Solastalgia and doomism: New climate lingo boggles the mind | Malay Mail

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PARIS, July 29 — One of the annoying things about global warming — besides the likelihood it will ravage life on Earth — is all the new words we are expected to learn in order to track our descent into climate chaos. Rising temperatures have not only boosted the intensity or frequency of...

PARIS, July 29 — One of the annoying things about global warming — besides the likelihood it will ravage life on Earth — is all the new words we are expected to learn in order to track our descent into climate chaos.

California and Australia have seen plenty of these vertical flame-throwers, and will likely see a lot more, scientists say. Then there are the fire-induced, smoke-infused “pyrocumulonimbus” clouds that darkened Australian skies during the Black Summer of 2019-2020; or “urban heat islands” in big cities everywhere that run a couple degrees Celsius hotter than surrounding areas.

It was long assumed this theoretical threshold would never be crossed, but US researchers reported last year on two locations — one in Pakistan, another in the United Arab Emirates — where the 35C TW barrier was breached more than once, if only fleetingly. An increase in algae blooms — sometimes known as “sea snot” — is one thing, at least, that can’t be blamed on climate change, according to a recent study.

And so it is with kilometres-thick ice sheets atop Greenland and West Antarctica holding enough frozen water to lift oceans more than a dozen metres . It may take centuries or longer, but some scientists say that big chunks are already “committed”, and the melting “locked-in”.Climate change coupled with fires set ablaze to clear land for cattle and crops are pushing the world’s largest tropical forest — a process dubbed “savannafication” — into arid expanses of grasslands.

Others are suffering from a mental state known as “solastalgia”, which combines melancholy, grief and nostalgia for a world that seems to be slipping from our grasp.

 

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