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Super Sunday. Good day for Football. Bad day for Chickens.

Indeed, every day is a bad day for Chickens. While you gnosh on wings today I offer this annual reminder that in the US, we lay, hatch, grow, slaughter, bring to market, buy, cook, and eat, one million chickens per hour.

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.

Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform barren ranches into rainforest Juan Guillermo Garcés had a brush with death while burning jungle for cattle pasture – now he runs a nature reserve in Colombia where more than 100 new species have been discovered

“I have never really been the owner of these forests, nor could I be.”

The wonderfully inspiring story of a Columbian ex-rancher, who turned from destroyer of forests to their protector and restorer, establishing a 7,500-acre nature reserve teeming with life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Etymology break.

- "Clumsy" is first recorded (only) at end of the 1500s
- Originally, "acting as if numbed"
- From now-obsolete Middle English verb, "clumse," "to be made numb with cold"
- Ulterior roots may be Scandivanian (cf. Old Norse "klumsa," "to make speechless")

Bring back "clumse"!

Things that brought me joy today:
-Furry kitty tummies & bean toes
-Writing fiction
-Passionfruit & pomegranates
-Solidarity from Friends for the End of this World, who are ready to start building a new one.
SEIZING JOY IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT

graph correlating by year the "Number of films Nicolas Cage starred in" with the "number of people who drowned in a swimming pool".

A picture of Oscar Wilde next to a picture of Nicolas Cage standing similarly.

What about Oscar Wilde?

A composite of two images. The first is a portrait of philosopher David Hume by Allan Ramsay, painted in 1754, and the second is a candid photo of actor Nicholas Cage turning his head to the camera and smiling slightly.

David Hume.

Ramakrishna

Nietzsche?

Hegel?

When you stare into the Cage, the Cage stares back.

The Overkill hypothesis, esp. in Australia, has long wondered about the ecological and biodiversity changes resulting from Terminal Pleistocene mass extinction in the plant kingdom. Here we're gaining some new fine-grained tools to study this issue at the species level. #envhist

New book: Ranjan Chakrabarti 's Climate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, C.1737-1947

reurl.cc/RLoNRg
#envhist
#climate
#disaster

Of Reindeer, Donkeys and the verb that is Water. Stories of climate-healing with Judith Schwartz How do we move beyond our myopic focus on carbon/CO2 as the index of our harms to the world? What can we do to heal the whole biosphere? And what role is played by water-as-verb, forest-as-verb, ocean...

How do we move beyond our myopic focus on CO2 as the index of our harms to the world?

What can we do to heal the whole biosphere?

And what role is played by water-as-verb, forest-as-verb, ocean-as-verb?

accidentalgods.life/of-reindeer-

#AccidentalGods #Podcast w @judithdschwartz.bsky.social

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/...

Global sea ice extent chart showing 2025 at record low on 7/2/2025 at 15.88 million km²

Lowest global sea ice extent on record 🧪 #GreenSky

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 39

Relatively hardy and able to vibrate their bodies to create heat, #bumblebees are able to forage in cooler temperatures than honey bees.
They can begin foraging earlier in the day and continue later into the evening.
#bees

Small patches of urban wildflowers boost bee populations and biodiversity, study shows A cultivated small urban meadow has "a similar value for pollinators as larger areas of natural meadow," the researchers found.

Small patches of urban wildflowers boost bee populations and biodiversity, study shows

https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/11/26/small-patches-of-urban-wildflowers-boost-bee-populations-and-biodiversity-study-shows

DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.

Recommended read: Issues around mining for cobalt – a mineral “essential to decarbonisation” – in the Democratic Republic of the Congo employ “new forms of old colonial practices”, researchers wrote in @us.theconversation.com

The ocean is losing its ability to store heat as the planet warms up Until now, 90 per cent of the excess heat created by greenhouse gas emissions has been drawn down into the ocean, but this capacity for heat absorption is now being lost, which could lead to longer…

“Until now, 90 per cent of the excess heat created by greenhouse gas emissions has been drawn down into the ocean, but this capacity for heat absorption is now being lost, which could lead to longer marine heatwaves and harm ocean life”

Comparison of model-predicted and observed global surface temperatures by Zeke Hausfather

I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful.
The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action.

The truth is bad enough!

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent relative to the record low for each day. All days in 2025 were above the previous record until mid December.

Current #Arctic sea ice extent levels are more than 400,000 square kilometers 'less' than the previous record low for this date. I will have more updates and charts coming later today.

Data here is from JAXA's Arctic Data archive System 🥼❄️

‘NOSFERATU’ has won Best Cinematography at the Critics Choice Awards.

See the full winners list: bit.ly/Critics25

Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished Sally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from Dorset, born in 1901. Yet she foresaw a dark and violent future for Europe and gave voice to those…

Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat

Depressing!