The U.S. Senator Who Won’t Shut Up about Climate Change.

At a time when other public officials and the media are talking less about climate change, Sheldon Whitehouse remains fiercely outspoken. He delivered his 307th climate speech on the Senate floor this month and is pushing back against the recent trend of “climate hushing.” #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://e360.yale.edu/features/sheldon-whitehouse-interview

If you are concerned about weather and climate in Canada please sign this e-petition!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7465

The Carney Government has decimated many ECCC services at a time when extreme weather and climate change are hitting Canadians harder than ever.

Boost, Like and write a post of your own and share the petition!

If you are on FB or other platforms please share there too!

thank you! 🙏 ❤️ 🇨🇦

Full text below the hashtags.

#carneyrestoreeccc #e7465
#canpoli #cdnpoli #weather #bcstorm #climateChange #ClimateEmergency #science #pleaseBoost #austerity #Canada

Petition to the Government of Canada

Whereas:
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) plays a critical role in protecting Canadians through weather forecasting, severe weather warnings, climate monitoring and scientific research;

Canada is experiencing increasingly frequent and severe weather and climate related events, including wildfires, floods, atmospheric rivers, hurricanes, heat waves, winter storms and derechos;
Weather radar research, observation stations, Weatheradio services and frontline meteorological staff are essential public safety tools, particularly for rural, remote and Indigenous communities;

Recent and proposed reductions to ECCC staffing, research capacity, and public weather services risk weakening Canada’s ability to predict, monitor, and respond to dangerous weather events;

Reliable weather forecasting and climate science are vital to emergency preparedness, transportation safety, agriculture, marine operations and public confidence; and

Canadians deserve a strong, modern and fully supported public weather service.

We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to

1. Reverse cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada that impact weather forecasting, meteorological research and climate science;

2. Restore and maintain Weatheradio and other accessible public alert systems;

3. Protect and expand weather observation and climate monitoring stations across Canada;

4. Ensure adequate staffing and long-term funding for ECCC programs, scientists, meteorologists and technical experts; and

5. Recognize weather forecasting and climate monitoring as essential public safety infrastructure.

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Signature PETITIONS SEARCH CREATE ABOUT CONTACT I Subscribe to RSS Feed e-7465 (Environment) Keywords Climate and weather Department of the Environment → E-petition Initiated by Chris Alemany from Port Alberni, British Columbia Original language of petition: English Meteorology • MY PETITIONS & MYAccoUNT& siGNouT

Already 78 signers of the #e7465 petition to get #CarneyRestoreECCC ! Only need 500 to get it presented in Parliament with a response from Government but let's go for 1000!

I won't link it directly as it tends to crash the Parliament "www.ourcommons.ca” website which is counter productive :+)

So instead I'll encourage you to type that address in yourself and follow the directions in the pictures attached to sign the petition and restore Environment and Climate Change Canada!

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Petitions #ECCC #Weather #WeatherRadio #SevereWeather #BCStorm #Climate #ClimateChange

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Scroll down to the bottom of the front page of ourcommons.ca and click on where it says “Petitions”

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Type in e7465 in the search field and it should be the first result just down the page.

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Once you get to the petition itself, the Sign button is at the bottom of the petition page.

#News: #research finds #rivers fuel #food webs that sea #birds need to feed, stay healthy and breed 🐧🌴 Protect rivers to protect seabirds 🧐🔥 #ClimateChange #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/7902/Australian-study-shows-rivers-are-vital-to?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#ICTNews

Our Story

"Our primary service is news. #IndiJPublicMedia is the parent company of #ICT, formerly #IndianCountryToday. IndiJ Public Media was formed to empower ICT to transform the narrative of how #IndigenousPeople and communities are reported on in the media. Telling the stories of Indigenous communities by Indigenous journalists is at the core of ICT. Since our beginnings in 1981 as a weekly newspaper, ICT has grown into the largest news organization serving #NativeAmerican communities today. In April 2020, we expanded into public broadcasting through the ICT newscast, reporting on how the coronavirus pandemic affected #AmericanIndians and #AlaskaNatives and #FirstNations.

