Climate Disconnect
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Highlighting the gap between what we know about climate change, and what we're actually doing about it.
Also, just a guy with beavers in his backyard (thanks to a stream) so expect random beaver news.
Also, just a guy with beavers in his backyard (thanks to a stream) so expect random beaver news.
Nigel Farage convinced millions of Britons to vote for national economic self-harm -- a decade later, the results are indisputable -- and despite this calamitous outcome, his new political party is at the top of the polls. Americans wanted Trump a second time, too, and that's worked out well, right?
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Nigel Farage convinced millions of Britons to vote for national economic self-harm -- a decade later, the results are indisputable -- and despite this calamitous outcome, his new political party is at the top of the polls. Americans wanted Trump a second time, too, and that's worked out well, right?
Well, that's easy: It was a failure. No need for further analysis.
Anyone who thinks it was a success is a purveyor of hopium.
Anyone who thinks it was a success is a purveyor of hopium.
COP30: Should the Belém Climate Summit be chalked up as a success or a failure?
After a gruelling two weeks in Brazil, top experts and COP veterans came together to explore what businesses can take from the summit in BusinessGreen's latest webinar, hosted in partnership with Insp...
www.businessgreen.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Well, that's easy: It was a failure. No need for further analysis.
Anyone who thinks it was a success is a purveyor of hopium.
Anyone who thinks it was a success is a purveyor of hopium.
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Outer Banks houses falling into the ocean are spectacular, but when it comes to the effects of sea-level rise, they’re just the tip of the melting iceberg
Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column:
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Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column:
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Outer Banks Homes Collapsing Is Just a Taste of What’s to Come
On Sept. 20, 2024, a four-bedroom, three-bathroom beach house in Buxton, North Carolina, in the heart of the Outer Banks, sold for $580,000. On Oct. 28 this year, the house, known as Mermaid’s Rest, c...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Outer Banks houses falling into the ocean are spectacular, but when it comes to the effects of sea-level rise, they’re just the tip of the melting iceberg
Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Expect much more of this.
Violence over water is on the rise around the world. Researchers counted a record 420 water-related conflicts last year. Dozens of violent incidents occurred in Ukraine and Gaza. Water-related violence also erupted in countries including India, Iran and Mexico. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Violent conflict over water hit a record last year
Violence over water is on the rise worldwide. Researchers counted a record 420 incidents of conflict in 2024, many in Ukraine and the Middle East.
www.latimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Expect much more of this.
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Dept. of The Worse It Gets…” At least 15 coal-fired plants are being kept online to power artificial intelligence as the administration rolls back pollution rules.
AI gives coal plants a lifeline as Trump makes them dirtier
At least 15 coal-fired plants are being kept online to power artificial intelligence as the administration rolls back pollution rules.
www.eenews.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Dept. of The Worse It Gets…” At least 15 coal-fired plants are being kept online to power artificial intelligence as the administration rolls back pollution rules.
To put this in perspective: the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts in the "One Big Beautiful Bill" could have paid for all of this, and still left $3.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
Close to home:
"Worse than most: Vermont’s dams. The average age of the state’s dams is 89 years."
Close to home:
"Worse than most: Vermont’s dams. The average age of the state’s dams is 89 years."
U.S. dams, levees, stormwater, and wastewater systems get D to D+ grades, need almost $1 trillion in upgrades » Yale Climate Connections
Climate change is increasingly stressing dams, levees, wastewater, and stormwater systems through heavier precipitation events.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
To put this in perspective: the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts in the "One Big Beautiful Bill" could have paid for all of this, and still left $3.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
Close to home:
"Worse than most: Vermont’s dams. The average age of the state’s dams is 89 years."
Close to home:
"Worse than most: Vermont’s dams. The average age of the state’s dams is 89 years."
Predictable.
"[his] company now worth less than the bitcoin it holds, investors worry that a business model that relied on a virtuous circle of rising crypto prices and massive share and debt issuance is now unravelling. “There’s going to be a fire sale at these companies; it’s going to get worse.”
