Barry Saxifrage

Yeah. It’s Climate Change. In the last 45 years the most extreme Atlantic hurricanes have nearly doubled and extreme rapid intensification has increased by 6X!! #climatechange #melissa #hurricane #fyp #florida

summary of climate inaction tactics described in The New Climate War

Bill Gates must have misread my book "The #NewClimateWar" (www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...) as a how-to-guide rather than a cautionary tale.

Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record » Yale Climate Connections At landfall in western Jamaica, Melissa’s 185 mph winds and 892 mb pressure tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys as the strongest on record for the Atlantic.

Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...

In my 30 years being a professional meteorologist, I can't say I have ever seen a #Hurricane with better/ more textbook structure than #Melissa in the Atlantic.
It's been a Cat 5 all day long with no signs of getting any weaker. That's a rare run! Here's more...

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

Hurricane Melissa poised to rapidly intensify as it heads toward Jamaica » Yale Climate Connections The ingredients are in place for Melissa to become a catastrophic major hurricane before the weekend is out.

Now a hurricane, #Melissa is poised to rapidly intensify into a potentially catastrophic major hurricane by Sunday. The latest from @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/hurr...

British Colombians are among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels, per capita. @bsaxifrage.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com

The CO2 extractors: British Columbians are among world's most aggressive They rocketed past the Americans decades ago. Now they are set to blow past even the Saudis with a massive new LNG industry – in charts.

Recommended piece here by @bsaxifrage.bsky.social.
Not the kind of analysis that should make BCers proud:
"British Columbians are aiming to shoot past even the Saudis in CO2 extraction per person."

The CO2 extractors: BC is among world's most aggressive www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/a...

The CO2 extractors: British Columbians are among world's most aggressive They rocketed past the Americans decades ago. Now they are set to blow past even the Saudis with a massive new LNG industry – in charts.

BC "among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing #fossilfuels, per capita — and major projects that are already being built aim to make the province’s contribution much worse." @bsaxifrage.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/a... #bcpoli #CleanBC

Oil giant Total’s net zero claims broke the law, court rules The ruling is the first court judgment against an oil company for statements about its role in combatting the climate crisis.

TOTAL knew, and now a french court says they broke the law.
www.exxonknews.org/p/oil-giant-...

'Another unoccupied house collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday night. It's the 11th house to collapse since mid-September.

In total, 22 homes have collapsed into the ocean in the area since 2020.'

via AccuWeather [X] #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevel

A great unravelling: carbon soars, nature falters Last year, the global concentration of carbon dioxide jumped by 3.5 parts per million (ppm) and reached 424 ppm, the biggest jump since modern measurements began in the 1950s. The WMO says the blanket...

In the jargon of climate scientists, the sinks are failing. Or, in lay terms, nature is sick from cleaning up our crap.

Great piece here by @chrishatch.bsky.social: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/20/o...

Warming Made L.A. Wildfires 25 Times Larger

Warming made the devastating L.A. wildfires twice as likely and 25 times larger, according to a new report.

UK Clean Energy Plan Estimates 400,000 Extra Jobs by 2030 The UK’s push to decarbonize its energy system by the end of the decade will give the biggest employment boost to the East of England and Scotland.

Employment in the east of England and Scotland will be boosted by the UK’s push to decarbonize its energy system by the end of the decade

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Why are they even looking for more???

This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!!

"there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org

#ClimateEmergency

International Coalition Joins Push for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: ‘We Cannot Protect Nature While Expanding Fossil Fuels’ - Inside Climate News An international coalition of more than 1,400 governmental and civil conservation organizations has called on its members to increase efforts to curb fossil fuel extraction and work toward a global fo...

“For the first time, the IUCN has recognised what science has been telling us for decades: we cannot protect nature while expanding fossil fuels.”

insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.

This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

The Problem With Plug-In Hybrids That Keeps Happening Emissions projections didn't account for one problem: Many owners don't plug in their

The flaws didn’t just inflate emissions; they also hit drivers’ wallets, adding up to $1,100 a year in extra fuel costs as many PHEV owners relied on gasoline or diesel instead of charging up.

insideevs.com/news/776049/...

With some serious implications for #fisheries productivity, especially in low latitudes, which host large populations of vulnerable, fish-dependent coastal communities. 🧪🌊🌏

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.

Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

Dr Oksana Tarasova, a @wmo-global.bsky.social senior scientific officer, said: “There is concern that terrestrial & ocean CO2 sinks are becoming less effective, which will increase the amount of CO2 that stays in the atmosphere, thereby accelerating global warming.”

Record (or near record) dry grass/ soil moisture in North/ NW FL.
In the future this will become more common. Not for lack of rain. Instead due to warmer - more thirsty air - stripping the ground of moisture. In decades climate projections show the air could be 50% more thirsty over FL!

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

This from the International Renewable Energy Agency is pretty mindblowing compared to a decade ago

www.irena.org/-/media/File...

Electric car sales in the EU are up by almost a quarter so far this year!

The bloc's car CO2 targets are continuing to drive EV take-up – as carmakers respond by bringing more affordable models to market.

Now is not the time to weaken the targets further.
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Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink The drought has slashed wheat harvests by 40% in a country where nearly 90% of the population already lives in poverty.

'rainfall has dropped by nearly 70%, crippling 75% of Syria's rain-fed farmland

"This is the difference between families being able to stay in their communities or being forced to migrate... For rural families, it means the collapse of their livelihoods"'

#Syria 🇸🇾
#ClimateEmergency

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.