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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 53m

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"We are again living through a holocaust but this time a holocaust of the world we have known all our lives. It is a holocaust that is killing by the billions the kindred lives that surround us."

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Earth Grief by Stephen Harrod Buhner

The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 15, 2025 ~ Truth bomb.

"Any new constructions intended to last decades should be prepared for 4°C above preindustrial levels – a level at which the world will face global devastation."

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UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told

Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 15h

True for the whole planet as well:

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 15h

Why are there more flooding storms? Why does my cat ignore me?

For starters, the Northern mid-latitudes just set yet another new record for the 3-year running average for Total Column Precipitable Water.

And yes, this one is exponential.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 19h

In case you missed it:

"... as if this polycrisis were resolvable with a cookbook method for how to clean a burned pan and a few phone calls to friends and relatives."

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Saving Everything Else

It’s not about saving us. It’s not about saving ourselves. It’s not about saving our ability to eat whatever we want, to buy more crap, to travel to distant places, to have a good job, to send our kid...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20h

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today:

"How can societies effectively balance immediate adaptation needs with long-term sustainability goals in the face of a rapidly evolving climate?"

www.sustainability-times.com/climate/they...

“They Warned Us It Was Speeding Up”: Earth’s Climate Engine Is Shifting So Fast Scientists Fear Glaciers, Storms, and Seasons May Never Return

As humanity grapples with unprecedented climate challenges, the Earth’s climate machinery appears to be undergoing a profound transformation. Once predictable

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23h

*response = respond (typo)

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 14, 2025 ~ When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang.

“Efforts to protect forests don’t stand a chance as long as our economic system keeps rewarding quick profits from forest destruction..."

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‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"In a relatively short time, disasters could strike around the world, overwhelming our attempts to prepare for and response to climate change."

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates: 9780593081853 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d

Depends on how much whiskey you use.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d

Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

This last August saw a record low for average August Arctic sea-ice thickness, the first time below 1 meter, with data going back to 1979.

Still waiting for September data. Will we see a new all-time record low? The Climate 8-ball is drunk again.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 2d

Back over 1.5°C again and on the way up.

Coral has tipped. AMOC, Amazon, boreal forests, Antarctica, Greenland, permafrost, etc., are tipping.

The Climate 8-ball says, "Not to be!"

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 2d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 13, 2025 ~ The end of coral.

"We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world, with devastating consequences for people and nature..."

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The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN

The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 2d

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"Barring a miracle, the next twenty years are going to see increasingly chaotic systemic transformations in global climate patterns ..."

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We’re Doomed. Now What? | Soho Press

Bold Literary Voices | Award-Winning International Crime Fiction | Groundbreaking Young Adult Fiction

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 3d

Thank you for seeing through this quote.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 3d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 12, 2025 ~ The end of bees.

"Fifteen species of bumblebee, which play a crucial role in pollinating peas, beans, peanuts and clover ... are now classified as threatened."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 3d

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"Only a massive shock that is both severe and durable can open the window of opportunity wide enough that we will achieve the systemic changes that are needed to attain sufficient climate action."

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Saving Ourselves | Columbia University Press

We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the ch... | CUP

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 3d

Your 'moment of neo-fascist kakistocracy' for today:

"CDC has no leadership across multiple centers and offices... CDC cannot respond to this threat, which has the potential to kill hundreds of millions of people."

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The Death of Public Health

Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 3d

Great questions! I don't know.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 4d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine.

"The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... "

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Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 4d

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"Even with years of valiant efforts by countless people and groups, and important reductions in some areas, overall, we are not reducing CO2 emissions."

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Waking Up: Consciousness, Culture, and Climate Solutions

This human life is such a precious and amazing gift. While many of us live comfortable and privileged lives, our future and our planet stand threatened by escalating social and environmental problems,...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 4d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 10, 2025 ~ Joining the party.

"We have now seen three of the five worst harvests on record this decade... This is what farming with climate change looks like, as extreme weather wrecks harvests..."

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

Provisional Government data suggests a much worse harvest than experts had so far predicted.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 4d

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"we are close to a tipping point in the Arctic sea-ice system, from the state where there has been year-round sea ice for tens of thousands of years to one where there isn't."

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A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate

A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, how and why human-caused global warming...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 5d

Wow, that is amazingly accurate.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 5d

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.

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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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