Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. Researchers have found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly

During the last decade, the rate at which Earth warmed increased substantially After removing the influence of known natural variability factors, the increase of the warming rate is statistically...

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The Time Curve Preludes, Nº 1. The world's first postminimal piece of music, by William Duckworth. In it he used the Fibonacci series in developing proportional and rhythmic patterns with a numerical grid. Weights are placed on the low E-flat keys, allowing their strings to vibrate sympathetically.

Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

So the wannabe dictator overturns the decision to end ICE traffic stops. Unilateral decision-making to further his racist, xenophobic agenda is merely the tip of the iceberg. Just imagine what new actions this lawless demagogue is going to take with respect to the upcoming elections?

#NoFascism

Of course.

Mickey Kuhns@mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 3w ago

After ICE suspended routine traffic stops following two fatal shootings by its agents, Trump demanded they resume, calling traffic stops a key enforcement tool and rejecting the policy reversal despite it coming from ICE’s own leadership. www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-26...

The world's longest running soil warming experiment suggests that even carbon once considered stable can begin to break down as temperatures rise, releasing additional CO2 into the atmosphere. www.mbl.edu/news/decades...

Decades-Long Study Finds 'Stable' Soil Carbon Degrades | Marine Biological Laboratory

After nearly four decades, the world’s longest-running soil warming experiment is revealing a surprising result: even ‘stable’ carbon in forest soils can break down as temperatures rise, releasing mor...

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Via @politico.com

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 4w ago

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

The July update of the NMME ensemble shows a peak ensemble mean value of the Relative Oceanic Niño Index (RONI) of +2.62°C this winter. That would be a new record-strong #ElNiño... the previous strongest was +2.42°C, in the winter of 1982-83.

Western Europe experienced its warmest June on record and Europe as a whole its second-warmest June. Sea surface temperature over the extra-polar ocean was the highest on record for June, with developing El Niño conditions in the equatorial Pacific.' climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

Surface air temperature for June 2026

June 2026 was the second-warmest June globally. Western Europe experienced its warmest June on record and Europe as a whole its second-warmest June, with an intense heatwave affecting much of the cont...

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America's greatest weapon has always been the freedom to say America is wrong…

This Is America

America's greatest weapon has always been the freedom to say Americ...

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Yikes. Albert Speer wants his blueprints back.

The reasoning here is absurd enough that it should be part of the story: "Supreme Court rules that Trump statements that Haitians 'probably have AIDS,' are 'poisoning the blood of our country,' are 'eating cats and dogs," do not constitute racial animus."

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · last mo.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

For what it's worth this will be the most well-documented instance of a Republic falling into repressive authoritarianism in history. There is of course absolutely no consolation attached to that statement.

Deftly-crafted primer on the trump Christian.

A new study from Northern Arizona University (NAU) suggests that a major global greenhouse gas emissions database may be significantly undercounting carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles in cities. news.nau.edu/gurney-2026/

All the magic that we've forgotten in this time. And Glad Sommar to all.

A lot of Germans started to get a clue that Hitler wasn't the cat's meow right after Stalingrad. That was, um, just a little late. These assholes are, um, just a little late, too. Fuck 'em.

Tasha@toshyou.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yes indeed and you'll be in the history books.

The sequence of events here follows a pattern characteristic of many of the presidents' projects and policies, one that ends in the roughly the same place: failure, with regular people paying the price.

The Reflecting Pool mess is right out of Trump's destructive playbook

Like other failed beautification projects, the president's ego trip will cost taxpayers millions.

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trump's now arresting people for "vandalism" of the Reflecting Pool. Yeah, sorry. Coming from a leader and a Party for whom the lie is their first and foremost raison d'être I can guarantee one thing: defense attorneys are going to have a field day.

Trump is accusing vandals of causing the Reflecting Pool coating to peel, but that’s not what appears to be happening here. The real issue is the administration’s reliance on no-bid contracts and what appears to be a rushed project with inadequate quality control.

Yeah, it's real. We're living in a dystopian cartoon that makes Idiocracy look like an instruction manual.

Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Runaway Warming Today is #ShowYourStripes day. A day when those concerned about the climate challenge raise awareness. I helped start the day in 2018 with the genius creator of the Warming Stripes Prof Ed Hawkins and the incredible BernadetteWoods It’s grown by leaps and bounds globally since 1/

'Translation: “People need to stop drinking so much water - the machines are thirsty.” Remember this quote when the next data center pops up in your state.' -@theheatherashley

"Sounds good to me.", he wrote above the post. newrepublic.com/post/212044/...

Trump Seriously Compares Himself to Hitler

The president made the comments after signing his memorandum of understanding with Iran.

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I laughed, and then seriously felt a chill when Spicey made that ridiculous statement.

Mark Thompson@sonofathomp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I guess we should have realized what we were in for when his first act as President was demanding we agree he had a record crowd size for his inauguration.

The review was yet another surprise for European allies and Canada as they learn to deal with an increasingly unpredictable ally. apnews.com/article/nato...

Hegseth attacks NATO allies and announces a review of US forces in Europe

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe.

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Who knew Trump was so into symbolism?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump: "It's signed. I signed it in Versailles. I just signed it."