Photos from Climate Impacts Day
On Saturday, May 5, the activist group 350.org, founded by Bill McKibben, launched a new effort to "connect the dots between climate change and extreme weather." They declared May 5 Climate Impacts Day, and coordinated an impressive global effort of nearly 1,000 events in 100 countries to draw attention to the links between climate change and extreme weather. Their new climatedots.org website aims to get people involved to "protest, educate, document and volunteer along with thousands of people around the world to support the communities on the front lines of the climate crisis." Below are photos from some of the many events on Climate Impacts Day as archived on the climatedots.org website. It is remarkable to view the slide show on their web site and see the degree of global participation this event had; 350.org has created a dedicated and creative global climate movement that will be a major force to reckon with in the coming years.
Figure 1. Volunteers in the city of Salvador, Brazil, have connected the dots have and drawn people's attention to sea level rise and what it impacts in our life.
Figure 2. Madaba, Jordan. "Drops (of water) are dots of hope". A beautiful message from King's Academy in drought-prone Jordan.
Figure 3. Activists hold a banner in front of a damaged coral reef in the vulnerable Marshall Islands. Rising temperatures and increased CO2 uptake are raising the acidity of the ocean, which bleaches and ultimately kills fragile coral reefs.
Figure 4. One thousand students in Bekaa, Lebanon make their dots into the wheels of a giant bicycle to raise awareness about the threat of air pollution, and to advocate for bike lanes.
Figure 5. In 2009, at 17,785 feet in Bolivia's Cordillera Oriental was the Chacaltaya Glacier. Before its unexpected melting, it was home to Bolivia's only ski resort and the first tow-rope ever to be built in South America. Today all that remains is a rocky mountain-top that only receives seasonal snowfall. Photo by Lauren Farnsworth.
Figure 6. Ausable Valley, NY, USA: Young people in New York understand the first-hand impacts of climate change. Hurricane Irene, the third five-hundred-year climate event in the last twelve months, devastated communities in the region and pummeled the beachfront with debris.
Jeff Masters
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Love,Hope and care will always be stronger than Hate, Big Energy and idiocy.
Bravo to all Globally who had and have the courage to bring focus and clarity to our Global crisis.
I stand with and Salute all involved.
Anyway, this photo of some of the damage from the Tokyo tornado. EF2, perhaps?:
Ditto.
Amen.
...for Earth,
"Handle me with care"
Anyone else notice the white round tube like structure in the path that looks to have no damage at all?
Ooo. I hear thunder. Pop ups forming out to the West of the Atl metro area for now.
Plus, tropical cyclones last longer.
500 year hurricane in NY? How the heck do you know what happened beyond 100 years ago in regard to hurricanes... No satellite or radar.
Looks like isolated damage, like only the weakest buildings suffered heavy damage.
Funnel looks like it was at most few a hundred feed wide too, unless there was more not seen on the video.
Yes. Their older, traditional houses are hardly what I'd call "shelter". More like a death trap in a wind or fire event.
People on the ground and in sailing ships did not exist 500 years ago either. Right!
Hi there,very unusual for this time of year don't you think?
A challenging call to action for the world powers at large.
One day in our cycle around the sun isn't enough.
The damage is done daily and without conscious.
I support them and will continue to.
Thanks again Dr. Masters
Soil core samples can find deposition layers of sand, silt, and other debris.
Geologists and meteorologists can similarly find unknown tsunami, volcano, and earthquake events through core samples. It's not perfect, but you can say within a certain range of error how big an event was and when it happened.
Dendro-chronology and also study of the Oxygen isotope ratios in tree debris can be used as markers to identify hurricane landfalls, because hurricanes actually distill water by Oxygen isotope.
Old written records of various events still exist in universities, libraries, and other public institutions, which researchers can find if they know where to look.
In modern times, we have video and digital media, so it will be interesting to see how those are maintained through the decades.
When the next "Katrina" happens, hopefully they'll spend 24 to 36 hours playing the videos, especially the more personal ones with the guy sitting on his roof while everything is destroyed, etc, so that people will bother to listen. Then gain, they tried that with the Betsy and Camille footage and it didn't work, because somewhere along the lines everyone has a disconnect and the "it'll never happen to me," mentality.
Well, it will, and it did, as well all know.
What if Katrina had made landfall at peak intensity? The death toll would have been 10 or 100 times worse. Many people on this blog right now who chose to ride out the storm would be dead, even scores of miles away from the eye.
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
How true that is of American coastal zoning.
You did it wrong. :(
It's supposed to be:
PREVENT
ALL THE CLIMATE CHANGE
i just woke up cut me some slack will ya!!
Was that all bluffing?
Of course it was bluffing! That's all North Korea ever does!
And nice avatar by the way!
The rumours of a large army are more powerful than the army itself.
500 year hurricane in NY? How the heck do you know what happened beyond 100 years ago in regard to hurricanes... No satellite or radar.
Grothar is better than radar. Everybody knows that.
The post of the year - thank you !! I'm glad that there are a few of us with brains on this blog.
Too bad for the people in Japan, specially in Tokio... for those affected....
Nuclear radiation, Tsunami, earthquakes, a tornado, typhoons.... corruption....
The only events missing would be a big volcano eruption and being hit by a meteor....
hey thats not nic but still your right
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_period
They have had volcano eruptions. Big but not Massive
nic photos
For sure we expect, the best for Japan. By the way I forgot the 2 Nukes in WWII. It is the only country with that record....
But my wishes for Japan right now is that the government takes inmediate action towards saving the people from radiation....
That's the main concern right now... they must take action inmediatelly....
You know, I've been hearing that statement since 2006.
Still a great site and blog to be on.
Lol, I'm bored.
The sediment records reveal past hurricane activity, and their approx strength.
Godzilla is even saying, "Man, WATTS UP Wit Dat ?"
You are revealing your lack of knowledge when you accuse this site of being a joke.
This site knows what "100 year event" means. You should learn.
Sediment record/eyewitness accounts.
Not completely accurate.
Accurate enough to determine if a major hurricane hit.
Daaaaaammmmmmnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very well put.
Dr. Ivor Van Heerden who did the post failure study of the 17th Street Canal Katrina Breech..found that the pilings for the I-wall design, were 17ft down..in the soil. At the exact same depth where a Large Cane laid down a cypress Forest there that allowed the pilings to Fail an thus the Blowout of the Wall to the NOLA side or East.
This is the ONLY video of the Breech of any Levee during K. Shot by the NOFD in the Marina Towers Condos.
We were 1 mile west on the Unbroken side in Jefferson Parish.
I can't believe there's been two tornadoes on the other side of the world in a matter of two weeks, which are very rare events in those areas. North America is the only continent to frequently have tornadoes at a frequency of normal basis. All other places, its a very rare event, like last year when Argentina had a Tornado, and then this year, France and Japan... I don't know what's wrong with this world, but something ain't right.
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