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Earth - A Global Map of Wind, Weather and Ocean Conditions - Use the menu at bottom left to toggle different views. For example, you can see where wildfires/smoke are by selecting "Chem - COsc" to see carbon monoxide (CO) surface concentration.
Climate Reanalyzer (University of Maine) - A source for daily updated average global air temps, sea surface temps, sea ice, weather and more.
National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center (US) - Information about ENSO and weather predictions.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Global Temperature Rankings Outlook (US) - Tool that is updated each month, concurrent with the release of the monthly global climate report.
Canadian Wildland Fire Information System - Government of Canada
Surging Seas Risk Zone Map - For discovering which areas could be underwater soon.
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I have trouble explaining this to a lot of people one of the biggest threats of climate change is the loss of arable land for food production and stable environments from more sensitive food production.
tbh, I never bothered to tell others about climate change and its consequences to our lives.
Back then I told my relatives, and they just looked at me like "are you out of your mind?"
No... 🙁
Eh. A willing sacrifice to the capitalist gods. Bananas are a garbage fruit and hey are too overpowering for smoothies. At best, they’re fine. At worst they’re a smoothie ruining menace.
Climate change threatens the viability of commercial (monoculture) banana production, not the continued existence of banana plants. While some areas (such as parts of the Caribbean as this article mentions) will become too dry for part of the year to sustain banana plants without irrigation (which costs money), there will still be plenty of subsistence farmers growing bananas and plantains in the equatorial rainforest regions. The spread of Fusarium is mainly a threat to monoculture production, where it would spread rapidly throughout the plantations. For diverse food forests, it's less of an issue. Extreme weather like hurricanes... kind of makes one question the choice to live in such a place to begin with.
I don't know if anyone here has ever tried to kill a banana plant, but it isn't so easy. Some farmers who want to switch from bananas to another crop actually sell their land and move elsewhere rather than attempt to remove their banana plants. Banana will remain a reliable staple crop throughout much of the world. For the regions experiencing climate change severe enough to be detrimental to banana production, there are plenty of other things to worry about.
Soon we will be able to grow bananas in Canada!