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Welcome to all the new people joining Mastodon at the moment!
Just wanted to tell you all about #ClimateDiary - a hashtag to share everyday observations, thoughts, feelings as we are all living through this. You can follow #ClimateDiary or just search it - i love reading several days posts together. And of course, please contribute! Wherever you are
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Pauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)
**LAUNCH** of #ClimateDiary Hashtag I've been thinking for a while that it would be good to have a collective Climate Diary (along the lines of the Sussex Mass Observation project): people from across the world recording and sharing everyday obser…Mastodon.green
Missed opportunities:
The UK has ~30 million dwellings.
I read a while back that the average cost of fully retrofitting a UK home with insulation, heat pump and solar is of the order of £20k.
If that’s right the cost of retrofitting every UK home is in the region of £600 bn.
Funnily enough, that’s roughly the investment gap since 2008 relative to the level that Nicholas Stern said should be invested in decarbonisation.
And instead Labour are investing £0.9 bn per year in CCS
#ClimateDiary Everything is fine, everything is normal. Ignore, ignore, ignore.
Scores feared dead after torrential rain and floods in Spain. Officials say at least 51 people have died in south and east of country but death toll is expected to rise.#Spain #Valencia #Floods
theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…
At least 64 people feared dead after torrential rain and floods in Spain
Death toll is expected to rise as search continues for missing people, with residents urged to stay off roadsSam Jones (The Guardian)
Here is Professor Stefan Rahmstorf presentation to the Arctic Council earlier this month on whether the AMOC is Shutting Down? - Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
AMOC shutting down could have a catastrophic impact on Northern Europe including more extreme weather events, but also on sealevels along north American coast, and global impacts with changes in precipitation.
#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #AMOC #Ocean #TippingPoints
youtube.com/watch?v=k0FUZKQhU6…
Is the AMOC Shutting Down? - Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
SPEAKERSH.E. Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate, IcelandStefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Oceans, Potsdam ...YouTube