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UN sees world's emissions falling 10% by 2035, far short of 60% goal #environment

UN sees world's emissions falling 10% by 2035, far short of 60% goal
Global emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are expected to fall by about 10% by 2035, compared with 1990 levels, representing the first decline ever forecast by the United Nations. But the world remains well off course to keeping global warming below the 1.5 C leaders committed to when they signed the Paris Agreement a decade ago.

Head Coach Jim Harbaugh Victory Speech: Week 13 vs. Raiders https://www.chargers.com/video/head-coach-jim-harbaugh-victory-speech-week-13-vs-raiders-2025

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band at home in #berkeley, with prelude, a rare non-acoustic opening act. bob menke & louis falanga audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg7…

from my link log —
Saving Skylab.
https://www.airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/saving-skylab
saved 2025-11-30 https://

Saving Skylab
During launch, the micrometeoroid shield surrounding the Skylab Workshop ripped loose. Designed to protect the workshop from tiny space particles and the sun's scorching heat, its loss caused sunlight to raise internal temperatures to over 130° F, making the station uninhabitable and threatening foods, medicines, films, and experiments that were onboard. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart was responsible for testing a parasol on Earth and developing procedures for deploying it in space in an effort …

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts #Amazon

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts
Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the cause may lie high above the rainforest, where invisible "flying rivers" carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean across South America.

Following Clooney's criticism, Bari Weiss invites him to "visit The CBS Broadcast Center" where she is "spending the holidays" to "relaunch the Evening News" (Pat Saperstein/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bari-

Bari Weiss Invites George Clooney to Visit CBS News After His Remarks
After George Clooney told Variety he felt that Bari Weiss was "dismantling CBS News as we speak,” Weiss responded by inviting him to visit CBS News.

How NASA's #KennedySpaceCenter is a film lover's dream: the new video #photo and #film buffs alike as the narrative takes unexpected turns every few minutes.

I’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor. From the contemporary point of view zuihitsu refuse categorization, vibrating in the live space between prose and poetry.
#poetry

Ways of Seeing: Following the Brush - Zuihitsu as Attention
Zuihitsu, a Japanese literary genre between prose and poetry, is a unique form of attention. Sei Shonagōn and Kimiko Hahn inspire exercises in looking.

A pleasant read, about a place I know a (very) little:
https://notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/finding-ghosts/

Finding Ghosts
Early in October, after a big storm, we crossed the Minch to the Outer Hebrides. The ferry sailed across a peppermint ice-cream sea, rising and falling in great stomach-churning swoops, as waves sw…

@… feature refinement request: when replying to a toot that has another account @ mentioned, my compose window pens with all @ mentioned accounts listed and all but the author of the toot highlighted for easy deletion. I love this❤️. If I choose to delete the space following the author’s @ mention is deleted as well and if I just start typing it’s appended to the @ me…