100 years of November sea surface temperature departures through this year. This is a lot of variability along with the long-term warming. For example, the La Niña signature for this year is becoming more prominent in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. 🌊 Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...

Data centers increase nitrates in the water. And, of course, #PFAS

[H5N1] 'In the UK, swans are at risk of being wiped out by bird flu after being hit in alarming numbers.' www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news... #ZoonoticDisease #H5N1 #H5N5 #AvianFlu #BirdFlu #Swans #England #UK

I sometimes say things like: Our alienation from nature has made everything senseless for our senses and has made us mentally challenged. This is more material than many can imagine. Bad food, toxins everywhere, infections, pandemics ... Keep treating symptoms? www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/La...

Lowest on record

Ocean temperatures across much of the northern Pacific remained well above average through October. Really the only sizable cooler patch shows up near the traditional region for the ongoing La Niña. Sea surface temperature data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/noa...).

Drying up

Roses are red, Write poems with aplomb

"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects." The nation we're building:

I struggle with all of the “Happy Thanksgiving” posts. I was taught lies in school. I grew up to learn the barbarism of the truth. That we continue to celebrate it as such feels like a betrayal - bc it is. We spend the day together making no mention of the lie.

Interregnum

Thanks to @sioldridge.bsky.social @nickoldridge.bsky.social & the team for their monumental efforts in pulling together yesterday’s National Emergency Briefing www.nebriefing.org on climate change. Thanks also go to those MPs, journalists & others who attended. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#PFAS Do not eat Interesting that they don’t issue similar advisories for our ‘groceries’ where the concentrations are no doubt higher www.maine.gov/ifw/hunting-...

Photosynthesizing sea slug 😱😱😱

#PFAS nowhere is safe

Why is humanity headed for disappearance? My book, Racing To Extinction and website race2extinct.com explores our deep-time journey—2.5 million years of evolution leading to the ecological crisis we face today. A thread on what you’ll find in my work and website 👇

Photo of the decade? This stunning and rare photograph shows a female polar bear standing on the massive carcass of a male sperm whale that had become trapped in Arctic ice. The image was captured by wildlife photographer Roie Galitz #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere

Even with very high global temperatures, Earth's Energy Imbalance is reaching record high levels again. See the most recent 3 months of NASA CERES (climatology corrected) data:

Turkeys recognize over 20 vocalizations, remember human faces, and form close family bonds. They dream, play, and express joy. Yet humans kill 46 million for Thanksgiving alone. This year, honor their intelligence and choose compassion. Celebrate with plant-based alternatives. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱

Today's volcano Hayli Gubbi (Ethiopia) eruption seen from space

Earlier in 2025, the Arctic saw a record low sea-ice maximum. As of yesterday, Arctic sea-ice was 2nd lowest for the date on record. Are we headed for an even lower sea-ice maximum in 2026? The Climate 8-ball is busy training its brain weasels.

Macroscope

Where deaths outnumber births Great graphic. Change by county over time telling too #macroscope

Cold stuff

And it rises and rises... #climate

Over the past year, France has experienced 278 days above the norm! 🔥📈 With lengthy heatwaves between +5 and +10°C! 🥵 And some people will say that ONE DAY at -5.6°C below the norm will balance everything out! 🤡

I was doing wildlife monitoring. Making sure it's empirical. Sadly we use numbers for stories of hope "not extinct yet", not as senses of reality. I quit. Lyle summarizes my own feelings better than I could: "way to declare the patient stable while ignoring that the heart no longer beats on its own"

indistinguishable from a foreign attack.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

2nd lowest

Two years ago, we did a study on a devastating drought in the Fertil Crescent. Due to climate change and water governance disputes the drought is still ongoing. Teheran might be running out of water, if it doesn't start raining soon. Our update: www.worldweatherattribution.org/human-induce...

With everything else going on in the world, it is easy to miss that NOAA has officially declared the return of La Niña. This follows the weak La Niña at the start of 2025 and neutral conditions in recent months. 1/

Edges

Parched

Great news for ocean altimetry observations! 🌍🛰 Global sea level rise is also a crucial indicator of Earth's Energy Imbalance. It takes about 50 times as much heat to increase sea levels by thermal expension of the oceans than it does from melting ice. Satellites paint a very worrying picture!

The Earth energy imbalance (EEI) is best looked at over longer periods, as short-term impacts from ENSO, volcanoes, solar cycle, cloud cover and aerosols can create a lot of volatility. Here is a graph showing the 36-month running average for the EEI, currently at 11.2 HpS.

1,019 glaciers have disappeared since 1973 in Switzerland! ✝️ 1st nationwide assessment of vanished glaciers: >40% of the glaciers inventoried in 1973 ~13% (47±3 km²) of total glacier area loss! 🧊🔥 But, as it is based on the latest inventory (from 2016), the actual figures are far much higher! 📈 😰

A billion Hiroshima bombs a year

12,000 year old ice

“Even for an intermediate emissions scenario [which is our current emissions pathway] the probability of AMOC shutdown is way above 50%” (AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.) 1/4

They should tell us

PFAS map in the UK. An essential tool. In the States only Maine has anything similar

First known human case of H5N5!

The atmospheric CO₂ growth rate was off the chart in 2024!

Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.

Debt

Walnut groves thinning