Yet Another Boring Blog

Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment

Human-caused climate change worsens with every increment of additional warming, although some impacts can develop abruptly

Saturday, 18th October 2025

18th Oct 2025

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift

Friday, 17th October 2025

17th Oct 2025

Dramatic increase in ecosystem respiration causes record-breaking atmospheric CO2 growth rate in 2024

2024 is the hottest year on record, accompanied by extreme precipitation, droughts and fires

Thursday, 16th October 2025

16th Oct 2025

Global warming could harm the oceans' most important organism

The blue-green algae Prochlorococcus produces a quarter of the world's oxygen and is possibly more temperature-sensitive than previously thought

Wednesday, 15th October 2025

15th Oct 2025

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Climate sensitivity is substantially higher than IPCC’s best estimate (3°C for doubled CO2)

Tuesday, 14th October 2025

14th Oct 2025

Defra figures reveal England's second worst harvest in history

England has endured its second worst harvest on record after one of the warmest springs and driest starts to summer in over a century.

Monday, 13rd October 2025

13rd Oct 2025

Damage intensity increases ice mass loss from Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica

Ice damage plays a critical role in ice-shelf stability, grounding-line retreat, and subsequent sea-level rise.

Sunday, 12nd October 2025

12nd Oct 2025

Arctic CO2 emissions amplified by aerobic methane oxidation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Arctic CO2 Surge Driven by Methane Oxidation

Saturday, 11st October 2025

11st Oct 2025

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

Friday, 10th October 2025

10th Oct 2025

Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records

Regional exceptions like the 1930s in the continental US notwithstanding

Thursday, 9th October 2025

9th Oct 2025

Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change

Although last year’s global temperatures were very high, they were also alarmingly unexceptional.

Wednesday, 8th October 2025

8th Oct 2025

Can We Bury Enough Wood to Slow Climate Change?

Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year

Tuesday, 7th October 2025

7th Oct 2025

Just the 64,000 years

CO₂ removal via Direct Air Capture is not an option

Saturday, 12nd July 2025

12nd Jul 2025

Understated Climate models

All the current climate models are under estimating the warming trend

Sunday, 6th July 2025

6th Jul 2025

Climate warming timescales

The schedule of our destruction

Saturday, 5th July 2025

5th Jul 2025

After the great dieing comes ...

... five million years of lethal heat

Friday, 4th July 2025

4th Jul 2025

Record-breaking Tropical Forest Loss in 2024

Driven largely by massive fires, that’s more than any other year in at least the last two decades.

Thursday, 3rd July 2025

3rd Jul 2025

Home Assistant and GoveeLife Humidifier

Automating Govee Humidifier (H7140) using Home Assistant and a Ikea Air Quality Sensor Vindstyrka

Tuesday, 4th March 2025

4th Mar 2025

Climate dominoes

Tipping point risks for critical climate systems. Major elements of Earth’s climate system are now increasingly influenced by self-reinforcing warming processes

Wednesday, 30th August 2023

30th Aug 2023

We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?

Tuesday, 29th August 2023

29th Aug 2023

New Research Sparks Concerns That Ocean Circulation Will Collapse

New research finds the real risk to circulation lies in Antarctica’s waters, where melting could disrupt currents in the next few decades, with profound impacts on global climate.

Thursday, 17th August 2023

17th Aug 2023

Termination Zero: Our Predicament May Be Totally Unprecedented

Molecule for molecule, methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO₂ but it lasts slightly less than a decade in the atmosphere compared with centuries for CO₂.

Thursday, 17th August 2023

17th Aug 2023

Climate change: Why action on the crisis is all hot air

Neoliberalism's relentless cheerleaders are largely unchallenged in their dangerous belief that capitalism's growth paradigm can be squared with sustainability. It may cost us the Earth.

Thursday, 17th August 2023

17th Aug 2023

Supervolcano study finds CO2 emissions key to avoiding climate disasters

Earth's biological cycle has been punctuated by catastrophic mass extinctions, some of which wiped out 90% of all species,

Wednesday, 16th August 2023

16th Aug 2023

Cereal crops and other commodities including olives and tomatoes hit by Europe’s heatwave

Southern Europe grain yields likely to be 60% lower than last year and 9.5% lower than the 5-year average due to heatwaves

Tuesday, 15th August 2023

15th Aug 2023

Oil-rich countries hinder the global plastics treaty

Big Oil is naturally frantically lobbying to stop us from phasing out plastic - and want to triple production by 2060

Monday, 14th August 2023

14th Aug 2023

Why sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere can’t undo all the effects of climate change

Climate change turns more places into deserts. Sucking CO2 out of the air can’t undo all the damage.

Sunday, 13rd August 2023

13rd Aug 2023

Experts: Expect worsening flooding and drought as rapid warming continues

Big Oil is naturally frantically lobbying to stop us from phasing out plastic - and want to triple production by 2060

Saturday, 12nd August 2023

12nd Aug 2023

First stage of abrupt climate catastrophe has begun by crossing Arctic tipping point

The disappearance of Arctic summer sea ice is now inevitable. We've crossed a dangerous tipping point at risk of triggering others. Yet pathways to transformation over the next 15 years could still pull us back from collapse.

Tuesday, 8th August 2023

8th Aug 2023

The Ritual of Capitalization

The regularities that stem from the ritual of capitalization

Saturday, 17th June 2023

17th Jun 2023

Climate change can cause a collapse of life on earth

Two climate scientists have issued a dire warning about the consequences the planet might face if humans did not limit the global temperature rise.

Saturday, 17th June 2023

17th Jun 2023

New research suggests wheat crops may be threatened by unprecedented heat and drought

The likelihood of extreme temperatures that could affect crop yields has increased significantly in wheat-producing regions

Friday, 16th June 2023

16th Jun 2023

Physicists predict Earth will become a chaotic world, with dire consequences

If the Earth System gets into the region of chaotic behavior, we will lose all hope of somehow fixing the problem.

Thursday, 15th June 2023

15th Jun 2023

First stage of abrupt climate catastrophe has begun by crossing Arctic tipping point

The fallacy of linear thinking

Tuesday, 13rd June 2023

13rd Jun 2023

We Are Going To Run Out Of Food

7 Reasons There’s Going To Be A Global Famine

Wednesday, 24th May 2023

24th May 2023

Glaciers May Melt Even Faster Than Expected

Evidence that ancient glaciers retreated more than a quarter-mile a day is a worrisome sign that glaciers today could melt—and contribute to sea-level rise—faster than was thought

Sunday, 9th April 2023

9th Apr 2023

Lose the permafrost, lose the planet: A very chilling Doomsday scenario

Why is melting permafrost such a huge problem?

Saturday, 8th April 2023

8th Apr 2023

Faster, Higher, Hotter

What we learned about the climate system in 2022

Monday, 3rd April 2023

3rd Apr 2023

Ice sheet melt water slowing Southern Ocean overturning circulation

Consequences catastrophic for world ocean

Sunday, 2nd April 2023

2nd Apr 2023

Declining Biodiversity – Now and in the Future

Human well-being at risk. Landmark reports highlight options to protect and restore nature and its vital contributions to people

Thursday, 23rd March 2023

23rd Mar 2023

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Using $c->render_to_string

Sunday, 26th February 2023

26th Feb 2023

Model Mojolicious

Another example of Model use in Mojo

Sunday, 26th February 2023

26th Feb 2023

Is it democratic to always vote for the same party ?

... in every election ? ... your whole life ?

Friday, 20th January 2023

20th Jan 2023

Military carbon

It’s high time to defuse the military carbon bomb

Saturday, 26th November 2022

26th Nov 2022

Even temporarily overshooting 2°C would cause permanent damage to Earth’s species

Harm arrives fast and leaves slowly

Tuesday, 1st November 2022

1st Nov 2022

Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security

Projected effects of climate change on food security are often based on crop models that incorporate only a few dimensions of climate related biophysical change

Wednesday, 5th October 2022

5th Oct 2022

The Amazon will reach tipping point if current trend of deforestation continues

We are destroying water, biodiversity, food. Humans, extractive industry companies and governments continue to pursue a fossil fuel economy, destroying both our present and our future.

Wednesday, 5th October 2022

5th Oct 2022

This Is What a Civilization Committing Climate Suicide Looks Like

The Mega Scale Impacts of Climate Change Are Here — And They’re Devastating

Wednesday, 5th October 2022

5th Oct 2022

Do we think global society can avoid a collapse in this century?

The industrial revolution set civilization on the road to collapse

Wednesday, 21st September 2022

21st Sep 2022

El Nino 2024

Temperature is rising. Frog is warming.

Wednesday, 21st September 2022

21st Sep 2022

Sapient Paradox

Modern humans genetically (mostly) and physically (definitely) were around 100,000 years ago: why does it take 90,000 years to get Göbekli Tepe?

Wednesday, 21st September 2022

21st Sep 2022

Capitalism and extreme poverty

One leads to the other

Tuesday, 20th September 2022

20th Sep 2022

This is how civilisations collapse

The globalised world has seen two antecedents in the past: in the interconnected, hyper-specialised trading systems of the Bronze Age, and those of the Roman Empire at its height

Tuesday, 20th September 2022

20th Sep 2022