Qu’on se le dise, les gaz à effet de serre sont des gaz à effet de serre. Pas des citrouilles d’Halloween.
D’abord, d’abord, … il y a le Noir.
La couleur du charbon, du pétrole brut.
Des paysages d’Alberta où l’on extrait le gaz de schiste. Des sables bitumineux.
Celle des marées destructrices de paysages côtiers, d’oiseaux englués, des pollutions impayables et non payées par leurs pollueurs.
Celle des percées dramatiques dans les poumons de la Terre. De l’Amazonie ravagée.
Le noir, couleur de climato-sceptiques célèbres. L’un était Président. Un autre l’est encore. D’autres jouent la comédie…
Et puis, il y a l’autre… le Bleu.
La couleur de l’Europe, du Libéralisme, de l’innovation technologique, des fables consuméristes.
Pâle comme le peu de crédibilité d’une croissance économique décarbonée.
Foncé, lisse comme les costumes des communicants spécialisés en Greenwashing.
Bleu comme la promesse d’un nouveau gaz, sans gaz à effet de serre.
Un gaz sécurisant, abondant comme celui de Gazprom …
Bleu comme les océans qui se meurent.
Et puis, il y a les autres … dont le Rouge
A la fibre solidaire, prompt à la révolte sociale, la révolution mondiale.
International dans ses solidarités, aveugle des contraintes environnementales.
Le gaz des sans fins de mois, des démunis, des retraités. L’indispensable gaz de chauffage. Celui de l’électricité pour les déplacements, du fonctionnement des hôpitaux « bien sûr », des aérogares pour la croissance « à partager ».
Le rouge du sang des mammifères disparus.
Des incendies, de la colère des sinistrés.
Sans oublier … le Vert.
Celui du déni, de la trahison. Le vert de la colère des penseurs d’une écologie scientifique.
Vert comme le feu vert donné par deux femmes ministres belges à l’utilisation du gaz … Bleu.
Le vert des environnements qui disparaissent, mais aussi des zones que l’on protège enfin.
Le vert de la collaboration à la croissance mortifère, mais aussi des expériences dites de transition.
Et puis, et puis… il y a le blanc
Le blanc du deuil des autres autres couleurs. Le blanc comme somme des autres couleurs.
Le blanc des abstentions qui préviennent.
Le blanc de la lumière qui viendra, qui vient.
Le blanc violent des soleils trop présents.
Le blanc du drapeau à lever dans cette guerre que nous menons contre la vie.
With current policies the Earth is on track to a warming of around 3 °C above preindustrial temperatures, a level of heat our planet has not seen for millions of years. Ecosystems, human society and infrastructure are not adapted to these temperatures. Due to non-linear effects, the impacts will be much more severe than just three times as bad as after 1 °C of warming. Land areas will continue to warm much more than the global average, many regions twice as much or even more. Extreme heat will become far more frequent and a major cause of human mortality, making large parts of the tropical land area essentially too hot to live. In addition, extreme rainfall and flooding, droughts, wildfires and harvest failures will increase in frequency and severity. The destructive power of tropical cyclones will also increase. Sea-level rise will accelerate further, and the destabilization of ice sheets will commit our descendants to loss of coastal cities and island nations. The risk of crossing devastating and irreversib
A crucial system of ocean currents may already be on course to collapse, according to a new report, with alarming implications for sea level rise and global weather — leading temperatures to plunge dramatically in some regions and rise in others. Using exceptionally complex and expensive computing systems, scientists found a new way to detect an early warning signal for the collapse of these currents, according to the study published Friday in the journal Science Advances. And as the planet warms, there are already indications it is heading in this direction.
With the help of the contingency concept, the article explores the reasons behind these surprises by introducing a new category of threats that complements the ones in the existing literature on surprise. It adds the concept of ‘known—corporally unknown’ threats to the list of known-unknowns, unknown-unknowns as a way to emsphasize the difference between abstract knowledge of ‘facts and figures’ (of e.g., global warming) and the acquiring of knowledge through personal, bodily experience (tangere) (of flooding and draughts). T
Without a phase out of fossil fuels, by 2100, 1 in 12 hospitals worldwide will be at high risk of total or partial shutdown from extreme weather events — a total of 16,245 hospitals. Without a phase out of fossil fuels, all of these 16,245 hospitals will require adaptation, where suitable. Even with this enormous investment, for many, relocation will be the only option.
Bonn and Geneva, 6 September 2023 (ECMWF and WMO) - Earth just had its hottest three months on record, according to the European Union-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) implemented by ECMWF. Global sea surface temperatures are at unprecedented highs for the third consecutive month and Antarctic sea ice extent remains at a record low for the time of year.
As we mark 100 days until the COP28 UN climate summit, the urgency of addressing the climate crisis has never been more palpable. Global failures to mitigate emissions and adapt to the impacts continue to wreak havoc on the planet, and we’re seeing this in a range of ways. Unprecedented extreme weather events have occurred with frightening regularity in 2023. In March, over 500 people lost their lives when Cyclone Freddy struck Malawi. Last month, flooding in the Philippines caused by Typhoons Doksuri and Khanun displaced more than 300,000 people, and the recent wildfires that ravaged Hawaii – in part exacerbated by climate change – continue to make for distressing headlines. This list is likely to become even longer by the end of the year, when COP28 gets underway in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
It’s the middle of winter in South America, but that hasn’t kept the heat away in Chile, Argentina and surrounding locations. Multiple spells of oddly hot weather have roasted the region in recent weeks. The latest spell early this week has become the most intense, pushing the mercury above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while setting an August record for Chile.
De extreme hittegolven deze maand in grote delen van de VS, Zuid-Europa en China zouden ‘vrijwel onmogelijk’ geweest zijn zonder de door de mens veroorzaakte klimaatverandering. Dat is de conclusie van het World Weather Attribution-initiatief (WWA).
The method used to conduct an attribution study consists of eight steps, described here. The first step is the selection of an extreme event to study. After selecting an extreme weather event to study, the first step is to define the event, which provides a framework for the study. Researchers determine the geographical boundaries of the most impacted area, the best index to quantify the meteorological extreme (eg. maximum temperature, average rainfall, etc), and the duration of the event.
