Thanks to Henry Bird and @thetimes.com Environment Newsletter

Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

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youtu.be/kovF86_WqmQ?... The effects of the developing El Niño are a major concern for India: its food production, & the health & welfare of its many millions of outdoor workers in agriculture & essential/necessary services that help sustain basic survivability during heat & drought extremes.

youtube.com/watch?v=mogi... Food for thought from a guy who knows his onions.

Yes, she offers no explanation why UK temps are 3°C higher than 1976, & belittles the consequences unwinding this week, plus no mention of the increasing frequency of Omega blocking patterns, which seemingly are attributable to the effects of abrupt climate change

Concerning that EVs are so stacked with software, with so much to potentially go wrong & expensive to fix. Software failure is a dead vehicle. Battery Management, Power Delivery & Charging Interface Systems are essential, but features like digital displays could be achieved with physical dials?

What’s the weather pattern behind the extraordinary #heatwave in #Europe and how does a warmer Earth contribute? It’s “blocky” and “wavy” and there may be a trend. Here’s the latest science…

Sacre Bleu! France 🇫🇷 at 112°F beats Florida’s all-time record high of 109°! And it’s further north by 20° lat. While that may seem crazy - and the heat in France is rare - because Florida is surrounded by water and so humid, it’s tougher to reach lofty highs than it is in a drier climate.

youtube.com/watch?v=2wZ6... Now the Republican Liars-for-Hire are blaming the sudden spread in the US of the Screw Worm upon the Biden Administration! (Stormy Daniels has another candidate for the screw worm !) This dishonest, warmongering rogue governance by Trumpolitics must be replaced ASAP.

youtu.be/qK1s7IcTdtQ?... A locust plague of Zionists on the West Bank - doing what they do - looting & pillaging and land rustling.

youtu.be/f-b7y0YdWQU?... Thom Hartmann is a terrifically knowledgeable political analyst who is able to cut through the misinformation & disinformation noise generated by the political populists.

youtube.com/shorts/UmW60... Funding the Mar-a-Lago Mafia

This asinine Administration (enabled by the misinformation and disinformation of the Heritage Foundation, by a feeble-brained majority in Congress, & by a corrupt SCOTUS majority) aims to remove dismantle all the evidence & data that proves its policies are anti-science, and stupid)

The forecast strength of this El Niño is astonishing! Plotted below are all the strongest El Nino’s on record vs the 2026 forecast (thick white line). Look at how deviant this event has the “potential” to be! Forget “Super”, if this verifies it deserves “Supercalifragilistic expialidocious!”… 1/

Love it.

youtu.be/oFeW0Krz2cs?... A re-upload incorporating corrections.

youtu.be/UOH76U5GNQk?... Light relief from the monumental stupidity of Trumpolitics.

An excellent forensic analysis and part risk assessment, this is compulsory viewing for anyone who is contemplating financial involvement in Elon Musk's stock exchange flotation of SpaceX. ... Caveat Emptor.

Should we relax now that Zeke Hausfather & Co have described IPCC RCP 8.5 as being "implausible"? I don't think Prof Jim Hansen is gonna be quick to agree that RCP 8.5 scenarios are "dead as a doornail" plus AMOC shutdown & Thwaites Glacier collapse won't be waiting around for RCP 8.5 to happen?

youtube.com/shorts/NN20W... Now it's advantage Iran. Trump's infantile blundering in the Middle East has done what previous Ayatollahs had failed to achieve: "Made Iran Great Again". So now it's red caps into the trash folks, and on with the new "MIGA" hats. 🤣

youtu.be/oKK0dgDIxKY?... You're likely concerned about the high & growing levels of background pollution on land, sea & air within our troposphere umbrella? Now you can add to it a polluted stratosphere, with the identification of a rogue aerosol threat to our ozone layer from vaporized space debris

Clearly the health and wellbeing of American citizens is a very low priority for this Administration, also evidenced by its gutting of the EPA and many of its historic safeguards. Pro-life America ? What kind of life?

Kinda incomplete without corresponding data for road traffic accidents ?

Ironic that Florida has banned cloud seeding.

youtube.com/shorts/kxgQ1... The progress that isn't

There's a media-wide obsession with sensationalising predictions of extreme weather events, yet cherry picking the science & ignoring the details & facts which explain the causes behind abrupt climate change. Only the wilfully ignorant disdain the huge & growing threat from greenhouse gas warming.

www.hpwd.org/2026-water-l... The resources of the Ogallala Aquifer will doubtless be tested in 2026

The non-linear increase in EEI has doubled in the past 2 decades. So, on the basis of Business as Usual fossil fuel burning trends, it may double again to ~3watts/sq meter by 2040, representing another 0.8°C of additional surface warming?

The data (wind capacity by country 2025) 1. China 640.6 GW (593.2 on/47.4 offshore) 2. US 158.8 (158.7/0.17) 3. Germany 77.8 (68.1/9.67) 3. India 54.5 (on) 4. Brazil 34.9 (on) 5. UK 33.4 (16.4/17.0) 6. Spain 33.3 (33.3/0.005) World 1,291.4 (1,200/91.4) (+14% vs 2024) www.irena.org/-/media/File...

A very effective graphic

www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/17/b... Robert Jensen is always worth reading.

In Trumpolitics and its Swiss cheese EPA, human lives are fast moving consumables

Earth's Energy Imbalance has more than doubled! Based on basic physics, we should expect this to result in much faster global temperature increase, which we now start to see. The NASA CERES (climatology corrected) Earth's Energy Imbalance over the past 8 months was +2.0 W/m²!

Overdue !

youtu.be/qpCG-QfcSY4?... OK if you have at least some water resources to work with, before succumbing to a worst scenario of combined prolonged extreme heat & drought, which potentially can change a landscape into a permanent state of aridification.

Best of luck.

A particularly insidious & uncomfortable truth relating to the environment we now live in.

My new video: Catastrophic Climate Change is on our Doorstep yet Billionaires Steering Humanity Don’t Give a Shite youtu.be/j-DdaDJmOI0?... #climate #weather #climatechange #billionaires #billionaire #wealthy

Congratulations to #UCANR climate scientist Daniel Swain on this well-deserved recognition! The California River Award is a meaningful honor, & your reflection on rivers as “integrators of change” couldn’t be more timely. Thank you for your leadership and impact! @weatherwest.bsky.social

youtu.be/I_LjgHWXFBs?... China's societal dystopia

youtu.be/s2kGPQw1yZM?... Don't try to fight it - get out and stay out.

If the already catastrophic snowpack depletion is not enough, a possibility for 2026 is that extreme heat will effectively cancel out any new precipitation (however intense) putting the contiguous US into a more intense drought scenario, seriously stressing crops & all water-dependent utilities. 😭