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DoomsdaysCW‘The hottest year’: 10 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremeWeather</a> events in 2023 Record-breaking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatWaves</a> swept across much of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Asia</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthAmerica</a>. Scientists confirm that 2023 will be the hottest year in recorded history.By Raja Aiman Dec. 27, 2023It is official: 2023 will be the hottest year in recorded history. The confirmation comes after an “extraordinary” November which smashed previous records, pushing the year’s global average temperature to 1.46 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to Europe’s climate monitor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Copernicus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copernicus</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> Service. Prior to the COP28 summit held in Dubai early this month, the United Nations had already declared 2023 the warmest year on record. Just based on the first 10 months of the year, global temperatures were around 1.4°C above the pre-industrial average, according to data from the World Meteorological Organisation. This year, the return of El Niño conditions after three years of the cooling La Niña weather pattern has also sparked a chain reaction of extreme weather events, including bringing supercharged heat to cities across the world. According to The World Weather Attribution group, an international coalition of climate scientists, the heatwaves experienced in South and Southeast Asia in 2023 was made 30 times more likely due to human-caused climate change.Eco-Business tracks the impact of the heat waves on Asia and beyond, and looks back at the biggest extreme weather events of the year: 1. Record breaking heat scorches AsiaBeginning in April this year, countries across Asia was hit by brutal heatwaves, setting records as temperatures soared.Many parts of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bangladesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bangladesh</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Thailand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thailand</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Laos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Laos</a> saw record high temperatures in April. Temperatures were as high as 45.4°C in the city of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TakThailand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TakThailand</a>, for example. Casualties and hospitalisations due to heat stroke were reported in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaharashtraIndia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaharashtraIndia</a>.On 6 May, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vietnam</a> recorded its highest temperature ever at 44.1°C in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThanhHoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThanhHoa</a> province, south of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hanoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hanoi</a>. The heat wave forced Vietnamese authorities to turn off street lights and ration electricity to avoid overwhelming the power grid, especially as cities saw a surge in the demand for airconditioning.With the arrival of summer in the Northern hemisphere, large swatches of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> saw blistering temperatures that triggered public health warnings. Temperatures at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sanbao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sanbao</a>, a remote township in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xinjiang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xinjiang</a>’s Turpan Depression reached a national record high of 52.2°C at one point. China’s capital Beijing suffered through 27 consecutive days of temperatures above 35°C, leading to a temporary ban on outdoor work. Globally, 2023 saw the warmest June, July, August, October and November on record since scientists began keeping track in the mid-19th century. 2. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Floods</a> destroy neighbourhoods in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Libya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libya</a> On 10 September, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StormDaniel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormDaniel</a> swept across north-eastern Libya, bringing ferocious winds and massive rainfall that led to catastrophic floods that broke dams near the eastern city of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Derna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Derna</a> and wiped out entire neighbourhoods in the African country.More than 4,300 people were killed by the storm. Significant damage was done to buildings, bridges, roads, electricity grids and other infrastructure, affecting thousands of families. 3. Heavy snow blankets <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a>Los Angeles is synonymous with sunshine, but in February this year, areas around the city were covered in snow after a powerful winter storm descended upon southern California in the United States, bringing icy temperatures, fierce winds, heavy snowfall and causing rivers to swell dangerously. The Los Angeles Fire Department rescued four homeless people stranded in a major flood control basin of the Los Angeles River, and two of them were taken to hospital with hypothermia.More than 120,000 California utility customers were without electricity due to the storm and multiday measurements saw an astounding 205 centimetres of snow recorded at the Mountain High resort in the northeast of Los Angeles. Snowfall was seen at elevations as low as 305 metres. 4. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CycloneFreddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CycloneFreddy</a> devastates south-eastern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a>After developing off the coast of Australia, Cyclone Freddy travelled more than 8,000 kilometres across the South Indian Ocean before making landfall in Madagascar in February. For over a month, the cyclone tore through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Madagascar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Madagascar</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Malawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Malawi</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mozambique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mozambique</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zimbabwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zimbabwe</a>, killing over 1000 people and leaving over half a million displaced. By damaging water and sanitation facilities, it also played a part in the worst outbreak of cholera in Malawi.Cyclone Freddy holds both records for the most accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) – which is a measurement of a storm’s strength over its lifetime – and for the longest lasting tropical cyclone. 5. Severe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sandstorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sandstorms</a> strike 3BeijingOn 22 March, the largest sandstorm of the year hit <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeijingChina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BeijingChina</a>, engulfing the capital in sand and dust. Particles with density of PM10 – which are particles of pollution that are smaller than 10 micrometers in diameter and can travel to the lungs – reached a peak concentration of 1,667 micrograms per cubic metre according to the Beijing Municipal Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Centre. This far exceeds the daily average guideline of 45 micrograms per cubic metre set by the World Health Organization.The sandstorm caused the city’s parks to suspend operations of cruise boats and cable cars, while people were urged to stay indoors. Beijing is often hit by sandstorms in the spring, and this has been worsened by industrial activity and rapid <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deforestation</a> in northern China. 6. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CycloneMocha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CycloneMocha</a> ravages <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Myanmar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Myanmar</a>Cyclone Mocha wreaked havoc in Myanmar in May, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The cyclone, characterised by 250-kilometre-per-hour winds, is the strongest cyclone in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BayOfBengal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BayOfBengal</a> in the last 10 years.An estimated 5.4 million people were in the path of the cyclone across the state of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rakhine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rakhine</a> and north-western Myanmar, and the cyclone killed 145 people and inflicted severe damage to public infrastructure including hospitals, banks and religious buildings. Approximately 80 per cent of schools and educational infrastructure were damaged ahead of the new school term in Myanmar, affecting the education of many students. 7. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> bakes in spring <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heatwave</a>In September, much of Australia’s southeast region, was hit by a spring heatwave. Temperatures in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sydney</a> reached 34.2°C a staggering 12 degrees higher than the September average.The Bureau of Meterology called the heat “very uncommon for September”.Soaring temperatures caused 26 participants at the Sydney marathon to be taken to hospital and another 40 runners treated for heat exhaustion. 8. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TyphoonMawar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TyphoonMawar</a> pummels the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philippines</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japan</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Guam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Guam</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a>In May, Typhoon Mawar hit Guam and the Philippines, then lashed Taiwan and southern Japan. The Category 5 Super Typhoon, with winds of up to 180 miles per hour (289 kilometres per hour) is the strongest storm in 2023.Guam was flooded and most of the island’s residents were left without power and electricity for weeks. The government of Guam estimated the commercial sector of the US territory suffered $112 million of damage.In the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philippines</a>, thousands of people in the coastal areas were evacuated, while schools closed and flights were cancelled.Greenpeace Phillipines campaigner Jefferson Chua said: “The Philippines is in a constant state of emergency. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuperTyphoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SuperTyphoons</a> are the Philippines’ new normal, even as we are already experiencing longer-term, slow onset impacts such as drought, sea level rise, and diminishing resources.” 9. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> and US swelter under <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a>Europe experienced some of its hottest temperatures in July, bringing with it heat advisories, raging wildfires and massive evacuations.The Italian island of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sardinia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sardinia</a> saw temperatures push to 47°C and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palermo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palermo</a> airport in Sicily had to close after being encircled by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfire</a>.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wildfires</a> also caused more than 20,000 people to flee the Greek island of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rhodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rhodes</a>. It was the largest wildfire evacuation in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greece</a>.The heat extended to the oceans, with sea temperatures rising to unsafe levels around Greece, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spain</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Turkey</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Italy</a>.In America, temperatures in California’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeathValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeathValley</a> reached 53.3°C, coming close to breaking the global record. The US National Weather Service issued a warning of a “widespread and oppressive” heatwave in the southern and western states. More than 80 million people were affected. 10. Record heat brings deadly wildfires to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chile</a>Record summer temperatures soared to more than 40°C in Chile in February, sparking wildfires in the South American country that killed 24 people and burnt 270,000 hectares of land. A state of emergency was declared in three regions in the country.Chile’s interior minister Carolina Toha said: “The thermometer has reached points that we have never known until now. The evolution of climate change shows us again and again that this has a centrality and a capacity to cause an impact that we have to internalise much more.”Source: <a href="https://www.eco-business.com/news/the-hottest-year-10-extreme-weather-events-in-2023/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eco-business.com/news/the-hottest-year-10-extreme-weather-events-in-2023/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCatastrophe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Weather2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weather2023</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeatherExtremes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeatherExtremes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a>

DoomsdaysCWEstimated 2 billion tons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sand</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dust</a> are entering the atmosphere per year: ‘We are in a vicious circle’Story by Jeremiah Budin, December 11, 2023"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> and human activity have ripple effects everywhere that plants grow, and one of those effects is that there is less land for plants to grow than ever before."According to the United Nations, the world is losing around 386,000 square miles (by some estimates, more than Texas and New Mexico combined) of productive land per year to sand and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DustStorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DustStorms</a> — the result of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanActivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanActivity</a>, as Reuters reports. What is happening?"The United Nations Convention to Combat <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Desertification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Desertification</a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNCCD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNCCD</a>) recently issued a report that called attention to the issue of land loss due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SandStorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SandStorms</a>, which have hit large areas of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Asia</a>. According to the report, at least 25% of the storms could be attributed to human activity, such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/overmining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overmining</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/overgrazing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overgrazing</a>. Why is this concerning?"According to the UNCCD report, 'with impacts far beyond the source regions, an estimated 2 billion tons of sand and dust now enters the atmosphere every year, an amount equal in weight to 350 Great Pyramids of Giza.' And while sand storms are common in many regions, this new frequency and intensity are not.“'We are in a vicious circle, where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDegradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandDegradation</a> is fueling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> and climate change is exacerbating land loss in the world,' Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD executive secretary, told Reuters."Thiaw went on to explain that as the sand storms continue to make an increasing amount of land unfarmable, it affects people’s ability to get food in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries. “'It goes well beyond individuals,' he said. 'It is affecting the entire community.'What can be done about it?"The UNCCD had several recommendations for steps that could be taken to prevent further land loss. For one, it said that funding needs to be increased to tackle the problem, which has drawn less attention so far than other issues caused by human-driven pollution."Also, new incentives are needed for the private sector to take responsibility for the land that it destroys. "As Thiaw told Reuters, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> has been successful at combating desertification and controlling dust, by employing a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandManagement</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#restoration</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reforestation</a> program." Source: <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/estimated-2-billion-tons-of-sand-and-dust-are-entering-the-atmosphere-per-year-we-are-in-a-vicious-circle/ar-AA1lgYPT?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=04c6b54204964fc2c9a42f16ffd64d9a&ei=8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/estimated-2-billion-tons-of-sand-and-dust-are-entering-the-atmosphere-per-year-we-are-in-a-vicious-circle/ar-AA1lgYPT?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=04c6b54204964fc2c9a42f16ffd64d9a&ei=8</a>

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