AI6YR BenJuly/August temps here today. Just did some trimming of trees/bushes on one side of the house for slightly better fire defensible space, although only marginally better.
3/29/26
Alx 🐈
Jonathan SchofieldThe Gulf War gulfs of the world’s dirtiest dozen.
GDP is very closely correlated with climate heating and biosphere destruction. The 12 nations shown here are listed top to bottom in order of the size of their national GDP, but their per capita GDP varies greatly, as does their reliance upon oil from other nations.
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Sources:
GDP per capita:
IMF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal%)_per_capita
Oil consumption and production:
nation specific pages at:
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
#climateDiary
Houston, we have a problem:
“A sense of foreboding but an enjoyment of the immediate windfall, for sure.”
https://mastodon.social/@lymphomation/116311571398322496
not ch1cFound a chilling #ClimateDiary, with a bonus 2018 Iran travel report, in a comment on this video…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kOBAeCtk6Zk
…where incidentally one of my favorite climate and resilience aggregator/interpreters seems to be suffering (at long last) from the work of sharing all the bad news. Emily is an excellent source of information on where and when and how the collapse will unfold (focusing on the benighted US but reaching wider) and what to do about it at the home scale. And I always feel like I should add: she has generous, overtly antifascist politics despite the awful patriotic branding. It took me forever to look past the flag logo and click for the first time. I hope she’s okay. This is the comment I wanted to share:
anneyday3493
1 day ago
Second comment: In 2018 I spent an extended visit in Iran. Met many lovely, kind people from Tehran, to outlying towns and even tribal nomads in the mountains. They were all warm, kind, curious, and welcoming to me. I saw their struggles-getting medication being a key problem then. The currency collapsed during my visit. I was able to rescue one person's life savings with dollars, and their extreme gratitude broke my heart. I also toured other far richer areas of the middle-east, and noted the contrasts, excesses in consumption that most folks here cannot even imagine. Now on my homestead in the foothills of the Ozarks, my heart is further broken for the Iranians who will suffer effects from this war for decades. I also fear for the wellbeing of my generally poor neighbors who live on way way less than the national average income. Meanwhile the weather is insane. I lost fully bloomed peaches, blueberries, and strawberries at 19°F, then lost pea seedlings four days later at 91°F in hot dry wind. I have, due to lack of rain, and wild weather swings, already started back into collecting grey water, pee-cycling, and other when-your-back-is-against-a-wall gardening measures, including reseeding some plants. My bees clustered, broke cluster, had brood, lost brood, hatched more...bearded due to heat, and we are expecting clustering temps again. If they survive, it will be a miracle. I have done all I can, shielding them with a fence, wind breaking tarps, putting hive wraps on, and taking them off, providing artifical pollen, supplemental food and maintaining a water source. If they somehow survive to their 1st anniversary at the end of May, it will be a miracle.
The Everything
tinderness#ClimateDiary #otd
Weltweit bleiben heute Samstag zwischen 20.30 und 21.30 viele öffentliche Gebäude unbeleuchtet: es ist #EarthDay! Auch private Nutzer*innen sind aufgefordert, umzusteigen. Liegen Kerzen und Zünder griffbereit?
"In 🇦🇹 nehmen unter anderem die Wiener Hofburg, der Grazer Uhrturm, das Ars Electronica Center in Linz, der Lindwurmbrunnen in Klagenfurt und der Martinsturm in Bregenz an der dunklen Stunde teil."
🌀 https://science.orf.at/stories/3234837/
Weltweit bleiben heute Samstag zwischen 20.30 und 21.30 viele öffentliche Gebäude unbeleuchtet: es ist #EarthDay! Auch private Nutzer*innen sind aufgefordert, umzusteigen. Liegen Kerzen und Zünder griffbereit?
"In 🇦🇹 nehmen unter anderem die Wiener Hofburg, der Grazer Uhrturm, das Ars Electronica Center in Linz, der Lindwurmbrunnen in Klagenfurt und der Martinsturm in Bregenz an der dunklen Stunde teil."
🌀 https://science.orf.at/stories/3234837/
A.Z. Device |We're getting frost tonight after temperatures in the 90's f. This will be the second time the plants lose their leaves from extreme dips in temperatures in the last two weeks. I don't know if the roses and blackberries will make it.
Zack Labe (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Spring is arriving across much of the West more than 20 days earlier than average when looking at when plants first leaf-out - even reaching almost to Canada! I'd expect significant ecological impacts from the heat this March. Graphic and data from: https://www.usanpn.org/data/maps/spring
…If one is going to use a phrase like ‘Out of balance’ in a major world communiqué, one really must contextualise it.
‘Out of balance’ makes good sense in the *human* context of Doughnut Economics as a framing.
It does not make sense (at least it does not to me) within the *impersonal* geological/meteorological frame.
tools for commensality 🧿is it weird to say "I recognize that refinery" about this story?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/us-climate-damage-research
