Overshooting 1.5°C looks likely—but it’s not game over. The key is limiting how far (and how long) we exceed it, then bringing temperatures back down with rapid cuts + carbon removal. Every fraction of a degree still matters.
👉 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Mama Humpback with baby swimming above her A WHOLE NEW WORLD!!!
Crocodile on a rock looking like he is riding a magic carpet and /or Hippo- A WHOLE NEW WORLD!
The Championship Battle of #2026MMM: Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) vs. Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)! #2026MMM
FINAL ROAR #2026MMM WINNERS:
NILE CROCODILE and
HUMPBACK WHALE!
Please join us WEDNESDAY April 1st at 8PM EST for the CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE!!!
#2026MMM FINAL R😮AR
EMOJI BATTLE
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An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.
Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
#2026MMM ELITE TR8️⃣ EMOJI BATTLE
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ELITE TRAIT #2026MMM WINNERS:
Aurochs, Humpback Whale, Honey Badger and Nile Crocodile!
Please join us on MONDAY March 31st at 8PM EST for the FINAL ROAR!
CROCODILE DE-FEETS LION!!!! #2026MMM
MMM Orbital Satellites #2026MMM
Smiling crocodile
Majestic Brother Lions
FINAL BATTLE OF THE NIGHT: 1-seed Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) vs. 2-seed Lions (Panthera Leo) #2026MMM
A large female titan triggerfish defending her eggs in her nest is basically the 'territorial hippo' of the coral reef. 2.5 feet long, she has a strong jaw wielding 8 long, protruding chisel-like teeth (+ a row of inner teeth!) (Randall & Millington 1990) #2026MMM
A mother humpback whale and her calf swim just below the water's surface.
A hippo explodes out of the water, mouth gaping and teeth exposed. It has clearly startled a large bird, who is scrambling to get out of the way with raised wings.
NEXT UP: 1-seed Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) vs. 3-seed Common Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) #2026MMM
Two Oryx walk a sand dune in silhouette as the sun sets behind them with the quote "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas
That might be a wee bit much #2026MMM
Without any incoming storms, only the Sea Cow's eyes are cloudy #BrokenHeart #QuickDeath #2026MMM
Photo of the Atacama desert with a crudely photo-shopped image of a sea cow and aurochs in it. In the foreground is a parched, sunny slope filled with jagged chunks of rock. No vegetation is visible. In the background, the slope drops downward with identical features to far off in the distance. Further away the land rises again in another ultra-dry sun drenched mountain. Image from NASA/JPL-Caltech creative commons.
Aurochs approaches the still, silent Sea Cow. The Sirinean is casting the only shade as far as the eye can see in the desert. Aurochs hunkers down in the shade, a faint smell of the ocean in the still air.... #2026MMM
But Sea Cow has bigger problems, the hunter's spear has perforated his 32lb heart, causing massive internal hemmorhaging (Forsten & Youngman 1982)!!! #2026MMM
Even worse, Sea Cow's 10-ton body relies on floating in the ocean (Scheffer 1972). Without being in water, the Sea Cow will soon be crushed by his own weight, bending ribs until they break, crushing his own organs... slowly... as he dehydrates. #2026MMM centerforsurfresearch.org/how-do-whale...
Black and White photo of a transverse cut of a seal. The large white outer ring is blubber, showing how incredibly thick and insulative it is compared to the rest of the body. A tape measure (in inches) is shown for scale. Image take from: Schmidt-Nielsen, K. Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment, Cambridge University Press, 1975; initially from P.F. Scholander, Biological Bulletin 1950, 99: 234
Sea Cow's thick blubber, so helpful for staying warm in North Pacific Ocean waters, accelerates the heat effect... #2026MMM
Simple line drawing of Steller’s Sea Cow by Steller himself. The simple drawing has a wide eye giving the animal a surprised expression. Text reads: Sketch by Steller, Given to Pallas (Pallas, Icones ad Zoographiam Rosso-asiaticam 1842.)
And it is not raining today. The sun shines above. Each exhale of the Sea Cow and Aurochs have them losing precious hydration in the landscape of sand and stone. Both mammals' large body sizes and shapes help them retain rather than shed heat. #2026MMM
Photo of the Atacama desert. The foreground is vast and covered in steep, gray, rocky ridges. Between the rocks are deep valleys filled with dark sands weathered from the rocks. Nowhere is any visible vegetation. In the very distant background can barely see a large mountain. Watermark reads DXR2k8 CC1.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Specifically, the Atacama Desert, running for 1000km on the west coast of South America with some of the lowest rainfall on Earth, some hyperarid areas of the desert only get 1mm of rain a year (Vicencio Veloso et al. 2024) #2026MMM www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/a...
Photo of a Maremmana cattle, which was bred to resemble descriptions of Aurochs. Its brown & tan body is massively thick. The neck is practically non-existent as sags of skin just merge into the preposterously huge shoulders. Large curved horns rise up from its head, ending in black pointy tips. Image from Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
MEANWHILE, Aurochs is again grazing and ruminating in 12th Century Poland, irascible as ever when... #2026MMM
THUNK!!! #2026MMM
Photo of an articulated Steller’s Sea Cow skeleton from head-on. The scapula is very broad, tapering to just before the glenoid fossa. Standing out are the thick & full ribs, which are nearly the dame diameter as the radius and ulna. Watermark photo credit: Klaus Rudloff, Berlin – taken at the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum
Sea Cow has little defense against the hunters! He swims slowly and has limited ability to dive deep to escape the hunters' spears - the bone structure of his ribs is weighted for horizontal buoyancy as he slow grazes algae in the coastal shallows. #2026MMM www.biolib.cz/en/image/id3...
Close up photo of a vertebra of a Steller’s Sea Cow from the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP). The spinous process and body of the vertebrae contains several long cutmarks that suggests this specimen was processed by humans. Watermark contains scale bar and directional arrows. Image credit reads 2004 University of California Museum of Paleontology – CalPhotos Database
Drawing of a dead Steller’s Sea Cow on a beach. Three men are present, one stands at the tail, one stands behind the head, and the third is perched on the body of the sea cow hunched over in the process of measuring it. Watermark reads: Reconstruction of Steller measuring a Steller’s Sea Cow on Bering Island July 12, 1742 by Leonhard Stejneger. Licensed under public domain.
TONIGHT in the 1760s, off the coast of the Commander Islands, one of the last Sea Cows is being hunted from offshore boats, a bloody harvest for shoe leather from Sea Cow's hide and lamp oil from Sea Cow's blubber #2026MMM
