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.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #floods

#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.

#climateDiary

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."

#ClimateDiary #climateCatastrophe

#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!

#GreenParty #GPEW #UKPolitics

"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."

yaleclimateconnections.org/202…

#Solar #Wind #GreenEnergy #FossilFuel #Climate #ClimateDiary #Nature #Science #Economics

We're just shy of 2 weeks into Spring and there's June beetles flying around.

#ClimateDiary #zone7

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.

#climateDiary #forsythia #Easter

#ClimateDiary
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.

Moment Magazin

2026-03-31 08:37:19

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 @lisa

moment.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)}

#climateDiary

The important point I’m trying to emphasis here is that the biosphere is the *real economy*. Without it, all the theorising about what money is and how it works falls over.

And we are resolutely destroying the biosphere that we’re evolved for. We are running up an unpayable non-negotiable overdraft.

Maybe we can take that into account? Take a fresh look at the ecology P&L without money goggles?

mastodon.social/@urlyman/11632…

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#climateDiary

The important point I’m trying to emphasis here is that the biosphere is the *real economy*. Without it, all the theorising about what money is and how it works falls over.

And we are resolutely destroying the biosphere that we’re evolved for. We are running up an unpayable non-negotiable overdraft.

Maybe we can take that into account? Take a fresh look at the ecology P&L without money goggles?

mastodon.social/@urlyman/11632…

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Jonathan Schofield

2026-03-31 08:47:05

My understanding:

A gov of a fiat currency is authorised by its parliament to run up an overdraft with its central bank.

When money is spent into the economy, debt is created. That’s what money is.

When govs tax, money is deleted and their overdraft is reduced.

If a gov doesn’t tax sufficiently relative to money creation (by it and commercial banks), things go to shit very badly (technical term).

If govs don’t integrate ecological limits, industrialism collapses
mastodon.social/@urlyman/11632…

Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)

…That @RichardJMurphy@mas.to is blithe about economic growth – as he is at https://yt.webfan3.de/FlqoKplKNz4?si=VFpxa96cKatoX9w_ – is of course a much bigger predicament #degrowth

^{Jonathan Schofield (Mastodon)}

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#climateDiary
Houston, we have a problem:

“A sense of foreboding but an enjoyment of the immediate windfall, for sure.”
mastodon.social/@lymphomation/…

#climateDiary
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…
youtu.be/1PN65BdwyWA?si=gvp_PQ…

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#climateDiary
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.

#ClimateDiary #Solar

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#ClimateDiary #Devon #Dartmoor #peatlands

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!

#ClimateDiary
#ClimateDiaries
#ConfederateStarJasmine
#Florida
#TampaBay

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.

#climatediary #woodland

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

#climatediary

#climateDiary

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.

- - -

Sources:

GDP per capita:
IMF: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…

Oil consumption and production:
nation specific pages at:
worldometers.info/oil/

Waldbrandgefahr - Ende März.

social.bund.de/@DeutscherWette…

Mir fehlen die Worte.

Einmal zum speichern ins
#ClimateDiary

Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)

2026-03-24 11:50:57

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/waldbrand

Wetter und Klima - Deutscher Wetterdienst - Leistungen - Waldbrandgefahrenindex

Index des meteorologischen Potentials für die Gefährdung durch Waldbrand

^www.dwd.de

#climateDiary
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

overcast.fm/+BA_3prPj2o

cc: #ClimateDiary

From: @ZLabe
fediscience.org/@ZLabe/1163039…

Zack Labe

2026-03-28 00:33:38

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

Status of Spring | USA National Phenology Network

^{www.usanpn.org}

is it weird to say "I recognize that refinery" about this story?

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#Climate #ClimateDiary #FossilFuels

…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.

#climateDiary

…If the Strait of Hormuz opens up again we are still in deep deep shit.

EVs will not save us
#climateDiary #iran

mastodon.social/@urlyman/11602…

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?

#climateDiary #iran

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

#Capitalism #Imperialism #Ecology #ClimateDiary

…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

#ClimateDiary
wmo.int/media/news/earths-clim…

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
theguardian.com/environment/20…

#ClimateDiary Short overview of my evolving consciousness

2000s: climate change, ecological destruction bad but can be tackled/ a while off/studying this is my contribution

2017-2021: it’s a #ClimateEmergency! We need to act NOW! #Activism

2022-25: it’s a #Polycrisis What will get us first - Climate breakdown? inequality? Fascism? AI dystopia? (Nuclear) war?

2026: Oh, it’s all at once, right now, this is it #CollapseDiary

(and yes i know many of you will have been years ahead of me)

#LiebesTagebuch #Energiewende #ClimateDiary
Angesichts der schwersten Energiekrise seit Jahrzehnten: Welche nachhaltigen Initiativen setzt die 🇦🇹 Bundesregierung bezüglich der Energiekrise? Denn was sie derzeit versucht (Aka Spritpreisbremse), ist lächerlich und wird bald an Wirkung verpuffen. Das soll wirklich alles gewesen sein? Die IEA weiß es besser und redet wieder einmal dem Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energie das Wort:

🌀 derstandard.at/story/300000031…

"Japan's Edo, which grew from a minor castle town to one of the largest cities in the world, avoided ecological collapse by adopting a ‘circular economy’. Drawing on Buddhist values, Shogunate leadership emphasised local production, low consumption and optimal efficiency, including efforts to repurpose everything."

aeon.co/videos/the-extraordina…

#Recycling #Environment #Consumption #Japan #GreenEconomy #FossilFuels #Nature #CircularEconomy #ClimateDiary

#ClimateDiary Meanwhile, this too.

State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

theguardian.com/environment/20…

sorry to post a screenshot from another platform but consider this a document o' the times 😱

#CAwx #ClimateDiary

#ClimateDiary

Al Jazeera (en) (gotgrip bot)

2026-03-20 08:55:03

Long before Trump: How US policy has harmed the environment for decades aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/20/l…

Long before Trump: How US policy has harmed the environment for decades

Environment advocacy groups are suing the US government over climate change policy rollback.

^{Sarah Shamim (Al Jazeera)}

#climateDiary

They tried to make us go to rehab
But we said no… oh… El Niño?
m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/11625889275…

1st day of Spring
33 above avg temp
99F high
102F feels like

California poppies braving the burn

#ClimateDiary #CAwx