maybitIn face of impeding climate doom, one is entitled to shitty dad jokes
stevenrayBig banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential
'severe droughts and harvest failures become widespread, sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches and tropical regions experience episodes of extreme heat and humidity for weeks at a time that would bring deadly risks to people who work outdoors.'
Their response?
Hey, we can make lots of money!
These people are a threat to our very existence.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/big-banks-predict-catastrophic-warming-with-profit-potential/
Kate 
Scientists identify heat-resistant kelp strain https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250210153724.htm 🔥 #MarineLife #MarineBiology #ClimateChange #ClimatecCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Scientists identify heat-resistant kelp strain
Kelp is being negatively impacted by climate change. Warming ocean temperatures have led to shorter growing and harvesting seasons, including for sugar kelp, one of the most commonly farmed kelp species. The loss of kelp populations can significantly impact ecosystems, and potentially the growing demand for sustainably farming food, feed, fertilizer, medicine, and cosmetics. To give kelp a chance against climate change, scientists have identified kelp species with natural adaptations to cope with heat.
[Wilson & Andersen] Model sensitivity limits attribution of greenhouse gas emissions to polar bear demographic rates https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-89218-3 🐻❄️ #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #PolarBears #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #ClimatecCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Model sensitivity limits attribution of greenhouse gas emissions to polar bear demographic rates - Scientific Reports
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase and negatively affect sea ice conditions that polar bears rely on. It is therefore important to better understand how specific emissions levels affect polar bear demography. A recent study proposed a framework to address this issue, but sensitivity to decisions rules of the approach may limit its utility. We tested how sensitive the approach is to decisions rules related to sea ice concentration, choice of subpopulation boundaries, and modeling choices for bears in the Chukchi Sea and Southern Beaufort Sea subpopulations. We found that the number of ice-free days, number of fasting days, and when 10% of reproductive females exhibited recruitment failure varied considerably depending on equally-valid decisions rules versus those used in the existing study. Whereas the previous study suggested that both subpopulations surpassed the critical number of ice-free days that negatively affect recruitment, we found this threshold was never reached by the Southern Beaufort Sea subpopulation and only once for the Chukchi Sea subpopulation for the decision rules we considered. Our results suggest that the previously published approach is too sensitive to modeling assumptions and choice of decision rules to accurately evaluate the impacts of GHG emissions on polar bear demographic rates.
Britain has a new snake species—should climate change mean it is allowed to stay? https://phys.org/news/2025-02-britain-snake-species-climate-stay.html 🐍 #Wildlife #Nature #Snakes #ClimateChange #ClimatecCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Reptiles #Herpetology
Britain has a new snake species—should climate change mean it is allowed to stay?
All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines where animals are found, but the continued existence of many species now rests on the outcome of human-driven climate change.
"Too much oil lowers prices and burns up profitability."
Trump wants US oil producers to ‘drill, baby, drill. They’re not interested https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/drill-baby-trump-oil-producers-b2692370.html
🔥 #FossilFuel #DrillBabyDrill #Trump #ClimateChange #ClimatecCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Renewables #RenewableEnergy
P3KO | Petrified activist 🐧Menetetty peli on jäätiköiden sulaminen. Se jatkuu tuhansia vuosia jo päästetyillä päästöillä.
”Ellemme sitten keksi keinoa poistaa isoja määriä hiilidioksidia ilmakehästä.”
”Se peli, jonka voimme vielä pelastaa, on pysäyttää näiden sääilmiöiden eli helleaaltojen, kuivuuden, tulvien ja trooppisten myrskyjen voimistuminen.”
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Hmmm - and yet we have well proven technologies to get us away from burning carbon and generating GHGs - but I guess investors are hoping to score big (and the #Manchin contingent fighting to protect their investments)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/29/unproven-climate-solutions-spending
Too many #FalseSolutions to the #ClimatecCrisis
Hajo ThelenKennt ihr eigentlich diesen Vortrag von Rahmsdorf?
"Tipping risk of the Atlantic Ocean's overturning circulation, AMOC. Keynote by Prof. Rahmstorf"
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#Klimakrise oder doch schon #Klimakollaps
Tipping risk of the Atlantic Ocean's overturning circulation, AMOC. Keynote by Prof. Rahmstorf
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️It's amazing how many untested, biologically complicated, expensive "options" are being looked in to to "help" the environment while avoiding the historically tested, biosphere compatible, free option of "produce less stuff and transport it less".