When we think of #food, we often aren’t paying attention to soil, but it’s actually what sustains our global food system.
Unfortunately, #ClimateChange, unsustainable farming practices & more are degrading soil around the world.
I don’t get to see each episode of Serving Up Science until they are published, but I like this new video. And I’m so glad they let me talk about soil health. https://youtu.be/FnOHwq6iSpk?si=5umwoGQU7DFrdhCD
Despite feeling the heat, Indians optimistic about avoiding climate disaster
Although India saw record high temperatures this year, more than three-fourths of its people still remain hopeful about not having to face the dire consequences of climate change during their lifetime. Nearly 77% Indians feel optimistic about averting a climate disaster during their lifetime, well above the global average..
"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.
The driving force behind these images of death and destruction in Ukraine, Gaza and Acapulco (and many other places around the world) is a small segment of humanity with a lust for power, wealth and cruelty, who control governments and who have the means, including technology developed by us, to manipulate the gullible population into fear and hatred against their fellow beings and into working against their own interests.
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.
Thank you #PublicBooks & Ryan Boyd for this very thoughtful review of #OilBeach!! So honored 😊
"[Dunbar-Hester] makes no promises about the future, and she is not in the business of bromides. But when your economic system is suicidal—when the ordinary business of procuring goods and services is boiling the planet to death—there is no better basis for that than hopeful solidarity, and no option but action"
"However, she does offer glimpses of sustainable, just futures.
All of them are coalitional and collective, and they entail seeing the Southern #California Bight as a contentious, multiplicative, ongoing site of struggle."
Dear #migration reserchers out there working on migration in the context of environmental and #climateChange. I have just started a group on #climatemobilities here on mastodon please join to share content about this topic
"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."
Harvested the Passiflora lutea today. This is for the food security + rewilding project.
There are around two seeds in every berry and I collected enough already for everyone who wanted them. They don’t taste very good: sweetish pen ink with hints of dish soap. They stain a blueish purple. The flowers are edible though and can be used as a garnish.
"In a new statement about #ClimateChange, #PopeFrancis criticized #FossilFuel companies and said the transition toward renewable energy is 'not progressing at the necessary speed.' And you know you're in trouble when the #CatholicChurch thinks you're stuck in the past." ~Seth Meyers, 5-Oct-2023
Great to see that the report from ORF (austrian television) picked up on the point I highlighted in the interview (in German) that we need to include indigenous environmental knowledge when looking at migration and #resilience in the context of environmental change
"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! ." #ClimateChange#Ableism@disability
Although we've mentioned this before, it's grim news that bears repeating. Global heating caused by human industry is melting glaciers and sea ice all around the world — but nowhere more dramatically than on and near Antarctica.
Sea ice that covers the ocean around Antarctica hit a record low surface area in the winter, a preliminary analysis of US satellite data shows, and scientists fear the impact of climate change is increasing at the southern pole.
“This is the lowest sea ice maximum in the 1979 to 2023 sea ice record by a wide margin,” said the NSIDC, a government-supported programme at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
At one point this year, sea ice had dropped to 1.03 million sq km, far smaller than the previous record low and an area of loss roughly the size of Texas and California combined.
“It’s a record-smashing sea ice low in the Antarctic,” NSIDC scientist Walt Meier said in comments published by NASA.
The excerpt above is from a news story published at Al Jazeera.
Over at Medium, an article by Ricky Lanusse goes into more depth on the subject, and concludes with this heartfelt lament...
It’s been 33 years since the first IPCC report on climate change. Three-plus decades of climate negotiations and disappointment: emissions soaring, climate denial, on-paper optimism, and ‘net zero, but not in my term’ speeches.
Now, the northern summer of 2023 is officially the hottest on record, pushing global sea temperatures to record highs and disrupting ocean ecosystems. Over 3.8 billion people — almost half the world — felt the wrath of human-induced extreme heat between June and August.
You don’t grab buckets or towels when your bathtub overflows, ignoring or denying the problem. You turn off the tap. Climate change isn’t a future problem; it’s here. And you might think it won’t affect you, but as temperatures climb, more will face such dire choices. The question is not if but when.
Antarctica’s struggle isn’t a far-off concern; it’s a glaring reminder that climate change is here and spares no place on Earth.
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.