"With this bold new step into public television, ICT has become a spacious channel through which it distributes news across multiple platforms. Coverage includes FREE digital and broadcast news featuring community, healthcare, education, #ClimateChange, government, business, sports, arts, entertainment, and more, from #IndigenousJournalists."

https://ictnews.org/

#IndigenousNews #IndigenousNewsOutlets

Once Dismissed As Weeds, Native Plants Are Flying Off the Shelves.

Gardeners are flocking to climate-resilient species amid concerns about extreme heat, flooding, and pollinator survival. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/05/native-plants-revival-sales-climate-resilient-heat-resistant-low-water/

#UK

UK heatwave has ‘fingerprints of climate change all over it’

‘It’s clearly exceptional when the May temperature record falls not once but twice in two days’

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/uk-heatwave-record-temperatures-climate-change-b2983742.html

#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

So, are we in the 'Oops' phase right now or what?

#ClimateChange #Meme

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A comic panel displaying a timeline of climate change. Starts with, "Climate change isn't real." -Sponsored by Shell Continues with "Okay, Climate change is real, we're just not convinced it's caused by humans." -Funded by Exxon "Oops" "Fuck"

With First-of-Its-Kind Bill, #BernieSanders and #AOC Propose #Moratorium on New #AI #DataCenters

“These massive facilities are sucking up precious #water resources, paving over #farmland, driving #ClimateChange, and disrupting the fabric of communities,” said one supporter of the new legislation.

by Jake Johnson, Mar 25, 2026

"Two of the leading progressives in the US Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announced legislation on Wednesday that would impose a nationwide moratorium on the construction of new artificial intelligence data centers amid mounting concerns over their insatiable consumption of power and water resources, impacts on the climate, and other harms.

"Sanders’ (I-Vt.) office said in a press release announcing the #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenterMoratorium Act that the construction pause would remain in effect 'until strong national safeguards are in place to protect workers, consumers, and communities, defend privacy and #CivilRights, and ensure these technologies do not harm our #environment.'

"Sanders and #OcasioCortez (D-NY) are set to formally introduce their legislation at a press conference on Wednesday at 4 pm ET.

"Food & Water Watch (#FWW), which last year became the first national organization in the US to call for a total moratorium on the approval of new AI data centers, celebrated the first-of-its-kind bill and called on other members of Congress to 'move quickly to sponsor, champion, and pass' it. FWW’s groundbreaking call for a national AI data center moratorium was later echoed by hundreds of advocacy organizations at the state and national levels.

" 'We need a halt to the explosive growth of new AI data center construction now, because political and community leaders across the country have been caught completely off guard by this aggressive, profit-hungry industry,' Mitch Jones, FWW’s managing director of policy and litigation, said in a statement Wednesday. 'It has yet to be determined if—not how—the industry can ever operate in a manner that sufficiently protects people and society from the profusion of inherent hazards and harms that data centers bring wherever they appear.' "

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-data-center-moratorium

#AWS #NoDatacenters #NoAI #NoNukesForAI #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution #AISucks #USPol

#India

Over the past three decades, India has experienced more than 400 extreme weather events. Its power sector, spanning thermal plants, solar parks, wind installations, and transmission infrastructure, faces escalating physical risk across every layer of the value chain. Yet most existing climate risk tools stop at hazard identification, offering qualitative ratings rather than quantified operational or financial impact
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/assessing-climate-risks-to-indias-power-sector-a-district-level-and-asset-level-methodology-for-climate-resilient-power-systems/

#ClimateChange #pollution #environment #climate

Another first for renewables: Wind and solar outgenerated gas worldwide in April.

It’s a milestone moment that shows just how much clean energy has matured in a short amount of time — and a lot more growth is on the way. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/wind-solar-outgenerate-gas-april

As the UK hits 35C it is hitting 55C in India, just a few Centigrade from causing instant death.

This is the most heavily populated country on the planet with 1.47 billion people.

More than all of North America and Europe combined.

Imagine if they all have to leave.

#GlobalHeating #ClimateCatasrophe #ClimateChange #Environment #DoSomething #Heat #Wrather #ClimateEmergency

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temperature map of India

Western Europe sweats as a ‘heat dome’ causes record May temperatures.

Spain and Portugal are set to experience the most extreme heat this week, with parts of Portugal expected to hit nearly 40C, and areas of southern Spain forecast to hit 38C.

France, Belgium and the UK are all expecting temperatures significantly higher than the May average.

