#ClimateDiary What does techno-fascism have to do with climate, you might ask?

Everything. It’s so important to understand the people and forces rapidly reshaping our world; and this new piece by Amy Westervelt (one of the best climate journalists of all) does an excellent job introducing you to the inner world of Thiel, Musk and co. It’s crazy, it’s horrible, but it exists and affects us all.

https://drilled.media/news/network-state

We have not enough rain. I know that without any app. Because always, when the traditional magnolia bloom in northern Alsace, it rains a lot. The splendour often lasts only a few days.
Now we've only had grey, dry days. Wonderful to see the flowers. But bad for the drying soil.
If you connect nature's calendar with "traditional" remembered weather you can see the shift: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/

Just read someone who writes:

“Any good investor knows that anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops. The only question is: will that halt [be] a controlled braking action, or a collision with reality’s brick wall?”

It’s a good piece written by someone who promotes that they fly multiple times a year.

The brakes have always got to be pressed by someone else, I guess

NASA, NSIDC Scientists Say Arctic Winter Sea Ice at Record Low - NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/arctic-winter-sea-ice-at-record-low/
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#ClimateDiary 27th March 2025

Just Stop Oil to ‘hang up the hi-vis’ after three years of climate action.

This too is sad. Of course movements have to change, and do; JSO itself grew out of XR and no doubt did have a finite lifetime. But I mourn the optimism and determination, the belief that you can make a difference. Having said that: It’s not over forever! We are all just #wintering at the moment, having to figure out what to do next.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/27/just-stop-oil-hangs-up-the-hi-vis-after-three-years-of-climate-action

South Korea wildfires become biggest on record as disaster chief points to ‘harsh reality’ of climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/south-korea-fires-death-toll-rises-worst-in-history?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Lost track of the climate disasters because I turned my attention to the #fascism. But now I’ve lost track of the news on both. And the ground is still too frozen to garden. So fuck you, Voltaire, hello Voltairine.

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It’s ignoring the implications of fire season season
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/south-korea-fires-death-toll-rises-worst-in-history

Ridiculously hot in Tokyo. Almost 25°C right now. A week or so ago I was still wearing a winter coat. It always does change quite quickly but there's usually a week or two of comfortable temperatures.

• South Korea - Unprecedented destruction of wildfires.

• 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple, totally destroyed.

• fires ... "developing in a way that is exceeding both existing prediction models and earlier expectations."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/03/26/south-korea-wildfire-kill-at-least-16-people-and-are-causing-unprecedented-damage_6739519_114.html

Two days of sun and warmth have been a delight. Let's hope the approaching thunderstorms, golf ball-sized hail, and 60-70mph gusts (and potential tornadoes!?!) don't totally ruin the high.

We seem to get more dramatic weather lately. Those three bursts of hail the other day, the spates of strong gusts (hate them especially), the actual thunderstorms instead of just rain. They do come and go quickly, usually, but it's definitely an escalation of PDX "normal".

Liebes #ClimateDiary
Gerade habe ich gelernt wieviele Vögel schon fehlen

https://zdf.social/@3sat/114227711954293000

Und ich schaue aus dem Bahnfenster und habe innerlich eine Trauer Minute

Danach bin ich bei meinem Kind und muss Mittagessen und Sport und Alltag

Und Nachrichten mag ich gar nicht mehr lesen.
Die neue Regierung in Deutschland hat nix davon verstanden

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This came into my timeline from AP but it doesn’t tell the whole story, and we should definitely tell the whole story.

Which seems to be that there isn’t an #energyTransition.

There is a very good FT article from last month which does a much better job of painting a nuanced picture and has this to say about China:

“Instead of replacing coal, clean energy is being layered on top of an entrenched reliance on fossil fuels”

More on that in following posts

https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/business-and-finance-pbj3bpclz/-/a-f6GursRqRQ6SQkkJvygMLQ%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

#ClimateDiary Worst ever wildfires in South Korea. I heard about this through my sister. I wouldn’t have known otherwise - completely passed me by. Could be just me, zoning out too much. But it’s terrifying how easy it is to do so.

Do we need to know every climate catastrophe? I think it’s better, in so many ways (not least compassion) if we do. But overwhelm, fatigue is creeping in.. awful. Meanwhile, at least 23 dead in Korea.

https://news.sky.com/story/worst-ever-wildfires-rage-in-south-korea-killing-at-least-18-people-13335898

Hot weather in Miyazaki and Kagoshima. 30.1C (86.2F) was observed in Saito, Miyazaki, at 1.10pm. It's the second time a temperature of over 30C has been recorded in March. #japan #climateDiary

'This enormous rate of decline is higher than record reductions seen last year and is on track to be the “biggest loss of honeybee colonies in US history”, according to Scott McArt, an associate professor of entomology at Cornell University.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/honeybees-deaths-record-high

Note: High temps on Mar 25. Top 5;

28.5C Akae, Miyazaki
28.2C Saito, Miyazaki
28.2C Oita City, Oita
28.1C Takanabe, Miyazaki
28.1C Miyazaki City, Miyazaki
(28.0C=82.4F, 28.5C=83.3F)

All as hot as it normally is in late June. #japan #climateDiary

Satellite at 7.40am - yikes Terrible sand dust #japan #climateDiary