michael1h ago

17-Apr-2026
Helping #corals survive future #heatwaves requires strong and strategic trait selection

Assisted #evolution could help corals survive future heatwaves, but careful trait choice and strong repeated selection will be needed for it to be effective.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1124468

#science #ecology #conservation #coralReefs #marineBiology #climateCatastrophe

Helping corals survive future heatwaves requires strong and strategic trait selection

Assisted evolution could help corals survive future heatwaves, but careful trait choice and strong repeated selection will be needed for it to be effective.

EurekAlert!
quackademic9h ago

What is the purpose of all the racist theatre cultivated by right wing politicians?

It’s not a strategy to recover votes.

ITS PURPOSE IS TO DISTRACT FROM THE NEED TO REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH. Alex Fein nails it, 45 min in.

As it was with #scott, as it is with #donald, as has always been with #angus & #barnaby, the circus is the end in itself 🤡🎡🎪. Every time we give these hucksters attention as ‘news’ we validate the strategy & support the interests of the fossil fuel industries that own them.

And still our media are all about ‘Donald said’, ‘Angus said’ 🥱. The political model is #clickbait. They use it bc for a while, it works.

Surely we’re smarter than this.

On the messy death of neoliberalism, nostalgia for a time when wealth was less polarised, & political agency to be gained by cultivating a culture of joy. Unusually hopeful episode today from the #SundayShot.

#AusPol #analysis #plunder #exploitation #inequality #colonialism #ClimateCatastrophe #genocide #distraction #StateCapture #FollowTheMoney #PublicInterest #CommonGood #joy

https://youtu.be/tGrzI5kgGzY?si=DfsEmX4bECsFQGgf

Courts to the Rescue! - April 19 - Paul Bongiorno, Alex Fein, and Rachel Smith

YouTube
Paul Rosenberg19h ago
Layered into this is the ludicrous conservative bias of what's regarded as irreparable harm: big oil can claim it, but not billions of people forced to suffer #climatecatastrophe. Goes back to Bush v Gore when counting ballots were stopped on claim of irreparable harm to Bush should count favor Gore

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/post/3mjrg6zbeak2e
TobeB1d ago

The planet has just experienced the most widespread coral bleaching event ever recorded, lasting 33 months into 2025. Scientists warn that at 1.5C of global warming, up to 90% of coral reefs could be lost. Ninety per cent. And 1.5C is not lingering in the distance – it’s extremely close.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/17/coral-reefs-extinction-global-warming-jason-momoa

Coral reefs are nearing extinction. 2026 must mark a turning point

At 1.5C of global warming, up to 90% of coral reefs could be lost. The next few months could be a defining moment

The Guardian
Farhad A.2d ago

World temperature anomalies 17.04.2026

More of the same..endless

Deep 🥶🥶 over Canada + Alaska , West 🇺🇸,central Russia + Kazakhstan area

🔥🔥
East 🇺🇸
#Greenland
Europe + Scandinavia + west Russia
North #China + #Mongolia
SW Australia

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #GlobalHrating

Show threadSkim Shady (331.36 ppm)2d ago
@PBSNewsHour @health-PBSNewsHour the flawed logic that only gets traction in the US. It’s just easier to stay in an abusive relationship? #EndOilWars #electrifyeverything #petrostate #climate #climatecatastrophe
michael2d ago

15-Apr-2026
The giants of the reef: New #citizenScience project races to document centennial #corals

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1124292

#science #ecology #marineBiology #conservation #climateCatastrophe

TobeB3d ago

The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding “very concerning” as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The Guardian
Enola Knezevic4d ago

Germans: "You can't have air conditioning for increasing the comfort of humans, only for the machines, because air conditioning for humans is not environmentally friendly!"

Also Germany: "€1.6 billion fossil fuel price relief!!!!"

#Germany #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #fossilLobby #fossilFuel #CDU

Tadzio Mueller5d ago
When Naomi Klein wrote a book about the #climatecatastrophe called "This Changes Everything", I wish she had spent more time reminding the left that we, too, are part of "everything", and must therefore change "everything" to remain in any way relevant.