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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 13h
It's now getting serious:

"Prices for these five foods – butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate – have risen by an average of 15.6% over the past year, compared with just 2.8% for other food and drink [1]."

Largely driven by extreme weather

Further developments will not be linear...

#climate
Why food prices are still rising: butter, beef and milk to blame
Household staples including butter, coffee, milk and chocolate are driving food price inflation, with extreme weather playing a part in pushing up the cost of living.
eciu.net
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 12h
Parts of capital are realizing that they won't survive the current trajectory

"Around 30 institutional investors including Swiss private bank Pictet Group and Nordic investor DNB Asset Management have so far signed up to the Belém Investor Statement on Rainforests, which is open until November 1."
Investors managing $3 trillion in assets urge countries to stop deforestation
Global investors managing over $3 trillion in assets called on governments on Monday to stop and reverse deforestation and ecosystem degradation by 2030, in a statement signed ahead of a U.N. climate conference in Brazil next month.
www.reuters.com
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Ian@collapseaphorisms @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 1d
"The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has received reports of groups of dead black vultures across the state, with preliminary testing indicating that the likely cause is Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also called bird flu."

(wric.com)

#collapse
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Ian@collapseaphorisms @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 16h
"Air quality in India's capital New Delhi deteriorated to hazardous levels on Tuesday with readings the highest in the world, according to Swiss group IQAir, partly due to the use of firecrackers during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights."

(Reuters)

#collapse
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Ian@collapseaphorisms @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 16h
Oh look, France has raised its bird flu alert level to "high" following the recent emergency of new cases of the disease, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday.

#collapse
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Charles Thistlethwaite @charlest.bsky.social · 1d
A study by Columbia University scientists found that while forest regeneration provides climate benefits by absorbing CO2, it also releases other greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide, reducing the overall positive impact.

phys.org/news/2025-10...
Study indicates forest regeneration provides climate benefits, but won't offset fossil fuels
When farmland is abandoned and allowed to return to nature, forests and grasslands naturally regrow and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—helping fight climate change.
phys.org
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 14h
7-day forecast 28.10.2025

temperatures are about to shoot 🆙 in The Northern Hemisphere
Over 2.5c over pre industrial
Canada, SE USA, N #Africa will lead the charge , with the Black Sea area , Caspian Sea area and NW China

Deep 🥶🥶🥶
South Argentina
Far East Russia

#ClimateCrisis
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 12h
Polar data 20.10.2025

JAXA #ANTARCTICA SEA ICE EXTENT:  loss 3k
16.893977 km2 ⬇️ from 16.897064 yesterday
54k less the average loss on this day of 57k

5% of ice loss  from maximum to minimum done
Approx 124 days to minimum
3rd lowest

#ClimateCrisis #cryosphere
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 12h
Polar data 20.10.2025

Jaxa #ARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT:  gain 168k
6,302,812 km2 🆙 from 6,135,256 yesterday
55k more than the average gain on this day of 113k

23% of extent gains from minimum to maximum done
Approx 139 days to the average date of the maximum
8th lowest

#ClimateCrisis #cryosphere
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 10h
Your daily dose of #CO2 part 1

20.10.2025 424.96 🆙3.01 or 0.71 %
20.10.2024 421.95 🆙2.42 or 0.58%
20.10.2023 419.53 🆙3.53 or 0.85%
20.10.2022 416.00 🆙1.68 or 0.41%
20.10.2021 414.32 🆙2.88 or 0.70%

#ClimateCrisis
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 8h
World SSTs 20.10.2025

More of the endless boredom
No change in weeks
NOAA daily map as usual

Temperatures in oceans are slowly trending ⬇️ towards yearly minimum

#ClimateCrisis
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d
'Aerosol Effective Radiative Forcing Accelerates Earth’s Energy Imbalance In Recent Decades' (Preprint)
Tianle Yuan, NASA GISS
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 12h
'In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temps are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, creating unstable land the Yupʼik people call Alaskan quicksand.'

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska
In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, cre...
www.pbs.org
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 10h
Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 20h
nice article by @scottpwaldman.bsky.social about the DOE Climate Working Group and their associations with conservative groups that are working to overturn the Endangerment Finding. The claim that they're just "doing the science" is increasingly unsupportable.
www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
DOE climate report colored by past views of its authors, critics say
A review by POLITICO's E&E News found that most of the authors have spoken out against the endangerment finding, once called the "holy grail" of climate
www.eenews.net
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Environmental Coffeehouse~ Sandy @envirocoffeehouse.bsky.social · 1d
The Zen of @endoftheworldparty.bsky.social Scott. A nice listen for the tumultuous times.
#compassion #empathy #zen #elonmusk #weareallgoingtodie
#religion "Fear is the Path to the Darkside"

YouTube youtu.be/_P-TO2xyhC0?...
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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 8h
Latest 0z update to the Grand Ensemble, along with a breakdown of every ensemble suite included in it & percent of ensemble members per suite that detected the storm.

There was a noticeable west shift in the 0z guidance, with more members showing a west turn south of Jamaica.
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Robert St.Onge @robstonge.bsky.social · 7h
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 8h
Human exceptionalism began when we stopped seeing ourselves as part of the food web.

Agriculture gave us control, then the illusion of superiority.

Every species that outruns its limits believes it’s invincible—until it’s not.

phys.org/news/2025-10...
Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis, claims evolutionary biologist
In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens—self-centeredness.
phys.org
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 2d
One success after another while the head lines just copy the fascist version...
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 2d
apnews.com/article/alas...
Alaska storm damage so bad many evacuees won’t go home for at least 18 months, governor says
Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months.
apnews.com
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 1d
Bats make up one-fifth of all mammals. Flight won’t save them. Their nocturnal invisibility only helps us forget how fast they’re disappearing.

apple.news/Apzoefb-CStK...
Why do bats spread so many diseases? They’re evolutionary marvels. — Popular Science
Why do bats spread so many diseases? They’re evolutionary marvels. Survival of the fittest doesn’t always mean smartest, fastest, or strongest. After rodents, bats are the second most biodiverse mamma...
apple.news
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 1d
The first litigation to protect Columbia River salmon was in 1992.

Three decades later, 8 of 35 Snake River spring/summer Chinook runs have fewer than 50 fish left to spawn.

The lawsuits change. The river doesn’t. And extinction inches closer.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Environmental groups, Oregon turn to courts to help Columbia Basin salmon
It's the first big development in a decadeslong battle since the Trump administration blew up a deal that had provided a path to dam removal on the Snake River.
www.seattletimes.com
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 1d
World SSTs 18.10.2025

NOAA daily map as usual

Temperatures in oceans are trending down.
NW Pacific is cooling strongly

#ClimateCrisis
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 1d
Salmap 20.10.2025

Lots of SAL again

#ClimateCrisis
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