Solar has risen from almost nothing in 2019 to roughly 10% of South Africa’s electricity-generating capacity, cleantechnica.com/2026/01/01/c...

"The hot drought conditions that drive elevated tree mortality are projected to frequently emerge during a typical dry season 20 to 40 years from now" #ClimateEmergency

Here a novel idea, let’s let the survivors redact the Epstein files.

This is find -dot- gif Towards the middle of the century, ~4000 glaciers worldwide will disappear every year.

As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.

87 in Tulsa OK yesterday! Ludicrous for late December. This heatwave is not getting the attention it deserves because it’s not 110 in mid-summer. But in terms of anomalies & # of records, it’s virtually unprecedented/ virtually impossible in the absence of manmade climate change. Last 7 days…

The Absurd December US heatwave is ending. Last 7 days: 4700 heat records (mins & maxs) vs only 55 cold records. 7 day anomalies up to +25° F. Dozens of monthly records smashed. The heat dome was forced by a very blocky global pattern, but the intensity is virtually impossible b4 climate change.

From 2004–2011, ~62,000 African Penguin died near Cape Town because of sardine collapse caused by climate change and overfishing. That’s ~95% of the breeding penguins! In 2024, African Penguins were uplisted to Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

Why is there so little overlap between people with large platforms who 1) have a good grasp of how politics actually work these days and 2) are paying close attention to climate change?

Lots of things to fix out there but a decent argument that a real fix (if such a thing existed) for what can reasonably be called “elite impunity” would cascade out fixes for like 90 percent of the rest of it

A 110°F day in Phoenix in July is closer to the freezing point than Fairbanks is right now. @alaskawx.bsky.social

" The guidelines recommend that museums should “Transition away from sponsorship from organisations involved with environmental harm (including fossil fuels), human rights abuses, & other sponsorship that does not align with the values of the museum.” "

Tornado Warning inside a Severe Thunderstorm Warning inside a Flash Flood Warning in LA County at the moment, if you're wondering how things are going... #CAwx #LArain

Morning.

"What's behind the pullback on policy and why is Canadian progress on tackling climate change so slow? Put simply, it’s because climate action threatens the profits of the fossil-fuel industry, and they’ve spent the past 50 years doing everything they can to prevent it."

ESA/Webb's final Picture of the Month for 2025 features Westerlund 2 containing many of the Milky Way’s hottest, brightest & most massive stars. Located 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina Link for more info: esawebb.org/images/potm2... Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA

11.21 inches of rain to fall in Ojai from Tuesday to Saturday, per NWS Los Angeles. #rain #cawx #ojai

www.livescience.com/space/glitte... Wow #jameswebb #astronomy

Stop burning fossil fuels. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Oil and gas production increased by record amounts under Biden, even though the US was already the world's biggest producer when he took office. So what does "move to the center on domestic oil and gas production" even mean? Stop supporting clean energy entirely? Forego all climate policy? What?

The awkward thing is that you could say the same about BC #NDP premier David Eby . . . and Boulerice should be.

After Sri Lanka struggled through one of the worst storms in its history, tea plantation workers are taking temporary refuge in government schools and temples as entire villages were buried in mud in the central highlands.

More brilliant and crucial reporting by @bsaxifrage.bsky.social in the @nationalobserver.com. (Here’s hoping Canada’s Climate Backtrackers and their apologists read it … and absorb it.) www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/15/a...

Looks like the Financial Times is just as confused as the rest of us about why Mark Carney, a former ambassador for climate action in 2015, is throwing the planet under the bus by fast-tracking new fossil fuel projects across Canada.

NCAR manages the Wyoming Supercomputing Center, where researchers from other institutions have access to high-performance computing resources (most recently Cheyenne and now Derecho) to model weather, climate, wildfires, air pollution, etc. Everyone is less safe if NCAR is dismantled.

Serious question: did Environment and Climate Change Canada just release a 250+ pg legally-mandated report on Canada's progress toward its climate targets without a media release? I don't see one, or any news stories. Found report 4 levels down on ECCC's website. www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

Dense toxic smog blanketed India’s national capital Monday, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks, disrupting travel and causing authorities to impose the strictest containment measures.

Highway 1 closed through the Fraser Canyon NOW #bcflood #bcwx #bcxwx #xwx #rain ministry says the closure is attributed to a due to risk of rockfall, debris flows and washouts with the heavy rainfall forecast #climatechaos fraservalleytoday.ca/2025/12/14/h...

Arctic sea ice volume is at a record daily low. It has been at a record daily low for well over a year. The image shows Arctic sea ice volume through December 13, 2025. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

The image shows hourly average in situ methane measurements well above 2400 ppb (parts per billion). The image is adapted from an image issued by NOAA December 13, 2025. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Since fish farms were closed on most of the inside pass of Vancouver Island, look at the amazing coho fishery recovery. Amazing to see!

“We’ve basically taken the buffer out of the system. We’ve burned through all this reservoir storage over the past 26 years and we’re one dry winter away from having very serious water usage cuts being enforced in a way that has never occurred before” - @bradudall.bsky.social

Batteries are getting cheaper and allowing solar power to be used beyond daylight hours, according to a new analysis from clean energy think tank Ember

Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuels...

"Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the French judiciary has asserted itself as a key actor in the implementation of environmental law... through a pragmatic adaptation of existing tools & the consecration of new concepts. The recognition of ecological harm... is the most striking example"

I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot: “The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”

“Many major highways connecting B.C.’s Lower Mainland to the province’s Interior have been forced to close Wednesday night due to heavy rains brought on by an atmospheric river.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/12/10/b... - @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social #BCFlood #HopeBC #Merritt #Kamloops #YVR

In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy. Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.

Latest Skagit River forecasts are just shocking. The NOAA model now has the river cresting 4-5 FEET over RECORD flood stages there at Monroe and Concrete. A minor saving grace is it seems the river is running a little behind the forecast curve but still :O #wawx

"And then the temperature started going down like a rock."

The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

"...despite #climate change being the major threat to global health many journals had until recently published little or nothing. A joint editorial published in multiple journals increased coverage, & for many journals it was the first thing they published on climate change & #health"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Go Tzeporah ⚡ @tzeporah.bsky.social 5°C Without Paris Agreement I COP30 and Fossil Fuel Damnation youtube.com/watch?v=odPh...

Global temperature anomaly through October 2025. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Devastating floods have killed more than 1,300 people and caused at least $20 billion in losses since late last month across parts of South and Southeast Asia, underscoring the increasing risks from climate change and extreme weather for the region’s fast-growing populations and economies.

“The highest levels were found in Irish breakfast cereal, followed by Belgian wholemeal bread, then German wholemeal bread, then French baguette. It was found across a huge range of products, from spaghetti, to cheese scones and ginger bread.” 🥖

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Very cool radioactive fungus news From @chelleraiser.bsky.social www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...

Arctic sea ice extent was 9.27 million km² on November 30, 2025, a record low for this time of year, which is even more significant since this daily record low extent was reached in the absence of El Niño conditions elevating the temperature. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...