Notices by Peter Gleick (petergleick@fediscience.org), page 2

Wow.
I listened to the court recording, and Trump's lawyer got twisted in knots addressing this question from the bench.

But The Hill nails the headline...

New data release: There were more billion dollar weather/climate disasters in 2023 (28) than any previous year since 1980, even adjusting for inflation.

#climate
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/

There may be no more shocking indicator of the devastating impacts of #climate change to our #water resources then what's happening right now in the #Amazon.
(This image shows the standard deviation of long-term precipitation, the SPI).

H/t Brian Brettschneider

I've read the case filed by South Africa in the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. Have you?

No matter whether you think Israel's actions rise to the level of genocide or not, the facts and evidence in the filing are chilling and deserve international review and response.

https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

My 1986 dissertation concluded if we didn't stop polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, the mountains in the West would start losing snowpack.
I've now lived long enough to see it.
#climate # climate change #water

Snow Shortages Are Plaguing the West’s Mountains https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/west-coast-snowpack-ski-warming.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk0.3MbO.O18pmCeigClw&smid=nytcore-android-share

Santa Update

Santa Claus announced today he was eliminating the use of coal for the stockings of those on the bad list in order to comply with the recent global agreement to phase out coal production.
Bad children will instead receive sternly worded admonishments. The large number of new Republicans on the list will get subpoenas, arrest warrants, or reindeer droppings.
Also, #Santa announced the relocation of his workshop to the Antarctic since the loss of ice in the Arctic has been so severe.

Donald Trump and his words

The problem isn't we need more people to produce more Einsteins or Mozart's.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

As Stephen Jay Gould wrote in The Panda's Thumb: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"

Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

The stupid, it burns.

If there's any lesson to be learned from the unfolding #climate disaster and 28 COP failures, it's that as long as governments cede power to corporations and billionaires, and as long as those corporations and billionaires make money from ecological destruction, then ecological destruction is what we get.

How undemocratic was Kissinger? Here's one example:

He chaired the committee that oversaw CIA operations to undermine the Allende government in Chile and wrote: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/30/henry-kissinger-chile-argentina-south-america

OFFS.
Seriously NYTimes??

This is Nazi language shit.

The number of "billion dollar disasters" in the United States is increasing rapidly. This graph (from NOAA) shows the number and breakdown of such disasters since 1980.

Two important trends: a rapid increase in the number, and especially in "severe storms."
These trends are another indication of the growing costs of #climatechange and the role that #water and the disruption of the planet's hydrologic cycle plays in it.

Oh, and 2023 isn't over yet. Two months to go.

Here you go. How dare people, especially young people, vote, says the GOP.

“You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote...pure democracies are not the way to run a country,” Santorum said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4299354-santorum-ohio-results-pure-democracies/

44 years ago.

“The CO2 problem is one of the most important contemporary environmental problems, is a direct product of industrialization, threatens the stability of climates worldwide and therefore the stability of all nations.”

(From a July 19, 1979 report of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality.)
#climatechange

https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/science/woodwellreport.pdf

More evidence that #climatechange is making droughts more severe, this time in relation to the severe three-year drought in Iran, Syria, and Iraq.

"the drought conditions in Syria and Iraq are 25 times more likely because of #climate change, and in Iran, 16 times more likely."

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-drought-syria-iraq-iran-bd1c8458da5fbd2be766b25ecd86e958

NY times headline tomorrow??

"Why the strong showing for Democrats yesterday is bad news for Biden"

Why yes, this is a real article...

"What a third world war would mean for investors"

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/10/30/what-a-third-world-war-would-mean-for-investors