J Roe: "15 years? You're so optimistic", my kind of realist!

The Canary is Dead Part 4 Anson Nash and Kevin Hester continue their extinction dialogues discussing strategies for managing grief and doing meaningful work at the edge of extinction, including installing Penguin breeding n…

On the subject of Canaries, I had a few great discussions with a young dude about how he and his peers are facing the unravelling.
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The Perfect Storm is Unfolding in our Oceans “The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite…” Jules Verne.We opened the discussion below referencing an …

“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite…” Jules Verne.
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Microplastics Changing Earth’s Climate from the depths of the Oceans, across Fertile lands and Forests & High up into the Atmosphere No where on the planet has been spared! “Microplastics exert tremendous influence over the living planet. I can hardly read a headline at a corporate media outlet without learning more about …

“The levels of microplastics in Auckland’s air were much higher than those recorded in London, Paris and Hamburg in recent years, with the study utilising a method which could detect particles as small as 0.01 of a millimetre, researchers said.”
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Science Snippets: Microplastics in Glass Containers Exceed Those in Plastic Draft script:

Guy's latest analysis, of peer reviewed studies on micro-plastics, mentions that "people living in areas with higher levels of microplastic pollution also have a greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and stroke."

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Bigger crops, fewer nutrients: The hidden cost of climate change Climate change is silently sapping the nutrients from our food. A pioneering study finds that rising CO2 and higher temperatures are not only reshaping how crops grow but are also degrading their nutr...

Bigger crops, fewer nutrients: The hidden cost of climate change

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Carbon dioxide can impact human cognitive performance Increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere can impact human cognitive performance, according to research by UCL.

Carbon dioxide can impact human cognitive performance

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Science Snippets: Peak Food Production Draws Near Draft script:

It makes ''common sense," not that that's very common anymore, that there is a link between Peak Oil and Peak Food when most of the food in the West is grown on industrial scales, with industrial machinery used for harvesting and transportation to markets.

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Science Snippets: More Thunderstorms in Our Warming World Draft script:

"A retired atmospheric physicist at the University of Washington in Seattle is then quoted: “the Arctic basically didn’t have lightning at all. Now it’s got a lot more. It’s easy to see that.”

Science Snippets: More Thunderstorms in Our Warming World
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YouTube video by Hiroob Exponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

I'll drop a link below of the late great Albert Bartlett describing the exponential function, it's critical to understand where our trajectory is taking us.

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The Rate of Environmental Change Draft script:

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to truly understand the exponential function", Albert Bartlett.

The Rate of Environmental Change
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Professor Corey Bradshaw explains the unfolding “Extinction Cascades” on Nature Bats Last. Professor Corey Bradshaw from Flinders University was this month’s guest on Nature Bats Last. The audio of the episode is embedded here: “Dr. Bradshaw is the Matthew Flinders Fellow in …

A paper from Strona and Bradshaw was mentioned. Guy and I interviewed Professor Corey Bradshaw on that paper. I've edited this analysis into my blow post on that interview titled: Professor Corey Bradshaw Explains the Unfolding Extinction Cascades.
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Carbon footprint from Israel's war on Gaza exceeds 100 countries Study estimates that Israel’s destruction of the Palestinian enclave has generated over 31m tonnes of carbon dioxide

Guy points out that the article mentions our need to reduce emissions, there is no mention of emissions pertaining to the plethora of wars being waged currently.

The war on the children of Palestine has higher emissions that Aotearoa NZ.
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Science Snippets: Mass Extinction Event Targets Ocean Life Draft script:

Guy's latest analysis of the threats on our oceans quotes a remarkably forthright corporate article from NBC News, itself based on peer reviewed literature.

Science Snippets: Mass Extinction Event Targets Ocean Life
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“Post Doom” discussion featuring Michael Dowd and Kevin Hester. Navigating the Perfect Storm Michael Dowd and I recorded this interview in September 2019 in his “Post Doom’ series. It’s just been uploaded to You Tube as part of a series with the link to the rest embedded …

“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite…” Jules Verne

Jaques Cousteau got me addicted to the oceans, I'll be forever grateful.

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Full Earth System Sensitivity to CO2 has been Grossly Underestimated In this one hour long presentation by Professor David Wasdell of the Apollo Gaia Project he explains that we have no available carbon budget and that we are on a trajectory of well over 10 degrees …

Added to my blog post titled; "Full Earth System Sensitivity to CO2 has been Grossly Underestimated". The comments section has a comment from Peter Wadhams, possibly the world's leading scientist on Sea Ice, on the reality that 10C minimum is locked in.

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Science Snippets: Scientists Admit Mistakes About Climate Change Timeline Draft script:

We’ve been arguing amongst ourselves, about to what degree, pardon the pun, that we can destabilize the atmosphere and the living biome.

Science Snippets: Scientists Admit Mistakes About Climate Change Timeline
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Is AI Consuming Your Water and Power? I’m intrigued about everything AI, how could I not be?My professional qualifications in analyzing AI focus on the power consumption issue.As a youth I did an electrical apprenticeship in Aote…

“Hyperscale facilities operated by companies like Google demonstrate the true scale of the challenge. Google’s data centres average 550,000 gallons (2.1 million litres) daily, totalling approximately 200 million gallons (760 million litres) annually per facility.

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Collapse: The Only Realistic Scenario This months guest on Nature Bats Last is Arthur Keller author of the You Tube Presentation “Collapse: The Only Realistic Scenario”. Kevin and Guy were joined by Arthur Keller, who studi…

Bills integrity shines brightly.
Added below, thx.
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Navigating Hospice at the Edge of Extinction The children are rebelling, the ice is melting, the weather is already chaotic and the feedback loops are multiplicative. How do we navigate the perfect storm when we know that our only habitable s…

Great work team, what a ride we're all on.
Added below like a hand in a glove.
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War in the East, War in the West, War up North, War Down South – Every Where There’s War & Environmental Carnage. I’ve been saying for decades that I’ve lived in Two War Zones, I was mistaken, I omitted the most important war I’m co-waging, with billions of others, the war on the ecosystem.&#…

Imagine forgetting one of the wars you waged?

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I think the most salient issue is that records aren't 'just' being exceeded they are being destroyed, as you framed it.
That is a product on 6 dozen feedback loops that we know of being triggered.
The rate of change is critical.

Science Snippets: Why We Must Protect the Global Ocean Forever Draft script:

“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite…”

Jules Verne.

Science Snippets: Why We Must Protect the Global Ocean Forever
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A Hidden World, Untouched for More Than 34 Million Years Draft script:

I seem to be on a dinosaur roll atm.
I 'hope' that's not GAIA sending me a hint :)

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Silent Spring | Rachel Carson’s Environmental Classic | Britannica Silent Spring, nonfiction book written by Rachel Carson that became one of the most-influential books in the modern environmental movement. Published in 1962, Silent Spring was widely read by the gene...

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"Half the Tree of Life" Balances on the Brink of Extinction Draft script:

This loss of insects will domino through bird populations, which will mean less seeds spread.

"Half the Tree of Life" Balances on the Brink of Extinction
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Professor Paul Ehrlich: “The Annihilation of Nature”. In this months episode of Nature Bats Last on PRN.FM podcast, I was honoured to re-interview Professor Paul Ehrlich on his book “The Annihilation of Nature”, the show is embedded here: …

Here's the link to the Paul Ehrlich book, paper and our interview:
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Environmental Crisis Signaled by Diminishing May Beetles Draft script:

Guys latest analysis reminds me of our interview with Professor Paul Ehrlich on his book The Annihilation of Nature. That book was written, seven years ago, our predicament has accelerated since that time!

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Urgent Warning Issued After Non-Indigenous Species Appears Draft script:

I would rate the chances of arresting this invasive species at essentially zero.

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NBL Live presentation: 485 Million years of climate info ignored. Narrative control during the great unravelling was the topic of this discussion.Professor McPherson discussed the role that the IPCC is playing in controlling the narrative around the poly-crises w…

Today's debate about narrative control during accelerating climate and extinction crises.
Dive into the hyperlinks I've embedded for the full story.
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