Locals! You may have heard many brown pelicans are in distress and having a hard time finding food. Keep an eye out for any where they should not be - standing still in a backyard or road; they may be disoriented. Get in touch with Native Animal Rescue. See below to donate.

Picked up a droopy little orchid for a couple of $s as the street market was shutting down in a rainstorm a while back, and look at her now!

I've been told my framing here may be over-optimistic, but I really feel like the fundamental good nature of humanity will prevail in a rising tide of solidarity ... insideclimatenews.org/news/04052024/…

Going for an evening timeline cleanse ...

“Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3C.” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Here’s my latest about one advocate’s arduous quest to overturn a law that enabled energy companies to overcharge Marylanders hundreds of millions of dollars, sending many families into bankruptcy and poverty. Now all that is about to change. Brought to you by Inside Climate News ⬇️

The thing I find most surprising in this article is that as many as 6% of scientists involved in the IPCC think that warming will be limited to 1.5°C or less. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Solidarity with everyone going through the crippling pain of being fully awake to what's happening and what is being done to us
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Big claims, fuzzy science, hidden data, don’t make climate solutions. “If the Dept. of Agriculture wants climate-smart ag, propping up the beef industry isn’t the smartest way to go about it,” says me for Center for Biological Diversity Great work by Georgina Gustin for @InsideClimate
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Let's see how European snowfall has trended over the last 50 years. ❄️🔥😢

10 times this.

Global-scale coral bleaching is completely a product of the Anthropocene, never documented before 1998. Now it's happening every few years, and few #coralreefs are bouncing back. insideclimatenews.org/news/15042024/…

Time series of April SSTs in the Mediterranean Sea. There's something different about the 2024 value.

Serious question - When was the last time an American musician released an anti-war song specifically critical of American policy? Like 45 years ago? The Dixie Chicks made one comment and got cancelled for a decade. I can’t recall a song about Iraq. Lots about Vietnam.

A 10-person newsroom that's less than 4 years old wins a Pulitzer! My heart is warm. latimes.com/environment/st…

A gleaming #thicktrunktuesday friend

By me: ‘The failure to take a human rights based approach to the climate crisis – and the biodiversity crisis and the air pollution crisis – has absolutely been the achilles heel of those efforts for decades.’ Final interview by David Boyd SREnvironment
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Mass death of marine organisms, choking on plastics, poisoned by pollution ... our #oceans are in big trouble, and if they die, so do we. insideclimatenews.org/news/01052024/…