#shiftingbaseline — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shiftingbaseline, aggregated by home.social.
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Taking care of Country: Looking after Short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds)
" ‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey. A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater."
"First Nations peoples on both coasts have noticed that something is wrong. They began to see sick and dying shearwaters washing up on beaches: emaciated, their bellies filled with microplastics instead of food. Birds were turning up in places they hadn’t been." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/26/indigenous-groups-australia-alaska-track-short-tailed-shearwater-bird#birds #ShortTailedShearwaters #muttonbirds #shearwaters #wildlife #migration #ShiftingBaseline #ClimateCrisis #microplastics #StarvingWildlife #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Giidanyba, The Moon Man, Muttonbird depiction, Gumbaynggirr Country
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Taking care of Country: Looking after Short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds)
" ‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey. A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater."
"First Nations peoples on both coasts have noticed that something is wrong. They began to see sick and dying shearwaters washing up on beaches: emaciated, their bellies filled with microplastics instead of food. Birds were turning up in places they hadn’t been." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/26/indigenous-groups-australia-alaska-track-short-tailed-shearwater-bird#birds #ShortTailedShearwaters #muttonbirds #shearwaters #wildlife #migration #ShiftingBaseline #ClimateCrisis #microplastics #StarvingWildlife #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Giidanyba, The Moon Man, Muttonbird depiction, Gumbaynggirr Country
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Taking care of Country: Looking after Short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds)
" ‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey. A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater."
"First Nations peoples on both coasts have noticed that something is wrong. They began to see sick and dying shearwaters washing up on beaches: emaciated, their bellies filled with microplastics instead of food. Birds were turning up in places they hadn’t been." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/26/indigenous-groups-australia-alaska-track-short-tailed-shearwater-bird#birds #ShortTailedShearwaters #muttonbirds #shearwaters #wildlife #migration #ShiftingBaseline #ClimateCrisis #microplastics #StarvingWildlife #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Giidanyba, The Moon Man, Muttonbird depiction, Gumbaynggirr Country
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Taking care of Country: Looking after Short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds)
" ‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey. A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater."
"First Nations peoples on both coasts have noticed that something is wrong. They began to see sick and dying shearwaters washing up on beaches: emaciated, their bellies filled with microplastics instead of food. Birds were turning up in places they hadn’t been." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/26/indigenous-groups-australia-alaska-track-short-tailed-shearwater-bird#birds #ShortTailedShearwaters #muttonbirds #shearwaters #wildlife #migration #ShiftingBaseline #ClimateCrisis #microplastics #StarvingWildlife #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Giidanyba, The Moon Man, Muttonbird depiction, Gumbaynggirr Country
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Taking care of Country: Looking after Short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds)
" ‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey. A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater."
"First Nations peoples on both coasts have noticed that something is wrong. They began to see sick and dying shearwaters washing up on beaches: emaciated, their bellies filled with microplastics instead of food. Birds were turning up in places they hadn’t been." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/26/indigenous-groups-australia-alaska-track-short-tailed-shearwater-bird#birds #ShortTailedShearwaters #muttonbirds #shearwaters #wildlife #migration #ShiftingBaseline #ClimateCrisis #microplastics #StarvingWildlife #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Giidanyba, The Moon Man, Muttonbird depiction, Gumbaynggirr Country
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#ClimateDiary Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks.
Ongoing UK floods, etc, etc.
Reflecting on
1. How rapidly things have deteriorated- when we started #ClimateDiary 3 years ago, we did not yet have constant extreme weather (in Global North at least).2. How quickly, awfully, we get used to this. Weather events as main news items: completely normal now. So much #normalisation, of course, in HOW it’s all reported.
#ShiftingBaseline syndrom
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#ClimateDiary Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks.
Ongoing UK floods, etc, etc.
Reflecting on
1. How rapidly things have deteriorated- when we started #ClimateDiary 3 years ago, we did not yet have constant extreme weather (in Global North at least).2. How quickly, awfully, we get used to this. Weather events as main news items: completely normal now. So much #normalisation, of course, in HOW it’s all reported.
#ShiftingBaseline syndrom
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#ClimateDiary Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks.
Ongoing UK floods, etc, etc.
Reflecting on
1. How rapidly things have deteriorated- when we started #ClimateDiary 3 years ago, we did not yet have constant extreme weather (in Global North at least).2. How quickly, awfully, we get used to this. Weather events as main news items: completely normal now. So much #normalisation, of course, in HOW it’s all reported.
#ShiftingBaseline syndrom
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#ClimateDiary Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks.
Ongoing UK floods, etc, etc.
Reflecting on
1. How rapidly things have deteriorated- when we started #ClimateDiary 3 years ago, we did not yet have constant extreme weather (in Global North at least).2. How quickly, awfully, we get used to this. Weather events as main news items: completely normal now. So much #normalisation, of course, in HOW it’s all reported.
