(18/18)
- Colombie interdiction usage du pour sparer la roche et l' extractions mine aurifre -> faune flore + orpaillage illgal continuent.
- USA : scheresse -> Incendie meurtrier Los Angeles (cf 2025).

If Labor is giving a free pass to burn the planet until *at least* 2070, the Labor Party doesnt see gas as a transition energy.

The performative should be held in Australia just so people can come here to pillory our spineless govts on their betrayal.

Has an environment minister ever twisted themselves into such a logical pretzel to scurry out from under their heinous betrayal as Chris Bowen is now on

Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades

Weiwei Wang, et al.
2 Jan 2025

Abstract:

" has experienced more-intense and longer fire seasons with more-frequent uncontrollable over the past decades. However, the effect of these changes remains unknown. This study identifies driving forces of burn severity and estimates its spatiotemporal variations in Canadian forests. Our results show that fuel aridity was the most influential driver of burn severity, summer months were more prone to severe burning, and the northern areas were most influenced by the changing climate. About 6% (0.54 to 14.64%) of the modeled areas show significant increases in the number of days conducive to high-severity burning during 1981 to 2020, most of which were found during 2001 to 2020 and in the spring and autumn. The extraordinary 2023 fire season demonstrated similar spatial patterns but more-widespread escalations in burn severity."

Source behind paywall:

From 2023: Warming Set the Stage for Canadas Record Fires, Study Finds

has made hot, dry and windy conditions like those that fueled this years blazes at least twice as common as they would otherwise be.

By Raymond Zhong
Aug. 22, 2023

"Hot, dry and gusty conditions like those that fed this years in eastern Canada are now at least twice as likely to occur there as they would be in a world that humans hadnt warmed by burning , a team of researchers said Tuesday, providing a first scientific assessment of climate changes role in intensifying the countrys fires.

"So far this year, fires have ravaged 37 million acres across nearly every Canadian province and territory. Thats more than twice as large as the amount of Canadian land that burned in any other year on record. Tens of thousands of people including most of Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories have fled their homes. Smoke has turned the air toxic in cities as far south as Atlanta.

"Wildfires can be ignited by lightning or human-related causes such as unattended campfires, downed power lines and arson. The way fires spread and grow is shaped by the structure and composition of the forests and landscape. But heat, rain and snow affect how flammable the trees and brush are, which can determine how intensely blazes burn and how tough they are to put out.

"In an analysis issued Tuesday, researchers with the World Weather Attribution initiative estimated that eastern Canada now had a 4 to 5 percent chance, in any given year, of experiencing high-fire-risk conditions as severe or worse than this years. This likelihood is at least double what it would be in a hypothetical world without human-caused climate change, they said. And the probability will increase as nations blanket the planet with more heat-trapping gases.

" 'Fire-weather risks due to climate change are increasing,' said Dorothy Heinrich, a technical adviser at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center who worked on the analysis. 'Both mitigation and dedicated adaptation strategies are going to be required to reduce the drivers of risk and decrease its impacts on peoples lives, livelihoods and communities.' "

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MIT boffins prototype liquid sodium battery for transport
would be very interesting if it could work

trying to get 767 people out of northern community as closes in

'It's very smoky here and it's getting thicker, because the fire's at our doorstep': Chief Monias

Darren Bernhardt CBC News Posted: May 29, 2025

"A wildfire is at the threshhold of Pimicikamak Cree Nation, choking the air with smoke, as the northern Manitoba community's leaders work to get 767 people out.

" 'Many that couldn't get out because the junction at Highway 374 and Highway 373 is their lifeline to Norway House, and now it's being compromised by the fire and the smoke,' Chief David Monias said Thursday morning.

"Pimicikamak had started a precautionary evacuation Friday as wildfires impacted air quality. Residents were flown out from the airport in the community, about 530 kilometres north of Winnipeg on the shores of Cross Lake, but high winds and dry conditions worsened the situation this week

...

"Those in Pimicikamak are among 17,000 expected to be evacuated as fires intensify in both northern and eastern Manitoba.

"Premier Wab Kinew on Wednesday evening declared a provincewide state of emergency.

"Evacuation orders have also been issued for , , Nation (also known as Mathias Colomb First Nation), First Nation and .

"In addition to Cree Nation, Cree Nation (Easterville) is under an evacuation notice, with people ordered to be ready to leave.

