People lie on an elevated bed amid flooding caused by monsoon rains in Cainta, Rizal, #Philippines, July 22. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
People lie on an elevated bed amid flooding caused by monsoon rains in Cainta, Rizal, #Philippines, July 22. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Residents wade through a flooded road amid monsoon rains in Malabon City, #Philippines. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
#Wildfire kills 10 firefighters and rescue workers in #Turkey
Updated 5:01 PM EDT, July 23, 2025
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — "At least 10 firefighters and rescue workers were killed Wednesday and many others injured while battling a wildfire in northwestern Turkey, Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said.
"The five #forestry workers and five members of the AKUT rescue organization died while trying to put out the wildfire raging through a forested area of #Eskisehir province, Yumakli said. At least 14 other rescuers and forestry workers were hospitalized, he said.
"The deaths bring the number of fatalities in wildfires that have flared amid strong winds, high temperatures and dry conditions so far in the country this year to 13.
"The minister said the wind suddenly changed direction, causing the flames to shift rapidly and surround the forest workers. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
"Yumakli said firefighters were currently battling seven wildfires in Turkey, including the one in Eskisehir, adding that #ExtremeHeat and volatile wind conditions also were expected in Turkey on Thursday."
Outdoor work in #SouthernEurope’s tourist hot spots is becoming hellish
By JOSEPH WILSON, DEREK GATOPOULOS and TRISHA THOMAS
Updated 5:21 AM EDT, July 24, 2025
"Cruel heat is baking southern Europe as the continent slips deeper into summer.
"In homes and offices, air conditioning is sweet relief. But under the scorching sun, outdoor labor can be grueling, brutal, occasionally even deadly.
"A street sweeper died in #Barcelona during a heat wave last month and, according to a labor union, 12 other city cleaners have suffered heatstroke since. Some of Europe’s powerful unions are pushing for tougher regulations to protect the aging workforce from climate change on the world’s fastest-warming continent."
#ClimateCrisis #Heatwave #ClimateDiary #ClimateDiarySouthernEurope #GreeceWx #SpainWx
#ClimateChangeIsReal #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning
…“This brings us back to basic science.
It seems counterintuitive that the weight of CO2 emissions would be greater than the mass of coal burned.
The extra weight comes from 1 carbon combining with 2 oxygen in combustion, to create carbon dioxide.
It’s also why rusting makes iron weigh more.”
—Cosáin Climate on BlueSky
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Cool understanding imparted
in a rapidly warming world
(from the Cape *Grim* Observatory in Tasmania
)
#ClimateDiary Interesting: i hadn’t realised the “boiling frog effect” was official terminology. More catchy than “shifting baseline syndrome” !
Study on how to present information on climate change shows stark “before-after” comparisons are more effective than charts tracking gradual increases.
@nwsgray_bot It was nice to be in the #GoldilocksZone / #HabitableZone for a few days...
The tropical storm Wipha caused monsoon rains and flooding in the capital, and heavy rains continued even after the storm moved towards Vietnam, Manila, #Philippines
Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP
Weather in #Hokkaido, N Japan - It may hit even 40C/104F in some locations this afternoon thanks to Foehn effect. #japan #climatediary
A tractor cuts a fire line as wildfire burns near the settlement of Beledie Han, Kostinbrod, #Bulgaria. REUTERS/Stringer
People lie on an elevated bed amid flooding caused by monsoon rains in Cainta, Rizal, #Philippines. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
A dead fish is washed up at West Beach during South Australia’s algal bloom crisis, Adelaide, #Australia
Photograph: Matt Turner/AAP
A man wades through waist-deep floods in a residential area after Tropical Storm Wipha caused intensified monsoon rains in Quezon City, #Philippines
Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP
THE GOAL: Sun tea
THE RESULT: Rain tea
Following some family discussions last night on jobs and AI, I'm pondering on what to advise kids to do with their education / jobs / careers in an era of climate change, AI and collapsing economies. The best thing I can come up with is get skills or knowledge in something related to the real, physical world. That might be knowledge about science, the natural world, healthcare or education. Or skills like growing food, music, drawing, sewing or repairing stuff. I would advise them to have more than one skill or specialist subject as something to fall back on. What would you say to young people today? #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #AI #Economics #Education
7 OF 9 PLANETARY BOUNDARIES CROSSED- 7 OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html
#health ##geopolitics
@palestine @yemen
@environment
@indigenouspeoples @irannachrichten #AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #biodiversity #nature #environment #climatechange
#ClimateDiary #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #climate #africa @blackvoices @BLKNewsNow
@ExtinctionR
@xrfrance
Chez la marchande de legumes, 2020
At the Vegetable Seller’s, a piece from Baudouin Mouanda’s series Le Ciel de Saison (Seasonal Sky) which recreates the 2020 lockdown floods in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, with those who experienced them. During the floods it was impossible to get into inundated streets. Mouanda instead gathered personal testimonies to reconstruct the desolation later.
Photograph: Baudouin Mouanda
“The world we are about to inhabit is a dystopia of re-constructed facts where our level of interaction with this world will be much like being trapped inside a dream: all we can do is observe what is being done to us without any power to react, or resist.”
Excellent piece by George Tsakraklides. (And yes, i am aware its on Substack. No need to comment on this.)
https://open.substack.com/pub/georgetsakraklides/p/the-dream-that-humanity-is-unable