"[his] company now worth less than the bitcoin it holds, investors worry that a business model that relied on a virtuous circle of rising crypto prices and massive share and debt issuance is now unravelling. “There’s going to be a fire sale at these companies; it’s going to get worse.”
Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble
‘Digital asset treasury’ craze sours amid $1tn rout in cryptocurrency market
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Predictable.
"[his] company now worth less than the bitcoin it holds, investors worry that a business model that relied on a virtuous circle of rising crypto prices and massive share and debt issuance is now unravelling. “There’s going to be a fire sale at these companies; it’s going to get worse.”
"[his] company now worth less than the bitcoin it holds, investors worry that a business model that relied on a virtuous circle of rising crypto prices and massive share and debt issuance is now unravelling. “There’s going to be a fire sale at these companies; it’s going to get worse.”
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‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
Environmental body says modest investment and changes can help preserve long list of animals, fungi and lichen
Almost 3,000 species ranging from glorious birds to tiny lichen are in peril in Wales because they are clinging on in a handful of locations or even fewer, a groundbreaking report has revealed.
The report from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) highlights that since the millennium, 11 species have already been lost to Cymru, including the turtle dove and belted beauty moth. It warns that 2,955 other terrestrial or freshwater species are at serious risk because they are confined to five locations or fewer. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
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Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 25, 2025 ~ and he is us
"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”
www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...
"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”
www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...
Gone, Gone...And Gone: The IUCN Drops Its 2025 Species Extinction List
Yes, this grim roll call of vanished species comes with a side serving of climate chaos and human meddling.
www.2oceansvibe.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 25, 2025 ~ and he is us
"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”
www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...
"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”
www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...
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Surprise, surprise.
"The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped.
This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"
This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"
Cost of direct air carbon capture to remain higher than hoped
The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped. This is the conclusion reached by ETH researchers on the basis of new calcu...
ethz.ch
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Surprise, surprise.
What other species would knowingly keep poisoning itself?
The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food.
The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What other species would knowingly keep poisoning itself?
We're in great company these days.
“Geopolitically, this is the creation of a new axis of obstruction – actively promoting fossil fuels and opposed to climate action.”
“Geopolitically, this is the creation of a new axis of obstruction – actively promoting fossil fuels and opposed to climate action.”
US, Russia and Saudi Arabia create axis of obstruction as Cop30 sputters out
Trump puts US in unflattering company as lack of representative at climate talks reveals disdain for climate progress
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We're in great company these days.
“Geopolitically, this is the creation of a new axis of obstruction – actively promoting fossil fuels and opposed to climate action.”
“Geopolitically, this is the creation of a new axis of obstruction – actively promoting fossil fuels and opposed to climate action.”
American diplomacy has been reduced to this: 👇
"Now diplomats are encouraged to tell foreign delegations to prioritise three things: mineral deals, accommodating America’s unwanted migrants, and evidence of how they can back Trump’s quest for a Nobel Peace Prize."
"Now diplomats are encouraged to tell foreign delegations to prioritise three things: mineral deals, accommodating America’s unwanted migrants, and evidence of how they can back Trump’s quest for a Nobel Peace Prize."
The death of the diplomat in Trump’s America
Sidelining the state department and relying on dealmakers will come at a cost
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
American diplomacy has been reduced to this: 👇
"Now diplomats are encouraged to tell foreign delegations to prioritise three things: mineral deals, accommodating America’s unwanted migrants, and evidence of how they can back Trump’s quest for a Nobel Peace Prize."
"Now diplomats are encouraged to tell foreign delegations to prioritise three things: mineral deals, accommodating America’s unwanted migrants, and evidence of how they can back Trump’s quest for a Nobel Peace Prize."
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Just a few of the microplastics we've been finding in the beetles and bugs eaten by hedgehogs. Great to be joined by almost 200 people for this morning's webinar about our research @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @biologicalrecording.co.uk 🦔🌍 #plasticpollution #hedgehogs
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just a few of the microplastics we've been finding in the beetles and bugs eaten by hedgehogs. Great to be joined by almost 200 people for this morning's webinar about our research @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @biologicalrecording.co.uk 🦔🌍 #plasticpollution #hedgehogs
Are we really this stupid?
