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Tragic news: our local landfill site is on fire. The blaze is horrendous and the smoke towering over the tiny village of Ladybank. Locals are to keep windows and doors shut.
The A92 is closed in both directions so our normally sleepy little road is very busy.
I’m feeling pretty crap about it. We can’t go on using plastics and chucking them in the ground and hoping it never comes back to bite us.
#ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #PlasticCrisis
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Huge recycling centre fire breaks out in Fife
Emergency services received reports of the blaze at Lower Melville Wood Landfill Site near Ladybank at about 13:35.BBC News
Lake Powell on the Colorado River is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream snowmelt on record.
#climatechange
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Lake Powell forecast to receive 13% of its usual flows, new report shows
Lake Powell helps pace the flow of water to millions of people. It currently holds 23% of its capacity, and the low inflows won't help.Shannon Mullane (The Colorado Sun)
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A timeline of our rapidly changing planet (through 2025)...I've now added this visualization permanently to my climate change indicators webpage (at the bottom): zacklabe.com/climate-change-in…. Check it out there, as it looks much better in its full resolution!
Climate change indicators
All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…Zack Labe (Zachary Labe)
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A bouquet of flowers picked from the garden on this day three years apart. The pink bouquet is from today, the yellow bouquet is from 2023.
Only the forget-me-nots and yellow wallflowers are present at the same time of year as they were three years ago.
Ich bin mal gespannt wann Regenwetter als freundlich und nützlich in der Zeitung bezeichnet wird
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Und Sonnenschein als gefährlicher Hitzetag
Wettervorhersage: Erst Freitag wieder freundlich - bis dahin viel Regen | Flipboard
Tagesspiegel - Ein Regenschirm sollte diese Woche nicht fehlen, denn das nasse Wetter hält in Berlin und Brandenburg zunächst an. Zum Wochenende reißt die …Tagesspiegel (Flipboard)
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An old railway snow fence, made of railway sleepers, burned in a very recent wild fire. Can't think of a better metaphor for climate change.
I've spoken before about the Danish climate atlas and how we use it to help stakeholders prepare for impacts of a warmer climate, my colleagues have been working very hard with our partners to develop on relevant for Ghana 🇬🇭🇩🇰
This is still the initial phase, but it's already impressively easy to understand.
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Climate Change in Ghana
For centuries, Ghana’s climate has supported farming, fishing, and vibrant coastal communities. Today, rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and sea-level ri…GMet CMS
Another one for the #ClimateDiary and sounds like the relative lack of rain is affecting a large area of Europe (especially after reading the comments below). ☹️
…There are thousands of ways we could become less stuck.
We’re a social species. So we need to find ways to *socialise* becoming unstuck.
Appealing to:
- governments (transactional)
- businesses focused on product (transactional)
- individuals acting *in isolation* as consumers (not social)
…hasn’t worked, because the dominant mode of those activities are anti-social.
Fwiw, I’m trying to help my friend get his ideas going: seethroughtogether.org
See Through Together: Speeding Up Carbon Drawdown by Helping the Inactive Become Active
A global collaboration of climate activists, blending hard science with storytelling to nudge ordinary people into actions that measurably reduce carbon emissions.seethroughtogether.org
We need people studying the implications of global heating, and inevitably they need to publish an output of their work, and then media report it. As with theguardian.com/global-develop… about disrupted elections.
But despite that the vast majority of people want more action on climate change – 89percent.org – more info and more pleas haven’t changed what we do: mastodon.social/@urlyman/11150….
We need more people working on becoming unstuck. (Some observations follow)
Heatwaves, floods and wildfires pose rising threat to democracy, report finds
Research shows natural hazards linked to climate crisis disrupted 23 elections in 18 countries in 2024Mark Townsend (the Guardian)
Naming storms and cyclones like humans: 👎
-Who's Gabrielle and what did they do?
-Vaianu? Doesn't mean much to most people.
-People named Katrina face a lifetime of inane jokes, but they did nothing wrong.
-The villains are off the hook.
