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Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high
State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat.
The authors of the latest annual State of the Global Climate report say this highlights the increasing vulnerability of a planet that is moving ever further out of balance as a result of human activity. The burning of oil, gas, coal and forests releases heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, which are all at their highest level in at least 800,000 years.
More than 90% of that excess is absorbed by the oceans, which experienced the highest heat content in history last year. The rate of ocean warming has more than doubled over the past two decades, compared with the average over the previous 45 years.
This disrupts the planet’s energy equilibrium. In a well-functioning system, the amount of radiation entering and leaving the Earth system is roughly similar. But a heat surplus has been accumulating since at least 1960 and has noticeably accelerated in recent years.
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Today is World Bear Day.
And some of them are running out of ice.
Polar bears depend on sea ice to hunt and survive.
Without it, they can’t find food.
The ice is disappearing faster
than they can adapt.
This isn’t nature failing.
It’s us pushing it too far.
Today is World Bear Day 🤎
And they ask for nothing.
Not your posts.
Not your words.
Not your attention.
Just space to live.
Forests that remain.
Ice that doesn’t disappear beneath their feet.
If you love them —
protect what they call home.
Because one day of awareness
means nothing
without a lifetime of action. 🐻🌍
"Please make no mistake. Climate change is the biggest threat to global security that modern humans have ever faced."
- Sir. David Attenborough.
#climate#energy#go100re
You call them “natural disasters.”
I call them consequences.
You cut forests, heat the oceans, poison the air
and then act surprised when everything starts collapsing.
I’m not angry.
I’m just responding.
As I look back on the path I've taken, I am reminded of the saying, "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." Let us all embrace the opportunity to act now, for the health of our planet and the future of our world.
What are the top 3 countries flooding the ocean with plastic?
- Malaysia dumps 73,000 metric tons a year.
- India cranks out over 126,000 a year.
- And the Philippines? A jaw-dropping 356,000 metric tons - every single year.
And no, your soggy paper straw isn’t fixing any of it.
While rivers vomit city waste straight into the sea by the hundreds of thousands of tons, you’re out there sipping sad lattes through limp cardboard like it’s saving the planet.
Thank you for your “Meatless Mondays.”
Truly. After 200 years of industrial carnage, one Monday a week is exactly what I needed.
I feel so much better now.
There is a cave where the air itself can kill you in seconds.
Movile Cave in Romania has been sealed off from the outside world
for about 5.5 million years.
Its atmosphere contains toxic gases and almost no oxygen.
Yet an entire ecosystem evolved there — spiders, worms and insects
that exist nowhere else on Earth.