The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past (royalsocietypublishing.org)
Collation of a century of soil invertebrate abundance data suggests long-term declines in earthworms but not tipulids (journals.plos.org)
Global warming and heat extremes to enhance inflationary pressures - Communications Earth & Environment (files.springernature.com)
Climate impacts on economic productivity indicate that climate change may threaten price stability. Here we apply fixed-effects regressions to over 27,000 observations of monthly consumer price indices worldwide to quantify the impacts of climate conditions on inflation. Higher temperatures increase food and headline inflation...
On Radical Acceptance (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
Observational Evidence for a Regime Shift in Summer Antarctic Sea Ice (journals.ametsoc.org)
Radical Acceptance of the Human Predicament | Art Berman (www.artberman.com)
Plastics in the deep sea – A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir (www.sciencedirect.com)
What Happens When Insurance Goes Away – Ian Welsh (www.ianwelsh.net)
Threat of mining to African great apes (www.science.org)
Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute (www.theguardian.com)
The destruction of the world’s most pristine rainforests continued at a relentless rate in 2023, despite dramatic falls in forest loss in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon, new figures show....
Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018 | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)
Distilled Disintegration (dothemath.ucsd.edu)
From physicist Tom Murphy’s blog....
Dr. James Hansen Update - Global Warming Acceleration: Hope vs Hopium (2024.03.29) (www.columbia.edu)
Click on the top link under Recent Communications. Direct Link to PDF!...
Scientists' urgent call: End destruction and forge a just, sustainable future (phys.org)
The authors argue that centuries of imperialism, extractive capitalism, and population growth have pushed Earth’s ecosystems beyond their limits, and created a broadening pattern of social inequality. The review summarizes the grave threats facing the planet but rejects a “doom and gloom” philosophy. Instead, the authors...
Monthly observations thread April 2024
#274: The elusive pursuit of trust (surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com)
Dodging The Gator - What Can Be Done? (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
Disappearing cities on US coasts (www.nature.com)
Tipping Points - Radio Ecoshock (www.ecoshock.net)
Radio Ecoshock interview with Professor Tim Lenton, from Exeter U about tipping points, what have we passed, their interconnectedness and the consequences.
Two counties in New Mexico account for 29% of Permian Basin crude oil production (www.eia.gov)
Thirty Days as a Cuban – Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana. A nice vignette of what a collapse can look like in regards to food. (www.patricksymmes.com)
Global Warming Acceleration: Hope vs Hopium (slrpnk.net)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8136142...
Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking - American Economic Association (www.aeaweb.org)