"...about half of all movies made last year included appearances of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products.... With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing."
"...about half of all movies made last year included appearances of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products.... With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing."
Celebrities Are Making Smoking Cigarettes Cool Again
Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Are we really this stupid?
"...about half of all movies made last year included appearances of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products.... With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing."
"...about half of all movies made last year included appearances of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products.... With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing."
A dramatic expansion of industrial agriculture -- with its chemical pollution and destruction of biodiversity -- to grow crops to turn into fuel is the last thing we need. But because it would be harmful, we'll do it.
COP30’s biofuel gamble could cost the global food supply — and the planet
What was once considered a climate holy grail comes with serious tradeoffs. The world wants more of it anyway.
grist.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A dramatic expansion of industrial agriculture -- with its chemical pollution and destruction of biodiversity -- to grow crops to turn into fuel is the last thing we need. But because it would be harmful, we'll do it.
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#rewilding milestone. A #wolf pack has been seen in the Spanish #Pyrenees, the first in 100 years. I look at the influence of Félix Rogrígez de la Fuente, an early advocate of predators. www.wildingthepyrenees.com/wolf-pack/
Wolf pack
The first wolf pack seen in the Pyrenees for a century.
www.wildingthepyrenees.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#rewilding milestone. A #wolf pack has been seen in the Spanish #Pyrenees, the first in 100 years. I look at the influence of Félix Rogrígez de la Fuente, an early advocate of predators. www.wildingthepyrenees.com/wolf-pack/
An excellent introduction to the extinction crisis. We're losing about one species every hour ... that's 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural "background" rate of extinction. And as this episode points out, humans are causing it and we know we're causing it ... but we're not taking action to stop it.
Did you hear? We just launched our new podcast, Sounds Wild!
Episode 1 is available now and features an interview with our Endangered Species Codirector Tierra Curry. It's called "How Is Extinction Changing the World Around Us?"
Listen here ➡️ bit.ly/4pNp0e5
Episode 1 is available now and features an interview with our Endangered Species Codirector Tierra Curry. It's called "How Is Extinction Changing the World Around Us?"
Listen here ➡️ bit.ly/4pNp0e5
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
An excellent introduction to the extinction crisis. We're losing about one species every hour ... that's 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural "background" rate of extinction. And as this episode points out, humans are causing it and we know we're causing it ... but we're not taking action to stop it.
Learned a lot from this one. For example:
Researchers sampled butterfly host plants in two metro areas from dozens of varied sites. In Sacramento, 94% of plants were contaminated with pesticides, with an average of 5.5 compounds per plant. In Albuquerque, it was 92% with 2.6 compounds per plant.
Researchers sampled butterfly host plants in two metro areas from dozens of varied sites. In Sacramento, 94% of plants were contaminated with pesticides, with an average of 5.5 compounds per plant. In Albuquerque, it was 92% with 2.6 compounds per plant.
New research found that pesticides are widespread on the plants caterpillars need to grow up on. On this #BugBanterPodcast, learn where this contamination is coming from & how to reduce the risks!
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JNf...
Audio & transcript 📻⤵️
xerces.org/bug-banter/h...
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JNf...
Audio & transcript 📻⤵️
xerces.org/bug-banter/h...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Pesticide Contamination in Butterfly Host Plants | Bug Banter Podcast
The State of the Butterflies in the United States project demonstrated that butterfly populations across the US are dramatically declining: they fell by more than 20% between the year 2000 and 2020. T...
xerces.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Learned a lot from this one. For example:
Researchers sampled butterfly host plants in two metro areas from dozens of varied sites. In Sacramento, 94% of plants were contaminated with pesticides, with an average of 5.5 compounds per plant. In Albuquerque, it was 92% with 2.6 compounds per plant.
