Ignoring the climate emergency, 2/27

Climate change is real, and it's happening now. It's going to get worse, and then it's going to get worse than that. It's never going to stop getting worse, so long as capitalism and the quest for money decides everything.

UN declares Earth has entered a period of ‘water bankruptcy’ that is likely impossible to reverse

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds

Birds aren’t just declining. They’re declining faster, a new study finds.

Floods linked to climate change hit nearly 1-million in Southern Africa

Record heat rots cocoa beans threatening Ivory Coast agriculture

Winter is one of the last threads holding everything in place

Climate change is also bad economics

Trump’s EPA weakens limits on mercury from coal plants, because of course

Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence

Chikungunya, an excruciatingly painful tropical disease, can now be transmitted by mosquitoes across most of Europe

America’s largest public utility is going back to coal — with almost no input from the public

Climate change could be driving ‘killer’ cold outbreaks in oceans

Lake Erie’s storm surges become more extreme

Climate change adds 30 extreme-heat days a year to India’s coffee farms

Will your state bird disappear?

[two frogs in simmering water on a stovetop] "Ah, yes, how can we be sure that the temperature increase was caused by man?"

Previously in the end of
the world as we know it

2/27/2026

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6 responses to “Ignoring the climate emergency, 2/27”

  1. Henry L. Racicot Avatar
    Henry L. Racicot

    I had a conversation about climate change with two gentlemen earlier today. . .

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    1. Doug Holland Avatar
      Doug Holland

      Oh man, this made me larf like sea otters at the dock.

      No joke, though, I agree with the old man.

      Reply
      1. Claude Reigns Avatar
        Claude Reigns

        How do you know he’s a man?

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        1. Doug Holland Avatar
          Doug Holland

          I did a dick-check, of course, and he checked mine.

          Reply
          1. Claude Reigns Avatar
            Claude Reigns

            It’s the only way to be sure

            I do a self-diagnosis every day… results indecisive

            Reply
            1. Doug Holland Avatar
              Doug Holland

              Last night I saw upon the stair
              A little man who wasn’t there
              He wasn’t there again today
              Oh, how I wish he’d go away…

              {William Hughes Mearns}

              Reply

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