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Jan Jepsen

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"Some confuse pessimism with nihilism, apathy and despair. But pessimism is about recognizing our limits, letting go of unrealistic goals, finding solidarity in the fact of human suffering and doing what you can now, not in some utopian future." Scranton

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DEN DER… er ramt lige i rΓΈven πŸ‘πŸ‘ŒπŸŽ―πŸ’―

02.03.2026 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

BREAKING: U.S. strikes on Iran are underway - NYT

28.02.2026 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 21
Tehran explosions

Tehran explosions

Tehran explosions

Tehran explosions

Tehran explosions

Tehran explosions

Israel has begun its attacks on Iran, striking several buildings in Tehran.

28.02.2026 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 303    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 14
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Israel's defense minister says his country has attacked Iran and declares a state of emergency Israel launched an attack on Iran on Saturday, with the country’s defense minister declaring a state of emergency across the country.

BREAKING: Explosions heard in Tehran as Israel's defense minister confirms Israel has attacked Iran.

28.02.2026 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 179    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 46
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The war with Iran has started; Israel fired the first shot and has now declared a state of emergency while it braces it self for a return fire. The US is also expected to join the war if it hasn’t already.

28.02.2026 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 319    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 24
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The Foreign Press Association of Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories is demanding that countries around the world step up and force Israel to let journalists into Gaza, urging supporters to sign a petition to let them in.

26.02.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 635    πŸ” 355    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 18
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Heartbreaking listening to this woman. This regime needs to burn. There are millions of other people struggling to eat in America. It doesn’t matter though. Cruelty. That is all that matters to Trump. Hate this shit!🀬

27.02.2026 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 262    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0
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More than eco-anxiety: Study exposes emotional fallout of climate crisis for youth A few years ago, researcher Maya Gislason's young child came home from school with her crayon drawing of Earth in 2020 and 2050. "The first was blue and green; the second was a planet on fire," she sa...

ECO-ANXIETY and YOUTH
"We have a generation that doesn't know if they want to have children or not, especially young women and girls, and we have youth who don't know what kind of a world to prepare for or what kind of an environment they'll be growing up into."

medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

27.02.2026 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heat relief means higher emissions: How air conditioning complicates 1.5Β°C goals While air conditioning protects people from dangerous heat, it also significantly worsens global warmingβ€”by 2050, potentially producing more carbon dioxide than the current annual emissions of the Uni...

AIR CONDITIONING and GLOBAL WARMING
"The study reveals that if all low‑income regions gained the same access to air conditioning as rich regions, related global emissions would jump dramaticallyβ€”adding up to 0.05Β°C extra warming even in the most climate‑friendly scenario."

phys.org/news/2026-02...

27.02.2026 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI analysis finds sunnier sites and compact layouts cut solar's land footprint As solar energy is rapidly becoming the world's largest renewable power source, new research from McGill University offers a clearer picture of how much land that growth could require and how smarter ...

SOLAR ENERGY and LAND USE
"Solar projects can result in substantial environmental impacts locally, but our results found that reaching net-zero emissions with high growth in solar requires a negligible amount of land globally."

techxplore.com/news/2026-02...

27.02.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"A scene documents a brutal attack by Israeli soldiers on a Palestinian young man in southern Hebron. The occupation continues its ongoing attacks against Palestinians through night raids, arrests, and severe beatings"(PalTimes News) #Israel #WestBank

26.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 184    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 16
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To MSM, Independants, politicians, pundits, &random users who keep talking about November elections, as if you will have them..

OR, not thinking of them to be anything but a total shit show, with decades of lawsuits to go with them, if not all out civil war...

Shut. The fuck. Up.

Rise... Or fall.

27.02.2026 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3294    πŸ” 1397    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1
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Ocean carbon blind spot may skew climate forecasts A new report by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO reveals a critical lack of understanding of how the ocean absorbs and stores carbon. This glaring uncertainty about our p...

UNCERTAINTY about OCEAN CARBON SINK
"Essentially, if we don't know how much carbon is going into the ocean, we can't guide governments in how to limit global heating, and we can't predict how carbon is degrading marine life, which is an important source of food."

phys.org/news/2026-02...

27.02.2026 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock - Inside Climate News A new study takes a first-of-its kind look at how farming converts non-forested areas and major carbon sinks into cropland and pasture.

LOSS of GRASSLANDS and WETLANDS
β€œThe takeaway from this [study] is that livestock and dairy play an outsized role in the loss of our non-forest ecosystems when compared to other commodities or foods.”

insideclimatenews.org/news/2502202...

27.02.2026 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s Behind the long-term climate projections that affect our lives sits one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the modern era.

CLIMATE SCIENCE and AI
'Behind the long-term climate projections that affect our lives sits one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the modern era: climate models that run on supercomputers.'

theconversation.com/making-sense...

27.02.2026 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chronic ocean heating fuels β€˜staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

LOSS OF MARINE LIFE
β€œHistorically, overfishing has been the main driver of biomass declines in many of the world’s fisheries ... The current challenge is that this overfishing crisis is being further exacerbated by ocean warming and deoxygenation.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

27.02.2026 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Representatives from over 80 United Nations member states have denounced Israeli actions aimed at strengthening its authority over the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians assert they are experiencing a de facto annexation of their territory.

26.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 12
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San Diego, CA.

ICE holds a mother hostage in order to lure her youngest child.

ICE thug to mother, "She's gonna get deported too... I'll just come back and get her later."

This guy is dressed in plain clothes, driving an unmarked car, and did not present any identification while kidnapping kids.

26.02.2026 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators

TROPICAL PLANTS OUT OF SYNC
β€œEcosystems are very delicate webs of interactions, and if there is one element out of sync, especially with the plants, which are the basis of the ecosystem, things can fall apart at every level of the ecosystem.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

26.02.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kelp: The planet's other forest crisis The decline of California's kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013–17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, ...

KELP FOREST DECLINE
'If [kelp forest] disappear, what happens to the salmon, cod, abalone, whales and more than 1,000 other creatures dependent on kelp forests? What happens to us? Neither science nor society has figured that one out.'

phys.org/news/2026-02...

26.02.2026 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.

THE RIVERS of THE WORLD
'Rivers support billions of people but remain among the least protected parts of the natural world, and we urgently need to prepare them for a more extreme future.'

theconversation.com/extreme-weat...

26.02.2026 06:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes murdering a convoy of ambulances and then burying the evidence is "defending yourself."

25.02.2026 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1191    πŸ” 829    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 53
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Germany's coastal regions brace for change, fearing rising sea levels Standing on the coast and looking out to sea, you cannot detect the changes with the naked eye. But in northern Germany, sea levels are rising, as is the risk of flooding for the lower-lying coastal r...

HAVSTIGNINGER i NORDTYSKLAND
"IsΓ¦r nΓ₯r begivenheder falder sammen, dvs. global havstandsstigning, oversvΓΈmmelse og ekstrem vind, kan der opstΓ₯ ekstreme vandstande. Det har vi ikke i samme omfang i ØstersΓΈen, fordi vi ikke har sΓ₯ stort tidevandsinterval."

phys.org/news/2026-02...

25.02.2026 06:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.

23.02.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 20438    πŸ” 4478    πŸ’¬ 692    πŸ“Œ 204
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GOOD FOR AOC β€οΈπŸ’™β€οΈ
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24.02.2026 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 11203    πŸ” 2649    πŸ’¬ 537    πŸ“Œ 253
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Mark Ruffalo: "Tax the rich... They can handle it, trust me."

24.02.2026 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5342    πŸ” 1685    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 95
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β€˜Tinderbox’ UK may be one shock away from food riots, experts say Weakened food security could tip into unrest after a cyber-attack, extreme weather or conflict, analysis finds

FOOD INSECURITY in UK
'A large majority of the experts – 80% – said large-scale violence caused by a food crisis was possible in the next 50 years, with 40% saying it could occur within the next decade, according to a related analysis published in 2023.'

www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...

24.02.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greenland ice melt surges unprecedentedly amid warming A study led by the University of Barcelona and published in the journal Nature Communications shows that climate change has profoundly altered extreme episodes of melting in the Greenland ice sheet by...

GREENLAND ICE MELT
"... rapid transformation of the ice sheet not only has global environmental consequences, such as sea level rise and possible alterations in ocean circulation, but also places the Arctic at the center of new strategic, economic and territorial dynamics."

phys.org/news/2026-02...

24.02.2026 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists reveal best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica The climate crisis is warming Antarctica fast, with potentially disastrous consequences. Now scientists have modeled the best- and worst-case scenarios for climate change in Antarctica, demonstrating ...

ANTARCTIC WARMING
"What concerns me most about the higher emissions scenario is just how permanent the changes could be. These changes would be irreversible on any human timescale. It would be very hard to regrow the glaciers and bring back the wildlife ..."

phys.org/news/2026-02...

24.02.2026 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue Researchers from the University of British Columbia argue that a widely used method to understand and predict flood risk has led scientists to miscalculate how forests can prevent major flooding. The ...

FLOODS and FORESTS
"... When land management and forest removal in the headwaters increase flood risks downstream, forests and healthy ecosystems must be a core part of flood management."

phys.org/news/2026-02...

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