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“Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN.
“Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will have unpredictable consequences. Two-thirds of all irrigated agriculture in the world is likely to be affected…”
“Glaciers give way to new coasts [Arctic].
“Climate change is causing rapid shrinkage of high-latitude glaciers, fundamentally altering the nature of Arctic landscapes. Now, research quantifies the substantial, yet under-reported, development of new coastlines and islands that are revealed as marine-terminating glaciers fall back from the sea.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02275-4
“Greenland might open a vast uranium deposit to mining. Locals say it could alter their way of life…
“Close to the world’s second largest rare earth deposit and the sixth largest uranium deposit, the town of Narsaq has been forced into conflict with a mining company thousands of miles away in Australia.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/mar/20/greenland-australian-mining-company
“Huge wildfires swept across Scotland yesterday as temperatures soared to be 9C hotter than Madrid.
“Crews in the Highlands were faced with a ‘four-mile fire front’ as they tackled one of three major blazes in the region.”
“Pictures show terrifying scale of Gwynedd wildfire [Wales] seen for miles around…
“It comes as firefighters dealt with multiple wildfires across the region, including one that is ongoing today at Carrog, in Denbighshire, where residents living nearby were told to close their windows.”
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/pictures-show-terrifying-scale-gwynedd-31251611
“What would France look like at +4°C?
“…In a report published Thursday, March 20, France’s national weather service, Météo-France, described the climate of a France at +4°C: a terrifying plunge into a future where climate disruption will increase risk across the board.”
“Temperatures hit 20.4° [68.7F] making it the warmest March 21 on record [Netherlands].
“Weeronline reported that it was 20.4 degrees celsius at the weather station De Bilt at 1:10 p.m. According to the weather bureau, it is also the warmest March 21 since measurements began in 1901.”
https://nltimes.nl/2025/03/21/temperatures-hit-204deg-making-warmest-march-21-record
“EXCEPTIONAL WARMTH IN EUROPE.
Extraordinary warm night in the West with night minimums around +15C [59F] in Benelux. Maxes >25C in France and 24C in Germany (map); Dozens / Hundreds of records coming.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1903276444882469242
“A warmer and more humid climate across European regions is promoting an increased prevalence of mycotoxins coming from fungi, according to an EEA briefing…
“The fungi toxins can disrupt hormones, weaken the immune system, damage the liver and kidneys, increase the risk of miscarriage, harm unborn children, and act as carcinogens.”
https://www.preventionweb.net/news/climate-change-impacts-leading-increased-exposure-harmful-toxins
“Swiss glaciers volume loss since 2000:
“Almost 40% of the year 2000 ice volume has been lost! 2022-2023 are absolute record year (aka ‘y axis problem’)! [Melaine Le Roy]
https://x.com/subfossilguy/status/1903060196135464962
“Nothing like this has been seen in 130 years: Madrid shatters its historical rainfall records.
“Madrid has exceeded [this month] 200 l/m², a historic rainfall record in the city… To find the closest numbers to these we have to go back almost 30 years in time, to November 1997, when 198.4 l/m² were recorded. In addition, we must take into account that there are still 10 days left to close the month.”
https://madridsecreto.co/en/madrid-historical-record-rainfall-2025/
“Storm Martinho arrives bringing more rain to Spain after Laurence leaves three deaths in its wake…
“…this Thursday Martinho, the fourth storm in just two weeks, enters from the west, which will also leave abundant rainfall until the weekend, with intense winds in some areas.”
“Plastic waste discovered at the Mediterranean’s deepest point.
“Plastic, glass, and metal debris have been found at the Calypso Deep, the Mediterranean’s deepest point, raising concerns about the extent of ocean pollution.”
https://www.ehn.org/plastic-waste-discovered-at-the-mediterraneans-deepest-point-2671361527.html
“EXCEPTIONAL HEAT IN NORTH AFRICA: Temperatures up to 45C [113F] in Nigeria and Mali.
“42.6C Bidon; ALGERIA MARCH HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY tie (from few days ago); More monthly records: 42.3 Bordji B. Mokhtar, 40.8 In Salah, 39.1 In Azoua.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1903158541138931974
“Malawi’s women sand miners trapped in climate change dilemma.
“More women in Malawi turn to sand mining after drought, floods hit incomes but the practice is contributing heavily to environmental degradation, leaving communities even more vulnerable to the effects of climate change.”
