New research shows that the richest 1% are emitting greenhouse gases at a rate 50 times greater than the poorest half of the world’s population—about 4 billion people

The study also attributes 31-91% of planetary boundary breaches to the top 10-20% of consumers. If this group shifted their consumption habits, global environmental impacts could be cut by 25-53%.

So, next time you vote, remember who’s turning up the planet’s thermostat.

nature.com/articles/s41586-024…

#climatechange #environment

Called it. All those articles predicting peak emissions were utter bollocks, there was no way emissions were going to go down this year.

carbonbrief.org/analysis-globa…

#climateChange

Analysis: Global CO2 emissions will reach new high in 2024 despite slower growth - Carbon Brief

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement will rise around 0.8% in 2024, reaching a record 37.4bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2)

^{Carbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)}

No worries, just keep using paper straws

edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/ene…

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #pollution

The Guardian view on Cop29: 1.5C has been passed – so speed up the green transition
Editorial

Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge on emissions is an encouraging step at a frightening moment

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#COP29 #ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

The Guardian view on Cop29: 1.5C has been passed – so speed up the green transition

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge on emissions is an encouraging step at a frightening moment

^{Editorial (The Guardian)}

Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
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Old-growth forests are key to slowing #climate change and to protecting endangered species. In #Oregon, logging in Bureau of Land Management-controlled areas has continued at a steady pace despite Biden’s promise to protect these forests.

#News #Biden #Environment #Sustainability #Forest #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateChange #Carbon #Trees

propub.li/3Z1BqDy

A Biden Effort to Protect Old Forests Hasn’t Curbed BLM Logging

In Oregon’s Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here continues at a steady pace, putting the environment at risk.

^ProPublica

Following Trump's first term in office, the number of academic papers published by American authors on Earth science topics hit a 20-year low.

Research doesn't happen for free, and when governments curtail funding for certain research areas, it has consequences.

#Trump #NSF #EarthScience #ClimateChange #research

Greta Thunberg Won't Attend UN Climate Talks in 'Yet Another Authoritarian Petrol State'.

"We can't legitimize COP meetings in their current form," Thunberg said. "The last three years, they've taken place in authoritarian regimes, and holding them in such places leads nowhere." #ClimateChange

commondreams.org/news/greta-th…

Greta Thunberg Won't Attend UN Climate Talks in 'Yet Another Authoritarian Petrol State'

"We can't legitimize COP meetings in their current form," Thunberg said. "The last three years, they've taken place in authoritarian regimes, and holding them in such places leads nowhere."

^{oliviarosane (Common Dreams)}

It would be great to see this UK Government petition get over 10K signatures. Let's do it 💪

'Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis'
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

#UK #ukpol #ukpolitics #Britain #UnitedKingdom #Environment #Climate #NetZero #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating

Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis

Communicate clearly: 1) the science behind the climate crisis - how & why for the first time in the last year we've averaged 1.

^{Petitions - UK Government and Parliament}

W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group, nice!

w3.org/blog/2024/sustainable-w…

#ClimateChange #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #Energy #WebDevelopment #Software #Web #W3C

Sustainable Web Interest Group is Formed

Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.

^W3C

Är lokalproducerat bra för klimatet (=släpper ut mindre växthusgaser)? Nej, inte nödvändigtvis. Transporter är nämligen en försvinnande liten del av en matråvaras klimatavtryck. VAD du äter är mycket viktigare.

Sånt får man lära sig när man browsar Our World in Data (@ourworldindata) en lördagmorgon.

ourworldindata.org/food-choice… #ClimateChange #Climate #Food #vegetarianism

Fascinating:

#ClimateChange

"Earth underwent a massive, rapid melting period after the last global ice age, new study suggests

by #VirginiaTech

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet...—otherwise known as the "#PlumeworldOcean" era—when sky-high carbon dioxide levels forced the frozen Earth into a massive, rapid melting period..."

phys.org/news/2024-11-earth-un…

Earth underwent a massive, rapid melting period after the last global ice age, new study suggests

^{Virginia Tech (Phys.org)}

🥵

“Trump has also said he will once again remove the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, under which countries agreed to try to limit warming to under 1.5 degrees C and ‘well under’ 2 degrees C.”

scientificamerican.com/article…

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

2024 Will Be the First Year to Exceed the 1.5-Degree-Celsius Warming Threshold

This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass the 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold laid out in the Paris climate accord

^{Andrea Thompson (Scientific American)}

Donald Trump has vowed to roll back EVERY climate initiative and law passed in the past decade.

He will remove the US from climate accords, roll back gas and EV mandates and gut the agencies charged with oversight.

2024 'Virtually Certain' To Be Hottest Year On Record
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis

barrons.com/news/2024-virtuall…

Braving sharks and hordes of urchins, scientists are growing #kelp one forest at a time phys.org/news/2024-11-braving-…

"Thanks to Julieta Gomez and her team, kelp is rebounding for the first time in a decade along the #Sonoma coast. Their research is also providing insights that may be used to protect Central #California's #KelpForests south of San Francisco. These, like others, are threatened by #ClimateChange, which is contributing to extreme ocean temperatures seen in recent years"

Donald Trump can’t stop global climate action. If we stick together, it’s the US that will lose out
Bill Hare

How damaging this presidency is to the planet depends very much on how other countries react. There’s no time to waste

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Donald Trump can’t stop global climate action. If we stick together, it’s the US that will lose out

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Ice Cream generates enough green energy for 41k homes

Scotland based #Mackie’s generated more than 10 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green energy in last year

#IceCream firm invested more than £6.5mil in renewable energy over the past decade.

Mackie’s has four wind turbines, a biomass energy plant, a 10-acre solar farm, and also a low-carbon refrigeration system at its Westerboard farm.

thenational.scot/news/24705125…

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #Green #electricity #solar #wind

Mackie’s generates enough green energy for 41,000 homes

A SCOTTISH ice cream firm is celebrating its most successful year in renewable energy production as its owner wants to strike a balance between…

^{Alasdair Ferguson (The National)}

2nd #TrumpPresidency

(5/n)

...#ClimateRefugees by 2050 1), an #UN estimate I saw last year estimated 300 mn to 2 bn, depending on the #ClimateChange scenario, whereas we can probably all agree here that even before #Trump's reelection, the likelyhood of the 1.5 degrees celsius scenario (300 mn. displaced) has not been likely for many months.

As. Prof. #StefanRahmstorf
from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (#PIK) put it yesterday:

...

If this analysis is only half correct, this is the most damaging thing about Trump's reelection.

"the extra 4GtCO2e from a second Trump term would negate – twice over – all of the savings from deploying wind, solar and other clean technologies around the world over the past five years."

It could be the final death knell for keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees.

#climatechange #uspol

carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump…

Mount Fuji is still without its iconic snowcap in November for the first time in 130 years
#Japan #ClimateChange

apnews.com/article/japan-mt-fu…

Mount Fuji is still without its iconic snowcap in November for the first time in 130 years

Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji, known for its snowcap forming around this time of the year, is still snowless in November for the first time in 130 years, presumably because of the unusually warm temperatures in the past few weeks.

^{MARI YAMAGUCHI (AP News)}

The heat death of Earth is paved by stupidity. This is Alberta today.

#ableg #abpoli #ClimateChange

Belgium should make this a permanent sculpture dedicated to climate-change-caused flooding.
#climatechange

Correction, NOT Valencia (thank you @dugartogo ): this is flooding in Belgium.

I really can't wait until I can revert to just posting about #climatechange, #water, and #science rather than garbage, racism, sexism, and the threat of a fascist takeover of America.

So, here's a pretty picture of water for now.

According to reports on the BBC news, the Spanish are complaining that they didn't get enough warning about the potential effects of global warming...

This is the new reality, brought to you by Shell, Exon, Repsol, Ford, SEAT, VW, and etc...

Is anyone listening yet?

Don't blame the weather forecasters, blame those who caused the climate crisis!

#DontLookUp #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisisIsNow

Your good news for the day. HUMANITY!
Thousands of volunteers from in and around the City of Valencia that were not as badly hit, headed into the affected areas today to help!

Since most roads and railways are blocked they came mostly on foot with their brooms, shovels, and packs of supplies.

Humanity is always at its best when its looking out for one another!!

eldiario.es/comunitat-valencia…

#Valencia #Spain #España #DANA #gotafria #Floods #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels

Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister has reaffirmed the kingdom’s 'commitment' to sustaining its crude oil production capacity at 12.3 million barrels per day, according to Reuters.

He claims that the world’s top oil exporter can keep this ambitious production target steady while also hitting its climate goals.

How they plan to square that circle? Let’s just say the logic may require a level of optimism that leaves me baffled.

reuters.com/business/energy/sa…

#climatechange

1. If you think #valencia is out of the woods, think again. The cut-off low that pulls humid air from over the meditteranean across the mountains north of Valencia is not done yet. In the coming 2 days the @kachelmannwetter multimodel ensemble predicts up to 177 mm of extra rain in the region of #castellon .

Not only #Spain but the entire #EU will have to have a difficult conversation on how we'll prepare us for #weather #disaster amplified by #ClimateChange

A thread.