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Sea level rise is not just something to fear in a distant future, where the sea encroaches daily into a given space. Instead, it starts today, with new floods happening with each new centimeter increase, forcing a portion of the 50% of the human population living close to the coast. ALL TIME HIGH Sea Levels recorded in Newport Beach: Kelvin Wave and King Tides flood Homes : r/collapse Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach are being overtaken by the ocean due to global warming. : r/collapse Thwaites is a runaway climate disaster. New studies show how. | Grist The world’s biggest cities are sinking. Is yours one of them? | Scientific American Slovenia mourns loss of glacier on its highest peak after scorching summer | Glaciers | The Guardian Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Analysis from Eliot Jacobsen show's we've hit 1.5c over the baseline on the 4-year year running average: Cryosphere faces permanent damage when world overshoots 1.5C, scientists warn | Climate science | The Guardian 4 Tear Global Mean Surface Temperature Just Hit 1.5C : r/collapse We've Entered Climate Overshoot - What Happens Now? Satellites show some of the strongest evidence the AMOC is weakening | New Scientist Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new analysis on the negative impact that the ultra wealthy have, compared to the average person: The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity Disaster Divide | Oxfam U.S. is a big reason the world is losing ground in the fight against climate change, U.N. report says Everyone Is Buying Electric Cars—Except Americans - The Atlantic Musk ordered Starlink slowdown for Ukraine: WSJ | Just The News US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Narcissists don't like losing, and they don't like being told that people don't like them. What often results is a "narcissistic injury" - an existential threat to their self-worth, and a resulting fit of rage or need to exert power or control, fueled by ego. When the person expressing that rage is one of the most powerful people in the world, it can have lasting and out weighted impacts. JD Vance cancels Minnesota visit to discuss fraud, officials say | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul Trump Moves Natalie Harp Into Ultra-Private White House Hideaway Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid as Britain urges to stockpile supplies | Fortune US warns allies to prepare for potential Iran strikes after election | AP News US Army Starts Practicing Digging Mass Battlefield Graves - Newsweek What Is FORTRESS? Pentagon’s 90-Day Plan to Keep US Military Bases Running - Newsweek Senator Reveals Trump’s ‘Insane’ Plan for After the Election Hegseth Fires a Top General - The Atlantic Trump's 'no more elections' during wartime quip revives fears about American democracy | Fortune Pentagon Secretly Braces for Embarrassing Trump Defeat Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A look at two aspects of Trump corruption: Jared Kushner pushes back on report involving hacked phone, spies, billion-dollar transfer - CBS News White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff - The Washington Sun Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apologies, as expected I didn't have time to record a new episode today, so we'll revisit an old classic on our oceans, which is more relevant today than ever. Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Corporations are gaining more and more power to do as they please. As that translates to more profit, they will continue to do so at the expense of the planet and its citizens (both human and not). Woody Harrelson: "No one loves you more than Exxon" | New Exxon El Niño Commercial ‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre | Environment | The Guardian Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers — forest where wolf packs used to live is now an expanse of mud | Tom's Hardware Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's becoming evident very quickly that the advancement of AI will bring an increase in cybersecurity issues - making the internet an increasingly dangerous foundation to rely on. AI's 'Black October': PHP vulnerabilities trigger fresh wave of alarms Altman admits the cybersecurity crisis is going to get worse: "I no longer think we're gonna be able to patch all the bugs." : r/OpenAI Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027 | National Cyber Security Centre AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say | Reuters Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As geo-engineering becomes more of an inevitable reality, we look at the results of one war-gamed scenario: They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think | WIRED Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sources: FCC Threatens Broadcasters Over Polls Predicting Disaster for GOP | The New Republic If Democrats Win Congress, Could the G.O.P. Refuse to Seat Them? - The New York Times How the Trump Administration Politicized the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — ProPublica 'Don’t let them rig this' | Dolly Parton’s sister claims she had to correct her ballot selection while voting in Tennessee | wbir.com Texas Sued After Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations | The New Republic Exclusive: Thousands of North Carolina ballots set to be rejected after GOP imposed strict new rules, data shows - Democracy Docket Armed federal agents knock on doors looking for noncitizen voters DOJ accuses California of facilitating 'unlawful voting' ‘They will all go to jail’: Trump threatens California officials amid push to reject 20,000 ballots - Democracy Docket Trump DOJ’s California crackdown rests on 25 potentially illegal votes out of 45 million ballots cast - Democracy Docket Todd Blanche must confirm DOJ won’t seize ballots, senators demand - Democracy Docket https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/s/z2671NMevR Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Things can change quickly in a collapsing world. We often think of what the future will be like, and forget that collapse is being experienced today, in a million different little ways: French supermarkets targeted by massive defrost cyberattack ‘We are suffocating’: protests spread to Lisbon and Milan as housing and living cost tensions intensify | Protest | The Guardian FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own - POLITICO Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian village as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals | Norway | The Guardian Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The way that we measure the economy is deeply flawed, as is manifest by the fact that the government says the economy is currently healthy. Do you feel confident in our current economy? US families are behind on bills at rate not seen since Great Recession of 2008 | The Independent IMF warns global economy ‘could soon test the limits of resilience’ | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | The Guardian Global Oil Tanker Shortage is Getting Worse By the Day America Is Measuring Its Economy Wrong Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New papers have come out emphasizing the increase in the rate of change, when it comes to the warming of the planet A recent doubling of global warming rate signals a 1.5 °C breach by 2028 | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science Climate Change Is Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond, Scientists Warn Global Warming Rate Has Recently Doubled Meaning We Pass 1.5C By 2028 and 2.0C by as Early as 2038 : r/collapse Scientists say Doomsday Glacier melting ‘aggressively’ | CNN Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new report analyses the 17 biggest threats that humanity faces, including a couple of possibilities for extinction: Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment | Global health | The Guardian The Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health Rethinking threats to human survival - The Lancet Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sources: Ilhan Omar investigation seeks to denaturalize member: Report ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American Prospect Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.