What people don't get yet is the changes that cause extreme drought also cause extreme moisture. It can flip flop back and forth from year to year without any good way to predict what is coming. We are giving up the predictable world that human civilization evolved in.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 4h ago

🇫🇷 🚜 French farmers turn to drought-tolerant crops amid climate pressures Faced with recurring heatwaves and drought, a growing number of farmers in France's Alsace region are turning to crops that need less water and fewer pesticides than many traditional alternatives, such as lentils and chickpeas

Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground

Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground

OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...

thebeaverton.com

Hundreds of homes were just destroyed by climate change fueled wildfires in BC. Looks like something out of a war movie. No mention from any politicians in Alberta or the federal government. Maybe they should give the victims a I ❤️ AB Oil sticker. 🤬

Europe's forests are losing more biomass than previously thought. A study published in @natgeosci.nature.com and supported by ESA's Climate Change Initiative found that biomass losses per hectare have increased by 46% since 2018, with drought and insect outbreaks driving increasingly severe losses.

Europe’s forests losing more biomass since 2018

Europe’s forests are losing more biomass than previously thought, with disturbances such as drought and pests causing increasingly large losses from some of the oldest forests in Europe. This situatio...

esa.int

That sounds hot. Is it hot?

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

scientificamerican.com

It's always shocking to realize there are lots of people that are incapable of really really basic fact checking & so they have surrendered their entire world view to social media.

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 6h ago

This sums it up. He only sees angry posts about migrant rapists - so he doesn't realise that the vast majority of rapists are not migrants.

Was chatting with a young couple that moved into the neighborhood from the interior of BC over the winter. Both the parents & children have a trauma response to wildfire smoke.

A West Coast pipeline is not in our National Interest. Tell your MP there can be No Pipelines on a Burning Planet. Take action today ⬇️ #climateaction #cdnpoli

350 Canada@350canada.bsky.social · 22h ago

🚨BREAKING NEWS: Over the long weekend, the federal government announced that it intends to list the proposed West Coast tar sands pipeline as a so-called “project of national interest.” Quick 🧵on what it means and what we are doing about it! #pipeline #cdnpoli

Had my first flat on my new bike today after about 2200km. Broke the tire levers in my patch kit trying to get the tire off. Less than fun. 🤣 Sooooo tell me about goop/slime/other things.

Rand Paul is a liar, and I'm sick of people only partially correcting him.

Maybe I should start a "Did you know?" serries on fossil fuel propaganda? 🤣🫠 I could start with the "if we don't do it, someone else will" propaganda that actually began with the tobacco industry & was wildly successful there too. It was really well documented in the 50's, 60's & 70's.

I have to be honest, I didn't think that I'd be reading actual Alberta "war room" propaganda being used as talking points by "liberals" considering they were all opposed to tax payer funded fossil fuel propaganda just a short while ago, but here we are.

You can't make conspiracy theorists like MAHA/anti-vaxxers into normal voters again by addressing what they say are their concerns, because their real concerns are railing against expertise & feeling like they have secret knowledge. They don't want the world to be better, they want to feel special.

"As long as countries want to use fossil fuels, there is no harm in Canada supplying it" is evil & intellectually & factually wrong. Not a lot different than a lot of other ignorance based positions that cause harm to vulnerable people & for a lot of the same reasons.

1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...

PM Carney proceeding at breakneck pace with West Coast Pipeline - Environmental Defence

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Over the weekend, while Canadians across the country are dealing

environmentaldefence.ca

So we've got homes & infrastructure being destroyed by climate change related events every year now. There are food systems failing in the world. Thousands of people are dying. The political response in Canada? Give delusional talks about being a "energy superpower" & don't talk about reality.

Pretty interesting that there are climate change contributed wildfires that are destroying homes in BC & the US & we've all been choking on the smoke & not a single politician of any political stripe in Alberta has said a word about it that I've seen.

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in cities, and the absolutely HUGE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by Not Just Bikes. Then share it as much as you can. youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue

theguardian.com

We need to create artificial environments more tolerant to the extreme world we have created. Better air, better cooling, etc. That is a must. But we also can't forget that these artificial environments exist at the grace of the real world. We can't exist in environmentally controlled bubbles.

It's always pretty interesting to feel my innate immune system react to wildfire smoke. The headaches that a lot of people get from exposures to wildfire smoke are a direct result of the inflammation responses of your innate immune system. It's also part of the reason there are cardiovascular

I'm always blown away by the optimism that people that understand the seriousness of the self inflicted problems we are facing have. They seem to have this idea that even though we knew things were going to be bad & could have prevented it & didn't, we will at some magical point find the kind

The greater Spokane area has about 500,000 people living in it. There are video's of homes burning right now. This is the best it will be for the next 500 years. Are you awake yet?

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

There's no coming back from this. Open, in your face corruption always leads to collapse. There will be no stopping it & I'm not certain the wealth class even wants to. www.france24.com/en/americas/...

Fast access to Trump's ‘Truth Social’ posts goes on sale for $100,000 per month

US President Donald Trump's posts on his Truth Social platform can move markets with a few keystrokes. Starting Saturday, for a fee of $100,000 a month, Wall Street traders can access his "Truth API"…

france24.com

The most basic & fundamental element of empire is control of currency. It underpins everything about controlling people's & empires. It has for centuries. For those paying attention, there are some absolutely wild things going on right now. The happenings between Japan & the US in this regard

It's absolutely wild to me reading people from countries that had the worst response in the G20 to covid telling each other that they did too much. 🫠

It's pretty wild that when people come in from being out they smell like wildfire smoke & their clothes do too & they can't even tell because their nose has been deadened to the smell. Only after spending some time in clean air home, does their nose work again. 🫠

"Pathways is a non-binding pledge that enables expanded oil production, higher greenhouse gas emissions and billions in public subsidies for pipelines and carbon-capture infrastructure — This is not climate policy; it is greenwashing dressed up as national strategy."

Pathways is a costly climate fiction — and Canadians are paying for it

The 2025 Alberta–Carney agreement explicitly links pipeline construction to the Pathways project. Despite record profits — $37 billion for oilsands producers in 2023 — Canadians are being asked to fin...

nationalobserver.com

Surely people must understand that this isn't just another normal cycle of open corruption and criminality right?