Interesting post about the failure to provide safe water and sanitation to all, including in so-called "superpowers."
Hundreds of thousands of people in the US, if not more, also lack adequate #water services.
A map of the US showing home-insurance premiums as a percentage of household income by county. the highest percentages are in Florida, as you'd expect, but also vast swaths of the Midwest and South. Source: Bloomberg Intelligence
No place is immune to the impacts of a hotter planet. One example: People outside the usual suspects of Cali and Florida are suffering the most from soaring home-insurance premiums
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Renewables have passed coal power globally,. Global electricity generation n TWh, 2000-2025.
Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org
Read here: buff.ly/XtaYP1D
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
We are preliminarily at 24 tornadoes from last week's storms.
Wisconsin averages 23 tornadoes per year.
Family members of veterans pictured occupying the Cannon House Office Building rotunda to protest against the war in Iran while holding black signs with white lettering that read, “END THE WAR ON IRAN.” Photo Credit: Francis Chung/Politico
Today, Women’s March reported that Capitol Police just arrested 60 of our veterans inside the Cannon House Office Building rotunda. They were part of 150+ veterans and military members occupying the Capitol to tell Congress to end this regime’s war on Iran. secure.actblue.com/donate/about... #PINKS
On a different oil disaster, Prof Grossell describes the impact oil can have on wildlife:
“Many of the compounds found in crude oil will target heart function + respiration".
Harm to nervous systems may make it hard to navigate, hunt or escape predators:
edition.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
📄🔥 New study on Spatially compounding fire danger in Europe, led by E. Gauthier.
We often view extreme fire weather locally—but what if multiple European countries face it simultaneously, potentially overwhelming shared firefighting resources via widespread fires?
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I saw the pic of ljubljanski grad to posts down, so I thought as much
Chile peppers are a traditional part of Indian cuisine — and a key crop for women farmers. They say it's too demanding for men. "In spite of the challenges," says one, "we've found freedom."
More than 40% of ships globally transport fossil fuels. Nearly all of them run on fossil fuels too.
Uhaul parked fully blocking a 2 way curb protected bikeland on Blaisdell
If it fits, I sits… moving day edition.
Protected bikelanes are not for making moving day easier.
Blocking a bikelane like this is illegal bc it pushes people on bikes/motorized wheelchairs into the street with drivers, where they are more likely to be hurt or killed.
Don’t do this.
Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.
Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!
Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/
Nebotičnik?
"A decade ago, southern sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists say the culprit was a 'very violent release' of deep, pent-up heat." via @grist.org at grist.org/oceans/deep-...
When I was a NASA scientis I had the chance to visit Japan. I was Deputy Project Scientist on a joint NASA - Japanese Space Agency mission called GPM. Very interesting place, long A flight though. Anyhow, climate is changing so much that the Japanese just invented a new word for the hottest of days.
Every billionaire who's conspired to violate the law and the Constitution with this regime -- their businesses get nationalized, their assets seized. They lose everything. Literally the rings off their fingers and the watches off their wrists get taken away.
Graph showing: Revisions in reported LULUCF CO2 emissions: Germany (Source: https://robbieandrew.github.io/country/?country=DEU)
Most developed countries have now submitted the 2026 editions of their formal greenhouse gas emissions inventories to the UNFCCC.
You can check out how their 2026 edition compares to earlier editions on my website: robbieandrew.github.io/country/?cou...
lol!
you should mount one of those sand-traction thingies on the side of your cargo bike. It would be hilarious.
' Japan has unveiled a new name for days that reach 40C (104F) or above, after the country experienced its hottest summer on record last year. The term - #kokushobi - has been translated as "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot" ' #ClimateCrisis
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza.
A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.
The world (60°S–60°N, 0–360°E) sea surface temperature (SST) was 21.16°C on April 16, 2026, 0.81°C higher than 1982-2010 and a record high for the time of year, just short of the record high 21.17°C SST reached in 2024. SST was 0.47°C higher than Jan 1, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-hu...
This article is for men.
In just the past few weeks: a wife murdered. A community leader killed. Multiple women alleging assault from another congressman. A survivor died by suicide. "Rape Academy" has 140 million visits in two months.
The pattern is horrifying, and the solution starts with us.
In a non car-brained world, the fact that elite cyclists are regularly hit, and often killed, by drivers should lead some of the victim blaming people out there to question what they're saying. You can do everything right and still die.
World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal chart Observed Change in Distribution of Average Maximum Surface Air Temperature. Japan • 1951-2020 What you can see in this figure We compare successive 30-year climatology periods by visualizing their 30-year mean and spread (standard deviation) using a bell-shaped distribution. Understanding the Data: Implications and Utility This approach allows us to discern, for example, if years are becoming consistently hotter/drier/wetter or if more intense temperatures are occurring with greater frequency or if variability is becoming larger or smaller, even in cases where the average temperature (the mean) shows little change. Extreme events have the most impact over human populations. This plot gives as a first idea on the historical change in extremes. Chart shows three distributions: Yellow, 1951-1980, average max temp ~14.6°C Orange, 1971-2000, amt ~14.9°C Red, 1991-2020, amt ~15.6°C
Japan had to invent a new word for "severely hot day."
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
My friend @gwagner.com's take in @nature.com nicely complements points I made in my @livescience.com commentary "Our fossil fuel economy is a house of cards & Trump's war in Iran is about to topple it...need for a clean energy transition has never been clearer."
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Seems like it's a shrimp tearing off it's own arm to give to the stomatopod
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