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I'm a homesteader of sorts who's very collapse and overshoot aware. We're on a one way trip over the cliff.
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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 22d
We got it wrong. We're a lot more fucked than anyone thought. If someone is telling you we can limit warming to 2.5C by 2100 they're lying. Or even 3C by 2050 they're hoping for something that can't likely happen.

#kissyourassgoodbye

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Text covers both images. "It can’t be stated strongly enough how fast the climate feedback cascade is now ramping up. Surface air temperatures in the Arctic are now predicted to be up to + 20 degrees C (+ 36 degrees F) above the average for the date on November 17. The month of October averaged + 5 to + 10 degrees C (+ 9 to + 18 degrees F) above average for the date across the Arctic. Last January through March (3 months running) were up to + 10 to 15 C (+ 18 to + 27 F above average across large parts of the Arctic. Blue Ocean Events in both polar regions are becoming likely much sooner all the time and could even come in 2026. That will send the Earth into much more rapid, catastrophic warming. Time has run out. Unless the world acts aggressively without delay to rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, the next El Nino could bring the world near + 2 C and we could see + 3 C within another 15 years. We are on course to irreversible extinction level warming even for humans. We are now past + 1.5 C (+ 2.7 F) which was predicted to take about 15 more years just 3 years ago."
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firehorse249791.bsky.social
02.11.2025

'Don't look away!

This is the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Aceh Tamiang Regency, Sumatra in Indonesia 🇮🇩

At least 744 dead, 551 missing, 1.1 million displaced across 50 districts and the animals, no figures available 😭'

via Volcaholic [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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firehorse249791.bsky.social
03.11.2025

'Update on the catastrophic floods and landslides across Sumatra, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Number of Deaths :- 811
Number of Missing :- 612
Number of Injured :- 2,600
Displaced :- 592,800
Number Affected :- 3.1 million

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December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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race2extinct.bsky.social
Today’s Science Talk episode is out and it doesn’t sugarcoat anything. Mass extinction, climate feedbacks, chemical contamination, ecological limits… the uncomfortable truths shaping our future.

Grateful this podcast creates space for the conversations we rarely hear.
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Mass Extinction I Four Truths about Climate Change I Toxins Making Earth Uninhabitable
YouTube video by Science Talk
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December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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firehorse249791.bsky.social
Cyclone Ditwah spares no one, leaves trail of ruin as it tears through Sri Lanka, TN; 334 dead, hundreds missing www.livemint.com/news/world/c... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Cyclone ##Ditwah #Colombo #SriLanka
Cyclone Ditwah spares no one, leaves trail of ruin as it tears through Sri Lanka, TN; 334 dead, hundreds missing | Today News
Sri Lanka experiences severe flooding, with over 340 fatalities and significant damage, as rescue efforts continue amidst political protests over government preparedness.
www.livemint.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
doomrick.bsky.social
"Many climate scientists now say that if we continue on the present course we are heading to a planet that for all practical purposes will be uninhabitable for humans within just a few decades."

Impacts are always under stated. 15 years is more likely.

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New graphs from Zach Labe show very rapid warming year over year in the polar regions. But the warming in Antarctica, though less over the same 46 year time period - at + 3.3 C (5.9 F) vs + 4.5 C (+ 8.1 F) in the Arctic - is even more concerning because of the recent massive acceleration and more severe implications for warming global climate and raising global sea levels. The sea ice cover surrounding Antarctica is much larger and extends much further equatorward than in the Arctic. So when it disappears - and make no mistake, it will within just the next few years - there will be much more new solar radiation absorbed by the ocean instead of being almost entirely reflected by sea ice back to outer space. Many of the glaciers in Antarctica are much more vulnerable to collapse than was thought until just recently. That’s because ocean currents are changing and warmer deep water is rising to the surface around Antarctica now. This is an entirely unforseen change in the Earth - atmosphere system. Atmospheric river storms, unheard of in the polar regions until recently, are now causing occasional rapid glacial calving cascades and collapse there. Antarctica is about half islands so much of the ice sheet is based below sea level - in some cases far below sea level - so melting and collapse of glaciers extending far above sea level will be much faster than was until just recently predicted. Also, massive stores of frozen methane hydrates on the shallow sea floor around Antarctica are melting and releasing to the atmosphere at accelerating rates. Methane is 80 x stronger a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years in the atmopshere. We know that massive methane releases have been associated with warming periods in Earth’s past. The warming already occurring now is faster than at any time in Earth’s history. Don’t mess with a water planet. Warming feedbacks are delayed but they can suddenly seemingly come out of nowhere, syncronize, and amplify each other. Many climate scientists now say that if we continue on the present course we are heading to a planet that for all practical purposes will be uninhabitable for humans within just a few decades.
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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thewholeshebang.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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serenaribena.bsky.social
" #Worldwide_Disasters_Thread #cr41w

November 29, 2025

-UPDATE-
Tropical #CycloneDithwa continues to wreak havoc in #SriLanka: The death toll has risen to 153, 🖤 and another 191 people are missing.

A state of emergency has been declared across the country"
profharleyquinn.bsky.social Prof. Harley Earthling Quinn @profharleyquinn.bsky.social · 3d
1.) #Weltweit_Katastrophen_Thread #cr41w
29. November 2025

-AKTUALISIERUNG-
Der tropische #ZyklonDithwa verursacht weiterhin verheerende Auswirkungen in #SriLanka: Die Zahl der #Todesopfer ist auf 153 gestiegen,🖤 weitere 191 Personen werden vermisst.
Im ganzen Land wurde der Ausnahmezustand ⤵️
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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firehorse249791.bsky.social
28.11.2025

'Floods intensify in Sri Lanka as Cyclone Ditwah’s relentless rains push waters ever higher.

This is a factory in Thulhiriya 👀'

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November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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firehorse249791.bsky.social
27.11.2025

'🚨 Terrible scenes coming out of West Sumatra in Indonesia today due to flooding 🙏🇮🇩

📍 Saniangbaka, Solok Regency'

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November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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firehorse249791.bsky.social
27.11.2025

'Terrifying scenes are emerging as destructive flooding hits Nagari Maninjau, Kecamatan Tanjung Raya, Kabupaten Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia today.

The death toll in Sumatra has reached 61.🇮🇩🙏'

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November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Last month was the hottest October on record for North America in this dataset... yet another extreme event

Data from @noaa.gov: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
A line graph shows the time series of North America mean surface temperature anomalies for each October from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in October 2025 was 2.82°C for this region. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1910-2000 climate baseline. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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race2extinct.bsky.social
This is increasingly common.
Coal ash, nuclear waste, industrial toxins… all sitting in “temporary” sites engineers swear are safe.
But time, technology, & luck always run out. Ohio isn’t the exception. It’s the rule.
www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...
'Should scare the hell out of everybody'| Concerns about former Beckjord coal plant reach Gov. DeWine's office
Officials are worried about drinking water safety and the lack of emergency readiness at the former Walter C. Beckjord power plant, where billions of tons of leftover coal ash sit on the Ohio River.
www.wcpo.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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zacklabe.com
Here we go again... another season with unusual warmth around the Hudson Bay and a corresponding record late start to the #Arctic sea ice freeze-up...

Data from @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
Line graph time series showing daily Arctic sea ice extent in the Hudson Bay for 2025 compared to each year from 1979 to 2024. There is a large seasonal cycle on this graph and a long-term decreasing trend for days during the melt season from June to December.
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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collapse2050.bsky.social
At first the idea of abandoning your home is surreal. Then the taps run dry and hesitancy turns to panic.

A large climate migration is upon us.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Taps are running dry in Iran. Decades of bad decisions are to blame.
Iran’s water crisis is so dire the president has proposed evacuating the capital. Largely at fault are official policies that exhausted precious water resources.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
doomrick.bsky.social
Everything is just fine, we don't need ice on the Arctic ocean anyway.

