#climate

Mastodon! I'm delivering a talk to a couple of grade 9 classes in a month on the use of space (mainly satellites, but probes to other planets, comets, etc., will be included).

How does your work benefit from satellites?

I'm thinking of a direct use of the data, as opposed to stuff like “internet access” or “my bank relies on satellites to transfer my grant money from one account to another”

Anecdotes, rants, personal stories are all fair game
(To the inevitable suggestion that I just Google this, yes, I can, and have, but I want the human element - I want to be able to say "someone I ‘know’ uses satellites for their job, and this is what they like about the tech”)

Hashtag suggestions are welcome.
(Also - question: Does Mastodon discriminate hashtags with different capitalization? Are #Astronomy and #astronomy functionally different? We *really* need some kind of ISO standard )

#Archaeology #Physics #SolarActivity #Geology #SevereWeather #Climate #ClimateChange
#Satellite #Satellites

1st of April 2025
427.68 ppm CO2 in the air

Chart shows current value and values for the same day 20 years back

#co2 #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

India is facing another devastating summer of deadly heatwaves

As India prepares for another summer marked by severe heatwaves, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued warnings about the likelihood of above-normal temperatures and an increased number of extreme heat days across the country from April to June

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/04/02/india-heatwaves-2025/

#India #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate

Amongst the many terrible things #America voted for when they elected That Man was bigger, more expensive, more deadly wildfires. For the WHOLE WORLD. #SHAME #Climate

@greenpeace

This is incomplete communication, bad protest, denatured.

Build the New Energy, to reduce and end 'Putin gas revenues,"

Build New Energy to cut off Trumps "dominance in gas suppliers"

BUILD the New Energy to end pressure on Europe.

Build the New Energy to support Ukraine. Build the New Energy because storms wiped out European cities, because Canada burned forest twice the size of Scotland.

Climate talk WITHOUT a demand to build is pointless.

#Klima #climate #solar #Wind

https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/04/01/79993063/slog-am-a-school-district-tattles-on-washington-state-layoffs-at-hhs-and-we-have-a-new-county-executive While Washington State has been struggling to fund most of its major transportation projects, the chair of the state Senate Transportation Committee says financing a statewide bikeway system is cheap enough to pull off. It would connect our existing major bike paths across the state for less than $50 million over two years. It’s orders of magnitude cheaper than car infrastructure AND better for our environment. Let’s go
#Bike #Cars #Climate

The atmospheric CO₂ concentration (provisional, unadjusted mean) in March 2025 was again higher than expected based on the values ​​of previous years.

The CO₂ concentration increases from 425.38 ppm (Mar. 2024) to 428.15 ppm (Feb. 2025). That is 2.77 ppm within one year. This is 1.12 ppm higher than the approximation. March 2025 was the first month in which daily values ​​above 430 ppm were measured. On seven days, values ​​exceeded 429 ppm for the first time.

#co2 #climate #climatechange

"Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is smallest in 47-year record"

#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

https://www.carbonbrief.org/arctic-sea-ice-winter-peak-in-2025-is-smallest-in-47-year-record/

Finland phases out coal, ahead of schedule:

“Imported fossil energy has been replaced with cleaner solutions that reduce climate emissions, while consumers benefit from lower energy prices”

“As Finland previously relied primarily on coal imported from Russia, the phase-out has also boosted Finland’s energy independence and, therefore, national security.”

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/04/01/finland-ahead-of-schedule-on-coal-phase-out-as-helsinkis-salmisaari-plant-closes

#Climate #ClimateSolutions #Energy #Russia #Finland #EU #Europe #Renewables #Wind #Coal #FossilFuel #Suomi

Banks see a dire climate future — and ways to profit

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2025/03/31/banks-see-a-dire-climate-future-and-ways-to-profit-00260540

https://archive.ph/wip/L1fEE

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

‘Climate bombshell’: Lakes lose oxygen 9X faster than oceans in global crisis

Lakes lose oxygen 9x faster than oceans, with 80% showing depletion. Warming, algal blooms, and hydroclimate extremes threaten aquatic life

https://www.businesstoday.in/visualstories/news/climate-bombshell-lakes-lose-oxygen-9x-faster-than-oceans-in-global-crisis-221291-31-03-2025

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

@aral
Banks aren't the only ones who should be preparing.
So humanity doesn't go extinct we need:
1. Replacing GDP with a better metric.
2. Less fragile technology.
3. Scenario planning to handle a population crash to a sustainable level.
4. Better post-crash strategic spatial planning.
5. Sustainable agriculture.
6. Attitudes and ongoing education that incorporate natural custodianship.
7. More grassroots organizing to establish green political leadership worldwide.
#climate #climatechange

EU must protect flagship climate policies against Big Oil’s green fuel failure and aviation sector attacks

The demand of airlines to ground or delay two flagship EU climate policies for the aviation sector would result in soaring emissions, delay decarbonisation and hurt the European Union’s efforts to become a clean tech leader. The EU must hold steady on its course

https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/03/31/eu-must-protect-flagship-climate-policies-against-big-oils-green-fuel-failure-and-aviation-sector-attacks/

#EU #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #MassExtinction #environment #climate

Well, there's a headline that certainly captures the moment: Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential.

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month."

"The stunning conclusion indicates that the bank believes the planet is hurtling toward a future in which severe droughts and harvest failures become widespread, sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches and tropical regions experience episodes of extreme heat and humidity for weeks at a time."

"Morgan Stanley’s climate forecast was tucked into a mundane research report on the future of air conditioning stocks, which it provided to clients on March 17."

https://www.eenews.net/articles/big-banks-predict-catastrophic-warming-with-profit-potential/

h/t @ai6yr
#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #Banking

From the article:

"“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month, citing “recent setbacks to global decarbonization efforts.”"

#climate #climateemergency #apocalypse #heatwaves #extremeweather

Politico: Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential https://www.eenews.net/articles/big-banks-predict-catastrophic-warming-with-profit-potential/ #climateemergency #climate #disasters #capitalism #catastrophe

The big American banks expect a 3°C warmer world. There is no mention of runaway effects, but one bank (Morgan Stanley) advises to invest in air conditioning stocks.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-banks-quietly-prepare-for-catastrophic-climate-change/

#climate

I describe here 4 decades of US defense/intelligence reports on the threat of #climatechange to national security.

https://www.gleick.com/blog/a-history-of-u-s-defense-intelligence-and-security-assessments-of-climate

The new 2025 report from Trump's Office of the Director of National Intelligence explicitly censors out ANY mention of #climate change threats to #peace and #security or to the operations and bases of US #military. This is political interference with intelligence analysis.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2025/4058-2025-annual-threat-assessment

#Climate

REAKING: The #TableRock Fire in South #Carolina has now officially become the largest mountain fire in South Carolina history.

Where is Donald Trump?

Golfing for the 7th consecutive weekend!

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1906316167519617081?s=46

A tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate. A US oil company could reap the biggest rewards | CNN
Laura Paddison
8–10 minutes

Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the deep water off the coast of this tiny, rainforested country

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/climate/guyana-oil-exxon/index.html

#Guyana #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate