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Raising a kid in the #PNW, teaching her to respect and care for mother Earth. Born at 338 ppm

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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"...abnormally dry and warm winter..." "...extremely hot and dry conditions..." WHY is this happening, @npr.org @chandelis.bsky.social . WHY? Our climate is dying and you know why.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Every word, even the perfect choice of cover photo, should be broadcast to the world. Who will listen? Meanwhile, I'm spending $20 a month for Ridwell to recycle my "special plastics" as if that's going to help. Thank you, @ghostpanther.bsky.social for this eye-opening and depressing hit of truth.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sit down and read this. I'm thankful for Rebecca and others like her who are eloquent and vocal about our dire situation. If only the powers that be would listen, understand, and care.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What we all need is rapid legislation and funding to reduce fossil fuel use, increase solar, etc. The "recovery" funds are just bandaids on a jugular wound.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Climate change, combined with development in high-risk areas, is making urban wildfires more likely." 🔥
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My daughter's Earth was doomed before her mother was even born. Very tired of rich greedy men destroying everything.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What're we doing here folks? Hello? Anyone out there? This should be at the forefront of every conversation.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 24/07/2026
"Climate Shift Index levels of 5 — the highest possible — are forecast across large areas of the country through July 28, indicating that climate change made the extreme heat at least five times more likely." via www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Graphic showing the Climate Shift Index for July 28, 2026 using data from the 18z GFS model for average temperatures. The graphic shows the change in likelihood due to climate change across the contiguous United States. Many areas are seeing average temperatures being at least 5x more likely due to climate change. This tool is available at https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We are witnessing a tipping point. Boreal forests that stored carbon for 1000s of years are now CARBON EMITTERS. Heatwaves make wildfires. Wildfires make more heat. More heat makes more fires. This feedback loop is what scientists warned you about.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I really don't know what to add to this. Nothing more to be said.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/07/2026
Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
To climate deniers: You said it was a hoax when 18M hectares burned in Canada in 2023. You ignored it when 2025 became Norway's hottest year ever. Now forests above the Arctic are burning while Canada's smoke reaches Europe. At what point will you reflect?
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 22/07/2026
SSTs have been record territory since 17 Jun "So?" some say. This translates into among other things - marine ecosystem stress - lower oxygen in seawater - increased humidity leading to more dangerous heat on land - intensification of heatwaves - impacts on fisheries This is a full-blown crisis
Sea surface temperature 960ºS-60ºN

The graphic shows SSTs in record territory since 17 Jun 2026
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 20/07/2026
“I thought I would have time to prepare.” IPCC 2023: “ High risks are now assessed to occur at lower global warming levels.” We can continue to underestimate the risk as we reach 1.5°C of heating. For the most part we are not prepared. www.lemonde.fr/en/ec...
Le Monde headline:

