{"id":52519,"date":"2022-07-18T09:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=52519"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:56:33","slug":"global-heatwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/global-heatwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Global heatwaves are industry-driven climate chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unprecedented danger will be the new normal if we don\u2019t take urgent action to stop climate change driven by fossil fuels and industrial agriculture.<\/p>\n\n<p>From&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/bc-heat-wave-intense-weather-event-is-linked-to-climate-crisis-say-scientists\">Canada<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/27\/us\/heat-wave-seattle-portland.html\">United States<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2021\/06\/24\/russias-record-breaking-heatwave-to-continue-into-july-weather-service-a74319\">Russia<\/a>&nbsp;and even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/arctic-circle-summer-global-warming-b1875285.html\">the Arctic<\/a>, record-breaking heatwaves are putting lives, livelihoods, and communities at risk. The soaring temperatures not only pose individual health dangers, but they also put entire ecosystems and communities at increased risk of wildfires and failures of power grids.<\/p>\n\n<p>Hundreds of deaths in British Columbia in Canada and Washington and Oregon in the United States have already been linked to the heatwave that began late in June,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/30\/world\/canada\/bc-canada-heat-wave.html\">according to The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Those vulnerable communities facing the most intense impacts of the climate crisis urgently need empathy and aid. At the same time, the entire global community needs to demand that fossil fuel companies and corporate polluters stop accelerating climate change with reckless, profit-hungry drilling and burning of coal, oil, and gas.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is happening?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>In Canada, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/western-canada-heat-wave-june-28-1.6082676\">record for the highest temperature ever seen in the country<\/a>&nbsp;has been broken and then broken again. One of those record-breaking temperatures occurred in Lytton in the province of British Columbia. On Tuesday, the village&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/29\/americas\/canada-heat-wave-deaths\/index.html\">experienced a historic temperature<\/a>&nbsp;of 49.5\u00b0C \/ 121\u00b0F. A day later, it was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/01\/americas\/canada-town-evacuation-extreme-heat\/index.html\">evacuated due to a wildfire<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Parts of the United States are under the same&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/a-dangerous-omega-block-is-trapping-scorching-hot-air-over-the-us-and-canada\">heat dome<\/a>&nbsp;as Canada. The temperature at Portland International Airport in Oregon reached&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSPortland\/status\/1409647531009593346\">46.1\u00b0C \/ 115\u00b0F on 28 June<\/a>. For context, the average high temperature at that airport during this time of year is approximately 22.8\u00b0C \/ 73 \u00b0F,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/27\/us\/heat-wave-seattle-portland.html\">according to forecasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>In California,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/welcome-to-the-2021-california-wildfire-season\/\">wildfires are again posing a threat<\/a>&nbsp;to communities that are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/6\/22\/22545107\/satellite-images-california-drought-water-esa\">facing a drought<\/a>&nbsp;that began before the heatwave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>The month of June also brought the hottest day on record in Moscow (34.8\u00b0C \/ 94.6\u00b0F) and Helsinki (31.7\u00b0C\/ 89.1\u00b0F),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/148525\/a-scorcher-in-siberia-and-europe\">according to NASA\u2019s Earth observatory blog<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>This is a climate emergency!<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why is this happening?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>It\u2019s clear that fossil-fuel-driven climate change is contributing to an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22538401\/heat-wave-record-temperature-extreme-climate-change-drought\">increase in the frequency and intensity of heatwaves<\/a>&nbsp;as well as driving<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/climate-change-increases-risk-fires-western-us\">&nbsp;the conditions<\/a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/act\/prevent-uncontrollable-global-fires\/\">bigger and faster-growing wildfires<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Fossil fuel companies have put profits over people and the planet and will continue to do so while masquerading as friends of the environment \u2014 unless we stop them. Meanwhile, those least responsible for the climate crisis \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/46927\/why-climate-justice-is-impossible-without-racial-justice\/\">especially communities of colour and Indigenous Peoples around the world<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 have disproportionately experienced the most severe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/46010\/when-climate-emergencies-become-our-climate-realities\/\">climate impacts<\/a>&nbsp;and health harms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>If governments don\u2019t take urgent action for a just transition to renewable energy then the climate emergency is only going to get worse, with parts of the world becoming uninhabitable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What can you do?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>We need to treat this as the emergency that it is and push for urgent action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/07\/a4a945d1-gp0stsxnj_medium_res-1024x768-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/07\/a4a945d1-gp0stsxnj_medium_res-1024x768-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/07\/a4a945d1-gp0stsxnj_medium_res-1024x768-1-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/07\/a4a945d1-gp0stsxnj_medium_res-1024x768-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/07\/a4a945d1-gp0stsxnj_medium_res-1024x768-1-453x340.jpeg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Greenpeace activists put a 50-meter-long symbol of a thermometer with the temperature gauge 1,5 degrees during a 2019 protest at a power plant in Germany. \u00a9 Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>We can take lessons from the global action and local empathy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We need empathy for communities in danger paired with pressure around the world on governments to leave fossil fuels to build back green.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>There is still time to limit the disruption and stay on course to meet the 1.5\u00b0C goal outlined in the Paris Agreement to avoid the worst-case climate scenarios.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Here in Aotearoa, we must defend the ban we won on new oil and gas exploration, we must push to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/community.greenpeace.org.nz\/petitions\/refuse-beach-energy-drilling-consent\" target=\"_blank\">close loopholes and for the ban to go further<\/a>, and we must call for more investment in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz\/climate-solarisenz\" target=\"_blank\">clean energy generation<\/a> and better public transport. <\/p>\n\n<p>However, New Zealand&#8217;s biggest climate polluter is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/ag-still-tops-emissions-wheres-the-action\/\">industrial agriculture<\/a>, and it doesn&#8217;t have to be that way. Some farmers are already farming in far less harmful ways using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/campaign\/regenerative-farming-revolution\/\">regenerative<\/a> approach, but it&#8217;s happening too slowly. <\/p>\n\n<p>We need the Government to step up and take action by phasing out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/new-zealands-hidden-climate-killer-synthetic-nitrogen\/\">synthetic nitrogen fertiliser<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz\/agriculture-halve-the-dairy-herd\">cutting the dairy herd<\/a>, which on its own accounts for around 25% of New Zealand&#8217;s total climate pollution.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-51438 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/halve-the-dairy-herd-petition\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/03\/703506ff-screen-shot-2022-03-16-at-1.06.55-pm-1024x685.png\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/03\/703506ff-screen-shot-2022-03-16-at-1.06.55-pm-600x401.png 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/03\/703506ff-screen-shot-2022-03-16-at-1.06.55-pm-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/03\/703506ff-screen-shot-2022-03-16-at-1.06.55-pm-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/03\/703506ff-screen-shot-2022-03-16-at-1.06.55-pm-1536x1027.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/03\/703506ff-screen-shot-2022-03-16-at-1.06.55-pm-508x340.png 508w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2022\/03\/703506ff-screen-shot-2022-03-16-at-1.06.55-pm.png 1606w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"Too many cows\" title=\"Too many cows\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/halve-the-dairy-herd-petition\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPETITION: Halve the dairy herd\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Call on the Government to halve the dairy herd to reduce the impacts on freshwater, biodiversity, climate and people\u2019s health.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/halve-the-dairy-herd-petition\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        Take Action\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/48654\/heatwaves-climate-change-fossil-fuels-must-go\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Adapted from an article first published by Chris Greenberg on Greenpeace International.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unprecedented danger will be the new normal if we don\u2019t take urgent action to stop industry-driven climate change. 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