How Central America's record-shattering heat wave helped trigger the Houston derecho. Includes heat wave details, incl. Fla milestones. axios.com/2024/05/20/hou…

“‘Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It's sad, but that's what it is. Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death.' cbsnews.com/news/pope-fran…

Indeed, road runoff is the single largest source of microplastics in the world's oceans.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/why…

'So what if our climate heats up? We'll adapt.'

Extreme crazy weather drives fire activity in Canada. If you think the weather is crazy now...just wait, it will be even crazier.

Trudeau government content to let provinces fight wildfires (thestar.com)

We so have to turn off the tap and reduce primary #plastics production, for our health, the biosphere and our climate (production alone causes 5.3% of annual CO2 emissions)!
And: producers have to pay remediation cost (not as offsets) from the profits gained.
#PlasticsTreaty

The chalk aquifer being depleted is a water source for a huge swathe of the country, containing some of our most populous areas, & feeds many chalk streams. Draining it dry is not a viable option for people or wildlife.
Diagram by Steve Buss via ChalkAquiferAlliance website.

My Financial Times piece today says 'new' UK Food Security Index is thin politics. Ignores feeding people, poverty, health, biodiversity decline, food production, & more. Oh, and ignores internationally agreed metrics. I gently say: worry more if this drift continues on.ft.com/3UFYlAU

The turtle dove population has crashed by 97% since 1995. It is now so rare experts can no longer monitor it effectively. Swallow, swift and house martin populations have nearly halved, finds UK bird survey #SixthExtinction theguardian.com/environment/ar…

This. Is. Going. To. Happen. Where. You. Are. Soon. We. Are. In. A. Planetary. Emergency. Which. Can. Only. Get. Worse. Until. We. Stop. Burning. Fossil. Fuels etc

As #Norway approves area of deep sea mining size of UK
‘Dust clouds’ from deep-sea mining threatening marine ecosystems

“Dust clouds” were visible even up to 5 kilometres away from test site

Also release huge amounts of carbon fueling global warming
interestingengineering.com/science/dust-c…

“The Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, for example, estimates that developing and emerging economies (excluding China) need $2.4 trillion annually by 2030 to close the financing gap for investments in mitigation and adaptation.” project-syndicate.org/commentary/pri…

The super-rich will fight it tooth and nail, but yes — we will have, one day, a coordinated minimum max on the super-rich

And perhaps sonner than you think!

Thanks Martin Sandbu for a great column on the work that's starting at the G20

ft.com/content/1f1160…

The garden is alive 😍.

There are bees everywhere, of every shape and size.

I absolutely adore our tiny bit of paradise... Mostly because the wildlife does 🥰.

#ClimateCrisis

another place forever changed by climate extremes - coming soon for all of us

“Practically everyone has been affected in some way: physically, materially, or psychologically. [Rio Grande do Sul] can no longer return to what it was before.”

theguardian.com/world/article/…

More and more signs that we urgently need to pause, reevaluate priorities and make dramatic course corrections.

The clock is ticking.

NOAA didn’t say “may”.

Heat is a predatory force, going after the most vulnerable first.

“Three weeks after one of Brazil’s worst-ever floods hit its southernmost state, killing 155 people and forcing 540,000 from their homes, experts have warned that water levels will take at least another two weeks to drop.” theguardian.com/world/article/…