“Ethiopia promises parliament [Renaissance] mega-dam inauguration within six months…
““In the next six months, we will cut a ribbon together,” Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told parliament… Egypt and Sudan have voiced concerns about its operation without a three-way agreement, fearing it could threaten their access to vital Nile waters.”
https://thearabweekly.com/ethiopia-promises-parliament-mega-dam-inauguration-within-six-months
“Water conflicts are on the rise around the world, according to data from the Pacific Institute.
“In the first four years of this decade alone, there have been 785 recorded water conflicts worldwide. This is already 27 percent higher than the number of conflicts linked to water resources of the entire decade from 2010-2019.”
https://www.statista.com/chart/34162/number-of-water-conflicts-worldwide/
“Severe drought grips Israel: Kinneret drops, Jordan River at record low.
“Winter 2024-2025 one of warmest seen in decades, with Israel recording only 50% of average rainfall; as groundwater declines and Jordan River reaches record-low flow, authorities warn: ‘This trend is concerning’.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/hybrydyn1x
“Tishreen Dam in Danger: Emergency efforts to prevent disaster [Syria]…
“The attacks launched by the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries… have caused severe damage to the dam’s structure… Approximately 5 million people depend on the dam’s water, in addition to irrigating 200,000 hectares of agricultural land.”
https://hawarnews.com/en/tishreen-dam-in-danger-emergency-efforts-to-prevent-disaster
“Can’t wash, can’t farm: Iranians battle ‘water bankruptcy’…
“Water levels in dams around the capital have plunged and water rationing and power cuts are forecast for the summer as the rain-starved country wilts under a severe drought.”
https://www.context.news/climate-risks/cant-wash-cant-farm-iranians-battle-water-bankruptcy
“Water scarcity: Pakistan’s biggest reservoir almost at dead level…
“As per official correspondence, Sindh province is facing an alarming water crisis as the country’s reservoirs approach exhaustion due to exceptionally low rainfall during the current Rabi season.”
https://www.geo.tv/latest/596284-water-scarcity-countrys-biggest-reservoir-almost-at-dead-level
“HISTORIC EVENT: 32 [89.6F] DEGREES IN KAZAKHSTAN.
“31.9 Kyzyl Orda, much hotter than how Kazakhstan had ever been this early and new monthly record for the town; 36.1 in TURKMENISTAN.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1902757867788308896
“Siberian Cities Set New [March] Temperature Records Amid Climate Concerns…
“Irkutsk reached 17.3 degrees, breaking its previous record of 12 degrees established in 2014. Meanwhile, Krasnoyarsk recorded 14.9 degrees, exceeding its prior maximum of 14.6 degrees from 2004.”
https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/siberian-cities-set-new-temperature-records-amid-climate-concerns-282393
“RECORD WARM NIGHT IN SIBERIA AND MONGOLIA:
“MINIMUM temperatures locally above +10C like in Aginskoe and Horinsk (typical of July!) in the Yakutia highlands, records destroyed by 5/6C. In MONGOLIA minimums up to +5C and records including +3.2 Dadal, 3.5 Khalkh Gol, 3.8 Dashbalbar.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1903101045770699231
“With the recent significant warming in temperature, the Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River, which had been frozen for five months, has completely thawed.
“The broken ice is flowing downstream.”
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1903064712126112153
“Next week, China will usher in a record-breaking heat wave in March!
“From March 24～26, many places in central & eastern China will usher in the earliest 30C or even 35C [95F] in history, and hundreds of weather stations are expected to break the warmest record in March!”
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1903055234210873677
“Glaciers in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh [Himalayan India] are melting at an accelerated pace, posing serious threats to the region’s water security, agriculture and ecological balance, noted geologist Prof Shakeel Romshoo said on Friday…
“Experts have called for eco-friendly tourism to reduce environmental stress on glaciers.”
https://brighterkashmir.com/melting-of-glaciers-a-grave-concern-romshoo
“Andhra Pradesh reels under mid-March heatwave [SE India]…
“Since mid-March, multiple mandals have been facing daily heatwaves, with the highest temperatures recorded at 42.7°C on March 18 and 42.3°C on March 19.”
“Climate change spares none, as the paddy cultivators of Tamil Nadu [southernmost India] are quickly discovering.
“Changing rainfall patterns and rising temperatures have been vastly impacting crop yields in the state, paddy cultivation taking the biggest hit.”
“Record heat continues in the Indian island of Amini Divi, in the Lakshadweep Islands.
“The minimum temperature today was 28.6C tying its record of March hottest night again… Male in the Maldives did it again 33.8C today, tying its hottest March day in history, set in 2024.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1902993582190899629
“More than 13,000 people evacuated in Malaysia’s floods hit Johor state. Emergency teams continue support as rains show no signs of stopping…
“Floodwaters have risen to dangerous levels in nine rivers, including Sungai Lenik, Sungai Pulai and Sungai Skudai, with continuous rain since March 19 causing major traffic congestion and road closures.”
“Rain Soaks Singapore as Scientists Worry About ‘Burst Flooding’…
“…burst flooding [are] urban deluges caused by intense, short-duration rainfall of more than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) in 5 minutes. Burst flooding is so called because it is primarily linked to cloudbursts, which is when an entire cloud suddenly discharges its water content… the number of cloudburst events increased by over 5% per year from 2017 to 2023.”
“Giant sunfish washes up on Western Australia’s southern coast…
“Mr Fowler, who is also a marine ecologist, said he was surprised to see one this far south… Mr Fowler said this fish’s death could be linked to recent marine heatwave events along WA’s coast.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/sunfish-washes-up-on-wa-south-coast/105077298
“Perth to experience late-season heatwave not seen for 40 years.
“While Perth is no stranger to intense bouts of heat during summer, March is typically a time of year when temperatures start to moderate in southwestern Australia. This March, however, is showing no signs of leaving summer behind…”
“PACIFIC ISLANDS RECORD HEAT:
“Three Marine heat waves surround a small and fading cool pool of water (Nino 3+4 area). More heat records in the past weeks include the March highest minimums of Honolulu, HAWAII with 76F (5th) and Pohnpei, MICRONESIA with 82F (several days).”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1902907839179624619
“Heavy rainfall caused the Pilcomayo River to overflow, affecting dozens of communities in Argentina’s Salta Province, south Bolivia, and Paraguay, according to local news reports.
“Footage from Gota del Chaco shows the overflown river in Villa Montes, Bolivia, on March 16 and 17.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hundreds-families-affected-river-flooding-020346077.html
“Glaciers on Borrowed Time: Capturing Data from Vanishing Ice in Bolivia…
“Where thick blue ice once filled the valley, bare rock now juts out like exposed bone. Year by year, the Western Huayna Potosí Glacier thins and retreats upslope at an annual rate of approximately 24 meters.”
“Trekking to Colombia’s melting glaciers on the ‘Climate Change Trail’.
““We have to walk a bit further each time we come up here,” says Wilson Blanco, leading us over Colombia’s icy roof. That’s the gag among the El Cocuy mountain guides: as the glaciers recede…”
“A wildfire northeast of Houston prompted evacuations as high winds rake the area, while another blaze outside of Miami has South Florida on edge…
“The entire southern Great Plains, including Texas, will be breezy and dry through the weekend, keeping fire risks elevated.”
“‘Leave now’: Polk County wildfire triples in 8 hours; fires burn over 2,000 acres [NC]…
“As of 5:30 p.m. on March 21, the Deep Woods Fire near Holbert Cove Road jumped to 1,102 acres with no containment, N.C. Forest Service spokesperson Jeremy Waldrop confirmed. This means the fire more than tripled in size over the course of eight hours…”
“‘Don’t call it zombie deer disease’: scientists warn of ‘global crisis’ as infections spread across the US…
“The contagious and always-fatal neurodegenerative disorder CWD infects the cervid family that includes deer, elk, moose and, in higher latitudes, reindeer. There is no vaccine or treatment.”
“It’s been a winter to remember for many of us in Michigan and one ‘Up North’ city [Gaylord] just broke its all-time snowfall record for the season.
“According to the Detroit Free Press, the National Weather Service office (located just a few miles south of the city) broke its record at 149.5 inches of snowfall from December 2024 – February 2025. That tops the 2016-2017 winter record by a half inch.”
https://wcrz.com/gaylord-breaks-snowfall-record/
“RECORD WARMTH IN EASTERN CANADA:
“Exceptionally mild temperatures in Newfoundland and Labrador up to 19.5C [67.1F] at Lake Harbour with monthly record smashed at Daniel’s Harbour with 17.4C.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1903263620005556284
“Melting ice reveals trash in Maritimes.
