The rate at which Earth is absorbing energy is alarming scientists
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/07/15/the-rate-at-which-earth-is-absorbing-energy-is-alarming-scientists

https://archive.is/Qs8X9

Observations from space show that the brightness with which Earth shines is dimming. Seen from afar, the home planet is looking steadily darker





The Dangers of Climate Dogma – and what we can do about it – Prof Jem Bendell
https://jembendell.com/2025/09/05/the-dangers-of-climate-dogma-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

“We are already in a manmade climate emergency and it is probably not primarily due to CO2 in the atmosphere. That’s because the pace of change in our climate is what makes this an emergency, and that is largely due to a decline in the Earth’s reflectivity, primarily from a loss of cloud cover, which is due to a fall in cloud seeding, with strong evidence that is mainly from a degrading of forest cover and ocean health. Downplaying this ecological dimension to global heating due to a dogmatic allegiance to carbon-only explanations and targets, has become as bad a response as that from people who dismiss it all as a climate scam.”

SHEFIK: bohati neumrou jako prvni, tak proc takovej deal neudelat, ne. Jsme jak v squid game.

SHEFIK: nasledky preradime z kategorie prognostika do kategorie pranostika a pojedeme dal... much adaptive ,)

We are borderline historic El Niño right now and still have another 2-4 months of warming to go.

Již na dvou třetinách našeho území kleslo nasycení půdy vláhou pod 10 %.

Prakticky to znamená, že ve vrstvě do jednoho metru je zde minimální a často i nulový obsah disponibilní vody pro rostliny.

www.intersucho.cz on X: "Již na dvou třetinách našeho území kleslo nasycení půdy vláhou pod 10 %. Prakticky to znamená, že ve vrstvě do jednoho metru je zde minimální a často i nulový obsah disponibi...
https://x.com/i/status/2087116462129320098

Z cyklu #doomed . Budu se opakovat, ale ten vyvoj me presvedcuje, ze si ty nasledky jako lidstvo proste zaslouzime. Nouze naucila Dalibira housti

Jedeme dal. Sice dochazi leckde pitna voda, reky vysychaji, jaderny elektrarny jsou odstavovany, teplota stredozemniho more ma 31*C, heatwave pokracuje v Evrope i USA, hori Letna, monzunovy deste kolem rovniku slabnou, permafrost plnej metanu v Gronsku a na Sibiri roztava, povrchova teplota oceanu je na rekordu, co2 prysti z novejch plynovek u datacenter, ale trhy nezastavis, poroste to donekonecna, protoze AI je reseni na vsechny soucasny problemy.

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A consortium of Private Equity firms are putting together a deal to lend Nvidia $500B

Apollo, Blackstone, Blackrock, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR are involved, in what is arguably is the largest financing deal ever on Wall Street.

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The Financial Times first reported it, citing people briefed on the talks. Reuters, WSJ, and Bloomberg have independently confirmed via sources familiar with the matter.

It's a consortium (Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock GIP, Brookfield, Goldman, KKR) working with Nvidia to assemble a ~$500B funding package for AI infrastructure build-out (chips, power, data centers). Not a simple direct $500B loan to Nvidia. No official company statements yet; deal could be announced soon.

Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/amazon-funds-biggest-gas-power-plant-in-us-despite-climate-pledge/

Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions will soon be partly fueled by a natural gas-burning power plant in Texas that “could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States,” The New York Times reported.

At the start of August, Cleanview discovered that the tech giant had filed three construction permits in Texas near the power plant that were “beginning immediately” and wondered if the projects were linked.

Thoroughly documenting the paper trail and taking satellite images, Cleanview got Amazon to confirm its suspicions, then released a report Friday warning that “Amazon is backing what could be the largest natural gas power plant ever built in the United States.”

Specifically, one permit showed the power plant “would use 35 turbines to generate up to 7.65 gigawatts of power,” Cleanview reported.

