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berkeleyearth.org
March 2025 Temperature Update

Tied for warmest March since records began

The weak La Niña event has ended, but the future state is unclear.

Record low Arctic sea ice.

Roughly 1 in 3 chance that 2025 is record warm.

berkeleyearth.org/march-2025-t...

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Line graph showing monthly average global temperature anomalies for March from the year 1850 to 2025.
April 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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climatecasino.net
Your 'doom quote' for today:

"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion."
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
"A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read." --Naomi Klein
www.porchlightbooks.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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jessicawildfire.bsky.social
The billionaires aren't happy, and they think becoming trillionaires will fix it. That pretty much explains everything.
April 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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climatecasino.net
Day 4 of consecutive days with CO2 above 430 ppm at Mauna Loa.

But who's counting?

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
April 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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feistywaters.com
Holy fuckmuffins America, what stage of capitalism is this?
April 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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collapse2050.bsky.social
For all the talk about net zero, climate pledges, recycling, etc. over the past 40 years, we haven't made a dent in the trend.
April 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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profchander.bsky.social
ta-nehisi coates
screenshot with a quote from coates highlighted: "We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can't the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy ... and I would submit to you that if you can't draw the line at genocide, you probably can't draw the line at democracy."
April 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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collapse2050.bsky.social
"If this is a multi-year thing, it'll change the way we consume food in the United States. If we lose 80% of our bees every year, the industry cannot survive, which means we cannot pollinate at the scale that we need to produce food in the United States."
www.cbsnews.com/news/bee-dea...
Millions of bees have died this year. It's "the worst bee loss in recorded history," one beekeeper says
Bees play a key role in the U.S. food supply, and the mass deaths could jeopardize that.
www.cbsnews.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.
February 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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climatecasino.net
I'm trying something new on my blog: a collection of my Doom Quotes for March, 2025.

Do you find this useful? Would like me to make more of these collections going forward? Please leave a like or comment to let me know what you think. Thanks!

climatecasino.net/2025/03/doom...
Doom Quotes: March, 2025 Edition
The post contains my'doom quote' posted to my Bluesky account in March, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for daily updates.
climatecasino.net
March 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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joanwestenberg.com
When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM