It would be no surprise at all to see this year and next breach 1.5C - quite possibly by a significant margin - and never again drop back

Example no. 5284 why I will never forgive my family for voting for this US regime three times.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

"Using satellite data spanning decades as well as recent field measurements, the study's authors found that between 1984 and 2022 approximately 25,000 acres of farmland was lost to sea level rise in the #Chesapeake and #Delaware Bay watersheds, despite preventative measures taken by local farmers"

"I've been a #climate scientist for 33 years and we're seeing exactly the kinds of things that we were warning back then... [although] these records are perhaps more extreme and coming sooner than we had expected," @richardabetts.bsky.social

Nothing to see here, just the second hottest day on record in the Nino 3.4 region, with El Nino just getting started. Over/Under 29.5 by Nov How hot will it get? The Climate Casino is giving an Over/Under of 29.9°C by December 1, 2026. The Climate 8-ball is taking the over.

In case you haven't been keeping track, a quick update. Nino 3.4 is now predicted to peak at roughly 3.6°C over the 1991-2020 baseline in late October or early November. Climate change is not good for children and other living things.

This is the reality we must face head-on: "Climate risk is increasingly expressed through weather and weather risk is rapidly translating into economic risk. [It] is no longer isolated or local. It is now a systemic and global threat that we must face together." Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General WMO

This is what everyone should be committing all time and resources to. Instead we have people in charge who only care about money and power during their lifetimes.

Comparing the devastating 1877 El Niño that killed millions with where we’re headed in 2026 is like comparing 2 different planets. We should be worried. But we should also be furious. Decades & decades have been squandered, & now we’re on track to lose everything.

For as long as I live I will never forgive the people who can't see this.

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.

When will we first reach 2°C of warming? A simple heuristic: We passed 0.5°C in 1980. 1°C in 2010 -30 years later. 1.5°C in 2024 - 14 years later. Add another 0.5°C in 14 years, we hit 2°C by 2038. Assuming the rate stays constant.

still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter

"The average American homeowner isn’t responsible for this climate chaos; why are they the ones picking up the tab for the billions of dollars of damage it leaves in its wake?" @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...

"the fraction of cultivated area characterized by a significant +ve trend in risk increases sharply if global warming exceeds 1.5 °C... Currently particularly affected areas are the main cultivation regions in the S. Urals & S. Siberia (spring wheat) & S. European Russia (winter wheat)"

And the US government generally doesn't give a sh!t.

The Colorado River is drying up. Why? An internal Exxon memo from 1979 predicted that, without a reduction in the use of fossil fuels, "the flow of the Colorado River would diminish and the southwest water shortage would become much more acute."

"In one scenario at CO₂ concentrations of 450ppm —last experienced by Earth several million years ago, when polar ice was significantly reduced—Antarctic temperatures rise by 6°C while Arctic temperatures drop by 7°C due to #AMOC collapse" We're now at ~430ppm & rising 🙈 #ClimateEmergency

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

Thanks to Global Warming: Emperor penguins have just been declared endangered www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

We just declared drought for the fourth year in a row. And this year, it’s statewide.

This is climate change

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

"uncharted territory" "unprecedented" But not unpredictable. This has been foreseen and ignored.

NEW: Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.

Arctic sea ice volume was at a record low for the time of year on March 30, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/03/sign...

Trump decisions have accelerated the triple planetary crisis: Climate breakdown Biodiversity collapse Pollution overload We are racing toward irreversible tipping points,and the vulnerable masses in Africa, Asia, and island nations will pay the heaviest price.

Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.

Spring is arriving across much of the West more than 20 days earlier than average when looking at when plants first leaf-out - even reaching almost to Canada! I'd expect significant ecological impacts from the heat this March. Graphic/data from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

Been really struggling to wrap my mind around this graph. It shows just how wildly off the charts global temps are right now. When is so hot that it becomes an imperative to organize around and meaningfully address?

When is it too hot? When the billionaires are negatively affected, that's when.

Climate driven extremes aren’t coming, they’re here…

The sea surface temperature was 21.14°C on March 23, 2026, a record high temperature for the time of year and a +0.73°C anomaly compared to 1982-2010. The sea surface temperature has risen by 0.45°C since the start of 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

We can't survive this, if those who are supposed to inform/teach/research are lying.

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

everything is fine . gif

🎶"The world was on fire, and no one could save me-"🎵

"This is the first time in history that such a warning has been issued in March for the region."

Though it may surprise East Coasters, the story of this winter was not record cold but record heat

In the novel Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, humanity comes together to fight a common enemy: the sun is dying. Countries previously at war stop bombing, & each commits their entire selves to save Earth. If only real life were like that. Billions will die and nobody of enough influence cares.

The acceleration is accelerating. And yet...no meaningful or impactful action by the billionaires or "people in charge".

"Warming proceeding faster is not unexpected by climate models, but it is a cause of concern and shows how insufficient the efforts to slow and eventually stop global warming under the Paris Climate Accord have so far been."

“Measured coastal sea level is higher than assumed in most hazard assessments…the measured values suggest that with 1 m of relative sea-level rise… 48–68% more people (increasing estimates to 77–132 million) would fall below sea level.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

Here in Western Washington, flowering trees are blooming, some are fully bloomed, and today I saw one that was already shedding its petals. I've seen fully bloomed Rhododendrons. This is 6 weeks early, by my layperson's estimate. 🌎 🔥 #wawx #pnw