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. 😭

If you're not getting a tiny bit scared of yet more extreme weather impacts coming from abrupt climate change then you are not watching the ball. Separately Jeff explains to host Alex Smith (on his RadioEcoshock podcast) what we can deduce from the recent intense heat dome over the West Coast

This is the unwinding of a catastrophe before our very eyes, as yet another trend indicator that the contiguous US faces a calamitous water shortage this year.

A very sobering situation & it remains to be seen whether the vagaries of the imminent El Niño bring above average precipitation to improve the situation, or otherwise to make a bad situation even worse. Mandating water conservation in the region should be a high priority, already.

youtu.be/XtZL1UNNAFg?... New Mexico moves towards the edge of a new and changed state of "aridification"

Today there are many existential crises hanging over humanity - to which you can add "The Madness of King Trump".

youtu.be/i5RTRbm3oqw?... Another fine analysis from Larry Wilkerson as the Iran conflict reaches the brink of further escalation

Whenever I see Ed Milliband, my first thought is "where's Gromit?"

player.fm/series/livin... Think you're doing your bit for plastic recycling ? Spoiler: The oil industry perpetuates the myth of plastic recycling, giving it licence to produce ever more non-recyclable plastics impregnated with toxic chemicals. Like greenhouse gases the ONLY solution is to use less !

This makes me more worried, to be honest: "People have estimated the limit of energy in to be around 280-290 W/m². Right now, energy in from the Sun is about 240 W/m², so this suggests that it would take at least +40 W/m² of radiative forcing to push Earth into a runaway climate state" It's worse:

Anyone denying accelerated global warming should start by explaining how +2 W/m² of increased Absorbed Solar Radiation (from decreased Earth reflectivity) doesn't lead to much faster warming. I just had to extend my y-axis again, with a new month of NASA CERES satellite data:

Ironic. Approx 70-75% of rivers and lakes in China are polluted, with urban groundwater contamination reaching up to 90%. Nearly 50% of underground water in N & E China is unfit for human consumption, and over 80% of rural water in some areas is polluted.

youtu.be/evtMRyCWBo8?... Understanding Zionism, particularly its lobby in the USA. Not all Jews are Zionists (the latter are mostly the richer ones ! ) in the same way that not all Christians are radical rabid Evangelicals.

Trump's war, if anything, has increased the desire for nations to have their own nuclear deterrent, & Iran will now feel this stronger than most. This is beyond the comprehension of the Oval Office's very own poster child for the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Trump has led his people into a new Dark Age of anti-science & wilful ignorance - a reflection of his own deep cognitive limitations.

Measles outbreak heat map… gosh what could it be?

youtu.be/fo6na_eUyJE?... Useful & informative advice on brain nutrition.

We "might" get a decent handle on the outcome of this war, if & when Iran ceases retaliatory strikes of missiles, rockets & drones. Reality check: that probably ain't gonna happen any time soon, regardless of the plethora of lies from the Conman-in-Chief & his sidekick Pete the Putz Hogsbreath.

youtu.be/LrHvIoGA-60?... A well presented "damage assessment" presentation detailing US-allied losses in the ongoing Trump War. Decades of Zionist genocide of Palestinians has consequences.

Here is what the journal Nature has to say about our paper on the increasing rate of #globalwarming: www.nature.com/articles/d41...