Meanwhile, back in reality, global ocean heat content just updated through June 2025 and set a new record high. Time to wake up! Data (anomalies) & methods from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
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I wish I could.
aug 31, 2025, 7:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Are there specific thresholds for this? I.e. what happens if the value doubles over the next decades?
aug 31, 2025, 8:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, but... Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Singles Day are right around the corner. Consumers are busy, as always. Time to wake up next year, or the year after that. Consuming is hard work!
aug 31, 2025, 1:00 am • 7 0 • view
Do you mean that without fossil fuels, people couldn't afford to buy so many things ? Well it's a pretty well convincing explanation of why they still use them ...
aug 31, 2025, 3:09 am • 1 0 • view
I think they mean that unbridled consumerism is one of the reason that we’re heading for possibly catastrophic climate change. Buying tons of plastic days before Christmas that are destined for landfill the week after is both unnecessary and unhelpful
aug 31, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
I understand that, but it also means that it's impossible to maintain this consumerism without fossil fuels (which is not obvious, but has consequences on the acceptability of climate policies)
aug 31, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
People have termed this the poly crisis; which climate change is one part of. Other crisis are: plastic, PFAS, antibiotic resistance, food insecurity, soil erosion, just to mention a few. A lot of these are driven by out of control capitalism. Encouraging consumerism makes all of them worse.
aug 31, 2025, 3:52 pm • 3 0 • view
It, maintaining consumerism will drag us over all sorts of edges
aug 31, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
but apparently, it doesn't prevent you to use a computer connected to internet ...
aug 31, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s correct. I’m not sure whether you’re trying to make a point or just trolling.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm making a point that nobody really wants to give up all the comfort of modern civilization.
aug 31, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
You have a point. However, I’ve given up stuff yet live comfortably using very little fossil fuels. Wind and solar power when available, gas otherwise. Over time that’ll become marginal. African countries seem to move straight to solar: cheap and totally abundant.
aug 31, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
The aberrant reality powered by fossil fuels pervades every aspect of modern life. Perversely, this aberration constitutes the implied “promise“ that we all grew up with and messaging that it all needs to be ripped away is a recipe for provoking a backlash.
aug 31, 2025, 8:13 am • 2 0 • view
@altnoaa.bsky.social @altnoaaclimate.bsky.social @altfws.altgov.info
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
We r priming a heat engine, interesting 🤔
aug 31, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump and his sponsors love these charts. Their goal is to accelerate warming, to literally roast the Global South. Hence the wall. Hence USAID. Hence Greenland. Hence Canada. People should start taking them seriously. www.foxbusiness.com/energy/epas-...
aug 31, 2025, 6:33 am • 2 0 • view
sure but check out the fall in the 3rd derivative
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Clutching at straws here: Is the pentadal trendline linear?
aug 31, 2025, 8:00 am • 0 0 • view
See doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...
aug 31, 2025, 2:25 pm • 2 1 • view
Depressing
aug 31, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Or any of the three, really
aug 31, 2025, 8:02 am • 0 0 • view
This bugs me more than anything. Please let me know how I can educate others on this. It is so hard to cover authoritarian takeover (70% of the earth is run by Fascists or sliding to fascism) and still have time to cover this, too. Although, without a livable environment, politics is a null issue!
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
How does confidence in the data from the 60s compared to more recent years? I’m imagining our capacity for gathering data to measure OHC has changed greatly over that time, and I am wondering how this would look with a shaded confidence interval superimposed on the plot.
aug 31, 2025, 8:05 am • 1 0 • view
See Figure 2 in doi.org/10.1038/s415...
aug 31, 2025, 2:23 pm • 4 3 • view
Thank you. Pretty much what I expect expected. It looks the world to me like the entire dataset would produce an exponential curve of best fit consistent with the findings of acceleration. We’re producing a #Juggernaut.
aug 31, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for keeping this in our sights, Zack. Gonna share this on my Substack today.
aug 31, 2025, 3:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Isn’t this the place we should look for warming acceleration rather than surface temperatures? I understand it might take another decade to rule out short term variability. However, this is where more than 90% of the warming will end up (the oceans).
aug 31, 2025, 2:28 am • 2 0 • view