New York Magazine
The Uninhabitable Earth
20+ min · · Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future. · Shared by 858, including krisdahn.eth, Mike Rundle, Howard Getson, Gerd Leonhard, Jane, Helmut Adam, Claudia Sommer, Reda El Arbi, John Battelle, Mark Kaigwa, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Will Leitch, Tris Hussey, Esther Schindler, Rick Pastoor, Liliane Ferrari ™, Matthias Sala, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Mathew Ingram, Tristan Harris
The New York Times
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
· We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts. · Shared by 423, including Jane, Katja Evertz, Claudia Sommer, Matthias Sala, Azeem Azhar, Stacy H Smedley, Gavin Schmidt, Helmut Adam, Inês Silva, Natacha Quester-Séméon Salomon, adrianoesch, Twila Moon, PhD, Peter McCormack🏴☠️, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Nils Hitze, DonDahlmann, Dominik Grolimund
XKCD Comic
xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline
· This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details. · Shared by 328, including Madam Grammar, Michael Seemann, @meyerweb@mastodon.social, Brad Brooks, Ryan Boren, The Sp⚽️rts Physio, Natacha Quester-Séméon Salomon, Luca Hammer, Peter Hogenkamp, Jane, Cem Sertoglu 🤖, Scott Santens, Andrew Dessler, Data Science Renee, Justin Jackson, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Reda El Arbi, Robert Lepenies, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Jenny Halasz
The New York Times
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
7 min · · A landmark United Nations report paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding damage requires quickly transforming the… · Shared by 292, including Padmasree, Michael Seemann, Sarah Tavel, Moritz Meenen, Stephen C Sanders, jz, Jennifer Seavey, Liv 😷, Yvette Dubel, hiten.eth, Brad Brooks, Alexandra Wong, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Making Sense Podcast, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Thomas Power, Oliver Reichenstein, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Ste Davies, Michael Duergner
The New York Times
Exposing a Hidden Climate Threat: Methane ‘Super Emitters’
10 min · · Vast amounts of methane are escaping from oil and gas sites nationwide, worsening global warming, even as the Trump administration weakens restrictions on offenders. · Shared by 230, including Ian M Calvert, Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Hannah Fairfield, Hiroko Tabuchi, David Epstein, Robert Scoble, Katie Benner, Matthias Lampe, Markus Merz, Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛, Bethany Brookshire, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Thomas Pleil, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Rico Grimm, Chris Messina, Tom Connor, kate wagner (rilke era)
The New York Times
The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
20+ min · · What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth? · Shared by 223, including Korben, Joscha Bach, Mark Little, Liliane Ferrari ™, Bjorn Larsen, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Gayla Trail, Matthew Guay, Liv 😷, Roland Sailer, Justin Cranshaw, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gideonro, Alf Rehn, not non-this is not non-aaron, Jane, Grégoire Japiot 🌻
MIT Technology Review
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
3 min · · Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint. · Shared by 222, including Howard Getson, Scott Murray, Nils Hitze, Katja Evertz, Gerd Leonhard, Bjorn Larsen, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Elena Neira, Mike Butcher, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Eric Topol, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, AlgorithmWatch, Karen McGrane, Antonio Vieira Santos, Bertrand Maltaverne, tante, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Dominik Grolimund
The New Yorker
What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?
10 min · · To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. · Shared by 212, including Stefano ₿Ξrnardi 🌲🏴, Joscha Bach, Brad Brooks, Philanthropy News Digest, Klaus Eck, oniropolis, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Matthias Lampe, Ray Monk, Thomas Power, Rico Grimm, Joanna J Bryson, @pam@jawns.club, Gregg Caruso, Katja Evertz, Prof Michael E. Mann, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Current Affairs, Fern, 𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖝
Gizmodo
The Planet Needs a New Internet
12+ min · · When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we’ll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts.… · Shared by 173, including Katja Evertz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Gerrit Eicker, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Bruce Lawson, ExApologist, Jane, Sébastien Bonset, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Matthias Lampe, Thomas Power, Tauno, Lluís Codina, Marius Bleuer, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Lukas Stickelberger, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Forbes
Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Bushfires Destroy 80% Of Their Habitat
2 min · · As Australia experiences record-breaking drought and bushfires, koala populations have dwindled along with their habitat, leaving them “functionally extinct.” · Shared by 165, including Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, John Tasioulas, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Biz Carson, Richard Bernabe, Dorothy Bishop, David V. Johnson, Carla Gentry 🎶, Jennifer Ouellette, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🗽🌹, Juliana de Albuquerque | @ajuliana@mas.to, Christopher D. Long, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tom Raftery, Eric Holthaus, Dr. Marshall Shepherd, trudy, Anita Leirfall, Deborah Blum, Amy Cuddy, PhD
Bret Victor
What can a technologist do about climate change?
20+ min · · Say we allocate for the following program: Car-owners who trade in an old car that gets less than , and purchase a new car that gets better than , will receive a rebate. We estimate that this will get… · Shared by 163, including Hampus Jakobsson, Tristan Harris, Max Roser, Jens-Christian Fischer, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Nicolas Dengler, kp, Mike Butcher, Ryan Boren, Anand Sanwal, Brian Doll, Devon ☀️, Paul Ford, Joe Lencioni, adrianoesch, kaywa, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Mark Bao, Philip Stehlik
MIT Technology Review
Sorry, scooters aren’t so climate-friendly after all
2 min · · Bird boasts that its dockless electric scooters allow customers to “cruise past traffic and cut back on CO2 emissions—one ride at a time.” Its rival Lime claims the vehicles “reduce dependence on… · Shared by 148, including Moritz Meenen, Vikram Dutt, Dr. Nettra Pan 👁, Bernhard Huessy, Tom Connor, Charles Baldwin, Gerrit Eicker, Bertrand Maltaverne, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Mike Butcher, Esther Schindler, Ian M Calvert, Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, DonDahlmann, Frederic Filloux, Fabrizio Bianchi
MIT Technology Review
Sorry—organic farming is actually worse for climate change
3 min · · The practice cuts greenhouse-gas emissions only if you ignore the inconvenient fact that it requires a lot more land. · Shared by 146, including Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Roger Highfield, Vincenzo Tremonte, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gianluca Diegoli
BBC News (World)
Twelve years to save Earth? Make that 18 months...
7 min · · There's a growing consensus that the next year-and-a-half are key in the battle against rising temperatures. · Shared by 133, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Charles Baldwin, Nils Hitze, Fabrizio Bianchi, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, 瑞拿頭, Liv 😷, Tauno, Sébastien Bonset, Klaus Eck, Amber Mac, Claudia Sommer, Niklaus Gerber, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz
The New Yorker
Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
20+ min · · What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries decided to move away from fossil fuels? · Shared by 123, including Philipp Laurim, Julia Kaganskiy 🇺🇦, Thomas Power, M.J. Crockett, Matthias Lampe, Future of Life Institute, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Katja Evertz, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Skoll Foundation, Philanthropy News Digest, Bill McKibben, Jochen Burkhard, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦
The Guardian
Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted
2 min · · Weakened permafrost in Canadian Arctic a further sign that global climate crisis accelerating faster than scientists had feared · Shared by 122, including André Staltz, Katja Evertz, Tristan Harris, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, kp, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ines Bieler, Jane, Draven, Thomas Power, ❤️ Umair, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