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Despite the consistency of ‘Global Weirding’ with expectations previously held of ‘Global warming’ it still serves as a critical and important observation that needed to be established.

It serves as a direct rebuke of the ‘Global warming is good’ brigade.
The ‘Pros’ that the brigade heavily relies on the idea that ‘Global warming is consistent and predictable’.
This is particularly the case with climate sensitive industry sectors like Hospitality and Tourism, Agriculture and Aquaculture, etc.

For example,
- Global warming is good:
Warmer climate means being able to develop agriculture in colder regions.

- Global weirding:
Horticulture of Grapes in regions that have become ‘warmer’ in North America is unreliable if the region is also prone to early and prolonged fire seasons and sudden cold blasts.

It’s like playing ‘Russian Roulette’ with hundreds of millions on the table.

Climate sensitive industries and (industrial) cultural practices rely on hundreds of years of predictable climate patterns. Instead we are now facing climate patterns which are subject to change ever 10-or-so-years.

That’s bloody ‘weird’, to epically understate the situation.
#ClimateCrisis #Climatechange #GlobalWarning #GlobalWeirding #AusPol #AusBiz

Ocean-surface warming has more than quadrupled since the late-1980s, study shows

The rate of #ocean #warming has more than quadrupled over the past four decades, a new study has shown. Ocean temperatures were rising at about 0.06°C per decade in the late 1980s, but are now increasing at 0.27°C per decade.
Published 28 January 2025 in Environmental Research Letters, the study helps explain why 2023 and early 2024 saw unprecedented ocean temperatures.
This #accelerating ocean warming is driven by the Earth's growing energy imbalance—whereby more #energy from the sun is being absorbed in the Earth's system than is escaping back to space. This imbalance has roughly doubled since 2010, in part due to increasing #GreenhouseGas concentrations, and because the #Earth is now reflecting less sunlight to space than before.
Global ocean temperatures hit record highs for 450 days straight in 2023 and early 2024. Some of this warmth came from #ElNiño, a natural warming event in the Pacific.

phys.org/news/2025-01-ocean-su

Article: dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/a

#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateScience
#GlobalWarming
#GlobalWarning

As #nature reports we have already reached 1.5° degrees of #globalwarning. Since nothing will change - politicians around the world want more growth, not less, and more growth means more #climatechange - 2° degrees can be expected in the next 5 years. David Wallace-Wells says in his book that the tipping point for the collapse of the planet's ice sheets is said to be around two degrees. He writes "that would eventually flood not just Miami and Dhaka but Shanghai and Hong Kong and a hundred other cities around the world".
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5

PenguinRandomhouse.comThe Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells: 9780525576716 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pend...

If you’re a member of the top 1% of earners in the U.S., there’s a fair chance your carbon footprint is bigger than you thought. A lot bigger. On average, 1,388 times bigger compared to someone in the bottom 50%. But don’t worry if this is news to you. A new study says the vast majority of people don’t know the true size of this inequality. @sciencefocus explains: flip.it/X0rgQz
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarning #CarbonFootprint

To reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change, some governments and companies have been investing in the electrification of both public transport and private vehicles. China has taken note with the introduction of electric buses. Despite its predicted advantages for reducing carbon emissions, transitioning from fuel-based to electric public transport could put a significant strain on electricity grids. Read more from TechXplore. flip.it/poaFep
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarning #Climate #China #Transportation

Tech Xplore · Predicting the implications of transforming public transport depots in China into energy hubsBy Ingrid Fadelli

Scientists have warned that climate change would alter the prevalence and spread of disease in the U.S. Grist explains why researchers who follow the way climate change influences disease expect a continuation of a trend that will become more pronounced over time: flip.it/bQFqJf
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarning #Health #Disease

Grist · The link between climate change and a spate of rare disease outbreaks in 2023By Zoya Teirstein