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I'm a homesteader of sorts who's very collapse and overshoot aware. We're on a one way trip over the cliff.

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · Jun 23

People assume the ENSO cycle is stable. Observations seem to be disputing that. In an increasingly chaotic climate system all bets are off.

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Extreme ocean downwelling is occurring now off the coast of Ecuador and Columbia in the eastern tropical Pacific. The surface current here is all flowing eastward and converging and sinking. This is never the case except in El Niños. (But we aren’t in the El Niño phase of the Southern Oscillation now, we’re in the Neutral phase.) Without an El Niño, the Humboldt current flows westward from Ecuador and the Columbian current flows northward along the Pacific coast of Columbia. The opposite is happening now and to an extreme degree. It’s like an El Niño is taking shape starting in the eastern tropical Pacific instead of the far western tropical Pacific which is unheard of. The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)’s oscillator in the far western tropical Pacific is always the trigger for starting El Niños. Could an El Niño be on the way in “reverse order”? If that is true we are in a whole new ballgame with ENSO and perhaps a key part of the Earth’s ocean current system.

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Image showing what is described here.

"Extreme ocean downwelling is occurring now off the coast of Ecuador and Columbia in the eastern tropical Pacific. The surface current here is all flowing eastward and converging and sinking. This is never the case except in El Niños. (But we aren’t in the El Niño phase of the Southern Oscillation now, we’re in the Neutral phase.) Without an El Niño, the Humboldt current flows westward from Ecuador and the Columbian current flows northward along the Pacific coast of Columbia. The opposite is happening now and to an extreme degree. It’s like an El Niño is taking shape starting in the eastern tropical Pacific instead of the far western tropical Pacific which is unheard of. The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)’s oscillator in the far western tropical Pacific is always the trigger for starting El Niños. Could an El Niño be on the way in “reverse order”? If that is true we are in a whole new ballgame with ENSO and perhaps a key part of the Earth’s ocean current system.

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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 21h

Duh, who would have thought 🤔

Biofuels Globally Emit More CO2 Than The Fossil Fuels They Replace

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Biofuels Globally Emit More CO2 Than The Fossil Fuels They Replace — Study - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Biofuel demand continues to grow worldwide despite being responsible for 16% more CO2 emissions globally than the fossil fuel...

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 23h

Maldives again !

Yesterday the southern atoll of Gan tied again its hottest October day in history with 33.1C.

Gan has one of the most stable climates in the world:
In over 50 years all time extreme temperatures ranged from +19.7C and +33.6C: less than 14C spread in a lifetime.

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d

Record warm also in the Northern Maldivean atoll of Hanimadhoo
With a minimum temperature of 28.2C

Every atoll of MALDIVES this month broke its October heat records from North to South

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 12h

[Vietnam update] Post-storm floods damage nearly 1,600 houses in northern localities. 18 dead. en.vietnamplus.vn/post-storm-f... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Typhoon #Matmo #Flood #Disaster #ThaiNguyen #Vietnam

Post-storm floods damage nearly 1,600 houses in northern localities

Thai Nguyen province is the hardest-hit locality with losses valued at 4 trillion VND, followed by Cao Bang with 2 trillion VND and Lang Son with 1.05 trillion VND.

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 12h

That's the one. Delusion fueled by greed 🤑

#kiissyourassgoodbye

🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 1d

The same old shit. More industrial scale development to correct the damage done by industrial scale development. Completely ignoring termination shock due to rapidly decreasing emissions.

🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with that is termination shock. The atmosphere would suddenly be nice and clear globally and the nice warm blanket of emissions would still be there. Warming would accelerate rapidly and we'd have even less time. We are fucked, we backed ourselves in a 6 sided corner (a box)

🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 2d

While everyone is busy squabbling over king trump this is happening. Everything besides this is trivial. We are watching the sixth mass extinctions' end game. It's accelerating rapidly and there's not a damned thing anyone can do to stop it.

#kissyourassgoodbye

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This image is a stunning and staggering snapshot of rapidly accelerating global warming which is becoming an order of magnitude (10 times) worse in the polar regions. Not only is much of the Arctic’s (the Arctic is from 66.5 to 90 degrees north latitude) surface air temperature forecast to be + 15 C to + 20 degrees C (+ 27 to + 36 degrees F) above the average for the date, much of the Antarctic (66.5 to 90 degrees south latitude) will approach that. Image is a forecast map for 7 days from now from the U.S. Global Forecast System model from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, part of the National Weather Service.

In the Arctic the magnitude of warming strongly increases poleward. The Arctic Ocean is now mostly ice free. In the Antarctic the temperature anomaly maxima is at about 75 degrees south latitude because the South Pole (90 degrees south) is at high elevation in the middle of the Antarctic ice sheet.

Last winter much of the Arctic was + 10 to + 15 degrees C (+ 18 to + 27 degrees F) above the average for the date for 3 months running from January 1 to March 31. I was hoping that record wouldn’t be eclipsed so soon. It appears it will be shattered. We are entering the catastrophic phase of global warming.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 2d

I has been a very long time since I posted this list of 40 consequences of climate change. But, it's important to take note of item number 40.

I truly wish things were going to get better, but sadly, it's all just going to get more f&%ked from here.

climatecasino.net/2021/10/top-...

Top 40 Impacts of Climate Change

In this post, I list 78 current and future impacts of climate change, along with references for some of the more unexpected items. That list was compiled scouring the web along with suggestions and c...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere. Hundreds of the wells permitted to expel unused natural gas also release toxic gas close to populated areas.

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 3d

Rooftops vanish underwater as floods cut off 10,000 people in northern Vietnam e.vnexpress.net/photo/news/r... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Typhoon #Matmo #Flood #Disaster #LangSon #Vietnam

Rooftops vanish underwater as floods cut off 10,000 people in northern Vietnam

Floods triggered by Typhoon Matmo have left nearly 2,000 homes in Lang Son Province submerged up to their rooftops for at least three days, cutting off 10,000 residents who are surviving on rooftops, ...

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 3d

Currently on track for 3°C by 2040. Fun times ahead.

🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 3d

Normies, zombies, all the same to me.

two police officers are talking to each other and one of them is saying i 'm thinking zombies

ALT: two police officers are talking to each other and one of them is saying i 'm thinking zombies

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 4d

Great way to avoid all the "zombies" desperately looking for food and water.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 4d

'Our capability to observe the Earth's energy imbalance and budget terms is threatened as satellites are decommissioned'

And now it's (temporarily? 🤞) not being updated.

We need more CERES satellites.

Can @esa.int @esaclimate.bsky.social @ecmwf.int and others help?
@carlobuontempo.bsky.social

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 4d

My wife and I have a lottery wish wall. We've kicked around the bunker idea. Basically burying yourself alive until you die anyway.

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 4d

2/2 building more industrial scale "green", "renewable" projects just pile on the destruction of the natural world which leads to extinction. We've screwed the pooch. Your kids and grandkids aren't going to make it.

#we'refucked
#collapse

🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 4d

1/2 Basically John is saying 2040 will be it. Carbon capture is nonesense, a scheme cooked up by industry. We also know rapid decline in emissions equals termination shock, accelerating warming. In any case, we'll keep burning and destroying.

#kissyourassgoodbye

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Why we’re in big trouble - in two simple graphs. It’s much worse though because the vast majority of the imbalance is increasingly absorbed by the uppermost few hundred meters of the increasingly stratified uppermost ocean. The Earth Energy Imbalance has increased by 338% since 2004. Until the last few years most of it was being absorbed by the deep ocean. Not any more. This is why global warming is accelerating. September alone saw a + 0.2 degrees C (+ 0.4 degrees F) rise in global average surface air temperature.

We are now at 1.4 to 1.5 degrees C (2.6 F) of warming compared to pre- industrial times. If we don’t take drastic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions post haste and begin new ways of sequestering much of it already in the atmosphere we will see + 2 degrees C (+ 4 degrees F) within about 5 years and + 3 degrees C (+ 6 degrees F) within about 15 years. At + 3 degrees C humans rapidly go extinct.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6d

Mont Miné glacier front today! 🤩

Collapse of the debris covered front... the big arch on right bank has now disappeared.🧊

Several lakes are forming...🌊

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 6d

UNBELIEVABLE HEAT IN CANADA🇨🇦
Tropical nights in Quebec !
TMins 20.3 La Pocatiere,20 Ile Madaleine
TMAX
31.1 KOUCHIBOUGUAC
OCTOBER HOTTEST DAY EVER IN NEW BRUNSWICK
30.9 Bathurst,30.7 Frederictonetc
12 stations >30C in NB and NS

HUNDREDS OF RECORDS BRUTALIZED
(See Mins/Maxes)👇

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 5d

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 6d

‼️EXTRAORDINARY DAY
Dozens of thousands of records are being brutalized with margins never seen before in >160 countries.
There had never been anything like this in world climatic history.
In just 6 days ,October 2025 has broken more records than ANY full month in history.
Updates coming...

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 6d

Yea, we're just too stupid.

🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 6d

Genius, we'll grow our way out of the total collapse of everything brought on by constant growth.

homer simpson is surrounded by flames and says s-m-r-t in white letters

Alt: homer simpson is surrounded by flames he started in his house while doing a happy dance and says s-m-r-t in white letters

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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 6d

I still have healthy tomato plants, outside in Nova Scotia in October. This should not happen, ever. It's great until you remember this is a gentle reminder we have one foot hanging off the cliff.

#kissyourassgoodbye