👍🏻 #Volkswagen Will Invest Up to $5 Billion in #Rivian

#VW & Rivian, a maker of #ElectricTrucks that has struggled to increase sales & break even, will work together on #software & other #tech.

#EV #ElectricVehicles #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CorporateResponsibility
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/business/volkswagen-rivian-vw-investment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Does the greatest danger to humanity come from those who deny climate change or from those who accept it but push ahead with policies as if it didn't exist?

#climate #question #humanity #future #policy #system #ethics

‘Most of it was #dead’: scientists discover one of #GreatBarrierReef’s worst #coral #bleaching events

source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/26/most-of-it-was-dead-scientists-discovers-one-of-great-barrier-reefs-worst-coral-bleaching-events

Flying a drone over the same section of reef earlier this month to match the images, Williamson said: “At least 97% of the corals had died over those three months.

#environment #sea #ocean #problem #nature #climate #future #science #Australia #news

‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

Analysis of high-resolution drone imagery concludes 97% of corals died at a Lizard Island reef between March and June this year

^{Graham Readfearn (The Guardian)}

Mega-Survey On Climate Issues – 70 Percent People Want Transition Away From Fossil Fuels : UN

The findings come as finance ministers from G20 countries, including the United States, China, and India, prepare to meet in Brazil this July

https://indianpsu.com/mega-survey-on-climate-issues-70-percent-people-want-transition-away-from-fossil-fuels-un/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Mega-Survey On Climate Issues – 70 Percent People Want Transition Away From Fossil Fuels : UN

To persuade the governments of the world to transition away from fossil fuels which they had signed at COP28 last December, the UN had encouraging news. In a mega-survey on climate issues, covering mo

^{By Dr. Seema Javed (Indian PSU | Public Sector Undertaking News)}

Nearly all workers (93 per cent) don’t know how their company’s sustainability strategy applies to their day-to-day jobs. The finding from a report by AimHi Earth has discovered over three-quarters of employees are unhappy about their bosses’ lack of climate action (77 per cent), exposing a lack of faith in senior business leaders’ sustainability efforts. Over half of those surveyed (52 per cent) think their employers are likely to greenwash

https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/crisis-in-workplace-climate-engagement/

#work #environment #climate

Crisis in workplace climate engagement

Nearly all workers (93 per cent) don’t know how their company’s sustainability strategy applies to their day-to-day jobs. The finding from a report by AimH

^{www.theglobalrecruiter.com}

How do you feel about boiling to death because some cunts want to put "AI" (which isn't even really AI at all) into EVERYTHING?

Is mass death a fair swap for needless profit scraping?

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #AI #capitalism #politics

EVs Are Selling Well For Everyone ( Except Tesla )
But there is a bullcrap line in media that evs are not selling.

Is it Exxon sleeper agents, or Tesla bribes? GMs Board wants to go under. So who is dumping lies gets complicated.

But EV sales are up 53% FIFTY THREE PER CENT
And KPMG accountant's says that already more than half of Canadians "will never buy a gas car again."

It seems the EV transition is going just fine.

https://jalopnik.com/evs-are-selling-well-for-everyone-except-tesla-1851550953

#climate #EV #Replace #redundant

EVs Are Selling Well For Everyone Except Tesla

It seems the EV transition is going just fine — it's only the market leader that's imploding

^{Amber DaSilva (Jalopnik)}

#Analysis: What record #global heat means for breaching the 1.5C #warming limit

Source: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-record-global-heat-means-for-breaching-the-1-5c-warming-limit/

There is no #action, just promises. As long as #fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest #fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.

#news #fuel #heat #heatwave #earth #climate #environment #future #nature #emissions #co2

Analysis: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit - Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief provides an updated analysis of when the world will likely exceed the Paris 1.5C limit

^{Zeke Hausfather (Carbon Brief)}

#Heat exposure during #pregnancy can lead to a lifetime of #health problems

Source: https://theconversation.com/heat-exposure-during-pregnancy-can-lead-to-a-lifetime-of-health-problems-230217

#news #heatwave #future #climate #environment #baby

Heat exposure during pregnancy can lead to a lifetime of health problems

Research shows climate change carries greater risks for unborn babies than previously thought. Some of the alarming effects of global warming may include worsening health and wellbeing in later life.

^{The Conversation}

No, You Don’t Have the Power to Stop #Climate #Change

Source: https://www.persuasion.community/p/no-you-dont-have-the-power-to-stop

The big, pathway-determining climate decisions will be made by politicians in Jakarta, by public utility officials in #SãoPaulo, by oil company executives in #Dubai, and, most of all, by cabinet ministers in #NewDelhi and Politburo members in #Beijing. People that we have near-zero leverage over.

#politics #news #future #poverty #nature #earth #environment #emissions

No, You Don’t Have the Power to Stop Climate Change

Developing countries are the new emissions hotspots.

^{Quico Toro (Persuasion)}

Written by a firefighter of more than 50 years, a former fire chief and now a volunteer.
http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2024/06/22/coalitions-climate-denial-puts-us-all-danger

“It has been almost 5 years since Black Summer. Fires & floods, supercharged by climate pollution, have claimed 100s of Australian lives, 1000s of Australian homes. An election is on the horizon & the leader of the opposition declares that, if he wins, he will dump Australia’s 2030 climate targets, the very targets developed to secure a safer future for our KIDS and grandkids.

It should be difficult to picture such a reality”
#auspol #australia #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #state #statecapture #politics #money #fire #flood #pollution

Coalition’s climate denial puts us all in danger

Picture this. It has been almost five years since Black Summer. Fires and floods, supercharged by climate pollution, have claimed hundreds of Australian lives and thousands of Australian homes.

^{Greg Mullins (The Saturday Paper)}

I’m sure if we just keep ignoring the problem, it’ll eventually go away.

Heck, it worked with COVID… 🤔

https://showyourstripes.info/c/europe/ireland/all/

#ShowYourStripesDay #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #climate

Germany Not Doing Fair Share Endangers EU Climate Goal, T&E Says

The shortfall in Germany and Italy alone by the end of the decade would result in a deficit of about 256 million tons of CO2 emissions, significantly more than the potential credits that will be available elsewhere in the EU. Germany’s need will equate to around 70% of available credits, triggering competition with other failing countries and likely driving prices higher, T&E said

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/germany-not-doing-fair-share-endangers-eu-climate-goal-te-says

#Germany #climate

Financial Post

Germany is set to fall so far short of its climate obligations for sectors like transport and buildings that it risks triggering a damaging race for carbon credits …

^{Bloomberg News (Financial Post)}

A big positive step from the Biden administration re: climate that's been woefully under-publicized: https://grist.org/solutions/american-climate-corps-swearing-in-ceremony/

This is one of the many Biden climate response initiatives that will be immediately unwound under a second Trump administration. I'm exaggerating when I say I am a single-issue voter in this election, but not by very much.

#USPol #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

The American Climate Corps officially kicks off

This month, 9,000 people will be deployed to restore landscapes and erect solar panels, helping guide the country toward a greener future.

^{Kate Yoder (Grist)}

Comforting: "You'll never find an insurer saying 'I don't believe in climate change'."

Maddening: "Uncertainty of Trump II? What uncertainty?"

https://www.ft.com/content/ffd4f1e7-e45e-4cb6-9474-729065720eee

#climate #uspolitics #trump #democracy

Stonehenge is literally just some old stones yet you will sincerely get people who care more about that than the lives of millions of currently existing people.

Just Stop Oil today sprayed a couple of the stones with harmless orange cornflour which will wash off without any damage at the first rain but there are people genuinely apoplectic about it.

We are a totally fucked species. Totally gone. Dead.

#JustStopOIl #Stonehenge #ukpol #ukpolitics #uk #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality

"We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our heads in the sand and why we need to pull them out, fast"

"We need to guard against lowering our standards for normalcy. When we mentally and emotionally recalibrate to the new normal, we also disassociate from our own humanity."

