Heat 'sucking soils dry' as extreme drought hits Europe
Major climate impacts on crops in North America and Europe. Major shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and now, potentially, the Red Sea. Transit through the Panama Canal threatened by drought. It's time we started getting serious about #FoodSecurity.
velyvan.bsky.social14And you can add: production collapse in Russia Record El Niño This year is going to be tough.
Russell England 13* 9m tonnes of grain are expected to be lost across Europe * Worst maize harvest in 50 years expected in France * Romanian farmers losing over a million hectares of crops #GlobalBoiling
Peggy Sanders9The Panama Canal announced the temporary suspension of transit reservations starting July 25 due to anticipated low water levels in Gatun Lake. The measure will affect daily auctions for the third period for Panamax locks and will remain in…. www.dataportuaria.com/en/Panama/fo...
seacide7It's deeply worrying how the vast majority have no idea how quickly food-related humanitarian crises could unfold and transform even the 'richest' populations within months. Among the worst kind of poverty is becoming more likely. Where's government? Scoffing at the trough? bsky.app/profile/anti...
Time is Sliding6A start would be getting @andyburnham.bsky.social to get the national media to show the National Emergency Briefing at prime times every month until its message, including food security & diet, is taken seriously.
Death will not release you!𓅽5Red Sea isn't potential, after the last one a few years ago, shipping volume never fully recovered, if the alternative isn't much worse (extra distance and time, but no tolls), they avoid it now.
Steve B6Months ago, Mr Monbiot advised—if you were able—to gradually, thoughtfully start increasing essential non-perishable food reserves at home. I've been doing this. The inevitability of food security precarity—nice one @peterjukes.bsky.social—results in a hoarding, stockpiling, price gouging frenzy.
kageworx6As our government invests in... CEMENT Production 🫣 Watties❌ McCain's ❌ Golden Bay Cement 🎉 #nzpol
Dusty Lucite5Shits about to get perilous y’all.
Louise in Ontario🇨🇦2Ontario allowing development on our prime agricultural land 😡 Protect our #FoodSecurity
As long expected. It’s climate science 101. The vapor thirst of the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature. A law of physics known since the early 19th C (Clausius–Clapeyron law). It causes more drought even if rainfall doesn’t decline. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf74And that makes wildfires go out of control.
Why looking after our soils is also so important, the more we can preserve or enhance soil quality through land management, the more it can retain nutrients and moisture
I need a dog to get me through this shit2I sure am glad that a handful of humans were able to suppress and delegitimize technology for all power sources other than the combustion engine back in the early 1900s. I mean, they're fabulously wealthy now!! Isn't that why we're here?? The relentless pursuit of wealth and power.
Oliver Nickel | DE2In hwißen Sommer lässt sich dieses Phänomen gut beobachten, wenn in den frühen Morgenstunden die Sonne über taunassen Feldern aufgeht. Anstatt dass sich Nebelschwaden bilden, nimmt die Luft die Feuchtigkeit auf – zurück bleibt nur Trockenheit.
mike 1It also is why such massive rainfall rates around the world have been producing more frequent flooding. Both drought & flooding is causing by heating of the atmosphere. Gases can hold more water vapor as they are heated.
Monika Schäfer3Klimawissenschaft: Der „Durst“ d Atmosphäre nach Wasserdampf steigt exponentiell mit d Temperatur an. Ein physikalisches Gesetz,das bereits seit d frühen 19. Jahrhundert bekannt ist (Clausius-Clapeyron-Gleichung). Dies führt zu stärkerer Trockenheit,selbst wenn d Niederschlagsmenge nicht zurückgeht.
Fezzi Fezzino3So simple if is, yet many haven't got it at all....
