You could be doing *much* more to talk about the running impacts of the #ClimateCrisis. It is not 'just' the one off disasters as terrible as those are
Millions are now breathing smoke, more & more regularly in #BritishColumbia
@s_guilbeault here is a snapshot illustrating our fire smoke situation-we are seeing "smoke season" extend into fall; future years may see smoke throughout BOTH summer & fall
& here is a thread of what air pollution does to little lungs & bodies
-new analysis finds climate change impacts on food security have likely been underestimated
-bad news for pollinators, which fertilise 3/4 of crops produced globally & are one of the elements not adequately accounted for in most models...
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...of climate impacts on food: insects found to to be “particularly vulnerable to climate change” heat extremes
-climate change intensified typhoons & hurricanes having significant impacts on farmers in the Philippines, Canada, Puerto Rico, Florida and the Dominican Republic
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-“The world is heading toward the tightest grain inventories in years despite the resumption of exports from Ukraine, as the shipments are too few and harvests from other major crop producers are smaller than initially expected.”
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What factors are 𝘯𝘰𝘵 included in most crop models?
⚠️Among many other things
-declines in pollinating insects
-nutrient reductions in staple crops
-changes in air quality
-land degradation and salinisation
-even *increasing extreme weather*
"Tight grain supplies reflect the impact of climate change on crop production as well as growing global demand for livestock that feed on corn, eating away at stockpiles"
☝️All these warning signs at the same as we know models are likely highly conservative in predicting how #ClimateChange will impact global food production-
"People were fleeing to higher, cooler ground. Subway stations were blacked out...buildings were darkened... important arteries for shipping & transportation became unnavigable...Chickens died or struggled to lay eggs"
'According to data from NASA ... the North China Plain’s groundwater reserves are even more overdrawn than those of the Ogallala Aquifer under the Great Plains of the United States, one of the world’s most imperiled critical agricultural water sources' 3/4 foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-g…
"I think what it reinforces is that, even though a lot of us are sort of sitting in sort of Western countries, where we might think we're a bit more insulated from some of these threats, actually we are not necessarily"
I tweet a great deal about climate change impacts on agriculture because it is clear that reducing emissions is the single most important need to ensure food system resilience, but ...