While fossil fuel pollution reached a record high in 2024, those emissions alone do not account for the massive surge in atmospheric concentrations. One possible explanation is that the planet is losing its natural ability to store carbon. #Climate #ClimateCrisis
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2025/04/25/the-alarming-climate-news-you-probably-missed-00309524
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And this is why we need to #RethinkNotRestart and #ShutDownAllNuclearPlants -- especially the aging ones! This article outlines a very possible #Doomsday scenario -- but it could be a number of things, including a large #SolarFlare...
2030 Doomsday Scenario: The Great #Nuclear Collapse
A timeline of the #EndGame for human civilization
"Humanity has constructed a doomsday Deadman switch that threatens civilization. Climate destruction will make it increasingly difficult to avoid the looming global nuclear catastrophe we've created.
"Here's how our future might unravel:
Late 2020s: Climate Red Alert and Infrastructure Strain
"By the late 2020s, Earth’s climate is in unprecedented turmoil. Global average temperatures are consistently 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Each year brings record-breaking heatwaves, “freak” floods, and droughts that batter infrastructure. Coastal cities flood more frequently, roads buckle in extreme heat, and power grids strain under surging demand for cooling.
"This cascade of climate disasters sets the stage for a systemic collapse: as societies grapple with runaway warming, the resilience of #Criticalnfrastructure (power, water, transit) erodes.
"Energy systems enter a crisis even before 2030. Nuclear power, which in 2025 still provided about 9% of the world’s electricity from ~440 reactors, becomes increasingly unreliable. Many nuclear plants struggle with climate stresses: cooling water sources heat up in summer, forcing reactors to reduce output or shut down to avoid unsafe temperatures. For example, a 2028 European #heatwave pushes river and sea temperatures above 25 °C, triggering emergency shutdowns at multiple reactors that cannot be cooled effectively.
"At the same time, stronger storms and floods threaten reactor safety. Dozens of reactors worldwide are unprepared for #ExtremeFlooding, meaning a dam failure or #StormSurge could lead to a Fukushima-scale accident. Worrisome reports emerge of power plants in #floodplains and #coasts where defenses are overtopped by #RisingSeas and torrential rains.
"By 2029, global carbon output remains high, and natural feedback loops are kicking in. In the Arctic, permafrost thaws and releases methane creating a vicious warming cycle where initial warming triggers more emissions, leading to even more warming. Scientists caution that a tipping point is near, beyond which climate change becomes self-perpetuating (a true “runaway” scenario).
"Society approaches 2030 in a precarious state: aware of looming catastrophe yet unprepared for its speed. The stage is set for the coming collapse, with power grids and nuclear facilities - the backbone of the industrial world - already under severe strain.
Early 2030s: Blackouts and the First Reactor Crises
"2030 marks the breaking point.
"A confluence of climate catastrophes collapses power grids across multiple continents. A severe global heatwave in the summer of 2030 brings record electricity demand while many power plants (nuclear and coal alike) are derated or offline due to overheating coolant water.
"Then powerful Category 5 storms strike in succession: one hurricane inundates the U.S. Eastern seaboard, while an unprecedented typhoon swamps Southeast Asia. These #disasters knock out transmission lines and flood key substations, leading to prolonged blackouts in dozens of major cities. Emergency systems are overwhelmed. With communications down and transportation paralyzed, manpower shortages become acute - many operators and engineers cannot reach their stations.
"Nuclear power plants are among the first to feel the emergency. Grid failure triggers automatic reactor SCRAMs (rapid shutdowns) at plants from Florida to France. Control rods halt the fission reactions, but decay heat in reactor cores still needs cooling for days to prevent meltdown.
"Normally, backup diesel generators would power the cooling pumps, but the scale of the #blackout means diesel resupply is uncertain and some generators fail in flooded facilities. In a grim reflection of 2011’s Fukushima disaster, several coastal reactors lose all power as storm surges drown their backup generators.
"Within hours to days, the first meltdowns occur.
"In 2031, a reactor in South Asia becomes a flashpoint: its cooling pumps falter after the grid collapse, leading the core to overheat. The reactor’s heart melts through containment in a matter of days, releasing a plume of radioactive steam and debris.
"Nearby, an even greater danger unfolds: the plant’s spent fuel pool, packed with years of highly radioactive spent rods, boils dry without cooling. Exposed to air, the zirconium cladding of the fuel ignites, triggering a fire that belches long-lived radioisotopes directly into the atmosphere. This nightmare scenario - once narrowly avoided at #Fukushima by heroic ad-hoc measures - now plays out in full."
