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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19266054

The deluge left hospital rooms underwater, turned neighborhoods into islands and cut electricity to swaths of the city. National Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said Bahia Blanca was "destroyed."

Maybe their climate denying President's chainsaw can be used to gouge some drainage ditches ? /s

The deluge left hospital rooms underwater, turned neighborhoods into islands and cut electricity to swaths of the city. National Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said Bahia Blanca was "destroyed."

Maybe their climate denying President's chainsaw can be used to gouge some drainage ditches ? /s

In much the same way, it’s often unclear even to experts how global systems interact because they are siloed in their disciplines. That limits our ability to confront intersecting problems: the climate crisis forces migration; xenophobia fuels the rise of the far right in receiving countries; far-right governments undermine environmental protections; natural disasters are more destructive. Yet migration experts may not be experts on the climate crisis, and climate experts may have limited knowledge of geopolitics.

That’s why Homer-Dixon thinks better communication is essential – not just to create consensus around what we call our current predicament but also how to address it.

I don't agree better communication will help at all. It doesn't overcome willful ignorance and stupidity.

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

Eastern quoll populations have been declining in Tasmania since the turn of the century and the animal was declared extinct on mainland Australia in 1963.

Last month, two dozen captive-bred eastern quolls were released onto a large-scale regeneration property in Tasmania's Midlands as part of a conservation program to help bolster populations.

Being in NE Tassie this hits home, might help if we stop running them over. I've seen one live one cycling through the forest here in NE Tassie and two dead ones run over by cars when cycling (and numerous wombats, pademelons and uncountable other marsupials)

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/offtrack/tasmania-roadkill-capital-of-the-world/7021816

Indeed

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18947237

The sustained spike in ocean temperatures cost lives and caused billions of dollars in storm damage, increased whale and dolphin stranding risks, harmed commercial fishing and sparked a global coral bleaching, according to the paper published on Friday in Nature Climate Change.

The sustained spike in ocean temperatures cost lives and caused billions of dollars in storm damage, increased whale and dolphin stranding risks, harmed commercial fishing and sparked a global coral bleaching, according to the paper published on Friday in Nature Climate Change.

Get your kit off Melbournians and join in for the 20th anniversary this weekend.

Worth a watch

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18853458

The findings are very stark. Emissions now need to fall by 0.3% per year, just to stand still. That’s a tall order since they typically increase by 1.2% per year,”

The findings are very stark. Emissions now need to fall by 0.3% per year, just to stand still. That’s a tall order since they typically increase by 1.2% per year,”

With extreme heat conditions predicted to escalate in Australia, new research suggests the threat is more dire for the country’s cities, with these temperatures already more intense and enduring than indicated.

Tl;dr lack of abikity to site BOM montoring stations combined with shitty urban design (suburbs)