Many insects, including the wasp spider, are moving north in the UK due to climate change. Photo: WIKIPEDIA
British ecologists have been studying animal life in the country for eight years. The study shows that insects are migrating north – due to climate change, writes the BBC.
Ecologist Mike Williams says:
– Insects are an important indicator species that help ecologists understand the consequences of climate change in nature.
For example, the wasp spider has moved from the south coast to north Somerset. Three years ago it was discovered in the area for the first time, now it is common.
– In the 1990s, I only saw the wasp spider on the south coast of England, in Dorset. I could never have imagined that one day I would find it as far north as Bath, says Mike Williams.
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The British are building a new climate satellite, part of the Atlantic Constellation. Photo: iStockphoto
Britain is to develop a completely new type of satellite that will help scientists monitor climate change and natural disasters, writes the British BBC.
The UK Space Agency is responsible for roughly SEK 39 million together with the satellite company Open Cosmos in Oxfordshire.
The announcement means the UK joins Spain and Portugal in the £914m Atlantic Constellation project.
– Each observation will play a crucial role in tackling global challenges such as climate change and disaster relief by quickly giving us the data needed, says Anderew Griffith, newly appointed science minister, to the BBC.
Christina Nordh
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The temperature on Earth appears to be increasing far beyond the goals the world’s countries have set themselves to try to mitigate the worst effects of a changing climate.
Current pledges point to a warming of 2.5-2.9 degrees, according to the UN.
More and worse heat waves, forest fires, torrential rains and storms. Poorer harvests, bad air, acidified oceans and difficulties for many plant and animal species to survive. And so affected access to labor, economic damage and increased health problems in the wake of global warming.
There is no longer any person or economy on the planet that is not affected by the effects of climate change, notes UN Environment Director Inger Andersen.
– We need to stop setting unwanted records for greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature peaks and extreme weather, she says in a comment.
The average temperature in September was the highest globally for the month since measurements began, and 2023 is expected to be the warmest year on record. (TT)
Christina Nordh
Monday 10.12
Acapulco in Mexico after Hurricane Otis tore up houses and roads and caused severe flooding in October this year. Photo: Marco Ugarte/AP
Poor countries must be compensated for damages and losses caused by the climate disasters exacerbated by rich countries’ emissions. Exactly how this should be done is expected to lead to infected debate during the COP28 climate summit.
The idea is that rich countries with large emissions should help vulnerable developing countries deal with the effects of, for example, more intense extreme weather, which in the worst case can lead to death, but also to destroyed properties, arable land and infrastructure.
– It was seen as a major breakthrough, a victory for the global south and climate justice, says Zoa Shawoo, researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute, at a briefing.
But who will foot the bill is a sensitive issue. Rich countries with historically large emissions – the biggest culprit behind today’s climate change – do not want the fund to be seen as cowView more
This with the climate is completely part of the fact that we have to do something now, but it doesn’t help much if Sweden had lived like in the 19th century when we have the USA, China and countries that only put out pollution, it’s not ridiculous that we Swedes think it helps to increase electricity so we don’t have to consume, increase fuel so we don’t have to drive a car, etc. We are an eye of the needle against those countries and what we do affects nothing. So just put it down, it’s silly. We cannot influence. Face it!
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I wonder if you can provide some facts about the water level rise. I doubt that is correct as it will take several hundred years before it is really felt. It is not erosion or that sand has been mined in the area. I’m not a climate change skeptic, because the climate has always changed, but good if we can get some facts. The country rises most in Sweden, and we know that, so we are on the safe side.
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Hello! According to the geologists I spoke to, there is no longer any land uplift in the southern and central regions of Sweden. The Authority for Community Protection and Preparedness has made technical calculations for what the rise in sea levels could mean for coastal cities in the future. You can find it here.
As long as politicians and money rule our world, it’s over.
We have to back off and live more in the countryside and get the opportunity to do that too. Industry, politics, power, money ?? Which person is worth more than 1 million kroner in salary?
Today they are grabbing billions, sick world.
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The Skåne coast is identified as a national risk area for flooding and erosion – Löderup’s beach is particularly vulnerable.
– Climate change means that we have to abandon the view of what the coasts look like today, says Per Danielsson at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
Kristianstad is Sweden’s lowest situated city.
New and higher dikes are now being built.
– We are doing this to protect the city against high tides and future sea level rises, says Karl Erik Svensson, project manager for the dike construction.