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DoomsdaysCW

Update: Power cut chaos in #Spain and #Portugal caused by 'rare' atmospheric phenomenon, says operator [#Heat related!]

"We're now hearing from Antonio Costa, president of the European Council, who says there are no indications that today's power outage has been caused by a cyber attack at this point."

"It says that "due to #ExtremeTemperature variations in the interior or Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 KV), a phenomenon known as 'induced atmospheric vibration'"."

bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t

BBC NewsSpain-Portugal power outage latest: Fallout from blackout continues as power comes back onHours after a massive power cut hit large parts of Spain and Portugal, Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez says the cause is still being investigated
#Blackout#PowerOutage#ClimateChange
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Nonilex

“Bleaching becomes more severe if either the #heat stress episodes are more intense or if they last for a longer time,” Joerg Wiedenmann, a marine biologist who heads the #CoralReef Lab at the University of Southampton in England, said….
The #Earth’s rising #temperatures have caused bleaching events to occur more often & last longer, he said. The changing & mixing of #ocean currents can also influence regional water temperatures, he added, further increasing the risk of bleaching.
#ClimateCrisis

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Nonilex

“The ongoing global #CoralBleaching event is the biggest to date,” #NOAA scientists said.

Bleaching occurs when #heat upends the #coral’s metabolism, causing it to turn white as it expels the symbiotic algae that provide it with nutrients & color. Bleaching doesn’t mean the coral has died, but prolonged bleaching — which scientists say is made more frequent & severe by rising #sea #temperatures — can kill it.

#ClimateCrisis#MarineLife#ocean
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Nonilex

Largest #coral bleaching event on record harms 84% of #global #reefs

Bleached coral dies when exposed to #heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful #marine #ecosystem that depends on it for survival.

#CoralReefs around the world are losing their color at an unprecedented scale as a result of rising #sea #temperatures, marine scientists announced this week, w/ 84% of reefs exposed to bleaching levels of heat since 2023.

#ClimateCrisis #oceans #conservancy
washingtonpost.com/climate-env

The Washington Post · Largest coral bleaching event on record harms 84 percent of global reefsBy Leo Sands
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Bobbing Boat

Spring evenings can be chilly. To warm the boat, a cast-iron stove burns briquettes, scooped in from the bucket at left and arranged using tongs.

Ashes fall through a grate into a drawer that gets emptied into an ash bucket.

On top, a fan gently pushes heat through the space. It runs on an electric current generated from the stove's heat.

Behind the stove are fireproof ceramic tiles that look like oak planks.

A photo of a black, iron, wood-burning stove, also called a solid-fuel burner. It sits on a small platform topped in black slate. It has two doors on the front face: one for the fire box, the other for the ash drawer. Both doors have a shiny, black handle that stays cool, and that lifts to open. The fire-box door is three times taller than the ash-drawer door, and has a glass window through which coals can be seen brightly glowing as they cast their hot, orange light. Each door has an 8-centimetre dial that controls airflow into the stove. Exiting the top is a black, insulated flue pipe that carries smoke up to the chimney (not visible). Various items are arranged around the stove. To the left are a bucket of black briquettes for refilling the fire box, and a black, steel scoop that's leaning against the wall. Below are a pair of black metal tongs. On top is a black, metal, heat-powered fan. Behind are tiles whose printed surface design looks like beige, oak wood, similar in colour to the wood wall at the left edge of the photo.
#CanalLife#canal#boating
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