Paul Pomeroy
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Paul Pomeroy
@nmpaul.bsky.social
Long retired software developer. Serial dabbler in music, art, photography. Used to believe climate change was a slow motion train wreck. Don't think it's all that slow anymore.
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This world – sometimes the best one can do is try to add a little beauty to it, yes? Here's my 1 minute contribution ...
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

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November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Mother Nature's so desperate she's using daily SSTs to get our attention. It looks like she's trying to give us a URL? www·toolate·net perhaps? Or maybe she's just waving goodbye.
September 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's occurred to me that the "bands" one sees in these plot lines (all 4 quite distinct in July & August) might be thought of as "slipping points." I'm reminded of fault lines that build up tension and then suddenly slip. Here, though, it is the SSTs that slip higher and higher. #climate
August 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It's always nice––especially now when the opportunities for worry are so abundant and impossible to avoid––to be able to unclinch the fists and let my fingers do something more productive just for awhile.
July 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.
essd.copernicus.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
April 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In need of a small getaway from the daily OmiNOus? This should be required viewing for anyone with kids or anyone who knows someone with kids or who wants kids or even just saw a kid once. Or a bear and a mouse. It's delightful. #shortfilm #storytelling
Bianca Giaever · the Scared is scared
Bianca Giaever is a filmmaker and radio producer in Brooklyn, New York.
biancagiaever.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"We attend also to the world's extraordinary surprise: its refusal to quit, the weed flowering in the tar, the way beauty and brokenness so often go together. If we are among the lucky [...] we are shaped, spontaneously, by gratitude." – Jan Zwicky, "Learning To Die"
February 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Never forget where the true power lies: with the people, with community, with the natural world around us. Find your people, build, learn, grow. We keep us safe. Our solidarity is our survival.

#StayLocal #WalkAndChewGum
February 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is the most accurate and up-to-date summary of aphantasia I've come across. And it mentions the effects of #aphantasia on emotion and memory (in my experience, far more difficult aspects of this than the mere lack of mental imagery).
Why Some People Don’t ‘See’ Mental Imagery: Aphantasia
YouTube video by Quanta Magazine
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Seem familiar. . . ?
January 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have fulfilled the danger of this by making our personal pride and greed the standard of our behavior toward the world – to the incalculable disadvantage of the world and every living thing in it." – W. Berry
January 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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🫂 Rise : from one island 🇲🇭 to another 🇬🇱
vimeo.com/289482525
Rise: From One Island To Another
Two indigenous poets - one from the Marshall Islands and another from Greenland - meet at the source of our rising seas to share a moment of solidarity.
vimeo.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly – an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a ‘practical’ point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.” Wendell Berry, 1968
January 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"There is widespread disregard for the rule of international law, and also a very clear pushback on the science[.]"
World’s climate fight needs fundamental reform, UN expert says: ‘Some states are not acting in good faith’
Special rapporteur Elisa Morgera criticizes ‘ineffective’ status quo and says focus must be on ‘deep, systemic inequalities’
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My one and only resolution for 2025:

I resolve to break this resolution.
December 31, 2024 at 5:25 PM
A New Year's Eve improvisation from back in 2018. "Just like the year, it ain't perfect but it could have been a lot worse."
A Bluesy Goodbye
YouTube video by Paul Pomeroy
youtu.be
December 31, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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“Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.” [youtube.com]
Architecton Trailer | In cinemas in the UK & Ireland 10 January 2025
The latest film from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela). Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward. T
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Two milestones of sorts for the #Climate in 2024. For the first time: the yearly average anomaly will exceed +1.5C and the 30-year average will exceed +1.0C (pink highlights show when the other periods did).

[Data: HadCRUT5 Analysis, global land/sea air temps, infilled; 12/19/2024]
December 23, 2024 at 5:22 PM
'A' Is For Art –– photo taken November, 2007.
December 21, 2024 at 1:28 AM
A statue of the Buddha petting his dog Koan.
December 21, 2024 at 1:14 AM
A story of two old friends, old lovers, meeting, holding back and then succumbing to a brief rush of old emotions before returning to their current lives, all with just 5 notes.
A Brief Reunion
YouTube video by Paul Pomeroy
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Hahaha ✅
Lololol 🚫
December 9, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Episode 1: Identity, Scientists of Groove
YouTube video by nikbaertsch
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Your 'doom quote' for today:

"Hope is what keeps us chained to the system, the conglomerate of people and ideas and ideals that is causing the destruction of the Earth."

orionmagazine.org/article/beyo...
Beyond Hope - Orion Magazine
Removing a major stumbling block to acting on behalf of the Earth
orionmagazine.org
December 3, 2024 at 1:57 PM