🛳️ #Cruise ship emissions must end. We need to ban these climate-destroying monsters from #MilfordSound Piopiotahi #Norway, the country this ship is named after, will soon only allow zero-emissions #cruiseships into its fiords. So why should it be allowed to destroy our own precious Fiordland?

i think we can all agree that cruise ships shouldn't exist. you would have to be either horrifically rich and self centered, or just terribly uniformed, to think cruise ships should exist

Do you all remember the hantavirus outbreak on a cruiseship? Honestly, feels like months ago, given what is happening with Ebola Bundibugyo... Anyway, @who.int just put out an update. In case you've lost track, 13 cases have been reported (11 confirmed and 2 probable) and that includes 3 deaths.

A lot of people are talking about this but not nearly enough are emphasizing that it is a PROPOSAL and that we can and should SUBMIT COMMENT by July 13. Chanda shares deets in this thread.

Yes, it's infuriating that light rail to Ballard was made more expensive, and is now postponed, to make the world more convenient for superyachts, which are basically private cruise ships. Thanks for reminding folks, @gordonofseattle.bsky.social

Hughes struck teenage victim multiple times in the face & strangled him, causing “great bodily harm,” yet Carnival Cruise Line didn't report the crime to the FBI. But Carnival let Hughes waltz off the Mardi Gras in Dominican Republic where he caught a flight back to the US returned to Tennessee.

My husband just had the pleasure of watching crowds heckle this monstrosity as it passed through our neighborhood. “Words cannot describe how vulgar it is.”

I went deep on RCP8.5, and how a climate scenario that's well over a decade old became the subject of a ridiculously bad-faith culture war newrepublic.com/article/2108...

Yes, there's a *temporary,* voluntary agreement that this ship (and others) will not dump scrubber waste in Washington state waters in 2026. Next year, who knows? In the absence of national/international action, each state is on its own.

This is what we are trying to combat. From the fucking Washington Post.

When people magnify the environmental impacts of renewables, the implication is that they must somehow be worse than the existing energy system In reality the existing energy system is not just more destructive than renewables - it's more destructive than anyone even realises

Giant floating Petri dishes.

End cruise ships

‘You only have so much space’: the limits of reducing infection risk on cruise ships #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #CruiseShips #InfectionControl #PublicHealthIssues https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/17/limits-of-reducing-infection-risk-on-cruise-ships

Keep in mind that climate impacts for the average citizen of a low-income country at 1.5°C of global warming will not be felt by ~40% of people living in high-income countries until global warming exceeds 3°C.

“Sensible speed limits to keep pleasure craft and other ships from running over right whale calves and their mothers are absolutely crucial to ensuring these beautiful creatures aren’t wiped off the face of the Earth.” Thank you @biologicaldiversity.org #vesselstrikes #cruiseships #rightwhales

Every year now, the pre-monsoon heat (the hottest time of year in South Asia with temperatures well over 40°C) starts earlier & lasts longer - due to human-induced climate change - exposing 1billion people to deadly heat. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

This is disturbing phys.org/news/2026-04...

It will never end until consumers stop this assault on our oceans and lives…. #cruiseships #norovirus #infectiousdisease

Lemon alert! LNG Canada again facing operational issues. Here's the litany this time: 1. Main flare tip cracked. Twice. in March. 2. Backup flare tip flared 16 million cubic metres of gas in one month 3. Acid gas incinerator went offline 4... 🧵 Thread www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Yikes.

Hantavirus, COVID, norovirus, legionnaires’: why are cruise ships so prone to disease outbreaks? theconversation.com/hantavirus-c...

This 👇🏼 is the nightmare scenario I can't get out of my head since this outbreak began. Yes, it's a slower-moving virus than SARS-CoV-2; yes, it's harder to transmit. But these cruise ships are the perfect setting for an uncontainable outbreak, and CDC is AWOL. open.substack.com/pub/luciantr...

Cruise ships may need to be banned

More than 100 people have been sickened in a norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, the CDC announced on Thursday.

Today Victoria hosts Discovery Princess for the day (so no pedestrianized Government Street for you!) Eurodam arrives around 8pm. And Bliss arrives tonight for their weekly drop of hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Wait, we're a garbage dump? www.fair-sailing.com/faqgarbage

wrote this at the beginning of Covid and told everyone after that I would never go on a cruise. and as the years passed the defenses started to weaken. I would say "you know, I could see it? just once?" And now I am back to affirm I am never going on a cruise. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm thinking cruise ships may be a bad idea

If you’re voyaging on a cruise ship this summer, make sure to look around the house for your old COVID masks. You might need them. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hanta-schm...

Yikes. This is a great - meaning horrifying - explanation of how hantavirus can show up and spread on a cruise ship, and invites us to imagine if the cruise ship had carried 8,000 passengers rather than ~150, like the current one with the hantavirus outbreak. Thanks, @lktiv.bsky.social

Welp. This is a hell of a story. Canadian Mining Journal published what appeared to be an entirely fabricated deep-sea mining paper, with quotes from fictional people and a source paper that does not exist.

That's because they are in tension with one another. The people who want smartphone bans are teachers and parents. The people who want AI education are politicians and tech bros.

👏 Amsterdam has become the world's first capital city to ban public advertisements for both meat and fossil fuel products. Since 1 May, adverts for burgers, petrol cars and airlines have been stripped from billboards, tram shelters, and metro stations. bbc.com/news/article...

🧪 FIRST STUDY to compare direct air capture of CO2 vs renewables: “An amount of money spent deploying wind or solar delivers more combined climate and public health benefit than if it is spent on DAC.” Releasing CO2 into air and then trying to suck it up is dumb. techxplore.com/news/2026-05...

Although hantavirus is not contagious, this tragic deadly outbreak is a reminder of the infectious diseases that can incubate on cruise ships and be transmitted to the port communities where the ships dock. news.sky.com/story/three-... #cruiseships #hantavirus

Spotted a Bald Eagle hunting a Hooded Merganser (small diving duck) at Seward Park in Seattle today, with the world’s first light rail on a floating bridge making a guest appearance in the distance. It was hard to not root for the merganser, but he was sorely outgunned, and eagles have to eat, too.

Ugh.

Good news from Mexico! Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources has rejected a proposed expansion of the SSA Mexico cruise pier in Cozumel, citing risks of severe ecological damage to the marine ecosystem. www.rivieramayanews.mx/mexico-rejec... #cruiseships #Mexico

A mayor who lets the people decide, astonishing! “In Cozumel, the people are in charge; Cozumel will prioritize protecting its environment and development,” said Mayor José Luis Chacón, who had already issued a formal opposition to the project.”

This is a great thread! Just like cigarette ads were banned as part of anti-smoking campaigns, it makes sense to ban ads for fossil-fuel-intensive activities/products to support climate action.

Out of the climate frying pan, into the fire. www.cruisehive.com/spirit-airli...

“Seattle’s much celebrated shore power eliminates less than 1% of the ship’s climate-wrecking emissions.” @elizabeth-burton.bsky.social for @seattlecruisecntrl.bsky.social in @seattletimes.com Read the report: seattlecruisecontrol.org/learn/greenh... #Seattle #cruiseships #shorepower #climate

The existing rules create an uneven playing field by allowing scrubber‑equipped ships to pollute more than ships using cleaner, lower sulfur fuels. Our proposal aims to eliminate that inconsistency”, said Sam Davin, Head of Delegation to MEPC 84 for WWF, Clean Arctic Alliance member. #banscrubbers

“…additional measures are still needed to realise their full potential, particularly a ban on scrubbers, which remain allowed despite serious concerns about air and water pollution….Such bans have already been introduced in countries including Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.” Dr. Liudmila Osipova

All is not well in the world of cruise. Climate concerns associated with cruise are only going to further intensify. It is clear that attitudes are hardening. There is a groundswell of opinion that cruise tourism is the antithesis of sustainable tourism & the voices of resistance are getting louder.

Posted one year ago today. And it's gotten worse.

I can’t believe we have to live with this for 7 months every year. It’s like we have our heads buried in the sand hoping the effects of the emissions doesn’t affect us, hurt our environment, or cost us multi millions of dollars in consequence. We are so foolish. 💔

In a rush to get the ocean to take up additional CO₂ from the atmosphere, very few people are asking whether it's good for the ocean. @giuliafaucher.bsky.social is an expert on the subject and she's examining the environment impacts of marine CO₂ removal. Y'all should follow her.