I have been warning both friends and family about this, and advising them to ditch mains grid ASAP & behold:

#Pakistan effectively abandons #NetMetering to 'cope' with #Rooftop #solar revolution

https://www.dawn.com/news/1897740/solar-users-face-higher-costs-as-policy-revised

Net-billing axed, electricity purchases from solar prosumers capped at roughly a FIFTH of what they sold from the grid, full sales tax (GST) + surcharges  irrespective of net consumption, no tax refunds

This is so stupid lol

Oof!

I’ve just bought a private jet yet ‘My commitment to climate is as strong as ever. I’m still pretty damn focused on making an impact at a large scale, removing huge volumes of emissions through active investments & philanthropy’

@StayGrounded_net

#billionaires #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/14/mike-cannon-brookes-f1-williams-sponsorship-atlassian-private-jet

There won't be a "last human alive" in any meaningful sense of the word. Withering remnants will exist until their capacity to care for themselves completely collapses (or, rather, runs out), and one by one the flames will sputter. Over and over, everywhere, spread out, unaware of each other.
#ClimateDiary

On social security programmes in #SouthAsia and how #Pakistan 's can be modified to help not oonly poverty alleviation but also #ClimateAdaptation AND #ClimateMitigation

Brilliant insight by climate lawyer Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

Did not know India's and Bangladesh's programmes were so far ahead of the world

https://www.dawn.com/news/1897603/climate-smart-social-protection

#ClimateDiary #wienwahl2025

Im Stadtbild wird es immer mehr sichtbar: Am 27. April finden die Wiener Gemeinderats- und Bezirksvertretungswahlen statt. Die #Grüne Spitzenkandidatin heißt #JudithPühringer.

https://wien.gruene.at/

#ClimateDiary #LiebesTagebuch #Klimakrise
Seit dieser Nacht regnet es in #Wien. Wie schön! Das hilft aber kaum, denn nach diesem fast niederschlagslosen Winter ist es schon fast zu spät für ein geregeltes Wachstum der Pflanzen.

"Mit einem Niederschlagsdefizit von 54 Prozent im Vergleich zum Durchschnitt der Jahre 1991 bis 2020 ist die aktuelle Wetterlage äußerst kritisch"

https://www.wetter.at/wetter/news/experten-warnen-duerre-in-oesterreich-erreicht-drastische-werte/626387842

#AskFedi bc I need a refresher:

Were there, or were there not, studies during the *designated pandemic years (2020-21)* (/s) re: #Covid19 + #ClimateChange impact on gut health, with one major symptom being something like the stomach flu?

If anyone has the links and receipts, PLEASE REPLY!

Even a local newspaper here in West Bengal, India, carried a headline recently re: the outbreak of a kind of stomach flu, with symptoms such as lack of appetite, exhaustion, indigestion, and diarrhoea. My BFFs are down with it, and I am, too. And yesterday the news announced an oncoming heat wave this weekend

EDIT 15:33 HRS: following @hopeward 's clue, I think this could be a norovirus outbreak, because reading up on it, the symptoms all match. I don't know if the TV news channels have covered it at all.

Masking is sporadic here, almost rare. I still mask up, but ~ it does get difficult to breathe in a mask at 12:30 PM at 36°C ~ especially when chronic pain makes it hard for me to breathe even at home. Outside, there's also significant shaming and peer pressure to NOT mask up.

And as always, it's way worse for people with #Disabilities and #ChronicIllness (for instance: me), but people in this ableist, fascist hellhole of a country never want to talk about it.

Oh, yes.... forgot to mention...
It's spring peeper time in Southern Ohio!

#LiebesTagebuch #ClimateDiary
Ja gut, der Frühling ist da, Moment für soooo viel Optimismus und #Bloomscrolling
Aber was kommt danach? Richtig, der Sommer mit seinen Hitzetoten, den Feuerstürmen und Flutregen. Eine katastrophale Zeit für kranke und alte Menschen.
Zeit, wieder über das Klima sprechen zu wollen und die Verleugnungshaltung aufzugeben.

#ClimateDiary
https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle/114148099228001788

#ClimateDiary

“They want to hang on in the suburbs for as long as possible.”

That’s me at the moment.

It’s terrifying how easy it’s been to not think much about climate stuff recently; to let it become “ambient”. I know it’s wrong and hope it will change, but right now my subconscious is all focused on sorting out income so that my family and I can have some more time in the suburbs. Not great.

https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/we-have-even-less-time-than-we-thought-to-get-ready-for-collapse/

As a middle-aged man I try to look after myself by running, cycling, stretching and touching my toes in the morning, doing climate activism, eating fresh veg, going to bed at a regular time, speaking to friends regularly, demonstrating with friends against the fossil fuel industry, meditatiing occasionally, intellectual stimulation, educating myself about #ClimateJustice, listening to birdsong, journalling, having conversations about ecology and trying to keep a #ClimateDiary.

@paulcox good to see positive action like this being taken

#GoodNews #ClimateDiary #ClimateGoodNews

Bis Anfang der 1960er-Jahre gehörte der Aralsee zu den größten Seen der Welt. Innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte ist er fast völlig ausgetrocknet. Rund um den See herrschen Trockenheit, Versalzung und Sandstürme.

Seit einigen Jahren bemühen sich Länder auf der ganzen Welt, den Aralsee zu retten. Mit Erfolg: Wasserzufuhr, robuste Sträucher und ein Damm lassen den Wasserspiegel und die Fischpopulation wieder steigen.

https://kontrast.at/aralsee-rettung/

Hour little “wildlife friendly” garden (which basically means very little maintenance, lots of mess, and boyfriend rescuing every single damage wildlife nest he can find) tonight surprised us with not one but two hedgehogs! We don’t know if they were courting or fighting, anyway seemed pretty busy. What can I say, after cats, frogs, small birds, various bees, squirrels, and yes, also mice, welcome to the family, little spiky balls!

#ClimateDiary Just discovered that Eastbourne, where I live, has the longest record of sea surface temperature measurements in the UK, going all the way back to 1892. I never knew!

https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/sea-temperature-and-salinity-trends/results/station-20-eastbourne/

" ‘Widespread death’ of Shisham trees in Potohar "

https://www.dawn.com/news/1896863/widespread-death-of-shisham-trees-in-potohar

#ClimateChange implicated in tree deaths across the country. Unusual extreme drought and floods have upset the natural balance in soil, stressed trees enough that mass die backs have begun due to fungal infections underground.

As usual, this was only noticed once businesses began feeling the effects (furniture/carpentry).