Flux continu

Aujourd’hui, j’ai le plaisir d’accueillir Laurent Testot, journaliste scientifique et spécialiste d’histoire globale.

For the last 80 years, Thwaites has been losing more water through melting than it’s been gaining in snow.Half a metre of sea-level rise would submerge large parts of Asia’s coastal cities including Manila and Bangkok, as well as sizeable chunks of the Netherlands and the east of England. It’s also half of the sea-level rise needed to begin flooding Manhattan.

Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say

Aujourd’hui nous allons parler de Géoingénierie. Ce sujet, qui n'était autrefois vu que comme un projet d'apprentis sorciers, est aujourd'hui présent dans tous les plans climatiques gouvernementaux. Mais comment la géo-ingénierie s’est infiltrée dans les sphères politiques et que cache réellement ce concept ? Quels sont concrètement les projets de géoingénierie, sont-ils vraiment viables, et à quels risques nous exposent-ils ? Entre fuite en avant, technosolutionnisme, et enjeux géopolitiques, quelles intentions motivent réellement la géoingénierie ? Pour parler de ces sujets, j’ai le plaisir d'accueillir Marine De Guglielmo Weber. Marine est docteure en sciences de l'information et de la communication, chercheuse au sein de l'Institut de recherche stratégique de l'école militaire, directrice scientifique de l'Observatoire Défense & Climat et auteur de différents ouvrages dont Le Grand Retournement et La Géopolitique des Nuages.

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to understand what this means for the future just as President Trump strips back agencies tasked with monitoring the oceans.

Previous health impact assessments of temperature-related mortality in Europe indicated that the mortality burden attributable to cold is much larger than for heat. Questions remain as to whether climate change can result in a net decrease in temperature-related mortality. In this study, we estimated how climate change could affect future heat-related and cold-related mortality in 854 European urban areas, under several climate, demographic and adaptation scenarios. We showed that, with no adaptation to heat, the increase in heat-related deaths consistently exceeds any decrease in cold-related deaths across all considered scenarios in Europe. Under the lowest mitigation and adaptation scenario (SSP3-7.0), we estimate a net death burden due to climate change increasing by 49.9% and cumulating 2,345,410 (95% confidence interval = 327,603 to 4,775,853) climate change-related deaths between 2015 and 2099. This net effect would remain positive even under high adaptation scenarios, whereby a risk attenuation of 50%

For those trying to pay attention in our post-truth, post fact-checking brave new world that has such misinformation systems in it, Dr. Rees is a source to consider. The link: Climate Change, Overshoot and the Demise of Large Cities: Why large cities will need to contract or be abandoned altogether

A town hit hard by two hurricanes, downpours and a deep freeze, all in the midst of a pandemic, offers crucial lessons for everyone’s disaster planning and recovery.

Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet

EUCityCalc has officially launched its free, open source online platform that allows local councils and other stakeholders to visualise and simulate low-carbon scenarios for their towns and cities, as well as to assess the trade-offs related to available choices.