An aging marine biologist inspects a giant old coral that’s fighting for its life due to anthropogenic heating.

Surrounding it are stands of recently dead and dying staghorn corals, for as far as the eye can see.

This is what mass-mortality looks like. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The entire Indo-Pacific in a frying pan

Some of Europe’s most common tree species will likely become unsuitable for growing this century because of climate change, a new study has suggested. Here's a quick 🧵

For years after the 2015 Paris climate agreement, major fossil fuel companies were privately acknowledging efforts to downplay the climate crisis and their plans to produce more oil and gas, a new US Senate report finds.
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard theguardian.com/environment/20…

To stabalise temperature requires the same outcome: net zero CO2 emissions.

The longer it takes to get to net zero CO2 emissions, the higher the temperature outcome.

(Remaining Carbon Budgets from AR6 WGI, updated with emissions since 2020)

Nuclear disarmament is vital if we are to secure peace and safety at a time of rising global threats, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons represents a breakthrough in that cause, which Australia should support.

#nuclearban ICAN ICAN Australia

As a subscriber to the The Sydney Morning Herald I lament the lack of daily coverage of our precious environment and the changing climate.
But, 'best business seats' on an OS trip? Plenty of those.
is this what they call 'cognitive dissonance'?

BREAKING: #G7 agree to phase out domestic coal during the first half of 2030s. This will help accelerate the shift of investment from coal to clean technology in particular in Japan and more broadly in the whole Asian coal economy, including China and India.

Very warm seas off Sydney at the moment...
(via Bureau of Meteorology, Australia )

Big news - ITLOS to hand down its advisory opinion on climate change and the law of the sea on 21 May 2024 at 12 noon CET.

Apart from anything else, this is fast work by international standards. AO request lodged December 2022, oral argument Sept 2023.

itlos.org/fileadmin/itlo…

It's mid-April. Time for some seasonal cooling.

El Niño is ending. Time for some interannual cooling.

Nope. Let's set a new record high for daily ocean-average surface temperature. 😬

the coalition has all but abandoned the paris agreement.

its nuclear plan would see all targets missed.

higher costs, higher emissions… and a resulting supply shortfall leading to blackouts.

the longest political suicide note in history.

theage.com.au/politics/feder…

This sounds an awful lot like that other crisis...

Just 60 companies are responsible for half the world's plastic pollution
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Antarctic guide shares concerns about the ethics and environmental impacts of Antarctic tourism Outside

outsideonline.com/adventure-trav…

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is ‘transforming’ because of repeated coral bleaching ⁦nature⁩ nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nothing to see here, I'm sure everything will be fine

carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-c…

Which countries extract the most carbon from the ground (coal, oil, gas)?

robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2023/extrac…

Emerge Australia shares the concerns of ME/CFS patients, carers, researchers and informed clinicians with the release of the updated RACGP HANDI Guide, Incremental physical activity for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis.

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