Merry Voyage

Traveller, explorer, hiker

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

I love that a Black woman is responsible for this. 😂
Shout out to @RepBeatty for filing the lawsuit to get Trump‘s name removed from the Kennedy Center

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Join us on Thu, May 21 for a virtual event on how and where to find accurate & timely wildfire information amid an evolving information landscape. Featuring Kevin Fetterman (@watchdutyapp), Zeke Lunder (The Lookout), & Daniel Swain (@ucanr). https://t.co/0GzPBqAFVl

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

James Hansen, the NASA scientist who first warned Congress about climate change in 1988, published a new paper this morning. His conclusion: 2026 is forecast to be the hottest year ever recorded in the entire history of instrumental temperature measurement. Not second hottest. The hottest. And he says 2027 will be hotter still, because the rate of global warming has literally doubled since 2015. The last time a monster El Niño hit the whole world simultaneously was 1877. Florence Nightingale wrote to the Lord Mayor of London calling it "the most hideous record of human suffering the world has ever seen." That was a natural event on a cooler planet with zero fossil fuel emissions baked into the baseline. We are not on that planet anymore.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ElNino #ClimateScience

[Merry Voyage @MerryVoyage]

Definitely worth listening to the incoming Hungarian Prime Minister speak about how he was treated on State TV

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Long unofficially banned from appearing on state TV, incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar appears on a channel to which he was previously not allowed only to announce an end of "North Korean" style Orban media monopoly.

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

The @NASAArtemis crew captured this view of the Moon eclipsing the Sun yesterday. The three "stars" to the lower right of the Moon are actually planets. The middle one has a slightly red tint.

That's Mars.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Holy cow. Off. A. Cliff!

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Lots of buzz online about an upcoming major March heatwave for the American SW & California. And in this case, it does indeed appear increasingly likely than an extremely anomalous and even record-breaking heatwave may envelop much of the SW about a week from now.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 20 days to make your voice heard.
They filter drinking water for downstream communities. They hold soil on steep slopes above salmon streams that are already in crisis. They’re home to the northern spotted owl, the marbled murrelet, coho salmon, steelhead, and hundreds of species that evolved over millennia in conditions you can’t replicate by planting seedlings in rows.
https://t.co/BpNE0aMlbx

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

Big Oil is providing substantial financial and strategic support to Republican AGs in an effort to block my climate impact disclosure law. They're even going so far as to weaponize the First Amendment. They can try to stop us, but we will win this fight to tackle climate change.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

In case you missed it live last night, a recording of my presentation for the National Academy of Sciences' public lecture series is now available on YouTube. "Climate Change through the Lens of Increasing Hydroclimate Whiplash" https://t.co/Ctp5lCtO1n

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

In case you missed our conversation on the Gates climate memo yesterday, the recording is now available!
https://t.co/9nkQs8Qgx2

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

Antarctic glacier’s alarming retreat is the fastest ever seen

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometers in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise

https://t.co/bY931dv8uo

https://t.co/xBXQpCIAnk

[Merry Voyage @MerryVoyage]

@MikeHudema Belém has an airport. Why do they need this road?
It seems that the COPs have been co-opted by those who want to ensure no real agreements are made. Now a road through the Amazon signals you have no idea what is being discussed.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Governor Gavin Newsom replaces Donald Trump on the world stage by announcing that he will attend the United Nations climate summit in Brazil that the MAGA leader refused to send a delegation to.

Big Oil owns Trump but they don't own his ascendant arch-nemesis...

COP30, the conference in question, will be held on Friday and Newsom will be the highest-profile American government official in attendance. The appearance, which will supercharge interest in his 2028 presidential run, comes in the wake of his historic redistricting victory on Tuesday.

The governor told Politico that he's making the trip “because of the complete abdication of the Trump administration that is joining the Saudis and Russia and the Gulf states.”

“It’s doubled down on hydrocarbons as the rest of the world is sprinting ahead on low-carbon green growth,” he said. “For me, it is about our economic competitiveness, period, full stop.”

Newsom's angle here is a smart one. Climate change is an existential crisis for the survival of our species, but it's also an enormous economic opportunity for those countries that are willing to adopt clean energy quickly and efficiently. Either the United States rises to meet demand or China will.

Trump has repeatedly dismissed climate change as a "hoax" and a "con job" despite the overwhelming evidence and proliferation of extreme weather events. Fossil fuel companies helped foist him into power and he's paying them back tenfold at the cost of our planet.

“I just want to make sure everyone understands we’re maybe 2,000 miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but we’re a world away in terms of our mindset on these issues,” Newsom added.

Tens of thousands of diplomats, scientists, experts, and activists are attending the conference which will unfold over two weeks in Belém, a city close to the mouth of the Amazon River. Newsom will have a strong legacy to tout during his trip since California has been leading America in renewable energy on numerous fronts.

The rest of the world is eager to speak with the United States and so Newsom will have an opportunity to boost his international standing even further—

“The U.S. will not play a major role. The world is collectively outraged, and so we will focus — as will everyone else — on engaging in talks with those who are driving the process forward," said Jochen Flasbarth, undersecretary in the German Ministry of Environmental Affairs."

Thanks to Gavin Newsom, the world doesn't have to count America out just yet. We need not surrender our global leadership. It's time to recommit to our responsibilities.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Gavin Newsom!

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

It’s not the 6th mass extinction of life on Earth, it’s a mass extermination.
The fossil fuel industry and politicians know this is happening and are doing the opposite of what we need to stop it.
The media largely watches silent, only concerned with fluff and nonsense.

[Merry Voyage @MerryVoyage]

V. Please continue posting. We all need to see that this is occurring! Our heads aren't really buried in the sand, it just feels and looks like it. But the ears are listening, and the mind is sometimes excepting this new reality and understanding the urgency to do something.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

If you think this is a bad move and I should continue, let me know (seems to be the popular opinion).

I also need to follow more of you 🥰

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Because this post has upset so many people, I'm posting it again.

I invite you to share it too.

[Merry Voyage @MerryVoyage]

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[Dr. Yousef 🇵🇸 @yousef_ki1]

Let’s break the algorithm — reply with a dot.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us reevaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.