WATER LESS THAN 60 KM FROM NORTH POLE
The satellite image, from NASA Worldview, shows that water is visible less than 60 km or 37.28 miles from the North Pole on August 29, 2026.
From the post 'Record high sea surface temperature causing global devastation', at:
https://t.co/Fa9zjVkQNv
As a student of History and observer of people, a lot of you seem to only view violence in the physical form. That way of thinking is dangerous. It allows you to forget poverty is violence. That denying you healthcare is violence. That polluting your water and air is violence.
this particular family recreating a dress made famous by a woman who was starved to malnutrition in nazi occupied netherlands and who spent her final years working towards ensuring that that never happened again is honestly deeply disturbing to me
Great (and scary) visualization of 2024 daily temperatures compared to prior years by the BBC today. Evocative of the iconic Joy Division album cover from 1979: https://t.co/o2zLigFV7h
"As pressures increase and the risk of Earth's climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse."
😬 Read that twice!
This is what things looks like at 1.5 degrees of warming. Think about what it looks like at twice that, which is where we’re headed unless we do a *lot* more very quickly.
this is one reason why the word "resilience" misrepresents the climate crisis: increasingly there will be no time "bounce back" between unnatural disasters
Appalachia is catastrophically devastated by mass flooding. Nearly 100,000 people in Georgia are being told to shelter inside from a chemical fire. Bridges and roads across the Southeast are gone. The collapse will not come suddenly, it will come in fits and starts.