Read more:
https://www.collapse2050.com/2030-doomsday-scenario-the-great-nuclear-collapse/
Collapse 2050 · 2030 Doomsday Scenario: The Great Nuclear CollapseA timeline of the end game for human civilization
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The world’s biggest coconut producer, the Philippines, expects a 20% decline in output this year. That’s because for the past two years, extreme weather — from drought to tropical cyclones — has strained trees like those on the southern coastal plantations of one of its largest exporters.
“The main reason behind the low supply is climate-driven,”. “These events have led to reduced yields, delayed harvests and limited farmer mobility.”
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#climatecrisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-25/coconuts-get-pricier-as-poor-weather-drives-global-shortage
Sweating to shivering: Study finds rapid swings in temperature have increased
Flips between warm temperatures to cold and vice versa have become quicker, more frequent and more intense in recent decades, a new study shows.
By Christina Kelso | The New York Times
| April 26, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
"A September heat wave switching into a snowstorm over one day in the Rocky Mountains. Winter snowfall suddenly melting and saturating fields of dormant crops, before refreezing and encasing them in damaging ice. Early spring warmth prompting plants to blossom followed by a cold snap that freezes and drops their petals.
"Rapid temperature change events like these have increased in frequency and intensity over recent decades, a new study found.
"The transition periods for these abrupt temperature shifts have also shortened, according to the study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
"Because the quick changes in temperature give communities and ecosystems little chance to respond, they may pose greater challenges than heat waves or cold snaps alone, said #WeiZhang, an assistant professor of climate science at Utah State University and one of the lead authors of the study.
" 'The impact could really be cascading on a different level,' he said.
"The researchers warned these temperature flips could have damaging effects on people and natural #environments, including destruction of #crops, harm to #ecosystems and strains on #PowerInfrastructure. And #LowIncomeCountries, where there is less access to weather forecasting and infrastructure is less resilient, are more vulnerable.
"The researchers examined temperature data from 1961 to 2023 to identify global patterns in sudden weather shifts, where temperatures in an area either jumped from cold temperatures to warm or plunged from warm to cold within five days. They found that instances of these flips increased in more than 60% of regions they surveyed.
"The largest increases in frequency were observed in South America, West Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Some areas, including the polar regions, showed different behavior and experienced fewer events.
While the climate mechanisms driving changes to these temperature-flip events are not yet fully understood, Zhang said, there is a significant trend showing that these events are becoming more frequent, stronger and quicker in many areas of the globe."
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https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2025/04/26/utah-state-university-study-finds/
The Salt Lake Tribune · Sweating to shivering: Study finds rapid swings in temperature have increasedFlips between warm temperatures to cold and vice versa have become quicker, more frequent and more intense in recent decades, a new study shows.
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By 2019, Uruguay ran on 98% renewable energy, with hydroelectric at ~56% of generation, wind 34%, bioenergy 6%, and solar over 2%.
Come on, #Canada. It's the 21st century. Time to step up.
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'Despite having far fewer resources than the United States, Germany, and other wealthy nations that have been painfully slow to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels amid the deepening climate crisis', 'Uruguay greened its grid in under a decade'.
Once reliant on expensive fossil fuel imports, Uruguay has gone from blackouts & power cuts to energy sovereignty in under 10 years - with a stable mix of wind, solar, hydroelectric, & bioenergy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/uruguay-renewable-energy-revolution/
The Nation · Going for Green: Uruguay’s Renewable Energy RevolutionWith no fossil fuel reserves to rely on and domestic demand rising, the country had to get creative—or go broke just trying to keep the lights on. Here’s how they did it.
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Not satisfied with scouring national monuments and poisoning our air, Trump has signed an executive order giving the green light to extremely dangerous and environmentally damaging deep sea mining operations in an unhinged scheme to compete with China in the critical minerals industry; a task which, stop me if you've heard this one before, Trump has declared a "national emergency."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deep-sea-mining
Trump Signs Executive Order to Advance 'Deeply Dangerous' Deep-Sea Mining
"Deep-sea mining is opposed by over 30 countries as well as academics and advocacy groups worldwide. Among them is Greenpeace USA, whose campaigner Arlo Hemphill said Thursday that "authorizing deep-sea mining outside international law is like lighting a match in a room full of dynamite—it threatens ecosystems, global cooperation, and U.S. credibility all at once."
