Mark

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PhD epidemiologist, organic farmer, vegetarian, planter of trees, lover of forests, cold oceans, dark nights and silence. Compassion, service and self-restraint are essential. May all living beings be at ease.

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A paper in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that the increase in tropical cyclone frequency and intensity due to climate change could lead to dramatic declines in seabird populations. go.nature.com/3yQwvLa 🧪

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We are heading towards 3°C #globalwarming. What will it be like? And how can we prevent it, with the help of nature-based solutions? New book - open access! springerprofessional.de/3-degrees-mo... All chapters can be downloaded for free (including mine).

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Long-term ocean sampling in Narragansett Bay reveals plummeting plankton levels: Impact uncertain for local food web. phytoplankton biomass in Narragansett Bay declined by a stunning 49% from 1968 to 2019 https://www.europesays.com/1243497/ Long-term ocean sampling in Narragansett Bay reveals …

Long-term ocean sampling in Narragansett Bay reveals plummeting plankton levels: Impact uncertain for local food web. phytoplankton biomass in Narragansett Bay declined by a stunning 49% from 1968 to 2019www.europesays.com Long-term ocean sampling in Narragansett Bay reveals plummeting plankton levels: Impact uncertain for local food web. phytoplankton biomass

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Most important numbers in the Earth system: 3/5/90/2 if they change in the wrong direction we go fast extinct if we do not react fast... These number show us where the extra energy goes to in the Earth system: warming of ice ~3%, of land ~5%, of oceans ~90%, while only ~2% heats our atmosphere

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So this is what I have learned. That nothing is now sacred. Nothing is too valued, too important, too vulnerable not to be hacked and stacked and used as fuel on capitalism’s bonfire.

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Swallow, swift and house martin populations have nearly halved, finds UK bird surveywww.theguardian.com Reduction in insect numbers contributes to drop, and there are declines across more than a third of bird species surveyed

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When’s the last time anti-war protesters on US college campuses were not vindicated by history.

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What can individuals do about the climate crisis? In order of impact: 🚫Live car free 🚙 Shift to BEV ✈️ One less flight (long return) ☀️ Use renewable energy 🚋 Shift to public transport 🔨 Refurbishment and renovation 🥗 Vegan diet 🆒 Heat pump ⏲️ Improved cooking equipment ♨️ Renewable-based heating 🧪

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How ironic: the main economic loser in the recent flooding in southern Brazil is precisely the country's industry that has contributed the most to global warming: Big Ag www.reuters.com/business/env...

Brazil floods hit food silos, disrupt routes to major grains portwww.reuters.com Heavy flooding in southern Brazil has hit food storage facilities in lower areas while hampering the shipping of grains to port, jeopardizing the nation's exports and wreaking havoc to the economy of Rio Grande do Sul state, a large soy, rice, wheat and meat producer.

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What else? “It’s death by a thousand cuts: We had coral bleaching that caused immense stress on fish last summer. Now this. What else is going to happen?” Furstenwerth said. “The environment is absolutely trashed down here compared to when I was I kid. We’re dealing with multiple crises.” Lots.

Reports of dying fish flood this Florida hotline. Here’s what people are seeing.www.tampabay.com Batches of emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times reveal eyewitness accounts from a mysterious fish die-off in the Florida Keys.

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Truly grim reading: How key climate indicators have changed since IPCC AR6 WGI in 2021 🌡️Decadal warming at 1.19C, up from 1.09C 🛰️CO2 at 419ppm, up from 410ppm 🏭Emissions at 54GtCO2e, up from 53 📉Remaining carbon budget 150Gt, down from 500 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

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New documents show oil executives promoted natural gas as green — but knew it wasn'tgrist.org A trove of documents released ahead of a congressional hearing shows BP acknowledging that gas wasn't as climate-friendly as promised.

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I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

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Whenever we begin to wake up to how we're being screwed, conspiracy fictions distract and confuse us and send us back to sleep. So why DO so many people obsess about false stories, but ignore the real ones? In the hope of finding out, I wrote this www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’: George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theoristwww.theguardian.com Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: ask a believer

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In case you thought industrial pollution dumped into rivers was a thing of the past in the U.S. by Nina Lakhani www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakeswww.theguardian.com Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371m lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years

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"We often equate well-being with money or consumption, missing much of what matters to people. In current economic thinking, individuals matter much more than relationships between people in families or communities." www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

Rethinking Economics or Rethinking My Economics by Angus Deatonwww.imf.org Questioning one’s views as circumstances evolve can be a good thing

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One glaring inequity that wasn’t adequately addressed at #COP28 .. finding space for wildlife on a planet with 4 billion head of livestock. Reduce eating meat will help!

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To celebrate Arbor Day (a whole new concept for this Scot - but I'm 💯 in for the idea of National tree planting days), Scientific American have 40% off their digital subscription. A year's worth of great articles plus the back catalogue for only $23! 🤗🧪🔭 👇 www.scientificamerican.com/getsciam/?ut...

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Not great!! Latest update at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... #ClimateChange

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New paper is out - www.nature.com/articles/s42... "Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates"

Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates - Communications Biologywww.nature.com A Perspective on how the tools of behavioral science and the emerging field of diverse intelligence help to understand decision-making of cellular collectives in evolutionary and biomedical contexts.

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Is the #AMOC approaching a tipping point? Here's my take after researching this topic for over 30 years. Open access, peer-reviewed, in full colour & understandable for non-experts. tos.org/oceanography...

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