Hendrik Smith

Promote sustainable and regenerative agriculture in South Africa

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK @PIK_Climate]

🆕7 of 9 Planetary Boundaries are now transgressed; all 7 at their highest recorded levels: Planetary Health Check 2026 finds Earth’s interconnected life-support systems under increasing strain.
Report👉️ https://t.co/DbFREPjYJ3
Video👉️ https://t.co/uQh549173a

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

Climate change is canceling July 4 celebrations.

Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, just called off its 250th birthday parade because it's too hot to march. Yesterday tied Philadelphia's all-time record of 103°F and with humidity, it feels like 118°F there right now, according to AccuWeather.

First, organizers shortened the route; then they moved up the start time before finally sending out the notice overnight. (Floats alone were allowed to drive down the street, and Historic District venues have stepped up and are hosting as many events indoors as they can.)

In DC, the Great American State Fair has closed until 5pm due to extreme heat.

Heat waves aren't new. But I'm a climate scientist, and I can tell you heat waves like this are virtually impossible without fossil fuel pollution.

Not only that, but when extreme weather hits, research shows that connecting it to climate change helps people understand why it matters.

And you know who the most trusted people to do that are? Not scientists. You! Yes, people we know are the most effective messengers to have these conversations.

So if you're worried about what's happening and how extreme heat puts us at risk -- talk about it!

https://t.co/hvQCeplmeW

[Nate Hagens @NJHagens]

The desolation of foundational, life-supporting ecosystems has resulted in our planet now operating at roughly half its biological productive capacity.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Wait. For. It. NASA animation shows Global temperatures warm slowly at first, then rapidly. Warming is accelerating! Here’s the truth. It’s real. It’s us. And we have to come to terms with it, and deal with reality, rather than deceiving ourselves, and hoping it goes away. It won’t… without intervention. #climate #globalwarming #science #climatechange

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Please god people will listen and take David Attenborough’s most important warnings seriously. He is not exaggerating. We are in the most unimaginable trouble.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon Musk called Hitler a socialist then Grok correctly debunks him by pointing out Hitler rejected Marxism and ran a fascist system that prioritized nationalism and private enterprise. Grok then explains socialism is class equality and worker ownership!

Never deleting this app.

[Rothamsted Research @Rothamsted]

Converting grassland to arable farming risks soil health and water quality🚜
Using long-term, field scale data from our Farm Platform in Devon, we found soil organic matter ⬇️45%, soil carbon and nitrogen ⬇️41%, phosphorus ⬇️ 61%.

Full story👇
https://t.co/qvBaAUdLER

[Hendrik Smith @Healthy_Soils]

@agronomistag If it is a once-off application of quality activated biochar on suitable soils it might yield a good RoI.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The penny will drop soon. There will be mass panic and the media will be fighting to say they weren’t warned how bad it was. They were. Like here:

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

About free speech:

More people should know that Piers Morgan reported me to the Metropolitan Police for this interview.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

This is over a year old, but it has still only ever been seen by a minority of my followers, so I hope you will forgive me it you are seeing it again.

[Blake Vince @blake_vince]

Blake Vince Shares 1.7 Million Reasons To Stop Tilling Your Soil - AgWeb. A very well written article capturing the highlights of a talk I gave in February. My compliments to the author:) https://t.co/fGAMdUOAvI

[Rania @umyaznemo]

This will only end with the complete annihilation of Israel...hopefully very soon!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Former US Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent confirms Israel is intentionally sabotaging every single attempt at peace. He says Trump is completely trapped and the only way out is to cut off offensive military support to Tel Aviv immediately.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s.

The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc.

SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core.

https://t.co/21awBtifPu

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Francesca Albanese's latest report on the systematic, ubiquitous, soul crushing, permanent torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities, soldiers and settlers is one that we can only turn our eyes away from at the price of losing what is left of our souls. END THE GENOCIDE. NOW!

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Mearsheimer: From 1971 to 2021, U.S. murdered 38 million people. The amount of havoc we have wrought on the Middle East in recent years is just stunning. What we do in places like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, we use economic leverage to basically starve people, to make them suffer. 1/

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

THE UNITED STATES HAS STARTED A BRAZEN AND UNPROVOKED WAR

"It may be because of what's in the Epstein files ... it may be blackmail, it may be corruption ... but it is not about America's interests.”
-Jeffrey Sachs.

[Chris K. @ChrisK_Banded]

WEOC vs. Copilot: copied and pasted. The "bottom line" portion is exactly what I had in my own mind: someone's trying to sell something. Be careful who you listen to and always test the messaging you allow into your thought process.

#WEOC #Skeptic #LookingForAnswers #FAFO

From Copitot:
Hot take: WEOC is wildly overrated as a soil “health” metric.
Yeah, it’s flashy. It moves fast. It reacts to management. It makes great conference slides. But here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody selling tests wants to say out loud:
• WEOC is labile to the point of chaos. A warm week, a rain event, or a mower pass can swing it. That’s not “sensitivity”—that’s volatility.
• There’s no standard method. Change the extraction ratio, shaking time, or pre‑treatment and you get a different number. If pH behaved like this, we’d riot.
• Context dominates the signal. Climate, texture, mineralogy, and land use can overshadow management. A “high” WEOC in Iowa might be meaningless in Arizona.
• It doesn’t predict yield. Zero validated agronomic thresholds. Zero decision‑ready guidance. It’s a research metric masquerading as a management tool.
• It’s not uniquely special. POXC, HWEOC, MBC, respiration—they all capture different slices of labile C. WEOC isn’t the king; it’s just one more contestant.
• It’s a tiny fraction of SOM. Treating WEOC like a master indicator is like judging a whole farm by one fencepost.
Bottom line: WEOC is useful, but the hype is outpacing the science. If someone tells you it’s the soil health metric, they’re selling something—or oversimplifying a complex system.

[Andrew McGuire @agronomistag]

The Great Divide in agriculture might actually be between those who believe this, "Mysticism and science will eventually prove each other right," and those who don't.

Quote is from the regenerative ag report that the article below mentions.