"The majority of the evacuees will head to Winnipeg and will be housed at large facilities such as community centres, soccer fields and arenas, Monias said."

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cette catastrophe dorigine naturelle a en fait rvl la catastrophe sociale de toute la rgion.
- Srecko Horvat

- Tribunal international de La Haye condamne Japon pour chasse illgale la baleine dans le sanctuaire baleinier antarctique.
- dbut pidmie (cf 2012 2016).

(11/11)
- fou transportant ptrole extrait du schiste de Bakken (USA) explosion Lac Mgantic au Qubec (Canada) -> usage du train car pipelines saturs par production trop importante suite gnralisation fracturation hydraulique qui facilite l'extraction du
- Inondations Danube Hongrie Orban.

How is a powerful, yet surprising, solution

Citizen scientists have an important role in monitoring the massive algal blooms around Australia's southern coast.
South Australia's 2025 Algal Bloom: What We Know, What We're Learning. Great Southern Reef

If you're as confused (& angry) as me about why north west shelf gas has been extended, this provides insight.

Japan state-controlled energy security company :
threatens to stop investment in Australia & cut relations
dumps C02 under the Bonaparte Basin off the north coast.

(15/16) ... confession juive et un chanteur ex sportif franco-camerounais : "Cochon qui s'en ddit. ... On refera une fourne la prochaine fois." -> jug pour provocation haine raciale (cf 1993 1988 1987 2021) + Antilles tude Kannari Anses/Sant publique France : dtect chez plus de 90 % des individus.
- Ex-Yougoslavie : inondations meurtrires

(12/12)

Cf atomickermstdn.ca : "Pas de , pas de preuves, pas de vrit, pas de dmocratie".

Carbon capture is not a climate solutionits a fossil fuel lifeline

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is receiving renewed attention. With billions of dollars in subsidies flowing from the Inflation Reduction Act and high-profile backing from major fossil fuel companies, CCS is being touted as a critical solution to the climate crisis

(7/7)
- Avatar : tabac finance .
- France : SCEA Le Bihan phytosanitaire (cf 2011 2013 2020 2021) + Tempte Klaus.
- dbut porcine (cf 2003 2010)

I can just about put up with the cold and rain, but must we have this incessant wind We've seen lows down to 39F/4C 7 inches /18cm of rain and wind gusts to 40mph / 65kph this month. Good riddance to the month of May. I'm expecting you to do a lot better, June...

a master class on press conferences by via

(6/6)
- Darfour guerre milices janjawids -> famine / gnocide -> migrations.
- Alstom (France) acqurir des contrats Tawan/Indonsie/gypte/Arabie saoudite/etc. jusqu'en 2011.
- Syrie match de Qamichli : supporteurs kurdes et 'arabes' chantent les louanges de Saddam Hussein (cf 1988) -> forces de scurit syriennes ouvrent le feu sur la foule (cf ).

'mutated perspective'

Swiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the world

> The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

(9/9) ... font croire influences positives Jeux vidos pour attention visuelle (cf 2012).- lobbies numriques font croire influences positives Jeux vidos pour attention visuelle (cf 2012).
- fin de l'pidmie de (cf 1981 2002 2009).

(6/6) ... excessive accorde aux minorits (cf thorie woke MAGA Donald 2016 2024) -> .

Which companies stand to profit the most from climate change

Photo: Nicola/stock.adobe.com According to a report by Swiss Re, a global insurance provider, climate change could erode
-Change

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Sixteen tomato plants, 2 cucumber plants and 7 sweet pepper plants all sown by me in April and in their final (4th) containers in the greenhouse before the month of June. Just. For me this is a record. Thanks to the warmest Spring for years.
The greenhouse is kept frost-free and seeds are raised in an electric propagator but no other heating is used.
The 4 containers are seed tray, 3" pot, 5" pot and final pot/trough.

Wild fires in Canada again. Seems to happen there every year now. In the future no forests there will be untouched by fire.

is real.

(8/8)
- France : personnes dcdes ayant eu VIH/Sida exclues des soins funraires + BRGM arrt mine Ronze : tonnage modeste/diminution du cours du cuivre/zinc + coupe du monde (cf ) -> succs populaire mdiatique + match USA/Iran messages dapaisement diplomatiques.

An excellent set of maps and information on the wildfire impact compiled by CBC.

It includes the AQHI (air quality health index) for Canadian cities.