Naming extreme weather events as the polluters responsible:👍
-"Cyclone Fonterra ruined your home" or "Tropical storm Exxon Mobil 3 devastated the city"
-Memorable, directs public fury to those profiting from the pollution of our planet.
-Corporations hate bad PR, might actually do something about it.
-It's easy and free. We could just do it.
#Oil101: 6/14 #climateDiary
…“That is a single 42-gallon barrel of oil.
Now multiply it by the total amount we burn every year, and we’ll see what this looks like at scale.
We use around 100 billion barrels of oil-equivalent of fossil hydrocarbons per year, globally.
At around 5 years of labor per barrel, that’s 500 billion human labor year equivalents – running, working alongside around 5 billion actual human workers.
100 fossil-powered ghost workers for every living one…
…But what’s 3.1 MB (6 novels’ worth) of hyperscaled CSS when you have a whole biosphere to fry with #LLMadness ?
Meanwhile, here I am trying to keep my CSS for an entire website under about 40 KB.
Another one for the Climate Diary: spring “bloom 2-5 weeks early than a long-term average (1991-2020). Denver, CO is 35 days early, and Nashville, TN is 17 days early."
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#ClimateDiary This really is a wonderful Easter present. Greens leading UK polls!
For those of you not in UK: this is unprecedented, and as little as six months ago pretty unimaginable. Happy Eastear everyone!
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"EVs are already putting a dent into oil consumption worldwide, and as gas prices climb higher, the simple efficiency of an EV could become all the more appealing. In all 50 states, the cost of home-charging an EV is considerably cheaper than fueling a car with gasoline."
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#Solar #Wind #GreenEnergy #FossilFuel #Climate #ClimateDiary #Nature #Science #Economics
What's cheaper: Fueling your car with gas or electricity? » Yale Climate Connections
Here’s the answer for every U.S. state.Karin Kirk (Yale Climate Connections)
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Histric high temperatures marked in West Japan, i.e. nearly 30C in Anabuki, Tokushima. The area was inside the warm sector of a developing low pressure and strong Foehn effect worked at that time when the record high was observed. Mechanism is simple, but rare to see it. #japan #ClimateDiary
I remember hanging eggs on them in my childhood. Since climate change, they bloom much earlier than even an early Easter in Alsace. Only this year we have luck because the cold with minus degrees conserved them.
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Tatsächlich! Es gibt sie noch, die Klimakrise. In Österreich und anderswo. Selbst wenn die Regierung so tut, als hätte es sie nie gegeben. Nicht darüber sprechen, sich nicht mit ihr auseinandersetzen, schafft sie nicht aus der Welt. Wir werden wahrlich sehenden Auges an ihr zugrunde gehen. Aber wir werden darüber sprechen.
Krieg, Energiekrise, Teuerung, Machtmissbrauch und Gewalt gegen Frauen. Die Medien sind voll mit Krisen.
Nur über eine reden wir nicht mehr. Dabei ist es dringender denn je, denn ihre Lösung würde uns auch im Kampf gegen andere Krisen helfen.
Ein Kommentar von @lisamoment.at/story/klimakrise-ign…
Klima: Die vergessene Krise
Krieg, Energiekrise, Teuerung, Machtmissbrauch und Gewalt gegen Frauen. Die Medien sind voll mit Krisen. Nur über die Klimakrise reden wir nicht mehr. Dabei ist es dringender denn je, kommentiert Lisa Wohlgenannt.Lisa Wohlgenannt (Moment.at)
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Houston, we have a problem:
“A sense of foreboding but an enjoyment of the immediate windfall, for sure.”
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Karl Schwartz, Artist advocate (@lymphomation@mastodon.social)
Weaponing Oil --- a sliver of a silver lining? Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist's global energy & climate innovation editor and others discuss tensions around #Iran windfall profits for oil and LNG firms, and how supply disruptions could trig…Karl Schwartz, Artist advocate (Mastodon)
Arctic ice loss brings dual heatwaves to Europe and eastern Asia
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Arctic ice loss brings dual heatwaves to Europe and eastern Asia
The Barents Sea might seem too far away to affect our weather – but research shows it doesKate Ravilious (the Guardian)
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Part 1: 2 minute video:
How can a business protect itself from accusations of greenwash?
