Le #Venezuela contraint de rationner l’électricité à cause d’El Niño
▻https://fr.news.yahoo.com/venezuela-contraint-rationner-l%C3%A9lectricit%C3%A9-%C3%A0-cause-del
La mesure est présentée comme « un sacrifice nécessaire ». Le Venezuela a annoncé une coupure de courant de quatre heures par jour pendant 40 jours à partir du lundi 25 avril, rapporte RFI. Ce rationnement est lié à une crise énergétique provoquée par le phénomène #El_Niño, explique la radio.
Ce courant côtier saisonnier chaud provoque une sécheresse dans le pays. Or, 70% de son électricité provient de l’énergie hydraulique, notamment grâce au barrage de Guri dans le sud-est du Venezuela, rappelle RFI.
60 Million people suffer from Hunger due to #El_Nino but only 60 people sit in the room for technical meeting ...
Bertrand Noiret sur l’oiseau bleu
C’est plus proche de 6 personnes que de 60 !
In the wake of “El Niño massacre”, Green Revolution a failure, Filipino farmers still hungry
▻https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5419-in-the-wake-of-el-nino-massacre-green-revolution-a-failure-filipino-farm
On IRRI’s 56th anniversary, farmer-scientist group MASIPAG called on the institution to immediately shut down its operations in the Philippines as it failed miserably to address the impacts of climate change resulting to deeper hunger and poverty. Last Friday, farmers coming from North Cotabato and nearby provinces in Mindanao held a barricade in Kidapawan City to call for rice subsidy as most of the farms were affected by the drought brought about by #El_Nino. Instead of addressing the farmers concerns, the protest was met by gunfire, with three farmers confirmed dead and scores of farmers, and possibly women and children, wounded.
“IRRI for 56 years fave failed the Filipinos! For many decades it has lured the farmers in using modern but high-input rice varieties that will supposedly ease the hunger of farmers. It did not even contented itself with its first Green Revolution, it is now promoting a Second Green Revolution purpotedly to address the effects of climate change on rice. But none of these grandiose projects has really lifted the lives and livelihood of the farmers. The Filipino farmers are still among the poorest and hungry among Asia” said Dr Chito Medina, national Coordinator of farmer-scientist group MASIPAG.
MASIPAG calls for the immediate closure of IRRI stating that the first Green Revolution wreaked havoc among the Filipino farmers. Thru the Green Revolution, farmers incurred huge amouts of debts as IRRI shifted the farmers sustainable agriculture practices into dependency to expensive external inputs such as modern seeds and chemical fertilizers. The small farmers were left behind, as huge agrochemical TNCs and local businessmen gained and reaped the profit from the sale of seeds and other off-farm inputs such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides. With the Green Revolution, the farmers became entrapped with the high-cost and chemical-intensive agriculture system made worse by the abuse of loan sharks and huge rice cartels. In the end, the farmers who have been feeding the nation are food and financially poor.
“Erosion of rice genetic diversity was drastic, with rice varieties in Philippines totaling to more than 4,000 were wiped-out and replaced by a few high-input varieties with narrow genetic bases. Rice varieties that have been part of the Filipino culture, whose traits that we as a country may benefit in this worsening climate, are now secured and controlled by IRRI. They are the ones who are profiting and gaining from our rice varieties” said Carlito Seguiro, MASIPAG’s Chairperson and farmer-leader in the province of Negros.
#Philippines #riz #brevet #semence #agrochimie #pauvreté #faim #révolution_verte
Après la #guerre, la #faim dans le #Katanga congolais
#El_Niño affectera quelque 550 000 personnes au cours de cette saison.
Cela n’aurait pas dû se passer ainsi. Les rebelles séparatistes qui ont fait régner le chaos pendant plusieurs années dans cette région du sud-est de la #République_démocratique_du_Congo (RDC) ont été pacifiés. Les habitants qui avaient fui leurs foyers sont de retour sur leurs fermes et les pluies dont ils dépendent sont arrivées à temps. Le problème, c’est qu’elles n’ont jamais cessé.
