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スマホやパソコンの部品に使用されるコルタンを採掘するコンゴ民主共和国の鉱山で豪雨による崩落事故が起き200人以上が死亡。
採掘に従事する人達の中には女性や子供も含まれていて犠牲者の正確な数は不明。

以前の崩落事故から生還した人によると鉱山は適切に管理されておらず安全上の問題や事故の際の救出を困難にする懸念は以前からあったとのこと。

先進国の人達が便利さを追求するもののために劣悪な環境の中で命を落としていく人達が居るというこの現実はとても心苦しい。

www.bbc.com/news/article...
DR Congo: More than 200 killed in mine collapse
The mine gave way after heavy rains on Wednesday, a local rebel spokesman says.
www.bbc.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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ですよね。さっきシカゴで吹雪の中でプロテストしてる動画を見た。中西部の冬の寒さは格別。

そして先日知ったんだけど、テキサスの収容所に入れられて、その後拘束が解かれて収容所を出てくる時、本当に、着の身着のままでポイっと追い出されるらしくて、夏に拘束されたら寒気が覆っているテキサスでTシャツ一枚で追い出されてくるので、そんな移民たちのために、テキサスの一般アメリカ人有志らが自発的に収容所の前で待ってて、暖かい服も用意してて、ミネソタのような北部も含め、移民たちが住んでた町まで運転して送っていってあげる活動をしている民間グループがいるそう。会ったこともない同士の人たちだけど。ありがとう😭😭😭
日本でミネアポリス/セントポールが話題になってるかどうかわからないけど、外気温マイナス20℃体感気温マイナス30℃とかでも近所の人を守るために学校の周りをパトロールしたり、拘束されていた人達が携帯電話も何もなしに薄着でリリースされるところで待ちかまえて助けたりするのマジで尊敬する
大草原の小さな家の学校から家帰るだけで凍え死にしかける話を思い出した…数ヶ月雪に閉じ込められても耐え抜いたりと、根性が違う
February 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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虫の声を愛でるのは元々は中国で発展してきた文化ですね。7世紀頃の唐の時代からコオロギの声を楽しむ為にコオロギが飼育されていたという歴史があります。現代でも楽しむ人は居るようです。
有名な唐の詩人たちも虫の声を季節の移ろいを感じさせる風流なものとして多く詩に詠んでいますね🦗🍁
それが唐の文化を積極的に取り入れた平安時代の日本にも伝わって,少なくとも平安中期には一部の貴族の間でコオロギの飼育が楽しまれるようになったとのことですので…
少なくとも日本人だけの感性とか日本人固有の特殊能力みたいな話なら,それは日本の歴史すらもムシ🦗した間違いですね🤭
June 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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早川タダノリ氏の「日本スゴイ」の時代という本を、Kindle版で時々読んでいるが、なかなか読み進まない。

今日一日でも30%くらいだ。過去20年間の「日本スゴイ」にまつわる歴史が書いてあるが、あまりのひどさ、稚拙さにウンザリして頭の中の処理に遅れ。

半世紀前に「外国人は虫の音をただの音としか聞かないが、日本人はそれを季節の変わり目と情緒的産物として聞く」という意見が出始めたが、明らかに嘘ではないか❓
June 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The Extreme Weather Report, June 5, 2025.

Alarming. But not surprising. And definitely not natural.
June 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Your 'moment of doom' for May 29, 2025 ~ Collapse!

"Climate change is causing the glaciers - frozen rivers of ice - to melt faster and faster, and the permafrost, often described as the glue that holds the high mountains together, is also thawing."

bbc.com/news/article...
Swiss glacier collapse buries most of village of Blatten
Many homes in Blatten have been flattened after a large chunk of the Birch glacier fell on to the village.
bbc.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The early season sea surface temperature for the Gulf of Karankawa* continues to impress at 2nd hottest on record for the day (2.4 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean).

*formerly the Gulf of Mexico.
May 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Your 'moment of doom' for May 14, 2025 ~ Sooner than expected.

“We’re witnessing ice dynamics that simply shouldn’t happen on these timescales. The acceleration pattern suggests we’ve potentially crossed a critical threshold that our models didn’t anticipate until the 2040s.”
Antarctica's ice loss doubles since 2020, what this means for coastal cities
www.journee-mondiale.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

This year's maximum for Arctic sea-ice volume was the 2nd lowest maximum for sea-ice volume on record.

The annual minimum happens in September. That's the one to watch. Stay tuned!

Data: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
May 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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“Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.”

Gift link: nyti.ms/3YrIw3Q
Former Weather Service Leaders Warn Staffing Cuts Could Lead to ‘Loss of Life’ (Gift Article)
The former agency directors say current employees will face an “impossible task” to maintain service just as hurricane season begins.
nyti.ms
May 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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The Climate Casino is setting the line for April, 2025 CO2 at 429.64 ± 0.02 ppm (Mauna Loa). Stay tuned for the official word from NOAA, expected by mid-month.

April 2024 was 426.51 ppm, so the yearly gain was about 3.13 ppm.

Will we reach 430 ppm next month? The Climate 8-ball has been drinking.
Trends in CO2 - NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
GML conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
gml.noaa.gov
May 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

The global temperature anomaly for April, 2025, came in at 1.51°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making April, 2025 the second hottest on record since 1940, behind only 2024 (1.58°C).

The year-to-date anomaly is currently at 1.61°C above pre-industrial.
May 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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And it hardly even seems newsworthy, but the global mean surface temperature two days ago, on April 24th, hit a new record daily high according to ERA5 data.

The Climate 8-ball doesn't know who is in charge and is refusing to make predictions.
April 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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That's right! We now have six consecutive days with CO2 levels above 430 ppm at Mauna Loa.

A hard rain's a-gonna fall.
April 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Your 'doom quote' for today:

"As temperatures climb and resources dwindle, we’re looking at a cascade of failures—energy grids overloaded by heat, agriculture crippled by drought, economies shattered by displacement—that could bring the whole edifice down..."

www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...
How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for our Times
What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many cen…
www.goodreads.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 6, 2025 ~ Every breath you take.

"Even though these waters cover just a tiny fraction of Earth's surface, they now remove nearly 1 billion tonnes of oxygen from the atmosphere each year—overall half of what the entire ocean emits back"

phys.org/news/2025-04...
Oxygen is running low in inland waters—and human activities are to blame
Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren't just scenic parts of our landscape—they're also vital engines for life on Earth. These inland waters "breathe" oxygen, just like we do. But a new study le...
phys.org
April 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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We are about two weeks away from the start of peak heat in India and surrounding countries. Some places are already registering 45°C (113°F) or higher.
April 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Our terrestrial biosphere is loosing its resilience towards droughts fast

A pronounced decline in northern vegetation resistance to flash droughts from 2001 to 2022" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A pronounced decline in northern vegetation resistance to flash droughts from 2001 to 2022 - Nature Communications
More frequent rapid-onset droughts, “flash droughts”, threaten ecosystem stability in a warming climate. This study shows that northern hemisphere vegetation has been increasingly sensitive to flash d...
www.nature.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Your 'bonus doom quote' for today:

“It is conceivable that the level of shock required to get us to an AnthroShift will involve sections of the world becoming uninhabitable, leading to mass migration as well as pain, suffering, and death around the world.”

cup.columbia.edu/book/saving-...
Saving Ourselves | Columbia University Press
We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the ch... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
February 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I really cannot believe my childhood career dream might end like this. Feeling so small and lost.
February 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The sea surfaced temperature for the Gulf of Karankawa (formerly, Gulf of Mexico) continues to set new daily records:
February 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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If it's not one pole, it's the other ...

Antarctic sea-ice extent currently ranks 4-th lowest for the day, just over 810,000 square kilometers below the 1991-2020 mean. The years that are lower than 2025 are 2017, 2023 and 2024.
February 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Another brilliant must watch from @weareyellowdot.bsky.social !
February 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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New Threat to Earth’s Ozone Layer from Low Earth Orbit Satellite Burn-up on Reentry Generating Aluminium Oxides youtu.be/dIw32yO8NJ0?...

#climate #ClimateCrisis #atmosphere #ozone
New Threat to Earth’s Ozone Layer from Low Earth Orbit Satellite Burn-up on Reentry
YouTube video by Paul Beckwith
youtu.be
February 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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A closer look at the extent of sea ice globally that just set a new all-time record minimum, which is due to unusually low sea ice conditions in both the #Arctic & #Antarctic right now.

Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 🧪⚒️🥼❄️
February 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM