“Climate change is changing the cradle of civilisation to a grave: where civilization emerged between the Tigris and Euphrates, climate change is poisoning the land and emptying the villages…
“…as climate change produces extreme warming and water grows scarcer around the Middle East, the land here is drying up. Across Iraq’s south, there is a sense of an ending.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/iraq-climate-change-tigris-euphrates/
“Turkey on the precipice of climate disaster as lakes dry and forests burn.
“Hit by a blistering heatwave this summer, parts of Turkey recorded the country’s highest temperatures yet… Prolonged dry spells along with diminished groundwater levels caused sink holes to open in central Anatolia, while a revolting “sea snot” caused by an explosion of phytoplankton plagued the Sea of Marmara.”
“The drought in the Guadalquivir basin [Spain] forces to restrict water to 4.3 million people.
“The government decree will foreseeably arrive in 10 days and leads to water savings in 554 municipalities in Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura.”
“In the Alps, climate change is turning glaciers into lakes… glacial lake outbursts are no longer a distant threat but a reality…
“Stephan Lempen, the town councillor of Lenk im Simmental, has vivid memories of the day the Faverges Lake suddenly burst open. “A huge amount of water flooded our village. It happened so fast. People had to be evacuated,” he recalls.”
“‘Shock, despair, anger’: French winemakers reveal the emotional impact of this year’s harvest…
“In the wake of this year’s climatic disasters, some producers have emphasised a need for more empathetic distributors, who understand that in some cases price increases are unavoidable.”
“Deaths in Poland as Storm ‘Aurore’ wreaks havoc across Europe.
“Four people have died in Poland while rail disruption in Germany, power outages in France and injuries in the Netherlands, were reported. Weather services have warned of further storms.”
https://www.dw.com/en/deaths-in-poland-as-storm-aurore-wreaks-havoc-across-europe/a-59573348
“A mini-tornado has created havoc after rampaging through a sleeping Cornwall town overnight…
“Weather experts were checking out reports of a tornado in Falmouth, West Cornwall… Meanwhile, Devon County Council’s emergency centre said highways teams responded to 90 call-outs overnight as flooding hit parts of the region.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mini-tornado-wreaks-havoc-after-25265636
“As of Oct. 21, there have been 16 days with minimum temperatures recorded at or above 10 C this month on Toronto Island, tying a record 2007 and 2017.
“Based on the forecast for the next nine days, this record is likely to be shattered… The jet stream has created a temperature divide cutting the continent in two…
“Severe storms with tornadoes threaten the central US this weekend…
“A system developing in the Southern Plains on Friday will become the focus of severe weather Saturday and Sunday. This system will move into some very warm and moist air, creating the perfect environment for impactful thunderstorms.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/22/weather/severe-storms-tornado-forecast-weekend/index.html
“A “bomb cyclone” with hurricane-like strength and a chart-topping “atmospheric river” will coincide Saturday night into Sunday to unleash flooding rains, wet snow, strong winds and coastal surf across the western US.
“This will be the third and strongest in a series of storms to strike the West Coast this week.”
“A Northern California family found mysteriously dead in August on a hiking trail in the Sierra most likely died from heat stress…
“The news sheds light on a case that has confounded investigators… and raised new questions about outdoor recreational activities in an era of rising temperatures and climate fuelled extreme weather.”
“The population of Pacific salmon and trout are declining rapidly not only because climate change is getting worse, but also because of 40 years of changes in their marine and freshwater environments, a new study has found.
“Five different species of Pacific salmon… are all seeing drastic declines in numbers in the Keogh River, near Port Hardy on Vancouver Island.”
“Tons of garbage dam rainwater channels and generate floods in Montería villages [Colombia]…
“”The canal grew and got inside my house and everything was flooded, and I lost all the belongings , mattress, the dining room and everything got wet,” said Idia Sánchez, injured.”
“Some scientists fear we are nearing a point of no return in the Amazon rainforest, which exerts power over the carbon cycle like no other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.
“Evidence is mounting that in certain areas, localized iterations of irreversible damage may already be happening.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-un-amazon-tipping-point/
“Coffs Harbour [NSW, Australia] has been declared a disaster zone after a freak hailstorm tore through the region yesterday, sparking evacuations and causing widespread damage…
“Coffs Harbour SES Unit Commander Martin Wells said the damage caused by the storm is “five times as bad” as the tornado that hit Armidale last week.”
“Tornado damages Brisbane airport as supercell storm batters south-east Queensland…
““This was a very dangerous storm and there have been reports of either a tornado or a water spout within this. With the storm that went through Brisbane airport, we’ve already had a report of 101mm in 60 minutes.”
“Extreme heat in Northern Australia. The Australian hottest settlement, Wyndham on 21 October rose to 45.1C [113.2F], a new record for October…
“[This was] 0.9C from its all time record and the first 45C in the Southern Hemisphere so far this season, surpassing the 44.6C set few weeks ago in Paraguay.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1451113380220133377
“A sea change in weather pattern behind excess rains, frequent cyclones threatening Kerala [India].
“The structural changes in monsoon clouds is one of the main reasons for the recent, recurring flash floods in Kerala. Though the number of rainy days has been decreasing each year, a corresponding dip in the amount of rainfall has not been recorded. This has been attributed to climate change.”
“At least 250 km [155 miles] of forest land has been washed away in the past two days in Kumaon division of Uttarakhand [India] which has seen record-breaking rainfall, according to an estimate by the forest department on Thursday…
“Wildlife habitats have been impacted adversely in the rainfall…”
“Iqaluit’s water crisis [Nunavut, Canada] unveils a bigger problem: There’s no recycling in the Arctic.
“A week-long water crisis that has left residents of Nunavut’s capital city Iqaluit without drinking water is also exposing a chronic problem for many northern communities: It’s almost impossible to safely get rid of garbage. Close to 750,000 plastic water bottles have flooded the city in recent days…”
“Norilsk [Russia] starts cooling the ground to preserve buildings on thawing permafrost…
“Norilsk, the industrial city with 170,000 inhabitants on Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula is partly built on rock massif and partly on permafrost soil.”
“Impossible to deny climate change when disasters became ‘almost a norm’ — Putin.
“The Russian president stressed that, “We can keep having scientific discussions about the mechanisms of the ongoing processes, but it is impossible to deny that these processes worsen and that something must be done about it.””
https://tass.com/society/1352555
“The heat is on: from the Arctic to Africa, wildlife is being hit hard by climate chaos…
“We know mass die-offs are becoming more common as heatwaves sweep terrestrial and marine ecosystems, but incremental increases in temperature, which are much harder to study, are harming almost all populations on our planet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/22/heat-arctic-africa-wildlife-climate-chaos-aoe
“Marine heatwaves don’t just endanger ecosystems—they have significant socioeconomic impacts…
“”The global annual number of marine heatwave days has risen by 54 percent over the past century, with eight of the 10 most extreme marine heatwaves ever recorded occurring after 2010,” A/Prof. Sen Gupta said.”
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-marine-heatwaves-dont-endanger-ecosystemsthey.html
“Plastics Will Create More Climate Pollution Than Coal In U.S. By 2030, New Study Finds.
“Plastics are everywhere. From the stomachs of deep-sea fish to human feces, Arctic snow to gusts of wind in the remote wilderness, the oil and gas byproduct has, barely a century after it was first synthesized in a laboratory, become a ubiquitous feature of virtually every ecosystem…”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/plastics-create-more-climate-pollution-161155563.html
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