"We condemn this administration's attempt to launch this destructive industry on the high seas in the Pacific by bypassing the United Nations process," Hemphill declared. "This is an insult to multilateralism and a slap in the face to all the countries and millions of people around the world who oppose this dangerous industry."
While the article goes on to note that this executive order in no way guarantees extractivist corporations will be able to successfully mine in the deep sea, I think we all understand that these greedbag sociopaths can do a fuck lot of damage to our oceans, a resource shared by the entire human species, while failing to profitably mine critical minerals. Furthermore, this order must be understood as part of a much larger environmental strategy by the Trump regime that from out here, sure as shit looks like letting the regime's billionaire supporters loot the till while the house burns down.
Common Dreams · Trump Signs Executive Order to Advance 'Deeply Dangerous' Deep-Sea Mining | Common DreamsAmid global calls for a ban on deep-sea mining, Trump signs order to advance the risky practice that threatens marine ecosystems—and everyone and everything reliant on them.
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- France rejets d’industries du PVC #plastique -> analyse chlorure de vinyle monomère #CVM #pollution dans #eau du robinet, sur réseau de distribution -> devient systématique (cf 1987 + directive 98/83/CE + directive 2020/2184).
The threat #Trump poses 2 law & decency is clear. US courts issue rulings, Trump not only ignores them he targets the judges who made them. He attacks opponents law firms, & asks them to give his Administration free legal advice or take consequences. #Extortion must be condemned, Many Americans must be fearful of what is to come. For those of us who considered the US a good friend, the situation is heartbreaking.
#StandwithUkraine #RejoinEU #ClimateCrisis #TrumpOut
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Rapid temperature flips from heatwaves to cold and vice versa have increased across the world and are expected to rise as a result of climate change, putting stress on human health and ecosystems, the latest research finds.
The pattern was attributed in some part to the increased “waviness” of the jet stream that encircles the planet, as well as to changes in evaporation.
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#climatecrisis
https://www.ft.com/content/3d7340bc-2900-49d5-b261-e442fa642e08
Financial Times · Climate graphic of the week: Sudden flips from hot to cold temperature come with climate change, says study
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits
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I long for a future where everywhere “cars sit around like the ghosts of a gridlocked past.”
‘People can’t imagine something on that scale dying’: Anohni on mourning the Great Barrier #Reef
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/26/people-cant-imagine-something-on-that-scale-dying-anohni-on-mourning-the-great-barrier-reef
The Anohni and the Johnsons singer is collaborating with marine scientists for two special shows at Sydney’s Vivid festival that will show the reef’s plight
The Guardian · ‘People can’t imagine something on that scale dying’: Anohni on mourning the Great Barrier Reef
Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology by Guillaume Suing is out now!
Guillaume argues that planned economies—unlike capitalist market systems—offer the necessary framework for sustainable resource management, food sovereignty, and scientific agricultural advancements.
He exposes the limitations of green capitalism, ultimately reaffirming the centrality of dialectical materialism in understanding and confronting the climate crisis.
Free PDF available.
https://www.iskrabooks.org/communism-the-highest-stage-of-ecology
Iskra BooksCommunism, the Highest Stage of EcologyA clear-eyed call to dismantle capitalism at its root—because survival demands more than reform.
#Poilievre suggests the #policyhorizonscanada report is a reason to not vote #Liberal
The #2 disruption in the report is "Biodiversity is lost and ecosystems collapse (7 years)"
So, where's his plan to address the #climatecrisis ?
#cdnpolitics #cdnpoli #Election2025
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/25/opinion/pierre-poilievre-dystopian-desperation
Canada's National Observer · Pierre Poilievre's dystopian desperationThe Policy Horizons report was meant as a public policy thought exercise, not a piece of political ammunition. But in turning it into one, Pierre Poilievre confirmed one of its biggest fears: the declining imperatives of truth and accuracy.
Normal Island News
Prime minister of cold, grey island unveils daring plan to dim the sun
What could possibly go wrong?
Sir Keir Starmer has decided that we should dim the sun so Jeff Bezos can keep sending his favourite pop stars into space. What do you mean, this sounds like the opening of a really bad disaster movie? Lady Gaga wants her turn on Blue Origin, and let’s be honest, it couldn’t go any worse than Joker: Folie à Deux.
Normal Island News · Prime minister of cold, grey island unveils daring plan to dim the sun
Melting ice could boost north-east Greenland marine environment's productivity https://phys.org/news/2025-04-ice-boost-north-east-greenland.html 
#Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #PolarBears #Science #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency
Phys.org · Melting ice could boost north-east Greenland marine environment's productivity