Two new reports show that Canada needs to do much more to tackle climate change

Well, this certainly leaves an impression.

How do we live on Earth in harmony with nature

After sweeping to power on a wave of youth-led anti-corruption protests, Nepal's rapper-turned-prime minister faces his biggest test after a catastrophic flood on the China-Nepal border killed more than 1,400.

Some new research suggests AI might help the oil industry pump more fuel, which could push up global emissions.

A new study blames 122 companies for contributing to severe drought in the region.

One rotten sample in a bushel of nasty fruit of a decades-long campaign of deception:

"As the Western United States grapples with severe drought, leading cities to scramble for water and farmers to abandon some crops, a new scientific study has found that 122 major oil, gas, coal, and cement companies and state-owned operations are partially responsible.

The study found that climate change from all climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions over the last 70 years has resulted in a 36 percent decline in annual average mountain snowpacks, the major source of surface water in Western states and that about 40 percent of that decline is linked to the climate pollution caused by just 122 companies.

The annual loss attributable to those 122 companies is equivalent to the amount of water held by Lake Mead, the nations largest reservoir, at full capacity."

Europe's Affluent Flee South's Heat, Fueling Northern Real Estate Surge

Rising temperatures and droughts drive population shifts, with Spanish northern regions seeing 17.2% and 14.1% housing price hikes as southern areas decline

"UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer" -

The gargantuan lie that may destroy our civilisation.

It seems we have a knack of turning everything we touch into sand and dust*

The Western U.S. is grappling with an extended drought. explores the possibility that this continued dryness (and the fires and other hazards associated with it) could be our new climate change induced reality

Kearny, Ariz., is a town on the brink. Located at the foot of the Dripping Spring Mountains in eastern Arizona, this small community of 2,000 people sources its water from the Gila River, a verdant waterway that snakes by the southern edge of town.

But in March, the snowpack feeding the river had dropped to precipitous levels: It was just for that time of year. The Gila River water commissioner slashed Kearnys allotment of river water by some 85 percent. And in April, town officials announced that Zero Day was approaching, at which point the taps would run dry.

We need rain, says Norm Warren, a lifelong Kearny resident. He owns the only large grocery store within a 45-minute drive of the town. Without tap water for refrigerator cooling systems, Warren says he wont be able to store perishable products like meats and fresh produce.

Kearnys dilemma foreshadows a crisis building across the American Southwest. Since 2000, the regionwhich includes Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah, Colorado and parts of northern Mexicohas endured a historic megadrought, or a period of severe dryness that persists for decades. Scientists say its .

Were 27 years into it, and it shows no signs of letting up, says Brad Udall, a water and climate researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Scientists point to two factors causing the droughtrising temperatures and declining precipitation. Heat from human-caused climate change creates a thirsty atmosphere that is more effective at drying out the landscape, says Kevin Anchukaitis, a dendrochronologist who runs the University of Arizona Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research in Tucson. As for the lack of rain, many researchers wonder if it is simply a stroke of bad luck.

But a controversial study published in Nature in 2025 suggests something far more ominous: in the Pacific Ocean that historically ushered episodes of wet weather into the Southwest. If thats true, Udall says, things are not looking good for places like Kearny. Other researchers worry that the megadrought may be locked in place for the foreseeable future

Ogasa unpacks both the more traiditional analysis and the new hypothesis that human behavior has disrupted the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO, an alternating climate pattern in which areas of warmer and cooler than normal surface waters switch their positions on a timescale of many decades

The conventional wisdom suggested that the PDO could shift any given year, and we wouldnt have to worry about drought after that, says climate scientist Jeremy Klavans of the University of Miami.

But he and colleagues werent so sure. They dug into that assumption, analyzing more than 500 simulations of the PDO from a dozen major climate models. They examined how the PDO shiftedand stabilizedin the presence of outside forces such as volcanic eruptions, solar variation and levels of greenhouse gases and aerosols.

Their finding: Greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions had effectively hijacked the behavior of the PDO over the last 50 years by altering atmospheric temperatures, the team reported in 2025 in Nature.

