David Ullrich
@DavidUllrich202
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do the web, we do to ourselves. Chief Seattle (1782 ― June 7 1866) 🏳️🌈
Feb. 6, 2025 CO₂ = 428.60 ppm
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Final Words ✨. “Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for
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Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds. Researchers in Japan have confirmed that microplastics are present in clouds, where they are likely affecting the climate in ways that are not yet fully understood. The team identified nine different types of polymers
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2020 was the year I became “collapse aware.”. Then in the summer of 2020, something occurred to me: If we can’t even come together to fight COVID-19, how will we ever come together to fight climate change?.
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'One of the biggest on record'. Ozone hole bigger than North America opens above Antarctica. The recently measured ozone hole over Antarctica, as detected by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, is one of the largest on record, according to a report from the European Space
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***WARNING***. Thermal Saturation. Since 1971, about 89 % of the excess heat in Earth’s climate system has been stored in the ocean (with 6 % on land, 1 % in the atmosphere, and about 4 % going towards melting ice on land and sea). If the ocean can no longer take up excess heat.
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The heat may not kill you, but the global food crisis might!
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The Earth is almost never shown like this, and in the meantime, this is our planet from the side of the Pacific Ocean. One side of the Earth is almost completely covered with water (the Pacific), while landmass is almost all on the other side.
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2020 was the year I became “collapse aware.”. something occurred to me:. If we can’t even come together to fight COVID-19, how will we ever come together to fight climate change?.
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Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why. I think that 1.5 C has moved from “ambitious goal” to “magical thinking.” And the scientists are telling themselves a story to stave off despair. There’s something else going on, too: Scientists are
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***WARNING***. MASSIVE FEEDBACK. Evidence For Massive Methane Hydrate Destabilization Starting at Only 1.3 °C. The key findings of our study add to a growing body of observational findings strongly supporting the “clathrate gun hypothesis”. The magnitude of intermediate water
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Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago. The world is gradually becoming less green, scientists have found. Plant growth is declining all over the planet, and new research links the phenomenon to decreasing moisture in the air—a consequence of climate change. The study
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The World Has Already Ended. Due to climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, the world in which civilization was born has already ended. Most people just don't know it yet. The world that many of us grew up in is already gone, replaced by a world of superstorms,
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Overshoot: Why It’s Already Too Late To Save Civilization. I have bad news. Civilization is going to collapse! Not in 1000 years, not in 100 years, but within the lifetimes of most people alive today. It doesn’t necessarily mean humans will go extinct, but at the very least,
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10 Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse. That’s right. Our entire global industrial civilization is going to collapse. And soon, which means within the lifetimes of most people alive today. I realize this is quite the claim, and a pretty terrifying one if you’re under 50
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Don't Look Now, but the Baltic Sea is Intensely Leaking Methane. The Baltic Sea is leaking methane gas. Located in the Londsort Deep, the leak is causing gas to seep up through more than seven square miles of the seabed roughly 18 miles off the coast of Sweden seeping the gas
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"We are heading towards 3°C to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species, including our own.". -- Kevin Anderson, scientist.
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Abrupt global ocean circulation collapse. Time to start prepping?
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Category 5 Super Typhoon Bolaven, the strongest storm on Earth, is nearing tropical cyclone perfection. The storm has a near perfect circular eye surrounded by deep convection. The storm currently has 180 mph (290 km/h) sustained winds with gusts to 220 mph (354 km/h).
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***WARNING***. Drought Alert. Alarm bells should be sounding right now. It's so dry the crops can't germinate in soil for the first time in Wisconsin history. Note: It was NOT like this last year at this time!. Region:. Wisconsin:.
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Something really bad is happening in Italy tonight‼️
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A Raven Up-Close. One recent study claims that by four months old, ravens have full-blown cognitive skills and before reaching full maturity they can rival adult great apes. Another, indicates that problem-solving crows perform similarly to children under seven years of age.
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@7Veritas4 Mark Hamill 🥰. If this were Star Wars, they’d call it “Revenge of the Judiciary”.
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Welcome to Acapulco. This isn't the battleground of WWIII. This is the scene of catastrophic devastation. It remains overlooked, receiving minimal coverage. The lack of media coverage is overshadowed by war.
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An illustration and reminder of just how little air and water is on Earth compared to everything else.
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***WARNING***. IPCC Climate Models are Broken‼️. Dr. James E. Hansen in Conversation with Paul Beckwith
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Scientists Warn that Sixth Mass Extinction Has ‘Probably Started’. Over the past 450 million years, life on Earth has been devastated by at least five mass extinctions, which are typically defined as catastrophes that wipe out more than 75 percent of species in a short amount of
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Antarctica is rapidly melting from underneath and this will effect large parts of the continent once thought invulnerable like the interior and east side.
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Microplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists. A type of zooplankton found in marine and fresh water can ingest and break down microplastics, scientists have discovered. But rather than providing a solution to the threat plastics pose to aquatic
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Echos from the Permian mass extinction. The current hot weather in the region is also exacerbating hypoxia, as warmer water holds less oxygen than cold water and fish have higher oxygen needs at warmer temperatures. mass marine die-offs are beginning.
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On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy.
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Pontedera Hospital in Piza, Italy on November 2, 2023. We are in a planetary emergency‼️
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@LakotaMan1 @OmarRiverosays @philvalentine Bad genes from parents. The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree. Accept Mary, she got off scot-free.
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Elon may need to rethink his escape plan to Mars. Have a nice sol.
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Guess what? The oceans could completely evaporate into space. This geological doomsday scenario is proposed by a new study from NOAA: It turns out that if carbon dioxide levels climb way, way high, the world could get very hot — so hot that all of Earth’s water simply evaporates
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Responding to Rebecca Solnit’s article in The Guardian on Doomers. The Doomsters that I know, myself included, have worked through our grief and pain for the world, we have banded together, and are now in a place of Collapse Acceptance. From this place of clear seeing, our energy
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Ocean Temperatures Shatter Records, Stun Scientists. David Wallace-Wells on the Global Climate Crisis
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@LakotaMan1 I remember working in retail in Arizona and having cowboys coming in store with their revolver-in-holster look. This is taking it to a whole new level. All just to intimidate. They are so scared, of what?.
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The Apocalypse Is Not What I Expected. “What looks like apocalypse in prospect often feels more like grim normality when it arrives in the present.” - David Wallace Wells. When I was a kid, I watched a lot of movies about the end of the world—Mad Max, The Terminator, Day of the
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@MarkHamill I see a Moscow trip coming in the near future. The Godfather loan of all times.
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Antarctica latest research: Doomsday Glacier ice shelf will be gone in 5 years!
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CO2 Affects our Thinking. Did you know that elevated levels of carbon dioxide or CO2 can play havoc with our cognitive ability? In today’s world it becomes all the more alarming because we spend 90% of our time indoors; in rooms with poor air quality and ventilation. Until a few
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This is abysmal. Experts see this mixing with next years ocean currents. “This is a really startling global situation because the additional surface heating we see at this time will eventually be mixed into the ocean water column,” Craig Donlon, head of the European Space.
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Our climate is far worse than is being told. Plants speak the truth and reveal a climate that may be locked-in for millions of years. Unlike other epochs, our Holocene included, the Miocene lasted tens of millions of years and was in a way "stuck". Are we?.
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Atlantic current shutdown is a real danger, suggests simulation. The most detailed computer model run so far shows that melting ice sheets could cause the collapse of the major ocean current that warms Europe, but it's still unclear how likely this is to happen
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Surge in ocean heat is a sign climate change is accelerating. The rate of warming in the oceans has more than quadrupled since 1985, suggesting global warming in general has undergone a marked acceleration.
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Chicago's very own WGN is finally covering the ocean SST anomaly. It's about time. Thank you Chicago. WGN: World's Greatest Newspaper (established 1924).
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@redd_foreverr Thank you so much for your research and valiant efforts on this problem. It isn’t often I can say that with esteem.
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Giant desert solar farms might have unintended climate consequences. The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power — the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon —
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Scientists discovered a small 30 million-year-old praying mantis frozen within a pristine clear piece of amber from the Dominican Republic. It was discovered to have been from the Oligocene period, placing it anywhere from about 23 million to 33.9 million years old.
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How can we stop burning fossil fuels if we still need everything else they make?
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MIT Chemists Show “Black Summer” Megafire Widened Ozone Hole by 10% in 2020. A wildfire can pump smoke up into the stratosphere, where the particles drift for over a year. A new MIT study has found that while suspended there, these particles can trigger chemical reactions that
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@LakotaMan1 Absolutely they work. My brother in-law refused the jab and now he's dead, my age to mind you. My mother and wife would probably be too if not for that vaccine. Thank you and an awesome picture for the share.
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You're looking at the first direct image of another planetary system located about 300 light-years away.
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Animal apocalypse: Deadly bird flu infects hundreds of species pole-to-pole. The world is currently seeing the fastest-spreading, largest-ever outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious, deadly strain of avian influenza. Scientists say this virus now presents an existential threat to
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Devastating flooding caused by the overflow of the Uruguay River in Barra do Rio Azul in the north of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on November 3, 2023
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Extreme rainfall is increasing even more than expected as world warms. Be prepared for even more extreme rainfall events and flooding as the world warms. A study comparing what has happened so far with what climate models project has found that extreme events are happening around
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Strange methane leak discovered at the deepest point of the Baltic Sea baffling. A vast methane leak has been discovered at the deepest point in the Baltic Sea, and masses of bubbles of the greenhouse gas are rising far higher into the water column than scientists had expected.
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According to statistical forecasting next years El Nino could be the strongest of this entire decade. Prepare for hell.
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Total Solar Eclipse 2024. Photo courtesy of Gemini
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Climate Change Is Causing Trees To Struggle To “Breathe”. Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO₂) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the planet continues to
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10 Billion Crabs In Alaska Slowly Starved To Death Due To Extreme Marine Heat Waves. Snow crabs are cold-water animals that live mostly in places with water temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius, while they can function in seas as warm as 12 degrees Celsius. Warmer ocean water is
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The money men know the truth about planetary boundaries!
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Photographer captures a one in a million photo but doesn’t realize it until he gets home. Photo courtesy of Daniel Biber
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***WARNING***. Now at 1.90°C above 1850-1900 IPCC baseline. Graph courtesy of Prof. Eliot Jacobson
***WARNING***. Thermal Saturation. Since 1971, about 89 % of the excess heat in Earth’s climate system has been stored in the ocean (with 6 % on land, 1 % in the atmosphere, and about 4 % going towards melting ice on land and sea). If the ocean can no longer take up excess heat.
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Arctic Sea Ice minimum 2024. Three degrees Celsius warming now baked in?
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Europe is cooking at double speed!.Are Europeans ready?. ***WARNING***.Europe to exceed 8.0°C by 2100‼️
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Why Do Trilogies Always Need To Have A Dark Middle Chapter?.This one sure does. Continued Growth and GDP. Continued Growth and Overshoot. Continued Growth and Nature.
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It's good to have matches and a compass. It's good to know first aid. It's good to know how to garden. It's good to be okay eating rice and beans every meal without complaining. It's good to know just how much you can depend on yourself, and the limits to your own resilience.
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***WARNING***. Wildfire Alert. 2020-2022 saw wildfires on a scale never witness by modern civilization. What's now on it's way is simply a monster. The smoke in New York turning day to night is just the beginning. This is serious!. Please do not underestimate the threat from
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Stunning timelapse of the Earth rising over the Moon as captured by Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. Media courtesy of JAXA & NHK
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It takes nothing to switch from habitable to HELL‼️. The Earth is a wonderful blue and green dot covered with oceans and life, while Venus is a yellowish sterile sphere that is not only inhospitable but also sterile. However, the difference between the two is only a few degrees
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Tardigrade in Moss. After everything else is gone extremophiles will remain. Is this an alien? Probably not, but of all the animals on Earth, the tardigrade might be the best candidate. That's because tardigrades are known to be able to go for decades without food or water, to
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Ancient climate analysis suggests CO₂ causes more warming than thought. It is possibly the toughest question in climate science: how much warming does carbon dioxide cause? A new analysis of 66 million years of Earth’s climate history suggests the planet is much more sensitive
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Impressive video of two brain cells having a chat. This is the way our brain thinks and creates! The beauty of nature. Video courtesy of microscopicture
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Methane leaks from US oil and gas are triple government estimates. The largest ever dataset of its kind suggests methane is leaking from US oil and gas fields at a much higher rate than previously thought, implying the environmental damage caused by the greenhouse gas is greater
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World predicted to break 1.5°C warming limit for first time in 2024. There is a reasonable chance 2024 will be the first year in which the average global surface temperature is more than 1.5°C above that of the pre-industrial period, the UK's Met Office forecasts
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Humanity’s Ancestors Nearly Died Out, Genetic Study Suggests. Researchers have found evidence that 930,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern humans suffered a massive population crash. They point to a drastic change to the climate that occurred around that time as the cause.
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Mushroom Mycel. If you cultivate a mushroom in a petri bowl on agar agar, its actual “shape” becomes visible. The essential part of a mushroom, the Mycel, is usually hidden from our eye. What we perceive as a “mushroom” is only its transient fruit body.
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“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless
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