Climate change is causing earlier and more intense heatwaves, France’s weather agency said.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260525-western-europe-sweats-as-a-heat-dome-causes-record-may-temperatures?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#HeatWave #Weather #ClimateChange

#Montana tribes combine traditional knowledge and Western #science in climate plan https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5734484/trump-montana-climate-change-indigenous-tribes-wildfires?utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bsky.app #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #ClimateChange

The biggest episodes of the past have altered the course of human events, according to researchers. An emerging one is drawing historic comparisons. https://portside.org/2026-05-24/sunday-science-powerful-el-nino-forming-if-history-guide-it-could-hit-hard #ClimateChange

World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/bhp-files-leak-mining-company-climate-action #ClimateChange

Oh no 🥲👉🏻” SEATTLE—Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists.
Twenty-two carcasses have been found so far this spring, many of them battered by collisions with boats. “ https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24052026/pacific-gray-whales-threatened-by-warming-waters/ #whale #climatechange

Melting ice sheets, and redistribution of water to lower latitudes, is slowing Earth's rotation at an unprecedented rate.

Summary: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/unprecedented-earths-rotation

Original paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JB032161

#Science #ClimateChange

Solar to overtake coal on Texas grid for the first time ever this year.

The Trump administration likes to cast renewables as a socialist scam, but solar has soared in the competitive markets of the Lone Star State. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://grist.org/energy/solar-to-overtake-coal-on-texas-grid-for-the-first-time-ever-this-year/

27C under a thin, high cloud sky today.

Tomorrow, who knows what temperature? Is that normal? No? Oh well, carry on anyway as you are I guess.

#ukweather #ClimateChange

This US island is home to flora found nowhere else. Now, a wildfire threatens extinction.

Firefighters are racing to douse flames on California’s Santa Rosa Island as experts express concern for unique habitat. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/23/santa-rosa-island-wildfire

Lithuania’s rapid deployment of wind and solar power is helping the country strengthen its energy resilience and end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/22/turning-crisis-into-opportunity-how-lithuania-became-a-wild-card-for-the-eus-clean-energy-

In memoriam: Marjan Minnesma
Wormerveer, 28 oktober 1966 – Noord-Beemster, 22 mei 2026
https://www.urgenda.nl/

biografie:
https://marjanminnesma.nl/wp-content/uploads/Biografie-Marjan-Minnesma.pdf

condoleanceregister:
https://marjanminnesma.nl/

🌹 #MarjanMinnesma #Urgenda

#klimaat #climate #climatechange #climateAction

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Foto van Marjan Minnesma

Getting out of the hole: how to save our world https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/getting-out-of-the-hole-how-to-save-our-world/ #UK #ClimateChange

#books

Thrutopia

it has thrutopian elements because it leans on the ideas of human empathy and collective action to offer solutions amid a near-dystopian society

This new world includes collective climate action but also an elevator to space, a three-hour work day and an army run by a council of grandmothers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/what-on-earth-thrutopia-9.7206857

#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Scientists improve knowledge on sea level rise—and confirm it has been accelerating since 1960 - Even if increases in greenhouse gases are stabilized, the large inertia of the ocean and the world's ice means that sea level rise will continue for many centuries as the oceans slowly warm throughout their depths and land ice continues to melt. So…coastal areas in the USA and globally will be under water at some rapidly approaching future date. The resulting #ClimateMigration will be profound, with millions moving to dry ground. So Florida is screwed, likewise Louisiana and NYC. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #SeaLevel #oceans #GlobalWarming https://phys.org/news/2026-05-scientists-knowledge-sea.html

#NoBillionaires #nobillionairesneeded #GuillotinesWork #climatechange

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Tweet from OrevaZSN: This might sound pessimistic, but I've always wondered why no billionaire has single-handedly funded the halting or reversal of climate change purely for the narcissistic thrill of being able to say they literally saved humanity.

#AI

Realistic AI-generated climate disaster images decrease support for climate action when artificial origin is suspected

Policymakers and environmental advocacy organizations are increasingly using AI-generated images of climate disasters to advocate for climate interventions. Here we show that highly realistic AI-generated climate disaster images do not increase support for climate action

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00092-0

#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #pollution #ecology #environment #climate