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.
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
At least it's not like the EU could have done something to prevent this... Oh wait — haven't we known that emitting greenhouse gases causes #ClimateChange, for like, decades? 🤔
The Line in Saudi Arabia is such a cool idea... and the western arrogance that i read so often is quite worrying for me. I guess it is yet again a future leading project that is laughed on by ppl that laugh at anything that is exploring the future... but let me explain:
The Line is a extendable project that could house half of Saudi Arabia's citizens while providing an almost complete solution to the urban problems and those that will arise with climate change. Saudi Arabia will become inhospitable quite fast due to climate change, they already reach temps of 52.0 °C. As a result The Line is planed to be build in such a way that one does not need to leave the building. This thing is self contained as much as feasible possible. There are no cars, only a central moving system. And in the bigger neom project 100% of the water will be recycled.
Saudi Arabia does not care if it is feasible to build it, because it is a experimental test balloon how to build a climate doomsday bunker that will inevitable be needed there since the current car centric urban environ
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The Line in Saudi Arabia is such a cool idea... and the western arrogance that i read so often is quite worrying for me. I guess it is yet again a future leading project that is laughed on by ppl that laugh at anything that is exploring the future... but let me explain:
The Line is a extendable project that could house half of Saudi Arabia's citizens while providing an almost complete solution to the urban problems and those that will arise with climate change. Saudi Arabia will become inhospitable quite fast due to climate change, they already reach temps of 52.0 °C. As a result The Line is planed to be build in such a way that one does not need to leave the building. This thing is self contained as much as feasible possible. There are no cars, only a central moving system. And in the bigger neom project 100% of the water will be recycled.
Saudi Arabia does not care if it is feasible to build it, because it is a experimental test balloon how to build a climate doomsday bunker that will inevitable be needed there since the current car centric urban environment is not maintainable and many skyscrapers are hard to connect in a climate change resistant way that is efficient. I guess something like the Line is just so much cheaper to build since you just have to build the same modules over and over again and put them in a straight line.
But hay go ahead and laugh about the "crazy and decadent" project that has "no reason to exist"... 🤷♀️
Also there seem to die a lot of humans for this and Saudi Arabia just does not seem care about it... [0] (This article speaks of "laborers"... they are not... they are slaves [1])
,,Human-caused #ClimateChange is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe."
"👉The frequency and intensity of heavy #precipitation events have increased since the 1950s over most land areas for which observational data are sufficient for trend analysis👈 (high confidence)."
"Hundreds of scientists from around the world have worked for 8 years on...
@hejsimon taking action against #climatechange now means reduced profits for the big companies and billionaires. not taking action means damage to property and goods. rebuilding property and replacing goods leads to increased profits for big companies and billionaires.
Just went and geolocated this picture for an after climate-disaster/before climate-disaster look on Google Maps. Map link below, the main highway V-30, that runs around the south side of the City of Valencia alonside the, often dry, riverbed of the Turia river. #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #valencia #españa #valencia #cambioclimatico #climático
If you hate protesters blocking roads in the name of taking immediate #ClimateAction, you’re going to really hate how Climate Change itself blocks roads.
A picture today from Valencia, Spain where they received 500mm of rain, a year’s worth, in one day on Tuesday. >95 dead. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange
edit: More Pictures. Valencia is the third largest city in Spain. It affected towns just to the south (Sedavi) of it mainly as well as other areas of Southeast Spain.
In his latest book, Disaster Nationalism, the Marxist thinker explores how extremist movements around the world seek to blame fictional enemies for real disasters
Devastating scenes of piled-up cars in #Valencia, #Spain today after yesterday’s historic flooding. A year’s worth of rain fell in a few hours with a peak of 500mm.
Heading from the article linked below: “Global greenhouse gas emissions at record levels.” It states we are now heading for at least 2.9°C of planetary heating by 2100, and possibly higher.
Although the numbers seen here might appear pessimistic to some, I’ll remind you that in the past, nearly all climate reports from the UN have been overly *optimistic* — failing to anticipate both the stubborn intransigence of our capitalist rulers and the unpredictably extreme response of Earth’s ecosystem to rapidly increasing levels of atmospheric carbon.
So I’d advise taking these temperature predictions with a grain of salt. It could turn out even worse than they expect… ________________________________
The latest UNEP report finds that human emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, nitrous oxide) reached a record 57.1bn tonnes in 2023. Global emissions grew 1.3% last year compared with 2022 levels – a rate notably faster than that over the prior decade.
Since the previous report, there have not been any no
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Heading from the article linked below: “Global greenhouse gas emissions at record levels.” It states we are now heading for at least 2.9°C of planetary heating by 2100, and possibly higher.
Although the numbers seen here might appear pessimistic to some, I’ll remind you that in the past, nearly all climate reports from the UN have been overly *optimistic* — failing to anticipate both the stubborn intransigence of our capitalist rulers and the unpredictably extreme response of Earth’s ecosystem to rapidly increasing levels of atmospheric carbon.
So I’d advise taking these temperature predictions with a grain of salt. It could turn out even worse than they expect… ________________________________
The latest UNEP report finds that human emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, nitrous oxide) reached a record 57.1bn tonnes in 2023. Global emissions grew 1.3% last year compared with 2022 levels – a rate notably faster than that over the prior decade.
Since the previous report, there have not been any notable changes in country pledges or policies – and global emissions continued to grow. This means that the emissions gap is wider than it was last year and the world is further off track from its climate goals.