A business measures its success in terms of dollars or euros.
But climate scientists use metrics like tonnes.
No wonder things start to get a bit fuzzy…
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See Through Together Greenwash Sniff Test | Part 1, The Challenge Change Now, Paris #changenow
Who's behind this: https://bit.ly/STT_Greenwash_Sniff_Test1How can businesses protect themselves from accusations of greenwashing?In this first mini-episode...See Through Together (YouTube)
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‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists
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‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists
Experts say brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territoryGabrielle Canon (the Guardian)
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We’re told that renewables are ‘sustainable’ and yet they are for the foreseeable future dependent on non-renewable fossil fuel inputs for their manufacture.
We’re told that we are heading for net zero. (Though now not so much.)
What both these framings have in common are absolutes. In an era built on binary switches.
What would be much better is if we are more honest…
Hundreds and hundreds of articles on what to do about the rising price of oil, and none on new solar or wind installations.
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#ClimateDiary #Devon #Dartmoor #peatlands
‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands
A project on Dartmoor to reprofile the landscape aims to return the springy bog – and carbon store – to its natural conditionSandra Laville (the Guardian)
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I look forward to this time of year - the fragrant blooming of confederate star jasmine. It seems like it is earlier every year, even this year which was a cold winter for us. I always remember these fragrant blooms starting in April. This year I first smelled them on March 27!
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#ConfederateStarJasmine
#Florida
#TampaBay
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What’s missing from this picture?
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Here's an odd little addition to the #ClimateDiary ... In France you can opt into an electricity tariff regime called 'Tempo', which is cheaper most of the time, but which features a few high cost 'red' days, generally allocated to the coldest winter days when demand is highest - except this year those cold days just haven't come as usual, and the generator, EDF, has ended the winter just using up its allocation of red days on every late March weekday, even though many of them have been unseasonably warm.
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In today's "nature I couldn't care less about" there's ticks. Evil little disease carriers. And each year they become abundant earlier in the season.
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July/August temps here today. Just did some trimming of trees/bushes on one side of the house for slightly better fire defensible space, although only marginally better.
3/29/26
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The Gulf War gulfs of the world’s dirtiest dozen.
GDP is very closely correlated with climate heating and biosphere destruction. The 12 nations shown here are listed top to bottom in order of the size of their national GDP, but their per capita GDP varies greatly, as does their reliance upon oil from other nations.
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Sources:
GDP per capita:
IMF: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
Oil consumption and production:
nation specific pages at:
worldometers.info/oil/
World Oil Statistics - Worldometer
Amount of Oil left in the world based on proven gas reserves and current global consumption levels. World Oil reserves, production, and consumption by year and by country, imports, exports, charts and list.Worldometer
Booked the train travel for my holiday.
A flight would have been less than half the cost (in money). For 10x the cost in CO2 emissions.
No wonder we're cooked.
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A flight would have been less than half the cost (in money). For 10x the cost in CO2 emissions.
No wonder we're cooked.
#ClimateDiary
UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms - BBC News
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UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms
The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency says.Mark Poynting (BBC News)
Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high
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Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high
State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heatJonathan Watts (the Guardian)
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Waldbrandgefahr - Ende März.
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Mir fehlen die Worte.
Einmal zum speichern ins
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Das aktuell und in den vergangenen Tagen trockene Wetter führt im Zusammenspiel mit dem auffrischenden Wind vorerst besonders im Süden und Osten Deutschlands zu einer teils hohen Waldbrandgefahr (Stufe 4 von 5). Mit am Mittwoch von Nordwesten her einsetzendem Regen geht die Waldbrandgefahr deutlich zurück. dwd.de/waldbrandWetter und Klima - Deutscher Wetterdienst - Leistungen - Waldbrandgefahrenindex
Index des meteorologischen Potentials für die Gefährdung durch Waldbrandwww.dwd.de
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This is a lovely conversation between host Alex Leff and Jess Serrante. It serves as an introduction to a set of conversations I didn’t know I needed to listen to but now feel I do:
Jess recorded her friend, Joanna Macy, and made it her own podcast: ‘We are the Great Turning’.
