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“If this turns out to be a major fire year, it’s going to be a shit show,” said Dr Hugh Safford, a fire ecologist at the University of California, Davis, who spent more than two decades working for the US Forest Service (USFS) before retiring in 2021.

Surely they've been busy raking the forest ?

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• phys.org article
• research cited

every additional degree Celsius of global warming on average will drag down the world's ability to produce food by 120 calories per person per day

"If the climate warms by 3 degrees, that's basically like everyone on Earth giving up breakfast."

When an adult male is unable to obtain at least 2100 kcal per day, the WHO considers that a famine. Either the above excerpts assume that breakfast accounts for only a small portion of daily calories, or (if breakfast accounts for even close to 1/3 of daily calories), the human population is, on the average, in a state of severe famine all of the time. Or both.

• Women from the Yine Indigenous community in Peru are working to harvest and process the seeds of the murumuru, a native Amazonian palm tree.
• The community of Monte Salvado, where many Yine people live, borders the Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve and Alto Purús National Park, two areas that are often traversed by Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation.
• Community leaders warn that illegal loggers have been destroying the forests of these isolated communities, forcing them to travel to the Yine people’s communal lands to seek food and help.
• Families in Monte Salvado earn their income through the sustainable collection and processing of Brazil nuts and murumuru seeds, and by selling handicrafts made from the seeds.

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Most of these emissions were from fossil fuels and industry.

This statement is extremely misleading, but also not surprising.

The animal exploitation industry is the leading cause of climate change.

A Critical Look at UN IPCC's Emissions Accounting

From the above:

Mainstream climate spokespeople are now promoting this “green growth” story and recommending the rapid phaseout of fossil fuels. This is dangerous because the world can expect a 50% increase in global warming ERF in the short term if such rapid phaseout recommendations are actually implemented without addressing the Cow in the Room as most government policies are currently configured. This is suicidal.

If and when Hansen et al.’s calculation that the cooling impact of SO2 has been underestimated by 1 W/m2 in IPCC AR6 is validated, then the cooling gases co-emitted with fossil fuel combustion would result in 2.3 W/m2 of cooling ERF from fossil fuel sources alone. Then, phasing down fossil fuel use rapidly would cause anthropogenic global warming ERF to rapidly increase from 2.6 W/m2 to 4.9 W/m2, an 87% increase in a matter of a few weeks.

related: Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed? (Hansen et al, 2025)

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• ScienceDaily article
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• A Brazilian state was set to close a massive $180 million carbon credit deal, but now faces an escalating legal battle, accused of violating national laws and Indigenous rights, potentially ruining the project.
• Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is seeking to nullify the 2024 contract, which sells 12 million carbon credits from Pará to companies like Amazon, Bayer, H&M Group and Walmart.
• Indigenous and Quilombola leaders voice concerns that the program could restrict their access to their land and interaction with nature, undermining inherent rights and deep spiritual connection to the rainforest.
• Widespread accusations over the failure of free, prior, and informed consent for the project highlight ongoing criticism of carbon credit initiatives in Brazil and globally, after scandals involving unapproved use of traditional territories and a loss of confidence in REDD+ projects.

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