2026-03-20 14:00:40
"Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels
"Why long‑term climate choices are hard to make – a philosopher explains"
#Climate #ClimateChange
February 2026 was the fifth-warmest February globally, with an average surface air temperature of 1.49°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
Temperature anomalies were unevenly spread over the world and over Europe.
#ClimateChange
We are fucked.
#AMOC #ClimateChange
"‘Unprecedented in the past 3.6 million years’: How human-made climate change is making days longer"
#Climate #ClimateChange
This is fine...
#ClimateChange
"Germany narrowly meets climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange
The story maps in particular are impressive and easy to follow on the impacts of #ClimateChange already now and hopefully will help to prepare for even more impacts in the future..
#ClimateDiary
https://www.meteo.gov.gh/climate-atlas/climate-change/
Confirmed: the February average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was 429.35 ppm, that's 2.26 ppm higher than last year.
#ClimateChange #co2
Blue Ocean Event predicted for this summer already?
Oh man, how the time flies…
#ClimateChange #ClimateCollapse
"Seagrass is a secret weapon against climate change. Can eco-moorings protect it from boat anchors?"
#SeaGrass #Climate #ClimateChange
I fear that the proliferation of expert panels on #ClimateChange is a bit like Randall Munroe's famous cartoon about the proliferation of standards. We don't need more panels, we need to pay more attention to the ones we already have
#ClimateEmergency
also found this excellent article about the motor developer, MagniX. It has some great technical info, delving into just how much more efficient the electric motors are compared to the piston and turboprop engines that they are replacing.
“a single magni500 Electric Propulsion Unit [the engine, inverter and cables], which weighs 185 kg… produces up to 560 kW. By comparison, the Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior SB engine replaced in the eBeaver weighed 290 kg (not including oil) and produced just 300 kW.”
#BC #AirTravel #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
"Olympic skier sounds alarm on vanishing snow"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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You may be surprised that the money in your checking account is being used to fund oil drilling. It's worth it to move to a new bank/credit union to avoid that.
You can check your bank, and find a better one, here:
https://bank.green/
"Fossil fuels ‘ripping away national security’ but renewables ‘turn the tables’, says UN executive"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Climate
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
#ClimateChange is expected to modify food-webs in the oceans, including in nutrition. In an MIT modeling study scientists found that under heating scenarios, phytoplankon can shift from protein to carbohydrate and lipid dominated cell composition, which they hav…
Based on daily values, the February average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was ~429.4 ppm; that's 2.3 ppm higher than last year. We made our climate problem worse again.
#ClimateChange #co2 #emissions
"February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"Accidental discovery reveals new climate threat to emperor penguins"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Penguins #Animals
"Global News Coverage of Climate Change Falls for Fourth Straight Year"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"Exclusive: How the meat industry is quietly keeping its emissions off the climate agenda"
#Food #Climate #ClimateChange
AMOC collapse may be closer than expected
#ClimateChange
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4298
Relevant to today's hand-wringing about jet fuel costs:
I was trolling around looking for an update on Harbour Air's eBeaver project (electric conversion for their DHC-2 "Beaver" commercial/passenger fleet) and the latest I have found and most comprehensive on the state of development is here.
#BC #AirTravel #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
"How a repurposed medical device is helping us investigate ancient climate tipping points"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Trouble brewing? Climate change puts tea drinkers in hot water"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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the engineering article about the motors is super in depth, some of it way over my head, but they also compare the development of EV cars to planes and I get this... at least now... because it didn't occur to me:
Regeneration is great for cars!
Regeneration is a BIG NO for airplanes! Because if you glide and the propeller to regenerate power, you fall out of the sky. 😬 😂
so ya, none of that!
"Critically, one area the company worked hard on reducing was regeneration. At no point during flight, as well as descent, can the plane simply carry on under its own momentum while air drives the propellers to generate current. That would create a large amount of drag, and the plane would start to fall rapidly.
“Maybe a glider or UAV could do that, but not a passenger aircraft,” Armesmith says. “There are rules against it in aerospace, so we have to actively stop regeneration from being possible, it’s a fault we have to arrest,” Armesmith says.
“So, if we’ve either lost power or had to turn the motor off for any reason, the propeller needs to be able to windmill freely. We can’t have any electromagnetic resistance to the propeller free-turning owing to regeneration back into the DC bus.”
ya... glide good! fall bad! lol
I am very glad these very smart people are making it happen and a local company is right in there!!
#BC #AirTravel #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
"Climate change could erase most South American cloud forests, study warns"
#SouthAmerica #Climate #ClimateChange
"Hot-dry extremes could hit 28% of humanity five times more often by end of century"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"Study maps tree-planting risks and rewards for climate and biodiversity"
#Biodiversity #Climate #ClimateChange
"Dangerous droughts triggered by heatwaves are accelerating at an alarming rate, study shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change?"
#China #Climate #ClimateChange
There is something darkly poetic about the Straits of Hormuz opening on the same day Japan coins a new official word -- “kokushobi” -- to describe extreme hot weather days.
#EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Japan #USA #Iran #IranUSAIsraelWar #Israel #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oil #Gas
"Global warming is making the strongest hurricanes stronger"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Weather #Hurricanes
"The rate of global warming is accelerating, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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“Every $1 invested in climate health brings $68 in benefits, new analysis finds”
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Five things you need to know about El Niño’s likely comeback"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
"Women bear the brunt of climate change. Meet the green politicians determined to change that"
#Women #Climate #ClimateChange
"Report: UK ranks second globally for climate adaptation technologies"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
"Hospitals are rethinking laughing gas. Here’s why."
#Medicine #Health #Climate #ClimateChange…
"‘Weakening climate leadership’: Is the EU’s 2040 emissions target ambitious enough?"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Climate
least surprising headline of the day:
“Gas flaring at LNG Canada far exceeds permitted volume, documents show
UVic researcher says gas flaring volumes have been 'consistently higher' than allowed since last fall”
#BCLNG #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lng-canada-gas-flaring-exceeds-permits-9.7157738
"Quit fossil fuels to stem deadly floods in Brazil’s coffee heartland, say scientists"
#Brazil #FossilFuels #Climate
"Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds"
#Australia #FossilFuels #Climate
"Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Nature
"The sea is higher than we thought putting millions more are at risk of extreme flooding"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange
"How Climate Education in Madagascar is Connecting Classrooms to Local Environmental Crisis"
#Madagascar #Climate #ClimateChange
"Surgeon warns that climate change can disrupt cancer care"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"How an army of volunteers is fighting climate misinformation online"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Cities are getting hotter—and bigger. New research reveals the scale of the challenge"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
Here is a future I never considered until this moment.
There is a timeline where Canadians are defending against an invading force in part to prevent that force, or anyone including Canada itself, from extracting its fossil fuel resources.
We would be defenders of not just Canada, but a stable climate.
This is the future Putin, Trump, and others are pushing us toward.
Where is Mark Carney on that?
#canpoli #cdnpoli #oil #EndFossilFuels
#climateChange
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https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/oil-wars-vs-energy-transition-feat-markham-hislop/id1636062630?i=1000746980583
"Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"A network is racing to save the Midwest’s native seeds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Plants
"As climate change threatens student athlete safety, states try to adapt"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Climate change is slowing southern right whale birth rate, 33-year study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Whales #Animals
"In numbers: How Europe is warming faster than anywhere else"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
"By 2100, climate change could make unhealthy air routine for 100 million Americans"
#America #Climate #ClimateChange
"How the Next El Niño Could Lock in a Hotter Climate"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange
"Airborne desert dust may warm climate far more than expected, new analysis shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"How sport can spread the word about the climate emergency"
#Sports #Climate #ClimateChange
"Southern Right Whales Are Having Fewer Calves; Scientists Say a Warming Ocean Is to Blame"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange
"Scotland in reach of first carbon budget targets, says Climate Change Committee"
#Scotland #Climate #ClimateChange
"How Antarctica warmed by 28°C in the depths of winter – and what it signals for the decades ahead"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange
"Gas companies spending millions on Australian advertising blitz to fight export tax, inquiry told"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange
"Updated climate chatbot shows users energy use per query"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Energy
"Warming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at Once"
#Wildfires #Climate #ClimateChange
"Baltic Sea ‘struggling with recovery’ and it's not just because of climate change"
#BalticSea #Climate #ClimateChange
"Fake news on everything from whales to wind farms: Australia is flooded with climate misinformation"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange
"‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange
"Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Green energy boss backs more North Sea oil and gas production from existing sites"
#Energy #Climate #ClimateChange
"The ski industry is oddly quiet on climate change"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"Study finds global increase in hot, dry days ideal for wildfires"
#Wildfires #Climate #ClimateChange
"Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Energy
"The frequency of billion-dollar disasters has increased dramatically"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Food
"Urban trees can absorb more CO₂ than cars emit on some summer days, Munich study shows"
#Trees #Environment #Climate
"Record-torching March heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Iceland saw record temperatures last year. So why are scientists predicting a ‘deep freeze’?"
#Iceland #Climate #ClimateChange
"Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Wildfires
"Reducing aircraft soot might not actually reduce the climate effects of contrails"
#Aviation #Emissions #Climate
"Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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"In Germany, climate-related television content reaches engaged viewers but misses skeptical groups"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange
"France publishes ‘first-of-its-kind’ roadmap to phase out fossil fuels by 2050"
#France #FossilFuels #Climate
"Why Sweden’s ban on fossil fuel production matters, despite not producing any itself – new research"
#Sweden #FossilFuels #Climate
"Over half of coral reefs bleached during a three-year heat wave"
#Coral #Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange
"From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
"UK to cut climate aid to developing countries by 14% to £2bn a year in ‘refocus’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
"Climate change is forcing rice growers to abandon farming, says Mars"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Farming #Agriculture
"Arctic ice loss brings dual heatwaves to Europe and eastern Asia"
#Europe #Asia #Climate #ClimateChange
"Antarctic sea ice rebounds in 2026, nearing average after four years"
#Antarctic #Ice #Climate #ClimateChange