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Born at 314. Working on light C 👣. Nurturing biodiversity from soil to treetops... becoming a teeny spot of inbred life. Connections desired! Speaks to whomever about stabilizing climate.
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Such a beautiful animal, too. What chance would a homely or off-putting one have against human demands?
CO2 levels are 15ppm higher because of climate feedbacks impairing the ability of the land and seas 🌊 to take up some of the extra CO2 we're pumping into the atmosphere, according to @pfriedling.bsky.social 🧪 This was expected, but it's still not good www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
You're doing an incredible job, @zacklabe.com. We appreciate you! And the team.
Candor is vital for trust.
Why Are Plankton So Crucial For Life on Earth – And How Is Climate Change Affecting Them?
Here in US we have a "Fix Our Forests" attitude to protect homes of ppl and cut those of critters for timber, as needed.
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Wow, how sobering is that?!
A timber rattler, which belongs here, popped up in our county against all odds. The police were called, and it was promptly removed. Good job, humans. Not.
Jumping worms transported by us in our lawns are one thing. In our forest they consume the leaf litter sponge that nourishes all forest life. www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1... etc.
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Precisely
Well now, doesn't that make a heck of a lot of sense!
Totally right
South Australia’s algal bloom isn’t random. It’s what happens when we cross #PlanetaryBoundaries—climate, nitrogen, ecosystem collapse. This is real. It’s economic. It’s now. My latest blog: 🔗 www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/south-a... #AlgalBloom #ClimateCrisis
Amazon's emissions continue to climb. Avoidance at all costs is a message, huh?!
Ach! And, unfortunately, tropical insects live in the narrowest range of temperatures.
Go Team Squirrel!!
And this probably equates to the smaller vehicles that take advantage weekly of police-allowed hot-rodding down certain roads in our township. 😕
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
Maybe add ghg emissions?
I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...). I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
Let's keep over-reading the Bible. It's so helpful for killing innocents, electing schmucks, exploiting other species and producing WAY too many of our own!
Overreading the Bible is responsible for the current U.S. presidency, too, and so many other debacles. Biblical historical literacy is essential.
Another big jump in atmospheric CO₂ measured at Mauna Loa*: based on daily values, the June average was ~429.7 ppm, that's 2.8 ppm higher than last year! *) Trump regime now threatening to discontinue this unique and essential measurement series running since 1958
Rendering it unavailable to all the decomposers and other above-ground life? And how much energy would be expended doing this?! Maybe we could drawdown our GHG-generating demands...
Opening roadless forests isn’t about fire prevention—it’s about logging access. 84% of wildfires are human-caused. More roads = more people = more ignition. The science is clear, but politics keeps pretending otherwise. grist.org/wildfires/wi...
Please tell him thank you for his service.
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The brilliant moves continue! 😡
Hope they remember to tend the trees by watering, weeding & mulching the 1st two yrs for establishment, and deer protection to 4-5" diameter. And someone learning proper pruning & its timing & also awareness of pests/disease to know when a pro is needed.
Freak wind gusts made worse by climate change threaten airline passenger safety https://www.europesays.com/2185533/ Unexpected severe turbulence injured crew and passengers on a Qantas Boeing 737 during descent at Brisbane on May…
The world's storm cloud zones are shifting and narrowing, allowing more sunlight to reach Earth's surface and contributing significantly to increasing the planet's energy imbalance. A nice explanation here of the clouds/dynamics interactions and feedbacks. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444...
We covered this in @science.org at the AGU meeting in December. But this is a good chance for reporters to take another whack at it.
And invasive seeds form an ever larger proportion of that bank, at least here in the Mid-Atlantic.
As you have posted this, I'm finishing up writing a very short story in an Indigenous language about that!
🚨 Carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels set a new monthly *record high* in May 2025 - 430.51 ppm (seasonal maximum) This is the second largest May-May increase in this dataset (3.6 ppm higher than 2024). This is not good... 🫣 Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Putting the rest of the species first, AI is their best shot. Our '#s will decline, of course. I'm alright with that.
Our species at 300-1,000K is not too mindful, shall we say? Well, SOMEbody's listening, apparently:
Railroad Valley toad couldn't call up the USFWS with its plea to try to save home!
100 years of average January-April temperature anomalies over land areas through this year... climate change and climate variability Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...) 🧪
Not much sweetness for life at 1.5 either!
It's just that the world isn't decarbonizing, as you & others have pointed out. So...
Climate change threats to Earth's wild animals. Our new paper shows that we have an existential crisis for the world's wild animals. doi.org/10.1093/bios...
BREAKING: Over 30 medical organisations have pledged to boycott advertising and public relations agencies that work with the fossil fuel industry. “Just like health leaders once stood up to Big Tobacco and its advertising, it’s time to stand up to Big Oil.” www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/h...
I love that over a hundred climate activists - oh no excuse me, Environmental and Natural Resource Economists! - are objecting to the "quiet cancellation of this important leadership initiative & critical public resource," calling it "as shortsighted as it is unlawful." Read more: support-nca.org
The extremely dry winter and spring has caused a big wild fire to break out on marsh lands full of peat fields in South West Sweden outside the city of Halmstad between Göteborg / Gothenburg and Malmö. The climate changes plays havoc with our weather. 🔥🇸🇪🔥🥺 www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”
So glad you had data for this past February. I'll be watching to see if that continues. 🤞
110% The Orange Dude lacks an empathy gene, so we know caring isn't the motivation.
Thanks.
I don't know. But trying to teach kids about nature is not what I want to do anymore. Perhaps it's time to batten the place down for the nature that has come back on our <0.5 a and get the house ready for whatever might come next.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrB7...
ICYMI - the latest monthly status on greenhouse gas levels... For more NOAA data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
There are a number of tools you can use to find out who is using sustainable palm oil. www.orangutanlandtrust.com/post/choosin... Choose #Sustainable #PalmOil and #SaveOrangutans!
Thank you kindly!
Hey @zacklabe.com, good implied Q below re. if we could see the sum CO²e for the GHG. Do you have that handy, or a link? Kind regards and fervent wishes for the Lab's financial well-being!
Thanks, Lyle.
High followers begetting or bespeaking high profilers, the message must be sufficiently appealing. Unless fear settles in, I think.
What's it called? She's a good scientist but hopium truly depresses me. Yale Climate Communications has the data backing up the optimistic way. But I doubt it's the best way. Per Mr. Rogers, telling the truth is the best. Be neither pessimistic nor optimistic. Here's what we're finding, folks.
I notice trash is growing faster than plants along our roads.
Good news for a change. Today we published: Restoring predators, restoring ecosystems: Yellowstone wolves & other carnivores drive strong trophic cascade @nywolforg.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-02...
Our study published today: Wolves Transform Yellowstone’s Landscape: 1,500% Growth in Riverside Plants Shows Nature’s Comeback @nywolforg.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social @defenders.org scienceblog.com/wolves-trans...
We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sometimes it is only one side of the #Arctic that experiences anomalously low conditions during winter, but this year we are seeing the sea ice edge on *both* the Atlantic & Pacific sectors at very low levels for this time of year. This is contributing to the historic record low for early February.
A lot of folks asked why I through this January's record global temperatures were so unexpected. I think this graph shows it pretty clearly: pretty much every other January with La Nina conditions has been a cooler than the surrounding years.
Agency after agency is being ransacked by 20-something Muskovites at DOGE. Trump Admin threatens to lay off 1/4 to 1/2 of employees at the National Science Foundation. Cutting staff at the $10b/year grantmaking agency would “gut the intellectual center of U.S. leadership in science and technology."
I have a new analysis over at The Climate Brink exploring how rates of warming have changed over the past century. Post-1970, GHGs (CO2, CH4, etc.) would have led to just under 0.2C per decade, but falling aerosols (SO2) have increased that rate to 0.25C. www.theclimatebrink....
Populations are in free fall. 53% less butterflies in 10 years is insane in ecological terms. 41% of all insects lost in just 10 years is madness. Unheard in ecological history. I think this is 100 times faster than during any other mass extinction event in 600 million years? We can't process 🤖
Our Scranton PA anthracite "clean" coal-heated home was just that compared with our Pittsburgh PA bituminous one. I was a baby in 1956 Pittsburgh. When Mom would open the windows, waves of sooty air would roll in and deposit their contents. We returned to Scranton asap!
While I am catching you up, here's a piece that came out last month, thinking through how & why climate denial is tied up with techno-fideism. Thanks to @royscranton.bsky.social for inspiration. academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
One more (came out last August). Our claim: the definitive account of what scientists had to say about climate change in the late 1960s, in the run-up to the Clean Air Act, shows that Congress definitely knew that CO2 was an air pollutant. www.ecologylawquarterly.org/print/climat...
Yet the OMB memo makes clear that the whole point of the pause is to make sure the spending appropriated by Congress is consistent with "the President's priorities." That's an impermissible reason to delay spending.
New paper just dropped: “Policy makers and wider society should be aware that the rate of global warming over recent decades is a poor guide to the faster change that is likely over the decades to come, underscoring the urgency of deep reductions in fossil-fuel burning.”
4,500 attendees inside, but, like my gr grandfather George Frederick Böhl said, in Scranton, PA, "dey better vatch [dat man]." Their power is growing globally and we the decent must speak truth to it!
Well-said! Not a political winner yet, or in time most likely, but spot on.
larger electric vehicles require much more embodied carbon (+ water) to manufacture, and the amount of energy needed to power them is also greater (the production of that energy also has associated embodied carbon) smaller cars = less consumption as with housing - the sufficiency principle applies
Another sign that things can just keep getting worse. Alberta is now opening the eastern Rockies to coal mining, including strip mining.
The global temperature daily record has been smashed for nine days in a row, and I cannot see a single headline article by a major news outlet.
Absolutely. Furthermore, for me, the insistence on positivity and hope, aids DEPRESSION. And I can hear the "evangelistic" in the voices of some advocates, which depresses me more. I mean, ya know, God's got this, rt? I prefer to deal with reality as closely as I can manage.
“Delivering Ireland’s climate targets is not simply about more renewables, more EVs and more infrastructure. It also requires doing less; less consumption, less demand and less expansion of some sectors.” Less is MORE when it comes to climate change mitigation! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
climate.law.columbia.edu/content/clim...
Don't think there'll be any personnel to do an EA....
If only he & Elon & Vlad weren't so aware of the money to be made from all the resources under that ice.
We see the impact from GHG from 10 years ago today. We have increased GHG since. We will increase GHG until 2030 according to the IEA... No model can give us hope now. Only sharp GHG reduction data is positive news. Nothing else. Nada. #Tech is code for Jevons. www.newscientist.com/article/2464...
“Current approaches are failing to properly assess escalating planetary risks or help control them. Planetary solvency applies the established approaches of risk professionals to our life-support system and finds it in jeopardy" - Prof. Tim Lenton www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real: I feel like I am safe in saying that we are not thriving on our changing planet – and we will not in the coming decades My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened...
While most of the #Arctic Ocean is predominately ice covered in January, the edges reveal warming at the ocean surface. Warming trends are particularly large in the North Atlantic and Davis Strait/Labrador Sea. Data from OISSTv2.1. For more info: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/... 🌊
Good decision...for the next week anyway. After that, I'd personally prefer Costa Rican mgt of all federal land.
Odd Q: you wouldn't have a family member (uncle maybe) named George Frederick Bohl, a young German baker emigree to NYC to Scranton, PA?
www.msn.com/en-xl/entert... www.hcn.org/articles/wha...
Okay folks, we are officially done with Twitter. You can find Project Drawdown — the world’s leading resource for climate solutions — on Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, and now… here! Follow @projectdrawdown.bsky.social here and help spread the word! Thanks! Drawdown.org
Permafrost is thawing across Boreal and Arctic lands, causing old carbon stored in soil or sediment to be released to the atmosphere as CO2 or CH4. A lot of these emissions occur in winter because post-thaw soils can become too wet to freeze, like this thaw bog in northwestern Canada.
"We scared the living shit out of them. I remember." Brilliantly written and thanks for sharing @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social! ☺️ #collapse #dystopia #slowdown #chill
Poorly educated (FOX news in particular), God's in control, verbose charlatan speaks to gullible, fear, economic distress real + manufactured, idolizing White 1950s & 60s America, liberal screwups
Y, twill be dismissed. But this piece a gem for many of us. Thank you! What's new to me, though no surprise, is that the forests' overall sequestering of CO² has begun to slip. A new surprise is stimulation of volcanoes from glacial retreat AND seeming creation of more magma, hence pressure.