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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Pollutical @pollutical]

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[Matthew Gross @HurricaneAddict]

I really don't think enough people fully comprehend the worlds that are about to collide here.

You already have people in geopolitical circles warning about the threat of famine based on surging prices / availability of fertilizer components, and you also have long-term weather modeling all converging on a worst case scenario for a building El Nino event, which will peak near the end of the year. These are two slow moving but entirely predictable disasters that when coupled together will each make the other orders of magnitude worse. (This will take months to fully unfold, but at this point, the die is cast.)

There's no event in our history books that combines the current global population with the impending fertilizer shortage and the strength of the El Nino that's coming. We are about to witness an unprecedented event that will push crops around the globe to their limit.

[Shenaz Kermalli @ShenazKermalli]

this is what a major Canadian newspaper chooses to publish on their front page on the five-year anniversary date of a Muslim family getting run over and killed by a white supremacist in London Ontario.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

BAM! Colombia has announced a historic ban on all new oil and large-scale mining projects in its part of the Amazon Rainforest, protecting an area roughly the size of Sweden. 🌿

Experts say the move could help protect one of the planet’s most important ecosystems—often called the “lungs of the Earth.” 🌎🌳

Nature is amazing. Protect it.

#ActOnClimate #nature

[Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR]

Rivers around the world are quietly running out of oxygen, and climate change is emerging as the main culprit. A sweeping global analysis of more than 21,000 river systems found that nearly 80% have been steadily losing dissolved oxygen over the past four decades, threatening fish, biodiversity, and the overall health of freshwater ecosystems. Tropical rivers are being hit the hardest, even more than rivers in rapidly warming polar regions.
#WaterIsLife #Rivers
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[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

We are in the Age of Humans - the Anthropocene.
Our new article (open access) shows how even with a moderate future emissions scenario, global temperature will still be elevated by 3-4°C in the year 3000!
Lifetime of our CO2 in the air is that long.
https://t.co/eI3uMOrpem

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Here's an updated anomaly graph for sea-surface temperatures in region Nino 3.4, using the preferred color scheme.

I will be updating these whenever they look crazier than the previous update. That may be daily.

[Jenny Kwan @JennyKwanBC]

Proposed water-intensive AI data centres mean 24/7 noise, constant diesel generator air pollution, and massive strain on our water supply as historic droughts loom.
Global lessons show Virginia found incompatible w/housing, and Ireland's data centres swallow 22% of grid power 2/3

[Pollutical @pollutical]

Capitalist humour:

"Hey, let's make a purely symbolic gesture toward environmental harm reduction with paper straws, then pivot hard to a massive jump in energy and fresh water use so that we can offer unreliable bullshit products to the public and overproof surveillance to the state, all while accelerating the death spiral of the human species! It'll be a gas! Get it! A gas! Ha ha ha! But seriously, which island did you say is the post-Epstein playground? I gotta let off some steam."

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“How did we go from paper straws to data centres?”

Because no one listened to the environmentalists who said unchecked corporate pollution was the bigger issue.

[DJ Koessler @DJKoessler]

A timeline documenting Trump and Epstein's relationship appeared this morning in NYC, on the corner of Mulberry & Grand 👀

[Abier @abierkhatib]

By the way, he’s still working at Harvard.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

This happened outside the detention center facility at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey.
Americans no longer have any rights. We are at a point of no return.

[zellie @zellieimani]

46 people, including press, were arrested tonight at the Delaney Hall protest. The rationale was because they had helmets, masks and shields.

That’s not justification. That’s fascism.

[Pollutical @pollutical]

@MasterPortalX @wyattreed13 GFY.

[Onesie @RealZionistJunk]

Dear Wyatt,

@elonmusk and @nikitabier are blatantly suppressing reach of all accounts that criticise Israel.

Peoples accounts are getting strikes left right and centre on this for mere non sense.

Zionist War criminals and EU sanctioned hate mongers continue to spew hatred and announce mass killings here on X.

After all Musk loves his money and perhaps has a blackmail on him too.

That drama of Elon when he showed the middle finger of him being oblivious to whether he gets ads etc is after all a hypocrisy at best and quite classic of Elon the scammer that most people think he is.

[Pollutical @pollutical]

@NKapoor2020 @gazcon Moronically irrelevant.

*We* evolved in a low-CO2, oxygen-rich environment, as did our fragile little civilization.

That's exactly what our CO2 emissions are costing us.

[Stesmithy48 @stesmithy48]

@gazcon WOW this moron doesn't even understand how the carbon cycle works. 🤣🤣🤦🏻

Don't be as naive and gullible as him folks, read this to avoid making the same fallacy of over simplification as he does...

https://t.co/IiIsYDoiEk

[BONUS🌍 @TheDisproof]

@gazcon Expert here, Gary is wrong 1) watch https://t.co/WgYiXvFheD 2) nature's carbon sinks remove its emissions. Nature cannot remove all of the fossil fuel emissions on top. 3) UK banking is responsible for approx 7% of fossil fuel investments. 185 countries emit less than UK.