Although it’s rare for any facility to emit as much as its permits allow, Cleanview is concerned that Amazon’s rush to fulfill Amazon Web Services cloud orders will tempt the company to blast more and more emissions into more areas each year without adequately weighing public harms. On top of the Texas power plant, Amazon is also “in talks with the developers of a 4.5 GW gas power plant in Homer City, Pennsylvania,” Cleanview reported.


Scoop: Amazon Is Behind One of the Largest Planned Gas Power Plants in the US
https://newsletter.cleanview.co/p/scoop-amazon-is-behind-one-of-the?hide_intro_popup=true&open=false

TADEAS:

The worst most widespread drought conditions in Europe now are in countries where it is quite unusual: Romania, Hungary, France, and England. Parts of Spain are the driest in 1,000 years. Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands are also hard hit.

meanwhile novy novy zeland ,)

‘We’re already in World War Three’: Tech titans prepare Argentinian ranch for apocalypse – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/americas/2026/08/07/were-already-in-world-war-three-tech-titans-prepare-argentinian-ranch-for-apocalypse/

TADEAS: to mame za to, ze nestavime dost rychle datacentra!

Z pragocentrickyho soudku, pozary dorazily i sem

V pražských Letenských sadech hořela vegetace - Novinky
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-v-prazskych-letenskych-sadech-hori-40592115

Hot summer economics
https://www.triodos.com/en/articles/2026/hot-summer-economics

Europe's heatwave this summer will cut EU GDP by around 1% in 2026, roughly €180 billion, matching the bloc's entire expected growth for the year, according to a new Triodos Bank report. An estimated 20,400 people died from heat-related causes across France, Germany, Spain and Italy in a single week in June, with wildfires having already burned more land by 30 July than in any full previous year on record.

France is projected to take the biggest economic hit, with GDP growth cut by 1.4 percentage points, potentially pushing an already weak forecast into a 0.6% contraction for 2026. The Netherlands faces near-stagnant growth after an 0.8-point loss. Poland, despite being highly exposed on paper, escapes largely unscathed this year simply because it has had fewer extreme-heat days than usual, while Spain and Italy, hit by the most hot days, are cushioned by decades of acclimatisation.

Labour productivity is the single largest driver of the losses, more than agriculture, energy or transport combined, with research showing measurable output drops once temperatures pass roughly 25–30°C, especially in outdoor and non-air-conditioned work.

The report's authors point to 17 July, when the European Commission proposed easing the trajectory of the EU's carbon-pricing emissions cap through the 2030s on competitiveness grounds, the same week wildfire and death tolls were hitting record levels. That, they argue, illustrates the loop they say Europe is now caught in: heat damages growth, policy loosens to protect growth, emissions rise, and the next heatwave costs more.

R Hallam
https://www.facebook.com/share/1Hn2aBWVgJ/

When half a billion people live in low lying coastal areas - and will now inevitably have to move in the coming decades - the situation is not "a problem". It is not a "challenge". Only people utterly deluded by their own soon to end privileges could use such psychotic framing.

What is happening is a total fucking crime - enacted by people with names and addresses.



Some coastal cities are sinking faster than the ocean is rising | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801042824.htm

The worst harvest on record. Farmers questioning whether it's worth planting next year. And even Jeremy Clarkson says the sums aren't adding up.

The harvest crisis unfolding across Britain is becoming impossible to ignore.

After months of drought and extreme weather, farmers are reporting some of the poorest cereal, oilseed and potato crops in decades, with industry estimates suggesting this year's harvest could be the smallest since records began.

Among those sounding the alarm is Jeremy Clarkson, who says he can spend 15 to 20 hours a day harvesting and still struggle to make the numbers work.

But beyond the Clarkson headlines lies a much bigger story.

Farmers across England are warning about collapsing yields, poor-quality grain, rising costs and growing concerns over food security. Some are even questioning whether planting certain crops this autumn makes financial sense.

As Ireland copes with its own weather challenges, the UK experience offers a stark reminder of how quickly drought can transform a harvest and reshape thinking about farming, water security and food production.

