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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Well, despite the fact that El Niño typically enhances convective activity in the East Pacific, as Levi mentioned in his Tropical Tidbit from March 27 (here), a negative PDO could generally suppress convective activity which wouldn't shear the Atlantic as much. I think a lack of Vertical Instability would limit the peak intensities of storms more than anything, just like last year in the Atlantic.
What's up NCH2009?
*Click on the pictures for more info on the storms*
Hurricane Alberto (1982)
TS Alberto (1988)
TS Alberto (1994)
Hurricane Alberto (2000)
*Holds the record for the longest loop completed by a storm*
Finally,
TS Alberto (2006)
Wow 3 out of the last 4 Alberto's have hit Florida.Florida better watch out for Alberto this year.they need the rain anyway...
What's TWpr? Good numbers...last year the eastern pacific had 11 storms, 10 hurricanes and 6 major hurricanes, so we should always be prepared. There was a plane crash near St Maarten today that killed a cardiac patient and the medics
Link
Behold THE CHART
A friendly reminder
Not much...have just begun paying very close attention to low pressure SE of the Carolinas. From what I can see in the model runs...it is possible favorable upper winds remain in the area until this Wednesday April 9 (when the upper trough over the W US comes in and dramatically shears the area). Anyone else agree/disagree?
We are at a time of the year, where we have to watch these disturbances
The system reminds me of the Mesocyclone(93L) last year around the end of may
Link
Yes...my thoughts exactly....
100% Agree!
Well its still a bit early for something like this...and I meant to say in post 163 "Wednesday May 9" instead of April 9.
I'm not sure I understand since Fred didn't hit Africa. It is possible for tropical storms to brush the African coastline, though it is rare. If you count the Cape Verde Islands, there are many instances of tropical storm conditions being inflicted there.
Right, and they are warming, because it is springtime. However, relative to normal temperatures for this time of year, they have been generally cooling for the last month or so. That's all I mean by "anomalous."
I've never seen an occurence of that nature, and i dont think it ever actually has with a 'major system'
Isaac to me sounds like a very nasty hurricane.
You don't like the upcoming windows 8 upgrade?
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
204 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BUREAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT.
* AT 202 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO NEAR WYANET...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRINCETON...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
WYANET AROUND 205 PM CDT...
8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KASBEER AROUND 210 PM CDT...
PRINCETON AROUND 220 PM CDT...
PRINCETON AND DOVER AROUND 225 PM CDT...
COAL HOLLOW...MALDEN AND 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ZEARING AROUND 230 PM
CDT...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 IN ILLINOIS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 46 AND
63.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM
OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST
MISSOURI.
&&
LAT...LON 4146 8929 4128 8942 4138 8968 4154 8956
TIME...MOT...LOC 1904Z 297DEG 16KT 4141 8957
$$
Good map. Good points.
Comparing with 2009.
What stands out to me in 2009 that is different than 2012.
*EPAC is warmer, especially 15N - 20N.
*Gulf of Guiena is much cooler in 2012 than 2009.
*Trade winds where much higher this time 2009 over the Atlantic.
*NAO is different.
*Temperatures where much cooler in the Caribbean & GOMEX.
Why they choose 2009 as a analog year is beyond me, but the only thing similar to me is that there's a developing El Nino.
The season has already had 5 tropical depressions, 1 tropical storm, and 8 fatalities.
Yeah, very different from 2012 a you stated above
Considering the fact that the itcz will be farther north, One would think the storms would move further north, but because of the cool equatorial waters, the storms are more likely form in the Caribbean and move up towards the continental United States.
I guess they are trying to counter google's android os and apple's ios, but from what your are saying, it doesn't seems to be working
I will keep Yall posted later on today if I observe any real severe weather in this area.
Good riddance to the prat Sarkosy.
Good afternoon wannabe
Hey. Last time a front came through (2 weeks ago) a lightening strike near the house caused a power surge that affected the TV and Internet (Computer Ethernet Card got fried) so I am going to "unplug" everything in the next hour or so when the storms come rolling through......That is why I will not be Blogging during the storms........... :)
Yeah, be safe
..to fight,
for da plannnnnnnnnn-et !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soon their government will be broke, after all the social reforms are done.
cuz we've heard for years now of this mysterious Fla. rainy season, but alas..
..where it go, bro?
Nobody cares!
Not even us in Europe.
Maybe somebody cares in France but we don't have any contact with them!
Not to mention the President of France is unlikely to have much influence on the weather.
Are you even capable of forming an earnest*sentence? Scientists did not pull the alarm.
As for too much of the media... for the same reason that they pushed "nuclear Iraq", and that they have labeled Survivor, Snooki, Kardashian, etc with the tag of 'reality shows'. For the uneducated marketers as "news executives" and for many of the uneducated journalism majors as by-line/on-air "reporters", reality doesn't have any STAR power. And fame is the name of the game.
Hence the coverage of "elections as horse races", and of denialists "contesting" GlobalWarming as if they were being serious rather than silly... maliciously silly, but silly nonetheless.
* ie A sentence that you think is honest.
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