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Vermont became the first state to hold oil companies financially liable for climate damages.
The Climate Superfund Act directs the state to charge major fossil fuel companies potentially billions of dollars to pay for climate impacts to which their emissions have contributed.
Unsurprisingly, the law is expected to face legal challenges from the industry.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/31/vermont-oil-companies-climate-superfund-act
#climatechange #climate #Vermont #ClimateintheCourts
‘Game-changing’: Vermont becomes first state to require big oil to pay for climate damages
Climate Superfund Act compels oil companies to pay potentially billions of dollars for climate impacts caused by their emissionsDharna Noor (The Guardian)
Corporations invested in #carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says
source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/corporate-carbon-offsets-credits
#Delta, #Gucci, #Volkswagen, #ExxonMobil, #Disney, #easyJet and #Nestlé are among the major corporations to have purchased millions of carbon credits from #climate friendly projects that are “likely junk” or worthless when it comes to offsetting their #greenhouse gas #emissions, according to a classification #system developed by Corporate Accountability, a non-profit, transnational corporate watchdog.
So the capitalists really don't give a shit about anything for short-term #profit, even if #humanity is destroyed in the process.
#environment #news #scam #politics #co2 #fail #capitalism #economy #future #finance #society #problem #humanrights #earth
Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says
Analysis of the carbon offset projects used by top corporations including Delta, Gucci and ExxonMobil raises concerns around their emission cuts claimsNina Lakhani (The Guardian)
How an Indigenous community in #Panama is escaping rising seas
Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/indigenous-guna-panama-escape-rising-seas
This year, about 300 families from Gardi Sugdub are expected to begin moving to a new #community on the #mainland. The #resettlement plan was initiated by the residents there more than a decade ago when they could no longer deny that the island couldn’t accommodate the growing #population. Rising seas and intense storms are only making the predicament more dire.
#news #climate #sea #sealevel #flood
How an Indigenous community in Panama is escaping rising seas
The Indigenous Guna peoples' relocation from Panama could offer lessons for other communities threatened by climate change.Melba Newsome (Science News Magazine)
Indian capital swelters through #heatwave as #temperature reportedly passes 52C in #Delhi
#India is suffering through an unusual heatwave right now, a situation only expected to worsen over time due to #climate change.
Indian capital swelters through heatwave as temperature reportedly passes 52C in Delhi
A heat wave alert has been in place for large parts of India since last week but on Wednesday the temperature at a weather station in Mungeshpur, a densely packed corner of north-west Delhi, crossed the 50C mark, the weather office said.ABC News
11/ snip "Crop production depends on a stable #climate. It is not a matter of “if” but of “when” a significant #catastrophe occurs. A globally significant #famine is going to happen. It could happen in 2 years or it could take 10–15. I can’t know that. But trends are clear. When it happens, the import-dependent US will not be spared. The biggest, most critical failure of imagination is how people assume the US govt will respond to this catastrophe. Capitalism solves shortages by increasing price. Other countries may take a more humane approach to #food rationing, but the US govt is absolutely not going to supply emergency rations to the public. The poor will simply starve.
The US govt is preparing for #ClimateChange by hiring 100,000 additional police officers, an approximately 15% increase to our already obscenely bloated, militarized, domestic occupation force of ~680,000. This is America’s climate change adaptation plan: more #police."
8/ snip "Bill Rees is one of a number of #climate scientists who portray #climatechange as one symptom of a larger planetary problem of ecological #overshoot. In this excellent lecture (https://youtu.be/9oVTHKzC7TM) he briefly touches on: ocean acidification, freshwater contamination, #deforestation, soil #erosion, #desertification, overfishing and species #extinctions."
Key quotes:
“It’s not just mammals. Wild bird populations are also tumbling. Domestic poultry now constitute 70% of the world’s avian biomass. Average populations of thousands of monitored species of wild vertebrates, birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, have declined ~60% since 1970. Populations of #invertebrates, including essential #pollinators, are also in free-fall: Butterflies down 53%; beetles down 49%, bumblebees down 46%… All species monitored by WWF are down 68–70% in just 50 years.”"
Keynote Lecture: Prof. (Emeritus) William E. Rees - Climate change isn't the problem, so what is?
הרצאה מרכזית: Prof. (Emeritus) William E. Rees Climate change isn't the problem, so what is?University of British Columbiaממציא המושג "טביעת רגל אקולוגית" וא...YouTube
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https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7
The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse - Sam Hall - Medium
Climate change will cause agricultural failure and subsequent collapse of hyperfragile modern civilization, likely within 10–15 years. By 2050 total human population will likely be under 2 billion…Sam Hall (Medium)
#Capitalism like #degeneracy in late #Rome
According to rumors, which are difficult to prove historically, Roman decadence is said to have gone so far that rich Romans vomited in order to empty their stomachs between courses with delicacies.