Heartily recommend this, about Joanna, her wisdom and what it was like to know her really well
#ClimateDiary 🇦🇹
Über die Windkraftgegner im Tullnerfeld. Die Spinner sind echte Schwurbler von Rechts!
🌀 profil.at/oesterreich/zwischen…
Über die Windkraftgegner im Tullnerfeld. Die Spinner sind echte Schwurbler von Rechts!
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Zwischen Protest und Propaganda: Windkraft-Gegner-Treffen in Tulln
In Neuaigen trafen sich am Sonntag Bürgerinitiativen, um gegen Windkraft zu mobilisieren. Die Anwesenden, darunter auch Politiker von FPÖ und MFG, nutzten die Veranstaltung, um ihre teils radikalen Ansichten zu verbreiten – inklusive Falschnachrichte…Julian Kern (profil.at)
Fossil fuel companies finally accept the climate crisis – just not their role in it
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Fossil fuel companies finally accept the climate crisis – just not their role in it
The era of corporate climate denial is over but in courts around the world the big names have shifted strategyGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
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From: @ZLabe
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Spring is arriving across much of the West more than 20 days earlier than average when looking at when plants first leaf-out - even reaching almost to Canada! I'd expect significant ecological impacts from the heat this March.Graphic and data from: usanpn.org/data/maps/spring
is it weird to say "I recognize that refinery" about this story?
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#Climate #ClimateDiary #FossilFuels
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist saysOliver Milman (the Guardian)
…If one is going to use a phrase like ‘Out of balance’ in a major world communiqué, one really must contextualise it.
‘Out of balance’ makes good sense in the *human* context of Doughnut Economics as a framing.
It does not make sense (at least it does not to me) within the *impersonal* geological/meteorological frame.
…If the Strait of Hormuz opens up again we are still in deep deep shit.
EVs will not save us
#climateDiary #iran
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Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
…“Diesel is the lifeblood of our civilization. It powers all the agricultural machinery. Without diesel, you cannot grow food at the scale that we do. It is the most energy dense fuel that we can utilize in large quantities.Jonathan Schofield (Mastodon)
EVs are made with metals smelted with about 2 tonnes of coal, making about 4 tonnes of CO2. The coal is transported with diesel. Which is derived from oil. Which is extracted with steel. Which is made with coal.
EVs do use fewer resources over their lifetime. So that’s good, assuming all the products of oil they rely upon throughout their lifetime (e.g. bitumen) continue to flow.
But we’re probably past peak diesel. Perhaps we can examine our predicament more fully?
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Inspiring annual lecture at Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex by Jason Hickel on Capitalism, imperialism and ecology in the 21st century. Never before have we had so much production & mass deprivation with roots in imperialism & capitalism (ie undemocratic forms of production). Need for ecosocialist transformation & global South to delink from globalist capitalist law of value
…The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says
“The Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any time in observed history”.
What a weird choice of words. It’s not “out of balance” any more than it has been in its wildly variable history.
It’s becoming inhospitable to *us* because of *us*.
Get some better writers
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Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance
Geneva, Switzerland (WMO) – The Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any time in observed history, as greenhouse gas concentrations drive continued warming of the atmosphere and ocean and melting of ice, according to the World Meteorologica…World Meteorological Organization
You know that thing when a car driver kills someone but the headline seems to imply that the car just did it of its own volition.
Well, António Guterres is doing something similar when he says “Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits”.
No it’s not. What a ridiculously inept thing to say.
*We* are pushing Earth’s climate beyond *our* evolved limits
#ClimateDiary
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Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high
State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heatJonathan Watts (the Guardian)
Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows
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Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows
Exclusive: Food systems of low-income nations projected to deteriorate seven times as fast as those of wealthy onesCarmen Aguilar García (the Guardian)