It's a few days before Christmas and it's 75°F in Denver, and most of the last couple weeks have been abnormally warm around 60-70° Much of the US is experiencing 15-30° above normal for this holiday week I'm not sure what's more disturbing — this intense heat wave during winter, or the fact that nobody else seems to be concerned...

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https://www.climatenobelprize.org Wondering if that might help.

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I have 4 months in 2026 open to help with climate/energy-related projects for free. DM is open.

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Hmm

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bioregional commons and bioregional credits are the topics right now in the presentation by Cheryl Chen - incorporating learnings from past capital structures https://farcaster.xyz/civilmonkey/0xb3c39828

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This company has converted a car to use hydrogen instead of gasoline. They claim a rather simple (for mechanical engineers?) procedure that could scale. The big hurdle is that hydrogen does not play well with aluminium, so needed a custom carbon tank. Great to see experiments. Remains the problem of sourcing hydrogen, which ends up pretty polluting fuel when considered its end-to-end life cycle. https://engineweb.jp/article/detail/3352637?page=1

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I wrote a little riff on building bridges between the edge and the center. By that I mean the world of Edge cities and shiny tech stuff and the world of dirt and water and concrete in the water utilities that I work with. Might be of interest to folks here interested in creative approaches to accelerate climate action

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The presence of mosquitoes detected for the first time in Iceland. It was the only place in the world, apart from Antarctica, where they were missing

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https://farcaster.xyz/civilmonkey/0x7491361d

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Rehydrating Landscapes for Resilient Land Stewardship Environmental engineer Erin Healy of Mulloon Institute will explore how rehydration projects can bring degraded lands back to life in todays Learning Lab 07 hosted by @maearth starting in 8 hours from now (6pm EDT) https://luma.com/LL07 via https://x.com/maearthmedia/status/1976013542735368533?s=46

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03313-z

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TL;DR earth is rotting

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Thirteen years ago, an emotional interview with geophysicist Natalia Shakhova raised alarm about the Siberian clathrate gun hypothesis. A clathrate is a crystalline solid in which methane molecules are trapped within a lattice of ice under high pressure and low temperature. As the Earth’s surface warms, Siberian permafrost thaws and releases methane, whose radiative forcing potential is roughly 80 times that of carbon dioxide over a short timescale. This process illustrates a climate feedback loop: global warming triggers the release of trapped greenhouse gases, which in turn amplify the warming and risk a self-reinforcing, potentially runaway scenario. For now, the IPCC considers it "very unlikely" that subsurface clathrates will cause a detectable deviation from expected emission trajectories this century, but the underlying science remains uncertain and under active study. A related concern has now emerged from Seabrook et al. (2025), who report newly identified methane seeps emanating from the seabed of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. These seeps were absent in earlier surveys, suggesting they may stem from recent environmental changes (possibly the dissolution of methane hydrates or tectonic rebound following glacial melt). Those developments warrant close attention as they could challenge, and potentially worsen, the 21st-century climate scenarios (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, or SSPs) currently used in global policy making. References: - Shakhova, N. (2012): https://youtu.be/kx1Jxk6kjbQ - Seabrook et al. (2025): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63404-3

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This is wild. Feels like China doesn’t get enough credit for actually building these climate solutions for us…

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Drawdown just launched Explorer, which seems to be obviously the best source of information about climate solutions that has ever existed. It's magnificent. I need every LLM to ingest this info immediately. https://drawdown.org/explorer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t79p7VZh3Qs

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