Naming storms and cyclones like humans: 👎
-Who's Gabrielle and what did they do?
-Vaianu? Doesn't mean much to most people.
-The villains are off the hook.

Naming extreme weather events as the polluters responsible:👍
-"Cyclone Fonterra ruined your home" or "Tropical storm Exxon Mobil devastated the city"
-Memorable, directs public fury to those profiting from the pollution of our planet.
-Corporations hate bad PR, might actually do something about it.
-It's easy and free. We could just do it.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #floods

Fifth red warning for a climate event in NZ this year.
It's April.

News reports explicitly linking this to the ongoing climate crisis: 1

Polluters brought us here.
They must be held accountable.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #EndFossilFuels

"Our empathy with the giants of the sea must be set against the fact that we are shrinking their world. In our relentless push for economic progress, we have managed to reduce the vast ocean to an extension of ourselves. The result is clear: there is almost nowhere in which these animals are able to live peaceful, sustaining lives without being affected by our sway over the planet."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/18/stranded-dying-german-whale-troubled-relationship-sea-timmy

#ClimateDiary #Whales #Sealife

RE: https://social.cologne/@GeorgEhring/116426398186068345

#ClimateDiary Kommt da vielleicht neuer Schwung in die Klimabewegung, möglicherweise auch in Österreich? Oder seid ihr mit der lahmen Energiepolitik der Bundesregierung etwa zufrieden?

"We're in the middle of an election season, so one thing I always think about is: How do we vote for people who care about this? We need people who get it, who are going to prioritize it. We need to elect people up and down the ballot — on city council, school boards, public utility commissions, all of it.

Climate change needs to be near the top of their list of priorities. As citizens, as voters, we can advocate for politicians to care more about this. We can ask, what is your climate platform? Are you thinking about clean energy as you're thinking about building affordable housing?

Another important thing is how we spend our money. A lot of people don't understand that voting with your dollars is a very real thing. We've seen that in the last few years as people have boycotted various streaming services or other corporations — that really makes a difference."

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/climate-solutions-ayana-johnson-22092070.php

#Environment #ClimateDiary #CleanEnergy #Climate #Oceans #Science #Nature #Elections #VoteMidterms #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #GreenEnergy

Terrifying. "A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic"

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought?CMP=share_btn_url

#Climatechange #AMOC #ClimateDiary

Rhetorical question, but: why is it the people criticizing the system are always demeaned as being naive and unrealistic, and not the defenders of the status quo that is actively destroying our world? Why should we listen to those people anyway?

Related: I don't want to compromise with those 'reasonable' centrists.

#ClimateDiary

Sobering to reflect that Thomas Newcomen, an ironmonger in Dartmouth, called his 1710 innovation an “atmospheric engine”.

Because in the 316 years since, the richest of us have overwhelmingly been an *atmospheric engine*, as we rapidly press on towards having shat 2 quadrillion kg of CO2

#climateDiary

https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116413185245005358