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@PIK_climate A budget until 2030 sounds weirdly optimistic.

First, this is on a global scale. Germany had already exhausted its share of the 1.5 degree budget in 2022, according to the latest (2025) calculations: https://www.umweltrat.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/04_Stellungnahmen/2024_2028/2025_10_BVerfG.html (see page 7 in the PDF)

It's probably similar in other western/northern countries.

Second, the idea of a carbon budget for 1.5 degrees already includes the assumption that a lot of the CO2 that is currently in the atmosphere will be captured and stored, with a negative budget after 2050. This is a huge bet on technology that still doesn't exist.

Third, it's kind of weird to talk about remaining CO2 budgets when we already measure temperatures over 1.5 and it's accelerating.

#ClimateCatastrophe #PIK #IPCC #CarbonBudget #Germany

Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen - Publikationen - Stellungnahme zu Klima-Verfassungsbeschwerden

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht berät derzeit über mehrere Verfassungsbeschwerden gegen das Klimaschutzgesetz. Es hat dem SRU die Möglichkeit gegeben, sich als sachkundiger Dritter zum Verfahren zu äußern. In seiner Stellungnahme befasst sich der SRU unter anderem mit dem CO2-Budget und aktualisiert seine Budget-Berechnung auf den Stand von 2025.

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Tadzio Mueller 2d ago

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3. Back to #climate stuff: "Hidden meltwater found deep in Antarctic coastal waters reveals stronger climate impacts"

"Reveals stronger climate impact", "earlier/faster than expected" etc: everything we read about #climatecatastrophe indicates: it's speeding up!

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-hidden-meltwater-deep-antarctic-coastal.html

Hidden meltwater found deep in Antarctic coastal waters reveals stronger climate impacts

Freshwater from melting Antarctic glaciers may be influencing the Southern Ocean in ways scientists have largely overlooked. New research, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, has found that glacial meltwater is not confined to the ocean's surface, as previously assumed, but can also be detected much deeper in coastal waters along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

Phys.org

Farhad A.2d ago

The new ENSO Euro Plumes were released this morning. Hard to believe, but they are even stronger! Some members are even above 4°C! Remarkable.
To be helpful I added color bars to distinguish between strong vs historic events. Almost all members are historical!

The relative index only brings it down a smidge. The vast majority are historic. Only 1 of the ensemble plumes fails to reach historic.

It’s remarkable and terrifying.

#GlobalHeating #ElNino #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChange #Europe #Weather #Environment

michael 3d ago

4-Jun-2026
Global #mangroveForests rebound, offering hopeful sign for #climate and #coastal #resilience

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130248

#science #mangroves #ecology #environment #climateCatastrophe

Global mangrove forests rebound, offering hopeful sign for climate and coastal resilience

Researchers at Tulane University have found that the world’s mangrove forests are no longer in decline and have shifted to overall growth in recent years. Using four decades of satellite data, a new study shows that natural regeneration, expansion into newly formed coastal habitats and conservation efforts have largely offset decades of mangrove loss, offering a rare conservation success story and a hopeful sign for climate resilience.

EurekAlert!

michael 3d ago

4-Jun-2026
Easily overlooked small #wetlands are a big source of global #methane

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130973

#science #environment #ClimateCatastrophe

michael 3d ago

4-Jun-2026
Nutritional stress and warming seas threaten Hawaiʻi’s last false killer whales
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131000
#science #ecology #cetaceans #conservation #hawaii #pacific #climateCatastrophe

michael 3d ago

3-Jun-2026
#Arctic river deltas at risk from mounting pressures

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130706

#science #climateCatastrophe #environment #rivers #permafrost

michael 3d ago

3-Jun-2026
Rising seas could ‘drown’ #mangroves and release #carbon

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130354

#science #climateCatastrophe #seaLevelRise #environment #ecology

MiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸4d ago

Protesting on the streets of Tirana yesterday against the Trump luxury hotel complex being built on a wildlife reserve.

#ClassWar #ClimateCatastrophe #Nature

Hans 🍂5d ago

One AI-data center in Texas (Stargate LLC), created among others by OpenAI and Oracle, emits 7,8 million tons (roughly like the amount of 1 million people) of greenhouse gases (and it's still in expanding). Not talking about other air pollutants (NOx/PM). And that's one of 300-400 (and more are planned). All through gas turbines/-power plants. And they used 185 million Liters (49 mio. gallons) water in 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p426fSlYH4

#AI #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChange

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