Associated account for the Climate & Ecology Spaces
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26 Feb 2024
I'm going to use this "space-based" account to help act as a warehouse for the science-explainers for my climate science lessons.
Starting with the first (actually parts 1 & 2)
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28 Jan 2024
The Flight of Icarus
We all know the mythology of Icarus whose wings of feathers & wax melted as he gained altitude and came close to the sun. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, even the Greeks of antiquity knew the higher you went, the colder it gets.
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Please join us today at 10:30 am (edt).
Jun 9
Let talk about the links between the ultra processed food industry and the plastics industry- they are both harming us and our home.
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Jun 10
I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon
Jun 10
The big picture you have sketched Oliver eminds me of Carl Sagan's truism: all of human history, all that we have ever loved and wept over is here:
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Jun 9
I dream of a day when renewables, like solar, wind and battery storage are given $7 trillion in subsides by our governments, using tax payer money. Don't you? Fair is fair.
Who really runs the world you ask?
Jun 9
Fossil fuels were given over $7 TRILLION in subsidies last year: buff.ly/s6Nzgw3 That's $19.2 billion per day,
$799 million per hour,
$13.3 million every minute.
The first step in addressing the problem is to stop funding it. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli
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On The Climate Brink, @hausfath shows how the drop in emissions, due at least partially to the rapid expansion of renewable energy, is slowing the growth of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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🗞️STATEMENT: A group of 150 global experts and leaders shared open letter with incoming #COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia, COP30 President and COP CEO Brazil, and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, urging that the ocean be placed at the center of global climate action at UNFCCC COP31.
📩Read the letter➡️ go.wri.org/ocean-letter-cop3…
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Sometimes it seems everybody is talking about #ClimateChange
More and more people now take #ClimateAction to address the #ClimateCrisis
Are you?
PL RP🩷💚💙
@JlrvSAAM @Teawhalem @Oceanwire @CanuckCognizant @DeciderDivider @LadyPoop2 @SustMeme
#ClimateAction #Video
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Jun 5
Monica Piccinini’s @yourvoiz_org journalism focuses on Brazil, home to several of the Earth’s most significant ecosystems, and at the centre of humanity’s struggle to keep enough nature intact, and with vast richness, to see us through the climate crisis, and beyond.
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The third pole is melting. FAST!
Jun 10
The Himalayas are turning green. But, despite what CO2 fans say, this is not good news. It’s shrinking the glaciers on which up to 1.6 billion depend for water supplies, among other ill effects.
ecoticias.com/en/scientists-…
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Jun 10
During the record-breaking 2023–2024 El Niño drought, the most severe ever recorded in the Amazon, trees in the rainforest dramatically altered their emissions of volatile organic compounds.
Researchers using high-precision measurements from an 80-meter tower in the central Amazon detected a 122% increase in sesquiterpene emissions during the drought, while levels of isoprene and monoterpenes remained relatively stable. Even more striking, once the rains returned in the following wet season, the forest began releasing an entirely new class of compounds never previously observed in rainforest air: sesquiterpene alcohols, including beta-eudesmol, alpha-eudesmol, and gamma-eudesmol. These emissions persisted for weeks after the drought ended.
Sesquiterpenes and their oxygenated derivatives are known to function as stress signals and protective compounds, helping plants cope with oxidative damage from extreme heat, drought, and water scarcity. The appearance of these lower-volatility alcohols after the peak stress suggests the trees’ defense metabolism remained activated long into the recovery phase.
These findings matter for atmospheric chemistry. The emitted compounds can influence the formation of secondary organic aerosols, which affect cloud formation, regional weather patterns, and even how the forest interacts with sunlight and precipitation. As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of Amazon droughts, such novel emissions could become more common.
[Byron, J., et al. (2026). Intense El Niño provokes production of new reactive volatiles as stress defences in Amazon rainforest. Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 159. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-026-03597-7]
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Jun 8
Beware of the Blobs.
It's not cli-fi.
They're real.
Increased ocean heat.
More plastic than life in the oceans.
Both blobs are products of the oil, gas and coal industry.
Polluting fossil fuels companies supported by our governments at our expense. Dire future if we don't change.
ALT Graphic from NOAA. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/looking-back-blob-record-warming-drives-unprecedented-ocean-change
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Jun 10
El Nino, Sri Lanka: "Water sources may dry up completely, leaving no sources to obtain water. We may also have to consider purifying seawater and distributing it.”
Jun 10
DMC warns of possible need to desalinate seawater if El Nino impact is as predicted
Read more: adaderana.lk/news/cmq8bht7e0…
#lka #srilanka #adaderana #news #lanka #srilankanews #DMC #ElNino
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Jun 10
Starting soon all months will be the warmest on record once El Niño kicks into high gear. Biggest impacts on global temp will be later this year into next year. It will set a new precedent… for a couple of years… until it’s broken again.
NOAA reports May 2026 was the 2nd-warmest May on record globally for land and ocean temperatures.
Only May 2024 was warmer.
Relative to an 1880–1920 baseline, May 2026 was about 1.30°C.
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WWF-Brasil is helping legitimise the disastrous BR-319 highway by promoting the illusion that governance can control the wave of land grabbing, side roads & deforestation it will unleash.
The BR-319 will push the Amazon closer to ecological collapse!
portalamazonia.com/meio-ambi…
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Unacceptable. Do you want a planet where only humans roam on asphalt staring at their phones? @violin4all
Jun 10
🚨 A devastating report reveals that Earth lost half of its wild animal populations in just 40 years, driven by unsustainable human consumption and habitat destruction.
A critical report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London has delivered a stark wake-up call, revealing that global wildlife populations plummeted by 50% between 1970 and 2010.
By tracking 10,000 distinct populations across 3,000 species, researchers created the Living Planet Index to measure the catastrophic scale of human impact on the natural world.
Freshwater ecosystems suffered the most devastating blow, with animal numbers crashing by 75% due to severe pollution, excessive water extraction, and river fragmentation by dams. Land and marine species have fared similarly poorly, with both groups seeing their populations tumble by 40% as habitats are cleared and species are overexploited for food.
The biodiversity crisis is fundamentally fueled by humanity's swelling ecological footprint, with global consumption rates requiring 1.5 Earths to sustainably support our current lifestyle.
However, this resource strain is heavily skewed; the report highlights that it would take four planet Earths to sustain the average consumption level of a United States resident, and 2.5 Earths for the United Kingdom [1]. While wealthier countries may point to local conservation gains, researchers warn they are simply outsourcing ecological damage by importing goods tied to deforestation and habitat loss in developing nations.
To curb this decline, experts insist on an immediate global pivot toward sustainable food production, resource equity, and aggressive habitat protection.
source: Carrington, D. ( September 30). Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF. The Guardian
ALT A devastating report reveals that Earth lost half of its wild animal populations in just 40 years, driven by unsustainable human consumption and habitat destruction. A critical report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London has delivered a stark wake-up call, revealing that global wildlife populations plummeted by 50% between 1970 and 2010. By tracking 10,000 distinct populations across 3,000 species, researchers created the Living Planet Index to measure the catastrophic scale of human impact on the natural world. Freshwater ecosystems suffered the most devastating blow, with animal numbers crashing by 75% due to severe pollution, excessive water extraction, and river fragmentation by dams. Land and marine species have fared similarly poorly, with both groups seeing their populations tumble by 40% as habitats are cleared and species are overexploited for food.
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YES! @violin4all
Jun 10
JUST IN: For the first time in US history, solar produced more electricity than coal in a calendar month.
Solar is the future.
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Wind seems to be really useless...
In only 7.33 years went from ~ 5.5% to 10%
files.ember-energy.org/publi…
Jun 10
Vous étés inutile dans cette réflexion. Le sujet est les éoliennes et la non efficacité de les mettre en mer . De plus sont elles une pollution ou non. C'est tout. Allez ce sera tout pour vous.
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Jun 10
Climate crisis “chuckles” are part of the problem- we can’t joke our way out of this. Nature is throwing us a climate curve ball with a likely worst case scenario El Niño, while politicians and businessmen are pushing coal, oil and gas as false normalcy.
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Conservation and Restoration need ASAP!
Jun 11
Wildlife populations have declined by an average of 73% since 1970, according to the latest WWF Living Planet Report.
Habitat loss, overexploitation, pollution, invasive species, and climate change are driving the decline.
The most alarming fact? This happened within a single human lifetime.
The future of nature is still being written. The choices we make today will shape what remains tomorrow.
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Jun 10
Children can't grow on ultra processed crumbs. They need vegetables and fruits.
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