"First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika." tinyurl.com/2xpe65yf I had dengue. It was no picnic.

A new report from the Potsdam Institute and partners reveals that our oceans have crossed a critical threshold on acidity, exceeding “safe” limits for marine life. tinyurl.com/483au96y

My pharmacy (in Mexico) has a cute dog as a greeter. Does yours?

Went for a walk in my Mexican happy space and saw this . . . sure do love me dem Bogies.

Climate change may be altering the range of the Pteropus fruit bat, bringing it into contact with more people. That is concerning, since the bat hosts the Nipah virus, which kills 75 percent of the people that contract it. tinyurl.com/ykhx4fa3

It seems we may not be as stupid as we seem: Research from Oxford finds policymakers underestimate the proportion of people that want climate action by nearly 50 percent. Hence the recent clamour by some politicians for a reset on climate policy due to supposed lack of support. tinyurl.com/35uyhscj

Glaciers are a critically important source of fresh water in numerous parts of the world. As the glaciers disappear with global warming, so does the fresh water, and many of the people and other lifeforms in the region will either die or flee. tinyurl.com/yc2njmz2

Global warming will make growing areas of the globe unliveable. Think the non-mountainous ares between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn initially. A street sweeper died in Barcelona during a heat wave last month and 12 other city cleaners have suffered heatstroke since. tinyurl.com/2nabjw8a

Preliminary data from a NASA-funded Greenland survey point to a two-degree centigrade rise in regional ocean water temperatures in less than a decade - a crazy amount of ocean warming. tinyurl.com/ywvwkvy7

Tuvalu residents prepare for world’s first planned migration of an entire nation — and climate change is to blame tinyurl.com/2tcyfbsn

The Four Day Workweek-This seems like something the Trump regime, with its intense concern for the well-being of American workers, would be all over. tinyurl.com/mryc8z7c

The combination of wildfires and a heat wave, both induced by global warming, is giving Toronto world class air pollution. We're number two. What will it take to push us past Baghdad into top spot? tinyurl.com/aa92kpkv

Scientists from the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment found that 1,500 of the 2,300 estimated heat deaths in the recent European heat wave, or 65 percent, were a result of climate change. tinyurl.com/53hh534x

Pacific Islanders prepare to abandon their countries under threat of inundation by rising seas caused by global warming. There is roughly 8 million cubic miles of ice in glaciers and the polar ice fields. Oceans will rise more than 200 feet once it all melts. tinyurl.com/da9jbhzf

Some 30 percent of the days in Phoenix in 2024 were over 100 Fahrenheit. The people of Arizona are set to find out that the Republicans cannot roll back global warming with either an executive order or legislation. Reality doesn't care whether you believe in it or not. tinyurl.com/ecdmahjz

"David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost." tinyurl.com/5n8k58rd

Your 'moment of doom' for June 24, 2025 ~ Unsustainable "Climate models are likely understating the relationship between climate change and persistent summer weather extremes today and under predicting the potential for future increases in such extremes" www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/c...

Carbon fee and dividend to the rescue (if it isn't too late to head off climate catastrophe)--A survey of more than 40,000 in 20 countries finds that people in affluent countries around the world are willing to tax themselves to address climate change and ease poverty. tinyurl.com/4z3t6ssy

Climate change is emotionally reshaping today’s youth. The mental strain is very real. The toll ranges from fear and anger to grief and helplessness. It even raises questions as to whether it’s ethical to have children in a world racing toward a climate cataclysm. tinyurl.com/2s4jbfzh

"Asia, home to more than half the world’s population, is heating up nearly twice as fast as the rest of the world, with surging temperatures intensifying extreme weather, threatening food security and fragile ecosystems, and inflicting billions in economic losses tinyurl.com/2vz7dp89

Potemkin bears and moose "guarding" the heights over the Ottawa River in an effort to confound and confuse any of Trump's attackers.

No Kings demo in Ottawa around the US Embassy (Actually, it was rebranded No Tyrants because we nominally have a king.)

The net effect of the Trump/Steven Miller deportations is to drain the talent pool. California has 52% of its population as first or second generation immigrants and its median household income is $95,500. Mississippi has about 7 percent first or second gen immigrants and median income of $54,200.

The evil twin of global warming is making its presence felt--ocean acidification, caused by absorption of excess CO2 from combustion of fossil fuels. It will have disastrous effects on ocean life as we rush like lemmings toward the cliff edge of the sixth exrinction. tinyurl.com/mueb8e9k

The Hudsons Bay Company was formed in 1670--the oldest company in North America. Then it was bought by a US private equity firm. In a few short years it was bankrupt and its 80 stores picked over for bargains, then closed. It's a good metaphor for what would happen to Canada if Trump acquired it.

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It won't just be Pakistan that sees their economy shrink substantially. "World Bank has warned that if trends continue, climate change could shrink Pakistan’s GDP by 18–20% by 2050" tinyurl.com/bdhxpe5r

Aliens in downtown Toronto. They say they are here to help defend us should the evil orange man launch an invasion.

Global warming means that areas that are now hot will become unlivable in the forseeable future: "The United Arab Emirates recorded a sweltering 50.4 degrees Celsius on Friday" I once experienced 50 C/122 F in Death Valley. It felt like a blast furnace. tinyurl.com/ytfp2vap

"The destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level ever recorded in 2024, driven by a surge in fires caused by global heating, according to 'frightening' new data." tinyurl.com/mu9d88zt

At last, what may be semi-significant, optimistic news (note the waffling) about the climate crisis: "China's Green Energy Surge Has Caused CO2 Emissions to Fall for the First Time" tinyurl.com/3tep6vyn

The Orioles have left Baltimore and have arrived in southern Ontario. Are they searching for better public health, education, and income support programs; or countrywide abortion and queer rights? I asked but could not understand the answer (which pretty well sums up my level of French and Spanish).

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is a vast conveyor belt of warm and cold waters that shapes global weather, stabilises sea levels, and keeps entire ecosystems in balance. It may be on course to collapse — not in the distant future, but possibly by mid-century. tinyurl.com/4urme3pt

"With rising temperatures, water scarcity, flooding, and worsening air quality, some of the world’s most iconic cities could become unlivable by 2050." Here are 15 such cities with huge populations: tinyurl.com/yc6v9ywp

The trilliums are out. The trilliums are out.

Eat the rich? "The world’s wealthiest 10 percent are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study." tinyurl.com/svuh6eea

The reason the right in Alberta are firing up the separatism engine is to try to dissuade Mark Carney who, along with his wife, has some climate change fighting credentials, from doing anything to gate the oil patch's project to help render most life on the planet extinct.

Finally, Trump does something important to fight climate change. His tariff war will shrink the global economy significantly, and that will lead to a meaningful reduction in carbon pollution beyond what would have otherwise occurred.

"When I started the extreme ice survey, climate change was still seen as a pretty abstract thing. It was something that was going to happen 20 or 30 or 50 years from now and my god when you could start to realize no, it's happening right now right in front of us." tinyurl.com/mr2dvwuu

Went to a reunion today of old bandmates and their friends and relations from the town in which I grew up. It was a room filled with some 300 young people trapped in old bodies. Like the man said, "I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was."

On a per capita basis, Canada is one of the planet's worst carbon polluters. Although I'm happy he beat Poilievre, the oil patch's man in Ottawa, I doubt Carney will move the needle much on the country's carbon emissions. tinyurl.com/yc5r5bmn

"The world’s biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates" by @borenbears.bsky.social for @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/clim...

Chinese exports to the US are less than 3% of Chinese GDP. He could be waiting awhile.

Is Earth close to its doom day? Study reveals hints of multiple climate tipping points tinyurl.com/3kefp4nu

The Guardian: "Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk" tinyurl.com/yu36ys9t

The question I would have put to the party leaders at the debates, the last two nights, for the Apr. 28 Canadian election: On a per capita basis, Canada is one of the worst carbon polluters in the world. What will you do to drive fossil fuels out of the Canadian economy on an accelerated schedule?

Exports to the US contribute less than 3 percent of China's GDP. Once Xi has shown, contrary to the Trump administration, that they can do just fine without the American consumer, watch out Taiwan.