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#hightemperatures

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#EDF cuts #nuclear production in reaction to soaring temperatures

Story by Eleanor Butler
August 14, 2024

"EDF has reduced its electricity production at nuclear sites in France in response to soaring temperatures.

"Three reactors are currently affected, although the energy provider has said 'there is no safety risk'.

"A reactor located at the #BugeyNuclearPlant, a site near Lyon, has been closed since 12 August.

"Also near Lyon, the #SaintAlbanNuclearPlant has experienced production cuts since 11 August, and similar measures are being taken at the #Tricastin site. This is located in the South East of France, north of Avignon.

"Heat-related incidents aren't a new complication for EDF but rather a recurring problem, as exemplified when the firm published a #ClimateChange action plan last month.

"The firm classed #heatwaves as an 'acute risk' but estimated that annual production losses linked to #water resources would only amount to 1.5% in 2050.

"Today, these losses amount to around 0.3% of production a year for EDF.

"#HighTemperatures can interfere with nuclear processes as reactors are heavily reliant on water."

Read more:
msn.com/en-us/news/world/edf-c

#ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming #HeatWave
#NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #RenewablesNow #France #WaterIsLife

www.msn.comMSN
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Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social

#LUCENACITY — All public and private schools in San Jose, #Romblon will hold in-person classes only in the morning starting Monday until the end of the month to minimize the exposure of teachers and students to #HighTemperatures brought by extreme hot weather. #BurningEarth #Philippines

Romblon town mayor orders morning-inly on-site classes amid heat
newsinfo.inquirer.net/1926897/

A map showing the island of Romblon in the Visayas
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BellingenNSW

Future of the human climate niche
and
Quantifying the human cost of global warming

Future of the human climate niche
"All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations have resided in the same narrow part of the climatic envelope available on the globe, characterized by a major mode around ∼11 °C to 15 °C mean annual temperature (MAT). "
"We show that in a business-as-usual climate change scenario, the geographical position of this temperature niche is projected to shift more over the coming 50 y than it has moved since 6000 BP."
"Global warming will affect ecosystems as well as human health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, and economic growth in many ways."
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910

Quantifying the human cost of global warming
"The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect to mean annual temperature. We show that climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside this niche."
"The worst-case scenarios of ~3.6 °C or even ~4.4 °C global warming could put half of the world population outside the historical climate niche, posing an existential risk"
"The ~2.7 °C global warming expected under current policies puts around a third of the world population outside the niche."
nature.com/articles/s41893-023

#AdaptationInSitu#climate#mitigation
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