self-assessment, because it's been one long descent toward disaster. #ClimateDiary But, in the end, you can only do what you do, and hope that how you live your life and spend your days does some good -- and maybe offers alternatives to other people that they didn't know were available.
As Paul Farmer said, "You fight the long defeat."
I'm feeling okay for today. In solidarity, friends. 6/6
Quiz on US CO2 emissions by federal administration since 1965.
- source: OWID
- 4-year spans: e.g. Nixon/Ford is one span
- 2nd term distinguished from 1st term: e.g. Clinton 1, Clinton 2
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1. Which admin oversaw the largest tonnage of emissions?
2. Which admin saw the largest aggregate percentage increase in emissions (sum of change for each of 4 years)?
3. Which admin saw the largest percentage drop?
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(Why 1965? No reason other than that I was born in 1964 
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Been revisiting Prefab Sprout lately 
Here’s a #climateDiary adapted Horsin’ Around lyric from Steve McQueen 
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Pissin’ around’s a serious business
Last thing we want’s to wake up and bear witness
We were the fools who always presumed that
We’d carry on and fk the thermostat
We wonder why emissions earthshakin’
In need of a cry, the shoulders are taken
We deserve to be kicked
So badly
Selling ourselves up the swanee
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113175303993039170
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Here’s an example output from @altbot.
I like that it does a much better image describing job than other bots I have seen and I like that it cares about how it runs, but it’s also a pretty good example of how measurement of power consumption doesn’t help us on its own.
What does it mean that it took 0.133 Wh to generate this linked example? Here follows my attempt to put that in perspective. If I get stuff wrong please tell me
Wildfires burning in Galloway and in Aberdeenshire and it's only April. This is not normal.
I'm extremely sad about the fire in Glentrool.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25066703.aberdeen-wildfire-tackled-amid-extreme-scotland-warning/
This is not right. #Loquat harvesting is a May activity here and it is barely April. My mulberries are still green and usually I am panicking between the two trees to get the fruit picked & processed for storage after we get tired of eating them fresh. I still haven't finished my tangerine tree either. This weekend was going to be drying herbs & fermenting mallow.
The wisdom of the market:
The people who make cars have known for a very long time that their main product is not cars, it’s CO2 via coal to smelt metals. Doesn’t make much difference if there’s an internal combustion engine in it or a battery.
Many have decided to address this by making cars bigger and heavier.
In large part because the market does not want to price in something which it intentionally has ignored so that the secondary product is as profitable as possible
The wisdom of the market:
The people who make steel have known for a very long time that their main product is not steel, it’s CO2.
In aggregate, they have done close to nothing about it.
In large part because the market does not want to price in something which it intentionally has ignored in order to make the secondary product cheaper
…bearing in mind that the postponed legislation is not generating sustainability anyway. It’s about the measurement and reporting of just how little we care about becoming sustainable.
Because as we all know, having good data on our emissions over the last 35 years has helped us drastically reduce global emissions
#ClimateDiary Oh no! Climate crisis might destroy CAPITALISM! Help! We must do something!
#ClimateDiary The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis
This article is not just about supply roads, but all the challenges First Nation communities in Northern Ontario face. The injustice of it all.
Antarctic Sea Ice Plunged in Summer 2025
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/154112/antarctic-sea-ice-plunged-in-summer-2025
#ClimateDiary
So great to see so many amphibians out in the park tonight. Toads and newts mainly, also heard a frog calling. Had to put on my torch to avoid treading on them, it was warm today but is now cold so they were a bit lethargic moving across the path
#Phenology #Spring #biodiversity #ClimateDiary
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/01/average-person-will-be-40-poorer-if-world-warms-by-4c-new-research-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#ClimateDiary
#Helsinki #ClimateDiary and if my post above wasn’t enticing e enough: here’s the event trailer! A brilliant trailer!
Join us next week (9th and 10th April) for "What is Possible": an online and in-person workshop at the University of Helsinki on engaged Scholarship on Healthcare, Humanitarianism, Education, and Climate Action.
I will speaking about local governments as a nexus for climate action, based on my own experiences here in #Eastbourne.
Registration free, by 7.4.25
#Helsinki #ClimateDiary
@tutam @avi
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/resilient-and-just-systems/events/what-possible
Kinda hoped this would get at least some engagement, so here’s another go via the #climateDiary and #degrowth hashtags
Dear #ClimateDiary, I am finding it frustrating today that people who ignore scientists just openly screaming about the approach of a three-degree hell-world are snapping to attention now that a bank has used the same data to promote a bullish outlook for air conditioning
I took a look at how the UK’s consumption-based emissions (cos those are the ones that matter) have been going.
According to Our World in Data, they peaked in 2004 at 757.04 million tonnes (MT) and have been dropping at an average rate of 2.404% per year since then.
If we carry on at that rate they’ll be 247.17 MT in 2050, which will be about 3.6 tonnes per person (and 37% of 1990 levels).
What chance us carrying on at that rate or better?
