A news segment this morning about the disintegration of the humongous iceberg that broke off from Antarctica a while back:

“The iceberg was twice the size of Greater London. It is now only half the size of the Isle of Wight.”

The notion that UK people have internalised the relative sizes of Greater London and the Isle of Wight seems about as sound as our commitment to reducing carbon emissions

#climateDiary

"For all of its promised cost savings, the Trump administration’s chaotic cuts over the past year haven’t actually saved taxpayers money. The federal budget grew by US $220 billion in the first hundred days of the administration compared to the same period the prior year—yet our nation has lost more than many people realize."

"These are not scientists or disgruntled employees, but real people feeling the real effects of a federal workforce in crisis. It doesn’t take a PhD to recognize that these and other losses will reverberate for decades to come, and that the true price of dismantling our federal science programs is far higher than any supposed cost-cutting measures have saved."

https://www.biographic.com/in-the-wake-of-the-storm/

#Trump #GOP #DOGE #Musk #Science #Nature #Government #Climate #ClimateDiary

Tomato seedlings, mostly 3rd-generation-saved Couer de Boi, are germinating here in several different locations.

Even some outdoor cloched ones have come up due to the few recent 25 deg C afternoons, but they wont be liking the current 7.6 C ambient.

The pictured ones (indeed this whole post) are here bcs they've been indoors for nights, and are currently under my high-brightness desk magnifier right by my elbow, at just under 20 C, the threshold for decent growth. Can't really ignore them!

I've not even been outside in the cold heavy cloud drizzle this morning!

The substrate, all home-brew, includes sieved wildfire wood-ash, hence the fragments of shale and black look. It's a superb growth promoter.

The seed was "easy-saved" by simply pressing the sieved material from making passata on kitchen paper towel - including high-speed blending! The towel was quick-sun-dried and stored, then torn into strips to germinate, as shown. The whole process taking not much longer than this post!

#growYourOwn #tomatoes #seedSaving #climateDiary

Thanks to a minority of obscenely greedy egomaniacs and their submissive supporters, "survival of the fittest" has become "survival of the shittest."

#billionaires #government #war #injustice #oppression #autocracy #GlobalWarming #environment #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #ClimateAction #pollution #future #nature #Earth #world #humanity

#climateDiary

Going to war to precipitate the illusory return of a ‘God’ who wasn’t there the first time and along the way capture more of a one-time resource we are using a couple of million times quicker than it took to form which, had it not formed to the extent it had, we wouldn’t have the air to breathe with which to go to war.

Not very sapiens
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113267015749432954

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@drsimevans/116177889119939677

Wow! This is a bit mindblowing. #ClimateDiary

📚 #ClimateDiary #buchstodon #sachbuch
"Elemental" - das neue Buch des Diplomaten #ArthurSnell über den Zusammenhang zwischen der fortschreitenden #Klimakrise, den daraus entstehenden politischen Konflikten und der Bedrohung der Demokratie durch Rechtspopulismus. Eine ausführliche Rezension im Guardian:

🌀 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/04/arthur-snell-interview-geopolitics-climate-crisis-book-elemental?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1772669956