"...abnormally dry and warm winter..." "...extremely hot and dry conditions..." WHY is this happening, @npr.org @chandelis.bsky.social . WHY? Our climate is dying and you know why.

NPR@npr.org · last mo.

There have been 183 new wildfires, including eight large ones, across the U.S. since Saturday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported on Sunday. n.pr/4hjizO1

Every word, even the perfect choice of cover photo, should be broadcast to the world. Who will listen? Meanwhile, I'm spending $20 a month for Ridwell to recycle my "special plastics" as if that's going to help. Thank you, @ghostpanther.bsky.social for this eye-opening and depressing hit of truth.

Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · last mo.

Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

Sit down and read this. I'm thankful for Rebecca and others like her who are eloquent and vocal about our dire situation. If only the powers that be would listen, understand, and care.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

What we all need is rapid legislation and funding to reduce fossil fuel use, increase solar, etc. The "recovery" funds are just bandaids on a jugular wound.

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · last mo.

The devastation across Spokane County is heartbreaking but my commitment to support response and recovery is unshakeable. I write the bills that fund the government, and I will make Spokane’s recovery a top priority. Whatever it takes, for as long as it takes. 🌲❤️

"Climate change, combined with development in high-risk areas, is making urban wildfires more likely." 🔥

Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Urban firestorms like the one that devastated Spokane Saturday have been growing more common because of increased development in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and climate change. In this post, I document 9 such fires since 2016 in the U.S. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/urba...

My daughter's Earth was doomed before her mother was even born. Very tired of rich greedy men destroying everything.

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2mo ago

In June 1966, scientist James Lovelock warned Shell in a confidential memo of “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.” Shell would later become "a founding member of the denialist Global Climate Coalition." 😑

What're we doing here folks? Hello? Anyone out there? This should be at the forefront of every conversation.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 2mo ago

Here's the latest Nino 3.4 anomaly update, through July 23rd, the 55th consecutive day at a new record daily high, and 0.74°C higher than any previous July 23rd on record. The Climate Casino is taking the Over on 3.6°C (Hausfather's line) and the Under on 4.3°C (CFSv2's line).

"Climate Shift Index levels of 5 — the highest possible — are forecast across large areas of the country through July 28, indicating that climate change made the extreme heat at least five times more likely." via www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

We are witnessing a tipping point. Boreal forests that stored carbon for 1000s of years are now CARBON EMITTERS. Heatwaves make wildfires. Wildfires make more heat. More heat makes more fires. This feedback loop is what scientists warned you about.

I really don't know what to add to this. Nothing more to be said.

Peter du Toit@peterdutoit.com · 2mo ago

I am increasingly of the opinion that the speed of climatic change and the associated impacts are going to catch billions of people completely off-guard. The level of complacency as this speeds toward us is mind blowing.

Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.

To climate deniers: You said it was a hoax when 18M hectares burned in Canada in 2023. You ignored it when 2025 became Norway's hottest year ever. Now forests above the Arctic are burning while Canada's smoke reaches Europe. At what point will you reflect?

SSTs have been record territory since 17 Jun "So?" some say. This translates into among other things - marine ecosystem stress - lower oxygen in seawater - increased humidity leading to more dangerous heat on land - intensification of heatwaves - impacts on fisheries This is a full-blown crisis

“I thought I would have time to prepare.” IPCC 2023: “ High risks are now assessed to occur at lower global warming levels.” We can continue to underestimate the risk as we reach 1.5°C of heating. For the most part we are not prepared. www.lemonde.fr/en/ec...

Spotted in Bremerton, WA. This is a political post.

A generation betrayed by a politics, a media & a society lacking the conscience, the courage & the imagination to end an economic system that necessitates the burning of their futures, their hopes & their dreams. The most shameful betrayal in the history of our species.

‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms

Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke

theguardian.com

It would be no surprise at all to see this year and next breach 1.5C - quite possibly by a significant margin - and never again drop back

Example no. 5284 why I will never forgive my family for voting for this US regime three times.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Scientists: We desperately need long, unbroken records of North Atlantic currents to see how close we are to a #climate tipping point. US government: sending ships to rip 900 deep-sea sensors out of the water. Congress voted twice to keep them funded. They're being pulled anyway.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

"Using satellite data spanning decades as well as recent field measurements, the study's authors found that between 1984 and 2022 approximately 25,000 acres of farmland was lost to sea level rise in the #Chesapeake and #Delaware Bay watersheds, despite preventative measures taken by local farmers"

Sea level rise is swallowing US Mid-Atlantic farmland faster than expected, study finds

Ghost forests, the cemetery-like groupings of dead trees killed by saltwater intrusion, have become haunting symbols of sea level rise overtaking land along the Mid-Atlantic coast. But a new study pub...

phys.org

"I've been a #climate scientist for 33 years and we're seeing exactly the kinds of things that we were warning back then... [although] these records are perhaps more extreme and coming sooner than we had expected," @richardabetts.bsky.social

Why temperature records are being not only broken but smashed

The combined effects of a heat dome and climate change have brought extreme warmth to western Europe.

bbc.com

Nothing to see here, just the second hottest day on record in the Nino 3.4 region, with El Nino just getting started. Over/Under 29.5 by Nov How hot will it get? The Climate Casino is giving an Over/Under of 29.9°C by December 1, 2026. The Climate 8-ball is taking the over.

In case you haven't been keeping track, a quick update. Nino 3.4 is now predicted to peak at roughly 3.6°C over the 1991-2020 baseline in late October or early November. Climate change is not good for children and other living things.

This is what everyone should be committing all time and resources to. Instead we have people in charge who only care about money and power during their lifetimes.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 4mo ago

The latest global temperature data from Copernicus has the planet at a record daily high on May 13th, likely the hottest May 13th in the last 120,000+ years. And El Nino is just getting started. We live in interesting times.

Comparing the devastating 1877 El Niño that killed millions with where we’re headed in 2026 is like comparing 2 different planets. We should be worried. But we should also be furious. Decades & decades have been squandered, & now we’re on track to lose everything.

For as long as I live I will never forgive the people who can't see this.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4mo ago

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.

We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup

Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.

motherjones.com

When will we first reach 2°C of warming? A simple heuristic: We passed 0.5°C in 1980. 1°C in 2010 -30 years later. 1.5°C in 2024 - 14 years later. Add another 0.5°C in 14 years, we hit 2°C by 2038. Assuming the rate stays constant.