Philippine rice farmer killed as drought protest turns violent: demo leader | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-farmers-idUSKCN0WY3SV
Philippine police opened fire as a protest by thousands of rice farmers who lost their crops turned violent on Friday, killing one and wounding about a dozen, a leader of a farming group said.
About 6,000 farmers blocked a portion of the main highway in North Cotabato province on the southern island of Mindanao, demanding government assistance after drought linked by some to #El_Nino hit hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland.
“Loud bursts of gunfire erupted,” Norma Capuyan, leader of a farmers’ group, told reporters. “There was heavy volume of fire. We ran to a church compound and the police surrounded us.”
#meurtres #sécheresse #riz (doré ?) #Philippines
El Niño – millions of poor people threatened with hunger and destitution
▻https://www.elninooxfam.org/?country=ETH
El Niño is the warming of sea surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean. This phenomenon can change weather systems and consequently growing seasons around the globe. In already the hottest-ever recorded year, the 2015-16 “Super” #El_Niño became one of the strongest ever. For months now, Oxfam and others have been sounding the alarm against its threats particularly toward poor farmers and the millions of people dependent upon the food they grow. Oxfam and other agencies have been gearing up crisis work in dozens of countries because, even as El Niño itself fades, it has already severely damaged staple food crops that are crucial to millions of people’s lives. In many farming communities, harvests have failed and cattle have died. Their future is bleak and uncertain. El Niño itself is not a disaster – rather, it’s a trigger for a series of crises hitting people who are highly vulnerable because of poverty. In some countries, El Niño’s effects are overwhelming even the most determined government responses – they need support.
February 2016: This map includes information drawn from the US Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS-NET), UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and Oxfam country research and reports.
Et la Chine à ses stocks qui dégueulent de maïs
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef hit by ’worst’ bleaching
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35914009
Grave blanchissement de la #Grande_barrière de #corail
▻http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/science/story/Grave-blanchissement-de-la-Grande-barri-re-de-corail-17522861
Les chercheurs ont survolé 520 #récifs en avion ou en hélicoptère entre Cairns (nord-est de l’Australie) et le détroit de Torrès, qui sépare l’Australie de l’île de Nouvelle-Guinée. Ils ont parlé d’un spectacle #accablant. « Cela va changer pour toujours la Grande barrière de corail », a ainsi déclaré Terry Hughes, expert des récifs coraliens à l’Université James Cook de Townsville (nord-est).
#El_Niño menace le corail de son pire épisode
Le blanchissement des coraux est un phénomène de dépérissement qui se traduit par une décoloration. Il est provoqué par la hausse de la température de l’eau, qui entraîne l’expulsion des algues symbiotiques qui donnent au corail sa couleur et ses nutriments. Les récifs peuvent s’en remettre si l’eau refroidit, mais ils peuvent aussi mourir si le phénomène persiste.
#Panama_canal sets depth limit on ships due to drought | Reuters
▻http://in.reuters.com/article/us-panama-canal-idINKCN0WO04E
The Panama Canal will next month impose new draft restrictions on ships due to falling water levels at nearby lakes that form part of the waterway, the authority that administers the canal said in a statement on Monday.
Ships seeking to cross the waterway must comply with a maximum depth limit of 39 feet (11.89 meters) beginning on April 18, but the Panama Canal Authority (APC) said the impact on operations would be minimal.
The “temporary and preventive measures” are connected to local climate impacts of #El_Niño, the seasonal weather phenomenon that has caused a drought in the canal’s watershed, and will be implemented in 6-inch (15-cm) decrements that will be announced at least four weeks in advance.
El Niño strikes Ethiopia: “Without water we are no more.” | Oxfam International
▻https://www.oxfam.org/en/ethiopia-drought-ethiopia/el-nino-strikes-ethiopia-without-water-we-are-no-more
The effects of a super #El_Niño are set to put the world’s humanitarian system under an unprecedented level of strain in 2016 as it already struggles to cope with the fallout from conflicts in Syria, South Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere. In Ethiopia the government estimates that 10.2 million people, on top of the 8 million that will receive support through the governments’ safety net programme, will need humanitarian assistance this year at a cost of $1.4 billion, due to a drought that’s been exacerbated by El Niño.
