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@golfandmetal.bsky.social
Watching the world burn and it sucks
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Finally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year.
January 2, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Finally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year.
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@zhonggg.bsky.social is currently on a South Korean icebreaker in Antarctica because the US is no longer a serious country. The Trump regime got rid of our Antarctic icebreaker, Nathaniel B. Palmer, so for the first time in six decades we are without a dedicated Antarctic research vessel.
Is Thwaites Still the ‘Doomsday Glacier’?
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:53 AM
@zhonggg.bsky.social is currently on a South Korean icebreaker in Antarctica because the US is no longer a serious country. The Trump regime got rid of our Antarctic icebreaker, Nathaniel B. Palmer, so for the first time in six decades we are without a dedicated Antarctic research vessel.
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What are we doing?
NYT - Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/cl...
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:23 AM
What are we doing?
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How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’
Guardian US readers share how global heating and biodiversity loss affected their lives in ways that don’t always make the headlines
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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As always, my last post of the year reminder...
Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org.
Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂
Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org.
Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂
January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
As always, my last post of the year reminder...
Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org.
Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂
Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org.
Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂
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It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope, writes @ninalakhani.bsky.social
- The uncomfortable truth is that we’re not all in it together – but people power is reshaping the fight
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- The uncomfortable truth is that we’re not all in it together – but people power is reshaping the fight
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope | Nina Lakhani
I’ve spent six years writing about environmental justice. The uncomfortable truth is that we’re not all in it together – but people power is reshaping the fight
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope, writes @ninalakhani.bsky.social
- The uncomfortable truth is that we’re not all in it together – but people power is reshaping the fight
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- The uncomfortable truth is that we’re not all in it together – but people power is reshaping the fight
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"Between the administration and the opposition are actual opposites of principle: among those committed to inclusion and those to exclusion; truth and lies; kindness and cruelty; the protection and destruction of systems that in turn protect the climate or public health."
As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future | Rebecca Solnit
We enter 2026 with radical uncertainty about the fate of the US – but also with the clarity that people have the power to determine what it will be
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Between the administration and the opposition are actual opposites of principle: among those committed to inclusion and those to exclusion; truth and lies; kindness and cruelty; the protection and destruction of systems that in turn protect the climate or public health."
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Hard hitting piece by @rupertread.bsky.social on the dangers of “climate optimism” - at least 30 years of failure to take the threat seriously has led to multiplying risks and locked-in harm and suffering @climatemajority.bsky.social
The end of 2025 must be the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’
We should admit that widely-mandated climate optimism has been actively harmful to the needful acknowledgement of reality - and to the active collective self-protection that we now desperately need to...
www.resilience.org
December 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Hard hitting piece by @rupertread.bsky.social on the dangers of “climate optimism” - at least 30 years of failure to take the threat seriously has led to multiplying risks and locked-in harm and suffering @climatemajority.bsky.social
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Although the growth rate (%) of global CO2 emissions has gone down, the increase in absolute terms is still pretty much a straight line:
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
December 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Although the growth rate (%) of global CO2 emissions has gone down, the increase in absolute terms is still pretty much a straight line:
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
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Global CO2 from fossil fuels is projected to hit a record 38.1B metric tons in 2025, up 1.1%. Increases in the U.S., India and China, plus a 6.8% jump in aviation, outpace clean energy gains. Researchers warn that staying below 1.5°C is no longer plausible.
Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon…
news.mongabay.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Global CO2 from fossil fuels is projected to hit a record 38.1B metric tons in 2025, up 1.1%. Increases in the U.S., India and China, plus a 6.8% jump in aviation, outpace clean energy gains. Researchers warn that staying below 1.5°C is no longer plausible.
Fun fact of the day 😐
December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Fun fact of the day 😐
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Our journalists are joining nearly 40 scientists on a two-month expedition to Antarctica’s fastest-melting glaciers.
Learn more about the trip: trib.al/m5FCPom
Follow along with their dispatches and send us your questions: trib.al/hmpnb4J
Learn more about the trip: trib.al/m5FCPom
Follow along with their dispatches and send us your questions: trib.al/hmpnb4J
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Our journalists are joining nearly 40 scientists on a two-month expedition to Antarctica’s fastest-melting glaciers.
Learn more about the trip: trib.al/m5FCPom
Follow along with their dispatches and send us your questions: trib.al/hmpnb4J
Learn more about the trip: trib.al/m5FCPom
Follow along with their dispatches and send us your questions: trib.al/hmpnb4J
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Powerful Guardian editorial on urgent need for #climate adaptation & for “real plans, real finance, real justice”. And good to see shout out to work of @climatemajority.bsky.social & GlacierTrust showing adaptation as both essential in itself & as a spur to greater decarbonisation👇
The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial
Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt to a dangerously warming world has become a test of gl...
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Powerful Guardian editorial on urgent need for #climate adaptation & for “real plans, real finance, real justice”. And good to see shout out to work of @climatemajority.bsky.social & GlacierTrust showing adaptation as both essential in itself & as a spur to greater decarbonisation👇
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"It’s a Gas" by @billmckibben.bsky.social for New York Review of Books: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
It’s a Gas | Bill McKibben
I’m writing this in the last days of the northern hemisphere’s autumn in 2025. Over recent weeks we’ve seen a hurricane hit Jamaica with wind speeds a few
www.nybooks.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"It’s a Gas" by @billmckibben.bsky.social for New York Review of Books: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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McKibben: “In Australia, they’ve built so much solar power [that] electricity will be free for all for 3 hours [per day]. Humans for 700k yrs worked hard to get energy…Now you don’t have to, if you’re in a place [w/wisdom] to build solar panels & wind turbines.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We finally have a tool to at least shave some tenths of a degree off’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewable energy
The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
McKibben: “In Australia, they’ve built so much solar power [that] electricity will be free for all for 3 hours [per day]. Humans for 700k yrs worked hard to get energy…Now you don’t have to, if you’re in a place [w/wisdom] to build solar panels & wind turbines.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Your uncle's house in an intensifying wildfire zone didn't lose value because researchers documented the growing risk of it burning down.
It lost value because burning fossil fuels has made wildfires worse.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/will-your-...
It lost value because burning fossil fuels has made wildfires worse.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/will-your-...
Will your next home be a climate lemon?
Efforts to suppress disclosure of grave climate risks in brittle areas cheat buyers and sabotage communities.
alexsteffen.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Your uncle's house in an intensifying wildfire zone didn't lose value because researchers documented the growing risk of it burning down.
It lost value because burning fossil fuels has made wildfires worse.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/will-your-...
It lost value because burning fossil fuels has made wildfires worse.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/will-your-...
The 🇺🇸🤡 show continues.
oh good lord
"The Trump administration has invited a small group of 'climate contrarians' to help write the next installment of the National Climate Assessment."
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
(and then there's this fresh hell👇)
"The Trump administration has invited a small group of 'climate contrarians' to help write the next installment of the National Climate Assessment."
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
(and then there's this fresh hell👇)
December 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The 🇺🇸🤡 show continues.
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Michael Mann and Bob Ward don't mince their words here, and unfortunately they are right about the Trump administration's "Soviet-style campaign to prevent Americans and the rest of the world from knowing the truth about climate change."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Michael Mann and Bob Ward don't mince their words here, and unfortunately they are right about the Trump administration's "Soviet-style campaign to prevent Americans and the rest of the world from knowing the truth about climate change."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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@hausfath.bsky.social makes his predictions for 2026 and 2027 temperatures on The Climate Brink. I don’t need any fancy science to tell you that both years gonna be en fuego.
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/my-2026-an...
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/my-2026-an...
My 2026 and 2027 global temperature forecasts
The best thing about predicting the near future is you don't need to wait long to be wrong
www.theclimatebrink.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
@hausfath.bsky.social makes his predictions for 2026 and 2027 temperatures on The Climate Brink. I don’t need any fancy science to tell you that both years gonna be en fuego.
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/my-2026-an...
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/my-2026-an...
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It’s not just about what we eat, but what’s missing from it. New research shows rising CO2 is stripping our food of vital nutrients like zinc and iron. Climate change is reaching our kitchen tables. 🍎📉 #NutritionCrisis #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide
Researchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It’s not just about what we eat, but what’s missing from it. New research shows rising CO2 is stripping our food of vital nutrients like zinc and iron. Climate change is reaching our kitchen tables. 🍎📉 #NutritionCrisis #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global temperature projected to hit 1.7C in 2027, according to @drjamesehansen.bsky.social et al, boosted by a return of El Niño
#climatecrisis
(PDF)
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin...
#climatecrisis
(PDF)
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin...
www.columbia.edu
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Global temperature projected to hit 1.7C in 2027, according to @drjamesehansen.bsky.social et al, boosted by a return of El Niño
#climatecrisis
(PDF)
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin...
#climatecrisis
(PDF)
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin...
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2026 will bring global heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels - UK Met Office
- Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels
Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
2026 will bring global heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels - UK Met Office
- Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Great - if annoyingly animated - report about our Achilles heel on a heating planet - food supply
One study (not shown here) suggests crop yields could fall 30% by 2050, when the population could be up by 50%
More than a halving of calories per head
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
One study (not shown here) suggests crop yields could fall 30% by 2050, when the population could be up by 50%
More than a halving of calories per head
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts
From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Great - if annoyingly animated - report about our Achilles heel on a heating planet - food supply
One study (not shown here) suggests crop yields could fall 30% by 2050, when the population could be up by 50%
More than a halving of calories per head
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
One study (not shown here) suggests crop yields could fall 30% by 2050, when the population could be up by 50%
More than a halving of calories per head
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics [i.e. me] say" | Great piece by Robin Bravender for #Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics say
The White House says it’s targeting the “premier research stronghold for left-wing climate lunacy.”
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics [i.e. me] say" | Great piece by Robin Bravender for #Politico: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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The timing matters a lot on this effort to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research. New reporting -- www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
The Trump admin is closing a critical climate research center. Officials believe it’s really trying to punish a governor | CNN
The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research, an organization responsible for improved weather models to tools that aid hurricane safety. ...
www.cnn.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The timing matters a lot on this effort to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research. New reporting -- www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...