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

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"Passing the limits of adaptation" is scientific lingo for the collapse of civilization and TEOTWAWKI. It's arriving much sooner than most of us would care to admit.

Leon Simons@leonsimons.com · 4d ago

Europe’s Summer of Reckoning Is ‘Just the Beginning’ “2026 is just the beginning,” Professor Rockström added. “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adaptation.” @nytimes.com 1/

It’s now official: June–July 2026 was the most anomalously warm two-month period ever recorded in France by a staggering margin. France is now virtually certain to record its warmest summer on record.

Les valeurs de température de juin-juillet sont tellement hors normes qu'elles nous obligent à revoir l'échelle de nos graphiques. Les chiffres sont tout simplement sidérants. 1/4

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

The UK will be in drought until at least October. But there’s no such thing as a ‘new normal’ on a planet hurtling past 1.5C, on the way to 3C by 2050 & 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Without unprecedented societal change, we are in the beginning stages of a fairly rapid end.

Major incident declared after large wildfire breaks out - as UK warned of 'new normal' after drought declared

Firefighters in Suffolk were battling the biggest wildfire of Wednesday, but other crews were kept busy elsewhere in the country too. It broke out just hours after half of England was declared to be i...

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Endless days over 40c in France , the country of #ClimateChange deniers and skeptics So FUN #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

Don’t worry, nothing to see here. When we reach 2C as a new norm, actuaries project billions of climate-related deaths, whether from natural disaster or subsequent famines, water shortages & disease outbreaks. Tell your friends to prepare for a global strike. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

El Niño May Push Global Warming to 2C or Higher in the Short Term

There’s a 35% chance that the average temperature will hit 2C above pre-industrial levels for one month next year, projections show.

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Remember: the last time Earth was 2celsius warmer crop/livestock agriculture couldn’t exist because there weren’t 4 seasons + weather was too violent. Next year will see weeks at 2C & potentially a full month for the first time in over 100 thousand years. The UK should be in full emergency mode.

Britain's most persecuted minority ... according to The Daily Telegraph's front page ... Millionaires. It's clear who they are here to serve. No wonder they hate Greens for unashamedly calling for wealth to be taxed fairly. Let's make it happen join.greenparty.org.uk

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Climate Scientist Fleeing Wildfires: ‘We’re In A Race Against Time’

Professor Stefan Rahmstorf escapes out-of-control wildfires in France, and warns fossil fuel inaction is supercharging climate disasters.

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'El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy… In today’s incredibly connected economy, in other words, it doesn’t take a butterfly flapping its wings to make waves half a world a way — just some warm ocean water in the middle of the Pacific.' futurism.com/science-ener...

El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy

It doesn't take a butterfly flapping its wings to make waves half a world a way — just some warm ocean water.

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The more you know ... Assuming accelerated warming, Earth passed through the Paris limit of 1.5°C over the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline earlier this year.

Food growers & farmers are increasingly experiencing climate breakdown harvests That means higher prices - and more food insecurity. Politicians have been quiet on this growing crisis - but silence isn't good enough when our food supply is at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than half of England officially in drought - Environment Agency

The drought declarations follow an exceptionally hot and dry period, which has hit rivers, crops and nature.

bbc.co.uk

2015: World leaders promise to limit warming to 1.5C above preindustrial temperatures. 2024: Earth breaches 1.5C for an entire year. 2050: We’re on track for 2-3C. Scientists & insurers warn BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE. The most obscene betrayal in the history of our species.

Infantino has decided to sell off FIFA while potentially pocketing ten of millions for himself. It is time to end FIFA they don't own football, and they certainly can't be allowed to sell it. Make a new FIFA and throw this one in the bin.

J’espère que nous ne reverrons plus jamais ce type de une après l’été que nous sommes en train de vivre, et que l’ensemble des journalistes vont enfin prendre ce problème au sérieux.

Le feu de Gironde présente désormais toutes les caractéristiques d'un méga-feu, à commencer par la formation d'un pyrocumulonimbus. 1/3

Escaping from the smoke, an evening indoors watching this classic for the craic. Thanks for the inspiration Donald.

We decided to get out. Not sure whether we would have still made it tomorrow. The main road Lacanau-Bordeaux is already closed. #GlobalHeating #Wildfire

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

So a lot of this + a record Super El Niño. Hold on to your hats people. And hold your representatives accountable!

Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · 2w ago

YellowDot released this letter today calling for disaster preparedness for the heat jump this El Niño will bring. It’s signed by scientists, meteorologists, climate writers, concerned citizens & was sent to every Governor, major city Mayor, international Mayors. Sign + share if you can.

This is an horrifically huge fire near the coast 🥺🔥 My thoughts are with the 800 brave firefighters dealing with these apocalyptic scenes 🙏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

France orders evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as hundreds flee wildfires

The fire has raged in the region for several days with officials now ordering the evacuation of the entire Cap Ferret peninsula.

bbc.co.uk

Et de 4, c'est usant. Tout le monde en a marre, une sécheresse historique, d'énormes dégâts, la biodiversité en danger plus que jamais. Et les gens continuent de danser sur le pont du Titanic, comme si de rien n'était. #canicule www.blick.ch/fr/suisse/ap...

Les hautes températures vont faire leur retour en Suisse

Après un bref rafraîchissement ce week-end, la Suisse devrait connaître à nouveau une période d'anticyclone à partir de lundi. Des températures supérieures à 30 degrés et une sécheresse persistante po...

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Eurasian Skylark, 16-18cm songbird Europe, Asia and N America NZ, Australia, Hawaii, Vancouver Island brought here in 1900! forage on insects in summer, seeds, grains in winter You will hear them before you see them!

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.

We haven't seen anything of what climate change will have in store for us the next 20 years! This Super El Niño is only just materializing and will be an indication of what the average year will more or less look like a decade from now. Based on the past years, I think denial will only increase.

Just Some Grey Bunny@greybunny.bsky.social · 2w ago

No shade, but saying we're about to find out while we're currently choking on the smoke of North America burning and heat wave deaths in Europe break 10k is just about the perfect illustration of what a frog-boiling problem climate change messaging is.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Onion harvest done (over-wintered crop is already in use). Not the biggest, but given the almost total lack of rain for the past two months I'll take this 🧅😋✌️