Ballooning concentrations of industrial aerosolswhich can have an atmospheric cooling effectprobably pushed the PDO to increasingly favor its warm phase starting in the 1950s, the researchers say. But in the 1980s, clean air legislation decreased aerosol emissions even as greenhouse gas levels continued to rise and warm the atmosphere. That combination drove the PDO toward its cool phase, making drought conditions more likely in the Southwest. Instead of being a rare event, drought becomes kind of commonplace, Klavans says.

the current climate models may actually be underestimating the potential duration of the ongoing megadrought, based on those findings, says study coauthor Victoria Todd, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

That could be bad news for the American Southwest, Udall says. Even if people stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, planet-warming carbon dioxide will continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, locking the PDO and megadrought into place, potentially for decades. If the emerging science is right, then the Southwest is going to keep getting drier and drier, Udall says. No question about it.

Warm Phase (1977-1998): During the PDOs warm phase, the Pacific jet stream (red arrow) moves south over North America, drawing wet weather patterns into the Southwest. Cool phase (1999now): When the PDO switches to its cool phase, the Pacific jet stream (blue arrow) moves north, diverting wet weather patterns out of the Southwest and making drought more likely.

The hypothesis that human emissions have disrupted the PDO could be put to the test this year. Thats because scientists are , a Pacific climate pattern characterized by months of warmer than normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific. El Nios often bring wet conditions to the Southwestand they have been known to force the PDO into a different phase. For example, the 19761977 El Nio helped push the PDO into a warm phase for nearly a quarter of a century.

But a powerful El Nio in 2015 wasnt able to force the switch for more than a few years. That suggests the PDO may be slowly changing, Klavans says. Somethings different here.

Even if the current El Nio is strong enough to force the PDO into a warm phase, no one should expect the megadrought to go away any time soon, Seager says. Were talking about something thats been going on for a few decades now. Even one very wet winter is not going to be enough to restore Colorado River reservoirs to where they would preferably be.

Even in the best-case scenarios, the Southwest , when lakes Powell and Mead reached maximum capacity numerous times, the researchers reported in 2023 in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. The findings instead suggest that, regardless of what the PDO does, the region will face a far drier climate than it did in its recent past. In other words, even if the megadrought were to end, the Southwest faces an uncertain future when it comes to water, according to the study.

Communities need to prepare for the future by improving their water conservation efforts and infrastructure, Anchukaitis says. Those practices will grow only more crucial as the Southwests population continues to balloon: are among the 10 fastest growing states by population this decade, according to a 2024 report by the University of Virginias Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.

Even if wet weather returns, Anchukaitis says, the cities of the Southwest shouldnt fall into complacency. More rain doesnt mean thatmegadroughts arent going to come back, he says. Maybe it buys us some time to ease systems into a new way of thinking.

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end A new hypothesis suggests No. From in .

* J. G. Ballard, The Drought

###

As we pray for rain, we might recall that it was on this date in 2006 that NASA recorded th ozone hole in the atmosphere to date. From September 21-30, the average area was 10.6 million square miles, as by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASAs Aura satellite. At the worst point, a record low of 1.2 Dobson Units compared to a 125 DU non-hole reading. For the past several decades, each year during the Southern Hemisphere Spring (Northern Hemisphere Autumn) chemical reactions due to chlorine and bromine man-made compounds in the atmosphere cause the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere over the southern polar region all contributing to the phenomenon discussed above.

Vliegtuigstrepen grootste klimaatvervuiler: aanpakken kan tien jaar aan opwarming voorkomen

De condensstrepen die vliegtuigen achterlaten blijken immens grote effecten te hebben op klimaatverandering. Volgens een nieuw onderzoek van milieuorganisatie T&E kan het aanpakken van deze strepen wel tien jaar aan klimaatopwarming door de luchtvaart voorkomen.

Following France and the Netherlands, Germany has now also presented a roadmap. Environment Minister Schneider explains that the goal is to phase out the use of fossil fuels by 2045. Climate action is once again a higher priority on the agenda at UNGA81

coding is in some ways like - no matter how bad things get, it's likely always a good idea to stop making it even worse and polluting things even more.

Mathew added that the results showed the highest annual generation for the high-albedo bifacial configuration in Leh, reaching about 14.3 MWh per year. These findings demonstrate that the surface surrounding a bifacial PV installation can become an important and controllable design parameter, alongside module selection and climatic conditions,

Spain nominates Dr Mara Neira, the former director for , and health, for the WHO Director-General election.
Her last-minute nomination was supported by 100+ civil society organisations

Spain battles on several fronts

World Weather Attribution found that the extreme conditions that drove record-breaking fires in Spain and Portugal in 2025 were 40 times more likely to happen due to the warming .

Add your name to our open letter today and tell the government: data centres must be powered by new renewable energy. Were more powerful together!

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

The latest data shows that the temperature anomaly at the heart of El Nio in the Pacific Ocean has now reached +3.05C which indicates an extremely powerful El Nio, stronger than the record-setting 2015 event.

See the graph below from the Climate Reanalyzer for a clearer representation

Why have we not seen more acts of sabotage on AI infrastructure

I'm honestly not surprised that it's not happening because social media platforms have achieved a situation where people are angry but vent it away by posting online rather than taking the time to meet with other like-minded and build momentum which creates action.

That for me is one the most awful side effects of social media platforms, including this one.

Its crazy how all these real problems around the world - the heat, floods, fires, all getting worse with this huge El Nio - barely get talked about in the media, while everyone is getting wild about AI going rogue.

Sure, AI might be a big risk someday, but climate change is already happening and it is relentless.

And somehow we are not treating it as the urgent real-time crisis it is.

24.09.2026 - 08:00 Uhr
Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

As mayors, we are confronting the same question: how do you protect millions of people when extreme is no longer an exceptional event, but an increasingly familiar part of summer

If you want to see how 'securitisation' works in politics (the reframing of political issues as issues of national security), the UK's report on El Nio is a classic example.

This is not to say that the assessment of the likely (ongoing & future) impact of El Nio & climate change is wrong, nor that making clear(er) the wide(r) impact of the changing weather is unwelcome, but it does indicate how our the argument(s) around the environment are changing.

Trump-Appointed Judge Smacks Down EPAs Termination of Clean Energy Grants

Climate change is fuelling African conflict governments are developing a shared response

,

Germany's Roadmap for Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels

, ,

Tomato roll call!

Where are you growing tomatoes from

Reply with:
Your country/city
Your favorite tomato variety
One growing tip you swear by

Lets make this a giant tomato-growing thread.

Boost so more tomato growers can join!

From a Nepal in Pain, a Young Leader Makes a Case for Climate Reparations

451,000 at Risk. Where Action Can Save Lives During the Super El Nio.

,

New study finds climate change increased July evapotranspiration, worsening the impacts of low rainfall (Ireland)

,

Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2026

,

There's a lot in common between not wearing a anymore in an ongoing that was falsely declared as over and using

-both ideas came from fascists
-both actions benefit fascists
-both show you don't care about people or the planet
-both are damaging your brain
etc...

Powering the shift

In news about cleaning up after the mining industry that should shock no one.

Gas lobby scare campaign urges Victoria to scrap ban in new homes, leaked documents show

"The gas industry has been accused of unleashing a scare campaign before the Victorian election as it pressures the state government to reverse a ban on gas in new homes.

A paper prepared by a lobbyist for the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) and shared with ministers has warned annual household gas bills could increase by $100 unless the ban is overturned, without providing evidence to support that claim.

From 1 January, all new homes and commercial buildings cannot be connected to the gas network and must instead run on electricity. The government expects this could save households $880 a year or $1,820 once solar panels are installed."

De- electrification

Indiscriminate AI & data generation & storage, and fk planetary boundaries

A curse on tech bros, their fossil fuel friends, our oblivious rapacious governments

edited for typos

President s speech to the was directed at this hypocracy, he not only talked about *not giving in* (to the bullying from the , and though no naming them specifically) but also said that some members having it both ways threw a pall of shame ( *honte* ) over the Assembly. And while he didnt name the countries invovled in cynical pragmatism they were not hard to identify. I think that West Asia policy is a shameful example of **having it both way**. It casts every Australian as a **two faced** American puppet and Australia as an unreliable ally.

Rather than towing the US line of dismantling the symbolized by the and the UN Convention like the and now , Macron called for a reenvigoration of current international institutions and further multilateral agreements to shore up the (A direct swipe at the US here).

I am ashamed of the optics our is cultivating overseas, precisely because it is . Just as it is domestically with respect to our and to .

/long rant with apologies/

23 min

Heres a new link to a video I linked to a few days ago. Ive had it more time to listen to it.

Even though Texas may receive more rain changes to climate are showing that precipitation doesnt make its way into creeks in the creek flow doesnt make their way into aquifers.

Texas gets a lot of water from ground water.

178 Fossil Fuel Giants Have Already Locked In Centuries of Warming
Even if they stopped emitting tomorrow, their past emissions will keep raising global temperatures, new research shows.