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Curious week. It's now very clear the world’s top 4 emitters – China, US, India, Russia – are all getting hit hard by #climate impacts which are having huge material & human costs…
This week China’s national climate centre warned the country is heating faster & contending with faster rising sea levels than the rest of the world http://www.cma.gov.cn/2011xwzx/2011xqxxw/2011xqxyw/202008/t20200825_561628.html
All that while China battles horrendous floods that have affected 63 million people, left 219 people dead or missing & caused at least $26 billion of economic losses.
The US is getting battered from left and right… Hurricane Laura on the Gulf Coast & huge wildfires in California https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/california-fires.html
India’s Reserve Bank this week said climate change was depleting water levels ‘at an alarming rate’ and affecting the livelihoods of the country’s 17m farmers https://twitter.com/edking_I/status/1298729425035505665?s=20
UN secretary general Antonio Guterres this week urged India to accelerate its shift off coal and towards renewables – pointing to the “millions” hit by recent floods in the country https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/28/un-secretary-general-urges-india-to-swiftly-turn-away-from-coal
In Russia, an estimated 20 million hectares of land have been impacted by fires ravaging parts of Siberia. The 2020 fire season started early say observers due to an unusually hot winter and spring https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/photos-show-scale-of-massive-fires-tearing-through-siberian-forests/
