Looking forward to Friday's Nerd Nite.

Fellow Fedi denizen will be presenting on glassmaking! We'll also be talking about talking about climate change.

A thought:

farmers are in rural areas. And are most impacted by climate change. Yet, rural areas are always supporting the party that is in denial of

I can see them being dependant on diesel for their farm equipment, but increase in bad storms increases chances they lose their crop and thus rising insurance.

My guess is that they do not see individaul storms that wipe out their crop as being part of climate change and think it only impacts other areas of planet.

Federal court rejects Carney governments bid to block youth climate case as Liberals ignore emissions targets

In the middle of taking the federal government to court over climate change, Quebec activist Shirley Barnea was confronted by the implications of two recent reports: a planet pushing past the 1.5-degrees Celsius warming threshold and a Canada nearly 5 degrees hotter, where irreversible changes are altering our natural world

13.10.2026 - 02:00 Uhr
Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

Its my great hope that when these next generations come of age they go after every one of these world burners and make them PAY however they see fit
Murderous sociopaths that deserve the inside of a cell, with every blood penny they own going to reparations

Natural catastrophes taking their toll on Moroccos coffers

Morocco is rewiring disaster risk management as natural catastrophes extract a heavy, recurring toll on the Moroccan economy, costing an estimated baseline of at least $780 million every year

The academic section of our newest weekly climate research scan includes 159 articles in 86 academic journals by 872 contributing researchers, as well as 17 government/NGO reports-- all from one handy launching point.

Featured and open access academic:

* Hysteresis and irreversibility in permafrost physical response to increase and decrease of CO2 emissions
* Committed Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss by the end of the twenty-first century
*They reduce, we reduce: Perception of other countries climate effort predicts support for climate policies

Gov/ngo:

* Economic, Consumer Cost, Pollution Impacts of Federal Energy Policy Changes In 48 U.S. States
*Offshore Wind Lease Buyouts: Picking Winners and Losers Costs Taxpayers Billions * Climate Fraud 101. Big Oils Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents (19572026)

Coal and gas mines have to follow less strict emissions laws when they are expanded compared to outright new mines.

The Climate Council says that amounts to a "loophole" being used by the industry to add new emissions without having to follow "best-practice" limits.

What's next

The Safeguard Mechanism, which sets emissions laws for heavy industry, is under review

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A quarter of the glaciers in the contiguous United States have disappeared since the mid-20th century while the total area and volume of glaciers has dropped by about a third and even more in California a new study shows

Trump Says AI Fears a Hoax. Your Electric Bill Disagrees.

Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a synthetic chemical that plays a critical role as an electrical insulator in high-voltage equipment
a climate killer, 24,300 times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis. Once released, sulfur hexafluoride remains in the atmosphere for 1,000 years

when electrical equipment in China reaches the end of its useful life, much of the gas is likely vented into the atmosphere

New wind sails on cargo ships!

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Trump has undercut the governments ability to address climate change. The scientists he fired are fighting back with their own climate reports. The science community has a deep connection to, and responsibility to, the broader public to keep the public informed of risks, whether those risks are in climate, in health, in security or in AI, says Costa Samaras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University who worked on the new climate report. Read more from :

Opinion Are Unfightable Now - The New York Times

When you vote for a candidate for a non-partisan Public Utility District post purely because his website indicates he believes is real.

300 glaciers have disappeared from the American West since the mid-20th century the survivors have a few things in common

Aint hearing much from all those robots these days. Suppose theyre just waiting til they can repackage, rebrand & rehash again what has been their same bad argument for near 30 years now: let big business do whatever it wants, in fact, pay them & will magically fix itself

Green Groups Fume as Trump Gives Big Oil Another Free Pass to Exploit the Arctic.

The Trump administration is putting corporate profits ahead of people and the planet, and the Western Arctic will pay the price.

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has been known by several nicknames, but some variations of the phrase has been around since at least the mid 1950's.

At an ever increasing pace, they seem to be less valid slogans on the 'Winter' phase as we creep forward into a event that soon enough won't be reminiscent of flowery words and pretty pictures.

Today's - in mid-October - is no different than many days in June, July, or August, at 81 degrees Fahrenheit!

Cereals, Vegetables and Fruits Have Lost Up to Half of Their Essential Nutrients in the Last 60 Years. Modern Farming Is Partly to Blame and Climate Change Will Make It Worse

Decades of agricultural progress have filled our plates, but some crucial minerals are thinning

the study found that urban vegetation is more resilient than its surrounding rural counterparts, challenging the view that cities are uniformly detrimental to ecosystem stability and highlighting the potential role of sustainably managed urban green spaces under climate change

High temperature Monday hits 85 degrees, surpassing record set in 2008

southern california's coastal communities deal with dangerous flooding, damage to homes as rachel moved through region
southern california's coastal communities deal with dangerous flooding, damage to homes as rachel moved through region

chicago area smashes heat record previously set in 2008 for oct. 12, with highs of 87
chicago area smashes heat record previously set in 2008 for oct. 12, with highs of 87

Could we have a 50C summer Is climate change real

Tropical forests are heading toward a dangerous new climate reality

Looking for Oil in Alaska, No Environmental Strings Attached.

A Bureau of Land Management decision will accelerate permitting in the nations largest single tract of public land, home to a fragile, rapidly warming wilderness.

Resolving Issues Of Space And Time For Ecological Applications Of Airborne Lidar Long-Term Recovery Of Canopy 3D Structural Diversity Following Wildfires In The Worlds Largest Temperate Woodland
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H/T Hockridge HMEI Environmental Fellow at Princeton University Landscape Ecologist Geospatial and Remote Sensing technologist Conservation scientist
LiDAR has come a long way.
Over the past several decades, improvements in sensors, platforms, and processing have steadily eroded many of the traditional barriers to using LiDAR in ecology, conservation, and the natural sciences. High-resolution datasets can now be collected at spatial scales and costs that would have been difficult to imagine even a decade ago.
Fine-scale vegetation structure can be resolved at exceptional point densities, increasingly subtle topographic features can be mapped beneath vegetation, and advances in sensor range and miniaturization mean that enormous landscapes can now be surveyed at high resolution from fixed-wing aircraft and UAS.
Across the spectrum, from spaceborne LiDAR to terrestrial and mobile laser scanning, common and method specific advances continue to redefine what is resolvable.
But as many of these old limitations recede, the frontier is shifting.
Increasingly, the challenge for ecological LiDAR is not just space, but time
LiDAR provides an extraordinary snapshot of ecosystem structure, but understanding ecological dynamics requires connecting those snapshots through time. The authors discuss several ways forward: well-designed space-for-time substitutions, strategically repeated LiDAR surveys, integration across LiDAR platforms and sensors, fusion with longer-running remote-sensing products, and collaborative datasets that make measurements increasingly comparable across places and years.
In other words, the tremendous gains we have made in spatial extent and resolution can increasingly be leveraged to overcome limitations in temporal extent.
As LiDAR continues to become more accessible, extensive, and repeatable, the opportunity is no longer simply to map ecosystems in finer detail. It is to understand how their three-dimensional structure developed, why it is changing, and where it may be headed in the changing world

No, the whole sky is not warming: high up it is getting colder, and that is the giveaway.

Near the ground: warming. 25 to 50 km up: cooling since 1986. Predicted in 1967.

Boost it if it is useful, and tell me what I missed.

No, the Arctic ice has not recovered: the 20 lowest minimums on record all came since 2007.

September Arctic sea ice: about 7 million km2 in 1979, about 4.8 million in 2026.

Boost it if it is useful, and tell me what I missed.

No, a cold winter can't disprove warming: the lower 48's coldest January since 1988 was Earth's warmest.

Jan 2025: coldest US January since 1988, warmest January on record for the planet.

Boost it if it is useful, and tell me what I missed.

I hate the people glazing Mark Carney when he shouldnt be admired for his extreme neoliberal polices, throwing out even lukewarm environmental protections and steamrolling over indigenous people.

Copernicus comincia a stancarsi di dare notizie allarmanti

I'm in Michigan.
It's October 12.

It's so warm I have the ceiling fan on.

"Anyone who still doesnt recognize now that the AfD is just one puzzle piece in the hybrid war against Germany and Europe will never get it."

How a plant selfie on Instagram in Colombian jungle led to jaw dropping giant waterlily find.

Species with leaves large enough to be seen from space is already critically endangered and plans are afoot to protect it.

Loophole allowing new coal and gas to avoid stricter climate laws
By Jake Evans

The Climate Council says coal and gas mines are using a "loophole" to expand operations and add new emissions while avoiding stricter emissions laws for new coal and gas.

RE:

I literally said one of the sentences in this piece to a friend on the phone, hours before I read it. Ok, not literally (since we conversed in swissgerman) but the meaning was the same.

"#AI will only surpass human intelligence by deskilling humans"

also, it appears to be a very similar addiction to what happens when you play too much Civilization: "Just one more turn" aka. "I'm sure the next prompt will result in the perfect result"

So, people, I am hosting this tonight, and I am very excited. Please join us for this discussion if you're similarly inclined.

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