Of all the short sighted, short term thinking this government has done, I think these will have the biggest impact and I don't mean just in climatic ways. The EU and other markets have been signalling they will not accept watering down of environmental regulations by its suppliers. Starting this year, they are cracking down on high emission imports - at this stage it is mainly on industrial imports. However, they have signalled that they will move on agricultural imports as well.

I'm sure that the agricultural industry in NZ is going to be absolutely gobsmacked when they do crack down and will claim it's completely out of the blue. It isn't, of course. The EU has been indicating they will make these moves for a decade or more. Ample time for our primary industries to get their act together. Instead they have fought environmental changes every step of the way.

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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to let 11 coal plants dump toxic coal ash into unlined pits until 2031 a full decade later than allowed under current federal rules.

goes nuclear.
What could possibly go wrong

Measuring ocean heat content (OHC) is one of the best ways to measure global heating. Not surprisingly, OHC increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, with the Earths oceans absorbing the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs every second.
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I had a letter published in the Newcastle Herald today:

Real urban fire risk
Australia's fire chiefs have warned that our cities are at risk of urban firestorms like the one that destroyed 15,000 homes in LA last year.
They mention Newcastle specifically.
Most vulnerable are homes on the city outskirts near bushland. I couldn't help thinking of the proposed development on Minmi Road, where 400 dwellings would be up against forest, with only one road out. Once a few homes ignite from the bushfire, they ignite their neighbours in an ever-expanding and exponential conflagration that can spread into more inner suburbs.
The same emissions-driven global heating and wild weather that drove the LA fires apply here, as we saw during the Black Summer fires. Make sure your gutters are clear.
Michael Gormly, Islington

Combining ecological restoration with climate-resilient agriculture to tackle desertification

Sitting outside at the plaza near work on my coffee break, because it's warm enough to be comfortable in Canadian winter (where I am) in January

EPA Funding Salvaged in US Congress Spending Bill.

The EPA budget for 2026 rejects extreme cuts proposed by Republican representatives and the Trump administration. But advocates warn that significant cuts still jeopardize the agencys ability to protect Americans health.

Id rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere it can come right up behind you.*

The devastation in the Los Angeles area is just the latest reminder that wildfires are a massive problem that continues to grow. , , and put the threat into alarming perspective

Climate change is exacerbating wildfire conditions, but evidence is lacking for global trends in extreme fire activity itself. Here we identify energetically extreme wildfire events by calculating daily clusters of summed fire radiative power using 21years of satellite data, revealing that the frequency of extreme events (99.99th percentile) increased by 2.2-fold from 2003 to 2023, with the last 7years including the 6 most extreme. Although the total area burned on Earth may be declining, our study highlights that fire behaviour is worsening in several regionsparticularly the boreal and temperate conifer biomeswith substantial implications for carbon storage and human exposure to wildfire disasters

An unlocked article from : .

Looking forward: .

Apposite: , from the .

And very practically: .

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As we contemplate conflagration, we might recall that on this date in 1949, after two days in which a few flakes fell, Los Angeles enjoyed a real snow fall (the first that anyone can recall).

'dawn of uncertainty'

Food security starts at home. One garden reduces one problem. Multiply that, and communities change to live a better life and safe community
Together we can with our creative minds and innovative hands

This is what accelerated warming looks like

We stumble and fumble towards the precipice, too stupid, too venal, too greedy to act.

"Big picture we are slowly dismantling our climate policy architecture & it's very much influenced by PM 's belief in market-based solutions, that the industrial side of the carbon price will be able to pick up the slack across the economy those other policies were supposed to deliver."

No more blood for oil! I've just taken this action, calling for 2026 to be the year we come together and move away from not launch wars to drill for more.

Dogs' dinners can have greater climate impact than those of their owners. Via sciencex.physorg #Dog

I maintain that the lunatic radical Rights urge to immediately take over with the US military is a tacit admission that conservative business interests are convinced that is real. They want the natural resources that will be uncovered when the ice melts. They want to control the shipping lanes that will become important to global trade when the ice melts.

They WANT the ice to melt. They see it as a business opportunity.

I was 62 years old when I discovered that I am a tragic optimist.

Human presence on earth is, time-wise, the width of a human hair in depths of the Grand Canyon.

Species come & go, gradually or in cataclysms.

a) Trump & friends govern on the certain knowledge we will be here forever, that its simply a matter of who's in charge.

b) Grasp their own mortality & plan to enjoy themselves self-indulgently to the end, without regard for humanity or any other life-form.

Carbon pawprint: Your dogs dinner may have a greater climate impact than your own.

"Premium" dog foods that use large amounts of prime meat are pushing up emissions, a new study warns.

"Climate venture investment climbed 8% in 2025, with focus shifting to AIs energy demand"

heat wave stokes risk of catastrophic bushfires. Via sciencex.physorg

'tension cycle'

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Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

Just 3 inches of sea level rise can throw off tide predictions and exacerbate flooding--something we just experienced with the .

Great article from Tara Duggan

Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science

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Eureka! If we throw ICE into the ocean, we can solve fascism and climate change at the same time!

Exxon and ConocoPhilips, at least, are likely to require more assurances from the Trump administration to mitigate against the political risks of a venture with a long history of expropriations, legal disputes, shifting rules, and political instability.

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- Venezuela : diaspora corse -> Psdt Ral Leoni (cf 1830 1905 1908 1983).

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- naissance du corse Jaime Lusinchi (cf 1983).

Profound impacts: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows.

Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisis.

Indeed, because the companies want a stable political environment and weren't on the same page as My take here

The Making Antacids for the to Help Counter
Scientists pumped 16,200 gallons of sodium hydroxide into the , along with a red dye that made solution easier to track. It was the final phase of study on a promising yet controversial climate intervention, one that could simultaneously mitigate both and another, equally terrifying consequence of : the rapid acidification of .

Cost U.S. More Than $100 Billion in 2025 - The New York Times (gift link)

Meltwater Turns Iceberg A-23A Blue

After a four-decade run, the massive, waterlogged berg is leaking meltwater and on the verge of disintegrating.

What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarcticas melting glaciers
Ocean measurements beneath ice shelves help determine how Antarctica will contribute to sea-level rise

Storm Goretti continues to cause travel mayhem and power outages in northern Europe

Any chance that we will start to take seriously yet There have been over 30 years of warning, but nearly half the fossil carbon released to the atmosphere has occurred in this century!

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Wolves: from Melting

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This is kind of wild, and more than a little concerning. Some in recent years switched diets (no deer on their island) and started eating . The levels of in their bodies spiked, HARD, and these scientists suspect that it's due to mercury released by melting .

For those of you (us poor folks are safe) who can still afford Alaskan : enjoy it sparingly.

"A meta-analysis of 83 studies, involving more than 70 000 participants from 17 countries, shows that climate-related risks are systematically underestimated and perceived as more likely to affect someone else rather than oneself. Sixty-five percent of participants assessed their own risk of being affected by climate change as lower than that of others."