2026's historic snow drought is bad news for the West

For much of the Western US, winter 2026 was the year snow never came.

Ars Technica
An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study.

Ars Technica
How much of a role did climate change play with Hurricane Melissa? | CBC News

Millions of people across the Caribbean are trying to deal with the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa, which tore through the region this week, slamming into Jamaica as a Category 5 storm. Now, several groups have done a rapid analysis to determine what role climate change could have played.

CBC
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

The Guardian

"In a landmark decision last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that countries have obligations to protect the environment from greenhouse gas emissions and are legally accountable if they fail to act with due diligence.

Here, Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva looks at what the ruling means for climate change action in the Pacific."

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/a-victory-for-pacific-people/

#Pasifika #AnthropogenicClimateChange

A victory for Pacific people | E-Tangata

“The ICJ ruling has effectively reshaped the global climate change landscape by giving more power to small states, especially those in the Pacific, to hold the big polluting countries politically, morally, and financially accountable.” — Professor Steven Ratuva.

E-Tangata
according to IQair, a swiss air quality website, Toronto is currently first equal with Kinshasa as the most polluted major city 🤨 #CanadianWildfires #AnthropogenicClimateChange

"Trump EPA" is a misnomer.

more like Trump EDA (where D is for Destruction)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/epa-trump-greenhouse-gas-emissions-1.7598717

#AnthropogenicClimateChange #Pasifika

Trump's EPA wants to reverse course on dangers of GHG emissions, disrupting industries, climate goals | CBC News

The Trump administration plans to rescind a long-standing finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. It would end limits on pollution from vehicle tailpipes, power plants, smokestacks and other sources.

CBC

the United Nations' highest court — the ICJ — has found that countries can be held legally responsible for their greenhouse gas emissions, in a ruling highly anticipated by Pacific countries long frustrated with the pace of global action to address climate change:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/567833/un-s-highest-court-finds-countries-can-be-held-legally-responsible-for-emissions

#AnthropogenicClimateChange #Pasifika

UN's highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions

The landmark decision is the culmination of six years of advocacy and diplomatic manoeuvring which started with a group of Pacific university students in 2019.

RNZ
The world is on track for between 1.9 and 3.7°C of warming by 2100

While some progress has been made in limiting greenhouse gas emissions, we are still on the path for high levels of global warming

New Scientist
@kathhayhoe
I don't see any hashtags in your posts. With no algorithm here (unlike those other sites), it's the only way I would see your content unless (as in this case), someone I followed boosted your post.
Not wanting to mansplain, just describing my experience with your posts.
Here are hashtags I follow.
#ClimateChange
#AnthropogenicClimateChange
#CleanEnergy
#GreenEnergy