OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #139, AUGUST 7, 2023

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #139, AUGUST 7, 2023  Compiled by Dick Bennett.

KENNY STANCIL.  “Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn.”
José Seoane.  “The eco collapse we were warned about has begun.”

Ian Angus.  “Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene.”

 

KENNY STANCIL.  “Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn.”   Common Dreams (July 21, 2023).

"There are growing risks of simultaneous major crop losses in different regions in the world," said one scientist. "This is not what we're seeing right now, but in the coming decades that's one of the things I'm really scared of."

Climate scientists warned Friday that worsening atmospheric and marine heatwaves threaten food security around the world.  Large swaths of the Northern Hemisphere have been pummeled in recent weeks by serial heatwaves exacerbated by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis. Last month was the hottest June on record, and July—which saw the hottest day and week in modern history—is expected to surpass all previous monthly records. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made clear that heatwaves will increase in frequency, duration, and intensity with each additional degree of temperature rise.

While extreme heat has long been recognized as a lethal health hazard that preys upon preexisting patterns of inequality and vulnerability, experts are trying to alert the public to another deadly dimension of the climate emergency: Soaring temperatures jeopardize the stability of the world's agricultural land and its oceans, putting potentially billions of people at heightened risk of hunger and conflict.  MORE  Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn (commondreams.org)

MARKING LARGE CHANGES,
José Seoane.  “The eco collapse we were warned about has begun.”  Editor.  mronline.org (8-3-23).    
This accumulation of tragic evidence, against all the denialist narratives, makes it undeniable that the climate crisis is already here, among us.

Originally published: The Bullet  on July 30, 2023 by (more by The Bullet) (Posted Aug 02, 2023).  Agriculture, Climate Change, Ecology, EnvironmentGlobalNewswireEl Niño, Super El Niño.  This article was produced by Globetrotter.

In 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the global level. Thus, in June, the surface temperature in the North Atlantic reached the maximum increase of 1.3 degrees Celsius with respect to preindustrial values. In a similar direction—although in lower values—the average temperature of the seas at the global level increased. On the other hand, the retraction of Antarctic ice reached a new limit, reaching the historical decrease of 2016, but several months earlier in the middle of the cold season.

The combination of these records has led scientists who follow these processes to warn of the danger of a profound change in the currents that regulate temperature and life in the oceans and globally. The heat waves recorded on the coasts of a large part of the world—in Ireland, Mexico, Ecuador, Japan, Mauritania, and Iceland—may, in turn, be proof of this.

These phenomena, of course, are not limited to the seas.  MORE  https://mronline.org/2023/08/02/the-eco-collapse-we-were-warned-about-has-begun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-eco-collapse-we-were-warned-about-has-begun&mc_cid=1441749d62&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e

 

NAMING and SITING OUR CALAMITIES

Ian Angus.  “Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene.”

Mronline.org (7-13-23).   Tiny Crawford Lake, near Toronto, holds a detailed record of radical global change.
Originally published: Climate & Capitalism  on July 11, 2023 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | Culture, History, Movements, StrategyAmericas, Canada, GlobalCommentaryAnthropocene, Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), Earth System, Featured, Science, Tiny Crawford Lake

In a major step towards formal recognition of the Anthropocene as a new stage in Earth System history, scientists have identified a small lake near Toronto as the best marker of epochal change. The announcement was made at news conferences in Europe on July 11, 2023.

 

END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #139, AUGUST 7, 2023