Survival in a climate-changed world
"Heatwave to turn parts of Australia into ‘one of the hottest places in the world’ this week. Some of the east coast and the north will bake in a furnace of potentially life-threatening heat, the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/04/heatwave-to-turn-parts-of-australia-into-one-of-the-hottest-places-in-the-world-this-week
"We will see more extreme weather events as long as we burn fossil fuels." Friederike Otto, climatologist and co-founder of World Weather Attribution
"Local governments and emergency services are the essential mediator between the weather services and the people in harm’s way. They need to be strengthened and not dismantled, as had been the case with the Valencia Emergency Unit.Investing in people and emergency services will save lives. But governments also cannot build back the same way. Almost everywhere in Europe where people live, rivers are canalised, and all surfaces are sealed with concrete and asphalt to make a comfortable city for cars. If we want to start caring about people instead, we need to give rivers space again, so that they have somewhere else to go, rather than into people’s homes. Urban sprawl across Europe is creating ever more sealed surfaces and exposing an increasing number of people to devastating floods."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/04/spain-deaths-europe-realities-extreme-weather-flooding
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