It's fascinating watching the extreme conditions going on all over the world. I live in California and we have of course been getting drought and wildfires for a long time now, but I am noticing too that this is happening in many places.
I just found this youtube channel talking about the droughts in China, and the story is remarkable. Low water levels means hydroelectric dams are shutting off, rolling blackouts during a massive heat wave. Feels like a story out of California, but this is happening all over China.
I noticed someone from the UK saying they had a heat wave in the 1970's, but then someone shared a plot of global temperature anomaly from back then and today. That summer there was a bit of an increase in the UK from that heat wave, but the rest of the world was more normal. Today, the increase is happening all over the world at once.
I desperately hope that people get the message. It seems that maybe the tide is turning, but I know it is already so late, I hope we can act fast before we make things so much worse.
I just found this youtube channel talking about the droughts in China, and the story is remarkable. Low water levels means hydroelectric dams are shutting off, rolling blackouts during a massive heat wave. Feels like a story out of California, but this is happening all over China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_5CAMs_wkc
There's the flooding in Bangladesh:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/22/bangladesh-floods-e...
Heat waves in Europe are leading to thousands of excess deaths:
https://www.politico.eu/article/excess-death-surged-heat-wav...
Global average temperature anomaly is now 0.85 C above pre-industrial levels.
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
I noticed someone from the UK saying they had a heat wave in the 1970's, but then someone shared a plot of global temperature anomaly from back then and today. That summer there was a bit of an increase in the UK from that heat wave, but the rest of the world was more normal. Today, the increase is happening all over the world at once.
I desperately hope that people get the message. It seems that maybe the tide is turning, but I know it is already so late, I hope we can act fast before we make things so much worse.