Die Klimakrise

In den letzten Monaten bin ich über einige herausragende neue Klimablogs gestoßen, die ich bislang still und heimlich in die Blogroll am rechten Rand aufgenommen habe. Damit ist jetzt Schluss. Ab sofort stelle ich die Neuankömmlinge hier in einem kurzen Beitrag vor.

Mika Kaulbars ist Autor von Greenfyre’s, einem seit 2008 betriebenen, mehr als vielversprechenden Blog im großen Klimazirkus. Aus seiner Selbstbeschreibung:

I trained as research biologist and now I direct a small NGO active on environmental and social justice issues. Climate Change was one of the big reasons I left research to get involved in public education and activism. We already know more than we need, it’s long past time to act.  I also teach political action. [...]

!For the Deniers who like to claim I have a conflict of interest, my income is about 25% to 33% of what it would be if I had stayed with research … when I am paid, which is often not the case. Welcome to the NGO world (most NGO folks just about pee themselves laughing when they read how they are “in it for the money”).

Was fraglos jede/r NGO-Angestellte/r hierzulande ebenfalls bestätigen kann. Meine beiden Highlights von Greenfyre’s aus dem noch jungen Jahr 2009 sind ohne Zweifel:

- Understanding why climate change means global famine vom 19. Januar 2009, eine umfangreiche Darstellung, warum die Klima- vor allem eine Hungerkrise ist:

Reality check. Far and away the most serious threat posed by climate change is famine, truly massive, global famine.

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Some of the worlds best agricultural land is in river deltas like the Nile and the Mekong which are very close to sea level.

The greater threat from rising sea levels is not actual flooding, but infiltration of ground water by sea water. Once the ground water becomes saline the salt migrates up through the soil and turns productive land into a salt desert.

A two meter rise in sea level can affect agricultural land quite some distance from the ocean. A majority of the world’s food production is within 5 m of sea level.

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Warmer weather also means more intense heat waves, and more of them. Heat waves stress crops and reduce productivity at the best of times. If there is an intense heat wave during germination, flower set, or fruit set it can wipe the crop out completely.

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Of the coming food crisis New Scientist said “…3 billion people will have to choose between going hungry and moving…”

Uhm, move to where?

- Sherlock Holmes and case of the climate bandwagon vom 15. Januar 2009, ein grandioses Theaterstück, in dem Sherlock Holmes einen gewissen Mr. Algore gegen den übereifrigen Inspector Lestrade verteidigt:

Lestrade: Very well. It seems your Mr Algore has been defrauding the widows and orphans of London with some sort of lantern show which he calls ‘Discomforting Verities’ or some such nonsense.

He was convincing people that the weather would change because of vapours from the coal mines. Ha ha, imagine the thought of London’s air being bad from coal! The things some people conceive. No doubt he is an opium addict on top of it all.

Holmes: Quite so, quite so, pray do go on.

Lestrade: Yes well, he would do his lantern show and then he was selling people carbon bathing machines, bonnets, caps, and offsets, whatever the Devil those are. Some sort of undergarment I suppose.

Holmes: So you apprehended him in the act of selling these items?

Lestrade: Well not precisely, no, I cannot say we did.

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Holmes: [...] Lord Kelvin informs me that some Swede is even now calculating just how variable the weather will become, and may even have an answer before next year. Quite fascinating these modern scientific discoveries.

Lestrade: That is not possible. Surely you misunderstood. I have it from no less an authority than Professor Skeptic of the Courterre  Academy in Paris.

Holmes: I am afraid there is no mistake. Lord Kelvin was good enough to give me this pamphlet that the Royal Society has published on the matter.

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