We are currently responding to the drought crisis in Ethiopia, led by the government, in three regions: Siti (Somali Region), Afar, and West Arsi (Oromia Region). We have helped around 135,000 people so far.
Drought and rising temperatures ’leaves 36m people across Africa facing hunger’ | Environment | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/16/drought-high-temperatures-el-nino-36m-people-africa-hunger
More than 36 million people face hunger across southern and eastern Africa, the United Nations has warned, as swaths of the continent grapple with the worst drought in decades at a time of record high temperatures.
The immediate cause of the drought which has crippled countries from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe is one of the strongest #El_Niño events ever recorded. It has turned normal weather patterns upside down around the globe, climate scientists say.
But with the world still reeling from record-high temperatures in February, there are fears that the long-term impacts of climate change are also undermining the region’s ability to endure extremes in weather, leaving huge numbers of people vulnerable to hunger and disease.
The worst hit country in the current crisis is Ethiopia, where rains vital to four-fifths of the country’s crops have failed. Unicef has said it is making plans to treat more than 2 million children for malnutrition, and says more than 10 million people will need food aid.
Pendant ce temps-là l’Éthiopie produit, entre autres, des agrocarburants pour l’Europe (et Israël)
Accroissement record du #CO2 dans l’atmosphère en 2015 à la station de mesure d’Hawaï
▻http://www.voaafrique.com/content/accroissement-record-du-co2-dans-atmosphere-en-2015-a-station-hawai/3229600.html
Selon l’Agence océanique et atmosphérique (NOAA) jeudi, cette augmentation « significative » s’explique notamment par l’émergence du courant marin chaud du Pacifique #El_Nino.
Ce courant réapparaît tous les trois à cinq ans et provoque des changements au niveau des massifs forestiers, des autres végétaux et d’autres écosystèmes terrestres qui réagissent au changement du temps et aux précipitations accrues, explique la NOAA.
Millions Face Food Shortages as El Niño Fuels Africa’s Worst Drought in Decades | VICE News
▻https://news.vice.com/article/millions-face-food-shortages-as-el-nio-fuels-africas-worst-drought-in-dec
Southern and eastern Africa are in the grips of a historic drought blamed on #El_Niño that has put millions at risk of starvation, devastated croplands, and dried up rivers across the region.
The World Food Program estimates that up to 14 million people are facing hunger due to failed crops, skyrocketing commodity and food prices, and the lowest levels of precipitation in 35 years. Among the worst affected areas are #Malawi, #Madagascar, and #Zimbabwe.
#Zimbabwe declares ’state of disaster’ due to drought | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/zimbabwe-declares-state-of-disaster-drought-robert-mugabe
Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, has declared a state of disaster in rural areas hit by a severe drought, as more than a quarter of the population face food shortages.
A regional drought worsened by the #El_Niño weather phenomenon has affected South Africa, Malawi and Zambia as well as Zimbabwe, leaving tens of thousands of cattle dead, reservoirs depleted and crops destroyed.
Formerly known as the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe has suffered perennial shortages in recent years and has relied on importing grain from neighbouring countries to meet its needs.
El Niño leaves hunger in its wake - SciDev.Net
▻http://www.scidev.net/global/disasters/multimedia/el-nino-hunger-food-crisis-fao.html
East Africa, and Ethiopia in particular, has experienced reduced rainfall in 2015. This has been disastrous for farmers and herders. Aid agencies have described this crisis as the most severe in 30 years — and many warn that the worst is yet to come.
According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network: “Poor households in southern Afar and northern Somali regions are already experiencing acute food insecurity, and the breadth and severity of impacts in central and eastern Ethiopia are expected to expand through much of 2016.”
The consequences of a lack of rain between June and September will be seen between now and March, during the main cropping season in northern East Africa. Traditionally, January marks the start of the harvesting period, when markets are usually replenished, but this year’s yields are predicted to be dire, and fodder scarce.
#sécheresse #afrique_orientale #el_niño #insécurité_alimentaire
Bolivia’s second-largest lake dries up and may be gone forever, lost to climate change
As Andean glaciers disappear, so do the sources of Lake Poopó’s water, say scientists who blame a warming environment, #El_Niño and mining
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/bolivias-second-largest-lake-dries-up-and-may-be-gone-forever-lost-to-c
#Bolivie #lac #disparition #assèchement #climat #changement_climatique #Lac_Poopó #mines
cc @louca
Les caprices d’El Niño, ici sécheresse et là déluge, par Frédéric Durand (Atlas environnement, 2007)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/atlas/environnement/a53612
Le phénomène #El_Niño, qui existe depuis la fin de la dernière époque glaciaire, était peu marqué depuis mille ans. Centré sur l’océan Pacifique, il a connu un regain d’activité à partir des années 1980, se traduisant par des sécheresses ou des inondations ressenties de l’Afrique de l’Est jusqu’aux Etats-Unis. [#st]
▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/14221 via Le Monde diplomatique
Pourquoi fait-il si doux pour un mois de décembre ?
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/climat/article/2015/12/17/pourquoi-fait-il-si-doux-pour-un-mois-de-decembre_4834262_1652612.html
2015 est aussi l’année du puissant El Niño. Ce phénomène climatique naturel, qui revient tous les trois à sept ans et fait grimper le thermomètre du Pacifique tropical, tire les températures mondiales vers le haut, en plus de la tendance lourde au réchauffement. Or, selon un bulletin de l’OMM daté du 16 novembre, l’anomalie chaude du Pacifique tropical va excéder 2 °C. Ce qui placera l’actuel El Niño au rang des épisodes les plus intenses observés depuis 1950 – avec ceux de 1972-1973, 1982-1983 et 1997-1998.
#El_Niño est sûrement boosté par le réchauffement global.
2015, année #El_Niño de tous les records ?
Le phénomène climatique déjà bien installé dans le Pacifique va gagner en intensité ces prochains mois, et sera sans doute l’un des trois épisodes les plus intenses depuis 1950. Sécheresses, inondations et autres événements extrêmes sont à craindre
Ethiopia: UN warns of deepening food insecurity, allocates emergency funds to tackle severe drought
▻http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52569
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With Ethiopia experiencing its worst drought in decades the United Nations is reporting deepening food insecurity and “severe emaciation and unusual livestock deaths” as the Organization’s humanitarian wing has allocated $17 million in emergency funding to help the Government tackle climate challenges and ensure timely food relief.
A recent report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that severe drought, driven by the #El_Niño phenomenon, has not only caused livestock deaths especially in pastoral areas, but it has also deteriorated food security conditions in recent months, as food insecure people have almost doubled from August to October this year.
While cereal prices dropped last month thanks to the carryover stocks from previous year, the report also indicated the soaring prices of dairy and vegetables, as a result of food inflation.
La grande siccità in Etiopia
ROMA.Save the Children si appella con forza alle Nazioni Unite perché venga lanciato immediatamente il massimo allarme per la più grave siccità degli ultimi 50 anni che sta colpendo l’Etiopia, dove oggi inizia, nella capitale Addis Abeba, il vertice dei paesi dell’Unione Africana alla presenza dei leader mondiali e del Segretario Generale dell’ONU Ban Ki-moon. L’allarme dell’Organizzazione nasce in particolare dalle stime che prevedono circa 350.000 nuove nascite nei prossimi sei mesi nelle comunità colpite dalla siccità, con gravissimi rischi per madri e neonati.
▻http://www.volontariatoggi.info/la-grande-siccita-in-etiopia
Farmers bear brunt of South Africa’s severe drought: ’All we can do is pray’ | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/nov/17/farmers-bear-brunt-of-south-africas-severe-drought-all-we-can-do-is-pra
South Africa is in the midst of its worst drought since 1982, with 2.7m households facing water shortages. The lack of rain has been accompanied by soaring temperatures in many areas, including record highs in Johannesburg (36C) and Pretoria (39.8C). Some cities, including Johannesburg, have implemented water restrictions, drastically reducing the amount of water residents can use on their gardens and limiting showers to just three minutes.
