318 ppm=677GtC = 3bn born engineer applied physics I am collecting #PlanetaryBoundaries data. #climate is a feedback structure. #biodiversity #PFAS
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Thomas Bratananium retweeted
In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence.
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Billionaires destroying the life force of the planet and killing future of all young people alive today
Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, estimated quarter of a million trees occupied 815 acres of forest near town of Muhos in rural northern Finland.
Now they are all gone
Google illegally cleared an estimated 250,000 trees across 330 hectares of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, to prepare for a new AI data center before completing mandatory environmental impact assessments
And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki
theguardian.com/environment/…
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
What role do forests, water cycles, and planetary energy balance play in regulating Earth's climate?
Listen to our latest episode of the MEER Podcast with @robdelaet :
youtu.be/pHh55tQqZRw?si=heH4…
#ClimateChange #EcosystemRestoration #ClimateAdaptation
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NEW MEER PODCAST
Tom harris joins us to explore how the forests, soils and oceans we rely on to absorb carbon are beginning to release it instead, and what that shift means for our response to extreme heat.
Watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/VQXxL9YHEXU?si=I59W…
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LAND TEMPERATURE INCREASE, SEPTEMBER 2026 OVER 2°C
Berkeley Earth, September 2026 Temperature Update calculated land (only) temperature increase at 2.17°C.
It is clearly accelerating.
berkeleyearth.org/september-…
#climatechange. #globalwarming
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"The human species will survive somehow but we will destroy almost everything we have built up over the last two thousand years. I am pretty sure."
theecologist.org/2019/jan/03…
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
Clouds get reduced due to global warming itself
fact-111 Dr. Pushker Kharecha
#FB7 cloud feedback
#Hansen.221.9
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tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Thomas Bratananium retweeted
Great piece by Tom Harris on cloud feedback
The world's cloud cover is reducing, which makes the planet hotter
This may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600ppm
Very, very, scary
substack.com/home/post/p-220…
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
Cloud feedback of less Sulfur Aerosol is known, but that a warmer surface scatters clouds ☁️ over the Ocean 🌊 and land is little known - also the role of plants and plankton to make their own rain and shadow. Tried to make a graph with some prompting
🤖 Made with AI
AS FEARED: "The world’s clouds are changing. They are covering less overall area and are dimming, with the effect that they reflect less solar radiation back into space. This increase in solar absorption is a major cause of the accelerating warming we are now experiencing."
ALT To determine how close the relationship between Earth’s surface air temperature and cloud area is, we can look at the monthly comparison of temperature versus CAF. Figure 2 below shows that relationship, and it shows it being remarkably linear. This strongly suggests that there is a direct feedback between global mean surface temperature and cloud cover. This is the cloud-temperature feedback. It suggests that as we continue to warm, cloud cover will continue to diminish, pushing up the absorbed solar radiation and continuing to accelerate warming. It doesn’t support the theory that the recent acceleration is temporary and will exist over a limited time period of aerosol adjustment, this feedback is here to stay.
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
Fixed it, @UNEP
We cannot return to lower temperatures with only emission reductions and carbon capture and storage
Anyone who claims that is grossly negligent.
Misrepresention of inconveniet truths in order to give people false hope is very dangerous.
The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone.
But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100.
Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century.
New #EmissionsGap Report: unep.org/en/news-and-stories…
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
climate scientists: "this may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8°C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600 ppm.. Very, very, scary"
Great piece by Tom Harris on cloud feedback
The world's cloud cover is reducing, which makes the planet hotter
This may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600ppm
Very, very, scary
substack.com/home/post/p-220…
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
Ich finde es richtig, besonders schwere Naturzerstörung als sogenannten Ökozid im internationalen Recht zu verankern.
taz.de/!6222590
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
RECORDING THE DESTABILIZATION OF EARTH'S CLIMATE
2026 State of the Climate Report, Bill Ripple, Michael Mann, Johan Rockström et al. 2 sets of graphs. One: accelerating destabilization of the climate system and biosphere. The other: Human activities causing the destabilization that leads to biosphere. collapse.academic.oup.com/bioscience/… #environment #climatechange #globalwarming
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„Der Markt regelt das.“ Die vielleicht größte Lebenslüge der deutschen Wohnungspolitik. Während private Immobilienkonzerne mit Wohnraum Rendite erwirtschaften, bauen die landeseigenen Wohnungsunternehmen in Berlin Zehntausende neue Wohnungen. Und trotzdem erzählen uns Union, Immobilienlobby und Teile der Medien seit Wochen, Vergesellschaftung würde den Wohnungsbau zerstören. Vielleicht sollten wir endlich aufhören, Wohnraum als Spekulationsobjekt zu behandeln. Wohnen ist ein Grundbedürfnis, kein Geschäftsmodell zur Gewinnmaximierung. Der Markt hatte Jahrzehnte Zeit. Das Ergebnis erleben Millionen Mieterinnen und Mieter jeden Monat auf ihrem Konto.
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
„Woher kommt die Wut?“, fragt das ZDF.
Ernsthaft? Jahrzehnte kaputtgesparte Schulen, Lehrermangel, unbezahlbare Mieten, explodierende Lebenshaltungskosten, prekäre Jobs, BAföG-Misere, fehlende Jugendclubs und eine Klimakrise, deren Folgen vor allem die Jüngeren tragen müssen. Eine Generation soll immer mehr leisten, immer länger arbeiten, kann sich immer weniger leisten und darf gleichzeitig die Krisen eines Systems ausbaden, von dem vor allem andere profitieren. Die eigentliche Frage ist nicht, woher die Wut kommt. Sondern wie weit sich der Journalismus von der Lebensrealität junger Menschen entfernt haben muss, um sich darüber noch zu wundern.
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youtube.com/watch?v=TWOzA2qF… FUEL AXIS OF EVIL
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse addressing an international security organization, warning of a fossil fuel axis of evil
Whitehouse calls out climate damage, and corrupt fossil fuel influence. 'The fossil fuel industry operates through front groups and funds the far right, as paid allies'.
Its pollute-for-free Fossil fuel business model is morally a sin, - now lethal to humankind. whitehouse.senate.gov/news/r… #climatechange #globalwarming
Thomas Bratananium retweeted
Why are peatlands burning?
Indonesia’s estimated 24.2 million hectares of peatland are vulnerable to fire, with 16.4 million hectares degraded and at risk. The primary cause is industrial-scale plantations for timber, pulp and paper, rice paddies and palm oil. To cultivate these lands, Indonesia drains peatlands with extensive canal networks stretching about 285,000 kilometres. This drainage leads to water flowing into rivers or the sea, leaving the dried peatlands susceptible to burning, particularly during severe El Niño years that bring drought to Indonesia.
phys.org/news/2026-10-indone…
