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How humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones - Geologists think our indelible mark on the planet - 'technofossils' - will be fast food, fast fashion, and concrete #anthropocene Story by me www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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The Social Cost of Carbon: Its not what it sounds like. It saves you money. Its essential to policy that slows climate change. Trump is getting rid of it. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Wondering what kind of world we could have created if we voted for a highly qualified and intelligent woman for POTUS. This is embarrassing 🤦🏻‍♂️🇺🇸💔

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Dumb

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Rebel For Life

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NEW STUDY: Messages about the harms of fossil fuels increase public support for clean energy, with or without a moral emphasis (produced in partnership w/ @UCEngageScience)

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Glad to be vegan!

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If you want to experience something that previous generations haven't, here it is: The last 10 years have been the 10 warmest years on record.

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“And now is not the time for speaking politely or focusing on what we can or cannot say. Now is the time to speak clearly.”- Greta Thunberg January 2019 at Davos

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"We’re in serious trouble. That’s the message I saw written in the ashes of Los Angeles....We’re in trouble not because we’re helpless, or because we have broken the planet beyond repair." 1/2

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World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study - Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.

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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 427 ppm in January 2025 10 years ago January averaged about 400 ppm Preliminary data from @noaa.gov: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

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Trump ended the first-ever National Nature Assessment, which was trying to reveal how nature loss influences climate change and impacts humanity, but the researchers are trying to publish it anyway.

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Methane reached another new record high value in October 2024 (1942.9 ppb). October 2023's global methane abundance was 1930.6 ppb. Note there is a seasonal cycle. Data available from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_... ⚒️

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Most countries failed to submit national emissions plans to the U.N., suggesting that the global framework for addressing climate change is wobbling.

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Burn it all down “President Donald Trump suggested that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has found irregularities in US treasuries, and intimated that may lead the US to disregard some.” Source: Bloomberg

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“We were surprised by not only this increase in SST persistence, but the magnitude and widespread nature of the trend. This change is happening globally and in nearly all major ocean basins. Our study suggests that the ocean’s ability to sequester heat is weakening.”—Hajoon Song #ClimateCrisis

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Wow. Last month wasn't just a usual hottest January on record. Despite cool La Niña conditions, it was even hotter than last years record-breaking El Niño January! Graph by @hausfath.bsky.social

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Trump wants to ditch the "social cost of carbon," which, as Case Sunstein points out, is the administrative equivalent of saying global warming is a hoax: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

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NEW: Sources tell WIRED that NOAA* employees were ordered to give a Musk engineer (Nikhil Rajpal) editor access to all NOAA's Google sites by EOD. *monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change. By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:

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The physics doesn’t change

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www.theguardian.com/environment/... Anomalously high temperatures have continued in Jan 2025, which set a new record for the month & confounded expectations that temps would drop with the current La Niña... “This unexpected record may presage higher temperatures this year than many of us thought,”

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At least we don't have to read about this on a federal government website: At 2°C of warming, the area on Earth that is too hot for humans will triple. This is fine. 🔥🧪

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“Climate change is upending the basic assumption that Americans can continue to build wealth and financial security by owning their own home. In a sense, it is upending the American dream.”

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Nothing to see here Climate change could erase $1.4 trillion in real-estate value due to insurance costs apple.news/AFrpsSBzfQzK...

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Amid everything, a new study finds that microplastics are accumulating in human brains. “Every time we scratch the surface, it uncovers a whole host of, ‘Oh, is this worse than we thought?’” lead author Matthew Campen told me last fall. A short thread: 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024. This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....

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Most registered voters say the U.S. should use more renewable energy and less fossil fuels

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Truly we are at an Orwellian moment here. And, to put it mildly, we don't seem to be rising to the challenge.

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#ResistanceEarth #Voices4Victory Climate change is melting Arctic sea ice, making it difficult for polar bears to hunt. They're taking in less energy than they need, leading to declining reproduction and survival rates. Polar bear populations are dwindling. abcnews.go.com/US/climate-c...

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Global warming isn't just nibbling away at Antarctica. Peer-reviewed research is starting to track fundamental climate shifts in the planet's deep freezer ... #news

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Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds - Net increase of 80,000 deaths a year projected in hottest scenario, with milder winters failing to redress balance #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Defunding attribution science is all about trying to cloud the link between fossil fuels and climate change and kill litigation that could hold Big Oil responsible for $billions in climate damages.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

And the crime against life continues

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