Gift link https://archive.ph/8PCRo

#News #Climate #Politics #Health #Covid #Psychology
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/

We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality

^{Scientific American}

Remember how we fixed a hole in the ozone layer 40 years ago?

StarLink: Hold my beer

“SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds”

#space #climate #ozone #starlink

https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-starlink-ozone-healing

SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds

SpaceX's growing Starlink megaconstellation could be hindering the Earth's ozone layer from healing itself, researchers find.

^{Victor Tangermann (Futurism)}

"I never ever dreamed when we made Don’t Look Up we’d be this far into climate breakdown & the news media would STILL be in the Daily Rip “Just trying to keep the bad news lite!” mode. After yrs of empty banter are they now too brain damaged to understand what’s happening?" - Adam McKay

#Climate #ClimateChange #NewsMedia #News #Media

Most of the way through this BBC documentary and it is very interesting:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001ztds/on-thin-ice-putin-v-greenpeace

#climate #protest #greenpeace #putin

On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace

A daring protest in 2013 on a Russian oil rig goes terrifyingly wrong.

^{BBC iPlayer}

Space Weather Daily Report | S0 News Jun.17.2024

... sunspot activity with low flaring expectancy; scientists waking up? ...

https://youtu.be/6Yt_9Gv3MiI

#science #sun #solar #solarflare #cme #sunspot #polarshift #climate #climatechange #geomagnetic #geoelectric #weather #SpaceWeatherNews #Suspicious0bservers

Solar Flare Watch, New Mystery on Uranus | S0 News Jun.17.2024

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^YouTube

This photo isn’t shared to highlight that wind turbines can provide livestock much needed shade.

This photo is shared to highlight the importance of trees.

#nature #climate #environment #climatechange #tree #trees #earth #renewables #renewableenergy #animals #animal

It’s so #hot in #Mexico that howler #monkeys are falling #dead from the trees

Source: https://apnews.com/article/mexico-heat-wave-howler-monkeys-dying-b99e0570dfb53a2fb7ebe663acecde78

#heatwave #heat #nature #climate #temperature #news

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 138 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)}

Why #scientists fear a second #Trump term, & what they are doing about it

Several #FederalAgencies are working to safeguard #research, including #ClimateScience

When the union repping ~½ of #EPA employees approved a new contract w/the federal govt this month, it included an unusual provision that had nothing to do w/pay, benefits or workplace flexibility: protections from #political meddling into their work.

#Science #Climate #Health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/06/12/trump-federal-scientists-climate-environment/

Environment and Climate Change Canada expects above-average temperatures throughout most of country this summer.

"These conditions are likely to result in other severe weather events," it warns:

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2024/06/environment-and-climate-change-canada-presents-summer-seasonal-outlook-and-introduces-new-heat-wave-attribution-system.html

#canada #weather #climate #climatechange #summer

Introduction is good. Though... reading his intro...

"Parked-car-in-summer effect would be a more helpful term, actually. You know what happens to a dog locked in a car all day in the hot sun, right? Right. We're the dog"

#climateemergency #climate

Green parties suffered major losses in the EU elections, particularly in France and Germany, hit by growing discontent at the bloc's environmental push and by voters' shifting priorities. Viviane Gravey, Lecturer in European Politics at Queen's University in Belfast tells FRANCE24's Tom Burges Watson that the result is an indication that voters are not ready to do what it takes to tackle the problem of climate change

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240610-we-talk-a-lot-about-the-climate-emergency-but-we-re-not-ready-to-change-our-way-of-life

#EU #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate

'We talk a lot about the climate emergency, but we're not ready to change our way of life'

^{France 24}

Atmospheric CO2 is not only now at the highest level in millions of years, it is also rising faster than ever.

Did you think we've solved the #climate crisis? Not yet. We're still speeding in the wrong direction.

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/during-year-of-extremes-carbon-dioxide-levels-surge-faster-than-ever