“Vanishing snow and ice are revealing garbage on the ground across the Maritimes… Scotian Shores – a volunteer group …removed nearly 40 thousand pounds of debris this year with hundreds of cleanups still to come.”
“The annual minimum has likely passed – “On March 1, Antarctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent of 1.98 million square kilometers (764,000 square miles).
“It tied for second lowest extent with 2022 and 2024 in the 47-year satellite record.” [Zack Labe]
https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3lkteb5brps2a
“The latest 12-month running mean global temperature anomaly… No further explanation needed.#
“More climate indicator visualizations at my website [Zack Labe]:”
https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/
““Not silver bullets”: COP30 CEO downplays impact of yearly climate summits.
“The world expects too much from the annual COP climate summits, said the CEO of COP30 to be held in Brazil this November, stressing the importance of implementing climate action all year round…”
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/03/19/not-silver-bullets-cop30-ceo-downplays-impact-of-cops/
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“Unfortunately, as far as the Mediterranean is concerned, it would not be wrong to say that ‘not a single inch of it is clean.’”
— Miquel Canals, professor at the University of Barcelona Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics
Good job, homo destructus!
Homo Callidus (clever) but, alas, far from Homo Sapiens (wise), Cassandra.
I bet the young American men & women cannot wait to find future employment as sand miners like the poor folk in Malawi. Nothing is more exciting & rewarding than shoveling incredibly heavy wet sand into the back of a truck. The blazing sun & 100% humidity are your lethal wet-bulb temperature job benefits.
Please sign up now for this highly stimulating career providing material for building concrete bunkers for the rich. The outstanding performers can boost their careers by moving from the polluted waters to the mountains where you can reduce boulders to gravel. You provide your own sledgehammer!
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
A tempting proposition indeed, Bob. Who could resist?
In all seriousness, I marvel at the brutal drudgery endured by so many around the world. How on earth do they do it? I wouldn’t last a day mining sand on a Malawian beach.
They keep saying this is survivable and we can adapt right. I still believe in Santa clause and the easter bunny too!
Heather, in our house he is known as “Stalker Claus” for his habit of constantly keeping an eye on children to track the merits of their behaviour. Seemed a little creepy to my youngest.
Regarding the link above about the mycotoxins in our food supply, a brief quote from the article says it all:
“People are exposed to these toxins by eating contaminated food (particularly grains and cereals, and products which contain them like bread or pasta). Washing and cooking these foods does not necessarily remove the mycotoxins. This is especially a problem since some of the fungi that produce mycotoxins are not visible, or detectable by smell or taste. Another route of exposure is through drinking water contaminated by agricultural runoff. Inhalation and absorption through the skin are other potential exposure routes, for people working with the crops or the food which has been affected.”
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[ME] I would imagine that Pres. Elon & Trump’s funding cutbacks to the NOAA & FDA & CDC & USDA & NIH will pretty much curtail any research & prevention here in the USA. The chance for later research & prevention will not be possible when we reach a certain point on the Carbon Pulse downslope.
Bon Appetit’! Who becomes the daily dinner ‘guinea pig’ to test for poison? “Okay, little Timmy. Since you have not finished your daily chores & school homework –> you eat first while we watch! Dig in!”
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Bob, Google is telling me that in the 1940’s as many as 100,000 Russians died of “alimentary toxic aleukia” from consuming foods contaminated with mycotoxins, so these fungi have form.
Is it just me, Pan, or is that last entry just too ironic? I guess the name can now be changed to the more accurate COPOUT30 with their blessing.
Lately there seems to be a flurry of energy discoveries, akin to cold fusion , showing up in news feeds, as though they will solve all of humanity’s problems. Yet we are currently generating more energy than at any time in history: it is not the lack of energy, but the uses to which we put it that seems to be the biggest problem.
During the three decades of COP junkets, mankind has used its enormous energy-generating capacity to:
Build giggle factories on numerous continents to manufacture vehicles for which there were few to no charging facilities;
Trillions of $, which are generated by burning fossil fuel, to expand the production of Weapons of Mass Destruction after having started wars in order to destroy Weapons of Mass Destruction;
Built enough petrochemical plant capacity to enable us to wrap the globe in plastic several times over;
Concocted a pseudo-currency to facilitate the commitment of international crimes that requires so much energy, it is equivalent to the emissions of the sprawling US defense industry;
Developed AI to make flying taxis and other vehicles for the fun and pleasure of the ultra rich, technologies so energy-intensive it is necessary to build entirely new data centers to handle the loads, as well as firing up mothballed coal-fired power plants to feed them;
But the number 1 change that has taken place since the start of the COP has been in the amount of energy required, and therefore emissions generated, to discover, transport, transmit, and produce additional energy to then squander on producing such things as “green” vehicles that weigh twice as much as the average weight of the vehicles (and therefore require twice the energy to propel them) as those being built before a single COP took place.
