"Here we analyze historical and recent observations to show that ocean heat uptake has accelerated dramatically since the 1990s, nearly doubling during 2010–2020 relative to 1990–2000."
#Today, I am celebrating my 4 years without flying ✈️.
The #Earth’s #climate is perturbed by #human activites. One of the easiest things to do towards #sustainability is to cut air travels. Thus, 4 years ago, I cut my frequent flyer cards and decided to #StayGrounded, using only low-#carbon travel means such as #train.
For the love of Mike, get past your ableism, academia!
You should already have done it for the sake of disabled academics, but climate emergency means it is utterly wasteful and foolhardy to keep holding in-person events that everyone has to pony up to travel to instead of academia investing in creative, accessible online events.
It also makes the event more accessible to those who cannot get visas, $ to travel, etc. @academicchatter
The End of Eden
Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems--an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth.
Drawing on reporting from around the world, Hot is a call to action that injects hope and solutions into a debate characterized by doom and gloom and offers a blueprint for how all of us, parents, communities, countries, can navigate an unavoidable new era.
I'm to stressed to read fiction, but last Friday, just before the war began I finished: Venomous Lumpsucker
Three words: Extinction Credit Economics
How would capitalism react to fines placed on causing extinction?
I was impressed by Beauman's understanding that you don't need to be evil to participate in the ecology's destruction. The extinction industry arseholes aren't competent or smart, just indifferent and greedy.
"Increased heat and humidity potentially threaten people and societies. Here, we incorporate our laboratory-measured, physiologically based wet-bulb temperature thresholds across a range of air temperatures and relative humidities, to project future heat stress risk from bias-corrected climate model output."
"The right to demonstrate applies to everyone, but in recent weeks it has become apparent that the police do not respect this if people have a visible disability. They were the first to be picked out and put aside. Listen to the speech that Hans Artz gave on behalf of XR Disabled Rebels during Disabled Tuesday! ."
Speech & open captions in Dutch. Video description in Dutch has been "translated" here by Google Translate.
It feels like Doomism is more philosophy than science, rooted in a view of humanity as driven only by greed and baser impulses. We can't and won't stop #ClimateChange because humanity is so warped, corporations so powerful, and societies so weak. It implies that human nature is inherently incapable saving itself.
The Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2023 at the Zagreb Institute of Philosophy was great, with a truly international roster of presenters. Loved it! 👍🏻
"Greta Thunberg Could Face Jail Term After Second Blockade of Swedish Oil Port"
"The Swedish climate activist has been charged for a second time for failing to obey police orders."
(See the linked article at the bottom.)
Something I posted somewhere else:
Greta’s perceptive way of seeing the world in very literal, stark terms allows her to clearly see the climate crisis as an emergency, while so many others view climate change as an abstraction. To her it’s not an abstract threat, it’s an evident reality. That’s why she said this:
"Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire. Because it is."
And she’s right. She began her activism all alone, sitting in front of the Swedish Parliament building holding a sign, while refusing to go to school. She thought school was impossible to attend while the planet was burning. She needed to voice this massive threat to young people. She began the school strike that grew to include other young people.
"This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity."
"This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity."
The #oil megaproject #EACOP, emblematic of #climate-harming projects, is being criticized by #scientists. It's the tree that hides the forest. We must adopt a global #FossilFuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Such projet will transform the #Earth in an uninhabitable #planet.
"Using a May 2022 nationally representative survey of American registered voters (n = 2,096), we examine the multivariate correlates of trust in university research and opinions about climate change."