Electricity demand is skyrocketing, utility bills are spiking – but it could take years to build the new transmission lines that would address the problem.
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I can't tell if I'm annoyingly unable to shut up or if this is a legitimate attempt to avoid vagueposting, but:
I was thinking about the 30K people in Norfolk VA who lost their power because a Noreaster blew salt spray inland, to be activated by rain several days later to short out electrical equipment. Did ANYONE see that one coming? Norfolk has spent a ton of money and time on "resilience." #ClimateDiary
At the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, visitors learn about clean energy and glacier melt.
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“It’s a wave unlike the ones you’re used to at the beach. They don’t crash, you can’t really seem them come by"
the photos in this piece are from where i live (i do not live at the coast)
(i'd add: it’s almost impossible to comprehend the degree of toxic inundation if the ports here flood)
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#LosAngeles #LongBeach #climateDiary #ElNino
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coastNick Visser (the Guardian)
…So on we go pretending that not giving a fuck has no consequences until gruelling food shortages and unsurvivable summers become common place, and then when we slip into eco-fascism we can tell ourselves that we had no idea that what we were doing was causing this. Except we fucking did know. Because it’s fucking obvious if you stop and think about it for less than a few minutes
So Dan Roan of BBC Sport flies to Copenhagen in an Earth crisis just so he can meet the Man City CEO at airport arrivals to ask him a corruption question he was never going to answer and unsurprisingly didn’t.
I know this is just one minuscule episode of not giving a fuck about emissions but the predicament we are in is made up of billions of not giving a fucks and some are more fucking pointless than others
Es ist fast Oktober, strahlend sonnig und warm, heute sollen es 25° werden, und das ist auch total realistisch. Früher wäre das natürlich nicht normal gewesen, aber das ist jetzt eigentlich egal.
Obwohl es im September ein paar Mal geregnet hat, ist es immer noch viel zu trocken. Ich habe mich gerade dazu entschlossen, die Kiwibeerenpflanzen zu gießen (am 30. September!), weil die Blätter schon verwelken, aber die Kiwibeeren noch nicht reif sind. ☹️
“Fishermen along Latin America's Pacific coast are reeling in half-empty nets as ocean warming aggravated by El Nino causes tuna, anchovies and other top catches to migrate to cooler waters.”
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Last night got so chilly, I needed a hot water bottle for my feet so I could fall asleep.
I checked the weather app; these nighttime temperatures are average for this time of year.
This means my body has acclimated that much to warmer weather.
Mind blown.
"marine heatwave thanks to El Niño"
no mention of aberration, no mention of climate change, no mention of deleterious effects on the wildlife that's normally here
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A rare manta ray was spotted about 10 miles off the San Diego coast, surprising a local charter crew. NBC 7’s Brooke Martell reports.✔ SUBSCRIBE TO NBC 7 SAN...NBC 7 San Diego (YouTube)
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The approach could help farmers adapt to droughts.
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A new map of the terrain beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet links hundreds of valleys that previous maps missed or left fragmented.
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Mountainous, densely populated Japan has little land available for large solar farms, so developers are erecting arrays on many of the now disused golf courses that proliferated during the country's 1980s economic boom. Read more on E360 →
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As the Arctic warms and tundra thaws, minerals long trapped in frozen soil are leaching into rivers, turning them orange and acidic. A study from northern Alaska found “rusting” waters to be more metallic and acidic than drainage from metal mines. Read more on E360 →
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Author Will Hackman wants to connect with readers who aren’t already concerned about climate change.
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August and September passed without a single Atlantic hurricane, thanks in part to a powerful El Niño. Forecasters are now raising the prospect that the season could conclude with zero Atlantic hurricanes. Read more on E360 →
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Crazy feeling on a first #October day. After a night with 19.5°C (normal for the hottest August nights), the rain from the weather forecast didn't come. We wait for so many weeks already!
Only three drops. A beginning idea of petrichor smells like dead animals. They die because of the horrible drought. Up from tomorrow, a new rainless week with "moderate summer". I've lost the feeling for seasons and the month. It feels like July.
Turn sound on!
Soaring energy costs are driving a solar rush in developing countries, but as households unplug from the grid, those who remain face higher electricity bills. If governments fail to manage the buildout, the growth of solar could destabilize power systems and deepen economic inequality. Read more on E360 →
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The Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
How an aging single-hulled oil tanker caused one of Spain’s worst environmental disasters — and what it revealed about the lack of maritime regulations.