This is exactly how today's capitalism seems to me, in which the super-rich fly around the world in their private jets or engage in space tourism regardless of climate change. They celebrate parties with high emissions, pay hardly any taxes, while the majority of people are already struggling to survive.
The best example of this for myself is Elon #Musk and Donald #Trump, who apparently believe they can do anything with #money.
#finance #economy #politics #future #humanity #earth #emissions #climate #problem #metaphor
52.3°C (126F) today in New Delhi
Yep, hottest day ever.
And yes, that's a 20-year-old struggling with the heat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/world/asia/india-delhi-hottest-day-ever.html
SUVs are setting new sales records each year – and so are their emissions – Analysis - IEA
SUVs are setting new sales records each year – and so are their emissions - A commentary by Laura Cozzi, Apostolos PetropoulosIEA
In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"
Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.
618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a #climate heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse
CO2 and Ocean Acidification: Causes, Impacts, Solutions
Rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are changing the chemistry of the ocean, and putting marine life in danger.Union of Concerned Scientists
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/heat-is-killing-howler-monkeys-in-mexico #heatwave #mexico #wildlife #MXwx #climate #climateemergency
…the "most extreme event" in climate history.
I think of myself as well informed, but really I’m just well informed about American politics. I had no idea about this nightmare in Asia.
“In the capital Bangkok, authorities said the heat index Thursday was an "extremely dangerous" 125.6 degrees.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/heat-wave-asia-2024-deaths-india-severe-weather-climate-change/
Summer heat hits Asia early, killing dozens as one expert calls it the "most extreme event" in climate history
Much of Asia is sweltering under a heat wave that one expert calls "by far the most extreme event in world climatic history."Arshad R. Zargar (CBS News)
Report says humans may be on brink of cutting #fossilfuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises
R#enewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world's electricity for the first time last year, according to #climate thinktank #Ember
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply
Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply
Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity risesJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
Earlier, hotter.
"Just an odd summer", we shrug
—until crops can't grow.
#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenial #Food #FoodSecurity #CropFailure #Drought #HeatDome
Governments need to build resilience against extreme weather, droughts, and floods.
Intact forest landscapes and other nature areas are our safety net, protecting people against extreme weather and climate crisis impacts.
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #ActNow #environment #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
#opensource #climatechange #climate #sustainability #FOSS #freesoftware
OSS for Climate with hosts Richard Littauer and Tobias Augspurger
Hosts Richard and Tobias talk about this new podcast, why open source technology is important for climate change, and what they hope to talk about with future guests!OSS for Climate
‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandonedAlessia Amitrano (The Guardian)
Judge dismisses California children's climate lawsuit
After a judge dismissed a climate lawsuit filed by 18 California children against the EPA, the plaintiffs plan to resubmit their allegations, their attorneys say.Alex Wigglesworth (Los Angeles Times)
It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees. “They were falling out of the trees like apples.”
While Mexico’s brutal heatwave has been linked to the deaths of at least 26 people since March, veterinarians and rescuers say it has killed dozens and perhaps hundreds of howler monkeys
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-heat-wave-howler-monkeys-dying-b99e0570dfb53a2fb7ebe663acecde78 #Mexico #monkeys #heatwave #Climate
Howler monkeys are dropping dead from the trees in Mexico in brutal heat wave
It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees. At least 83 of the midsize primates, who are known for their roaring vocal calls, have been found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.MARK STEVENSON (AP News)
George Monbiot says: "Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism – it *is* capitalism."
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Capitalism is not, as its defenders insist, a system designed to distribute wealth, but one designed to capture and concentrate it.
The story capitalism tells about itself – that you become rich through hard work and enterprise – is the greatest propaganda coup in human history.
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LEARN MORE -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers
#Capitalism #History #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism
Exploiting people, exploiting land, and keeping its ugly side secret. Its historical effects are all too recognisable in the Pandora papers now, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
We asked 380 top #climate scientists what they felt about the #future...
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the global south. (..) The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.”
#news #science #earth #emissions
‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandonedAlessia Amitrano (The Guardian)
The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants
This paper focuses on the opportunities and the ethical and societal risks posed by advanced AI assistants.arXiv.org
Lethal heat will make Australia's north 'unliveable'
— Australia's leading news site
Australia's north will be “unliveable” in the coming decades because the heat and humidity will be so intense that it will be deadly for humans
#Australia #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Worldwide income may fall by 19% by 2049 because of changes in #climate.
Poorer countries in the tropics that have historically contributed the least to #greenhouse gas #emissions will experience the greatest economic burden.
