"Assuming temperature increases projected through 2035, which are probably understated, food inflation will increase by 0.92 to 3.23% per year, while headline inflation will rise between 0.32 and 1.18% per year. US wildfires and Europes recent and persistent droughts and crop failures are really just the thin end of this inflationary wedge."

John Wheeler: Climate change and tornadoes InForum

FARGO Is our warming climate changing the threat of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms From the political sides
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"Rich countries are dragging their feet on producing new plans to combat the climate crisis, thereby putting the poor into greater danger, some of the worlds most vulnerable nations have warned."

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Environ 89 % des citoyens souhaitent que leurs gouvernements fassent davantage pour lutter contre la crise climatique, mais ils ne savent pas quils constituent la majorit.... :

Lassociation Les Amis de la Terre International alerte sur linterdpendance des crises du climat et de la biodiversit, dans un rapport publi mardi. Elle pointe plusieurs fausses solutions qui aggravent leffondrement du vivant au motif de la dcarbonation de nos activits.

Threatens Fjords

"Britain will accelerate push to net zero, Starmer tells energy summit"

I've created ebook versions of my hopeful climate fiction "Standing Wave" and "Running AMOC", both EPUB and PDF. You can also read them on line at

"Standing Wave" is about a team of fedizens searching for a long-lost climate model. The main actors are a Mongolian Soviet researcher and his US counterpart, some time in the 1970s.

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"Runnning AMOC" is about the impending collapse of the Gulf stream. The protagonist is an Indonesian-Dutch woman of around fifty.

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How climate change could affect arsenic in rice

Dutch industry annually causes around 7 billion in climate and health damage: study

At BP weve reset our value for shareholders. Going upstream, focusing downstream. Transition energies are a much smaller but key part of our business.
- BP podcast ad campaign.

Shareholders, eh
Theyll be the death of us.

Protesters demand climate action from Governor Stein, Criticize Duke Energys fossil fuel expansion :: WRAL.com

Protesters gathered at the Governors mansion Saturday to send a message to Governor Josh Stein about climate concerns.
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I use to think that would be a great way to address . I was wrong. At best I feel they are insufficient and way too prone to schemes and manipulation. Source is hard to measure and monitor and is pretty slippery.

So I have been exploring something different, fueled and then inspired by the lots of stuff, including the .

How about a

Universal Energy Tax offers a simple, transparent, and scalable approach to addressing climate change by focusing on energy consumption itself, rather than complex carbon accounting. Its key strengths are:
It is simple, and there is a level playing field for everyone.

By taxing all primary energy inputs (fossil, renewable, nuclear) proportionally to their environmental and societal costs, the system avoids regulatory loopholes and hidden subsidies. Everyone pays fairly based on usage, not wealth or location.

There is an automatic Incentive for efficiency as well. Because the tax is embedded in all energy use, it automatically rewards innovation, conservation, and cleaner technologies without the need for constant new regulations.

Kilowatt-hours (kWh) and joules (J) are universal, measurable quantities of energy, understood across industries and cultures. Because they directly reflect actual energy use, they offer a fair, transparent basis for applying a Universal Energy Tax.

So: Is a UNIVERSAL ENERGY TAX (UET) a good idea or a bad idea

How a Changing Climate Is Reshaping the Spread of Infectious Diseases

"...Then you have this convergence of crisesthe overlapping with the . So you get this intersection between air pollution and respiratory , and then infectious diseases more broadly, all layered on top of a changing .

When it comes to waterborne and foodborne diseases, the link to is even more direct. As temperatures rise, you create more favorable conditions for and other to multiply. They thrive in warm environmentssoil, water, contaminated areasso warming can increase their abundance.

events are also a big factor here. Aedes need water to complete their life cyclefrom egg to larva to pupa, it all happens in . When occur, all the discarded and lying around fill with water and becomes the ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes.

Whats interesting is that these diseases arent just associated with floodstheyre also linked to . That might seem counterintuitive at first, but in many parts of the world, people dont have safe, reliable access to clean water, especially during drought conditions. So they store water in containers that arent properly sealed or protected, which too can become the perfect breeding sites for mosquitoes.

Infectionsparticularly vector-borne diseasesare increasingly reemerging and emerging in new areas around the world for a lot of different reasons. Climate change is definitely part of that, with rising temperatures and more extreme weather events like floods and droughts. But the way we live our lives and interact with the environment also plays a huge role. I mean, first and foremost, most of us now live in urban areas rather than rural ones..."

: UK burnt area for 2025 already beats annual record

Unprecedented toxic algae bloom continues to kill Southern California whales and other wildlife

Unprecedented toxic algae bloom continues to kill Southern California whales and other wildlife by boppinmule
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- Wildfires: UK burnt area for 2025 already beats annual record

LibroFM is having an Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale

The sale includes Premee Mohamed's wonderful novella: The Annual Migration of Clouds

My Review:

This story starts with an acceptance letter to university in one of the remaining domes.

It is not the story of a girl from the waists struggling to integrate into privileged society.

This is a story about leaving a struggling community and an overprotective parent, with a mysterious fungal parasite to boot.

"New technologies are helping to regrow Arctic sea ice. But should we use them" by - An experiment in the Arctic pumps seawater up to thicken the top of the ice layer in winter, which then naturally promotes twice the additional thickness from the bottom of the ice as well. So far it shows areas treated this way have sea ice last longer into the summer. They're studying to understand environmental side effects/impacts.

Solar power, big batteries, and carbon removal good news on climate

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World on course to trigger multiple 'tipping points' unless action accelerates, research warns

Thought exercise:

Imagine a leader of the U.S.A. so unscrupulous that the Constitution no longer mattered, allyships were thrown by the wayside, and the rule of law only served the singular goal of his/her success toward his/her own goals.

OK, so maybe that part wasn't hard.

But, imagine his/her own goals revolved around unpolluting the Earth, stopping climate change, saving ourselves from capitalism-driven planetary destruction.

Are conflicted, or not

climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere grew at a record-breaking speed in 2024

Column: Forests Suffer as Climate Extremes Hammer Midwest

At 4,534 meters above sea level, they help monitor world climate change

By Lyu Qiuping, Li Linhai and Wang Jinjin (Xinhua) 08:13, April 27, 2025 XINING, April 26 (Xinhua)
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Why protesters spent Easter week suspended in coal carts

Humans have accelerated climate change like we could have never imagined. We are causing this, that means we have the power to stop it.

Global Warming and Extreme Weather: Are You Talking About More Disasters Ahead

Let me assure you, for our planets climate, it is a lot

The Greens are looking to achieve even greater success on 3 May, capitalising on the bloc of generally more progressive Gen Z and millennial voters, who outnumber baby boomers for the first time this election

Why s most prominent deniers have stopped talking about the climate

Wildfires: UK burnt area for 2025 already beats annual record

What kind of environmental toll has the Israel-Hamas War taken on

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And this is why we need to and -- especially the aging ones! This article outlines a very possible scenario -- but it could be a number of things, including a large ...

2030 Doomsday Scenario: The Great Collapse

A timeline of the for human civilization

"Humanity has constructed a doomsday Deadman switch that threatens civilization. Climate destruction will make it increasingly difficult to avoid the looming global nuclear catastrophe we've created.

"Here's how our future might unravel:
Late 2020s: Climate Red Alert and Infrastructure Strain

"By the late 2020s, Earths climate is in unprecedented turmoil. Global average temperatures are consistently 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Each year brings record-breaking heatwaves, freak floods, and droughts that batter infrastructure. Coastal cities flood more frequently, roads buckle in extreme heat, and power grids strain under surging demand for cooling.

"This cascade of climate disasters sets the stage for a systemic collapse: as societies grapple with runaway warming, the resilience of (power, water, transit) erodes.

"Energy systems enter a crisis even before 2030. Nuclear power, which in 2025 still provided about 9% of the worlds electricity from 440 reactors, becomes increasingly unreliable. Many nuclear plants struggle with climate stresses: cooling water sources heat up in summer, forcing reactors to reduce output or shut down to avoid unsafe temperatures. For example, a 2028 European pushes river and sea temperatures above 25C, triggering emergency shutdowns at multiple reactors that cannot be cooled effectively.

"At the same time, stronger storms and floods threaten reactor safety. Dozens of reactors worldwide are unprepared for , meaning a dam failure or could lead to a Fukushima-scale accident. Worrisome reports emerge of power plants in and where defenses are overtopped by and torrential rains.

"By 2029, global carbon output remains high, and natural feedback loops are kicking in. In the Arctic, permafrost thaws and releases methane creating a vicious warming cycle where initial warming triggers more emissions, leading to even more warming. Scientists caution that a tipping point is near, beyond which climate change becomes self-perpetuating (a true runaway scenario).

"Society approaches 2030 in a precarious state: aware of looming catastrophe yet unprepared for its speed. The stage is set for the coming collapse, with power grids and nuclear facilities - the backbone of the industrial world - already under severe strain.

Early 2030s: Blackouts and the First Reactor Crises

"2030 marks the breaking point.

"A confluence of climate catastrophes collapses power grids across multiple continents. A severe global heatwave in the summer of 2030 brings record electricity demand while many power plants (nuclear and coal alike) are derated or offline due to overheating coolant water.

"Then powerful Category 5 storms strike in succession: one hurricane inundates the U.S. Eastern seaboard, while an unprecedented typhoon swamps Southeast Asia. These knock out transmission lines and flood key substations, leading to prolonged blackouts in dozens of major cities. Emergency systems are overwhelmed. With communications down and transportation paralyzed, manpower shortages become acute - many operators and engineers cannot reach their stations.

"Nuclear power plants are among the first to feel the emergency. Grid failure triggers automatic reactor SCRAMs (rapid shutdowns) at plants from Florida to France. Control rods halt the fission reactions, but decay heat in reactor cores still needs cooling for days to prevent meltdown.

"Normally, backup diesel generators would power the cooling pumps, but the scale of the means diesel resupply is uncertain and some generators fail in flooded facilities. In a grim reflection of 2011s Fukushima disaster, several coastal reactors lose all power as storm surges drown their backup generators.

"Within hours to days, the first meltdowns occur.

"In 2031, a reactor in South Asia becomes a flashpoint: its cooling pumps falter after the grid collapse, leading the core to overheat. The reactors heart melts through containment in a matter of days, releasing a plume of radioactive steam and debris.

"Nearby, an even greater danger unfolds: the plants spent fuel pool, packed with years of highly radioactive spent rods, boils dry without cooling. Exposed to air, the zirconium cladding of the fuel ignites, triggering a fire that belches long-lived radioisotopes directly into the atmosphere. This nightmare scenario - once narrowly avoided at by heroic ad-hoc measures - now plays out in full."

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is understandably dominated by threats from no. 47.

But DYK: 2 out of 3 Canadians agree that the the next Canadian government should make and protecting nature a high priority

seeps into every aspect of our lives. Conservatives have made *no* commitments.

Greenpeace Canada laid out a summary of Federal parties' commitments. (the "" mark means "unclear")

Katie Bruno stood in a parking lot across the street from the North Carolina Executive Mansion Saturday holding a sign with a big color picture of Gov. Josh Stein surrounded by the words, Be our Climate Champion.

For those playing at home, Power Plant's in Boyce's electorate of .

In a good year, it spews 5.73M tonnes of CO into the atmosphere in a bad onelike 2021a turbine explodes, leaving over 375,000 premises without power, and sending retail power prices through the roof.

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NYC Hospitals Are Nudging Patients Toward Plant-Based Meals. Its Working.

New York City is cutting emissions and saving money by making vegetarian meals the default in public hospitals. Its successful because most people go with the flow

Long Branch and 22 other NJ Towns to-date Want Big Oil to Pay for Climate Damages But Is the Law on Their Side

Long Branch Latest to Support Climate Superfund Amid Growing Questions of Responsibility