The map of smoke shows the continental United States as well.

17 min

Yay. :ablobcatknitsweats:

The life and death of Microsofts Moonshot

RIP to Microsofts moonshot. 2020 2025. Born in an era of , months after the 2019 global climate strikes. Found dead in May 2025, crushed under big techs generative AI stampede.

For five long and beautiful years, Microsoft has tortured the moonshot metaphor when describing its climate goals. In its landmark 2020 announcement, VP Brad Smith :

"Reducing carbon is where the world needs to go, and we recognize that its what our customers and employees are asking us to pursue. This is a bold bet  a moonshot  for Microsoft. And it will need to become a moonshot for the world"

It was big talk, but big talk was common at the start of this decade. After the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, high-emitting companies and countries realised you could deploy grandiose Obama-style without really having to demonstrate real, immediate emissions reductions. The moon landing is a favourite in this category of intense over-promising. Norways failed adventure in CCS was presented in the 2000s as the project. Googles moonshot factory, the now-awkwardly-named X, is without having solved climate change.

In 2021, after seeing mild emissions reductions and some purchased carbon removal, the company :

"Using our moonshot analogy, I think of it this way  if our goal is to get to the moon by the end of this decade, this is the equivalent of sending an astronaut into orbit around the earth. It puts us on the right path, but we have a long journey ahead"

The astronaut is in space! Good news. Now lets take a big sip of coffee and check the status in May :

In 2020, we unveiled what we called our carbon moonshot. That was before the explosion in artificial intelligence......so in many ways the moon is five times as far away as it was in 2020, if you just think of our own forecast for the expansion of AI and its electrical needs"

Oh no, the moon moved five times further away. I hate it when the moon does that.

Heres what actually happened: Microsoft built the rocket, left the atmosphere, and shot off in precisely the wrong direction. Then blamed the moon for suddenly being too far away, as they intentionally hurtled away from it.

The companys decision makers have actively chosen to massively expand the energy they directly consume (mostly in data centres), and the energy they indirectly consume (mostly manufacturing devices and building new data centres). These numbers have risen massively in recent years, and that means the companys emissions have risen too, garnering last year about the company missing its targets.

In February 2025, Microsoft offered an :

"In 2020, Microsoft leaders referred to our sustainability goals as a moonshot, and nearly five years later, we have had to acknowledge that the moon has gotten further away. However, the force creating this distance from our goals in the short term is the same one that will help us build a bigger, faster, and more powerful rocket to reach them in the long term: artificial intelligence (AI)"

This contains a tacit admission the companys AI-specific investments are a rocket thats blasting them in the wrong direction but also that the rocket will become so powerful they can turn around and zoom back towards the moon. In case you were thinking that sounds like hyperbole, just relax. This is what they put at the end of that paragraph:

"This is not hyperbole"

Fast forward to May 2025. The moonshot has met a sad and subtle end: Microsofts latest unceremoniously dumps the metaphor, unmentioned in the blog post or the full report. We have lost all communication with the rocket, and its being scrubbed from the databases.

We have come back down to Earth with a far simpler analogy:

As we remain focused on sustained progress towards our 2030 goals, it has become clear that our journey towards being carbon negative is a marathon, not a sprint. 

Okay, its a marathon now. But the same problem exists: on a journey towards a goal, you should be heading towards the goal, not away from it (whether thats the moon, or a finish line). This is really the absolute basics of running a marathon.

For every step the company takes towards the end, they take another 500 backwards. Microsoft is rocketing / marathon-running / whatever-ing in the wrong direction.

It is clear that however climate factors into the companys decisions, the anxious chasing of maximum generative content infecting every piece of software takes precedence every time. That is a race the company is truly invested in: the frantic, senseless and hyperactive competition to inject generative text, images and videos into every single piece of software in existence, in the hope that something sticks, and that the thing that sticks saves an industry that stopped inventing new and useful things a decade ago. An industry that stopped inventing useful things a decade ago is resorting to environmentally ruinous anxiety-driven growth mania. Lets dig into the details.

Power and glory

Big tech consumes a lot of electrical energy. Data centres provide cloud services (like emails, file storage, video calls or streaming) but in recent years, theyve been used to both train and operate generative machine learning models, which output text, images, and video based off vast amounts of scraped content, mostly used without permission. These processes tend to use different chips: devices that run far hotter, and consume than traditional chips in data centres. Very soon, machine learning will surpass Bitcoin mining of data centre expansion.

The latest update1 from Microsoft shows that the electricity consumption of the company continues to rise. It isnt linear the amount by which it rises is rising, too. That is to say: its growth is accelerating. Meta and Microsoft in particular are on an absolute tear:

In Microsofts latest report the company brags about how it has only seen a 23% increase in emissions, relative to a 168% increase in energy use, and a 71% increase in revenue growth. Well come back to emissions, but implicit in that statement is the fact their energy consumption is growing far faster than their revenue:

For the company to make a million bucks in 2020, it burned through 75 megawatt hours of energy. To make a million bucks in 2024, it had to burn through 122 megawatt hours: a 60% increase.

It also matters where their facilities consume electrical energy. The vast majority of Microsofts power consumption is concentrated in the United States:

Which is important, because American power grids tend to be heavily reliant on fossil gas. When you multiply the amount of power consumption by the average emissions intensity of the grids on which Microsoft consumes power, you get location based emissions a rough but reasonable estimate of the emissions relating to that power consumption. In 2024, it was just under ten million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Microsoft does not include this in its headline emissions data it uses an adjusted figure known as market based emissions. In short: Microsoft claims its actions were the reason some renewable energy came into existence, and generated energy. In claiming that for itself, it also claims the actual electrical energy as its own: clean, and zero emissions. It all depends on whether the company really did cause the renewable energy to exist.

I know this is confusing and I am sorry, but please stick with me, because its important.

Microsoft can claim to have caused new renewable energy additions in two ways: either by buying certificates generated by clean energy facilities, or entering into power purchasing agreements with new or existing sites.

In practice, the certificates option makes little sense. Buying an old certificate that was generated by a hydro plant built in the 1980s on the other side of the world is dodgy: theres no chance your purchase helped incentivise that hydro plant. You didnt cause climate action, and its wrong to claim that renewable power as your own. It has a lot in common with the problems around carbon offsetting. The contracts are a bit better, because theres more chance it helped bring renewable energy online, but not much better.

To demonstrate why this matters so much, here are a bunch of actual (location, purple) vs adjusted (market, green) data for some large tech companies:

Microsoft has shifted away from the heavily criticised certificates towards doing deals (power purchase agreements, or PPAs) with clean power facilities. These deals are much more likely to be a thing that helps bring a wind or solar farm into reality. Now, only 22% of the companys market based reductions came from certificates:

PPAs, however, exist on a big fuzzy spectrum. Can Microsoft really claim to have been responsible for a wind farm generating power if it already exists As analytics firm NewClimate Institute 2:

"While this shift to PPAs is positive, it is not a silver bullet for reducing electricity-related emissions: long-term contracts for local PPAs are more likely to provide effective support for increasing renewable capacity in a grid, but the causality regarding the additionality of this support is complex and uncertain"

The companys nuke deals are a great example of this:

"Indeed, Microsoft has recently signed agreements with existing nuclear plant operators in the USA and Canada to purchase RECs on an hourly basis (Microsoft, 2022c Constellation, 2023) and signed a PPA for a fusion power plant that is scheduled to start operating in 2028 (Helion, 2023). Buying RECs from existing nuclear power plants does not drive the development of additional zero-carbon energy capacity"

Microsoft has also promised to use a significantly more accurate method for matching its power demand to renewable energy output (hourly matching), but this only garners one brief mention in the report, and they share no details on progress.

This is a big part of how companies that are seeing their electrical energy consumption skyrocketing (away from the moon) take the edge off that trend. Microsoft highlight the discrepancy between their emissions and energy increases because theyre good at adjusting the data. But that is purely contractual, rather than a measured physical change in real emissions.

The supply chain question

As Microsoft acknowledge in their own report, there is a massive supply chain flowing into the company (think: steel used in a data centre) and flowing out of it (think: the power consumption of a Surface laptop).

Microsoft report far more of these scope 3, indirect emissions than most other major tech companies do and with more detail. But read the footnotes, caveats, and adjustments, and you start to recognise a few worrying things.

The first is the use of something Microsoft calls management criteria. A few scope 3 categories are calculated using a unique methodology. Heres an example: instead of calculating the lifetime emissions of every product sold in that year, they calculate the 1-year emissions of every product sold prior. Heres the adjusted figures against the raw (again, the adjusted numbers the ones used in the headline emissions figures) for all scope 3 emissions:

In 2024, the difference between the two methods isnt massive. And the unadjusted numbers above lookokay The companys scope 3 emissions seem to have fallen for the first time in a long time. But when you break it down into the categories, a lot of weird things emerge.

Category 2 capital goods is rising fast thanks to the companys continued heavy investments into building new data centres. Their investments in green steel and green concrete are clearly dwarfed by the massive scale of their build-out.

But emissions from the use of sold products have plummeted, and category 1 emissions have fallen slightly. Why Are these due to material reductions in energy consumption (such as ), or are Microsoft being told by third parties that theyve bought renewable energy certificates

One estimate comes from a 2024 from Stand.Earth, which found that most of Microsofts suppliers mostly rely on fossil fuels, and where they claim to be using renewable energy, most of that comes from the highly suspect certificates rather than any less-bad claims of renewable sourcing. I would bet theres a good chance Microsoft is simply accepting the claims of suppliers cleanliness here, and reproducing them as if they count as real climate action and falling scope 3 emissions.

Tellingly, for Scope 3 Category 3 (the emissions that relate to extracting, processing and using fuels for energy, like methane dumping for fossil gas), Microsoft oddly stopped reporting unadjusted (location-based) figures starting in last years report. In fact, every scope 3 category is market based with no view of what the unadjusted (location based) numbers actually look like.

As good as Microsoft is at disclosing more supply chain information than most, it is pretty clear that there is still a lot being hidden here things that very materially impact the overall picture the company is presenting on its emissions. All we can say for sure is that even the unadjusted numbers for scope 3 are actually adjusted and that the real impacts are higher than the company is reporting. Again: taking the edge off the severity of the companys direction as it races frantically towards higher consumption of fossil fuelled energy.

The carbon removals bubble

Microsoft dont count carbon offsets against their total headline emissions numbers this is good. But Microsoft talks about carbon removal a lot. It features prominently on their website, in this sustainability report and across social media and in interviews. There is a about the companys carbon removal contracts seemingly every few .

While their contracts with renewable energy deliver electrical energy rapidly after signing, there doesnt seem to have been any material delivery of contracted carbon removal, with the space in between the amount delivered and amount contract widening each year:

Microsoft promises to remove all of its operational emissions since 1970 and if the reported contracts in this report are fulfilled and the companies actually remove and permanently store carbon, thatll be fulfilled comfortably.

Heres the problem: while the carbon removal industry has been going wild with contracts, pre-purchases and trading, only a small fraction of those future contracts have actually been delivered as real permanent removal of carbon from the atmosphere. All the hype and hysteria of big tech combined with the physical challenges of removing carbon from the atmosphere are combining to create what looks alarmingly like a removals bubble3.

This could be accepted as the expected circumstances of an early-stage atmospheric clean-up project. But the worlds biggest polluters, fossil fuel lenders, and worst-emitting tech companies are the ones lining up to buy contracts, and carbon offsets from undelivered removals are being traded and claimed against emissions. That makes this industry look way more like than solar.

You can see this same pattern of massive contracting and under-delivery reflected in global carbon removals (partly because Microsoft comprises such a wildly of global pre-purchasing):

What actually happens if Microsofts all-in bet on carbon removal does not eventuate It has clearly skewed its efforts towards emitting first and removing later, rather than reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the source. If the bubble pops, the company will simply be left a decade of absurdly steep emissions growth.

Post-Moonshot Microsoft

Microsoft claim that their emissions rose 23%, from 2020 to 2024. That alone is not a good look, but if you take away the certificate / contractual adjustments to emissions (at least, the ones we know about), and the companys own criteria for scope 3, and you get something more like a 55.4% increase:

This becomes even more stark when you compare the latest data to the chart4 of projected emissions reductions and carbon removal depicted in the 2020 report, when the moonshot was announced:

What are we even doing here There is no relationship between this panicky software goliath going all-in on energy-intensive generative slop and the hard physical reality of what an explosion in energy demand means for fossil fuel combustion.

The industry is pivoting to their AI investments will create climate solutions that undo all the damage and solve the climate crisis. It is the same break-first-fix-later wishful thinking as we see in high-emitting carbon removal investments, or in geo-engineering. Microsoft obscures what proportion of its energy usage goes to what type of applications of AI because the reality is most of it probably relates to the Copilot-generating-spam type, not the AI-predicting-the-weather type.