#ShiftingBaseline syndrom
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#ClimateDiary Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks.
Ongoing UK floods, etc, etc.
Reflecting on
1. How rapidly things have deteriorated- when we started #ClimateDiary 3 years ago, we did not yet have constant extreme weather (in Global North at least).2. How quickly, awfully, we get used to this. Weather events as main news items: completely normal now. So much #normalisation, of course, in HOW it’s all reported.
#ShiftingBaseline syndrom
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…I post the above kinds of thing occasionally because if you are in the UK and under 25 you might think that this kind of weather is just how January has been in the UK.
It’s not.
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2/2 If you prefer reading a blog article: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/ (It is not a transcript, it's just using a small thought of the podcast episode above), showing some photos of this "Catholic magic" from an exhibition in our museum.
#culturalHeritage #15August #Assumption #myths #rituals #shiftingBaseline #knowledge #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary
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2/2 If you prefer reading a blog article: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/ (It is not a transcript, it's just using a small thought of the podcast episode above), showing some photos of this "Catholic magic" from an exhibition in our museum.
#culturalHeritage #15August #Assumption #myths #rituals #shiftingBaseline #knowledge #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary
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2/2 If you prefer reading a blog article: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/ (It is not a transcript, it's just using a small thought of the podcast episode above), showing some photos of this "Catholic magic" from an exhibition in our museum.
#culturalHeritage #15August #Assumption #myths #rituals #shiftingBaseline #knowledge #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary
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2/2 If you prefer reading a blog article: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/ (It is not a transcript, it's just using a small thought of the podcast episode above), showing some photos of this "Catholic magic" from an exhibition in our museum.
#culturalHeritage #15August #Assumption #myths #rituals #shiftingBaseline #knowledge #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary
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2/2 If you prefer reading a blog article: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/ (It is not a transcript, it's just using a small thought of the podcast episode above), showing some photos of this "Catholic magic" from an exhibition in our museum.
#culturalHeritage #15August #Assumption #myths #rituals #shiftingBaseline #knowledge #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary
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1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
#Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-08-shifting-times/id1630784381?i=1000629684574#NatureMatchCuts #culturalHeritage #shift #Himmelfahrt #extinction #ShiftingBaseline
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1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
#Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-08-shifting-times/id1630784381?i=1000629684574#NatureMatchCuts #culturalHeritage #shift #Himmelfahrt #extinction #ShiftingBaseline
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1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
#Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-08-shifting-times/id1630784381?i=1000629684574#NatureMatchCuts #culturalHeritage #shift #Himmelfahrt #extinction #ShiftingBaseline
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1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
#Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-08-shifting-times/id1630784381?i=1000629684574#NatureMatchCuts #culturalHeritage #shift #Himmelfahrt #extinction #ShiftingBaseline
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1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
#Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-08-shifting-times/id1630784381?i=1000629684574#NatureMatchCuts #culturalHeritage #shift #Himmelfahrt #extinction #ShiftingBaseline
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@NOSRSS er zal de komende jaren zeker géén sprake zijn van feest voor de natuur. Daarvoor heeft die al veel teveel te lijden gehad de afgelopen 40 jaar. #shiftingbaseline
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My piece on the ever less pristine #Arctic is here btw. A bit old, but it stands up. I doubt we can ever go back, but how I would have loved to see it full of marine mammals, birds and ice as it once was...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2015/12/17/how-pristine-is-the-arctic/
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I wish I could explain how it feels to read Muir,
listen to the Sierra stories of my uncle,
or even read a BackpackingLite forum post from 2006.It's a shameful kind of jealousy and sadness and anger.
Knowing that these experiences of isolation, wildlife, and discovery are gone now.
To know that ducks over the Central Valley could blot out the sky at sunset;
to learn that insects have lost 70% of their population;
to hear of cities that were meadows not 100 years ago but 40 years ago;
to imagine bears roaming the grasslands of that sick joke, Grizzly Peak. -
I wish I could explain how it feels to read Muir,
listen to the Sierra stories of my uncle,
or even read a BackpackingLite forum post from 2006.It's a shameful kind of jealousy and sadness and anger.
Knowing that these experiences of isolation, wildlife, and discovery are gone now.
To know that ducks over the Central Valley could blot out the sky at sunset;
to learn that insects have lost 70% of their population;
to hear of cities that were meadows not 100 years ago but 40 years ago;
to imagine bears roaming the grasslands of that sick joke, Grizzly Peak. -
I wish I could explain how it feels to read Muir,
listen to the Sierra stories of my uncle,
or even read a BackpackingLite forum post from 2006.It's a shameful kind of jealousy and sadness and anger.
