So brilliant ...

Your 'doom quote' for today:

'this approach [SRM] combines excessive faith in technology with fatalism about the possibility of human behavior and social change to conclude that humanity is incapable of getting our act together ...'

--Kimberly Nicholas, Under the Sky We Make

Your 'moment of doom' for May 23, 2024 ~ A hard rain's a-gonna fall.

'What if the most powerful thing that can be done now is for those who carry the flame ... to admit a kind of defeat? To admit that we are definitively exiting the safe climate space.'
desmog.com/2024/05/22/the…

Those global sea surface temperatures are such a tease!

The #climatecasino is still looking at June 15th as the key over/under date.

Your 'doom quote' for today:

'The sense that the future is broken isn't a mistake or a lack of vision, it's an accurate, gut-level read on where we are.'

--Dougald Hine, At Work in the Ruins

Your 'moment of doom' for May 22, 2024 ~ He is us.

'Heavily indebted countries face a vicious cycle: Debt payments limit their ability to invest in climate solutions, while extreme weather causes severe economic losses, often leading them to borrow more.'
reuters.com/investigates/s…

Your 'doom quote' for today ~

'Today the ocean is 30% more acidic than it was a 150 years ago. Acidification decreases the amount of calcium carbonate in the water, a mineral that is one of the key building blocks for phytoplankton shells.'

--Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us

Your 'moment of doom' for May 21, 2024 ~ 'H' is for hopeless.

'the plastics are slowing down the sinking rate of the marine snow, which is potentially reducing the efficiency with which the ocean can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere'
earth.com/news/microplas…

Your 'pre-moment of doom' for May 21, 2024 ~ The f&%king models are f&%ked.

'This finding gives a process that, as yet, is not factored into models ... this could speed up the pace of ice loss in our forecasts.'
cnn.com/2024/05/20/cli…

The title of this very short animation is 'Shifting Baseline Syndrome.'

No music ... no effects ... just data.

Your 'doom quote' for today:

'There's no scenario in which we keep adding carbon to the atmosphere and the world stops getting hotter, and the hotter it gets, the harder it will be for humans to survive...'

--Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Your 'moment of doom' for May 20, 2024 ~ Greenwashing big meat.

'Imagine a house is on fire, and someone is actively pouring gas on the fire. They then pour a little less gas and want credit for doing so... Perhaps they claim they are now 'fire neutral''
goodmenproject.com/featured-conte…

For those following the daily progression of the collapse of everything and sixth great extinction, reality is so much sadder for so many living beings on this planet.

I'm thinking of the gentle dugongs.
scmp.com/week-asia/heal…

The conditions in the oceans are so different this year than last, I don't know what to expect.

Maybe Leon Leon Simons and Dan Miller will touch on this today on Dan's Climate Chat show.

youtube.com/live/OcdZvdSh9…

Code UFB!!!

Massive, massive f&%kery is happening in the North Atlantic, now at 1.10°C (4.03σ) above the 1991-2020 mean.

Temperature anomalies like this haven't been seen since last October.