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“You want the truth? ... Musk can't handle the truth.”
On Twitter, climate activists seem to be suppressed, in favour of pro-oil and pro-conspiracy voices.
1) people leaving Twitter after Musk's purchase - more likely among progressive clusters.
2) longer-term emboldening of right-wing disinfo (related to COVID conspiracies, etc)
3) Musk sooths right-wing operators who believe real 'balance' = their own domination, and want to destroy the left institutions rather than build their own.
4) Musk / Tesla are far less reliant on government subsidies these days, and can therefore just be totally honest about being right-wing libertarians.
5) why else would the maker of electric cars go out of his way to prop up pro-fossil fuel accounts?
6) Twitter is now fully weaponized to undermine science, climate action and global sustainable development.
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1640819899718307843?s=20
The black line (uppermost) represents 2023 ocean temperatures so far this year ...
There's no way to sugar-coat this. 🙁
Whilst accepting the general trend upwards, we can only hope we're experiencing an anomalous year ...
Climate Reanalyzer provides visualizations of existing publicly-available datasets and models.
Produced by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine ... with a 50-year history of research into glaciology & climate science.
Holy forking shirtballs ... ?
Top 40 Impacts of Climate Change (alphabetical order)
1. Acid rain
2. Algae blooms
3. Ash & smoke
4. Bees dying & pollination loss
5. Climate refugees & migration
6. Coral bleaching
7. Crop failures
8. Deforestation
9. Desertification
10. Disease, pandemics (plants & animals)
11. Droughts
12. Drying up of lakes, rivers, wells, springs
13. Earth axis shift
14. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes
15. Extreme cold
16. Financial/bank/stock collapse
17. Fires
18. Floods
19. Food & water riots
20. Hazardous & polluted air
21. Heat waves: frequency, power, duration
22. Hunger, famine & starvation
23. Infrastructure collapse
24. Melting Antarctic & Greenland land ice
25. Melting Arctic Sea ice / Blue Ocean Event
26. Melting glaciers (drinking water crisis)
27. Methane (Siberia & Clathrates from ESAS)
28. Nuclear plant meltdown
29. Ocean acidification
30. Ozone layer depletion
31. Permafrost thaw
32. Price instability & inflation
33. Reanimated bacteria/viruses
34. Sea level rise (e.g. Thwaites glacier)
35. Shutdown of AMOC, SMOC
36. Species extinction (100+/day)
37. Storms — more frequent, power, duration
38. Supply chain & transportation collapse
39. Unemployment & poverty
40. War & terrorism
This looks to be very bad news for the world's reefs, particularly compared to 2016 (the previous global mass coral bleaching event) ... 🙁
‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high
Slightly clickbaity title (ok, very), but this was an interesting watch and isn't actually climate change denial despite the title:
This is absolutely crazy ! Rainfall in NZ ... we're gonna need a bigger graph!
Slightly clickbaity title (ok, very), but this was an interesting watch and isn't actually climate change denial despite the title:
I had no idea who that Love Island guy was, but thought the whole interview (I skipped through) had an air of Jordan Peterson about it, with many of the same logical-sounding but ultimately empty pseudo-scientific platitudes ... Sure enough, that podcast is also a fan of JP's nonsense (millions of views).
No one is saying the climate activisits are doing a perfect job, but even Bjorn himself is apparently a cherry-picker extraordinaire.
Good grief, what an absolute mess we've made of the planet, and it's unlikely to improve ...?
A few days back I watched a doc on the state of the world's soils ... yet another impending disaster!
In 20 years, I can see us all being plugged into Musk's VR Matrix!
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/22/world/wildlife-crisis-biodiversity-scn-climate-intl/index.html
Sheesh ... We're gonna need a cooler boat ...
The global temperature spike has deteriorated significantly. The mean ocean temperature has surpassed the 21°C mark and continues to rise steeply. The extent to which this rise will continue before stabilizing remains uncertain.
Climate scientists have observed a fundamental alteration in the earth's energy budget, which they are still in the process of understanding. Notably, this spike originated in the ocean in March, while the atmosphere experienced a considerable deviation months later in June. The magnitude of the change in the ocean's heat budget suggests a substantial event, possibly related to the collapse or partial collapse of the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation). This occurrence was sudden and robust, ruling out the attribution to El Nino.
It is essential to note that the data presented is conservative, as it pertains to the average ocean temperature between 60N-60S, excluding polar regions. At these latitudes, the Earth's oceans now exhibit an average temperature increase of one full degree compared to their state just 30 years ago.
Just look at 2023 ... this is mental! ?