#kissyourassgoodbye

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Text is for all images The Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia on average begins to freeze over in September in the northern parts and October in the southern parts, with the entire sea usually ice-covered by December. This year it may not freeze at all. Some of the largest stores of frozen methane hydrates in the world lie on the shallow sea floor here. The shallowest parts of the Kara Sea are in its central and southeastern regions, with over 40% of the sea being less than 50 meters (160 feet) deep. Current Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTAs) for the date in the Kara Sea are up to + 3.0 degrees C ( + 5.4 F). September saw anomalies for the date of + 6 to + 15 C (+ 10 to + 27 F). Saltwater in the ocean freezes at about - 2 degrees C (+ 28 degrees F) depending on exact salinity so the current anomalies for the date are about + 5 C (9.4 F) above the freezing point. The Kara Sea floor has also warmed, primarily due to the influx of warmer Atlantic currents and the thawing of subsea permafrost. The sea floor in the western part of the sea has seen the most significant warming, with bottom sediments reaching temperatures up to + 5.0 C (+ 9.4 F) in some areas, which is consistent with the loss of ice-bearing permafrost at those sea floor locations. Methane releases to the atmosphere are increasing and atmospheric values measured here are significantly above the global average. The warming power of methane in the atmosphere is about 80 times that of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years. The South Kara Sea shelf, particularly offshore from the Yamal Peninsula, contains the largest known deposits of seafloor methane in the Kara Sea. This is an area of massive seabed methane escape, primarily due to thawing subsea permafrost, with extensive gas releases observed over an area of at least 7,500 square km in water depths greater than 20 meters, according to Phys.org and AGU Publications. Image: Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies for the date on 23 Nove…
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
doomrick.bsky.social
Pretty much.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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doomrick.bsky.social
John is trying really hard to be optimistic here. Unfortunately the only thing we'll possibly do large scale is the stratospheric injection, which will likely just be another death nail.

#kissyourassgoodbye

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Text is for both images The problem here is Blue Ocean Events (BOEs) (less than 1 million square km of sea ice remaining) at both poles are looking increasingly likely in 2026. Arctic sea ice coverage and especially thickness has decreased significantly year to year and Antarctic sea ice is thinning rapidly now with warmer water rising from below. A Double BOE introduces unprecedentedly large non linearities into the trend. And the next El Niño adds what could this time be a quasi permanent step increase of up to about + 0.3 degree C (+ 0.5 F) if it is intense which looks increasingly likely - also in 2026. I believe warming on the order of half a degree C in 2026 alone is a significant possibility. I hope I’m wrong because otherwise the curve will take off much more steeply and we could reach + 3 C (+ 6 F) of warming two decades earlier - in the 2030s. Once we hit + 2.5 C (+ 5 F) there is probably no stopping a rise to + 8 C (+ 14 F) or higher. + 3 C is generally thought by most climate scientists to be human extinction level warming. On the other hand, if renewables switch out fossils as aggressively as possible and most of us go vegetarian, we stop demanding McMansions and multiple intercontinental jet trips each year, etc. AND we find and implement a large scale atmospheric carbon sequestration solution, we could bend the curve slowly down. But we have no time to waste. If we do see on the order of a + 0.5 C rise in 2026, I think we will have no choice but to implement large scale stratospheric aerosol injection to forestall catastrophic warming. That will come with other risks to life on Earth many of which are as yet unknown.
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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serenaribena.bsky.social
'H5N5 is a type of bird flu virus commonly found in wild and domestic birds. This is the first human case, which is why doctors and scientists are taking it very seriously. Previously, the H5N1 bird flu infected 862 humans globally, with over half of them succumbing to the illness.'
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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extremetemps.bsky.social
EXCEPTIONAL HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA

Another day with >46C (46.1C Windorah).
Some areas are at record heat levels for November both in Queensland and Northern Territory:

42.2 Blackwater November Highest Max on record

28.6 Yulara November Highest Min on record
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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serenaribena.bsky.social
'Severe weather over the past several days has caused significant problems in Corfu & Epirus, NW Greece, with repeated rainfall, landslides, power outages, & access difficulties to many areas.

