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The Philippines is a great example of a nation on the brink due to an externality, because of their heavy reliance on imported oil. Nation on brink: this oil crisis may destroy everything we built | Inquirer Opinion DOE: Philippines’ fuel supply can last up to 50.42 days Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Probabilities are increasing for a "Very Strong El Nino" this summer or fall. What are the potential impacts? To date, 2026 is averaging 1.48°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. This is striking because we're still in ENSO-neutral conditions, with El Niño on its way. : r/collapse Super El Niño next year? Here's the probability of one | king5.com Buckle Up! Gonna be a wild 12 months coming up : r/collapse ECMWF | Charts Possible super El Niño could bring extreme heat, droughts, strong floods - The Washington Post A Super El Niño is coming. Here’s how a hotter ocean could change the weather near you | CNN Iran war: Why a super El Niño event poses fresh risks to food costs Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A new paper suggests the carrying capacity of earth is 2.5 billion, just under a third of the current population. What say you? Realistic, or too high or low? Earth can no longer sustain the global human population - Earth.com Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sources: Democrats introduce impeachment articles against Trump and Hegseth as nearly 100 lawmakers call for 25th Amendment | The Independent Trump uses the language of annihilation to threaten Iran | AP News House Democrat announces impeachment push against Hegseth over Iran war Trump pulls back on Iran threats after warning a 'civilization will die tonight' if deal isn't reached | PBS News Trump threatens 'bigger and stronger' attacks if Iran doesn’t comply with 'real agreement' With Trump Threatening Genocide in Iran, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes | War crimes | The Guardian Pope says Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization is 'unacceptable' | AP News Pentagon, White House Push Back on Alleged Remarks Made to Pope, Vatican | Military.com Trump threatens CNN over its Iran coverage moments after announcing ceasefire plan | The Independent Florida can fund religious charter schools, ‘encourage’ religion, state AG says | firstcoastnews.com Supreme Court vacates Steve Bannon contempt-of-Congress charges - ABC News Trump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California | Donald Trump | The Guardian DeSantis signs Florida law to label groups as terrorists and expel student supporters Exclusive: FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center Acting attorney general: Trump has ‘right’ to order investigations into his enemies - Democracy Docket Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What a fun little game we play. Step 1: Scientific consensus is too conservative. Step 2: Something happens "shocking scientists". Step 3: Articles are released describing how it happened faster than expected, but don't worry because someone will fix it. Step 4: No changes are made, and the models remain conservative. Repeat. Earth is warming faster than previously estimated, new study shows - Los Angeles Times Uh-Oh—Global Warming Is Actually Speeding Up, Scientists Say Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find ‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists | US weather | The Guardian Amazon wildfires have released far more carbon than we thought - Earth.com Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's not just the current geopolitical situation that's putting food supply under stress - it's been growing for a long time and is getting worse. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding | Hawaii | The Guardian Couriermail.com.au | Subscribe to The Courier Mail for exclusive stories UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying | Farming | The Guardian From gas to grain: Fertilizer disruptions raise risks for food security and trade | UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) How the Iran war could shatter global food security Australia to Plant Less Wheat as Iran War Deepens Global Fertilizer Supplies - Bloomberg Palm oil, cocoa, coffee… Who's going to tend to tomorrow's large tropical plantations? Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Established and important US infrastructure is rapidly being demolished, not as a forced response to desperate need, but in the petulant outbursts of a grifting narcissist. The US government just used a dormant 48-year-old committee to strip endangered species protections from the entire Gulf of Mexico. : r/collapse Trump’s ‘God Squad’ chose oil drilling over endangered species in the Gulf. This whale could be in particular danger | CNN BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service White House seeks $1.5 tn defense budget as Iran war drives costs Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
New updates to economists' thoughts on AI and job loss, and new research shows the "heat island" effect of data centers on more than 340 million people globally. Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN States with the most data centers Economists Are Drawing Stronger Connections Between A.I. and Jobs - The New York Times Top leadership experts sound the alarm on the AI doomsday: bosses are choosing tech over people | Fortune Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence \ Anthropic Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sources: Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him : r/law Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections – The White House Trump Suffers His Fourth—and Worst—Legal Blow in Just Hours | The New Republic Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing Judge orders Trump to halt $400 million White House ballroom project, for now | Reuters Donald Trump tells Pam Bondi she's fired over Epstein files fiasco after humiliating clash - The Mirror US Trump DOJ sues Idaho as even red states resist voter data demands - Democracy Docket Secret Chaos Exposed at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s DOJ Over Trump’s $10B Suit Arkansas’ Ten Commandments Monument Law Ruled Unconstitutional Judge says Trump not immune from civil claims his Jan. 6 words incited riot | AP News Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This was a wild week in the climate, and I fear every week will be this way moving forward. Here's some news from the around world. Also, please forgive the audio quality. I recorded it twice, and the second time I apparently had the wrong mic recording. I love you, but not enough to record it a 3rd time. Sorry! Limiting global warming to 2C would not ‘rule out’ extreme impacts - Carbon Brief UK food supply at risk of 'catastrophic failure' by 2030, report warns - FarmingUK News Malaysia dam levels on alert amid heatwave | The Straits Times 16 states with the highest March day temperature record. : r/collapse Extreme climate, our biggest"enemy" : r/collapse Arctic sea ice at lowest level ever this winter ‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds | Extreme heat | The Guardian Jakarta rapidly sinks as climate change and overdevelopment collide | PBS News Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The world is suffering the consequences of Trump and Israel's war on Iran. How long will our oil woes last? Israeli chief of staff warns