Ben See
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@ClimateBen
Literature Teacher sharing info/news on Rapid Extinction & Earth Systems Collapse. Urging radical, systemic, political-economic change to try to limit the doom.
Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study ✍️ @AyeshaTandon Read here: buff.ly/iRhA8Yv
Carl Sagan: "nuclear war certainly will destroy the nations involved with a nuclear war, almost certainly will destroy the global civilization, and might just possibly destroy the human species."
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks.
We're about to feel the full impact of extremely rapid mass extinction. Just look at the acceleration.
If you feel helpless about the climate, consider this: none of the climate models factor in the deepening and irresolvable crisis of US imperialism, which is unfolding before our eyes and will undoubtedly lead to a major decline in fossil fuel use. Nothing will be better for the climate than the retreat and collapse of US imperialism.
If you feel helpless about the climate, consider this: none of the climate models factor in the deepening and irresolvable crisis of US imperialism, which is unfolding before our eyes and will undoubtedly lead to a major decline in fossil fuel use. Nothing will be better for the climate than the retreat and collapse of US imperialism.
The fact that no one is stopping Israel—no matter what it does, how many people they kill, or how much damage its actions cause on a global scale—is actually insane.
aluminum prices are going up and will likely continue to do so for as long as the strait of hormuz is closed. among other things, this means that solar panels will likely get more expensive heatmap.news/energy/strait-…
'an “intermediate” deep-time climate analog, where boundary conditions are close to modern but extreme climate changes occurred, is.. of great interest.. the Miocene Climatic Optimum.. has emerged as a strong candidate to serve as a future climate analog.' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if infrastructure like this 👇 gets blown up, as of this moment it will take at least a decade to recover from this war - and the truth is that the world's energy picture is probably changed forever. This single facility 👇produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/18…) and, as of 2011, had taken $70 billion to build (energyintel.com/0000017b-a7be-…). What makes this even worse is that Iran's strike on this was retaliation after Israel attacked their South Pars gas field which draws from the same natural gas reservoir, which is the world's largest by far (9,700 km² - about the size of Qatar itself). Heck, on the list of the 25 largest natural gas fields (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n…) this single reservoir holds roughly 40% of their combined recoverable reserves - and is nearly 6 times bigger than the 2nd biggest field in the world. And, unlike many of the others on the list, it's only at 10% depletion (meaning 90% of the gas is still there). Which means that, probably for many years, a huge share of the gas from the world's largest reservoir simply won't be extractable, as infrastructure on both sides - Qatar's and Iran's - has now been blown up. From a global energy supply perspective, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.
