Home inventory is piling up, and nobody’s buying. Because they can’t afford it. The job market has collapsed. CEOs squeeze every drop of productivity out of fewer workers (while savoring their bonuses) while millions sit on the sidelines, wondering what the hell happened to the American Dream.

A new world order has begun – and as it develops, it will look increasingly different than what it’s replacing. China’s recent shows of strength and solidarity with Russia and North Korea have prompted speculation of a global changing of the guard.

Dept. of ‘Tis The Season: In the Atlantic, Hurricane Gabrielle was arcing just east of Bermuda as a Cat 4, while two other systems bore watching in the tropical Atlantic. In the Pacific, Super Typhoon Ragasa became the first Cat 5 typhoon of 2025 as it raked the far northern Philippines on Monday.

This is aremarkable assertion of fact: More than 60,000 people died from heat in Europe during last year's record-breaking summer, a benchmark study said Monday, in the latest warning of the massive toll climate change is having on the continent.

Ice caps are melting, fascists are winning, privacy is vanishing, robots are learning, infrastructure is failing — somehow everything’s deteriorating and the grocery bill keeps climbing. We performatively despair online, then crank up our air conditioners and order takeout in single-use plastics.

Human activity has added an average of 40 days to the global wildfire season, fundamentally changing when fires occur around the world.

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MAGAts are using ICE to get people accustomed to seeing masked men in unmarked vans seize and kidnap people off the streets of our cities. The government wants to see your papers, and the Supreme Court is fine with that. There is so much chaff in the air it’s hard to keep focus.

A company controlled by Goldman Sachs is helping to lead a lobbying effort by makers of fertilizer linked to “forever chemicals.”

Geoffrey Diehl writes about the industry-wide scam being rolled out with our tax dollars — the carbon capture & storage and its derivatives. These scams are based on the same premise; that we can capture all that naughty CO2 and store it underground or under our oceans forever.

Geoffrey Diehl writes about the industry-wide scam being rolled out with our tax dollars — the carbon capture & storage and its derivatives. These scams are based on the same premise; that we can capture all that naughty CO2 and store it underground or under our oceans forever.

It started as a pattern, and now it is policy. A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing for Covid, it would have few cases. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

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Several historic and deadly flash flooding events have occurred in the U.S. just within the month of July alone. Experts talk about what factors are increasing the risks. We probably have a good idea of what they are.

According to a study, climate change is now increasing at a record rate of 0.26°C per decade. The findings are tragically illustrated daily, in many countries, from extreme heatwaves in India, Pakistan, and Mexico to the heat dome in California and deadly floods in southern Brazil.

Dept. of Nothing to See Here, Citizen, Move Along:

The amount of heat trapped by climate-warming pollution in our atmosphere is continuing to increase, the planet’s sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, and the Paris agreement’s ambitious 1.5°C target is on the verge of being breached, according to climate scientists. “The news is grim.”

We burn fuel and use electricity to earn the money with which we can settle our debts. What happens when electricity generation peaks, then declines? Price increases mean consumers will bid up the price of energy so that new data centers can churn out even more AI-generated cat videos.

Collapse comes with “quieter reckonings — soil growing thinner, summers stretching hotter, oceans growing more acidic with each tide. And now, we find ourselves somewhere unfamiliar: living beyond the planet’s ecological limits.” We’re now living in an era of diminishing returns.

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The “Big Beautiful Bill” has added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, sending an additional $4B out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. Added to $30.8B a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. Guess who pays?

Spending on the world’s militaries is climbing rapidly and creating devastation. Data on military carbon footprints is poor, so governments can avoid responsibility. A new report is shining much needed light on the subject.

Mass extinctions are defined as brief periods during which over 75% of species go extinct. Tom Murphy thinks that large, hungry, high-maintenance mammals like humans won’t be among the lucky survivors. dothemath.ucsd.edu/2025/09/is-t...

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Europe is warming faster than any continent. That's speeding up glacial melt, which is already threatening Europe's largest rivers.

Public health experts say diseases are more likely to tear through crowded storm shelters after the state canceled vaccine mandates.

About ten years ago observers noted massive craters that had formed in Siberia. The cause was a mystery at first, but scientists eventually linked the exploding land to climate change and rising temperatures, caused by pockets of methane below the surface.

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Quite the headline juxtaposition on the NYT homepage this morning.

Defending the Earth is deadly work. A new report illuminates how much. #Climate

On Friday, the Trump administration filed a motion in the US District Court in Baltimore requesting that the court revoke government approval for the Maryland Offshore Wind Project based on a fistful of inanities. Latest in a string of moves aimed at kneecapping the offshore wind power industry.

Higher global warming will bring ‘terrifying impacts’ to human health, infrastructure, the environment, national security and the economy, the Australian Government has warned.

We’ve crossed a line, most of us without recognizing it: soils growing thinner, summers stretching hotter, oceans growing more acidic with each tide. And now, we find ourselves somewhere unfamiliar: living beyond the planet’s ecological limits.

Jessica Wildfire writes that the EPA is compromised. The FDA is corrupt. The CDC is a shell. All while a fascist cabal operates all the levers of state power. Meanwhile their backers, billionaire oligarchs, are consolidating their control over the media.

It is no exaggeration to say that permafrost is "a frozen foundation that this current society and civilization is built on" and everyone on Earth depends on it for storing vast amounts of carbon. Permafrost thaw is a doom loop.

Collapse doesn’t usually arrive with mushroom clouds or marching armies. It shows up when Walmart looks like a post-apocalyptic Costco on a Saturday, shelves half-empty, shoppers twitchy, and trust evaporating faster than hand sanitizer in 2020.

Several historic and deadly flash flooding events have occurred in the U.S. just within the month of July alone. Experts talk about what factors are increasing the risks. A hint: for every degree Celsius that rises in Earth’s temperature, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more water vapor.

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Big Tech’s AI frenzy is pressing up electricity demand around the country. The power grid is stuck in natural gas-fuelled inertia, slow to bring new clean energy projects online and leaving consumers on the hook.

In the Arctic north, boreal forests and permanently frozen earth, or permafrost, store massive amounts of carbon and keep our global climate in a delicate balance. But with the Arctic warming 4x faster than the rest of the globe, that locked-up carbon is rapidly escaping into the atmosphere.

Filipinos regularly find themselves up to their necks in floodwater. Rising sea levels are certainly one cause, but intensive groundwater drilling and land reclamation projects are also under scrutiny.

Every time the cost of electricity rises, the economy gets deeper into debt. Little wonder — money is just a claim on energy. Money is an IOU against tomorrow’s energy. Where does it end? There is already a bidding war between data centers, large corporations and everyone else.

Your billionaire-owned corporate media.

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I know I know it's a well worn point but still. Plenty of people who would self-describe as Christians, for whom that is a very important identity, watch Fox News. I genuinely can think of very few messages as laser-targeted to be anti-Christian as "kill the homeless". Designed in a lab by Satan.

The Guardian #Climate

Corporate farming and the power of the petrochemical industry have destroyed the dream of family farming. The climate crisis is another of the numerous threats to food on our tables.

Tom Joad remembers drought in Nebraska, and realized that “this drought was also being watched by men in Manhattan office buildings, men who had never walked a cornfield or worried about a failing well, men who looked at our suffering and saw opportunity... creating new ways to bet on our thirst.”