Could Ireland face similar problems if extreme weather becomes more common?

And for tillage farmers, how has this year's harvest compared with your expectations back in the spring?

https://www.independent.ie/farming/uk-farmers-face-worst-harvest-on-record/a/159625904.html

staré české přísloví: Kdo jinému klimatickou změnu chystá, sám je bez vody.

"We can now expect everything from yellow and orange air and failed crops to buckling railways and the forced shutdowns of nuclear plants due to low water."

"Water bombers, the air cavalry of wildfire fighting, buzz the treetops like air show stunt pilots as they save the day with surgical drops of water or orange retardant.

But what happens when those drops have no effect? When, as a pilot working the massive Gironde Fire just west of Bordeaux, France, described
( https://zeit.de/wissenschaft/2026-07/cap-ferret-frankreich-waldbrand-tourismus-urlaub ) it:

“The environment above the fire is so hot that my payload of 10,000 liters of water evaporates in the air.”? Mathieu Jomain, a commander and 26-year veteran in Gironde’s fire service, compared the fire’s intensity to “a meteorological nuclear bomb.”

"This is the new reality of wildfires in the 21st Century: they hit different. And, too often now, the water doesn’t hit at all.
From America to Algeria, dangerous blazes are occurring around the world, giving us a glimpse into an age ablaze We should all be asking the question: What will this age entail?


"Fire phenonemon"

We are witnessing, live and in person, a terrible convergence of prolonged drought and record-breaking temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere. It is a convergence expressed most emphatically by unfightable fires racing across tinder-dry landscapes, fanned by high winds that are, increasingly, generated by the fires themselves. Just as warm waters fuel hurricanes, hot landscapes alive with roaring fire energize a wildfire’s chimney-like central column by burning all available fuel—grassland, forests, and neighborhoods alike—with explosive speed, and irrepressible ferocity that can produce flames higher than a thirty-story building and radiant heat approaching 1,000 °C"

Beginning his career as an oil-rig engineer before retraining as a climate scientist, Kevin Anderson’s career has been an extraordinary journey. On Downstream this week, Aaron Bastani sat down with him to discuss what has become his life’s work: sounding the alarm on man-made climate change, and on the fossil fuel industry that gave him his start.

Just how much has the planet heated, and why? Is the Paris Agreement’s aim of keeping heating to beneath 1.5°C still achievable, or delusional cope? What are the political obstacles to tackling the issue? Having worked with Andy Burnham in Manchester, what does Kevin think he will do on climate, as PM? Is avoiding catastrophe still possible, and if so, how much time have we got to act, before it’s too late?

Ex Oil-Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
https://youtu.be/mBFos_T7cT0?si=-Z7Wuj-WaFS0cOq5

TADEAS: Nedávno vyšel super rozhovor mezi mistrem McKay a Doughem Rushkoffem. Nějaký zajimavý BTS a vubec líbec.

Adam McKay: We've Already Left the Holocene | Team Human
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/377-adam-mckay

The gargantuan lie that is killing us

Adam McKay, the director of “Don’t Look Up”, on “The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate”, one of the “hulking distortions and misrepresentations watered and tended to by leaders, mass media, culture, and industry”, which are the most dangerous lies.

As Adam notes, “This particular sub-genus of grifts, half-truths and strategic omissions have led throughout modern history to wars, mass death, societal collapse, and the theft of humanity’s great treasures. ‘Manifest Destiny.’ ‘Aryan superiority.’ ‘The divine right of kings.’ ‘The domino theory.’ ‘Israel has a right to defend itself.’”

“However”, he adds, “there is one type of rare, gargantuan, towering lie that makes all the other mass lies throughout human history seem like frightened, scurrying, little adorable fibs.”

“It is”, he continues, “a lie told worldwide by hundreds of thousands of institutions, elected officials, many universities, legacy news, some large non-profits and eventually — as the deception entered mainstream culture — even by ourselves, to ourselves, every single moment of every day” — the lie that, “when it comes to climate change, we have more time.”

The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization