Chris Holliman

Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise Overuse of groundwater has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheets.

Overpumping of groundwater accounts for 44‰ of global sea level rise—versus 37% from Greenland + 19% from Antarctica. Because after water is put to human use, it escapes into the ocean.

And groundwater is a finite resource. In some areas, so much has already been drained, aquifers have collapsed

EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

Our efforts to lock in as much heat as possible for future generations continue unabated.

The earth is big. Water is powerful. Fire too. Also viruses.

Exponential growth can take things from tiny warnings to unmanageable problems pretty darn quick.

The human is tiny and 100% dependent on the living planet.

There’s a thing in wargames and strategic sims where you can tell from the jump where an opponent is going land their first blows, and there’s fuck all you can do to prevent it, and the trick is to stay focused and not let despair become an opposing force multiplier.

Warming climate will only increase migration from the global south - possibly causing long term shift towards authoritarianism in northern developed nations.

Thought you were gonna follow it up with “Here’s why that’s bad for Joe Biden.” 😆

Shout out to Rome for having a long decline that was almost imperceptible moment to moment. What a dream.

Yep. Any hope that I had that humanity will even marginally address climate change has evaporated over the last two months.

Last decade was Earth's hottest ever as CO2 levels reach an 800,000-year high, says UN report Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest levels in the last 800,000 years, a...

We are rapidly moving our biosphere—for corruption and profit for a tiny percent of humanity—outside the climate envelope in which our species H. sapiens has existed.

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we are now hotter than the last 10k years in which global human civ has developed

This is the gold standard measure of atmospheric carbon, the one you see in almost every chart that tracks emissions.

Kelly Barnhill’s “The Ogress And The Orphans” is pretty close to this idea. A character (who is clearly based on Trump) takes over a town, but he’s actually an evil dragon who has assumed human form and enchanted everyone.

I wonder what the “scientific finding” is that Zeldin is trying to suppress?

A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

He wasn’t a very good president the first time

Reading your excellent books on ecocide and biodiversity loss has certainly provided me with plenty to worry about! 🫤😆

Planet A The Climate Crisis This presentation was created for my fellow inmates in assisted living. It comprises thirty-five “slides” of which 15, 16, 17, and 18 are the most informative as to h…

Brilliant work. Courstesy of @atkinsopht.bsky.social

"This presentation was created for my fellow inmates in assisted living. It comprises thirty-five 'slides' of which 15, 16, 17, and 18 are the most informative as to how we got into the climate crisis and how we will not get out unscathed."

The grief of our times arises from our impoverished collective narrative of mandated economic growth and consumption that leaves so many isolated and broken.

Environmental-Political Collapse Accelerates In this article, we’ll see why cascading disruptions of environmental and political systems are entangled and mutually reinforcing. We’ll also try to identify the next stages of global collapse, and e...

Richard Heinberg’s latest article paints a grim picture: environmental collapse and political instability are accelerating, feeding off one another. The systems designed to address them are failing. Here's a summary of the key points. 1/7 #overshoot #collapse www.resilience.org/stories/2024...

Scientists just confirmed the largest bird-killing event in modern history A marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean killed some 4 million common murres in Alaska, researchers say — the largest die-off of any bird species ever recorded in the modern era.

And this is just the beginning of species killing heat waves. So much more to come.

Is there a climate scientist alive who actually believes that we can limit the world to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century?

Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?

“In recent decades, young men have regressed educationally, emotionally and culturally.”

Why a two-year surge in global warmth is worrying scientists Instead, global temperatures remain at near-record levels.

Is this a blip? Or an acceleration of warming?

Why the unexpected demand for electricity? AI? Data-centers?

The Arctic has been frozen for 3 million years. In the next few decades, human activity will unfreeze it for the first time. This seems not to trouble many people.

“The stars are projectors.” — Modest Mouse

My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️

Even if we can pull carbon out of the air with engineering magic, how do get it out of the oceans? Because it’s doing just as much damage there.

While we debate the price of eggs and trans athletes, an unbelievable tragedy is unfolding in the natural world that will punish future generations. We are a shortsighted species.

All the Dems are depressed or resigned, but I wouldn’t get too down. Power will swing back and forth due to the nature of a dopamine addicted electorate looking for a quick fix to issues that aren’t paramount.

“Constructive doubt” I like that phrase 👍