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...

The Age of Lies cribb.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

Puts things into perspective real quick. #sagan

Pity Trump can't send his MAGA supporters to the front line, tho they are pretty ineffective against opponents who fight back, and it's a different story to bad-mouthing Joe Biden and Obama who offer only dignified responses to their vulgar bigotry.

Felon Trump may have wriggled out of serving time in a US jail. However his misguided & mercenary aliiance with the genocidal Netanyahu, guarantees that he remains a "Prisoner of Zion". (An apt title perhaps for a biography of Trump?)

Another blatant lie from the disgusting, depraved Trump. That girls school was bombed in the first wave that also killed the Supreme Leader, 2 hrs before Irani retaliation.

Climate self-reinforcing amplifying feedbacks are irreversible on human timescales. Prof James Hansen postulates a temp rise of +2-3°C, perhaps only decades away, will represent a point of no return for the climate system & project us towards the existential runaway hothouse Earth scenario

An authoritarian out of touch government which steamrollers local authority expertise & ignores the will of the people/residents/ratepayers. UK politics is now just an accumulation of self-serving sociopaths.

As renewable electricity generatiin replaces fossil-fuelled generation, perhaps the potential surplus energy capacity from nuclear power generation can be utilized for adaptation projects or drawdown of atmospheric CO2 ?

James Hansen has for years been telling anyone who would listen, but of course there are only deaf ears where it really matters, like in the Oval Office, which is misguided by the misinformation & disinformation peddled by the Heritage Foundation.

Hitting a target sounds good until you realise a lot of the targets were empty or Iranian decoys, thus wasting expensive munitions of finite supply. Israeli intelligence has been guilty of wishful thinking more often than it will admit, thus altering preconceptions of a quick & decisive outcome.

Trump is living in a dream world that is turning into a nightmare. A grave miscalculation by wishful thinking from a grossly incompetent Oval Office incumbent.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/iran-c... King Coal Trump's accidental consequence of his "Epstein distraction war" is to reduce the carbon footprint of the airline industry ..

Nothing in the USA excites the MAGAts more than the beat of war drums. They hypnotically watch Fox News where they can almost taste the blood of America's adversaries, & get wall-to-wall gibberish from the fire-breathing draft dodger Private 3rd Class Bonespurs who labels dead soldiers as "losers"

Iran retaliation against US-Israeli bombing raids will include renewed efforts to take out a US carrier. Such outcome is not impossible, despite the mythology of US military invincibility, & if Iran is successful then I propose the vessel should be posthumously renamed the USS Donald J Trump.

So the ill-advised moron Trump has launched his attack on Iran. However, he won't be so gung-ho if the US Navy lose a carrier or two - which is quite possible.

The moronic Trump Administration's destruction of scientific progress represents institutionalised wilful ignorance. This insane aberration ultimately endangers global stability of our environment, biosphere & the human species itself.

Trump's grandiosity and overall incompetence are like Ceausescu on steroids

By adopting the right measures, we could theoretically halt the Total Cumulation of atmospheric CO2. Realistically we are unlikely to be able to significantly reduce The Earth Energy Imbalance without either removing atmospheric greenhouse gases, increasing total global ice sheet albedo, or geoeng

The President is a moron.

Federal officials now project that Lake Powell will "most probably" drop below power pool level — meaning Glen Canyon Dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower — before the end of this year: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora... via @landdesk.bsky.social

More begets more.

" .. what works and what doesn't .. ..". Could have been abbreviated to a 5min podcast on "what works", (ie real NET solutions). We've enough global problems without industry foisting a (CDR) white elephant onto us, as a palliative to emit yet more greenhouse gases. Feasible, meaningful ? NO

I post this not as an expert on NE weather (at least anymore) but because this model is not available to most folks. And truth be told, it’s not really a surprise, we’ve been watching this for days. Stay tuned!!

youtu.be/l089a5j_ma8?... The UN should sell up its HQ & offices in New York, and relocate to a civilized country which respects the rule of law, human rights & contractual obligations. Trumpolitics ensures that the USA does not tick any of those boxes.

youtu.be/peA9UmDg0ts?... And this report doesn't include Northern England where the River Ouse threatens to flood more of York City tonight