Tag Archives: climate change

Vacation from world history

Posted on February 14, 2026 by borderslynn

Some extracts from the Guardian coverage of Friedrich Merz speech at the Munich Security Conference: Patrick Wintour in Munich Fri 13 Feb 2026 The US acting alone has reached the limits of its power and may already have lost its role … Continue reading →

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So rich and yet so poor

Posted on January 30, 2026 by borderslynn

Mozambique https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/01/26/a-war-without-headlines-mozambiques-insurgency-and-the-global-security-blind-spot/ And in Gaza Province, the catastrophic flooding caused by increased carbon emission climate change: https://reliefweb.int/map/mozambique/mozambique-floods-gaza-province-overview-flood-extent-23012026 OCHA report: https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/mozambique/mozambique-flash-update-no4-heavy-rains-and-floods-central-and-southern-mozambique-21-january-2026 Accuweather reported in 2019: Kenneth is the first tropical cyclone with the equivalent of hurricane strength to strike Mozambique’s northern province of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 000, 600, carbon emissions, catastrophe, climate change, disease, displaced, dying planet, fossil fuels, gas, Indian ocean, LNG, Mozambique, OCHA, oil, rice plantations lost, suffering, threat to humanity, Total LNG, warming oceans | Leave a comment

Bubbling to the surface

Posted on January 20, 2026 by borderslynn

Watching the writhing system deflect, distract, threaten world order…. SPECIAL REPORT: DOJ Memo: “Michael Cohen has heard Trump say things about Epstein” The FiveStack | Breaking Down Today’s Democracy Stories Zev Shalev, Ellie Leonard, Lev Parnas, and Dean Blundell Jan 14, 2026Subscribe MICHAEL COHEN … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 13yr old child, abuse, Arctic, climate change, Greenland, Jeffrey Epstein, Katie Johnson, melting ice, Michael Cohen, NATO, playbook, Putin, rape, resources, Russia, silencing, testimony, Trump attorney | Leave a comment

Underwater tsunamis beneath Antarctica: research

Posted on January 19, 2026 by borderslynn

https://www.miragenews.com/researchers-probe-antarcticas-underwater-1602671/

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Antarctica, climate change, conveyor belt, earths systems, increased emissions, marine life, overheating oceans, Southern Hemisphere, threat to living things, underwater tsunamis, warming oceans | Leave a comment

Chile, Argentina, wildfires due to strong winds, extreme temperatures due to climate change

Posted on January 19, 2026 by borderslynn

Chile fires kill at least 18 as firefighters battle extreme heat, winds By Alexander Villegas January 19, 202612:34 AM GMTUpdated 6 hours ago SANTIAGO, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe in two regions in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Argentina, catastrophe, Chile, climate change, emergency?, endangering wildlife, human devastation, Latin America, marine life suffering, strong winds, warming oceans, wildfires | Leave a comment

When there is no rain

Posted on January 17, 2026 by borderslynn

The Iranians suffering seems eternal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests Details of research of causes: Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water Publication Date: 2025/12/06 Source: wired Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged air pollution, climate change, conflict, destruction of high culture, drought, emissions, end of civilisation, middle east, misery, oil, PM2.5, protests Iran, ratifying Climate Change Agreement, sanctions, slaughter of innocents, suffering, war | Leave a comment

Alaska

Posted on August 14, 2025 by borderslynn

From Christopher Armitage List of Actions of Trump administration since Jan 2025: See Christopher Armitage, Substack Trump and Putin chose to meet in Alaska, Aug 15th 2025 Looking up the history now as Trump sometimes made it sound like Putin … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Alaska, america, climate change, conflict, flooding, gangster, history, Juneau, land grabs, mob Don, politics, Putin double, rare earths, real estate, resources, Russia, Trump pro Alaskan oil and gas drilling, ukraine, US subservience, war, war machine | Leave a comment

ICE ratios 1:400 migrants

Posted on July 11, 2025 by borderslynn

Restacked on Substack: America once promoted its ‘melting pot’ of well integrated Americans, drawn from across the world. Now we have the “Big Beautiful Bill” which heralds a windfall for ICE (not the UK’s Institute of Civil Engineers, but America’s … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asylum seekers, climate change, conflict, cruelty, detention centres, global migration, government gangs, inhumane, migrants, terror, war, white supremacy | Leave a comment

Technological progress could have saved the planet

Posted on June 15, 2025 by borderslynn

I never knew, until I read Kara Swisher’s ‘Burn Book’, that Al Gore, when senator of Tennessee, played a key role which birthed the Internet. As a senator from Tennessee, Gore crafted and pushed through the “High Performance Computing and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged CFCs, climate change, conflict, fertilisers, fish supply, fossil fuels, HCFCs, human flaws, human inventions, innovations, Internet invention, nuclear weapons, ozone layer, rocket fuels | Leave a comment

Al Gore, his speech at Climate Week

Posted on April 29, 2025 by borderslynn

April 2025, Climate Week, 77 year old Al Gore gave this speech which you can also see and hear on YouTube. Thanks to Robert Reich for reproducing this speech on Substack. It is abundantly clear, after only three months and … Continue reading →

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