Gideon Simeloff

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Born 327.46ppm

[Gideon Simeloff @GideonSimeloff]

@BenGoldsmith @aliciakearns Isn't the problem the vast land use and carbon intensity of the meat

[Gideon Simeloff @GideonSimeloff]

@Marco_mmabjj @anika_climate Please review the broad sweep of data more thoroughly or consult ai. The world and the UK are undeniably warming. Even in this list you can clearly see it - how many of the top ten occur in the last 10-11 years, for instance?

[Tony Juniper @TonyJuniper]

This is about a thousand more people than died in the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, yet hardly a mention in news bulletins. Extreme heat is becoming so frequent to the point where it’s no longer noteworthy, while some say we should slow down on emissions reductions…

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

England just had its hottest day in May in 250 years.

It's too hot.

[Robin Boardman @RobinBoardmanUK]

The Sahel is at record temperatures. India is baking at 45°C. 90 dead in Uttar Pradesh from flooding.

This is not a forecast. This is not a warning. This is now. Every week, another record. Every week, more bodies.

[Dr. Serge Zaka (Dr. Zarge) @SergeZaka]

On peut le dire clairement maintenant : nous nous dirigeons vers l’un des événements thermiques les plus spectaculaires jamais observés en France tout mois confondus, totalement hors du champ statistique de ce qui a été connu jusqu’à présent en mai. C’est absolument délirant :
➡️Le record national de chaleur pour un mois de mai pourrait être battu, avec plus de 36-37°C attendus en France pendant PLUSIEURS JOURS.
➡️Les 35°C pourraient remonter jusqu’à la moitié nord du pays, tandis que la Bretagne vivrait une situation totalement hors normes (il ne serait pas étonnant d'y approcher les 34°C !!). Nous sommes à +15°C au-dessus des normes sur la façade Atlantique !
➡️Lundi, mardi et mercredi pourraient devenir, de très loin, les journées les plus chaudes jamais observées en France en mai, avec plus de 30°C sur la quasi-totalité du territoire.
➡️Des records mensuels pourraient tomber plusieurs jours de suite, y compris sur des stations centenaires, tant l’épisode s’annonce intense et durable : jusqu’à 10 jours possibles.
➡️On est vraiment à la limite des seuils de canicules et de vague de chaleur : nous sommes en mai, au printemps !

[Terraformation @TF_Global]

The Atlantic Forest once covered 15 percent of Brazil's land area. By the 20th century, more than 88 percent of it was gone.

What remained was the most threatened major forest biome on Earth, also one of the most biodiverse: more endemic species per square kilometer than almost anywhere. Species found nowhere else, compressed into fragments. And then, something began to turn.

Brazil's Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact brought together hundreds of organizations with a single target: restore 15 million hectares by 2050. Restoration has been happening at scale, with natural regeneration recovering degraded land faster than most models predicted. Forest cover in the Atlantic Forest biome has been increasing for the first time in centuries.

The species are returning. Golden lion tamarins, once nearly extinct at fewer than 200 individuals, now number more than 3,700, almost entirely through habitat protection and restoration in the Atlantic Forest. Jaguars, tapirs, peccaries, and hundreds of bird species have recolonized restored areas.

The Atlantic Forest is not saved. But it is growing again. The direction has reversed.

#nature #conservation #restoration #reforestation

[Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland]

This is horrific. According to the Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index, the UK ranks 189th out of 240 countries and territories for how intact its nature and biodiversity remain.
https://t.co/TtXoZZxuyF

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

A striking figure by Andrew Fanning, showing cumulative extinctions from 1500 to 2025, against the numbers that would be expected naturally over this period, and against what would be consistent with the planetary boundary.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Ireland is among the most nature depleted countries on Earth, with precious little being done to change that.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

If we stopped eating meat, we could reduce the land we use for agriculture by 75%.

That's 31.3 million sq km, or 12.08 million sq mi. An area larger than all of Africa, or about four of the contiguous US.

[Craig Lawrence @clawrence]

I see many posts talking about how 'resource intensive' wind and solar are.

Check my math, but the world extracts, processes, transports, and burns 100 million barrels of oil a day, about 14 million metric tons worth.

My best estimate of the weight of all the wind turbine blades installed ON EARTH today (caveat, used Claude to help estimate, check my math) is 20 million metric tons. So, 1.5 days worth of global oil consumption. AND THEY LAST FOR 20+ YEARS.

Don't let people scare you with big numbers. There is nothing on earth more resource intensive than the oil and gas indsutry. It's just that when we burn oil and gas, the waste ends up mostly in the atmosphere (and your lungs), not in a landfill.

As if that is somehow better?

[TIME @TIME]

New data confirms what climate experts have long worried about: a warm mass of deep polar water has expanded toward Antarctica. https://t.co/RYw9mcM70x

[Ember @ember_energy]

In 2025, battery prices fell 45% as global storage deployment rose 46% to ~250 GWh 🔋

That’s already enough to shift 14% of new solar generation across the day, improving system flexibility ⚡

https://t.co/oJZTWTdmTq

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Coral reefs are already at risk around 1 to 2°C. Extinction risk rises significantly beyond 2 to 3°C. The key point is nonlinearity. Climate impacts don't increase smoothly with temperature. They accelerate as thresholds are crossed. Rate of warming matters as much as magnitude.

[James Albert 🐟 🇺🇦 @JamesAl0410008]

An Arc of Deforestation is encircling the Amazon. Yellow indicates areas of high forest loss (3-14%), red areas of very high loss (>14%) in 2024. The region is beginning an epochal and irreversible ecological regime shift.

https://t.co/4JovRHODrh

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

Fifteen weeks into 2026, and wildfires have burned more than twice as much land (4.71 million acres) than the second-worst season at this point in the year (2.31 million acres in 2016).

[Michael Turner @Michael71T]

Hundreds of dolphins washed ashore in Somalia, after Chinese fishing vessels used powerful SONAR to chase Tunas.

Chinese fishing vessels loitering illegally inside Somalia's waters, are causing huge environmental damage!

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Absolutely heartbreaking
Trump is going to mine "The Clarion-Clipperton Zone which is a treasure trove of biodiversity, hosting a plethora of marine species adapted to its unique environment"
Many species we are not aware off and never will be as Trump annihilates them
https://t.co/5UKUlkaMhB