-“‘Helicopter’ does not come from ‘heli’ and ‘copter,’ but from ‘helico’ (from Greek ‘helix’ meaning “spiral”) plus ‘pter’ (from Greek ‘pteron’ meaning “wing”).” -“Like in ‘pterodactyl’?” -“Girl, exactly.”

As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth about the crises we face in simple and direct terms. The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023. We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now

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Howls to the yowl !!

Probably the most wilfully ignored trend in the world - that the rate at which global temperature is increasing - is itself increasing. Why is it being ignored? Because it means we are heading for #extinction. Just being blunt.

If you are under 75 years old, and this doesn't terrify you, then you have rocks in your head. As in, literal rocks.

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“A 1-acre solar farm produces as much energy as 100 acres of corn-based ethanol over the course of a year. Dedicating even a fraction of the land now devoted to ethanol to solar panels would produce more energy and ease the ecological burden on our most prolific farming region.”

WOW - and only one light pole taken out. Darn thing stops INCHES short of the structure. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

Bill's right, this is excellent. If you only watch one online video this week... ... MAKE IT THIS ONE!!

And some people say we don't live in an Oligarchy.

Damn. That is a sharp turn for any high population trend line. Keep telling yourselves Covid is mild, folks. That abrupt turn ain't from nothin'

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"After months of advocacy and some difficult discussions..."

"After months of advocacy" (crying) "and some difficult discussions..." (begging)

Does anyone see a pattern here?

This, folks, is why we already have no choice, but to implement multiple forms of solar reflection to tamp down heat for about a century. We need 30 years to get off of fossil fuels, and then we need at least another 100 to get carbon levels back under 350ppm. SRM or bust!

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the 365-day running mean reached the Paris limit of 1.50°C in ERA5 data. The graph below shows the 365-day running mean, noting a few benchmarks we've hit along the way. Data: climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/…