"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally."
Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds?
Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
Think of CO₂ removal like a time machine. How far back does planting 100 million trees take us?
One mature tree takes up ~25 kg of CO₂/year, so 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back ~33 minutes in a year. Nature will not save us from fossil fuel CO₂.
NEW: An estimated 7% of the entire population of the critically-endangered Tapanuli Orangutan were killed in a single weather event, according to research led by Borneo Futures with @frediotto.bsky.social as an author.
An estimated 58 Orangutans were killed by landslides during Cyclone Senyar (1/4)
When I look up at the night sky I yearn to know what other sentient creatures are out there, unless they look like Astrospartus mediterraneus in which case please god let me die ignorant
Unprecedented system. A cat 5 purricane with two distinct eyes visible. And an eye wall replacement cycle appears to be taking place.
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common.
.... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
Europe's weather in motion for past 12 hours. The heat machine in action...
World Weather Attribution
Ted Underwood
Michael E. Mann
Rebecca Solnit
David Ho
Heathrow reaches 31.1°C at 3pm, equalling a very long standing record for the 24th May - from 1922 (at Kensington Palace). #mayheatwave #climatechaos
Dundee Satellite Station Ltd.
Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱
Satisfying or disturbing to watch? 🤓
Video
Miles King
Laurent Formery
Doug McNeall
No idea who said this first, but it’s good. #DunningKruger
