@garygq.bsky.social
Complexity. Systems. Climate. Sustainability. Philosophy. Open-water swimming to keep sane. Based in GQ (Gqeberha) South Africa.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
It’s not a post I can like. Our minister is canned so that my fellow citizens can captive breed lions and sell their bones. While he co-chairs at COP!
This portfolio drives our NDC’s, Climate Action Plans, oversees the PCC, EIA’s, SANParks, and biodiversity management plans. And our stand at CITES
This isn’t “war”.
20.07.2025 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Israeli fire kills 67 aid seekers in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens reut.rs/3Ute6LP
20.07.2025 15:35 — 👍 54 🔁 46 💬 13 📌 11It's impossible for me to look at this thread & not conclude that there is something fundamentally broken with the anglophone news media.
HOW IS THIS NOT NEWSWORTHY?!? 😱
"This is a human rights & planetary health imperative & ultimately a matter of survival"
#EndClimateSilence
🧵 Just finished reading Upgrading Democracy by @pollycurtis.bsky.social at @demos-uk.bsky.social .
It’s a sharp, hopeful intervention in the face of democratic breakdown, and it aligns in profound ways with the epistemic collapse I’ve been tracking in my own work.
demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Can you comment on this study? For the layman it seems contradictory? Genuine question link.springer.com/article/10.1...
30.06.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In case someone in Wal-Mart asks you, as of yesterday, global sea-ice extent is second lowest on record for the day.
30.06.2025 12:57 — 👍 140 🔁 40 💬 11 📌 2
No cool heads in the room.
22.06.2025 02:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Led by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup, the world’s 65 biggest #banks committed a total of $869 billion in financing fossil fuel, and $429 billion in fossil fuel production and infrastructure expansion finance in 2024.
earth.org/worlds-large...
‼️UNBELIEVABLE
WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN
53 DEGREES ON AN ISLAND
52.6 Failaka Island KUWAIT
also 51.3 Bubyan Island
>50 Iran,Iraq,49C in Qatar and Oman etc..
Absolutely extraordinary and it's the appetizer of what's coming next week !
Naamsa, the Automotive Business Council, announced on Monday that Auto Week 2025 will be held in Gqeberha, Nelson Mandela Bay, from 1 to 3 October.
10.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through May 2025. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 431 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.
🚨 Carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels set a new monthly *record high* in May 2025 - 430.51 ppm (seasonal maximum)
This is the second largest May-May increase in this dataset (3.6 ppm higher than 2024). This is not good... 🫣
Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
May 2025 430.51 ppm, May 2024: 426.90 ppm Plus two graphs of the accelerating Keeling curve: for the past 5 years, and since 1958, when CO2 was around 315 ppm
Confirmed: the May average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was 430.5 ppm, first time above 430 ppm in 15 million years, and a big jump from a year ago, again: +3.6 ppm!
Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction.
= FINANCIAL TIMES Probability of above average near-surface temperature* 0 4— Less likely Average More likely →> 1 May to Sep period 2025-29 Nov to Mar period 2025-26 to 2029-30 Predicted temperature patterns over the years 2025-29 show a high probability of temperatures above the 1991-2020 average almost everywhere, with enhanced warming over land.
Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat.
People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.
We’re pissed because our pluralist society has fought for centuries to be free of “doose” (boxes); and the richness of this place comes from the interlocking cultural streams that create the mengelmoes. Now 49/59 (?) people want their doose to be THE box. No man that’s not lekker.
19.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0But we are such a “mengelmoes” (mixed stew) in SA, both DNA mix & cultural, that “Afrikaner” is a broad brush open to multiple interpretations. Much of it very progressive, impossible to box within a “race”, or a profession such as farmer (“Boer”), or music/dance/humour/literature/religion.
19.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Those behind the National Party (came into power in 1948) & Broederbond (brother fraternity) sought to fence off Afrikaans as solely “owned” by conservative, Christian, white’s as their mother tongue & political counter to the British colony. And this gave rise to the notion of “Afrikaner”.
19.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yep. Complicated & contested. About 8 million people speak Afrikaans as their 1st language, of which about 40% can be considered “white”. Afrikaans was a “kitchen Dutch” mixed with some Malay and spoken by slaves/servants in the Cape colony. Originally it was written in Arabic script.
19.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
CO2 emissions from China are down 1.6% for Q1 2025 and 1% for the past 12 months. The most recent peak in CO2 emissions from China was back in March 2024. Emissions are dropping because despite continuing to build out fossil fuels, renewable capacity and generation has increased in China and many sectors of their economy now have emissions that are flat or dropping.
CO2 emissions from China are down 1.6% for Q1 2025 and 1% for the past 12 months. The greater deployment of renewables relative to fossil fuels appears to be starting to cut into emissions. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...
16.05.2025 12:22 — 👍 219 🔁 54 💬 5 📌 4Back here in SA we’re particularly interested in how “Afrikaner” was defined (given who speaks Afrikaans), what “farms” these persons came from, and just a little pissed at the maligning of our country.
17.05.2025 12:27 — 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Starting May 28th, we will be holding a marathon livestream to share our work with the public and show why the services we provide should not be cut. Learn more & sign up to speak here (and please share!)
10.05.2025 14:43 — 👍 86 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 0NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
15.05.2025 05:45 — 👍 951 🔁 330 💬 8 📌 35
Good morning with good news: Wind & solar set two new global records in March 2025.
1. W&S generated 18.86% of world's electricity, a record high share!
2. W&S generation set a monthly record of 471 TWh in March 2025!
That's up ~18% since March 2024 and ~145% since March 2019.
#energysky
It’s a big ask. So why would anyone think it has merit?
14.05.2025 16:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To hold onto the conspiracy means abandoning physics and the practicalities of dispensing aerosols.
It also means believing large scale operations can be kept secret & that mind altering drugs exist and can be dosed from high up. E.g. As opposed to placing them in drinking water.
And what operational capacity would be required and how to fund and keep such secret?
How do you hide these planes & airports?
And how would they work? As in how would you regulate dosage?
How would you get everyone to react in the same way?
Think about releasing paracetamol at 1000m above the ground on the 01 Jan.
Would it treat everyone’s hangover?
