Jiggz wrote:

The immediate cause of the water crisis was the extreme drought from 2015–2017 that exceeded the planning norms of the Department of Water and Sanitation. Research on long-term weather data done by the Climate System Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town determined that the low rainfall between the years 2015 and 2017 was a very rare and extreme event.^<49> Decreasing rainfall trends are linked to broader changes in the atmospheric and oceanic circulation, including the poleward shift of the Southern Hemisphere moisture corridor between 2015–17, displacement of the jet-stream and an expansion of the semi-permanent South Atlantic High.^<50> 2017 was the driest year since 1933, and possibly earlier, since comparable data before 1933 was not available. It also found that a drought of this severity would statistically occur approximately once every 300 years.^<32>

Bog-standard denialist.

 R_P wrote:


Not true...Cape Town faced Day Zero (when it would run out of water completely) back in 2018....and its nothing to do with climate change.
Cut out the bullshit.......

Iranians asked to limit water use as temperatures hit 50C and reservoirs are depleted 122F
Public holiday announced in Tehran as government tries to grapple with deepening water crisis

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For the first time in modern history a capital city is on the verge of running dry (Kabul, Afghanistan)

 black321 wrote:
So, is Steve headed to his basement with his police band scanner never to emerge again as the risk to go out in public is too great? I'll bet this excuse isn't going over too well with tour promoters, venues and advertisers. 

Extreme Weather Is Driving Global Food-Price Spikes, Report Says

Rising food prices are the second-largest effect of climate change that people see in their day-to-day lives, only exceeded by extreme heat, said Kotz, who led the report.

“While the 2023-2024 El Nino (weather system) likely played a role in amplifying a number of these extremes, their increased intensity and frequency is in line with the expected and observed effects of climate change,” the report said.

Last year was the hottest year on record, with global temperatures exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial climate conditions for the first time and high temperature records broken across much of the globe. With further warming to between 2.2 degrees and 3.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels likely by the end of the century, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, unprecedented weather conditions and further price shocks are to be expected, the report adds.

The knock-on effects of food-price spikes muddy the outlook for central banks, as increased costs raise headline inflation and make it more challenging to deliver monetary stability. Price shocks could also exacerbate a range of health outcomes as low-income households cut back, from malnutrition to diabetes and many types of cancers.

 R_P wrote:

Steve Miller Band cancels all upcoming tour dates due to extreme weather

"The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires make these risks for you our audience, the band and the crew unacceptable," the statement said. "So ... You can blame it on the weather. The tour is cancelled."

 R_P wrote:
eh, that's not accurate. Slowing, but no reversal

Why the federal government is making climate data disappear
Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.

Turns out the roost won't have chickens. You get vicious wild turkeys instead.

Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse

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"It's been 3 days, over a hundred people have died, tens of thousands are homeless, why can't the US government, like China, send the army to help with rescue efforts?"

Bush III
Major reports about how climate change affects the U.S. are removed from websites

 VV wrote:
Wish I could dump a load of coal in his Mara-Lago driveway. Top it off with some nuclear sludge. 

 R_P wrote:
Of course Trump wants to shut this down. When you aren’t monitoring all of those things that demonstrate the effects of climate change… then it is so much easier to deny that climate change even exists. And he can more easily push his fairy tale of “clean coal” and marginalize renewable energy efforts.