Knowing that these experiences of isolation, wildlife, and discovery are gone now.
To know that ducks over the Central Valley could blot out the sky at sunset;
to learn that insects have lost 70% of their population;
to hear of cities that were meadows not 100 years ago but 40 years ago;
to imagine bears roaming the grasslands of that sick joke, Grizzly Peak. -
I wish I could explain how it feels to read Muir,
listen to the Sierra stories of my uncle,
or even read a BackpackingLite forum post from 2006.It's a shameful kind of jealousy and sadness and anger.
Knowing that these experiences of isolation, wildlife, and discovery are gone now.
To know that ducks over the Central Valley could blot out the sky at sunset;
to learn that insects have lost 70% of their population;
to hear of cities that were meadows not 100 years ago but 40 years ago;
to imagine bears roaming the grasslands of that sick joke, Grizzly Peak. -
I wish I could explain how it feels to read Muir,
listen to the Sierra stories of my uncle,
or even read a BackpackingLite forum post from 2006.It's a shameful kind of jealousy and sadness and anger.
Knowing that these experiences of isolation, wildlife, and discovery are gone now.
To know that ducks over the Central Valley could blot out the sky at sunset;
to learn that insects have lost 70% of their population;
to hear of cities that were meadows not 100 years ago but 40 years ago;
to imagine bears roaming the grasslands of that sick joke, Grizzly Peak. -
@Snoro en roulant sur la 20 j'ai aperçu plusieurs champs qui commencent à verdir! On n'est qu'en début mars: il va encore geler c'est sûr! Et ce ne sera pas du "gel tardif" mais bel et bien un gel NORMAL...
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nää pakkaset ei muuten olis ylittäny uutiskynnystä esim 1994.
välitunnilla ei tarvinnu mennä pihalle jos pakkasta oli yli -25 muistelen ja liikuntatunnit pidettiin sisällä jos oli -20.
tai sitt luvut oli -20 välkille ja -15 liiksalle. mutt anyway
oli normaali talvisää tää tällanen eräässä tampereen lähikunnassa sillon.
ett käsitys normaaliudesta on hämärtynyt.
en yllättyis jos jotkut sitä tarkoituksella hämärtäisi jopa. ja toiset tuudittautuis.
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The year 2023 was the hottest year for the last 125,000 years, and #ClimateChange impacts are clearly visible around the world.
Will this finally suffice to spur meaningful #ClimateAction in line with the goals of the #ParisAgreement?
No - because of #ShiftingBaseline syndrome.
By @drvolts (written in 2020).
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/7/7/21311027/covid-19-climate-change-global-warming-shifting-baselines -
A wet saddle? This made me realise that I’ve lost the habit of putting a rain cover on my saddle every time I park my bike. I’ve always done that, all year round, unthinkingly.
When did I stop doing that? A few weeks ago? A few days ago? How quickly did a period of drought become so normal to me? My personal baseline is Danish and Irish weather, for pity’s sake. When did I stop taking it for granted that water might fall out of the sky on any given day?
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My neighbour mows the #lawn. Temperatures: minus 5 to plus 5°C. "I have to profit while it's so cold to get rid of all the "merde" (=💩 ).
Walkers: "Yes yes, it's bad what dirt accumulates from nature in winter." Quite young people. Mows in the frost!🥴By dirt, they mean leaves, #SoilLife, twigs, and withered flowers. In short: #nature.
#ShiftingBaseline #gardening #GardensOfHorror #BiodiversityLoss https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-01-ep-01-the-mess-we-hate-and-the-beauty-of-brambles/id1630784381?i=1000574989496 -
This is a fascinating thread about the ecological + social vandalism in 17th century England, that was the draining of the #Lincolnshire #Fens- comparable in some ways to the draining of the marshes in southern Iraq.
We live with the consequences still.
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Achingly beautiful visuals in this fine piece on the #habitatLoss and species on the edge of #extibction in the #BiodiversityCrisis, thanks 🙏 @kathhayhoe for sharing.
But I can't help worrying that this is also yet another classic #ShiftingBaseline - most of the losses are only given since 2001, imagine it was compared with 1901 or even 1801...
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It's a really clear example of #shiftingBaseline - #Denmark used to run a state owned #icebreaker to keep the inshore water #SeaIce free in winter - it was sold in the mid 1990s because it wasn't being used.
This is why we need #climatology to tell us how things are now, how they used to be and to understand how it will be in the future. -
Being excited to go outside again when the air quality goes back to “unhealthy” after being “hazardous” for a while: #ToxicPositivity
(An essay on chronic smoke: https://crosscut.com/inside-crosscut/2022/11/summer-smoke-mostly-gone-it-should-linger-our-minds)
#shiftingbaseline #publichealth #airquality #pollution #bobsburgers #seattle #wildfire #climatechange