The extreme wildfires sweeping across parts of North America, Europe and Siberia this year are not only wreaking local damage and sending choking smoke downwind. They are also affecting the climate itself in important ways that will long outlast their flames.
Wildfires emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that will continue to warm the planet well into the future. They damage forests that would otherwise remove CO2 from the air. And they inject soot and other aerosols into the atmosphere, with complex effects on warming and cooling.
To be sure, the leading cause of global warming remains overwhelmingly the burning of fossil fuels. That warming lengthens the fire season, drying and heating the forests. In turn, blazes like those scorching areas across the Northern Hemisphere this summer have a feedback effect—a vicious cycle when the results of warming produce yet more warming.
Although the exact quantities are difficult to calculate, scientists estimatethat wildfires emitted about 8 billion tons of CO2 per year for the past 20 years. In 2017, total global CO2 emissions reached 32.5 billion tons, according to the International Energy Agency.
When they calculate total global CO2 output, scientists don’t include all wildfire emissions as net emissions, though, because some of the CO2 is offset by renewed forest growth in the burned areas. As a result, they estimate that wildfires make up 5 to 10 percent of annual global CO2 emissions each year.
I got some requests eons ago for resources to learn about antisemitism. Feel free to reblog or comment with more. My education was more formal, so these are resources that looked good, not necessarily where I learned.
ADL on Antisemitism – a pretty good historical overview of the history of Western antisemitism but doesn’t go into a ton of depth or talk much about modern antisemitism. Still a good place to start
– discussion of “American Jewish life during the rise of fascism, false equivalences between left-wing and right-wing anti-Semitism, and how anti-Muslim bigotry has become a shield for anti-Semites"
Jewish Virtual Library’s collection on Antisemitism – I haven’t read everything on here, but their content is always very good. I wouldn’t try navigating this without some background or a clear goal in mind. However, this list should be especially helpful if you’re looking for statistics & studies.
European farmers are counting the cost of a summer heatwave that has shrunk cereal harvests and shriveled pastures, leaving some farms struggling to survive and shutting the EU out of lucrative export markets.
The severe weather in Europe has coincided with adverse growing conditions in other major grain producing zones such as Russia and Australia, raising the risk that supplies in exporting countries will be eroded to their smallest in years.
The latest harvest estimates have underlined the impact of drought and heatwaves in northern Europe. Germany’s farmers’ association DBV on Wednesday forecast a 22 percent plunge in grain production this year in the European Union’s second-largest cereal grower.
Germany endured its highest summer temperatures in over a century as extreme weather gripped northern Europe from Britain to the Baltic states.
The combination of poor harvest yields and shriveled grassland has led to spiraling costs for animal feed, putting pressure on livestock farms.
I haven’t seen any communities for those of us who can’t leave the house from day to day so I made a discord server!
Who is welcome
Anyone who ends up spending a vast majority of their time at home due to a medical condition eg. Agoraphobia, OCD, anxiety, a physical disability, sickness etc.
REMINDER: The desexualization of fat people is a problem and its okay to fight to be recognized as sexual beings. It is ALSO okay for fat women to feel conflicted when this comes packaged with being objectified and dehumanized. One should never have to tolerate being objectified to have their sexual agency acknowledged.
Apple: Literally design their phones to become an expensive toxic brick within a few years
Gas Companies: Actively work to prevent anything being done to develop, promote or in any way make green energy sources widely known of available or affordable to anyone because slowly murdering the planet makes them millions of dollars
Big Companies: Literally dump toxic crap where it will cause serious harm to the earth and the species on it
Governments: Clearly what we need to do to save the earth is make people pay money to use carrier bags so they can actually carry their shopping home
Yeah so I hate to do this but I just got home and checked my emails and I’ve been sanctioned by Universal Credit because the work I took cash in hand has been reported by my employer to inland revenue. So my benefits for this month have been penalised by 50%, I was already in my overdraft for about £40 so my bank balance is £51 after I bought a train ticket home today.
For some context, I’m training as a teaching assistant in college and volunteer 3 days a week in a High School doing SEN classroom support. I love my work but as I’m an unqualified volunteer I have to rely on Universal Credit for an income. I was doing some cash in hand work in a cafe to make ends meet but I’ve been rumbled and sanctioned.
It would be amazing if people could share this post and if they can afford it chip in a bit of money to tide me through the next month. I next get my UC in on the 18th of September so I could do with a hand lol.
So, hey: my life currently sucks. I’m saving up money to move out of where I am now, but it’s a slow process (hard to work from an abusive home, tbh). If you want to help out (or just want a reading), I’m your witch. You can see my previous free readings right here.
WHAT YOU GET > Someone with 15 years of experience in divination > A choice among tarot, Lenormand, and oracle decks > Write-ups which usually hover around 1k words for 3 cards > Pictures of your reading
HOW IT WORKS > Contact me (via Tumblr or at liadine.liadine@gmail.com) with your question(s) > I’ll reply with my PayPal address, deck suggestions, and the planned spread > Drop in your payment and confirm your deck choice, and I’ll have your reading back to you in 24 hours! > Then I’ll probably cry a little with gratitude
Even if you aren’t interested or can’t afford to help out, please consider signal boosting. You’ll have my eternal gratitude, and on September 1st I’ll choose a random reblogger to receive a 5-card reading.
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