The report states that a continuation of current policies would result in a 100% chance of exceeding 1.5C, a 97% chance of exceeding 2C and a 37% chance of exceeding 3C by 2100.
As the report notes, these numbers do *not* include many of the climate-related impacts on greenhouse gas emissions that are not a result of direct human interventions – such as the catastrophic Canadian wildfires in 2023. The ability of the biosphere to absorb a portion of human emissions is broadly expected to weaken under scenarios where the world does not rapidly reduce emissions.
Ultimately, the report highlights that the growing emissions gap reflects a lack of political will by countries to address emissions, rather than any fundamental constraint on the world’s ability to rapidly mitigate. ________________________________
Colorado launches America’s first 100% electric garbage truck fleet.
In what the city is calling a national first, Louisville, Colorado officials held a “ribbon cutting” last Tuesday to celebrate the launch of a new, all-electric residential recycling and waste collection fleet, which is already the city’s streets. #ClimateChange
Besides the fact the South African born owner of the largest #EV car manufacturer in the world is backing a man who calls #ClimateChange "a hoax" and will roll back ALL #CarbonReduction targets currently in place…
…He claims to fear what #Harris will do to him if she wins.
Ergo, he'd be better off supporting pro-EV Harris working to ensure she wins.
But this isn't about fear of Harris' retribution. It's about POWER, RACISM & HATE.
If everyone on Earth emitted planet-warming gases at the same rate as the average billionaire, the remaining carbon budget to stay within 1.5C would be gone in less than two days.
Global temperatures heating up faster than ever? Monster storms on the rise? Ecosystems destroyed and species going extinct?
Who cares about all that?!
It's time to invest in fossil fuels!!! ______________________________________
Private equity firms are using US public sector workers’ retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects pumping more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere every year, according to an analysis.
They have ploughed more than $1 trillion into the energy sector since 2010, often buying into fossil fuel projects and, thanks to exemptions from many financial disclosures, operating them outside the public eye, the researchers say.
In many cases they are mortgaging workers’ futures by taking the money they have put away for old age and investing it in assets that risk serious damage to the climate. ______________________________________
This is Business As Usual at its worst and most cynical. Outrageous. 😡
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Global temperatures heating up faster than ever? Monster storms on the rise? Ecosystems destroyed and species going extinct?
Who cares about all that?!
It's time to invest in fossil fuels!!! ______________________________________
Private equity firms are using US public sector workers’ retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects pumping more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere every year, according to an analysis.
They have ploughed more than $1 trillion into the energy sector since 2010, often buying into fossil fuel projects and, thanks to exemptions from many financial disclosures, operating them outside the public eye, the researchers say.
In many cases they are mortgaging workers’ futures by taking the money they have put away for old age and investing it in assets that risk serious damage to the climate. ______________________________________
This is Business As Usual at its worst and most cynical. Outrageous. 😡
Here's proof climate change is real- As ski resorts in the Alps continue to permanently close due to lack of snow you will soon no longer be able to go skiing in the Alps --- and artificial snow simply melts.
"With ski resorts closing due to climate change and uncertain snow cover, Eloise Barker says you shouldn’t abandon the slopes – but instead adapt to them "
Degrowth does NOT mean condemning millions of people in the Global South to starvation.
Degrowth is about social justice and climate justice. This means allowing the Global South to achieve something close to parity with a Global North that is sharply reducing consumption and energy use.
On the other hand, a continuation of endless economic growth, i.e. Business As Usual, DOES mean condemning hundreds of millions in the Global South to eco-climate disasters, drought, and starvation.
>Instead of a “green recovery”, global greenhouse gas emissions are rising much faster now than they did in the decade preceding the global pandemic. Emissions rose 1.3 per cent to 57.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2023. That is a far faster annual rate of growth than during the decade 2010-2019, when emissions grew on average 0.8 per cent per year
>All sources of greenhouse gas emissions except land use are rising,
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Not surprising I guess, just open the flight radar web page, or glance out the window at the endless cars , hear endless dogs barking (large meat eating pets). We haven't changed how we act, which would typically lead to changing how we vote.
Nearly everywhere there has been minor gains by Greens they are in retreat rather the massive surge needed to change policy. We concentrate on stupid shit like ecars rather then the changes needed.
No, that's wrong – it *is* already too late to prevent catastrophic damage to our planet’s climate, environment, and biodiversity. We have waited far too long.
Ecological collapse is unavoidable. In fact, it's already begun — with ocean acidification up by 30% and getting worse, with insect populations crashing, with extinctions happening many times faster than the background rate, and so on.
But that doesn't mean we should stop trying!
Because EVERY bit of natural habitat preserved is essential. EVERY species saved from extinction matters. And EVERY tenth of a degree of warming makes a big difference.
Collapse can't be prevented, I’m afraid, but the level and severity of that collapse could be lessened IF decisive action is taken immediately. But that will never happen under our current regime of capitalist domination.
Alarm bells are ringing loudly as the world's largest river, the Amazon River dries up: "Never has so little rain fallen in the rainforest, never have dry conditions lasted so long, and never has such a vast region of the jungle been in drought" #climatechange
What oil companies say: "We can use carbon capture and storage technology to help save the climate! All we need is billions of dollars more in government subsidies every year."
But in fact the whole thing is a scam, because "almost 80% of all the CO₂ captured by existing CCS installations has been reinjected into oil fields – to pump more oil." 🤦♂️
