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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #15

https://skepticalscience.com/2025-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_15.html

Turtle boom

Good news and bad.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/04/ww-turtle-boom.html

#climatedisruption, #herpetology, #lizard, #snake, #turtle, #WordlessWednesday

#climatebrink #zekehausfather

Visualizing daily global temperatures
A new take on the old temperature spiral graph

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizing-daily-global-temperatures

#spiral #temperature #temperatureSpiral
#climate #climatecrisis #climatedisruption #globalwarming #globalheating

'Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals

Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/global-weirding-climate-whiplash-hitting-worlds-biggest-cities-study-reveals

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised

In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/feb/20/two-thirds-of-the-earths-surface-experienced-record-heat-in-2024-see-where-and-by-how-much-visualised

Canada is a federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories.
Merging with the US federation should add 13 states, not just one.
This would obviously shake up US politics, with a big majority for #UniversalHealthcare, mitigation of #ClimateDisruption, modernizing the Supreme Court, strengthening of international institutions, for diversity, equity, inclusion #DEI.
Oh, and the #Republicans would adapt or die.
That’s not a bad perspective at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/07/trudeau-trump-canada-annex

Street Level Zen: Effect

Cause may be the least of your problems.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/street-level-zen-effect.html

#climatedisruption, #dependentcoarising, #karma, #StreetLevelZen, #Zen

Street Level Zen: Effect

Cause may be the least of your problems.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/street-level-zen-effect.html

#climatedisruption, #dependentcoarising, #karma, #StreetLevelZen, #Zen

Baby Skates

Why don't we see them anymore?

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2011/02/baby-skates.html

#beach, #climatedisruption, #fish, #ocean, #skate, #wildlife

Climate disasters are wreaking havoc across the planet...

"Australia, China and Saudi Arabia – major fossil fuel economies and among the world’s worst greenhouse gas emitters – also argued against legal accountability that developing nations are pushing for."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/04/us-climate-crisis-legal-court
#ClimateCrisis #obligations #Pacific #Australia #FossilFuels #expansion #ICJ #accountability #ClimateDisruption

Agenda-setting by mass media, social/ media literacy and the climate

"97% of adult Australians have limited skills to verify information online – new report. We also found many people accept content at face value, mostly based on their “gut feeling” or emotional response, rather than questioning the content".

"Accessing reliable and trustworthy information enables citizens to make informed decisions about everything – from voting, to making purchases, to staying safe online, to accessing health advice and services...Unlike many advanced democracies such as the Netherlands or Finland, Australia doesn’t have a national media literacy policy or strategy to ensure citizens are provided with support to help them verify information online."
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https://theconversation.com/97-of-adult-australians-have-limited-skills-to-verify-information-online-new-report-243595

The significance of media consumption on climate opinion

"Our study has ... identified that patterns of consumption of ABC and Sky News predict climate opinion, with more consumption of ABC aligning with agreement with pro-climate action opinions and more consumption of Sky News aligning with disagreement with pro-climate action opinions. We further identified a consistent relationship between climate opinion and frequency of consuming ABC and Sky News, with higher consumption of ABC News aligning with stronger pro-climate opinion and higher consumption of Sky News aligning with weaker pro-climate opinion."
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074301672400250X

Greens to call Murdoch executives before Senate inquiry into greenwashing>>
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/04/greens-to-call-murdoch-executives-before-senate-inquiry-into-greenwashing-ntwnfb
#MediaLiteracy #information #credibility #accuracy #framing #MassMedia #MSM #online #SocialMedia #SocialNetworking #platforms #AI #AgendaSetting #citizens #PublicSphere #democracy #EngagedCitizenship #ClimateDisruption #climate #FossilFuels

Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south

" A rapid decrease in the overturning circulation over coming decades will disrupt climate and ecosystems. Expect harsher winters in Europe, and drier conditions in the northern tropics. The southern hemisphere, including Australia and southern South America, may face warmer and wetter summers."
"More rapid melting of the ice sheets will accelerate further disruption of the climate system.This means we have even less time to stabilise the climate. So it is imperative that humanity acts to reduce emissions as fast as possible."
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https://theconversation.com/meltwater-from-greenland-and-the-arctic-is-weakening-ocean-circulation-speeding-up-warming-down-south-238302
#FossilFuels #GHG #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #Cryosphere #AMOC

‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high

Despite nations’ pledges at Cop28 a year ago, the burning of coal, oil and gas continued to rise in 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/13/no-sign-of-promised-fossil-fuel-transition-as-emissions-hit-new-high

#billionaireSwamp #trumpistan starts to unfold:

"The uninhabitable earth"

no longer is that article a fringe opinion piece, but the chosen way ahead.
With flatearth science denial, the US will be small again soon.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html

#US #USA #trump #election #maga #scienceDenial #smallAgain
#climate #climatecrisis #climatedisruption #globalwarming #globalheating
#COP29

The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth

The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,’ scientists warn

The 2024 ‘State of the climate’ report says climate scientists are more worried than ever and calls for ‘transformative science-based solutions across all aspects of society.’

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/10/the-planet-is-on-the-brink-of-an-irreversible-climate-disaster-scientists-warn/

#StateOfTheClimate2024