HEATQUAKE! Originally published this month in BBC Science Focus magazine, you can now read my new piece on how climate change drives earthquakes on my substack #CoolEarth blog here billmcguire.substack.com/p/heatquakes

"The researchers found that all six wastewater treatment plants released pharmaceuticals into the environment. For some pharmaceuticals, the treatment processes actually led to higher levels of the compounds in the discharged water than in the original wastewater." phys.org/news/2025-09...

You really ain't seen nuthin' yet www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"cultivation (of soya) in untouched forest nearly tripled from 2018 to 2023, reaching 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres)" When money talks, nature, the climate, and the futures of our children and grandchildren, count for nothing www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Microplastics are in our blood, brains & bones. Linked to strokes, osteoporosis, immune & reproductive harm, even effects on the brain. Billions of tons of plastic are breaking into trillions of particles. Humanity pretends we’re immune. apple.news/Ah5tgKrq_TUK...

"Food and agriculture contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – second only to the burning of fossil fuels. And yet the vast majority of media coverage of the climate crisis overlooks this critical sector, according to a new data analysis" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We’re not “on the verge” of a sixth mass extinction—we’re nearing the end. It began ~2.5 M yrs ago with early hominins & has only sped up. In 50 yrs we’ve lost >70 % of wild animals. Whole ecosystems are vanishing, triggering an irreversible extinction avalanche. apple.news/ALC9d_wZ-Rgi...

Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us re-evaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.

This really is just the start By 2040, almost one third of the world's cropland will suffer severe drought every year Just imagine the colossal impact on yields and food supply www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Humanity has become the most prolific serial killer Earth has ever known. The planet will recover. We will not. Chlorothalonil is just the latest weapon in our war against life. scitechdaily.com/common-farm-...

"$3.3 billion (AUD) solar plant in California scheduled to be turned off after years of wasted money" "Construction began in 2010 and was completed in 2014. Now it’s set to close in 2026 after failing to efficiently generate solar energy." nypost.com/2025/09/23/u...

+3°C by 2050?! Tomorrow on Climate Chat we will discuss that we could face +3°C of global warming and/or 4 billion climate deaths. Please tune in and share. See the time in your region in the link below and subscribe and hit 🔔 to get a notification when we go live. youtube.com/live/TmZbwLC...

Microplastics are invading our bones and silently weakening us, scientists warn Every year, more than 400 million tons of plastic are produced, shedding microscopic fragments into the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. www.naturalhealth365.com/microplastic...

European chemical corporations issue plans to export increasing quantities of “toxic” pesticides deemed too dangerous to spray on EU farm# They do not want to poison folk in Europe but are happy to poison people in some of poorest countries in world www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pacific Ocean changes may 'lock in' US megadrought for decades A major cycle of Pacific Ocean temperatures is shifting due to climate change, and that could drive decades of megadrought in the western US www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

“Such a future doesn’t have to arrive,” they say. Sure! Zeus could create glaciers, Dumbledore could cast a carbon-removal spell, or Mary Poppins could blow in with a bag of mangroves. Short of magic, we’re still Homo sapiens doing what Homo sapiens do. 🫤 apple.news/A3otQxA83RvC...

"Elevated CO₂ might not just destabilize climate, but could also destabilize human intelligence, writes Ugo Bardi. It could impair brain oxygenation, reducing the very conditions that let intelligence thrive." - Art Berman www.qeios.com/read/IKNUZU

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

3°C of global warming by 2050 might be hard to imagine, but it could happen if the non-linear warming trend of the past 30 years continues. See this graph with @ecmwf.int ERA5 data (trend line has an R² of 0.975), made using the code they provided, by @tugberksamur.bsky.social 8/8

BREAKING 🌍🌡📈 The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050! Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action 1/8

There's a 'Sudden Atmospheric Warming Event' occurring above Antarctica. Can we expect an enhanced decline in Antarctic sea ice in coming months? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Breaking News! Code UFB! The 36-month running average for Earth albedo (reflectivity) hit another record low as of the latest data release for July, 2025 by CERES. In other words, the darkening of the planet is growing stronger.

"New research has found that 4,642 species of vertebrate are threatened by mineral extraction around the world. The biggest risk to species comes from mining for materials fundamental to our transition to clean energy, such as lithium and cobalt." www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 24, 2025 ~ Tangled up in blue. "The boundary between local pollution and the global health of oceans is becoming increasingly blurred, foreshadowing significant transformations on a planetary scale." www.sustainability-times.com/climate/ocea...

