- Warming of +1.5C is too high for polar ice sheets - "Here we synthesise multiple lines of evidence to show that +1.5C is too high and that even current climate forcing (+1.2 C), if sustained, is likely to generate several metres of sea-level rise over the coming centuries, causing extensive loss and damage to coastal populations and challenging the implementation of adaptation measures." - Stokes, C.R., Bamber, J.L., Dutton, A. et al. Warming of +1.5C is too high for polar ice sheets. Commun Earth Environ 6, 351 (2025).

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Fires cause record loss of tropical forests in climate threat

The UN Ocean Conference offers a rare opportunity for countries to correct their course on ocean health.

The UN Ocean Conference promises to be a rare event at which most of the key players are in the same location and free of the pressure-cooker atmosphere of a treaty negotiation. They must make the most of this opportunity. Tide and time wait for no one.

Californians deserve a clearer view of whats driving skyrocketing insurance costs

"Under the Trump administration, the federal government is abandoning its responsibility to support communities facing climate catastrophe."

This chart of the planets forests should frighten you

Brazil, Bolivia, and other tropical forest countries lost staggering amounts of trees in 2024 due to forest fires linked to climate change and agriculture

Is solar radiation management worth the risk for climate-vulnerable countries

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6,7 milioni (milioni) di ettari in fumo solo nella foresta amazzonica.Qui, tra poco, non respiriamo pi.Altroch.

ICYMI: The Clarion Clipperton Zone holds a surprise: metal-rich nodules surrounded by unique marine life. Scientists have found over 5,000 species there, but 90% still await formal scientific names!

From "gummy squirrel" sea cucumbers to walking and carnivorous sponges with tiny hooks, this examines the in an area covering half of 's surface that we've barely begun to understand.

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"Climate scientists are trusted globally, just not as much as other scientists heres why"

Hope and Defeatism #15/1515

Walking to the bus stop in light rain, for which I was grateful as the allotment needs watering, I remembered singing the nursery rhyme "rain rain go away" as a child. Yet in this era of climate change and extreme weather, it's perverse to think we'd ever want to wish the rain away.

A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal kingdom.

"Even just 20cm of by 2050 would lead to global flood damages of at least $1tn a year for the worlds 136 largest coastal cities and huge impacts on peoples lives and livelihoods.

However, the scientists emphasised that every fraction of a degree of global heating avoided by action still matters..."

MIT Technology Review provided a comprehensive per-query energy analysis for AI text, image, and video models, accounting for hidden infrastructure and cooling costs.
AIs energy demand is rapidly escalating Meta and Microsoft are eyeing new nuclear plants OpenAIs Stargate initiative proposes $500 billion for up to 10 data centers Apple plans $500 billion in US manufacturing and data centers Google will spend $75 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025.
From 2017 to 2023, data-center electricity consumption doubled, now consuming 4.4 % of US power, with a carbon intensity 48 % higher than the US average.
Inference (serving user queries) consumes 8090 % of AIs computing power, surpassing training workloads.
Text-model inference energy Meta Llama 3.1 8B uses 57 J GPU (114 J total) per response Llama 3.1 405B uses 3,353 J GPU (6,706 J total).
Image generation Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (10241024) uses 1,141 J GPU (2,282 J total) doubling diffusion steps roughly doubles energy.
Video generation CogVideoXs older model used 109 kJ per 5 s clip its newer higher-quality version uses 3.4 MJ per 5 s.
A hypothetical day of 15 text queries, 10 image attempts, and 3 five-second videos consumes 2.9 kWh (10 minutes of microwave or 100+ miles on an e-bike).
Data centers rely on 60 % fossil fuels, 20 % nuclear, 20 % renewables often tapping dirtier grids that run 24/7.
Carbon intensity varies by region and time (e.g., California 70 gCO/kWh by day vs 300 gCO/kWh at night West Virginia much higher).
In 2024 US data centers used 200 TWh AI-specific servers 5376 TWh by 2028 AI could demand 165326 TWh/year, enough for 22 % of US households.
Closed-source model providers share little data, creating black boxes that impede accurate energy and emissions planning.

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Pope Leo Could be the Planets Hope

In a world on fire, Pope Leo could bring the moral clarity and healing we need

That makes the climate crisis which hits marginalized communities hardest an affront to Gods Being. By the same token, it means that fighting for climate justice is the Lords work.

you never heard of or "mandatory Update Support"

• Oh and to add insult to injury, not only will your car's road legality be revoked if you remove but if your manufacturer or it's componentbmanufacturer decide so they can just your car and functionality, including disabling functionality, and since that may result in a vehicle less secure than originally approved it'll also not be road legal anymore...