Researchers sampled butterfly host plants in two metro areas from dozens of varied sites. In Sacramento, 94% of plants were contaminated with pesticides, with an average of 5.5 compounds per plant. In Albuquerque, it was 92% with 2.6 compounds per plant.
"Over the next 30 years or so, the changes to American life might be short of apocalyptic. But miles of heartbreak lie between here and the apocalypse, and the future toward which we are heading will mean heartbreak for millions." (1/2)
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"Over the next 30 years or so, the changes to American life might be short of apocalyptic. But miles of heartbreak lie between here and the apocalypse, and the future toward which we are heading will mean heartbreak for millions." (1/2)
Energy analyst Art Berman on the sad reality of fossil fuels vs. renewables.
"This is a symptom of Renewable Derangement Syndrome: the belief an 'energy transition' is well underway, despite clear evidence to the contrary ... in fact, renewables remain a rounding error in global energy supply."
"This is a symptom of Renewable Derangement Syndrome: the belief an 'energy transition' is well underway, despite clear evidence to the contrary ... in fact, renewables remain a rounding error in global energy supply."
The Long Twilight of Growth | Art Berman
The International Energy Agency made headlines last week by admitting that oil demand isn’t peaking. That got everyone's attention but the agency's outlook was nearly identical to last year’s version:...
www.artberman.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Energy analyst Art Berman on the sad reality of fossil fuels vs. renewables.
"This is a symptom of Renewable Derangement Syndrome: the belief an 'energy transition' is well underway, despite clear evidence to the contrary ... in fact, renewables remain a rounding error in global energy supply."
"This is a symptom of Renewable Derangement Syndrome: the belief an 'energy transition' is well underway, despite clear evidence to the contrary ... in fact, renewables remain a rounding error in global energy supply."
This is excellent, honest reporting. The COPs have been meaningless.
"Now we find ourselves in 2025, with COP 30 underway in Belem, Brazil. Atmospheric CO2 levels haven’t levelled off, they’re rocketing upwards. Fossil fuel burning hasn’t declined, it’s record high across the board."
"Now we find ourselves in 2025, with COP 30 underway in Belem, Brazil. Atmospheric CO2 levels haven’t levelled off, they’re rocketing upwards. Fossil fuel burning hasn’t declined, it’s record high across the board."
CO2 levels in the atmosphere continue to accelerate upwards. The decade since the Paris Agreement being the most extreme so far. This and more charts in my article published today: COPs vs CO2 at www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/a...
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is excellent, honest reporting. The COPs have been meaningless.
"Now we find ourselves in 2025, with COP 30 underway in Belem, Brazil. Atmospheric CO2 levels haven’t levelled off, they’re rocketing upwards. Fossil fuel burning hasn’t declined, it’s record high across the board."
"Now we find ourselves in 2025, with COP 30 underway in Belem, Brazil. Atmospheric CO2 levels haven’t levelled off, they’re rocketing upwards. Fossil fuel burning hasn’t declined, it’s record high across the board."
Another COP predictably ends in failure -- with no call to curb fossil fuels -- but @dpcarrington.bsky.social and colleagues at the Guardian laughably spin it as "end of fossil fuel era inches closer." In reality, only more promises for more climate finance. So: business as usual. (1/2)
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Another COP predictably ends in failure -- with no call to curb fossil fuels -- but @dpcarrington.bsky.social and colleagues at the Guardian laughably spin it as "end of fossil fuel era inches closer." In reality, only more promises for more climate finance. So: business as usual. (1/2)
Can we please just tax these people out of existence?
Just a decade ago, the $100 million price-tag was still considered a new frontier for luxury real estate in the U.S.
Now, real estate insiders say a new pricing benchmark is setting the tone for the high-end market: the $200 million list price.
🔗: on.wsj.com/3LK6Gmt
Now, real estate insiders say a new pricing benchmark is setting the tone for the high-end market: the $200 million list price.
🔗: on.wsj.com/3LK6Gmt
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Can we please just tax these people out of existence?