Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 10, 2026 ~ Down under.
"The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks as sea ice is melted by the climate crisis has led the International Union for Conservation of Nature to declare the species officially in danger of extinction."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We're now at 17 months in a row for setting a new record high for the 36-month running average for global (60S-60N) Total Column Precipitable Water.
In other words, the atmosphere is now holding more water vapor than ever before in recorded history.
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Line graph time series of cumulative glacier mass balance relative to 1970 for the period of 1950 to 2025. There is a long-term decreasing trend through the entire time series.
🚨 My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2025's data. We are rapidly losing ice.
Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...
We've now seen 12 consecutive days setting a new record daily low for Arctic sea-ice extent.
The yellow line tracks the previous record daily low.
The International Energy Agency is now advising member states (which includes NZ) to make demand-side interventions.
Including working from home, carless days, and promoting public transport.
#nzpol #oilcrisis
Breaking News!
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Arctic sea-ice extent just set a record daily low extent, about 4,400 km² below the previous record daily low, set just last year.
Also, extent is still on track to set a new record low maximum. Stay tuned!
Passing this along for Roger...
This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through January 2026. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 429 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1946 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 339 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA GML. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.
End of month climate change check-in: 🫣
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On the topic of Arctic sea-ice thickness, the latest data (for January, 2026) puts the 12-month running mean at a record low.
Thin ice melts faster, but is much better for your Margarita.
Global sea-surface temperatures are having a moment:
Graphic shows three line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance in ppm (blue line), monthly methane abundance in ppb (red line), and monthly nitrous oxide in ppb (purple line). Graphs are all shown from January 1984 through January 2026/October 2025. Current levels of CO2 are 429 ppm. Current levels of methane are 1946 ppb. Current levels of nitrous oxide are 339 ppb. All graphs show long-term increasing trends along with some interannual variability and seasonality.
Greenhouse gas concentrations keep rising. The planet keeps warming in response. And that added heat shows up in the extremes and impacts. This is really basic stuff.
Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today ~ 125,000 years!
"It’s likely that global temperatures are [already] as warm as, or warmer than, at any point in the last 125,000 years and that climate change is advancing faster than many scientists predicted."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With you on the saddest part. Hope you’re staying safe
Blown away!
Wishing for calm and gentle - for a🎄 Christmas moment
Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 21, 2025 ~ Darker days ahead.
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
More than 600 million people worldwide are projected to face food insecurity – or worse – by 2030 ….
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 15, 2025 ~ Feedbacks loops.
"Loss of biodiversity and land degradation driven by human activity are increasingly disrupting the climate system, triggering atmospheric changes that in turn accelerate further ecological damage""
www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
At 1.5°C, the atmosphere can hold over 10% more water vapor than it could in the pre-industrial period 1850-1900.
The additional precipitation leads to car soup, airport soup, road soup, city soup, farm soup, and a hearty portion of global industrial civilization soup.
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line, which is currently a record low for the current date. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between October and January by looking at the decadal average line positions.
🚨 Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 1,110,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,600,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,310,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,810,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
First 21 minutes of informative messaging for the UK but relevant for many. Last few minutes particularly for the UK.
Motion 055: the rights of Antarctica
Creation of Antarctica’s voice
antarcticrights.org/iucn-motion-...
And just like that, Arctic sea-ice extent is now over 200,000 square kilometers below the previous daily record for November 28th.
Powerful 12 minute watch
Breaking News!
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It's official, 2025 recorded the second lowest sea-ice extent maximum on record, with only 2024 seeing a lower maximum. And 2016 holds third place, with a maximum about 17,000 km² more than 2025.
Will 2026 see a new record low maximum? Stay tuned!
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today:
"Despite great progress in clean energy development (solar, wind, geothermal), global warming has accelerated, as the growth rate of the human-made climate forcing is increasing, not declining (Fig. 1)."
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