U.S. Oil Exports Set to Hit Record High | OilPrice.com U.S. crude exports are surging to record highs as Asia struggles to replace disrupted Gulf supplies.

yeah trump voters have no idea just how bad gas prices gonna get 🤷‍♀️

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A red wolf wearing an orange tracking colar stares at the camera in a natural setting. Text overlay reads, "Congress is working to dismantle the Endangered Species Act."

The Endangered Species Act Ammendments Bill is scheduled for a vote with the House of Representatives this week.

Despite the innocuous name, the bill would dismantle the lifesaving act as we know it.

It's not too late to speak out. Tell your rep to OPPOSE this bill ➡️ biodiv.us/esa

Trends in CO2 - NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory GML conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

Could someone please tell me why NOAA hasn't updated the GHGs this month?

It's getting towards the end of April and the usual update happens on the 5th of the month.

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Looking like 2024’s record sea surface temperatures may soon be broken - and that’s *before* the El Niño predicted for later this year kicks in, further supercharging climate impacts.

It’s time for emergency action at a wartime scale both to prepare and to cut emissions.

Global drought extremes in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment In 2025, global annual drought affected ~30% of the global land surface. Near-record warming substantially increased evaporative demand, triggering widespread meteorological and soil moisture drought,...

In 2025, global annual drought affected ~30% of the global land surface. Near-record warming substantially increased evaporative demand, triggering widespread meteorological and soil moisture drought, even in regions where precipitation deficits were relatively intermediate

#climate #Earth

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

“This latest round of incoherent, comic-book villain statements demonstrates how Palantir is... utterly unsuited to being anywhere near our public services.”
“A company with such naked ideological motivations and lack of respect for democratic rule of law should be nowhere near our public services.”

Simple ocean-based model forecasts a powerful El Niño, over 2 °C warmer than normal For decades, scientists have worked to improve predictions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate powerhouse that can cause droughts, flooding, marine heat waves, and more around the world.

A simple ocean-based model forecasts a strong El Niño, projecting equatorial eastern Pacific temperatures to exceed normal by over 2 °C toward the end of this year. doi.org/hbxvs8

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025 Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals

Yes, but this is not the case for the total increase in energy consumption

And that is a VERY big but

Lets get real here. In 2025, the contribution of wind and sun to global energy production (not just electricity) went up from just 4 to 5 percent

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global drought extremes in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment In 2025, global annual drought affected ~30% of the global land surface. Near-record warming substantially increased evaporative demand, triggering widespread meteorological and soil moisture drought,...

Global drought extremes in 2025

In 2025, global annual drought affected ~30% of the global land surface.

Drought is no longer just about rainfall.

It’s about temperature and evaporative demand.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The Great Salt Lake is dying. Can this $1B Trump plan save it? Two factors are driving the decline: water use and less precipitation due to climate change. Saving the lake may require 260 billion gallons of water.

Money can’t buy water that isn’t there.

I see El Nino coming
It's rolling round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine
Since I don't know when ...

Very pretty! But like so much that country, what's striking are the small number of trees,the absence of forest, Nature overturned for cultivation & for centuries now managed mostly by capitalist agribusiness for profit at the expense of all wildlife.

'US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.

…also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of 🇩🇪 & 🇯🇵.'

WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial level The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that 2024 is the warmest year on record, based on six international datasets. The past ten years have all been in the Top Ten, in an extraordi...

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Solution-delusions How omnicidal climate-change responses are the enemy we should be fighting.

Well okay, but the vast majority have no idea how serious and how urgent the impacts of climate change will soon become. Nor do they know how hopelessly-inadequate our current solutions really are. Way past time to start telling people the truth under both headings. open.substack.com/pub/jacksond...

nothing says “we love the whales” more than a new, bigger boat to terrorize and deafen them

Nordic Seas Overturning Circulation strengthens as Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakens, new study 20/04/2026 –A new modelling study identifies a feedback mechanism suggesting that a strengthening of the Nordic Seas Overturning Circulation (NOC) could be a direct consequence of the Atlantic Meridio...

Does a stable or increasing water exchange between the Atlantic and the Nordic Seas mean the #AMOC is stable, as some have argued? 🌊
Nope. The opposite is the case.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

TMC's Reckless Deep-Sea Gamble Risks Ocean Apocalypse NOAA’s new deep‑seabed mining regulations were never meant to be a rubber stamp for industrial exploitation of one of the least understood ecosystems on Earth.

In early April 2026, NOAA confirmed TMC's application is in "substantial compliance," a major milestone that allows the company to proceed without extensive revisions. Mining these nodules would cause irreversible damage to unique deep-sea ecosystems.
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It's #climatecasino time!

I thought the over on this one was a lock and the Climate Casino was going to win bigtime. However, times have changed.

A godzilla El Nino could lose the Climate Casino a lot of fake dollars.

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EPA may ease regulation of chemical plastic recycling, and environmentalists worry The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held t

To no one’s surprise, Trump’s EPA is proposing a chemical recycling rule change that would – 🥁 drumroll please 🥁 – increase plastic pollution!

Chemical recycling is an industry distraction from the REAL solution to this problem: reducing plastic use and production.

Every day, so many people who are not responsible for the problem of plastic pollution are forced to pay for it with their health.

Nordic overturning increases as AMOC weakens in response to global warming Abstract. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weakening in response to global warming, while the Nordic Seas Overturning Circulation (NOC) is projected to strengthen. So far, the...

Breaking: our new study just published shows that a stable or strengthening ocean current into the Nordic Seas is not a sign of a stable Atlantic overturning #AMOC. On the contrary, it is a physically expected result of an AMOC weakening. 🌊
Open access: os.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

A ‘paradox’: Is climate change the biggest threat to renewable energy? Renewables have been touted as the silver bullet to tackling climate change, but can they withstand our warming planet?

It's the biggest threat to all our infrastructure

After the next temperature jump it's blackout time as nothing is prepared for the extremes to come

We seriously underestimated the increase and intensification

#climate #earth

Phosphate scarcity governs methane production in the global open ocean | PNAS The observed supersaturation of methane (CH4) in open-ocean surface waters implies widespread CH4 production within the well-oxygenated mixed layer...

Fun fact: phosphate scarcity is intensifying in the upper one hundred meters

Important: ocean net primary productions during past mass extinction events increased tremendously as the geological record shows

One study estimates this feedback strength at 2°C

So let's see

#climate #earth #oceans

The Spodocene: inhabiting the ruins of progress Today I am providing my English translation of an article by Hakan Illatikdi, originally in Italian and published on ComeDonChisciotte.org on Tuesday 23rd December 2025.

The SYSTEM does not need corrections, but #TRANSFORMATION.

We are still in the MOMENT BEFORE.

The world has not CHANGED STATE, but it can no longer return to its previous one.

The decisive question is not whether there will be a change of state, but WHAT KIND OF state will emerge…

#collapse

A collapse of the AMOC, deemed likely by the turn of the century, wd make agriculture impossible in countries like the UK/Ireland - with polar winters but hotter summers than now, plus droughts - & other huge impacts globally. Won't happen overnight but huge existential risk must spur urgent action👇

Record US drought sparks worries about fires, water supply and food prices The contiguous United States is experiencing record drought levels for this time of year, according to weather data.

US drought sparks worries

The biggest concern is around agriculture and then food prices. If America has a poor crop year because of the drought, it could be a global problem, as a strong El Nino often reduces crop yield in other places, such as India.

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Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds Research casts doubt on plans by UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source

As we have always known. BECCS is bollox
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"By the time porcupines vanished—the last diminished continuation of an ancient disturbance process—forests were no longer structured to absorb frequent ignition without unraveling. Fire shifted from a background process into a dominant force.

The forest became a sitting duck."