WTF Climate Change News

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Yup. We're pretty much screwed.

Hold my beer.

 

[Free]

Rising Temperatures Are Turbocharging City Rat Populations, Scientists Warn

A new study of cities across the globe has found a link between climate change and larger increases in the urban rat population.

gizmodo.com

 

[Free]

Trump has figured out how to best deal with Climate Change: IGNORE IT COMPLETELY.

USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites

Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO.

The directive from USDA’s office of communications, whose authenticity was validated by three people, could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives, USDA climate hubs and Forest Service information regarding wildfires, the frequency and severity of which scientists have linked to hotter, drier conditions fueled by climate change. And it is reminiscent of moves made during the first Trump administration to remove references to climate change from federal government websites.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Jellyfish and rats appear to be thriving in the Anthropocene. Good for them.

 

[Govi]

Rising Temperatures Are Turbocharging City Rat Populations, Scientists Warn

A new study of cities across the globe has found a link between climate change and larger increases in the urban rat population.

gizmodo.com

This may explain the return of Trump and his myrmidons to the American government.

 

[Beebo Brink]

New 3-D Study of the Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Glaciers Falling Apart Faster Than Expected - Inside Climate News

 

[Beebo Brink]

Arctic Ice Is Getting Smoother and Moving Faster - Eos

 

[Rose Karuna]

I saw this today, honestly, I don't think that the far right movement across the globe is solely related to the need to address climate change (and the far right wanting to hide their head in the sand) but it's a contributing factor. Mostly, I do think it's racism and anti-immigration. The thing is though, if we don't address climate change, immigration will only become more of an issue because drought, flooding and super storms are stripping many countries of the very resources they need to continue to feed their people. It's already happening. I don't think this is a generation of far right "leaders" <sarcasm> who give a shit about future generations. Not here in the US and not in other countries where they have been elected.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/climate/far-right-germany-afd/index.html

The AfD, which ran on a vehemently anti-immigration platform, has surged in popularity as the country grapples with an economic slump, high inflation and high electricity prices, while it weans itself off Russian gas.

 

[Archer]

Scientists Say Atlantic Currents Unlikely to Collapse This Century

Vital Atlantic Ocean currents are unlikely to completely collapse this century, according to a study, but scientists say a severe weakening remains probable and would still have disastrous impacts on billions of people.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think the headline writer meant "can survive only on earth" but anyway...

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/05/humans-earth-donald-trump-nihilism-maga?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1741176876

bsky.app

 

[Beebo Brink]

Earth May Have Already Surpassed 1.5°C Warming Threshold

• The Paris Climate Accords in 2015 set an ambitious (and necessary) goal of keeping global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temps. But a study says we might’ve blown past that threshold several years ago.
• Scientists at the University Western Australia Oceans Institute studied long-lived Caribbean sclerosponges and created an ocean temperature timeline dating back to the 1700s.
• While the study claims that we surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius in 2020, other scientists question if data from just one part of the world is enough to capture the immense thermal complexity of our oceans.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Guardian Australia (@australia.theguardian.com)

Trump officials to reconsider whether greenhouse gases cause harm amid climate rollbacks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/epa-trump-climate-rules?CMP=aus_bsky

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Donald Trump’s administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’s climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an extraordinary cavalcade of pollution rule rollbacks on Wednesday, led by the announcement it would potentially scrap a landmark 2009 finding by the US government that planet-heating gases, such carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health.

Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, said the agency would reconsider the endangerment finding due to concerns that it had spawned “an agenda that throttles our industries, our mobility, and our consumer choice while benefiting adversaries overseas”.

Zeldin wrote that Wednesday was the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history” and that “we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age.”

Zeldin boasted about the changes and said his agency’s mission was to “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business”.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Zeldin wrote that Wednesday was the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history”

Welp, he's not wrong....

 

[Dancien]

And with that news, Day 3 of being under a Critical Fire Alert with 2 to 3 more to go. Earliest time of year I've seen one here.

 

[Beebo Brink]

This article cheered me up more than any other political/scientific paper in YEARS!

Thank you, GOP, for fighting climate change with tariffs - WyoFile

So let me take a moment to express my gratitude to the Republican Party for its enthusiastic embrace of tariffs — an effective, if unintended, tool to mitigate climate change. By slowing global trade, these tariffs are doing what countless climate policies have struggled to achieve by reducing emissions generated by the production and transportation of goods worldwide.

 

[Dancien]

Weather Human this morning said "This is going to be like a very dry land hurricane with the level of winds we'll have"
This is fine...

 

[Archer]

Just adding a new term to the vocabulary. Land hurricane season is upon us I guess.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Brad Johnson (@climatebrad.hillheat.com)

Fossil-fueled tornado outbreak now: 40 tornadoes, 31 dead in cross-country storm system. Over 200,000 are without power across five states. At least 3 dead in Mississippi. Flash flood warnings are in effect from southern Mississippi through central Tennessee...

bsky.app

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

This article cheered me up more than any other political/scientific paper in YEARS!

Thank you, GOP, for fighting climate change with tariffs - WyoFile

NICE! There is a bunch of shit Drumpf is trying to do right now that will likely cause a great crash. It didn't occur to me this might be good for protecting the climate till we can maybe vote them out.

 

[Dancien]

Millions across 11 states told to stay at home and avoid windows

High wind warnings had been issued for large swaths of the U.S. as of Tuesday.

www.newsweek.com

There is a half inch of dust on my car. I drove it yesterday.