As peak oil caused an energy transition away from burning it to using it for purposes for which there is no substitute, perhaps a similar transition needs to be launched to do the same for energy use.
But I’m sure that would be “expecting too much.”
I think you are right, Rob, and if you need any further confirmation for these views, I think Jean-Baptiste Fressoz in his new book, and in his recent Planet:Critical podcast with Rachel Donald, provides the necessary overview.
I still say the use of the royal “we” erases the extremely real and important divide between the corporate owners of global power and the non-owners. Corporations were the perfect ultrasocial means to facilitate all those actions you enumerated, and they are now frantically aiming to usurp any effective regulation from the various political systems that are mostly supine to them.
Nothing will stop them from the outside- they are a collective that infects all social institutions.
So it’s a 1.5 C world now, and then will come a 2C world, and then a 3C world, most likely in our lifetimes. Collapse is in those numbers and in that guaranteed, unavoidable future, though not according to any precise year-by-year timetable.
Life will continue, but death will be more and more its equal – a nice consolation for such a stupid species.
Here we go, as Jon Brion sang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWjkAJ-Kkok
Martin, that is a new name to me. He sounds like my kind of analyst:
“Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a French historian specializing in environmental history, technology, and the Anthropocene, currently a researcher at the CNRS (Alexandre Koyré Center of the EHESS) in Paris. He’s known for his work on the history of technological risk and climate change, including the book “More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy.” [AI overview]
I need to check out that Punch-Drunk Love movie. I’d forgotten it existed. Jon Brion’s wistful song made me think of Aimee Mann’s equally wistful “Wise Up” from the Magnolia soundtrack.
“No, it’s not going to stop
‘Til you wise up”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec8SJqGd6o0
I can’t believe that you recommended a book I have on order! How cool is that!?
Well done, Rob! Upvote from me! Kudos, COPOUT is sooooo correct!
“I guess the name can now be changed to the more accurate COPOUT30 with their blessing.”
Rob, here’s an idea – if even the people running these annual absurdities are prepared to admit that, in themselves, they don’t achieve much, then how about not flying 50,000+ people from around the planet to the Brazilian jungle to attend?
“The world expects too much from the annual COP climate summits, said the CEO of COP30 to be held in Brazil this November, stressing the importance of implementing climate action all year round…”
In other words, the owning and decision-making classes are not going to fix anything but the spectacle of pretending to do so will continue – on their terms, in a way which serves their short-term interests while making them look good at the same time.
Moral of the story – collapse will not only be extremely terrifying, but also extremely annoying. Presidents, finance ministers and climate secretaries will be telling us mistakes have been made but solutions are at hand while we queue for locust ramen.
“The world expects too much from the annual COP climate summits.”
Jupiviv, the world would be incredibly stupid to expect anything at all from COP30 since the previous 29 have achieved zip vis-à-vis reducing emissions on a global basis – the only basis that matters.
If only our political elites were smart enough to have protein-rich fare ready to hand out. I get the impression that resilience/preparedness experts like David Korowicz are banging their heads against a brick wall trying to get policy-makers to listen.
The world is continuing to party-on with the one-time Carbon Pulse of ancient sunlight {FFs}. So, have any readers given much thought to ‘what comes next’? My pitiful two cents:
Once FFs & minerals are largely kaput, what will be the best way to mitigate & adapt to the horrendous results of weather whiplash? IMO, the future Kings and feudal lords should seek to keep any rainfall from running back to the ever-rising seas. Afterall, Water is first and everything.
“A Great Leap Forward” of massive canals and incredible numbers of runoff holding ponds will collect the moisture to very slowly replenish the aquifers and provide irrigation for crops & drinking. The fact that these will be hand-dug and also result in mind-boggling numbers of deaths, [which was absolutely of no concern for Mao Tse Tung in the very recent past], therefore our future Overlords can have clear consciences to have billions of us manually digging and hand tending crops.
