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Deb A
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I support Ukraine and Palestine, and also love nature and sometimes drink wine.
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Going to trust the bird expert that this bird is pink-footed:
Pink-footed shearwater, California.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"Deadly floods and landslides have devastated Northern Sumatra, leaving villages cut off and homes buried under mud.

Survivors like Danni Sianipar escaped as a mountainside collapsed on her house. Roads are destroyed, and aid only reached some areas after days"

#Indonesia 🇮🇩
#ClimateEmergency
Survivor of deadly Indonesia floods faces uncertain future – DW – 12/05/2025
Floods and landslides have killed at least 860 people in Indonesia. Many villages remain buried under mud and debris. On the island of Sumatra, DW's Jakarta correspondent met a woman who lost her home...
amp.dw.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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MUST READ: "The real story isn't about the ads you see but the power you don't. It's about the candidates who never run, the policies that never get debated, and the slow, systemic drift of our democracy away from the will of the majority." 💯
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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'Pfade und Wege'
#FotoVorschlag
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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This graphic gives the annualized new methane added to the atmosphere, taking into account the atmospheric lifetime of methane of 110 months.

New methane is currently sitting flat at about 153 ppb per year. Fondly remembering the COP-26 Global Methane Pledge. We were so young.
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Andean condors keep ecosystems clean by consuming carcasses, but many have been poisoned after being wrongly blamed for livestock deaths. Only ~6,700 remain.

In Colombia, just 130 survive, and a breeding program has produced three chicks for future release.
Artificial incubation gives Colombia’s threatened Andean condor a new lifeline
In an isolated backroom of a nature reserve near Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, Wayra, a recently hatched condor chick, is a symbol of hope for Fernando Castro, a wildlife specialist. Castro, 33, says…
news.mongabay.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Good morning from #OrangeNSW where Girri has been well-fed her breakfast by Diamond and Girri snagged some leftovers to practice self-feeding. "I'm not sharing this piece with you, Mum. No way." #PeregrineFalcons
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Potentially spectacular Aurora (Borealis and Australis) might be visible further outside the normal polar regions.

During northern hemisphere winter the northern variety will likely be much more spectacularly visible much further south…
The M8.1 solar flare that erupted from region 4299 at 2039 UTC yesterday resulted in an earth-directed full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME).

The CME is expected to impact Earth early to midday UTC on Tue 09 December, with G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storming and auroras.
www.swpc.noaa.gov
#Astronomy
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Observations trump models.

And the NASA CERES radiative flux data is the first place to look for indication of the rate and contributing causes of the rate of heat uptake.
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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7 Dec nation-wide #MarchForPalestine in Naarm/Melbourne

We denounce the fake ceasefire in which Israel's attacks, hostilities & siege on Palestinians continues

PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social, DM Richard Marles, end Australia's military & political support NOW
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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It could be a climate change induced earthquake - caused by the rapidly melting glacier’s shifting mass above the tectonic plates.
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Two NASA Scientific Balloon Launches Planned From Antarctica www.nasa.gov/blogs/wallop...
December 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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ARE we going to see "eco-luddits" opening water weir systems re-wettening peat lands?

Or, more precise: WHEN will we see people doing what's necessary to increase our chances to survive?
“Four main emission hotspots emerge: the North Sea region, eastern Germany, the Baltics together with eastern Poland, and north Ireland. The North Sea region is the largest, accounts for 20% of EU+ peatland emissions on just 4% of the peatland area. “
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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It’s us
What caused a massive die-off of penguins off the South African coast?
There are fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of African penguins left today.
wapo.st
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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I need a lot more snow and ice to melt soon, this sucks.
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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In March, US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, wrote on X: “The @DeptofDefense does not do climate change crap. We do training and warfighting”
Many thousands already dead from climate change and billions of animals and marine life have already perished
These people are responsible
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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A small piece on one of the main questions of contemporary Earth system science and a study from 2001:

In how far can large areas of extreme sea surface temperature anomalies couple with the atmosphere in such a way that self reinforcing and self stabilizing characteristics emerge?

#climate
A theory worth to look into?
One question that is at the forefront of Earth system science is in how far high sea surface temperature anomalies over large ocean areas…
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Art
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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New numbers on the cloud feedback in the Arctic and changes in their properties

#climate #earth
Trends in Arctic Summer Cloud Variability from 2000 to 2022 and the Potential Causes
Clouds reflect incoming sunlight back to space thereby they cool the planet. At the same time they reflect longwave radiation back to the…
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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How plants push roots through hard soil.

Researchers have discovered how plant roots penetrate compacted soil by deploying a well-known engineering principle.
How plants push roots through hard soil
Researchers have discovered how plant roots penetrate compacted soil by deploying a well-known engineering principle.
www.futurity.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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This provides both a strong indication of a higher aerosol forcing (change) and a higher climate sensitivity (mainly from stronger cloud feedbacks).

If the aerosol forcing isn't stronger than in CMIP6 models, NASA CERES data indicates that ECS could be >6°C‼️

DOI: 10.1126/science.adt0647
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🔴⚠️⛈🇸🇦An impressive number of lightnings has hitten #SaudiArabia during very heavy storms today bringing hailstorms and widespread #floods as in the city if #Tabuk⬇️Latest 20hrs by Meteosat12 with LI Lightning count(red is more than 20 per min) #ClimateEmergency
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM