten days of October: 1.6⁰C warmer than ever recorded before (1901-2022)!

The average temperature in the first ten days of October, here in the Netherlands, was the same as the average for July + August in the 20th century: 16.6⁰C!

These days this year were around 4.5⁰C warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for this period, and around 5.5⁰C warmer than its 20th century average.

Musk’s X Is Biggest Outlet of Russia Disinformation, EU Says.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/eu-faults-musk-s-x-in-fight-against-russia-s-war-of-ideas?utm_source=twitter&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-bloomberguk&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=bloomberguk