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How an aging tanker caused one of Spain’s worst environmental disasters — and what it revealed about maritime regulations. (Aired January 2004)This journalis...FRONTLINE PBS | Official (YouTube)
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Some parts of the globe are not just heating up, but heating up faster than they were just a few decades ago. A new analysis reveals where warming has gained pace. Read more on E360 →
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After seeing blocked roads and power outages leave people without food and water, she decided to create a YouTube series to help others get ready.
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“These are not separate emergencies; the planet is telling us, in every region at once, that it is out of balance.”
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New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster loomsOliver Milman (the Guardian)
A new study blames 122 companies for contributing to severe drought in the region.
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#ClimateDiary Good suggestion! 😊
I propose we aggregate the various superlatives applied to the current #ElNiño: "super", "super-duper", "godzilla", "jaw-dropping", and simply refer to it as the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious El Niño.
As climate change bites, prioritize healing
“People often experience climate change not as a single disaster, but as gradual erosion of health, livelihoods, social cohesion and dignity. Mental health sits at the centre of those losses, yet remains mostly invisible in the systems designed to address them.”
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Climate losses extend beyond property and income. Policymakers need ways to assess what people value, experience and ultimately stand to lose.Kumar, Manasi
India, a country of nearly 1.5 billion people, has long relied on coal to power its growing economy. But over the last two years, it has seen a remarkable shift: The rapid buildout of renewable energy has halted the growth of coal. Read more on E360 →
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I'd rather not 🫤
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Wondering if the Y-axis will be expanded.
And I remember that the top on the right is the 15/16 data.
Trying desperately to not envision what it will look like in ~10 years...
#ClimateDiary #CollapseDiary #DystopiaDiary
I used to wonder in what order it would all happen - climate collapse and other breakdowns. 2026 is showing us that, of course, it is all at once: climate collapse, war, economic collapse, AI dystopia. The perfect storm. Oh well!
"We have this infrastructure," he said. "We could retrofit it, change it, and do something that is a lot healthier on us, healthier for the planet, and actually is profitable, that'll be a job creator for the family, but for the community, as well."
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Help GYM have its own land for the demonstration gardens and more food production as well as Establishing a large tree nursery to get trees to donate to communities.
gofund.me/8da0ff4a0
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CBO registration number: 875BY306 Imagine a family in central Uganda … Jesse Davis needs your support for Empower Ugandan Families with Green Youth Movementgofundme.com
The Fens are a food-growing powerhouse, but the landscape only exists thanks to humans holding back the sea.The Conversation
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to dateOliver Holmes (the Guardian)
I’ll be in my 80s, my kids will be in their 40s, grandchildren teenagers. Who in the right minds would not be slamming the breaks on global material consumption, to repair, reuse, tax the *uck out of, end billionaires and deploy humanity to landscape scale environmental restoration.
What’s going wrong here, political leadership and their corruption by wealth, and establishment embedded thinking.
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Congratulations to Bristol City Council, who have passed a pioneering policy to restrict advertising for high carbon and other harmful products, becoming the first UK council to restrict advertising promoting ultra-fast fashion.Nicola Wilks (Adfree Cities - for happier, healthier cities)
Der Klimawandel verändert unser Leben. Was können Politik, Wirtschaft und jeder Einzelne tun? Darum geht es im neuen Deutschlandfunk-Podcast "Die Klimafrage".Deutschlandfunk
10 years ahead of a climate heating schedule we don’t want to be on?
#climateDiary
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…The quoted passages above are the words of David Spratt, discussing his 21 August article:‘The coming Super El Niño could push a hotter world towards food crisis’
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The coming Super El Niño could push a hotter world towards food crisis
The climate emergency requires actions at emergency speed for a rapid transition to a post-carbon, safe-climate future.www.climatecodered.org
This would be so much better if Simon Stiell had left out “economic growth”.
“To be soft on climate action is to be soft on inflation, and the cost of living, soft on sovereignty and security, and soft on economic growth and jobs”.
But it’s in the nature of rupture that we have to talk to people who think the institutional thinking we have can still work
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Warning by United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was joint hottest month everFiona Harvey (the Guardian)
…The “substantial economic benefits” of having a BC town combust: mastodon.social/@urlyman/11665…
…or an Ontario city of 3
million folks wreathed in life-shortening smoke for weeks on end: mastodon.social/@urlyman/11693…
I’m sure the insurance will keep paying out when the insurance market in general is in perma-retreat, in lock step with permafrost retreat once the CO2 marches past 450 ppm in a few years: mastodon.social/@urlyman/11727…
Roughly speaking, the same level of increase in ppm in the 9 years I’ve been on here took 12 years prior to me being on here. What chance 450ppm by 2033? https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111281195022592662Jonathan Schofield (Mastodon)
…The “substantial economic benefits” of poisoning your own people, but poison the dogs first yeah?