army on verge of 'collapse' amid troop shortage France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed - Business - France 24 Cuban health-care workers struggle to support the sick amid U.S. oil embargo | CBC Accessibility Philippines declares ‘national energy emergency’ and boosts coal power as Iran war grinds on | Philippines | The Guardian Reliant on imported fuel, Pacific islands appeal for help as oil prices surge | Pacific islands | The Guardian Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Donald Trump hates women. Here's some ways he's showing it: US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say | US immigration | The Guardian A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion Texas passes bill banning abortion pills from being mailed to the state - The 19th Any Texas resident could sue over abortion pills under bill OK'd by lawmakers and headed to governor | AP News Trump is Trying to Reverse Crucial Strides in Women’s Rights Movement | American Civil Liberties Union Seven Ways the Trump Administration Is Hurting Women - Common Cause Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3 brand new reports highlight the various ways that superbugs are proliferating around the world. Are we heading into a post-antibiotic world? The Cost of War We Aren’t Talking About: Superbugs • The Austin Chronicle Drought could fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs as climate change worsens, new research suggests | Live Science EXPERT REACTION: Soils exposed to glyphosate might also be harbouring hospital superbugs - Scimex Pipeline of new drugs to fight superbugs is ‘worryingly thin’, experts warn | Pharmaceuticals industry | The Guardian Toxic herbicides: Map showing how high use is by state Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sources: Judge Ends Asylum Claims for Liam Ramos and His Family Stephen Miller is pushing states to stop educating undocumented children | The Independent Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday - POLITICO Bushehr nuclear plant hit again as Pentagon deploys 82nd Airborne — Day 25 of Iran war escalates Chris Murphy accuses Trump administration of insider trading Trump says he's 'glad' Robert Mueller is dead | Advocate.com Trump has damaged democracy at remarkable speed, reports find : NPR Donald Trump links shutdown end to SAVE America Act passage Trump casts mail ballot in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating' US Supreme Court conservatives lean toward Republican bid to limit mail-in voting | Reuters Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion | Georgia | The Guardian A page out of ‘The Handmaid's Tale’: Ohio Republicans propose bill to track all pregnancies We have 5 articles of impeachment for AG Bondi: defying a subpoena for the full & unredacted Epstein files, violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, weaponizing the DOJ for President Trump, consistently defying Court Orders (herself & DOJ), and perjuring herself to Congress. - Rep. Summer Lee : r/law All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds - Ars Technica Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk's xAI for creating sexually explicit images of them | Fortune Washington state bans all law enforcement - including ICE agents - from wearing masks while on duty | The Independent Fired FBI agents who worked on Trump 2020 election probe sue for wrongful termination - CBS News Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Anthropogenic mass is overtaking natural biomass. Such hubris from humanity leads to collapse. In this episode we discuss recent findings in pharmaceutical waste and how it hurts local aquatic ecosystems. Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass | Nature The Hidden Environmental Impact of Pharmaceutical Waste Antibiotics found in rivers raise new concerns about water safety - Earth.com Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A new $1billion disaster in the US unfolds thanks to climate change, and the WMO's report on the State of the Climate goes into detail on the growing energy imbalance. Thousands urged to evacuate as Hawaii flooding anticipated to cause widespread damage | CBC News Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high | Oceans | The Guardian Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's been a while since we broached the topic of H5N1. Let's talk about its status, and the ways it effects the world beyond just the fear of impending human to human transmission. H5N1 in marine mammals is spreading: Research tallies over 50,000 seals and sea lions killed along South America's coast More animals die from H5N1 avian flu at Ano Nuevo State Park in California | CIDRAP Hong Kong bans poultry imports from five nations after fresh H5N1 alerts Philippines halts poultry imports from Indiana over H5N1 outbreak Bird flu rampant among black vultures: Study points to year-round H5N1 circulation Govt makes registration mandatory for all poultry farms across country amid H5N1 spread - Healthcare News | The Financial Express A(H5) Bird Flu: Current Situation | Bird Flu | CDC Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This weeks heat dome in the US West would be virtually impossible without climate change, according to scientists. What does it mean for the rest of the summer, when you factor in a potentially Super El Nino, catastrophically dry conditions in some areas, and other destabilizing conditions? The US is on the verge of an all-time heat record for March | CNN Heatwave scorching US west ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, say scientists | US weather | The Guardian There’s No Way the West Will Have a Normal Summer - The Atlantic Get Ready for a Year of Chaotic Weather in the US | WIRED Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sources: Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling | Advocate.com Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas | US news | The Guardian ICE Accused Of Detaining 14-Year-Old Girl In Massachusetts As 'Bait' To Snare Her Father — Judge Orders Her Immediate Return | IBTimes UK Trump Melts Down at Supreme Court Justices in Unhinged Truth Social Rampage Federal judge blocks RFK Jr.'s childhood vaccine cuts, says he likely broke the law | Fortune Judge permanently blocks Ten Commandments displays at several Arkansas school districts Hegseth Vows Lethal Day in Iran as Air War Intensifies - The New York Times Trump faces impeachment calls after massive TikTok deal fee revealed Trump Presidential Library Fund Paid by Companies He Sued Has Dissolved With No Public Accounting, Lawmakers Allege | IBTimes UK In latest blunder, Trump DOJ spent months emailing the wrong address demanding Oklahoma’s voter rolls - Democracy Docket Democrats Formally Request an Investigation Into Kristi Noem’s Lies | The New Republic Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The rate of climate news and research should be alarming... are you as desensitized to it as I am? US weather to go nuts with blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome, atmospheric river all at once The most extreme March heatwave in US history is coming : r/collapse Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on | Marine life | The Guardian Mangrove waters are losing oxygen, putting fish nurseries at risk - Earth.com Experts warn of ‘dramatic development’ as all but two of Austria’s 96 glaciers have retreated | The Independent Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.