Peter Gleick

For context, this is one of my favorite climate graphs, showing 800,000 years of atmospheric CO2, including the massive run-up over the past century. We're now around 420 parts per million (ppm), more than anytime in 800,000 years (actually more than anytime in the past 5 million years) and completely outside the natural ups and downs in the record. This is the driver of the current #climate crisis.

I'm giving a talk at #COP27    on #climate, #water, and #food risks, November 8th. And I'm doing it from home, virtually, saving 13 metric tons of carbon by not flying.

If you want to join the session, here's the link. It's for the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) session on Regional Action on Climate Change. November 8th, starting 9 am pacific time.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81786078212?pwd=SWppUGdKdSt3NG5CQnUwbXZLem4zZz09

This storm, one of the latest large storm ever recorded in the North Atlantic, extends from northern Canada almost all the way to the British Isles.
#climate

I won't send Musk $8 but I'm willing to support the efforts here to build and expand the community.
Are there ways to contribute??

If you're in the western United States, this is a beautiful picture.
#water
#climatechange

I thought throwing soup on a protected painting to protest fossil fuels was a bad idea, but will this get as much attention from the media and public?

https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceUK/status/1588894562608508928?t=kUSenkTXb3UPX-LL82Quxg&s=19

The ugly story of how corporate America convinced us to spend so much on water
We’re being packaged and sold a bottle/can/box of lies on water.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23433132/best-bottled-water-is-tap-environment-health

Major #glaciers across the world, including those in the Dolomites in Italy, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Yosemite and Yellowstone parks in the U.S., will be gone by 2050 even if global greenhouse gas emissions are reduced.
#climate
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/major-glaciers-in-yosemite-and-kilimanjaro-will-disappear-by-2050-un.html

There's been some talk recently about an upsurge in cholera cases worldwide. 2022 data aren't fully available yet, but here's a graph of global cholera cases over the last 30 years. The big surge here is almost entirely due to cases in Yemen (shown here in red) resulting from the massive destruction of their civilian water and sanitation infrastructure by the Saudis in the recent war. (Data from the WHO Global Health Observatory, plotted by me.)

What other #climate folks are here? Let me know!

It's #EnvConflictDay, the UN day calling attention to the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts.
Here's my new piece from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the role of #water in the Ukraine war.

https://thebulletin.org/2022/10/water-as-weapon-and-casualty-in-russias-war-on-ukraine/#post-heading

What's the equivalent of "tweeps" here?
Tooters?

@peterdutoit@mastodon.green sea surface temperature alway influences storm intensity, yes

Is there an easy, direct language translation system for toots here?

@boiby there absolutely IS a Blue-Winged Teal. Very pretty bird too. Those just happened to be the GWTs.

@boiby aren't this Green-winged Teal?