Its a mind-blowing idea: an economic model of the world in which every company is individually represented, making realistic decisions that change as the economy changes. From this astonishing complexity would emerge forecasts of unprecedented clarity. These would be transformative: no more flying blind into global financial crashes, no more climate policies that fail to shift the dial

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Nochmal ne Runde, Danke fr die bisherigen Antworten!
Bitte boostet ihr das nochmal weiter

Areas across the UK from Cornwall to County Down have seen their wettest January on record continue with heavy rain in February.

The Met Office estimates that at current levels of global warming, wet winters like 2023/24 have gone from being once in 80-year events to once in 20 - and with further warming this could become even more frequent

Weather-related insurance payouts set to jump after UK storms and flooding

The expected rise in claims comes at the same time as a fall in the cost of property insurance

CLIMATE CHANGE 2026

The reason why the UK has faced endless downpours so far in 2026

An unsettled weather pattern is preventing rain from clearing, experts explained

Make Earth Great Again!

How about that

Global oil demand will rise more slowly than previously expected this year, the IEA said on Thursday while projecting a sizeable surplus despite outages that cut supply in January.

But lets build a pipeline

Trump Plans to Repeal the Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions

12.02.2026 - 14:00 Uhr
Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

GLOBAL WARMING 2026

China adds 430 GW of wind and solar power capacity in 2025.

The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning

"Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops ... This would lock the world into a new and hellish hothouse Earth climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. ... The assessment, which was published in the journal One Earth, synthesised recent scientific findings on climate feedback loops and 16 tipping elements."

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
Ripple, William J. et al.
One Earth, 101565

Talking about is but a distant memory now........

Blackbird dejected.

Even the birds seem fed up with the constant rain here

*Image courtesy Mrs The BeeGuy.

Old Economic Plans Not Good Enough for Climate Problems

Current economic plans struggle with climate change. New ideas using complexity science offer better ways to understand and fix the problem.

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Economic Models Fall Short on Climate Crisis, New Approaches Emerge

Simple economic plans are failing to address climate change, but new science approaches are offering more realistic solutions.

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Old Economic Plans Not Good Enough for Climate Problems

Many economic plans used today are too simple to help with the big problem of climate change. They do not show how economies and nature really work together. New science ideas are being made to help us understand this better and find good solutions.

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Oh look, a bot.

I see people posting sources saying we are close to the point of no return, concerning climate change.

If you do some research, you will understand TPTB don't want you to panic.

I am passed panic. I know our way of life is over. I've prepared. We can stop feeding the climate catastrophe. However, is not only upon us, it is not reversable. We need to hang on to the "ride" until the energy is spent. Our technology can't outrun this.

The final piece in electrifying my Australian home:

Man-made could disrupt a vital ocean current that carries heat northward from the tropics. After this breach, most of the world would keep getting hotter but northern would cool substantially, with at the center of a deep freeze at an unprecedented -45C temperature during winter.

"This is Systemic Repair. It is unsexy. It is expensive. It takes ten years to show results. And that is exactly why the Crisis Profiteers hate it. They cannot sell tickets to a drainage upgrade. They cannot whip up a frenzy about a loft insulation grant. Competence is the enemy of the populist because competence removes the fear that the populist feeds on.

"... We need to argue that real toughness is having the guts to invest billions in a sewage treatment plant that you will never get to name after yourself."

'Global temperatures have been rising for decades. But many scientists say its now happening faster than ever before...Were not continuing on the same path we had before, said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. Something has changed.'

Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EUs core climate law  POLITICO

This system is implemented to reduce CO2 emissions, a

Storm Nils battered southern and southwestern France with violent winds, flooding and avalanches on Thursday Feb. 12, resulting to the death of a truck driver and left around 850,000 households without power.

The existential seriousness of what is happening is not in the media cycle enough.

It needs to be repeated 24/7 to affect people

and framed as deadly serious...

I understood Scotland and the rest of the British Isles would have Scandinavian winters without the warm jet stream.

and rain

if not us, who If not now, when

"Earths climate is now departing from the stable conditions that supported human civilization for millennia. Crossing critical temperature thresholds may trigger self-reinforcing feedbacks and tipping dynamics that amplify warming and destabilize distant Earth system components. Uncertain tipping thresholds make precaution essential, as crossing them could commit the planet to a hothouse trajectory with long-lasting and potentially irreversible consequences."

The is warming 4 times faster than the rest of the Earth, and this is particularly pronounced in

The main driver is . But theres another factor thats making the problem even worse: pigmented algae on the ice

2 studies show that both the underlying ice and mineral dust from the surrounding area can provide enough nutrients for the algae to bloom every summer.

Where do nutrients for algae on ice come from

and tipping dynamics that amplify warming and destabilize Earth system components. Uncertain tipping thresholds make precaution essential, as crossing them could commit the planet to a hothouse trajectory with long-lasting and potentially irreversible consequences.

The mallards are blooming early this year. The early bloom appears to have resulted in just the head growing, and not the rest of the fryer bound body. For the duck foragers, maybe let this seasons crop sit in place so their spores can propagate into full ducks next year.

6am on my way to airport, heading to Dominican Republic for directing the international tv series Animal Mission: Wildlife in Danger.
A coproduction with Germany, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Netherlands, Ecuador, Cuba, Uruguay and DR.

6am on my way to airport, heading to Dominican Republic for directing the international tv series Animal Mission: Wildlife in Danger.
A coproduction with Germany, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Netherlands, Ecuador, Cuba, Uruguay and DR.

Gi le mani dalla Natura Firma la petizione di WWF Italia

Nel silenzio generale e senza il consenso dei cittadini, potenti industrie inquinanti e i loro alleati politici stanno smantellando le leggi ambientali europee. In nome del profitto sacrificano salute, natura e futuro.

I have close friends still enthusiastically having kids and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

Comparing Flood Inundation Map Features and Diagnosing Decision Support Design Challenges
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The world is closer than thought to a point of no return after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, The best climate scientists have said. Damian Carrington, Environment editor, Guardian, 120226. Yes, but on the plus side, humans will become extinct and the Earth can start repairing itself.

Art to activate: Check out this collage featuring student views on the climate crisis and Cornells role in it.

Students are asking for more from Cornell. Will the administration listen

Image credit: The fantastic student authors of a Climate Solutions Capstone project in NTRES/ENVS 4500 with Cornell on Fire.

Now or Never by Tim Flannery, 2018

Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future

A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers . Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail.