Ughhhh smells like smoke

"Acute climate change" might sum up the overall tone of the impacts section of our latest survey of in the news.

Meanwhile, in the politics and policy arena we see how the US administration is desperately and destructively trying to make us ignorant of our predicament, going so far as to destroy orbital instruments informing us of the mess we've made. See "Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose," from NPR (also a target).

When leadership at the highest level abjectly fails us, what about closer to home See "A new report shows how local climate activism leads to remarkable gains," via Grist.

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ReGen Homes offers eco-conscious townhomes in BC with sustainable features and urban amenities.

Read more about the rippling consequences in Climates issue:

The economic commitment of

Interactive effects of ocean acidification and warming disrupt calcification and microbiome composition in bryozoans

Randomly ended up in Portugal on Google maps. 4 separe forest fires i the same area.

Climate Change Made Highly Concerning Nordic Heatwave At Least 10 Times More Likely

Climate change made last month's heatwave in Europe's Nordic countries 2C hotter and at least ten times more likely, a study has found

Orange County Classroom Teachers Association is fighting to cool things down.

Who needs farmers Just go to the grocery store. (said by an idiot politiciation last centrury)

Who knew you can die from

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Juneau this was going to happen.

speed, scale, and disposability are redefining each of them. Instant meals replace slow cooking, trend-driven wardrobes push clothes into landfills, and concrete towers rise in weeks where farmlands stood for centuries. These are not mere lifestyle shifts they are fuelling ecological stress & social inequities

14.08.2025 - 02:00 Uhr
Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

Learn the backward step.

They call it a poly crisis. A confluence of existential threats that is actuating around us and within us. Instead of calling it a crisis, refer to it as a collapse. 

• World population overshoot.
• Over-consumption of (and addiction to) algorithm driven social media content.
• The failed experiment that is capitalism.
• The foreboding uncertainty of Artificial General Intelligence.
• An accelerating extinction of animal species.
• Political shifts to authoritarianism, fascism and elite-centric governance.
• Loss of authentic contemplative, mystical, spiritual, or religious experience.
• Global climate destabilisation.
• Shifts in unconstrained power to the uber-wealthy and corporate behemoths.
• The en-shitification and en-dumbification of our social structures and relationships.

This all leads to an overwhelming dysphoria, and a feeling of being impotent to stop or even divert this tsunami of badness.

I am no different here. I do not have any answers. I am a numpty. Yet I have a strong feeling the most important thing at this time (as Dogen Zenji, founder of Zen in Japan in the 13 century advised), is to:

You should therefore cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly.

Dogen

Take the backwards step that turns your light inwardly. What is that backwards step For each of us it might be something different.

But there is a sense of making an effort in ways that are not of the thinking mind and moving in a non-conventional direction. There is a sense of light and of inner illumination and of not seeking deep solace from the other.

Learning the backward step requires commitment and effort.

Hmmmm.

How could this sort of vague, contemplative, esoteric nor-really-saying-anything stuff possibly make any impact on the impending collapse

Wouldnt you prefer a bullet-point list
Some tips on recycling The dates for the next protest march A prepper manual A list of social media influencers to follow Some decent feel-good distractions A gym program
SOMETHING CONCRETE I SHOULD DO FOR CRIPES SAKES!

Nope, I got nothing.
Learn the backward step.

There is much work to do.

Access to non-farm business, irrigation significantly reduces climate change-induced rural migration, says IIT Madras study

An observation: etc. with large human population in the future has inadvertently dated itself. The has decreased with no sign of turn-around. The global estimates of future assume that the fertility rate will magically go up in the near future. Not to mention that due to lack of worsens health outcomes. And

Canadas rising temperatures means invasive ants are more likely to spread outdoors

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La hausse des tempratures augmentation Canada signifie que les fourmis envahissantes sont davantage susceptibles de se propager dehors.

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For small-scale farmers up against floods, droughts and other dramatic climate events, diversifying income sources can mean financial safety a lifeline as crop-growing conditions destabilize. But in Nepal, where natural hazards rank among the most severe in the world, how farmers perceive climate-related risks often leads them to double down on agriculture instead of exploring other livelihoods, according to a study led by a Penn State researcher

Alarmierende Satellitendaten: Globale Swasserreserven schrumpfen mit Folgen fr Ernhrung, Meeresspiegel und Sicherheit
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The power of poop: How human waste can boost crop yields and cut greenhouse gas emissions. Via sciencex.physorg

And so what affect will coming droughts have on our so-called civilization

Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and severity of drought during the Maya collapse

> A drought lasting 13 years and several others that each lasted over three years may have contributed to the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization, chemical fingerprints from a stalagmite in a Mexican cave have revealed.

Always worth remembering that as bad as America's politicians can be we have a whole crop of them in Canada looking to emulate their very worst tendencies & actions the very second they think they can get away with it. This goes double for them

How climate change endangers mothers and children

Rising temperatures are rewriting the earliest stages of life, according to a new report

researchers in Philadelphia who found that, for every 1.8 degrees that the citys daily minimum temperature rose above 75 degrees Fahrenheit, the risk of infant death grew about 22 %

Watch: Change your way of seeing.

This video requires a contemplative mindset, a mug of coffee, and a decent chunk of Kairos.

The philosopher, neuroscientist, and psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist, in conversation with author Paul Kingsnorth, discusses Western societys drift from the presence-ing, gestalt, numinous experience of our heart-mind to the thinging, manipulating, black-and-white re-representation now worshiped by scientific materialism.

A deep dive into the mess we find ourselves in.

Of course climate change. But the maps of how many fires/tsunamis/tornados/etc we have right now do annoy me. Just like records such as warmest 2hr period in August since records began. Theres an element of data dredging to the whole thing.

Can we define 100 or even 1000 measures of climate change and just keep using those going forward (Need to learn from the replication crisis.)

No biggie : Alaska's capital sees record glacier-related flooding as river tops 16.6 feet.

No biggie : Alaska's capital sees record glacier-related flooding as river tops 16.6 feet.

Unsettling photos show the effects of climate change projected onto our everyday lives.

Unsettling photos show the effects of climate change projected onto our everyday lives.

The world's largest climate polluters the U.S. and China went in opposite directions in the first six months of 2025. Chinese CO2 emissions fell 2.7%, while U.S. emissions role 4.2%, according to a global emissions tracker led by academics. China continues to emit more planet-warming pollution than any other nation thanks to its appetite for coal, but a boom in solar power may change that. Here's more from .

Has anyone made any PCM (phase change material) for cooling A researcher in my lab used a wax based one for his air conditioning project. But then I saw this and want to make one for summer. Its going to be a hot one

New Hardiness Map Shows Shifting Climate Impacts On Plant Growth

Canada's updated plant hardiness zone map reveals climate shifts that may change gardening and farming practices, helping growers choose plants best suited

Wildfires fanned by heatwave rage across Europe

Wildfires caused by arsonists or thunderstorms and fanned by a heatwave and strong winds have wreaked destruction across southern Europe, burning homes and forcing thousands of residents and tourists to flee.

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Sounds like a good idea why not pursue a massive reintroduction in and thereby committing to benchmarks and putting a dent in

Rising seas could put Easter Islands moai at risk by 2080, study warns

It turns out the 9/11 jumpers from the World Trade Center are a metaphor for escaping a burning world.