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The second bit of bad news is that researchers are having a hard time explaining just why CO2 levels reached such a startling high in 2024. Experts have pointed to several possible contributing factors, but can’t agree on which one is the most significant.

SEE ➡️ eenews.net/articles/trumps-noa…

And now, thanks to the fascist Trump administration, those climate scientists — who are doing their best to figure things out as fast as they can — have to deal with reduced funding for their work and in some cases the outright loss of their jobs.

Even this vital annual report on global CO2 concentrations was heavily downplayed by NOAA, in the face of political pressure.

SEE ➡️ edition.cnn.com/2025/04/22/cli…

#USA #Trump #Politics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

thank you! Just to note, "Just Have a Think" posted underneath the video that quite a few climate scientists have challenged the Wedderburn-Bisshop paper. Amongst others, this response is now underneath the video, and apparently he will do a follow up one in view of these critiques:

science.feedback.org/agricultu…

Yes, I think so! Also, now saw that Weddesburn-Bisshop is at the World Preservation Foundation, which I had never heard of but it's based at Newhaven, about 10 miles away from where I live, here in Sussex! Anyway, it turns out that this kind of argument is what the WPF is about. Which doesn't invalidate the research in itself, but probably still worth noting

worldpreservationfoundation.or…

While I don't fundamentally disagree, this country hasn't been able to feed its own population since the 18th century. Short of turning over all available land to agriculture - which would have huge and unpredictable knock-on ecological impacts - how would this regionalism work for us?

Many folks have *no land whatsoever* - just a Victorian terraced or towerblock - and allotment plots already have years-long waiting lists, if they're accessible at all.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell Couldn't have said it better, we have solutions, we just need to allow farmers that are curious to implement them. Being a first mover is hard but farmers are used to working hard and experimenting. A little funding and a lot of science communication goes a damn long way.
Written by a farmer that tries to work the problem.

#Farming

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ApostateEnglishman
You might care to consider how closely food production - farms, parks, lawns, window boxes and all - would have approached maximum during a world war when the barriers to importation included vast quantities of shipping being sunk in the Atlantic, the countries of the facing coastline being occupied, and coastal fishing strafed.

Get swayed.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @midgephoto *ahem* There was also that whole Irish famine thing, because the English needed carbs and couldn't plunder their colonies anymore because the Empire was collapsing.

Which was also due to the blunt refusal of indigenous peoples to provide them with resources.

#JustSaying

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ApostateEnglishman
Let me turn that round for you:
You assert that the UK/GB could feed 60 million people from within its borders.

This is not a belief shared by our farmers, nor our Ministries of Agriculture or Defence, among others.

30 million, we could manage, that being the 1850 population of the whole British Isles.
Some time later, we couldn't.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ApostateEnglishman That would be the USA, which at that time and probably still was more sparsely populated.

And importantly, was not blockaded in WW2.
I don't think the USA rationed in WW2.

The situation was critically different in the UK.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ApostateEnglishman
That I should probably read.

And so you did. One lives, but not in the USA, and sometimes learns.
nps.gov/articles/000/food-rati…

Food Rationing on the World War II Home Front (U.S. National Park Service)

^www.nps.gov

@salvadorbs “You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.”

Apparentemente questa parte non viene applicata in Europa ma vale in altri paesi come gli Stati Uniti, scrivono.

MAH 😞 come scriveva l’altro utente, una ragione in più per boicottare Nintendo se lo applicano alla lettera.

@Ryoma123