Climate and health litigation mounting in Australia as exposure to heat waves grows https://phys.org/news/2025-04-climate-health-litigation-mounting-australia.html

Climate and health litigation mounting in Australia as exposure to heat waves grows https://phys.org/news/2025-04-climate-health-litigation-mounting-australia.html
Australia sweats through hottest 12 months on record: Official data https://phys.org/news/2025-04-australia-hottest-months.html
This year's gardening gambit: establishing grapevines, in hopes that they will be resistant to future heatwaves (at least for a little while). They seem to be able to grow in Fresno... so thinking that will be a plus here near the California coast, even with increasing heatwave conditions. #gardening #California #heatwaves #climateadaptation
From the article:
"“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month, citing “recent setbacks to global decarbonization efforts.”"
Climate warming and heatwaves accelerate global lake deoxygenation, study reveals
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077716
Long-term climate warming and the increasing frequency and intensity of short-term heatwaves are significantly reducing surface dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in lakes worldwide, according to a new study published in Science Advances.
The devastating impacts of the #climatecrisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented #heatwaves, #floods and #storms across the globe, according to the UN's World Meteorological Organization. From a report https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate-2024 #weather #weather #meteorology #fossilfuels #emissions #CarbonEmissions
Extreme weather last year including typhoons, heat waves and flooding led to the biggest displacement of people since 2008, and exacerbated a food crisis in more than a dozen countries, according to a report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/03/19/climate-change/extreme-weather-2024-16-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatechange #drought #floods #typhoons #heatwaves
when #ecosystems thrive, they protect us—absorbing #floods, softening #heatwaves, keeping #disease in check. #forests, #wetlands, #reefs, and #grasslands act as nature’s safety net, holding everything in #balance. but when we destroy them, we unravel the very systems keeping us alive.
by protecting #nature, we protect ourselves. every #tree, every #river, every #species is part of the web that holds our world together. if we want a future, we have to fight for it.
To keep your cool in a heat wave, it may help to water your trees https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cool-trees.html
Fire chiefs warn UK is not prepared for climate crisis impacts
The #UK is not prepared for the impact of #ClimateBreakdown, fire chiefs have said, as they called on the government to take urgent action to protect communities.
The National Fire Chiefs Council (#NFCC) said the ability of fire services to tackle #weather-related emergencies was at risk, despite them often being the primary frontline response to major weather events including #flooding, #fires caused by #heatwaves, and #storm-related emergencies, all of which are becoming more common.
The #MetOffice predicts that winters by 2070 will be as much as 4.5C #warmer and 30% #wetter than they were in 1990, while summers may be up to 6C warmer and 60% #drier. The south of England is projected to face temperatures reaching 40C (104F) and #rainfall is expected to increase by a quarter.
Earth’s warming exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius on an annual basis for the first time in 2024, according to two major climate science agencies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/01/10/climate-change/global-warming-limit-monitor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatechange #environment #heatwaves
In 2024, billions of people across the world faced climatic conditions that broke record after record: logging ever more highs for heat, floods, storms, fire and drought. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/12/12/climate-change/climate-crisis-new-reality/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #heatwaves #wildfires #health #oceans #floods #drought #extremeheat #climatechange
Unexplained heat-wave 'hotspots' are popping up across the globe https://phys.org/news/2024-11-unexplained-hotspots-globe.html
Unexplained heat-wave 'hotspots' are popping up across the globe https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241126145331.htm
Unexplained heat-wave ‘hotspots’ are popping up across the globe | ScienceDaily…
Summary: A striking new phenomenon is emerging: distinct regions are seeing repeated heat waves that are so extreme, they fall far beyond what any model of global warming can predict or explain... Science daily #heatwaves #hotspots #globalwarming #earthscience #climatechange #extremeweather
Temperatures of 39C forecast for parts of Sydney's west, with cool change tipped to come tomorrow
By Digby Werthmuller and Jean Kennedy
With the heatwave hitting Sydney and parts of eastern NSW expected to drive temperatures to 39C for parts of Sydney's west today, people have been warned to be cautious of heat-related harms.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/western-sydney-temperatures-40-degrees-heatwave/104649258
The #ocean is cooking. Surface ocean warming both in absulot terms as well as stronger and longer spikes of #warming in the form of #marine #HeatWaves. Compounded effects of #ClimateChange (stratification, wind pattern shits) are making things even worse.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01806-9
UNICEF: Extreme Heatwaves Will Impact 8x More Children by 2050 #environment #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave #heatwaves #children #health https://www.ecowatch.com/unicef-extreme-heatwaves-childrens-health.html
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal | Climate crisis | The Guardian…
At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how severely human-caused global heating is supercharging extreme weather... The Guardian #climatechange #climatecrisis #heatwaves #extremeweather
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #environment #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave #heatwaves https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal