"Deforestation, invasive species and climate change have contributed to the disappearance of over 1,400 bird species."

Everyone here in talking about , and snow created chaos .

Meanwhile here on , we're dealing with more torrential rain (which we've been getting regularly for months now) meaning that here at home we are still bailing out our groundwater filled basement every day. Probably twice today with the amout of rain we're getting.

The husband very cleverly brought a wetvac recently, so that makes the job quicker, but it's so demoralising when you come back the next day and the water is back again.

Polar Bear
- by Carl Griffin

A bear, formed from ice,
darkens the window
like drapes drawn on the outside.

Out from buckled willow
a mile further from polynya
than it naturally hunts

it stares, a furry
doubting Thomas,
into a translucent lounge

as if this could be the place
where seals are made.
Melting sea ice confines

the polar bears catch to here,
the first town of the melting.
It leans its weight against the window.

The amount of UK electricity generated from fossil fuels fell 22% year-on-year in 2023 to the lowest level since 1957, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.

made up just 33% of UK electricity supplies in 2023 their lowest ever share of which gas was 31%, coal just over 1% and oil just below 1%.

contributed to a record 42% and nuclear 13%. The remainder is from imports (7%) and other sources (3%).

I am taking the flight free challenge for 2024 Could you join me

It's not wrong per se. Everyone would need to reduce their carbon footprint to zero (or close to it) if we are to prevent further .

You're right to point out that the poor are close to zero footprint right now, so the biggest changes are necessary from the rich.

Still, it does matter what the poorest 50% do. If they will rush to simulate the lifestyles of the rich their footprint will grow and we'll be back to square one.

snowpack is 30% of average.

Here in , we still dont have any snow on the ground and its Jan 3rd. This, I have never seen. Im concerned that spring/summer will be abnormally dry again.

Reading an article about the Panama Canal. Water level very low, they are weighing options.

Article link here:

everything is fine

UK use of gas and coal for electricity at lowest since 1957, figures show

everything is fine

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Your weekly fix of everything .

Macrodose: How Interest Hikes Fuel

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"It was the third year this decade that sources, including wind, , and , outperformed , according to the analysis."

UK use of gas and coal for electricity at lowest since 1957, figures show Energy industry The Guardian

C'est pas bien grave, juste une petite anomalie climatique de quelques sicles, aprs a ira vachement mieux.
Si vous lisez l'apocalypse de Jean aprs la chaos la vie est toujours l, il faut juste passer le chaos, bon

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Il faut mettre fin aux dlires promthens d'une espces qui dtruits les quilibres qui permettent sa propre prennit mais aussi celle de nombreuses autres espces.

Dites NON aux hypers paquebots de croisires.

: this is a shocking report about s biggest critic being silenced as expansion plans continue to cater for projected growth in the number of the selfish who disregard their gross negative impacts. An average of 2.5 people per is outrageous. It is they who should be slapped with antisocial behaviour injunctions.

It will take years and billions of dollars to save the drought-stricken Panama Canal, a vital waterway that handles nearly half of all containers moving from Northeast Asia to the U.S. East Coast. That is if it's even possible.

's current climate action status: HIGHLY INSUFFICIENT

Last year was the UK's second warmest on record, according to provisional data from the Met Office.

This puts it just behind 2022, which recorded an average temperature of only 0.06C higher.

The national weather service said has made the high temperatures "significantly more likely".

"Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like , says a recent study"

As the year comes to a close, Joe Biden is hard at work getting dirty engines off the roads. Cummins, a diesel engine manufacturer, has just been fined $1.7 billion for providing Stellantis with engines which cheated on emissions readings. It is the biggest fine in Clean Air Act history.

"The Panama Canal is enmeshed in a crisis thats disrupting global trade. But it will take years and billions of dollars to fix The vestiges of an ancient forest tell the story of just how bad things are at the drought-stricken Panama Canal."

Hannah Ritchie: Doomsday predictions are a dream for climate deniers

Not quoting from it because I disagree with its lazy intellectual shortcuts of neoliberal convenience. Admittedly I haven't read it, but I feel like books like this are extremely dangerous because they tell us that positive thinking and magical technology can overcome human greed and the refusal of power to acknowledge the magnitude of danger we are in.

Wait, whaa..

The long-term forecast for on January 10, 2023 is...
9C (48F).

That's definitely not normal

"On this edition of Your Call's One Planet Series, activist and author Raj Patel discusses The Ants & the Grasshopper, a documentary that weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: the climate crisis, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and communities on the frontlines implementing solutions."

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2 degrees Celsius, walking on ice-free, snow-free trails. I feel disjointed.

A very good and concise article. The linked videos look very interesting too.

Thanks for sharing!

Job Alert!

Black scholar hires (2) in Food, Fuel, Bio(Fuels) with one focused on Ecology and other on Policy/Sustainability

See thread linked below. Positions close Jan. 15th.

2023 was mostly a really nice year, personally. Obviously being extremely privileged, living in a country which isn't at war, isn't really suffering from #climatechange (yet) and isn't a total police state (yet, we're going that way). I made new social connections, kept old ones alive and dug deeper into the wonderful world of #polyamory ('s to my darlings). I had many wonderful moments with my kids, who all stayed healthy and are growing up to be fantastic, if not sometimes annoying, little human beings. I traveled, visiting Brussels for FOSDEM + friends and then Prague, all by train, and then a family trip to the UK by plane. I went to awesome #gigs, the highlights being Jinjer, Gojira (twice!), Trivium, Ignea, Huora, Vimma, Infected Rain, 22-Pistepirkko, Soilwork and many others. I almost broke my leg in a moshpit . I went on more dates than I can remember. I attended many marches, against the populist right wing government Finns decided to vote in, but also to demand more climate action. I also attended various XR actions, though not as many as I would have liked. I survived three rounds of layoffs.

But most of all, the year was about #cycling. I managed to log 182 activities into Strava for a total of 3227km, which is more than 2022 and 2021 combined (1503km and 1280km, respectively). I made my first 100km+ day ride by visiting Porvoo and tested out some bikepacking gear during rides in Tallinn and Tampere. I also started planning my first proper multi-week #bikepacking trip in central Europe for May 2024.

Still, seeing the year as positive does require forgetting a lot of things that are not personal. Like the utter failure of #humanity to converge on climate action. Personally, I've already lost hope. We're just going to ride over that cliff. How big the drop is just depends on what we do to mitigate it. Currently we're not doing much, and the direction isn't necessarily going to improve. With right wing governments on the rise, climate action just isn't going to be a priority. And at least in the democratic countries, you can't go blaming "the government for not doing anything" when it's the voters who are gullible fools, voting populist right wing parties for very very selfish reasons. We, the citizens of these countries, are responsible for change not happening. Maybe this crisis is just too big for our species to handle.

2023 was also the most violent year in a long time, with more #conflicts globally than we have had since a long time. While the world should be converging on the big issues, we're doing what humanity knows best - building borders based on imaginary nationalist ideas and smashing each other to pieces.

Can we, as a species, improve in 2024 That remains to be seen.

Here's a screenshot of a graph that shows the average snowpack in the mountains of Montana, the black line represents this year. For my vision-impaired friends, the notable thing about this graph is that this year's snowpack is now officially below the minimum. Montana is a headwater state that has water that flows to the Gulf of Mexico, Hudson Bay, and the Pacific Ocean. Low snowpack in places like Montana means less water for everyone downstream. No good.. let's hope for snow.

I don't like or because it never describes the issue corretly. I only use or .
A 'crisis' is more a financial or medical/phycological issue normally disappearing by waiting and seeing - nothing dramatic! But the change If climate is nothing short as a catastrophe!

That bubbling sound: With permafrost thawing in the Arctic, there is a risk that the impacts of releasing of methane trapped beneath permafrost will lead to positive climatic feedback effects. MicahHanks Debriefmedia

The Question
Who's (which country) doing best on fighting

Spoiler Alert. No country is on target for their greenhouse gas emissions to align with a below 1.5 C future. However, a few countries are doing far better than others.

There is a vast potential to drive down greenhouse gas emissions in every sector. To get time on our side.

Wind is blowing. Skies are grey. It's chilly, but not chilly enough for January. Will we just leap into June this year August will be such fun. Stock up on masks, get air purifiers, decide where you'll relocate after the house burns to the ground. The right-wing has made a wonderful world for us, haven't they It's all money-making on the slide into hell from Reagan & Thatcher up to this very day.

Where's Congress Shining hip boots Give oil baron Putin a kiss for us.

"Embracing more plant-based diets is a cost-effective strategy for tackling emissions. But it also lowers the need for expensive investments in emission-reducing equipment for livestock systems

Eating less meat would also diminish the need for other, more drastic, measures to curb pollution

Shifting to healthier and more plant-based diets offers a wide range of benefits beyond clean air."

You form a society voluntarily because its for everyones collective welfare, and so that government that you form together should only be used to do things that are good for everyone. And if its doing something like cooking the climate and destroying the ecosystem, that is absolutely contrary to the purpose of forming a society.