So welcome to the where can just decide to make your car illegal and where legislators think "This is fine!" because apparently they don't give a shit about and how much energy it takes to build and their components!

Dieser berlebenskampf wird in Krze verloren sein.This fight for survival will soon be lost.

My late father used to live in the last house on the riverward side of Main st - the corner of that tiny creek and the river. It was an old oysterman's place he spent a number of years rebuilding. There's been two record-height flood events since he sold it.

Speaking of climate change, here is a perspective from a herder in Mongolia: "It is as if we stopped having winter and summer. Now, it seems we have just prolonged spring and fall with more erratic weather."

NSW just keeps getting hit with these record one-in-500-year floods:
Perhaps it could have something to do with us burning ever-increasing amounts of toxic fossil fuels
And the air pollution from those toxic fossil fuels trapping energy from the sun, causing global warming of our atmosphere and oceans
Those warmer oceans and atmosphere would mean more frequent, severe bushfires, droughts, heatwaves, cyclones, hurricanes and floods.
In which case, the federal government approving new coal mines is probably a bad idea:
Also, the cost for fossil fuel pollution climate disasters should be covered by the fossil fuel companies that profited.
Because otherwise, the polluters externalise the costs of the disasters caused by the toxic products they sell.

A new study shows that even if we overshoot 1.5C and cool back down, glacier melt and reduced runoff will continue for centuries - some changes are irreversible

Just finished watching '(In)Action' - a powerful documentary about shareholders challenging big oil. Feeling inspired and frustrated all at once. Here's a haiku I wrote: Oil giants tremble, Shareholders rise, voices strong, Future's hope takes flight.

this is infuriating that under government officials get to profit from Marcos failed/sloweddown drought protection (irrigation systems ) making (illegal) rice smuggling more profitable without getting punished.

Marcos gang behaves as Mafia like as under whom drug and gambling groups of officials became a monopoly

EUs chocolate crisis worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn

For three of the commodities cocoa, wheat and maize two-thirds of imports came from countries whose biodiversity was deemed not to be intact, the analysis found.

The researchers said the damage to food production by climate breakdown was made worse by a decline in biodiversity that has left farms less resilient

NSW is copping rain and flooding while parts of Australia are in drought. Whats going on

cause record loss of tropical forests in climate threat

The world's tropical , which provide a crucial buffer against , disappeared faster than ever recorded last year, new satellite analysis suggests.

Researchers estimate that 67,000 sq km (26,000 sq mi) of these pristine, old-growth forests were lost in 2024 an area nearly as large as the Republic of Ireland, or 18 football pitches a minute.

NATUURLIJK JAN 10 HUISZWALUW

In de tiende aflevering van Natuurlijk Jan praat Jan met veldbioloog Theunis Piersma. Hij weet alles van en over de huiszwaluw. Aan zijn huis zitten tientallen nesten. Ook vertelt hij waarom het niet zo goed gaat met dit bijzondere vogeltje.

- World Resources Institute (WRI) - "WRI works to improve peoples lives, protect and restore nature, and stabilize the climate. As an independent research organization, we leverage our data, expertise and global reach to influence policy and catalyze change across systems like food, land and water energy and cities. To enable progress at the pace and scale needed, we also work to shift the economic, finance and governance structures that shape peoples decisions and behaviors." - WRI

Europes Farm Sector Loses 28 Billion a Year From Climate Risks

The European Unions agriculture industry is losing 28 billion ($31.5 billion) a year due to increasing climate risks,
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- Global Forest Loss Shatters Records in 2024, Fueled by Massive Fires - "Global forest loss surged to record highs in 2024, driven by a catastrophic rise in fires, according to new data from the University of Marylands GLAD Lab, made available on World Resources Institutes Global Forest Watch platform. Loss of tropical primary forests alone reached 6.7 million hectares nearly twice as much as in 2023 and an area nearly the size of Panama, at the rate of 18 soccer fields every minute. ... In 2024, the hottest year on record, extreme conditions fueled by climate change and El Nio made these fires more intense and harder to control. Although forests have the ability to recover from fire, the combined pressures of land conversion and a changing climate can hinder that recovery and raise the likelihood of future fires." - World Resources Institute

- Fires cause record loss of tropical forests in threat

Billionaire-hoarders are the leading cause of the current Extinction Event.

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My wife's latest blog.

The future of humanity is under threat by Climate Chaos. This problem is man-made & since it is man-made it is up to us to deal with it.

This is where our biggest challenge arises. Sadly there are no worldwide protests - only a sleeping giant cowed by uncertainty & unwillingness to act.

The world will only change if each and every one of us demands it. We need to find our courage and tell our politicians to act.

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Scientists Warn of Irreversible Ice Sheet Melting Threatening Coastal Communities