...the ground remains saturated, leaving residents fearful of further damage...'
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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firehorse249791.bsky.social
24.11.2025

'Current visuals from Thung Sao Intersection in Hat Yai, Thailand are heartbreaking, as floodwaters keep rising and some people are trapped.'

via WeatherMonitors [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
doomrick.bsky.social
John is trying really hard to be optimistic here. Unfortunately the only thing we'll possibly do large scale is the stratospheric injection, which will likely just be another death nail.

#kissyourassgoodbye

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Text is for both images The problem here is Blue Ocean Events (BOEs) (less than 1 million square km of sea ice remaining) at both poles are looking increasingly likely in 2026. Arctic sea ice coverage and especially thickness has decreased significantly year to year and Antarctic sea ice is thinning rapidly now with warmer water rising from below. A Double BOE introduces unprecedentedly large non linearities into the trend. And the next El Niño adds what could this time be a quasi permanent step increase of up to about + 0.3 degree C (+ 0.5 F) if it is intense which looks increasingly likely - also in 2026. I believe warming on the order of half a degree C in 2026 alone is a significant possibility. I hope I’m wrong because otherwise the curve will take off much more steeply and we could reach + 3 C (+ 6 F) of warming two decades earlier - in the 2030s. Once we hit + 2.5 C (+ 5 F) there is probably no stopping a rise to + 8 C (+ 14 F) or higher. + 3 C is generally thought by most climate scientists to be human extinction level warming. On the other hand, if renewables switch out fossils as aggressively as possible and most of us go vegetarian, we stop demanding McMansions and multiple intercontinental jet trips each year, etc. AND we find and implement a large scale atmospheric carbon sequestration solution, we could bend the curve slowly down. But we have no time to waste. If we do see on the order of a + 0.5 C rise in 2026, I think we will have no choice but to implement large scale stratospheric aerosol injection to forestall catastrophic warming. That will come with other risks to life on Earth many of which are as yet unknown.
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
doomrick.bsky.social
We really should have gotten our heads out of our asses decades ago.

#kissyourassgoodbye

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For both images The Southern Hemisphere mid latitude Marine Heat Waves are intensifying rapidly as is meltwater from sea ice around Antarctica. These are Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTAs) FOR THE DATE and just 7 days apart so any increase is more than seasonal warming. At this rate of far above seasonal warming we are headed to a first ever recorded Blue Ocean Event (less than 1 million square kilometers of sea ice remaining) around Antarctica by March 2026. An El Niño which could reach record intensity looks increasingly likely by summer 2026. A first ever recorded Arctic Blue Ocean Event looks increasingly likely by October 2026. The rate of of g l o b a l w a r m i n g in 2026 will likely set a record by year’s end. We are in a world of trouble. We must drive down global greenhouse gas emissions to net zero and then well below zero - post haste - or the planet will not be habitable for humans within our childrens’ lifetimes. Image 1. Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTAs) for the date on 21 November 2025, looking down over the South Pole Image 2. Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTAs) for the date on 14 November 2025, looking down over the South Pole Images from earth.nullschool.net
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
doomrick.bsky.social
This is it in a nutshell.
nonviolence.bsky.social Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 10d
When it comes to eating animals, driving cars or flying on holiday, left liberals are closer to the right, than their own values. The liberal left is closer to Trump & Musk than to Lincoln & MLK.

"Same appetite"
- Malcolm X
Malcolm X on the Danger of White Liberals vs. Conservatives
YouTube video by Current Affairs
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November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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extremetemps.bsky.social
The November-summer continues
Another August-like night in Southern Texas with Minimums again up to 77F (3 in a row and 4 more on the way:100% Unprecedented this Time of The year).

In Mexico it's worse;Min 27.9C/82F Arriaga:
The warmest night in the whole Northern Hemisphere
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM