2026-09-05 06:15:14
"Future generations would rather have a high national debt than an unlivable planet."
Sandra Phlippen, ABN Amro bank's chief economist who moved on to become their head of sustainability, in @…
#ClimateChange
"Future generations would rather have a high national debt than an unlivable planet."
Sandra Phlippen, ABN Amro bank's chief economist who moved on to become their head of sustainability, in @…
#ClimateChange
"The most dramatic proof of our current climate catastrophe ever caught on camera"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"Climate-based tool predicts coral bleaching months in advance, offering critical lead time for reef protection"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Coral
"Three hurricanes in Pacific show the power of El Nino"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
My sister just had a soundbite in a spot about ENSO (El Niño) on NPR All Things Considered.
She did some of the foundational research on ENSO & paleoclimate using coral which is what everyone is referencing now to say that this year is the worst in forever.
#ClimateChange #ENSO
Seeing the beautiful and still impressive Norwegian glaciers, it's sad to know they're rapidly retreating. One sign said "If we manage to keep global warming below 1.5°C, around 25-30% of the glaciers can be preserved."
Video taken at Suphellebreen, part of Jostedalsbreen.
#globalwarming
"In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heat"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
A dinosaur walked into the UN and said: “At least we had an asteroid. What’s your excuse?”
"Don't choose extinction."
#climatechange #dinosaurs #undc
People talking to an American audience about global warming:
For the love of Gaia, use °F, not °C!
Save the world first. Get the USA on SI later.
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #USA
"13 young people sued Hawaii over climate change. Here's what happened next"
#Hawaii #Climate #ClimateChange
"El Nino weather phenomenon will be 'exceptional' and last until February, say forecasters"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
#climatechange
"... temperature swings recorded in Galšpagos corals—a place where the El Niño signal is strong—have intensified by 36% over the past 4 decades, far beyond anything seen in previous centuries."
"Confused about carbon capture? Experts explain why we need different types"
#CarbonCapture #Climate #ClimateChange
Hints that daily heating/cooling of rock faces may cause rockfalls - something new to pay attention to. Esp as #ClimateChange can lead to hotter days. (Not saying this is a primary cause, but clearly a factor that needs to be considered)
Falling rocks are killing national park visitors in the summer heat
Hints that daily heating/cooling of rock faces may cause rockfalls - something new to pay attention to. Esp as #ClimateChange can lead to hotter days. (Not saying this is a primary cause, but clearly a factor that needs to be considered)
Falling rocks are killing national park visitors in the summer heat
Yet ANOTHER way going green helps communities. Using EV Bus batteries to meet/shift summer power demands
#Green #ClimateChange #EV
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/electric-school-buses-tapped-shore-up-fragile-us-power-grids-during-summer-heat-2026-07-03/
Apparently today is #ShowYourStripes day.
If there are still people unaware that #ClimateChange is happening... maybe we can get them up to speed by sharing our stripes.
If some who are aware it's happening think it's already "too late"... maybe we can tell them that ac…
"Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans
Hey, Europeans! How are the temperatures shaping up at the end of June?
Climate change is going to really screw us all over. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not.
#climatechange
I hate the smell of decades of Conservative/Republican stonewalling and science denial in the morning.
#ClimateChange #canpol #uspol
"‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature"
#SouthKorea #Climate #ClimateChange
Burn down all fossil fuel infrastructure. #ClimateChange #WildfireSmoke #AQI
"Proposed mechanisms for delivering action like citizens’ assemblies are a response to the sluggishness of existing institutions, but do not address its cause — the power of the capitalist class.
"Agreeing what we ought to do doesn’t guarantee that it will happen: the climate movement needs to ... recognise that this is fundamentally a class struggle and a battle against capitalism itself.
The only 100% accurate statement on the #ClimateEmergency that you're going to see this week.
#ThereIsNoEconomyOnADeadPlanet
#ClimateChange
With the crisis along the Strait of Hormuz choking off global oil supplies, #Biofuels are making a comeback.
But are they a climate-friendly solution?
My new deep dive unpacks why betting on bioenergy might just accelerate #climatechange.
"Record low water levels across Europe reveal mammoth skeletons and forgotten shipwrecks – video"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
A longish article on aquatic deoxygenation driven by #GlobalWarming , but the abstract is brief and worth reading.
Our understanding of the problems and risks of #ClimateChange continues to develop as researchers build on earlier discoveries. And the more we understand the complex web of …
A longish article on aquatic deoxygenation driven by #GlobalWarming , but the abstract is brief and worth reading.
Our understanding of the problems and risks of #ClimateChange continues to develop as researchers build on earlier discoveries. And the more we understand the complex web of …
"‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter? - Ajit Niranjan"
#Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange
Dutch government (council of ministers) is back from summer holiday, and parliament returns in ten days from now.
Would it be too much to expect the announcement of a strong climate offensive (accelerated emission reduction and adaptation) one of these days, in response to this Summer of Reckoning?
#ClimateChange
"Correcting climate ‘misperceptions’ may not boost climate action"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
#ElNino is not a new phenomenon, but the amplification by #ClimateChange and #GlobalWarming seems to be appearing.
And the impact on the Panama Canal, reducing the number of ships it can handle, wi…
#ElNino is not a new phenomenon, but the amplification by #ClimateChange and #GlobalWarming seems to be appearing.
And the impact on the Panama Canal, reducing the number of ships it can handle, wi…
"England on track for record heat-related deaths this summer, official data shows"
#England #Climate #ClimateChange
"A severe El Niño could threaten something essential to half of humanity – rice"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
"Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis - Sunil Acharya"
#Nepal #Climate #ClimateChange
"‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
Drought in the Netherlands: precipitation deficit for the season reached above 300 mm, a rare value, 150% above peak in a mediaan year.
Now forecasted to stabilise thanks to a bit of rain.
Worst in the west of the country.
#drought #ClimateChange
"A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now?"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate
"Climate change causes the ocean’s waters to expand"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans
12,500 people in Germany alone died due to the heat so far this summer.
#heatwave #heat #climatechange
"Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stress days’ every year"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn"
#Nepal #Climate #ClimateChange
"Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands"
#Carribbean #Climate #ClimateChange
'Drought will cost Money'
Dutch right-wing paper Telegraaf - not known for its support for serious climate action - has Einstein moment.
#drought #extremeheat #ClimateChange
"El Niños have been more intense over the last 40 years than in the previous 1,000 years, coral records reveal"
#ElNono #Climate #ClimateChange
The water flow in the Rhine keeps plummeting. It had never been below 780 m³/s in summer. When we were at 650, an expert told us it couldn't go much lower. Now we're at 572 m³/s, the lowest on record, even below the ice blocked flow in the winter of 1929.
#drought #ClimateChange…
"Ocean warming above 1.5°C triggered year-round marine disruption across globe, study shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans
"The Loss of Glaciers Is Inflicting a Spiritual Toll on Indigenous People"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange
"Europe warned of ‘warmer-than-normal’ August: What’s driving blistering temperatures?"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
"Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says"
#Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange
"Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange #NorthSea
"European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
"Why poetry is a powerful form of climate communication"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Poetry
"Datacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Technology
"State of the climate: Rapidly developing El Niño raises chance of record-warm 2026"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
"Cities shouldn’t wait for an extreme weather wake-up call, researcher says"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans
"When ocean temperatures increase, so does child malnutrition on land"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans #Health
"Our climate is changing rapidly – and our politicians sound increasingly surreal - Zoe Williams"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"We asked our climate reporters to highlight one idea for positive change. We got a chronicle of global transformation"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Jersey 'not currently on track' to meet 2030 emissions target, Environment Minister states"
#Jersey #Climate #ClimateChange
"Spain and France face more heat after scorching June caused 2,000 deaths"
#Spain #France #Climate #ClimateChange
"We can't air-condition our way out of a hotter future, says expert"
#AC #AirConditioning #Climate #ClimateChange
"Oceans have gotten about 34% more acidic since before the Industrial Revolution"
#Oceans #Environment #Climate
"Summer of 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, Met Office says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
"Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’"
#Climate #ClimateChange #UK
"Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
"'It will get worse': World’s second-coldest capital faces record heat"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief's Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"Remembering summer 1976: how the historic heatwave has become our new normal"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Heatwave
"Does climate change lead to more migration? Here's why researchers can't agree on the evidence"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"‘Second decade of Paris Agreement will focus on implementation, not negotiation,’ say climate leaders"
#ParisAgreement #Climate #ClimateChange
"Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires"
#Scotland #Wildfires #Climate
"Thawing Permafrost Not Only Emits CO2, It Absorbs it Too, Shows Landmark Study"
#Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange
"World’s largest meat company faces legal challenge over green credentials of $6bn global expansion"
#Food #Climate #ClimateChange
"PM urged to uphold climate pledges made as mayor and ban new North Sea oil drilling"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
"‘National scandal’: extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
"Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter it"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"June heatwave: Europe braces for more extreme heat as temperatures set to hit 40°C"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Europe
"Report: 70% of UK businesses hit by climate-related revenue loss in past year"
#Business #Climate #ClimateChange
"In numbers: How Europe’s record heatwave took its toll"
#Europe #Heatwave #Climate #ClimateChange
"A champion soccer team is taking on climate change, too"
#Footballs #Soccer #Climate #ClimateChange
"Germany cuts climate fund by €30bn through 2030"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange
"Oil and gas giants to grow production despite climate goals, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels
"How reflective roof paint is cooling homes across Africa"
#Africa #Climate #ClimateChange
"Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says"
#Unicef #Climate #ClimateChange
"El Niño arrives and could rank among strongest events since 1950"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
"Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
"‘A huge anomaly’: Antarctica records winter temperatures 20C warmer than normal"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange
"Earth to hit 1.5C of warming by 2030, IGCC report finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst‑case scenarios"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"Extreme weather is making work difficult for many people – this is what needs to change"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Heat claimed more than 200,000 lives in Europe since 2022: WHO"
#Health #Climate #ClimateChange
"Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Antarctic
"Drought declared in parts of Wales as July on course to be driest in nearly 200 years"
#Wales #Drought #Climate #ClimateChange