Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse

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"It's been 3 days, over a hundred people have died, tens of thousands are homeless, why can't the US government, like China, send the army to help with rescue efforts?"

Bush III
Major reports about how climate change affects the U.S. are removed from websites

 VV wrote:
Wish I could dump a load of coal in his Mara-Lago driveway. Top it off with some nuclear sludge. 

 R_P wrote:
Of course Trump wants to shut this down. When you aren’t monitoring all of those things that demonstrate the effects of climate change… then it is so much easier to deny that climate change even exists. And he can more easily push his fairy tale of “clean coal” and marginalize renewable energy efforts.

May was world's second-hottest on record, EU scientists say
The world experienced its second-warmest May since records began this year, a month in which climate change fuelled a record-breaking heatwave in Greenland, scientists said on Wednesday.

Arctic sea ice extent falls to new record low - The Washington Post

NASA

 rgio wrote:

 R_P wrote:
The good news is that Mr. "Drill baby drill" is now selling electric cars on his front lawn.  It's gonna be a climate reversal like nobody's ever seen before...

not even God...
and God's seen a lot of things...
he's a real tough hombre...God...
reminds me of myself a bit...only shorter...but that's OK...
helps him walk on water...where the fish that used to be bread live...
water...that's cleaner than ever... oh, the fishies love it...water.... clean, cool water...
I use a lot of water on my golf courses...the best in the world...
my courses...nothing like 'em...so good... that only I can play them...
cause I'm a winner...

More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced

Doubleplusgood. It's what plants crave.
Trump’s next climate move: Show global warming benefits humanity
A new federal report downplaying or denying climate change could drive a reversal of climate rules and expansion of executive authority.

Guelph prof works to save U.S. climate data before it's scrubbed from websites

Temperature records, extreme weather conditions, and changes in ecosystems all indicate that this is a serious issue. It’s important for everyone to contribute in their own way to protecting the environment...

"CO₂ is good for plants!"
Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate
Earth’s plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds

Who is Importing Donald Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda to Germany?
An investigation by CORRECTIV maps the influential axis of think tanks and politicians encouraging Europe to “drill baby drill”.

Donald Trump may have only recently re-entered the Oval Office, but his radical anti-climate ideas are on the march across the globe.

A CORRECTIV investigation can reveal that politicians, think tanks, and economists are now spreading Trump’s ideologies in Germany – right up to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its leader Friedrich Merz, the front-runner in the race to be Germany’s next leader, with federal elections due to take place on 23 February.

It’s a late summer morning at the Alte Münze complex in Berlin-Mitte. The Prometheus Institute, a libertarian German think tank, and one of its founders, Frank Schäffler, have organised an event that they describe as a “Freedom Summit”.

Schäffler is a member of the German Bundestag (parliament) for the Free Democrats (FDP) and is a self-described climate sceptic. The event is aimed at young people up to the age of 35 who, according to the event’s advertising, should consider the institute to be a “home for freedom”.

On a table in a workshop held in the summit’s “Thatcher tent” lies a collage of the Statue of Liberty with Argentinian President Javier Milei’s head, wielding his trademark chainsaw. It’s a symbol of his intention to cut the state down to the bone. Growing numbers of FDP politicians have been publicly backing Milei in recent months, with party leader Christian Lindner saying on a talk show in November that we should dare to be a little more like Milei.

At first glance, the summit appears to be a colourful mix of talks, drinks, and free market projections of the future. But there’s much more to it, as CORRECTIV’s research shows.

We have tracked financial flows and investigated political and economic connections that extend from the U.S. and Hungary to the top echelons of German politics.

Our findings show that this network not only includes Schäffler’s Prometheus Institute. A number of politicians from the FDP and CDU, and groups closely associated with these parties, are also closely linked to controversial anti-climate organisations in the U.S. – with some of them benefitting financially.

Indeed, Trump and Milei’s election victories are fuelling an alliance between conservative and libertarian think tanks in the U.S. and Germany, joined by politicians and corporate lobbyists. (...)