Valuable new research shows the impact of the 120 Irish fishing boats that practice bottom trawling in European waters. These boats spent 160,000 hours dragging nets along the seafloor releasing 3.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This time of year (mid-May) is when Germany, Japan, UK, and China celebrate their national Overshoot Day. That's when the planet’s annual biocapacity budget would be used up if everyone on Earth consumed as much as the residents of that particular country. Source: buff.ly/2QAbOkn

Wow.

My husband and I would have gladly joined the resistance, but we were never asked in a civil manner.

@katharinehayhoe.com would be proud. Start with something people care about...

Interesting

Daily Dose of what's going on with our climate, around the world.

#TheComingFossilistInsurrection will be terrifying.

Comparing this ClawdBot skit youtube.com/shorts/QAW9Q... ... to the IT Crowd internet presentation joke youtu.be/Vywf48Dhyns ... is quite something

"Millions of Britons are 'prepping' for a potential 'major disruptive event'. A taster for the future? The global food yields, and food insecurity reports will be interesting over the next decades.

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1906 cartoon from Punch Magazine predicted smartphone addiction: people ignoring each other for wireless devices

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

A physics-based analysis concludes that this year will be the warmest, not second warmest. In any case, we can learn something about climate change. See 2026 On Track for Warmest Year – mailchi.mp/caa/2026-on-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/2026-on-tr...

A truly scary story As you all know , one of the hidden risks of #ClimateChange is the clouds After South California data , here is the data about Europe Clouds are disappearing .... Plain scary #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

It's hard being a climate comedian's therapist... 🫠

The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social and @wmo-global.bsky.social European State of the Climate report launches today Covering 21 topics and climate indicators Check it out: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025

I mean, did anyone really think that global industrial civilisation would collapse and fascism rise to (contest) power in more and more countries in the world, that planetary boundaries would be crossed and the world become ever more unjust *without* an increase in political violence?

Why not. Impressive amount of engineering talent and coordination needed to extend our planet destroying ways. It isn't easy to be this detrimental.

Minimum 🌡️ up to 32C !!

Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress. But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%. And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported. Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do. More here: rdcu.be/feOjc

Earth Overshoot Day is coming earlier every year. #EarthDay #EarthDay2026 🌏🌍🌎 www.statista.com/chart/15026/...

William Rees laying it all out again. "humans don’t develop socially just, ecologically-refined, large-scale societies" ... well we certainly haven't managed it up until this point.

This massive redwood tree fell. Yet it did not fully die. Nurse logs constitute one of nature's most powerful recycling systems. Original post

Earth, seen through 12 different satellites datasets🌎🛰️ Every layer tells a story — and together they help us understand a changing planet. #Earthday2026

An Egyptian funery technician cuts a few corners to save on costs and 1600 years later they're finally getting exposed as a shoddy operator, except everyone thinks it's really cool.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵

"Ministry for the Future" comes to mind here, which has a scenario of 35ºC Wet Bulb temperature and widespread power outages in India. The upper 40's ºC can get 35ºC Wet Bulb temperatures with low humidity. Source: climatereanalyzer.org/wx/fcst_outl... (7-10 day forecast on 19th April)

Yes, we have an El Nino – probably Super-Duper – see the better diagnostic (Fig. 2) – comparison to ordinary and Super El Ninos See Super-Duper El Nino: mailchi.mp/caa/super-du... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/super-dupe...

Electric cars vs gasoline cars under thermal imaging Original post

#TheComingFossilistInsurrection will go very differently than our antifossilist movement did. A short 🧵 "Over the course of 3 days, protesters had brought much of #Ireland to a standstill. NOT 1 protester had been arrested nor a vehicle removed." 1/x

Through the window of Artemis II: Earth grows closer — then: fire. At ~28,000 km/h, the atmosphere hits, plasma dancing past the glass. ~2,700°C — a storm of flame. Artemis II is coming home...

True.

Concerned about the climate crisis? Then you might not like this. "The EU will soon recommend a light-touch approach to new rules governing planet-warming methane emissions, which European leaders and industry lobbyists say have made it harder to shore up new supplies amid the Iran war."

SoH transits from Lloyd’s List:

Cool multi‑sensor breakdown of volcanic eruption.

New El Niño forecast just dropped and it’s a whopper! Maybe the strongest on record. The European model seasonal forecast shows record Aug-Oct tropical Pacific sea surface temperature warmth at 2-3°C above normal (~ +5°F) in the central-east Pacific. The record for Aug-Oct is +2.2°C in 2015… 1/

Yikes. Acceleration, non linearity, feedback, less resilient, worse than previously thought, 1,700bn tonnes of carbon. Another "doom compatible" data point. The FaFoScene is speeding into the "finding out" endgame.

Turkish population growth since 1927 visualised by @denizcemonduygu.

Interesting explanation of fossil fuel transport timelines. The next month will be eye opening!

Track it! nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, let's share introductions to the literature of our different fields. Below, I humbly submit 12 main types of scientific papers on food, agriculture, land, & natural climate solutions (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #FoodStudies 🧪

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing? The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise. A thread. 🧵👇

Cumulative change in the mass of glaciers from all around the world - preliminary data just updated through 2025 ☹️ Information on methods: wgms.ch/products_ref...

"Passing 1.5C" We passed another milestone in April 2026. The Loess-15-year-window trend line has reached 1.5C We're not officially over 1.5C, but we are ticking off 1.5C short-term milestones, and getting faster (GHG, OHC, EEI, Ice, GMST).

Excellent podcast from @cleaninguppod.bsky.social Very clear on where we are on climate, from about 43 min into the interview youtu.be/24zL93zf2XY?...

The Nino index (Nino3.4) has just reached neutral, but global SST has matched the highest level for this date, which was achieved during the last El Nino. Super warming is clear. U of Maine Climate Change Institute has a spectacular interactive graphic that they update daily. tinyurl.com/2kj82pwa

MARCH 2026 MOST ANOMALOUS MONTH IN US HISTORY PREVIOUS RECORD WAS MARCH 1910 8.5F above 1881 1910 baseline That considring EACH OWN previous 30yrs baseline for every month. So GW is already discounted here. March 2026 wins anyway.