Jane Morton

scientists: "the acceleration is accelerating"

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

BREAKING: Israel is now claiming they will try to assassinate the new leader of Iran, and murder anyone involved in appointing them. It is impossible to overstate how deranged these people are.

Who stands to loose from a green transition? The biggest beneficiaries of fossil fuel profits, the richest of the rich. 50% of profits go to top 1% of wealth owners. My co-author @GregorSemieniuk will present our paper and more at the @LSEEI on March 3, 6.30 PM. Go if you can!

“We’re not continuing on the same path we had before,” said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. “Something has changed.” washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

What we are witnessing with ICE slaughtering citizens in the streets of Minneapolis is what Aimé Césaire called the "imperial boomerang."

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇

The Ice Is Melting The Land Is Flooding The Ocean Is Dying The Trees are Burning The Living Planet Is Unraveling It's happening on our watch. We can't solve this emergency if we keep expanding the problem. #ActOnClimate #Climate #energy #renewables #go100re

There's no honour amongst theives!

Rome didn’t fall overnight. It rotted in public first. Tell me this all doesn’t sound too familiar…

Marxist historian and political scientist Michael Parenti has passed away at the age of 92: Here he is explaining why the US🇺🇸 has conducted so many covert CIA and over military interventions since WW2, and destroys the myth that the US intervenes to support ‘democracy’.

Today is the tipping point.

It’s here, isn’t it. 🚨Mass evacuations in Victoria, Australia as the state set to break its temperature record. 🚨’Temperatures that used to be seen just once in a generation’. 🚨Expected to see 30C/86F at midnight, 24C/75.2F at 4am, a stunning 49C/120.2F in the afternoon #heat #climatecrisis #climatebreakdown #globalwarming

I was wondering why young people aren’t up in arms, protesting, posting about climate breakdown and the oil Industry that threatens their future. Apart from the millions spent on propaganda on social media, the lying from Trump, Reform and the Tories, the lack of concern from politicians and almost anyone in the media, there haven’t been programmes about climate change for years now… This is 7 years old: @bbcnews @itvnews @SkyNews @itv @ITNProductions

It’s strange that almost no one in the media ever says we better hurry up and cut emissions. Almost all of them whine about the cost though… Talk about an industry that has failed the public…

BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron just announced French troops are deploying to Greenland at Denmark’s request as part of Operation Arctic Endurance, a joint military exercise. Yes, allies are now conducting joint military exercises to signal that Greenland is not for sale, not for grabs, not a Trump real estate fantasy. Remember when Republicans claimed Joe Biden was going to start World War III?

We’ve ignored warnings from scientists, now the planet is going to force us to listen. #GreatOceanRoad #victoria #Australia #flashflood

@EliotJacobson The authors were collectively known as the Club of Rome (just a group of scientists, not some mysterious secret society). The chart below summarizes their predictions. If it proves accurate, we could all be a lot thinner soon 😬

Your 'doom quote' for today: "Growth will be stopped by pressures that are not of human choosing, and that, as the world model suggests, may be very much worse than those which society might choose for itself." amazon.com/Limits-Growth-…