CO2 can stimulate plant growth, but only when enough nitrogen is available—and that key ingredient has been seriously miscalculated. A new study finds that natural nitrogen fixation has been overestimated by about 50 percent in major climate models. This means the climate-cooling benefits of plant growth under high CO2 are smaller than expected. The result: a reduced buffer against climate change and more uncertainty in future projections.

Plants can’t absorb as much CO2 as climate models predicted | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260104202809.htm

SHEFIK: move fast and break climate

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis | Food security | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/20/crop-pests-food-losses-climate-crisis

The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge, an analysis has concluded.

Researchers said the world was lucky to have so far avoided a major shock and was living on borrowed time, with action needed to diversify crops and boost natural predators of pests.

The key global crops, wheat, rice and maize, are expected to see the losses to pests increase by about 46%, 19% and 31% respectively when global heating reaches 2C, the scientists said.

Global heating is helping insects such as aphids, planthoppers, stem borers, caterpillars and locusts thrive. Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold.

As a result, the climate-driven flourishing of pests will be worst in temperate places, such as Europe and the US, the researchers said. Temperatures may have already hit a limit for some insects in the tropics, they said, although the cutting of croplands into tropical forests is supporting more pests.

XCHAOS: gerontocracy moves to dismantle the biosphere and the stability of the climate

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Some MPs have also blamed the drought on the Iranian government for failing to enforce the restrictive hijab laws passed by parliament.
Supporters of the president, Masoud Pezeshkian, asked in reply: why is Europe, where women are free to expose their hair to the wind, so green? One headline read: “Why do atheist countries have more rain?”

Climate crisis or a warning from God? Iranians desperate for answers as water dries up | Iran | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/16/climate-crisis-or-a-warning-from-god-iranians-desperate-for-answers-as-water-dries-up

Flooding in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) has recently turned deadly serious, as days of intense rain from a powerful atmospheric river have swollen rivers and caused widespread flooding across the PNW.
If you guessed climate change was playing a role in this, you’d be right. Climate change isn’t just making storms “wetter” in a simple sense; it is fundamentally breaking the region’s natural plumbing system.

TCB quick hit: How climate change broke the Pacific Northwest’s plumbing
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/tcb-quick-hit-how-climate-change?r=27daj&triedRedirect=true

‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing | Rivers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/16/no-water-no-life-iraqs-tigris-river-in-danger-of-disappearing

the health of the river has been in decline for decades. Iraq had state-of-the-art water infrastructure until the US made it a target in 1991’s Operation Desert Storm. With treatment plants destroyed, sewage flowed into the waterways. Years of sanctions and conflict mean the infrastructure has never fully recovered. Today, across southern and central Iraq, just 30% of urban households are connected to a sewage treatment facility. That number drops to 1.7% in rural areas.

In addition to municipal waste, chemical fertilisers and pesticides in agricultural runoff, industrial waste including from the oil sector, and medical refuse all find their way into the river. A 2022 study found that water quality at numerous sites in Baghdad was rated “poor” or “very poor”. In 2018, at least 118,000 people in the southern city of Basra were treated in hospital after drinking contaminated water.

The river has also dramatically shrunk in volume. In the past 30 years, Turkey has built major dams on the Tigris and the amount of water reaching Baghdad has decreased by 33%. Iran too has built dams and diverted water away from shared rivers that feed the Tigris. Within Iraq, water is frequently overused, especially in the agricultural sector that uses at least 85% of the country’s surface water.

The climate crisis is taking a toll. Iraq has recorded a 30%decline in precipitation and is in the grip of its worst drought in nearly a century. Demand for fresh water is expected to exceed supply by 2035. This summer, the Tigris was so low people could easily walk across it.

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Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years | Glaciers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/15/alpine-glaciers-rate-extinction-climate-crisis

united retards of america


The EPA is wiping mention of human-caused climate change from its website
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/12/09/epa-deleting-climate-change

More and More and More
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change

It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one. Indeed the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue.

The author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in fact been based on symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off the others. Using a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy – with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before.

This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: ‘transition’ was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. More and More and More forces its readers to understand the modern world in all its voracious reality, and the true nature of the challenges heading our way.

More and More and More - Jean-Baptiste Fressoz | Knihy z Martinusu
https://www.martinus.sk/3010425-more-and-more-and-more/2686021

https://x.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/1999004846364524716
Heritage Foundation, Trump, Orbán and a Plan to Break the EU**

A @DeSmog investigation reveals something extraordinary:

The US Heritage Foundation - authors of Project 2025 - has been holding secret meetings with European hard-right groups to design a plan to dismantle the EU.

Not reform. Not negotiate. Dismantle it. Their blueprint calls for scrapping:

❌ the European Commission
❌ the European Court of Justice
❌ climate laws
❌ human rights protections
❌ supranational authority

They want a Europe of weak states, no oversight, and no environmental rules / exactly what fossil fuel and tech oligarchs want.

VOYTEX:

While the warming trend has been conclusively linked to human activities driving climate change, the cause of the waning precipitation wasn't as clear. Now, however, Jonathan Overpeck of the University of Michigan and Brad Udall of the Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University are convinced that anthropogenic climate change is the culprit as well.

The U.S. Southwest's disappearing precipitation is also due to human-driven climate change, according to report
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-southwest-precipitation-due-human-driven.html

Ocean microplastics mess up carbon cycle understanding - Futurity
https://www.futurity.org/ocean-microplastics-carbon-cycle-climate-change-3309772/

A new study shows that microplastics in oceans can distort scientists’ understanding of the carbon cycle.

The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, a significant process to curbing climate change or global warming.

The new study shows that when microplastics are accidentally collected and measured with natural ocean organic particles, the carbon released by plastics during combustion appears as if it came from natural organic matter, which distorts scientists’ understanding of the ocean’s carbon cycle.