{"id":58946,"date":"2021-08-09T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58946"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:02:26","slug":"all-of-a-sudden-climate-change-tipping-points-appear-with-a-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58946","title":{"rendered":"All of a sudden: Climate change tipping points appear with a vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of a sudden: Climate change tipping points appear with a vengeance<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Across the world climate change seems to have arrived earlier than expected. There are world-class athletes with bodies trained for endurance and strength breaking down from the extreme heat<\/a>\u00a0visited on the Tokyo Olympics by mother nature. There are the\u00a0continuing wildfires in the American West that take out entire towns<\/a>. The drought there is so bad that\u00a0states are thinking about paying farmers NOT to irrigate their crops<\/a>\u00a0as a conservation strategy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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One of the other effects of climate change is heavier rains and devastating floods.\u00a0Recent floods in Germany were caused by rains characterized as once-in-a-millennium<\/a>, rains which, for example, killed more than 200 people and caused $1.5 billion in damage to the German railway network. But, of course, statements about once-in-a-fill-in-the-blank rains or droughts seem less and less relevant in the age of climate change as what we call extraordinarily destructive weather just morphs into “the weather.”<\/p>\n

Once-in-a-millennium rains also visited parts of China<\/a>\u00a0recently dumping in just three days an entire year’s rainfall on one town of 12 million.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The infrastructure we have built and the way we work and live are simply not designed for these extremes. Our systems are breaking down under the pressure of climate-change-induced extreme weather.<\/p>\n

But the scariest thing is that all of the incidents I cited above could happen all over again next year and the next year and the next after that in the same places as extreme weather worsens and becomes just “weather.” In California, 2020 marked\u00a0the worst fire season ever in the state<\/a>. But\u00a02021 is now on pace to be even worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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All of a sudden: Climate change tipping points appear with a vengeance Across the world climate change seems to have arrived earlier than expected. There are world-class athletes with bodies trained for endurance and strength breaking down from the extreme heat\u00a0visited on the Tokyo Olympics by mother nature. There are the\u00a0continuing wildfires in the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,288,4752,4967,5010],"class_list":["post-58946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-extreme-weather","tag-kurt-cobb","tag-resource-insights","tag-tipping-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58947,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58946\/revisions\/58947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}