But South Africa’s farmers are the hardest hit. “If that person is a crop farmer, if it doesn’t rain then he can’t plant. So he must watch the clouds and pray for rain,” said Kosie van Zyl, a senior consultant with Agri SA, a major agricultural association. “Look at our country, we’re actually a semi-desert. If there’s no rain, what can the farmers do? The problem is nature.”
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For Mike Muller, a former director of the Department of Water Affairs, there is a long-term solution, besides prayer – but it lies outside the country. “We need to be taking more advantage of the fact that when it’s dry here, it tends be wet in northern Zambia, Angola and Mozambique,” he said.
“We could all be more resilient if we weren’t reliant on one climate zone. The big strategic goal is far more cooperation through the region, and we’re not seeing that. We need to see agriculture happening in places which are more sensible, with more irrigation potential.”
Forget El Niño, start worrying about the North Atlantic blob | News | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/oct/18/north-atlantic-cold-jet-stream-el-nino
The extra heat being generated in tropical seas by the strong El Niño is bleaching coral reefs and disrupting weather patterns in the Pacific. But will it affect Britain’s weather, and if so, how?
This question is what climate scientists across the northern hemisphere are trying to answer, especially since it coincides with an exceptionally cold North Atlantic, which might be even more important because it affects the position of the jet stream.
The easterly winds of last week, bringing unseasonably cold weather, are believed to be as a direct result of this North Atlantic cold diverting the jet stream and allowing cold easterly air from Siberia to reach our shores. There has already been snow in Germany.
El Niño kan skape tørke og flaum verda over - NRK Verden - Utenriksnyheter og -dokumentarer
▻http://www.nrk.no/verden/el-nino-kan-skape-torke-og-flaum-verda-over-1.12614897
El Nino cette année sera pire que celui de 1997-1998. sécheresse intenses ou précipitations énormes, des milliers de vies sont menacées.
▻http://gfx.nrk.no/BP_GNvJG5qyIf4g7MqGo2ALjppbLsqSK5sPK4irWcSLw
Vêrfenomenet El Niño (sjå faktaboks) oppstår med jamne mellomrom. Det kan føre til ekstrem tørke, og samstundes ekstrem nedbør. I dei verste tilfella kan tusenvis av liv gå tapte.
l’occasion de parler de cette superbe #cartographie des risques publiée par la société de réassurance « Munich Re » en 2011 dans le « Nathan World Map of Natural Hazards »
#risques #catastrophes #assureurs
▻https://www.munichre.com/touch/naturalhazards/en/publications/world-map-natural-hazards/index.html
si vous avez quelques dizaines de milliers d’euros je suppute qu’il est possible d’avoir la version de 2015 :p
Continuing El Niño drives increased food insecurity across many regions
Global - Alert: Thu, 2015-10-08 | Famine Early Warning Systems Network
▻http://www.fews.net/global/alert/october-8-2015
The strong #El_Niño of 2015 has contributed to suppressed rainfall over northern East Africa and Central America and the Caribbean (Figure 1), significantly limiting agricultural and pastoral potential, and straining local livelihoods. These impacts are contributing to Crisis (IPC Phase 3) acute food insecurity for approximately four million people in these regions. With El Niño forecast to continue into the first quarter of 2016, suppressed rainfall is likely over many regions during the coming rainy seasons, including in Southern Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean (Figure 2). Over the Horn of Africa and Central Asia, as well as parts of North and South America, the forecast strong El Niño is expected to result in above-average precipitation (Figure 2). Close monitoring of seasonal rainfall performance is needed in areas where El Niño is known to drive regional climate variability. Humanitarian agencies should prepare for high levels of assistance needs across many regions due to El Niño-related impacts on agricultural and pastoral production.
#agriculture #climat merci @reka
El Niño could leave 4 million people in Pacific without food or drinking water | Environment | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/12/el-nino-could-leave-4-million-people-in-pacific-without-food-or-drinkin
Two dozen people have already died from hunger and drinking contaminated water in drought-stricken Papua New Guinea, but the looming El Niño crisis could leave more than four million people across the Pacific without enough food or clean water.
The El Niño weather pattern – when waters in the eastern tropical Pacific ocean become warmer, driving extreme weather conditions – may be as severe as in 1997-98, when an estimated 23,000 people died, forecasters believe.