It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside

[Tjm86]

So it seems I'm a member of a terrorist organisation. Go figure.

So it seems that the police have put this down to an "error of judgement" in listing XR as a 'radical organisation' ...

[shaolin_monkey]

A rather chilling thread on Twitter showing how climate change affected global food supplies in 2019.




https://twitter.com/jimbair62221006/status/1211773514216140801?s=21

[IndigoPrime]

Not especially comprehensive either. There's a mention of Spain soil erosion. But also Murcia – a haven for growing – has now suffered three "once in a lifetime" floods over the past few years, and the Mar Menor is over 50% sterile. The suggestion is that without massive and immediate action, the percentage will rapidly rise.

[shaolin_monkey]

What was the CO2 level PPM at your birth?

Go here to find out:

https://sealevel.info/co2.html

[shaolin_monkey]

" The year 2019 was the hottest ever recorded in Europe, the European Union's climate monitor said in its round-up of the hottest decade in history.

Data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) showed that worldwide temperatures were just 0.04 degrees Celsius lower than 2016, when temperatures were boosted 0.12 degrees Celsius by a once-in-a-century El Nino natural weather event.

The five last years have been the hottest on record, and the period of 2010-2019 was the hottest decade since records began, C3S said.

Globally temperatures in 2019 were 0.6 Celsius warmer than the 1981-2010 average. Earth's temperature over the last five years was 1.1C-1.2C warmer than pre-industrial times. "

- AFP/Euractiv, Jan 9, 2020

https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/last-year-was-europes-hottest-ever-eu-data-shows/

[sheridan]

What was the CO2 level PPM at your birth?

Go here to find out:

https://sealevel.info/co2.html

Interesting - it stagnated and even went down during the second world war but started rising the moment it was over - I'd have thought an industrial war would create more CO2 but looks like war is good for the environment...

[The Legendary Shark]

Maybe less data taken during the war due to general widespread disruption?

[shaolin_monkey]

Here's a theory.

Overall, 75 million people died as a direct result of WWII, predominantly from industrialised nations. Given that each person has a significant CO2 stamp, taking 75 million of them away over a 5 year period is bound to have some kind of impact on overall CO2 emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties


I wonder if there was a similar dip around the time of the bubonic plague?

[shaolin_monkey]

Well, whaddaya know - I might have been on to something there!!!

From:
'PRE-INDUSTRIAL DEPOPULATION, ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE, AND GLOBAL CLIMATE
by WILLIAM F. RUDDIMAN & ANN G. CARMICHAEL'

Nevertheless, large-scale depopulation episodes during the historical era do appear to correlate with drops in atmospheric CO2 levels and decreases in northern hemisphere temperature (Figs. 1, 2). Given the inability of volcanic eruptions and changes in solar irradiance to account for CO2 drops as large as 8 ppm without violating hemispheric and global temperature constraints, pandemics and depopulation episodes are a potential casual link.

http://www.casinapioiv.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/sv106/sv106-ruddiman.pdf

[TordelBack]

Hundreds of millions on what amounted to starvation rations (or outright stsrvation) no non-essential transport and regular black-outs has to cut down on emissions, even if nobody had died, which as noted they definitely did. Maybe this is how we finally get the Brexiteers on board?

[Tjm86]

I'd have thought an industrial war would create more CO2 but looks like war is good for the environment...

Are you saying Edwin Starr was wrong then?

[Jim_Campbell]

I'd have thought an industrial war would create more CO2 but looks like war is good for the environment...

Are you saying Edwin Starr was wrong then?

Good God, y'all!

[shaolin_monkey]

I did a shout out last night on Twitter re finding some UK-centric (yet with global subject matter) podcasts about the climate crisis. I've had a tremendous response, and I will post links etc below.

However, if you do fancy a listen to any, please start with the very first episode of Outrage and Optimism, where they interview Sir David Attenborough. It is quite something.

I didn't capture all the recommendations, so here is my original Twitter post/thread, if you want a browse:

https://twitter.com/scowlingmonkey/status/1216470988285784065?s=21


Otherwise:

Outrage and Optimism
@globaloptimism

http://globaloptimism.com/podcast/


Sustainababble - dark humour and climate discussion
@thebabblewagon

http://www.sustainababble.fish/



Mothers of Invention - ex- Irish PM takes on climate change
@MothersInvent

https://www.mothersofinvention.online/




The End of the World Has Already Happened - BBC radio series

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cl67/episodes/player


Unburnable - a story of people against Arctic oil

https://greenwire.greenpeace.org/nordic/nn/blogs/podcast-unburnable-people-vs-arctic-oil


Explore the Space - climate related episodes

https://www.explorethespaceshow.com/podcast_category/climate-change/

[Funt Solo]

So we're all agreed on a massive cull?

[shaolin_monkey]

So we're all agreed on a massive cull?

Either we do it or climate change does it. Who's first? And where are the Kleggs when you really need them?