Microsoft also intentionally excludes its sales of machine learning software services to the fossil fuel industry from its reports. The campaign, helmed by two former Microsoft sustainability folks, explains how Microsoft once bragged openly about helping oil and gas companies figure out how to extract significantly more fossil fuels.

The moonshot era is done. While Microsoft is keeping its climate targets on paper, it treats them as functionally non-existent. Nothing will override the panicked expansion of data centre power consumption, and nothing will truly neutralise the increase in fossil fuel combustion that occurs as a consequence.

Increasingly, people in tech, data centre and fossil fuel industries are saying out loud what was once whispered in secret: there is trying or fix , when you can promise a future super intelligent robot will pick up the pieces.

The shallow promise of a sci-fi future climate-fixing machine intelligence is sometimes believed sincerely, and sometimes presented cynically. Either way, it does the same job: hype-washing the material, real and measurable damage these companies are doing today.

Microsofts blend of righteousness and destructiveness is exceedingly dangerous. Explosive energy demand incentivises fossil fuels. It redirects new renewables into servicing the anxieties of tech executives rather than the deep machete cut into fossil fuel combustion we need right away. The glossy, shallow stories of instil a wide-eyed overconfidence, as their bloated generative slop rocket fires them in precisely the wrong direction, burning us up in their wake.

The era of the empty climate pledge is over. No logical plea will pierce the buzzing illogical anxiety driving these business decisions. The only way to protect ourselves is to criticise this mess directly, and forcefully. If they arent stopped, the damage theyll do is physically irreversible.

This is not hyperbole.

1. You can access the full dataset Ive created collating tech company emissions data
2. The whole report is really worth reading if youre into a more technical analysis of the companys renewable claims it also goes into detail on the whole concept of time-matching renewable energy, which very interesting.
3. Joe Romm has been writing in plenty of detail about many of the with Microsofts carbon removal deals, including in this seminal from a few years ago.
4. May I strongly suggest using if you want to extract data from charts!

(10/10)
- contrat commercial Heinekein + Belvedere JamesBond + "Spyfie" via Facebook (cf 2025) -> > 45 millions de $.
- Vague de (Europe) avec 3 000 dcs en France.
- Lac Popo mort

If the Liberals weren't such a mess they could hold Labor to account on emissions
By Jacob Greber

Given the backlash, Labor was politically canny to postpone its Woodside decision until after the election.

Tornado Quest Top Science Links For May 24 31, 2025  

Infographic courtesy NOAA/National Weather Service Greetings to all and thanks so much for visiting. Across much of the USA severe weather activity has kept pace with the time of the year. May may be drawing to a close, but that doesn't mean tornado activity will wind down. I'm continuing with your tornado safety information again this week along with a reminder on lightning and flash flood safety.

made weather conditions leading to deadly South Korean about twice as likely World Weather Attribution
More than a dozen fires broke out on March 22nd and 23rd and spread rapidly over the following days. More than 48,000 hectares burned over 20,000 hectares more than the second most devastating wildfires, in April 2022, and more than ten times the annual average burnt area.

"Every fall, winter ticks in New England sit on shrubs or other plants waiting for a large animal to pass by so they can latch on and begin sucking out blood. This has a huge impact on the areas moose, wildlife biologists say.

'They basically become zombies and die,' Eric Orff, a New Hampshire-based wildlife biologist, said. 'We have zombie moose.'

According to estimates from New Hampshire Fish and Game, the Granite States moose population peaked in the late 1990s at around 7,000 to 8,000 moose. It has since declined to roughly 3,000 to 4,000.

Most tick species move from host to host frequently, but winter ticks find a moose, deer, or other animal around November and extract their blood for the entirety of winter. And its not just one or a couple ticks on each host. Rather, hundreds or thousands of ticks often latch onto a host. This is a process called questing and it has a huge effect on moose, particularly calves.

'April is the month of death for calves,' Orff, who works as a field biologist at the National Wildlife Federation and serves as vice president of the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation, said. 'The adult ticks are feeding one more time before they fall off and they basically drain the mooses supply of blood.'

Around April, the female ticks fall off their hosts to lay their eggs. If they land on snow as opposed to dry land, the eggs are less fruitful. However, as climate change represses winter weather, tick populations have boomed."

'collisions'