Not the plot of 12 monkeys but China, South Korea, Japan, Eastern and South Europe should show us what rapid depopulation and aging looks like. Brazil's recent census showed 13 million less people than was expected (203 million recorded v 216 million according to anywhere online) and birthrates are crashing. Pretty sure that without the massive population growth in Africa that the global population has already topped out. Going to be interesting for the next couple generations.
I presume you meant “1.9 billion trees are planted globally each year” yeah these fires are bad. We’ve been dealing with smoke from them off and on since May here in the upper Midwest.
Not sure this qualifies as a "climate related" disaster, at least today, as environmental advocates blame a lack of food and overfishing. However, well, I don't think I need to say much more... JULY 22, 2023 PHYS.org Around 2,000 penguins wash up dead on Uruguay coast Around 2,000 penguins have appeared dead on the coast of eastern Uruguay in the last 10 days, and the cause, which does not appear to be avian influenza, remains a mystery, authorities said. The Magellanic penguins, mostly juveniles, died in the Atlantic Ocean and were carried by currents to Uruguayan shores, said Carmen Leizagoyen, head of the Environment Ministry's department of fauna. "This is mortality in the water. Ninety percent are young specimens that arrive without fat reserves and with empty stomachs," she said, and stressed that all samples taken have tested negative for avian influenza. Magellanic penguins nest in southern Argentina. In the southern hemisphere winter, they migrate north in search of food and warmer waters, even reaching the coast of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo. "It is normal for some percentage to die, but not these numbers," Leizagoyen said, recalling that a similar die-off occurred last year in Brazil, for undetermined reasons. Hector Caymaris, director of the Laguna de Rocha protected area, told AFP that he counted more than 500 dead penguins along six miles (10 kilometers) of Atlantic coast. Environmental advocates attribute the increase in Magellanic penguin deaths to overfishing and illegal fishing. "From the 1990s and 2000s we began to see animals with a lack of food. The resource is overexploited," Richard Tesore, of the NGO SOS Marine Wildlife Rescue, told AFP. A subtropical cyclone in the Atlantic, which hit southeastern Brazil in mid-July, probably caused the weakest animals to die from the inclement weather, he added. In addition to penguins, Tesore said he has recently found dead petrels, albatrosses, seagulls, sea turtles and sea lions on the beaches of Maldonado, a department east of the capital Montevideo. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-pengu...ttered on,remains a mystery, authorities said.
That was an astonishing event. I don't doubt that scientists are still grappling with figuring out the impact of it. The location was so remote that I wonder how much was known about the possibility of it happening ahead of time?
"The unique nature and magnitude of the global stratospheric perturbation by the Hunga eruption ranks it among the most remarkable climatic events in the modern observation era." The fact that I’m only just realizing the magnitude of this event is kind of nuts. Seems like the projections are for the effects to last between 4-8 years.
That we had satellites (or at least one) that happened to be overhead taking pictures (and hopefully readings of various scientific stuff) is some pretty amazing luck. Imagine that explosion happening in the Mediterranean or the American West. That's a scary thought.
Interesting costal projection interactive map for 2050. TLDR: don’t by property in Galveston. https://coastal.climatecentral.org/...le&refresh=true&water_level=3.0&water_unit=ft
Greece is having another summer of big wildfires with the island of Rhodes on fire. Also record heat in Athens and other parts of the country.
Water temperatures off Florida soar over 100 degrees On Monday, as much of the country stewed in bubbling heat, a boiling milestone was hit — a buoy in Florida registered a jaw-dropping 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit water temperature. This was on the heels of the same buoy in Manatee Bay registering 100.2 degrees on Sunday. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna96163
Given the drought, heat, and flooding in many rice-producing countries that have lowered harvest levels and the fact that up to 60% of India's rice paddies are underwater, India has just blocked any export of rice. That's a huge deal for the global food network. Many other grain producing regions, like the wheat belts in Alberta and central Europe, are also experiencing significant declines in harvest levels. The European potato crop will be down by 25-30% this year. Onions are on a similar trajectory. (You also have the Russians bombing Ukrainian grain export facilities and ships.) So, be prepared for continuing price uncertainty at the grocery store and now might be the time to stock up on big bags of rice.