➡️ Climate change is driving drought in Europe - but not how you might expect. While there isn't a clear signal for climate change impacting the dry weather, extreme heat is sucking more moisture out of the landscape. (1/3)
World Weather Attribution37As Dr. Sarah Kew, Climate Scientist at @knmi.nl says; “We are seeing water supplies evaporate out of our soils and rivers faster than we would have in a world without climate change, turning what would have been manageable dry spells into severe droughts. (2/3)
anlomedad3Pity you consistently avoid adding meaningful ALTtext. I can never share your important posts because I don't want to deliberately make my blind followers sad, annoyed or angry.
stevewarren209.bsky.social1Same here in midcoast Maine - daily high temps running 7F+ above seasonal average, and less than 1/3" of rain since June 23rd. The only "upside" is not needing to mow dead grass.
generalstrike101.bsky.social1The USA is fixing their drought by building AI Data centers that use as much water as a major city.
Francois Jobard30La forte augmentation de l'évapotranspiration potentielle (ETP) observée [du fait du climat plus chaud] a modifié les seuils de sécheresse de sorte que des déficits pluviométriques qui n'auraient pas causé de sécheresse auparavant provoquent désormais des conditions de #sécheresse...
marc konijn5- zie broeikasgassen als een 🧽 - door fossiele brandstoffen te blijven gebruiken, wordt die spons dikker en dikker - de zuigkracht om vocht op te nemen neemt toe: het land verdroogt veel sneller - tegelijkertijd, als je in de 🧽 knijpt, komt er veel meer water uit 🌧️ (via @weatherwest.bsky.social)
I made a programme five years ago that included #wildfire experts saying that Ireland was going to need to start thinking more like a Mediterranean country. There was a good deal of sniggering. We might owe them an apology. #Speirgorm #Climate Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...
Derek Brauders4Maybe we (and collective governments) need to be doing, not just thinking. Water supply, Inc desalination, leak control (38% at the moment?), renewable energy, the lot.
Ken3Who's sniggering now? (No one.)
Kieran Ryan2Have you seen Roz Purcell's posts from her home in Slievenamon?
Derek Brauders2Oh and I should have said yes, we do owe an apology.
Siobhán M4Did ya see* the animated BFG cartoon where they use helicopters to transfer the giants? Reminds me of that *i sm guessing not . Del Boy voiced the BFG.
Leo ᚑ ᚄᚓᚐᚉᚆᚅᚐᚄᚐᚔᚌᚆ3All those Sitka plantations, planted in their high density are going to make for a bit of a headache for the irish insurance industry.
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe - Analysis shows heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation @wwattribution.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Russell England 13* 9m tonnes of grain are expected to be lost across Europe * Worst maize harvest in 50 years expected in France * Romanian farmers losing over a million hectares of crops #GlobalBoiling
Sustainable Us2Then all that water will be dumped as extreme rainfall later, the dry ground unable to absorb the water quick enough resulting in flooding.
CaptainDrawdown2World Weather Attribution's 2025 analysis: heat is drying Europe's soils. That hits land CDR too. Enhanced rock weathering needs moist soil to dissolve rock, and drought raises forest reversal risk. Plan removals for a drier baseline.
Alternating flash droughts and flash floods are going to tear agriculture apart right across the planet www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Emanwela2Yup. We’re entering the find out period. #fafo
Cynthia Sax2So true. We're already seeing it.
bblaK1small scale roll back or shuttered enclosures will become the only way to garden, much of the soil ecosystem will be ripped away. Lab grown meat is here now, yummy! anyway, it’s someone else's future problem./s
All Our Yesterdays12The problem is, it offends the brittle egos of a small subset of humans to understand that we are ALL - PhDs, peasants, billionaires and babies - basically utterly dependent on six inches or so of top-soil. It renders their "we are gods" narrative ridiculous. Effin' hairless murder apes.
jadehawk "FREE ŁINK"4you can tell that the "we must focus on the economy" conservatives don't actually mean the economy, because the actual real people economy does not handle crop failures, constant fires, air pollution from said fires, heat deaths, hospitalizations, etc very well. they mean rich people money.
