Climate Change - a poll

[leicsmac]

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-odds-climb-el-nio-25c.html

 

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-freshwater-boundary-breach-deepens-climate.html

 

The latest. 

 

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-fragmented-environmental-policies-failures-experts.html

 

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-greater-international-cooperation-global-forest.html

 

A reminder of just how few favours being tribal and divided does our species or its future. 

[grobyfox1990]

None of it was justified as climate policy. It was insurance. An electron can be sourced from coal, gas, sun, wind, or uranium; a combustion engine is married to a single fuel that must cross someone else’s chokepoint. Electrification is the purchase of optionality, and China bought more of it than any nation in history.

The happy clappers (unlike China) fail to understand that ‘green’ policies are about building resilience and varied profitable revenue streams. These people actual listen to cretins like Farage and probably believe what they read on twitter

 

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8jde20v83o

 

Four days of extreme rain and landslides in the Indonesian island of Sumatra have pushed the world's most endangered great apes even closer to extinction, says a study.

Research suggests that 58 of less than 800 critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans, or around 7% of the total species, were killed as a result of the extreme weather event last November.

Those are conservative figures, and do not take into account rain-induced canopy damage or reduced food availability, said the authors of the study, external published on Wednesday.

 

Well, that's grim.