"Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat"
Why We Went Extinct
Leaving a trail, so that if by some miracle one or two people (ideally speaking english and dutch), and the harddisk where this ends up, and all the articles that are linked can be retrieved and some power source and some screen survive, maybe they can figure out what happened... with the current state of science and technology it is unfortunately incomprehensible.
Globally AI energy usage is growing so quickly it will surpass crypto at the end of the year. For reference: crypto uses 200TWh, equal to twice the total energy usage of the Netherlands.
"The efficiency gains that AI companies like to wield with (edit: to downplay the worries about the growing demand) are in practice not proven".
More #fossilfuels will be necessary to supply the demand for more #ai solutions.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435125001424?dgcid=author
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Never forget that the creeping climate change disaster has the potential to go full-blown armageddon at any moment and no one is prepared. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-24/sa-algal-bloom-outbreak/105300602?utm_source=abc_news_app
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Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
"This report arrives at a time in which people are using generative AI for absolutely everything. Google announced at its annual I/O event that it's leaning into AI with fervor. Google Search, Gmail, Docs, and Meet are all seeing AI integrations. People are using AI to lead job interviews, create deepfakes of OnlyFans models, and cheat in college."
https://mashable.com/article/energy-ai-worse-than-we-thought
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More than 40% of insect species have declined in just a decade. They’re vanishing 8 times faster than mammals, birds or reptiles.
If insects go, so do the ecosystems that keep us alive.
Biodiversity is our life-support system — we can’t afford to let it collapse.
@ZLabe awesome graphs, I find this one to be quite mindblowing. "You are here" haha. It really captures the scale in terms of change and speed in which this change is happening.
If only it were the stock exchanges... well, there's probably some correlation with them anyways...
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The 12-month running mean global temperature anomaly has fallen slightly from its peak (temporary), which is mostly in response to cooler conditions over the equatorial Pacific during the last year (weak La Niña).
+ Graphic from: https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/
+ Data from ERA5: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/
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Is technology going to save us from climate change? Are fancy new machines being invented that will suck carbon out of the air and make everything all right again?
No.
➡️ https://heimildin.is/grein/24581/climeworks-capture-fails-to-cover-its-own-emissions/
Climeworks, a leading carbon capture company in Iceland, has not accomplished any of its lofty goals. They are drawing only a fraction of CO₂ from the atmosphere that they claimed would be possible.
Not only that, but the company's own emissions actually *exceed* the amount of carbon they have managed to capture. They are making the problem worse, not better.
Capitalist technology cannot solve the problems caused by capitalist technology. We have to change course.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Degrowth
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ICYMI - the latest monthly averaged observations of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄)... (two major greenhouse gases that warm our planet)
Data from https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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This chart of the planet’s forests should frighten you
Brazil, Bolivia, and other tropical forest countries lost staggering amounts of trees in 2024 due to forest fires linked to climate change and agriculture
https://www.vox.com/climate/413729/deforestation-climate-change-wildfire-farming
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
A story of how corruption and lawlessness fuel the #deforestation of the Amazon.
One of the growing threats to the Amazon are the Mennonites, Dutch descendants and followers of the 16th century Frisian priest Menno Simons.
Since farming is their divine calling, they continue to buy land in the Amazon through shady deals. Once a Mennonite is 18 years old, he needs to get new land to start a family... and they have a lot of kids...
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If you are only *now* concerned about multi-metre global sea level rise from ice sheets, even at +1.5C global mean temperature rise, then you haven't been paying attention.
It was in the last IPCC reports, there have been multiple studies published and policy briefs. We know it's coming.
The main questions we have now are around how fast we get there. These policy briefs from the large EU funded PROTECT project on exactly this subject are a very accessible starting point for non-scientists. Note the 2nd is title "When will we get 2m" not "If" or even "Will we get 2m"?
It's baked in already.
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Residents of Ruhanga Cell in Rusororo Sector have been without piped water for nearly a year, as natural springs and aquifers dry up under pressure from climate change and unsustainable human activities
#Gasabo #Kigali #Rwanda #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
@breadandcircuses @504DR yes, and ideally cheerful without a hint of irony or sarcasm... :blobsweats:
@504DR @breadandcircuses haha, I will not lie, the 'I told you so' factor is big part of why I started to write here. And to at least see a few likeminded people...
Getting the message across is an interesting problem. A while back I got the comment that people might respond better when positively framing it (which is hard... at least for me, how I see it, the situation is quite grim). Also I read that most people don't change based on facts... so I guess I just post what I like.
@504DR @breadandcircuses not to crush your hopes and dreams, but we need lockdown times 70 (at least) ;)
But yes, we need a significant behavioural change... like you said, the other ways are not plausible (on their own).
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Sea level rise is likely to lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, according to a new study.
Melting ice sheets would lead to 12 meters of sea level rise.
About 230 million people live within 1 meter of sea level. One billion live within 10 meters.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-migration
@breadandcircuses very interesting and worrying especially since the discussion is not about if there's an acceleration, more about the causes (less aerosols?) and effects (AMOC halts):
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04022025/james-hansen-research-documents-global-warming-acceleration/
How I understand it, is that if Hansen et al. are right, we are aiming for the high end of the IPCC 'fog'
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-the-recent-acceleration-in-global-warming-is-what-scientists-expect/ (based on an earlier paper of Hansen)
Hansen is using a top-down approach, while bottom up is the classic (IPCC) way:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist
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Is the Earth warming faster now than in decades past?
2023 and 2024 were by far the two hottest years ever experienced in human history. And 21 of the last 22 months have seen warming rise above the UN’s fabled 1.5°C target.
That was attributed mainly to the 2023-2024 El Niño, when warmer ocean surfaces periodically raise temperatures. But the El Niño is gone now, and so we should see the heat receding.
Except it’s not.
As you can see in the chart below, temperatures in 2025 are holding mostly steady so far with the record highs of 2024, even though they shouldn’t be, according to the IPCC.
Here is what Hansen and his colleagues have predicted…
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Global temperature for 2025 should decline little, if at all, from the record 2024 level. Absence of a large temperature decline after the huge El Nino-spurred temperature increase in 2023-24 will provide further confirmation that IPCC’s best estimates for climate sensitivity and aerosol climate forcing were both underestimates. Specifically, 2025 global temperature should remain near or above +1.5C relative to 1880-1920.
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SEE ➡️ https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2025/2025GlobalTemperature.15April2025.pdf
We’ll find out if they are right.
#Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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