The huge $38 trillion annual price tag of climate-related damages is 6 times greater than the cost of mitigating emissions to meet the targets in the Paris Agreement.
https://eos.org/articles/climate-change-is-likely-to-slash-global-income
Climate Change Is Likely to Slash Global Income
A new study estimates that climate change could cost $38 trillion per year, but emissions mitigation and adaptation strategies could limit future damages.Katherine Bourzac (Eos)
Biological #CCU #CarbonCapture
#GeneticEngineering
#Climate
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Australian scientists say they have discovered how an enzyme “hidden in nature’s blueprint” could help develop climate-resilient crops able to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.https://www.voanews.com/a/australian-researchers-say-enzyme-could-help-lower-lower-co2/7616033.html #voanews
Australian researchers say enzyme could help lower lower CO2
Enzyme called ‘hidden in nature’s blueprint’Phil Mercer (Voice of America (VOA News))
#Microsoft’s #AI Push Imperils #Climate Goal as Carbon #Emissions Jump 30%
The company’s goal to be #carbon negative by 2030 is harder to reach, but President Brad Smith says the good AI can do for the #world will outweigh its environmental impact.
#environment #future #technology #economy #earth #Copilot #news #problem #software
Interactive map shows #Florida parcels that will be flooded (blue shading) using sea level as of 2016 plus a two foot rise in sea level. Click any parcel for attribute data. H/T @ai6yr for the map idea.
Map covers all of Florida. It is centered on Miami Beach when it opens.
To search on an address, click Menu > Search.
#Miami #FLwx #climate #SeaLevel
Open GISsurfer map: https://bit.ly/3ymepk7
GISsurfer General Purpose Web Map and GIS Viewer | Surf GIS DATA
GISsurfer lets you surf a nearly endless amount of GIS data. Click a layer in the GIS server's table of contents and that data appears on the map.bit.ly
Chemical analysis of natural CO₂ rise over the last 50,000 years shows that today's rate is 10 times faster
Today's rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient Antarctic ice.Michelle Klampe (Phys.org)
Trump presidency would risk $1 trillion in clean energy investment: Report
A new analysis report by Wood Mackenzie estimates that a projected $1 trillion in low carbon energy investments would be in jeopardy if Donald Trump is re-elected as the president in the November 5 election
#USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Trump presidency would risk $1 trillion in clean energy investment: Report
A new analysis report by Wood Mackenzie estimates that a projected $1trillionin low carbonenergyinvestments would be in jeopardy if Donald Trump is re-elected as the president in the November 5 electionReuters (India Today)
Biden's tariffs on Chinese imports are understandable politically. Sadly, they pit workers against middle-class consumers and against the planet.
There's a better way to accomplish just the same goals — and it aligns politics, industrial policy, and climate coals:
#climate #EVs #tariffs #economics #USpolitics
Florida Governor deletes 'climate change' from state laws amid rising sea levels
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging energy bill that deletes the phrase "climate" eight times and eliminates entire sections addressing global warming
#Florida #USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Florida Governor deletes 'climate change' from state laws amid rising sea levels
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging energy bill that deletes the phrase quotclimatequot eight times and eliminates entire sections addressing global warmingIndia Today Environment Desk (India Today)
Missing the forest for the trees: The role of forests in Earth's climate goes far beyond carbon storage
The fragrant vapors emitted by trees react in the atmosphere to form aerosols, which reflect incoming solar radiation and cool the Earth
#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Missing the forest for the trees: The role of forests in Earth’s climate goes far beyond carbon storage - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The fragrant vapors emitted by trees react in the atmosphere to form aerosols, which reflect incoming solar radiation and cool the Earth.Jessica McKenzie (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
No #internet, no #phone: #Canada #wildfires expose fragility of rural #infrastructure
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/internet-access-rural-canada-wildfires
Northwestel, which provides telecommunications for the #Yukon, Northwest Territories, #Nunavut and northern #BritishColumbia announced on Friday that a wildfire had damaged a critical fibre optic cable near the town of #FortNelson. The company said it had also lost its redundancy cable due to a separate wildfire burning near Jean Marie River and #Kakisa in the Northwest Territories.
#news #disaster #climate #environment
No internet, no phone: Canada wildfires expose fragility of rural infrastructure
Remote communities suffer total loss of communications after fires damage critical fibre optic cablesLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
#Canada: #Evacuation order issued as #wildfire threatening Fort #McMurray draws closer
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfire-grande-prairie-fort-mcmurray-1.7203695
Criticize the world's largest oil company? They'll sue you!!
(And I promise they can easily afford more and better lawyers than you can. Not to mention bribing judges.)
⬛️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-exxon-mobil-suing-shareholders-100046384.html
#Law #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
"Ocean temperatures are currently hovering around the levels they typically reach in late July — and they’re likely to continue rising as the summer goes on."
#Nature #Environment #Ocean #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Record-Breaking Ocean Heat Wave Foreshadows a Dangerous Hurricane Season
An active hurricane season could be in store because of ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic that broke records for more than a yearChelsea Harvey (Scientific American)