A few selected photos below so your youngsters & grandkids can eagerly see, then mentally prepare for a logical career path in the postPeak decades dead-ahead. Please print off these pics before we lose electricity. My favorite is hand-raking the fields in the dead of night, my second fav is running at top-speed with a wheelbarrow for that next trip of moving canal dirt, third is women using small hammers to bust rocks.
What is your fav?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#/media/File:Xinyang_working_at_night.jpg
https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/great-leap-forward/
https://www.paulding.k12.ga.us/cms/lib010/GA01903603/Centricity/Domain/4954/CHINA%20EXTRA%20CREDIT%20PPT.pdf
I think a hand-dug canal from the Great Lakes to Texas, then on to Arizona would be a worthwhile postPeak project since we cannot count on the Colorado River anymore. Lots of places to hand dig thousands of runoff holding ponds too. We can do better than China….get your picks, shovels, sledgehammers, and wheelbarrows while you still can at your local hardware store.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Digging a canal by hand, Bob… another enticing offer. You should set up a recruitment agency for masochists.
Hello Pan,
The amazing thing is that the peasants did this for nearly three millennia [fifth century BC to now!]. You would think that in 2,600 years that someone, anyone, would have thought about Overshoot & Collapse, then spread it to the masses, then they could have revolted, then finally shrunk to carrying capacity. Nope, just like yeast: they ate all they could, massively reproduced, then died in great numbers. Just following their genetic programming instead of really thinking outside the box.
That famous lone guy standing in front of the long line of tanks probably knew what needed to be done, but with no multi-billion Chinese to back him up…. well, it was a waste of time.
Same thing nowadays among those well-informed by their education: Malthus said it all back in 1783 so 2025-1783 = 242 years of us going the wrong direction but now supercharged with FFs.
It is easier for us to willingly dig our own graves, than to really think, then sacrifice everything to live in harmony with Nature.
But I am willing to see 8+ billion prove me wrong.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
There may well have been people who thought deeply and clearly about overshoot and collapse, they would inevitably have had less descendants than those who didn’t think like that and hence such genetic or cultural evolved behaviour can never be present in more than a small fraction of the population, and will never be the dominant mode except in certain circumstances where populations are permanently restricted by resource availability..
I believe Bangladesh or Pakistan or one of those countries with huge river deltas.. is halfway through such a long-term project, starting back in the 90s as flood mitigation works… Working little by little, locally village by village over several generations… Digging run off channels & holding ponds, and levees, and moving settlements farther back from the increasingly wide flood plains.
Late post for today. Hope readers see it this weekend.
Discovery of Immense Methane Leaks in Antarctica by Robert Hunziker
Thank you, Edward. His final para starts:
“The climate system is not going to ring a bell before all hell breaks loose. It’ll happen out of the blue, temperatures relentlessly climbing month by month by month to intolerable levels, possibly already started, observed by Copernicus as stated above.”
Thanks, Edward. Great link. I always appreciate Hunziker’s articles. This must have been quite a sight:
“Additionally, according to an article in Rapusia.org, March 14, 2025, “Massive Methane Leaks Detected in Antarctica, Posing Serious Climate Risks”: “A team aboard the Sarmiento de Gamboa research vessel observed large columns of gas escaping from the ocean floor, with some extending up to 700 meters (2,300 feet) long and 70 meters (230 feet) wide.””
Upvotes for all from me. Kudos to Edward for discovery of the link.
Kali, consider this: if a ship accidently sails into one of those supergiant methane bubble baths, and if the billions of bubbles are close together, the resultant loss of density will instantly sink that ship. On the other hand, don’t accidently ignite that supercloud of methane bursting forth from the seawaters and mixing with the air.
This times 1,000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFRcgY7pdk
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Wow.. yeah Antarctica.. landmass continent, with active volcano.. can ima gine the stores of methane…
I recall reading is 2005 or 6 or 7 that columns of methane bubbels were being released in the Arctic Ocean. I guess that was my first step away brom being a a climate alarmist and towards being a climate doomer.
Hey anti-vaxxers, no problem, don’t worry. Your religion, politics & economic genius will surely cure any malady. There is no needle cure for this bad boy. This fungus among us, makes AGW & NTHE look like failures.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5207878-fungus-labeled-urgent-threat-by-cdc-is-spreading-rapidly-hospital-study-finds/