Hardy Spicer time...🙄

I did a half day job yesterday and today I can barely walk. Entire body has reacted... Such is the joy of rheumatoid arthritis. I'm nearly 52, how the fuck am I supposed to work until 66+ 😳

Research using satellite data indicates that groundwater stores are depleting as the world heats up. Drying hotspots are emerging in south & south-east Europe, the Middle East (notably Syria, Iran, Iraq), Asia, South America, the US west coast, areas of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard.

And just like that, Arctic sea-ice extent is now over 200,000 square kilometers below the previous daily record for November 28th.

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 29, 2025 ~ Stirring thoughts. "As sea ice retreats, the polar oceans will not only grow darker and warmer. They will also grow more restless, with stronger stirring that touches everything ..." www.thebrighterside.news/post/melting...

I updated my spaghetti magnitude video. 🍝 What magnitude is your appetite? 😆

The extent of global sea ice cover is more than 3 million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average. This is the 2nd lowest on record for this date over the satellite-era. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

#Warmth, for #BlueSkyArtShow This image, a closeup of water in autumn, features the tip of a pine needle.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The core of the problem of the climate crisis is not CO₂ emissions, but the deeper system that caused the need to drill into the Earth, slaughter indigenous populations, and enslave people in the first place..." thenewpress.org/books/the-en...

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 227 # 226 cont’d. The use of antennae by #bumblebees to ‘communicate’ with other #bees in the colony, by touching their antennae to the antennae of another bee, is referred to as ANTENNATION. It’s basically a bee handshake.🐝🤝🐝 #nature #science #wild

Mornin’. Spend a minute or so with this little dude. You’ll be better for it. No bullshit. No pretence. No ego. No lies. No violence. No AI. No scams. No sides. A robin taking a bath. Pure. Simple. Beautiful. Nature. Something we can all agree on? #nature #robin #WorldBeeSanctuary #saturday

One of the reasons why an #AMOC shutdown “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore” is this study: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... And if you want to know more what this is about, watch my short presentation here: youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...

Iceland is right to consider this an existential threat. www.dagens.com/news/iceland...

After replacing the 4WD actuators and a shredded hub I fired it up... Knackered IWE solenoid 😭, bypassed that... Seized front prop shaft... Finally got the truck back on the road at 2am this morning, minus a front prop. I'll press new joints in when delivered, but it runs and drives.

'The death toll due to floods and landslides has risen to 56 & 21 remain missing in Sri Lanka as it announced a public holiday Friday... At least 46 deaths have been recorded within the past 72hrs as adverse weather conditions continue to affect the island'

🔴 ⚠️ 🌀 🛰️ Dramatic impact of #cycloneDitwah on #SriLanka, where heavy #floods affected more than 200000 people with at least 50 dead and dozens missing. ⬇️ last 36 hours seen by Meteosat-9 with RGB Airmass + HSAF Precipitation rate (blu is >50mm/hr). Animation via #EUMETview

"Every speaker converged on the same conclusion, delaying action or making only incremental changes are no longer aligned with physical reality, financial prudence, or national security" Excellent account of yesterday's National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social

Impressive rock avalanche on the Dent de Crolles (2062 m asl) in the Chartreuse Massif, French Prealps yesterday 😲 Release area ~1800 m asl 📷 Sylvain Thiabaud

Oh look, plastic nurdles have been found in 84% of important nature sites surveyed in the UK the environmental charity Fidra. #collapse

Quick graph on extratropical and tropical Sea Surface Temperature change. The Northern Hemisphere extratropics have now (permanently?) surpassed the tropical El Niño peak! 12-month running averages, using @ecmwf.int ERA5 data:

Today is Wally Broecker his birthday. It's always humbling to read words written by great minds. This is from before I was even born:

Truck is back together. New axle actuators, new front hub, new oil in gearbox/differentials/transfer box. Still not running... Bloody vacuum solenoid likely faulty too 🤬🤬🤬 The parts I've replaced were the source of the "noise", but it looks like they had a partner in crime 🙄

This is quite a story for English Higher Education policy. #Budget2025 on.ft.com/4ogqPxZ Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage

Probably not a big deal. It’s not like trillions of tons of ice melt, rocks expanding in crazy heat waves or changing water levels affect tectonic plates and fault line stress right?

Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'. But it's the *total* opposite. share.google/1csfRNfR3lnL...

Today's volcano Hayli Gubbi (Ethiopia) eruption seen from space

Hong Kong apartment fire: at least 36 dead and 279 missing www.channel4.com/news/hong-ko...

Sea surface temperatures are rising around the perimeter of the #Arctic Ocean in November. Long-term trends ➡️ decreasing ice and warming atmosphere+ocean [For more information: doi.org/10.25923/9z9.... Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1]

Shocking event - thinking of the people of Hong Kong. #StandWithHongKong www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

"Arctic sea-ice extent current ranks 2nd lowest for the day since record began in 1979, and are on track to set a new daily record low in the next few days." (Prof Eliot Jacobson) #collapse

Sweet jesus, poor people 😭 www.bbc.com/news/article...

New wheel hub has arrived... Hurrah 👏

TV tonight: the harrowing story of Britain’s biggest mass poisoning

The 2025 Lancet Report on Health and Climate Change and the recent Cradle to Grave Report spell out the tremendous harm and suffering caused by fossil fuel burning and resulting climate changes. Millions are dying every year. drtomharris.substack.com/p/breathless... #climatechange #health

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business. The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay. It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders. Textbook corporate greed.

In addition to both axle actuator diaphragms being ruptured, the grating noise was the nearside wheel hub gear turning into mincemeat... Our pickup is one of only 4 ever made and has "prototype" as the model in the V5. Parts guessing is a fun game 🙃

“The invention of money was the single biggest fraud ever committed against nature” From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM

COP30 over & progress made. I stand by PLAN B. Dont care about the report; the world learned. No consensus; so what? Nothing done for 30yrs. Survivors must focus & act. Forget the selfish they'll fall; you mustn't. 10yrs to ensure our survival; use it well; the post-Holocene waits #6thMassExtinction

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

The Endangered Species Act lets us measure our virtue even as the world empties around us. This is an excerpt from a larger piece about what protection means….and what it fails to capture. open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...

An excellent explanation and a worthy read 👇