If humanity doesn't kill most life on Earth with CO2 it will definitely do it with irony.

"Operations ramping up for oilsands companies after wildfires disrupt production

Cenovus Energy Inc. and MEG Energy Corp. curtailed production due to wildfire threat”

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oilsands #ClimateEmergency #Wildfires #ABPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/operations-ramping-up-for-oilsands-companies-after-wildfires-disrupt-production-1.7559552

#FYI #microgrids #ClubofRome #energysecurity #electricity #resilience #sustainability #solar #solarpower #renewables

We need more microgrids!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxSDIVic_4o

#FYI #EliotJacobson #wildfire #wildfires #trees

Prof Eliot Jacobson: moment of doom' for June 12, 2025 ~ Farewell to trees.

https://bsky.app/profile/climatecasino.net/post/3lrgdftuyqc2z

#FYI #AmericanResiliency #EmilySchoerning #resilience #US #USA #FoodInsecurity #food #FoodSecurity

Dr Emily Schoerning on #FoodSystemResiliency and #ClimateAction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDbPzs3Nb8I

My latest work for @mongabay is a two-part series looking at possible climate futures. In the first part, I explore the current status of the climate emergency, and how world leaders, scientists and the global community are responding.

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/climate-futures-world-leaders-failure-to-act-is-pushing-earth-past-1-5c/ #ClimateEmergency

The Guardian: Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa

NBC: Trump says FEMA to be wound down after hurricane season

Trump also said he planned to distribute disaster relief funds directly from the president’s office.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-says-fema-wound-hurricane-season-rcna212307

#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review

New paper by #GrantFoster, #StefanRahmstorf, #LeonSimons

"The paper statistically shows to high probability that the acceleration of global warming has essentially doubled over the last decade, from 0.2 C per decade to more than double 0.43 C per decade. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYVKW04ukiY

#FYI #BerkeleyEarth #TemperatureUpdate

"May 2025 was the second warmest May on record, with a monthly global average of 1.33 ± 0.11°C (2.39 ± 0.19 °F) above the 1850-1900 average. This is well below the record set in May 2024, but still above all previous years."

https://berkeleyearth.org/may-2025-temperature-update/

#EndFossilFuels #ClimateAction
Fact: Taking a BC Ferry from Metro Vancouver to Vancouver Island is a High CO2 experience, though if it's a full ferry, it's not terrible (~5kgCO2/passenger)

By 2031, BC Ferries will have replaced 18 ferries (big and small!) in 15 years, and nearly all will be 100% electric-ready.

They just announced they're doing the big ships next.

"Built with diesel-battery hybrid propulsion systems and designed with the capability to operate on full electric power in future, the NMVs are expected to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve fuel efficiency, and lower underwater radiated noise to better protect marine life. With greater capacity than the vessels they replace, the NMVs will offer more space for vehicles and passengers and upgraded amenities, supporting a more reliable and comfortable travel experience.”

The age of fossil fuels is ending. Any politician or lobbyist who says otherwise is either not paying attention, or bought.

#BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #SalishSea #BCFerries
https://www.bcferries.com/news-releases/bc-ferries-selects-shipyard-to-construct-four-new-major-vessels

With Canada warming twice as fast as the global average (Government of Canada 2019), and home to more than a quarter of the world’s boreal forests, the country is experiencing this consequence of global heating firsthand.

#ClimateEmergency
#Canada #Wildfire #Nature
#Environment #FossilFuels
#Alberta #Energy
#Cdnpoli #Cdnpoli
https://climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sheet-wildfires/

Ocean acidification, often called the “evil twin” of the climate crisis, is caused when carbon dioxide is rapidly absorbed by the ocean, where it reacts with water molecules leading to a fall in the pH level of the seawater. It damages coral reefs and other ocean habitats and, in extreme cases, can dissolve the shells of marine creatures.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/sea-acidity-ecosystems-ocean-acidification-planetary-health-scientists

NPR: Faced with rising temps, Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5340363/las-vegas-climate-change-solution-trees

Some of the excess carbon dioxide created by out-of-control capitalist industry and commerce goes into Earth’s atmosphere.

But a huge percentage of it is absorbed by our oceans, and that's not good…
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The world’s oceans are in worse health than realised, scientists have said, as they warn that a key measurement shows we are “running out of time” to protect marine ecosystems.

“Ocean acidification isn’t just an environmental crisis – it’s a ticking timebomb for marine ecosystems and coastal economies,” said Prof Steve Widdicombe, co-chair of the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network.

The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the “safe” limit for acidification.

“Most ocean life doesn’t just live at the surface,” said Prof Helen Findlay. “The waters below are home to many more different types of plants and animals. Since these deeper waters are changing so much, the impacts of ocean acidification could be far worse than we thought.”

This has, she added, huge implications for important underwater ecosystems such as tropical and even deep-sea coral reefs that provided essential habitats and nursery grounds for the young of many species.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/sea-acidity-ecosystems-ocean-acidification-planetary-health-scientists

When it comes to #ClimateChange, it is not that tech can't save us, but that it won't. Global emissions need to be cut by 4x in the next decade (*) to avoid catastrophic warming.

There is simply not enough time to do this through technological means: no technology we currently have can do this, and to develop a new one takes much longer.

#ClimateEmergency

(*) https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024

Canada Takes Action Against Greenwashing https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u9ihvaTvko8

I'm finding it hard to come up with words to discuss this. The wealthiest oligarch in the world, obviously also a murderous psychopath willing to poison entire communities. The string of obsceneties that I want to type would only begin to express the rage. How are these people allowed to become such monsters? Why do we tolerate their violence, their cruelty? Why do we allow them to exist?

FUCK YOU FUCKING FUCK.

#ElonMusk #Oligarch #Grok #AI #ClimateEmergency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw

#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review

...record low winds reduced the depth of water mixing. Warmer water, being lighter ... even less mixing, setting yet higher values. Lower winds ... fewer breaking waves, lowering albedo. Lower winds also meant fewer clouds, more heating in a vicious feedback loop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6wbQKyqlY

BBC: Schwarzenegger: Hey, stop whining, do something on climate change

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce80kyxd05wo