America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”

We’re not just in a climate-denial fantasy—we’re in an everything-denial fantasy. Biodiversity loss, microplastics, toxic chemicals, deforestation, pandemics… climate change is just the opening act.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Collapse is not coming - it’s already here.

Four systems (climate, energy, food, and economy) are breaking down together, each amplifying the weaknesses of the others.

This is not a prediction - the #collapse of these systems is well underway, and already changing our lives. 1/10 #overshoot

Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

Blue whales are falling silent from hunger. The krill are gone. The sea is too warm. Their songs fade away.
This is no anomaly. Humanity is deaf to a symphony of grief and warnings.

Blue whales are going eerily silent—& scientists say it’s a warning sign
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Mass mortality of corals throughout the Great Barrier Reef in 2024 has been hidden from the public since late last year, with this exception - published last December:

www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...

We can't stop someone driving 100 metres down the road to get a packet of gum (walk instead)

We've got no chance of unifying to combat the poly-crisis.☠️

My mistake. I should be giving the "Total Column Precipitable Water" for just the Northern mid-latitudes, where lots of humans live, and not for the whole planet all at once.

Here is the running average TCPW for the Northern mid-latitudes. Plain language summary: floods!

YouTube video by Just Have a Think How the world's biggest bank is bracing for climate catastrophe.

youtu.be/3FYFJNKgJR0?...

YouTube video by Peter Carter Recent Big Climate Research Papers

We're completely fucked.
youtu.be/E6TL5d2x7Vs?...

#ve66.4
3° C by 2050.
And we thought 2° C by 2050 was horrible.
So that is a huge finding, right?
The history of a +3 ◦C future:
@emilianotravieso.bsky.social
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6TL...

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Most important line that will define all of humanity's future

The 🌎 isn’t warming by the “moderate” amount the UN’s climate panel still projects. It’s far more sensitive to carbon pollution —likely about 4.5°C for a doubling of CO₂, not 3°C

#ClimateCollapse

www.collapse2050.com/james-hansen...

Sea turtle swimming in blue water. Quote: 73% average decline in wildlife populations since 1970

Habitat loss and degradation, overexploitation, invasive species, disease and #climatechange are the biggest threats to #wildlife worldwide. #BlueEarth

The main drivers behind these threats are our food and energy systems, which need urgent transformation.

➡️ livingplanet.panda.org/en-GB/nature...

Climate Quotes & Memes YouTube video by Climate Chat

Sunday 8/10 at 10am PT on Climate Chat: Climate Quotes & Memes with hosts Dan Miller & @leonsimons.bsky.social. On YouTube & LinkedIn.
Leave your favorite quotes & memes in this thread.
@drivingmzstacey @radsci
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Humanity is a heat engine.

Tim Garrett.

‼️DEADLY HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST

Extraordinary 52.6C Basra IRAQ Monthly record

Records in Iran,Saudi Arabia,Emirates,Jordan,Syria

45.2 Zahle LEBANON HOTTEST AUGUST DAY IN HISTORY

TURKEY
47.5 Adana,46.0 Incirlik,45.6 Osmaniye all time records
44.4 Silifke,43.5 Iskenderun monthly

July's data for "Total Column Precipitable Water" was just released, and wouldn't you know it, the 36-month running average set another new record high.

Plain language summary: more floods.

Data: climatereanalyzer.org/research_too...

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.

metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...

So I guess sometimes karma catches up with you…

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds

"The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say."

(AP)

#collapse

Tonight, please spare a thought to all our scientists and public health workers who have dedicated their careers to saving millions of lives.

Despite their amazing work they are constantly threatened due to politicization and the unfettered spread of misinformation.

It should not be like this 💔

“[US] Manufacturing is in recession. Construction is in a deep recession. Transportation and distribution is in recession. Wholesaling is in recession. Retail is holding on by its thumbs, it’s very close.”

(Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics)

#collapse

Two sneaky viruses may be messing with honeybee flight The deformed wing and sacbrood viruses were thought to cause asymptomatic infections in adult bees. But the viruses make the insects fly slower and faster than normal, respectively

The deformed wing and sacbrood viruses were thought to cause asymptomatic infections in adult bees. But the viruses make the insects fly slower and faster than normal, respectively

Just one missile 🎯

The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance of Insects Means for Humanity and the Earth - The Great Simplification Insects, bugs, creepy-crawlies – these small animals are often considered a nuisance (or worse) by humanity, bringing up an ongoing desire to kill or mitigate these “pests” that plague our backyards, ...

Full episode:
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/189-...

Insects seem to be swarming all around us, so it's no wonder we don't seem to to notice that they're disappearing at a rate of 2% per year. And this has massive implications, as environmental journalist Oliver Milman explains.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report—its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

Insane

phys.org/news/2025-08...

This goes here.
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Oopsies

Myth #5:
Debt is a neutral financial tool

Reality:
We can create more money (debt) but not more non-renewable inputs

Implication:
Debt is mostly leverage that increases civilizational risks

Myth #7:
Energy is merely another input

Reality:
a) Fossil energy surplus is a massive driver of economic productivity
b) Energy is not substitutable other than by other energy

Implication:
Our entire economic recipe neglects the most important ingredient