Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/14/human-activity-helped-make-2025-third-hottest-year-on-record-experts-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#ClimateDiary
@carnage4life well there are people still flying their way through accelerating climate overshoot and that has a certain kind of ‘productivity’ to it too
The thing we’ve been especially good at since discovering fossil fuels is to invent new ways to narrow our gaze on ‘productivity’ while ignoring that the most productive thing we’ve done is to produce more than
1,850,000,000,000,000 kg of CO2.
For each person alive today, that’s about the weight of 3,500 people
Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/14/human-activity-helped-make-2025-third-hottest-year-on-record-experts-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#ClimateDiary
@lizardmcguire @inquiline I’ve been really appreciating #ClimateDiary. Sending a wave from the east coast of Australia and life with Mel, an older rescue: back end kelpie, snack end labrador.
Hello, all! I’m stoked to be here and out of algo-misery to rediscover the commons with y’all. That said, I’m still getting my bearings on how to explore this place. Like is the internet really encouraging me to ask strangers for directions in the year of our lord 2026?? Well, here I am asking! Which corners of the federation are you enjoying these days? Bonus points if they involve #dogs #goodbooks #bloomscrolling #walkablecities
With care,
Liz (& Jayber!)
#dogsofmastodon #introduction
@lizardmcguire @inquiline I’ve been really appreciating #ClimateDiary. Sending a wave from the east coast of Australia and life with Mel, an older rescue: back end kelpie, snack end labrador.
TIL that ‘TVD’ is an oil and gas sector abbreviation for True Vertical Depth, it being a reference to the distance perpendicular to the Earth’s crust from the surface to the bottom of the borehole.
I don’t think we have any idea of the true vertical depth to which we are drilling ourselves
RE: https://bne.social/@phocks/115810579085689187
Make time for this. If we learn to think as a #ClimateCommunity, how do we keep front of mind that this is happening in the same world we live in?
*checks fediverse CAwx feed*
thunderstorms incoming
*checks LAcounty email feed*
Marina Del Rey fireworks & glow party, rain or shine
And
Incident response page activated with current evac info
RE: https://bne.social/@phocks/115810579085689187
Make time for this. If we learn to think as a #ClimateCommunity, how do we keep front of mind that this is happening in the same world we live in?
This week’s https://en.writes.casa theme is ‘the syntax of silence’.
I’m keeping it short by stealing from Simon and Garfunkel:
- - -
Bridging the troubled waters:
And in the naked light, I saw
Eight billion people, maybe more
Business talking without speaking
Government hearing without listening
People chasing freedom and yet carbon ensnared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
Breaking the silence, saying the uncomfortable, is the very least we should do
…only a business culture that was utterly deluded and paid no attention to global warming being a *cumulative* issue, and hadn’t even tried to make a single ‘renewable’ installation at scale without fossil fuel inputs would look at emissions *increasing* year on year and say
“look folks, we’re decoupling”
…fact is, pursuing notions of profit attached to monetary tokens which externalise the ecology they sit within *is the self-terminating error*.
But power is entirely disinterested in addressing that
“a lot of this [emissions] reduction is dependent on substitution of fossil fuel generation with industrial scale ‘renewable’ power. That substitution gets harder to implement as the easier applications are substituted first, and the harder ones (heavy transport, heavy industry) are likely to slow down future decarbonisation. Moreover, those renewable energy capture systems themselves have a major material footprint, with other dire ecological consequences”
https://mstdn.social/@degrowthuk/115733952836944733
…only a business culture that was utterly deluded and paid no attention to global warming being a *cumulative* issue, and hadn’t even tried to make a single ‘renewable’ installation at scale without fossil fuel inputs would look at emissions *increasing* year on year and say
“look folks, we’re decoupling”
air pollution in the LA basin for days and days, which is not due to special emissions but due to (normal for this time of year) cold foggy air mass trapping the pollution. (usually we're just writing pollution checks we don't plan to have to pay...) so sick of the greasy air and inability to draw a breath
Family on west coast are +10 degrees above average
Family on east coast are +15 degrees below average
@wavesculptor @pvonhellermannn Yes, I think I was marking #ClimateCommunity for myself to come back to and think*, but I’m also a fan of Pauline’s #ClimateDiary. I was involved at the beginning of #compostodon’s life and as a compost nerd I really love to see it.
The *thinking is about what it means to find community in climate concerns, whether and how it helps.
San Diego, #California, #US
A surfer walks by as #starfish cling to a pillar of the Ellen Browning Scripps memorial pier during the king tides which are the year’s most extreme high and low tides.
Photograph: Kevin Carter/Getty Images
84F in late autumn 🥵
18 degrees above average
11 days until winter solstice
5/5
…I said “It’s not about whether paper exams have a higher carbon footprint or not” above for reasons of wanting to fit what followed into a single post.
When it comes to decarbonisation it *is* of course about which mode of examination has lower impact.
But at *this juncture*, it’s kind of not because what we have is a culture that is making essentially no effort at all, that doesn’t take it seriously, that doesn’t want to *examine* any of it.
And we need to fkn *start*
…I have submitted a complaint to the BBC.
It ends with:
“Unfortunately for us, the thermodynamics of pumping billions of tonnes of climate warming gases into the air is not negotiable. Perhaps Today might be more sober on the issues, and become capable of passing an exam in how to sustain the best of what we have in the rest of the 21st Century.”
4/5
…And here’s my point. It’s not about whether paper exams have a higher carbon footprint or not.
It’s that Emma couldn’t wait to butt in with scorn in her voice. It’s that UK transport emissions have barely diminished since we started telling ourselves that we care about them over 35 years ago. It’s that when teachers tell a survey app that they do care about these issues, their concerns are to be dismissed.
Because as we all know, thermodynamics is famously negotiable :/
5/5
…I said “It’s not about whether paper exams have a higher carbon footprint or not” above for reasons of wanting to fit what followed into a single post.
When it comes to decarbonisation it *is* of course about which mode of examination has lower impact.
But at *this juncture*, it’s kind of not because what we have is a culture that is making essentially no effort at all, that doesn’t take it seriously, that doesn’t want to *examine* any of it.
And we need to fkn *start*
![Your complaint
What is the programme title?
Today
When was it broadcast?
11/12/2025
How did you watch or listen to the programme?
Actual (live)
Roughly how far into the programme did the issue happen?
07:25am
Select the best category to describe your complaint:
Bias
What is the subject of your complaint?
Being dismissive of decarbonisation concerns
Please enter your complaint:
Emma Barnett interviewed Laura McInerney about the shift to digital exams. Laura’s first contribution began:
“What we find is that teachers do feel there is an inevitable shift towards digital exams, both because of digital skills needs … but also because of environmental concerns. It’s not *minor* to drive around millions of exam papers across the country each year and then drive them to warehouses and so on. So that’s *part* of it…”
Emaa could not wait to butt in with an incredulous tone:
“That can’t be… Is that really a concern? Environmental issues, driving papers around, that’s not really going to change our, sort of, climate issue is it?”
Here’s the problem:
- Decarbonisation is an everything issue. And in the UK a major component of our emissions is from transport, and that has barely diminished since we started telling ourselves we cared about them over 35 years ago.
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