Hugo

nonviolence.bsky.social

20 October 2026 15:20

Yes, carbon sink collapse is interesting. It's the collapse of primary production aka the collapse of life (support systems). Most CO2 is stored in the soil, which we are destroying at light speed now. The reason why atmospheric CO2 growth is growing is land use and not fossil fuels. But ... 🤫

Serene Doomer

serenaribena.bsky.social

20 October 2026 10:35

'Longyearbyen, in ...Svalbard, gets its main drinking water supply from a 1.5 mile-long (2.5km) dammed lake called Isdammen… Higher temps as a result of the climate crisis have thawed permafrost, leading to newly exposed bedrock leaching metals into the pond.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hugo

nonviolence.bsky.social

20 October 2026 10:24

2000 Cox et al: One of the earliest coupled climate-carbon cycle general circulation models to demonstrate that warming reduces the capacity of land & ocean sinks to absorb CO2, turning terrestrial biomes from net carbon sinks into net sources. #Science #Hothouse www.nature.com/articles/350...

Hugo

nonviolence.bsky.social

20 October 2026 10:24

We have recently started referring to the #probable as #possible instead. The two are related but not the same. A lot is possible and feasible. Less is probable. Not too long ago, climate was about runaway heating and a hothouse Earth and overpopulation? Today, climate is about solar, CDR and SRM.

Klimatagebuch

klimatagebuch-x.bsky.social

20 October 2026 09:35

"Die ... Inselgruppe Spitzbergen zählt zu den am stärksten von der #Klimakrise betroffenen Regionen der Erde. Grund ist die im Vergleich zum weltweiten Schnitt deutlich schnellere Permafrostschmelze: Diese wirkt sich nun auch auf die Versorgung mit #Trinkwasser aus." orf.at/stories/3445...