Just FTR - Tuvalu's population is about 9,000. Their islands are expected to be uninhabitable within 50 years due to rising seas. I wonder how Niue is doing (their population is under 2,000)
News comes as research finds record lows of Antarctic sea ice had seen more icebergs splintering off ice shelves.
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Walter Hinteler
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Tue 1 Jul, 2025 01:39 pm
The US government website that hosted the federal government’s national climate reports, which are mandated by legislation, went offline this afternoon. The website was also one of the main federal sources of information on climate change.
Can't call bullshit without replicable, reliable data - which is the whole point.
Tracking sea ice is ‘early warning system’ for global heating – but the US is halting data sharing Source
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Walter Hinteler
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Fri 4 Jul, 2025 03:58 am
Climate change is threatening the habitat of vanilla plants and could jeopardise global vanilla production in the long term. As researchers from the Belgian University of Leuven and the University of Costa Rica report in the journal ‘Frontiers in Plant Science’, climate extremes are likely to cause the habitats of wild vanilla species and their mostly animal pollinators to shrink increasingly.
The Rhine river could warm by more than 4 degrees by the end of the century. This is based on model calculations. The consequences for the ecology and economy are already being felt and could intensify.
Researchers have simulated the development of the water temperature and carried out model calculations. They expect the water in the Rhine to warm by between 1.1 and 1.8 degrees by the middle of the century. ‘By 2100, the average annual water temperature could even warm by 2.9 to 4.2 degrees - compared to the period 1990 to 2010, which was used as a reference for all calculations.’