An organic farmer's dismay at the speed of climate change: 'I thought I would have time to prepare'
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Spotted in Bremerton, WA. This is a political post.
Close up of words on a torpedo at a naval base area. In orange letters: "INERT DUMMY TORPEDO"
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A generation betrayed by a politics, a media & a society lacking the conscience, the courage & the imagination to end an economic system that necessitates the burning of their futures, their hopes & their dreams. The most shameful betrayal in the history of our species.
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‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms
Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It would be no surprise at all to see this year and next breach 1.5C - quite possibly by a significant margin - and never again drop back
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Example no. 5284 why I will never forgive my family for voting for this US regime three times.
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Using satellite data spanning decades as well as recent field measurements, the study's authors found that between 1984 and 2022 approximately 25,000 acres of farmland was lost to sea level rise in the #Chesapeake and #Delaware Bay watersheds, despite preventative measures taken by local farmers"
phys.org
Sea level rise is swallowing US Mid-Atlantic farmland faster than expected, study finds
Ghost forests, the cemetery-like groupings of dead trees killed by saltwater intrusion, have become haunting symbols of sea level rise overtaking land along the Mid-Atlantic coast. But a new study pub...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"I've been a #climate scientist for 33 years and we're seeing exactly the kinds of things that we were warning back then... [although] these records are perhaps more extreme and coming sooner than we had expected," @richardabetts.bsky.social
bbc.com
Why temperature records are being not only broken but smashed
The combined effects of a heat dome and climate change have brought extreme warmth to western Europe.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/05/2026
Nothing to see here, just the second hottest day on record in the Nino 3.4 region, with El Nino just getting started. Over/Under 29.5 by Nov How hot will it get? The Climate Casino is giving an Over/Under of 29.9°C by December 1, 2026. The Climate 8-ball is taking the over.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 17/05/2026
In case you haven't been keeping track, a quick update. Nino 3.4 is now predicted to peak at roughly 3.6°C over the 1991-2020 baseline in late October or early November. Climate change is not good for children and other living things.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is what everyone should be committing all time and resources to. Instead we have people in charge who only care about money and power during their lifetimes.
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Comparing the devastating 1877 El Niño that killed millions with where we’re headed in 2026 is like comparing 2 different planets. We should be worried. But we should also be furious. Decades & decades have been squandered, & now we’re on track to lose everything.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
For as long as I live I will never forgive the people who can't see this.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/04/2026
The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
When will we first reach 2°C of warming? A simple heuristic: We passed 0.5°C in 1980. 1°C in 2010 -30 years later. 1.5°C in 2024 - 14 years later. Add another 0.5°C in 14 years, we hit 2°C by 2038. Assuming the rate stays constant.
Line chart titled 'Warming milestones are arriving faster' showing annual mean temperature anomaly (°C) versus the 1850–1900 baseline from 1940 to 2040. A jagged orange line shows yearly values while a smooth white line shows the trend. Three red milestone dots are labeled: 0.5°C reached in 1980, 1.0°C in 2010 (30 years later), and 1.5°C in 2024 (14 years later). A dashed white line projects the trend forward, reaching 2.0°C around 2038 — an estimated 14 years after the 1.5°C milestone.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 21/04/2026
still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/04/2026
"The average American homeowner isn’t responsible for this climate chaos; why are they the ones picking up the tab for the billions of dollars of damage it leaves in its wake?" @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
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Extreme Weather Is Sending Home Insurance Rates Through the Roof; Big Oil Should Pay | Common Dreams
​We and a growing number of lawmakers are proposing legislation to ensure that the companies that helped drive the climate crisis help pay their fair share of the ensuing damage.
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Ohwoisme @kmohwoisme.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"the fraction of cultivated area characterized by a significant +ve trend in risk increases sharply if global warming exceeds 1.5 °C... Currently particularly affected areas are the main cultivation regions in the S. Urals & S. Siberia (spring wheat) & S. European Russia (winter wheat)"
sciencedirect.com
Critical increase in the occurrence of heat stress during reproductive growth in Russian wheat beyond 1.5 C global warming
Exposure to a critical high temperature during the reproductive period can harm wheat development, entail yield losses and lead to yield instability. …
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
And the US government generally doesn't give a sh!t.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 14/04/2026
The Colorado River is drying up. Why? An internal Exxon memo from 1979 predicted that, without a reduction in the use of fossil fuels, "the flow of the Colorado River would diminish and the southwest water shortage would become much more acute."
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"In one scenario at CO₂ concentrations of 450ppm —last experienced by Earth several million years ago, when polar ice was significantly reduced—Antarctic temperatures rise by 6°C while Arctic temperatures drop by 7°C due to #AMOC collapse" We're now at ~430ppm & rising 🙈 #ClimateEmergency
phys.org
AMOC collapse could turn Southern Ocean into carbon source, adding 0.2°C to global warming
A shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could trigger a substantial release of stored ocean carbon into the atmosphere over hundreds of years, according to a new study tha...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Thanks to Global Warming: Emperor penguins have just been declared endangered www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Emperor penguins have just been declared endangered
New projections suggest the population of adult emperor penguins left in the wild, which stands at less than 600,000, could fall to half that by the 2080s.
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Washington State Department of Ecology @ecology.wa.gov · 08/04/2026
We just declared drought for the fourth year in a row. And this year, it’s statewide.
A map of Washington snowpack, showing many of the state's river basins below 50% of normal.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is climate change
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"uncharted territory" "unprecedented" But not unpredictable. This has been foreseen and ignored.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/04/2026
NEW: Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.
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The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules
Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA ob...
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Sam Carana @samcarana.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Arctic sea ice volume was at a record low for the time of year on March 30, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/03/sign...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trump decisions have accelerated the triple planetary crisis: Climate breakdown Biodiversity collapse Pollution overload We are racing toward irreversible tipping points,and the vulnerable masses in Africa, Asia, and island nations will pay the heaviest price.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 28/03/2026
Spring is arriving across much of the West more than 20 days earlier than average when looking at when plants first leaf-out - even reaching almost to Canada! I'd expect significant ecological impacts from the heat this March. Graphic/data from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...
Graphic showing the spring leaf index anomaly for March 27, 2026 for the contiguous United States, with spread arriving very early in central and western areas and late in the southeast.
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Luke ❌👑 @lukehklipp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Been really struggling to wrap my mind around this graph. It shows just how wildly off the charts global temps are right now. When is so hot that it becomes an imperative to organize around and meaningfully address?
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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
When is it too hot? When the billionaires are negatively affected, that's when.
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