Mind-boggling insanity Starmer's dreadful regime is now full-on anti-climate as well as anti-nature They CANNOT be allowed to get away with this www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Most people know what a flash flood is, but have never heard of a flash drought They soon will Flash droughts can suck all the moisture from the top soil, devastating harvests in just a few weeks Global crop yields are set to be hammered www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

"Bird numbers have plummeted since the 1970s, and government data shows that trend continuing; between 2019 and 2024 the species index declined in the UK by 4% and England by 7%." (The Guardian) #collapse

Ocean acidification has crossed a critical threshhold. This means seven of nine planetary boundaries are now officially crossed. CO² absorbed by oceans forms carbonic acid, reducing the availability of calcium carbonate, which many marine organisms depend upon to grow coral, shells or skeletons.

The oceans are dying, just as happened in The Great Dying 250 million years ago Only today it's happening much, much, faster And do the world's governments and fossil fuel giants care? Do they hell www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Humans are the only ones who think they know more than the planet ⁉️ #Humans headed for doomsday, having no concept of límits to growth.

The dark side of green energy. At 21 minutes the video outlines the serious cascading effects of a massive open pit copper mine in Chile. Water consumption alone is apparently 2000 litres per second. youtu.be/bs0ZHj76Arc?...

We may need to mine up to 3 billion metric tons of copper by 2050 for the 'Green Energy Transition' For context, global mines turned out roughly 23 million metric tons in 2024 We may need >60 big mines to come online by 2050 just to keep BAU economic growth on track. www.earth.com/news/amount-...

Deforestation causes reduced carbon sequestration, altered weather patterns, soil erosion and compaction, reduced air quality, increases the potential for disease, habitat loss/fragmentation, biodiversity loss, decreased pollination, displaced animals, disruption to food chains & nutrient recycling.

So-called 'Renewables' face major challenges & worsen the ecological crisis. Materials scarcity, huge increases in mining/refining & transportation (all requiring FF's), toxic wastes, slave/child labour, deforestation/habitat destruction. Then PV & turbines need to replaced in one to three decades.

If humanity understood that most problems are a result of exponential growth, whether it be in resource extraction or population growth etc, we may think twice about investing in 'solutions' or technologies that facilitate continued growth. It's a negative feedback loop.

Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 22, 2025 ~ Worst of all possible worlds. "The report warns that planned fossil fuel production in 2030 will exceed levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C by more than 120% and to 2°C by 77%." www.downtoearth.org.in/energy/produ...

Philippines just suffered weeks of widespread flooding caused by an unusually fierce monsoon. Tens of thousands protested across the country on Sunday against corruption in government that has been blamed for a severe lack in flood control infrastructure. Now hit by most powerful storm this year.

"Most powerful storm on earth this year lashes Philippines. Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China on alert. In China, officials preparing to relocate 400,000 people." edition.cnn.com/2025/09/22/a...

Let's be absolutely clear what's up for grabs We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher

"the world will produce more than double the quantity of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with holding global temperature rises to 1.5C" Very clear that we have passed peak climate action and are going rapidly backwards to hothouse hell www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"If all of the planned new extraction takes place, the world will produce more than double the quantity of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with holding global temperature rises to 1.5C above preindustrial levels" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Monte Perdido Glacier 2006 | 2025 We are witnessing the final years of our southern icy friends! 😭 resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal... These glaciers withstood the Roman and medieval optima by the way! 💪 tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/... 📷 Credits shown on pics

I wish this initiative the best of luck But I can't help thinking that as long capitalism reigns, and as long as there is money to be made, the sea and the sea bed will be in big trouble www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm sorry, but this is unjustified, optimistic, drivel Governments across the world are turning away from green measures and FF corporations are expanding operations Best we can hope for is a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea levels eventually up 20m www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"... and climate sensitivity will soon rise to 10 degrees per CO² doubling." youtube.com/shorts/qVZSN...

Study finds side effects of drinking from plastic water bottles grossly underestimated: 'Not something that should be used in daily life' www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Breaking News! Code Yikes! Global 2-meter temperatures once again broke the Paris limit on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15, reaching 1.52°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline both days, marking the 2nd hottest temperatures for the date on record, and possibly in the last 120,000 years.

"Australia has detected the larvae of khapra beetles in imported nappies sold in supermarkets nationwide, the agriculture ministry said, raising concerns the pest could infest grain storages and disrupt agricultural exports." (Reuters) #collapse

The soils of the tropics could release vast amounts of carbon dioxide as the Earth heats up. Scientists raised soil temperatures by 4°C & monitored respiration every half hour for an entire year Warmed soils released 42 to 204% more carbon dioxide than unheated plots www.earth.com/news/why-tro...