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Earlier this month, a group of researchers from the United States, Germany, England, Australia, China, Denmark, Brazil, and Switzerland released the 2024 State of Climate Report which should pay attention to. The report begins on an ominous note: “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster”.
The 2024 State of Climate report analyses recent trends in key indicators of how the earth’s systems are performing, which can be used to track and assess environmental and ecological changes.
A very worrying trend that has been seen in global climate is the high values of global daily mean temperatures in almost half of 2023 and a big part of 2024 too. Both the global sea surface temperature, and the average temperature near the earth’s surface were recorded to be higher than the averages for the last three decades in most of 2023, and the trend continued this year too.
In the extreme weather events, we look at the impact of the floods in Bihar and Nepal and in today’s climate hope, we’re talking mangroves.
Presentation: Priyali Prakash
Video and production: Zeeshan Akhtar
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Thanks for the video. Great job The Hindu
It says that India should probably stop opening coal-fired power stations and being so overly reliant on fossil fuels! It says that India now has the most polluted towns and cities on the planet, with Delhi (the nation's capital!!!) being the most polluted capital city in the world!! How shameful is that?? As China is rapidly moving towards renewable energy and the Chinese are switching over to EVs faster than Indians can eat mithai, India is moving at a snail's pace with EV recharging infrastructure!
Indians are going to enjoy 50 degrees Celsius heat more and more, but it could end up being the much-needed population control that has eluded India for so long!
Mangrove forest
WE ARE NOT ON THE BRINK OF ANYTHING. The same alteration to the Sub Saharan climate which promoted the growth of the desert is that which also reduces the cloud mass of the equitorial Atlantic. This affecting how much solar energy aka heat is absorbed and transported by ocean currents polewards. The same region of the Atlantic subject to the Sub Saharan dominent weather system, African Easterly Waves (AEWs), is from where hurricanes germinate. The trade winds and Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) ensures these African and Atlantic conditions carry westward into the Pacific and Indian Ocean arenas.
So why did it all change? How can one event send ripples round the planet which can affect virtually everything?
Look to Viste and Sorteberg 2013 – Moisture Import to the Ethiopian Highlands: there the keremt storms form, which evolve westwards into the massive AEW system. Yet humans have interfeared with one of the atmospheric rivere which create these atmospheric distrubences which form the first domino in a global chain reaction. The 4,000 m3/s of moisture evaporated from the pre 1900 July to October lower Nile flood is the missing link in this so called climate crisis…….. just by replacing this one component we can reestablish the equitorial solar reflective cloud mass, which can allow us to not just to rebalence the planets solar heat budget, but that we can with relative ease control much of the global meteorological systems……… No tipping point – just plain and simple meteorology.