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1/29. 📜NEW BRIEF: Today we launch “PASSED THE POINT OF NO RETURN: A Non-Economic #LossAndDamage (#NELD) Explainer” covering what #NELD is, why and how it happens, where it happens, who is most affected, and importantly, how we can respond.
🔗Get it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/pa…
🔗Get it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/pa…
2/29. The brief begins with a foreword by @UNFCCC NELs Expert Group Member @IrfanUllahCDO, who highlights that Non-Economic #LossAndDamage has been largely overlooked in climate negotiations and that urgent action is needed to address #NELD happening now e.g. The #PakistanFloods.
3/29. Then @DLodry of @LossDamageYouth shares the powerful story of his lived experience of Non-Economic #LossAndDamage in #Cameroon called "The Tears Of A Village River And Its Population" which tells how climate-intensified #Drought can lead to a loss of #Culture and #Identity.
#auspol #auspol2021 #scottymustgo #ScottyFromQAnon
I need to vent for a moment, so please bear with me. My grandmother died yesterday. Thankfully it was peaceful, she made it clear that she didn't want heroic measures, so they weren't provided. 1/11
I need to vent for a moment, so please bear with me. My grandmother died yesterday. Thankfully it was peaceful, she made it clear that she didn't want heroic measures, so they weren't provided. 1/11
But unfortunately she spent the last year of her life in isolation and, despite what this government may say, this was avoidable. With properly administered quarantine and vaccination systems she could have spent her last days, months, with her family. 2/11
Her friends, her children in Melbourne and Sydney, her grandchildren, her grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. But thanks to Mr. @ScottMorrisonMP she spent this time in isolation; and I hate him for it. 3/11
Excited to be able to share this comprehensive review on the many ways that climate change is increasing bushfire risk in southeast Australia, just published in @CommsEarth.
Thread 👇 describing what we found:
[paper is open access]
nature.com/articles/s4324…
Thread 👇 describing what we found:
[paper is open access]
nature.com/articles/s4324…
This was a huge collaborative effort across climate and fire science experts, including from @ClimateExtremes and @BushfireHub, who came together following the #BlackSummer disaster in Australia.
Our review focuses on forest fires in southeast Australia (NSW + ACT + Victoria).
Our review focuses on forest fires in southeast Australia (NSW + ACT + Victoria).
The #BlackSummer fires were unprecedented:
*In their scale (23% of all southeast Australia forests were burnt)
*In their power (for every month of the spring and summer seasons), and
*In the number of fires that developed into extreme pyroconvective events
*In their scale (23% of all southeast Australia forests were burnt)
*In their power (for every month of the spring and summer seasons), and
*In the number of fires that developed into extreme pyroconvective events
Tomorrow evening we have a big paper coming out on bushfires in Australia.
I’ll tweet a summary of the new work once the embargo lifts, but first here is a thread about the backstory:
I’ll tweet a summary of the new work once the embargo lifts, but first here is a thread about the backstory:
The backstory began for me on Christmas Eve of 2019, when I was approached by @sciam to write an opinion piece on the link between climate change and the bushfires that had been ravaging Australia for months.
The @sciam piece was published on New Years Eve as the fire crisis in Australia escalated.
Research has since shown that during this period the fires had an atmospheric impact equivalent to a moderate volcanic eruption.
[Image: ESA Sentinal-2, 31/12/2019]
Research has since shown that during this period the fires had an atmospheric impact equivalent to a moderate volcanic eruption.
[Image: ESA Sentinal-2, 31/12/2019]
