Nature is healing

Welders fuse metals together with their bare hands.👨‍🏭

Electricians capture lightning from the sky.⚡️

Politicians cut taxes with an axe made of parchment.📜

How come this OWiD post on food-environment includes demand-side shifts (which I agree are necessary), while the aviation-environment OWiD post earlier this week doesn’t?

I know it’s dangerous to romanticize the past, but life was objectively better before 2-factor authentication 😅

Amazingly clear write-up with helpful visuals. But wow it’s complicated. While we don’t know when or to what extent an AMOC break-down might happen, there are enough worrying signs already to do what Stefan proposes: stop burning fossil fuels and deforestation ASAP!

A 2021 review article on the causes of the Early Twentieth Century Warming phenomenon in the Arctic shows that surface temps were indeed high around the 1920s and 30s. It attributes this to combination of natural variation, natural forcings and GHG growth
doi.org/10.1016/j.ears…

A very strong La Niña index in 2010-11 and moderate Niña index in 2011-12 appears to have coincided with a major cooling of the Atlantic Ocean in 2012. Though weirdly the same phenomenon in 1999-2000 didn't have quite the same scale of effect...

This is the denier evidence there's no 'crisis':
1) Total # disasters 2000-2020 steady
2) Slight decline disaster deaths 2000-2020
3) Slight decline cost of disasters as % of GDP 1990-2022

Please read the post this is replying to and decide for yourself if situation is critical.

Ok you have to admit this is kind of funny…

It’s going to be very interesting to see how China seeks to protect its economy from such a massive contraction in population over the next 50 years.

Also, time to start getting used to thinking of India as world’s most populated country.

The entire evolutionary history of the genus Homo barely extends past the 🔴🟢 markers on the right axis.

During the age of the dinosaurs, the continents were chunked together and in different locations.

Humans are altering the atmospheric concentration of CO2 in *real time*.

“Future projections suggest increased [agricultural] yield and revenue volatility at midcentury, along with higher rates of climate-driven [farm] default that create correlated risks for financial institutions.”

The 2027 eclipse over Egypt will see 6 minutes and 22 seconds of totality! astronomy.com/observing/see-…

I think it's possible to have *some* cattle in a safer more sustainable world food system. Maybe even necessary.

But it strikes me as a really bad idea to feed cattle chicken waste, or Colorado River-irrigated alfalfa, or any crops that could be eaten by humans for that matter.

I am looking forward to connecting with folks from Canada & West Africa working on the blue economy during the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona