Lady Linda

Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.

It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.

Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Tulip always looks like "so much to mull over...sigh"! Philosophical 😺

Thought for today

World’s coral reefs in almost irreversible die-off, scientists warn - National | Globalnews.ca For corals to recover, the world would need to drastically ramp up climate action to reverse temperatures, the scientists suggested.

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globalnews.ca/news/1147774...

Coral collapse signals Earth's first climate tipping point The global die-off of coral reefs signals a critical shift in Earth’s climate system with global environmental consequences along with economic ones.

#ResistanceEarth

The widespread die-off of coral reefs represents the first climate "tipping point," according to the Global Tipping Points Report 2025. The report notes that our "new reality" is a series of tipping points with potentially catastrophic impacts.

www.sciencenews.org/article/cora...

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’ A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’.

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.

grist.org/oceans/coral...

#Ocean #Coral #Heat #Science #Environment

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 13 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

BUT TODAY HONOR
Indigenous Peoples Day

This powerful video
I try to walk in their shoes
I honor their History, Culture, Resilience, and Contributions

Trump cannot sweep it away
Not Columbus
This is their land
Resilience

A wonderful message. Good morning Blue Sky

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’ A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

… today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries is announcing that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point: the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs.

The near-extinction of buffalo ws caused by commercial hunting for hides & meat & a gov policy of exterminating bison to weaken Native American tribes. Expansion of railroad facilitated large-scale hunts. Buffalo Bill killed thousands, but the scale of govt policy late 19th century decimated herds.

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Bleaching, Melting, Slowing: New Global Tipping Points report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points. It highlights mounting risks, from melting glaciers, ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

@animalonplanets shared the video below.

#cats #birds #birdsofprey #animals #predators #pets

Last year, our team sat down with Dr. Jane and spoke about the impact she has had.

Was she proud? "I actually feel quite bewildered, surprised."

But she felt that was her task: "After 90 years of living on this planet, that obviously my task was to give people hope when all seems hopeless."

Truth bomb.💣 I don’t dabble with faith, but if I were to sit through a Christian service, I might consider listening to his. 1/2

Drawing of Roger Williams in the wilderness after being banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1635: Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for resisting the government’s control over religious and political beliefs. He spoke out against the colony’s authority to punish dissent and confiscate Native American land. /1

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

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Today's Nobel Prize in Literature goes to

“a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic and often shatteringly beautiful.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Authoritarian countries that were once normal and free.

#pinks #resist

For #MentalHealthDay

@peechloves, a Black Person shared:

Blind Black people exist.
Deaf Black people exist.
Neurodivergent Black people exist.

Black people with Low Vision exist.
Black folks who are Hearing Impaired exist.

Disabled Black people exist - and we

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#blackpeople #blackautistic #blacksky #addtoblacksky

A horse asks another horse to help remove its muzzle so it can eat grass.

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.

In 1999, Bill Clinton announced “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads, drilling and other disturbances.

Today, these lands could soon see chainsaws and logging trucks amid a push by Trump to raze these ecosystems for timber.

#StevenBiko #Biko #WorkingClassHero 🇿🇦

AI is a runaway train and I’d like to get off at the nearest station.

I’ll jump off and roll down a hill like they do in the movies if I have to.

Video: @varunmayya.bsky.social

"What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos