Absolutely 💯 “The best legacy we can leave our children isn't more infrastructure. It's healthier rivers, cleaner lakes, and protected aquifers.”
@icarus62.bsky.social
Climate change never ignites a fire. That’s almost always humans or lightning. But it’s clear when we examine the data that climate heating sets the table for fires that burn faster and larger. Since the 1980s temperatures during fire season in the Pacific NW have warmed around 4°F… 1/
2026 El Niño models continue their inexorable march upwards. CanSIPS (which used to be among the cooler ones!) released their August runs today, and now show a Nov/Dec peak of 3.6C (CanESM5) and 4.2C (GEM-NEMO). For reference, the prior record El Niño peaked at 2.8C.
If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.
If it wasn’t for truck drivers, we’d starve. If it wasn’t for sanitation workers, we’d be overrun by rats and disease. If it wasn’t for construction workers, we wouldn’t have roads and the economy would collapse. Just because a job isn’t glorious doesn’t mean it’s not existentially important.
This thread highights a subtle and difficult messaging problem. Achieving netZero will not reverse the impacts of the current climate, which has been heated up by historical CO2 emissions. It is too late for that. The point of netZero is to prevent the future situation from getting even worse. ..
Kees van der Leun@sustainable2050.bsky.social · 3d agoThe nasty little thing with climate change is that the situation progressively gets worse as long as we emit greenhouse gases, and that is irreversible. So there's no happy message "Let's bring emissions to zero and then everything will be alright" Nope, everything will be worse than it is now. 1/
I will do jackshit, today. And when I’m done, I’ll be doing fuckall. After fuckall, I may lollygag some, just to stay busy while screwing around.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
There is “no other option” than using negative emissions to reach the 1.5C Paris Agreement target, Prof Detlef van Vuuren tells Carbon Brief. Watch or read the full interview by @leohickman.carbonbrief.org here ⬇️ bit.ly/4wbaU8J
This is a key point. Reducing CO2 emissions to net zero is needed to stop things getting worse. On it's own it doesn't turn back the clock. But some ppl (you know who) pretend that emission cuts are unrelated to climate impacts via extreme weather. They are dissembling.
ClimateBook@climatebook.bsky.social · 2d agoThis thread highights a subtle and difficult messaging problem. Achieving netZero will not reverse the impacts of the current climate, which has been heated up by historical CO2 emissions. It is too late for that. The point of netZero is to prevent the future situation from getting even worse. ..
Highly informative article about the recent record-breaking heat and wildfires in Europe. It dives into the science about the causes, quoting several experts. Worth reading! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Europe pays the price in a summer where heat went off the charts
Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.
abc.net.au
A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
I find it absurd that the most important news story in the entire world is apparently... football.
The greatest gift we can leave future generations isn’t money it’s a healthy planet. Protect forests today, so life can thrive tomorrow. There is no Planet B.
Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
It’s time to reread this wonderful book.
The UK government tried to bury its own 2024 report warning of food & water system failure as early as 2030. This is now starting to look a bit optimistic.
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
Our world is a tinderbox as we approach 1.5C above preindustrial temps. We’re locked in for at least 2C, & on track for 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Tumbleweeds as we wait for governments, the media & the public to provide a proportionate response to this information.
The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.
"The Netherlands can't stop climate change. Let's just embrace living under water." 🤦
The Holocene (the past 12,000 years) has been a uniquely stable period for the climate, with global average temperatures at 14 degrees celsius, varying by only 0.5 degrees. Johan Rockström explains how today, human activity is the dominant force for change on Earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rphp...
We're just here taking a day trip in our little car, driving carefully, following the rules. And there are always maniacs speeding, RACING, nearly clipping us, flying out of nowhere w/o indicating. The offenders are ALWAYS men. Sick of our lives being risked by dudes with small 🍆s & 💩 for brains.
Drought in the Netherlands: precipitation deficit* now double that of the peak in a median year, well within 5% driest years territory. Further increase predicted. *) evaporation minus rainfall
It is much simpler: We know what we emitted since we know how much fossil fuel has been burned. And that’s twice as much as has accumulated in the atmosphere. So nature hasn’t been a source but a sink: oceans and forests took up half. And that’s also observed fact. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
How do we know the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is caused by humans?
Fossil fuels are the only source of carbon dioxide large enough to raise atmospheric carbon dioxide amounts so high so quickly.
climate.gov
The usual lies from climate deniers like Matt Ridley. Part of a broader pattern of paltering by bad actors like Bjorn Lomborg who misleadingly merge managed croplands & plains (which have seen decreases) with forests. See: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 5d agoThere's a chart making the rounds of the right-wing disinformation-sphere, which supposedly shows a record low year for wildfires in Europe. In fact, it's highly misleading, mostly because @ourworldindata.org includes Russia (and thus all of Siberia) in their datasets about "Europe." 1/2
