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Wanna read something positive, sort of, about #FUCKtrump? Are you ready to see several, if not many, good things that come out of the shit show called #FUCKusa? Then start reading this brilliant article by @pluralistic . 🙂
Analysis of why the fossil fuels shock could drive the electric age…but only if we choose it over mean reversal.
“China already has the factory capacity to more than double 2025 sales of solar, batteries and EVs. What was once seen as “overcapacity” is now just capacity.”
ember-energy.org/latest-insigh…
#FossilFuels #Electrification #Climate #Energy #Renewables #China #OilCrisis #EnergyCrisis
The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade #SCOTUS
Secret memos obtained by The NYT illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “#ShadowDocket” rulings on presidential power.
Just after 6PM on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both #climate policy & the court itself spinning in new directions.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/poli…
The justices unanimously agreed to allow the #oil companies to fight the lawsuits in #federal court rather than #state court.
“Congress has long authorized federal officers & their agents to remove suits brought against them in state court to federal court,” Justice #ClarenceThomas wrote.
#law #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #environment #PublicHealth #habitats #wildlife #FossilFuels #money
The case, #Chevron USA Inc v #Plaquemines Parish, LA, focused on a narrow question: whether the #oil companies could remove cases over #environmental damage from #state to #federal court. But the case has been closely watched by litigants in other #climate lawsuits because state courts are generally thought to be more receptive to people who sue over damages caused by #ClimateChange, including activists & state officials.
#law #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #wildlife #FossilFuels #money
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#SCOTUS Sides With #Oil Companies in #Louisiana #Coastal Lawsuits
The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move #environmental lawsuits out of #state courts, to friendlier #federal venues.
#law #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #environment #PublicHealth #MarineWildlife #FossilFuels #money
nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/poli…
Republicans deploy little-known law to open Minnesota wilderness to mining #Climate
Republicans deploy little-know...
Republicans deploy little-known law to open Minnesota wilderness to mining
Legal experts say the use of the Congressional Review Act to open mining near the Boundary Waters could drastically reshape U.S. public lands protections.Rebecca Egan McCarthy (Grist)
How Trump's drama is diverting attention from climate change
Trump's wars and blunders blot out everything else, leaving little talk about climate change - and we're almost to the point of no return
saltwire.com/newfoundland-labr…
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to #carbon source
source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026…
New #research has delivered a stark warning about a major change in Africa's forests. Once a crucial part of the fight against #climate change, these #forests are now releasing more carbon than they absorb.
Many tipping points have likely already been crossed. This means that a truly dire and threatening future lies ahead for the next generation. We’ve known this since the 1970s, but #capitalism could not be stopped.
#co2 #emissions #news #africa #forest #rainforest #warming #future #crisis #problem #humanity #environment #TippingPoint #science #nature #survival #ecosystem #Habitat #temperature #plant #earth #economy #knowledge #politics
Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source
Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010.ScienceDaily
"Do you sleep well at night Mrs O'Neill? Now you are driving our climate even further into the ground while booking exceptional results for your shareholders. Have you not seen the images from the earth taken from the Orion spaceship? How precious and vulnerable our little spaceship Earth is? You must be truly ashamed of yourself. "
#bigoil #bp #climate #spaceshipearth
BP’s new boss to overhaul structure after retreat from green strategy
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BP’s new boss to overhaul structure after retreat from green strategy
Meg O’Neill to return to upstream and downstream divisions after shift away from low carbon pushJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
“Don’t mention the Climate”
USA attempts to extend censorship to World Bank and IMF, threatening funds.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
#USA #Geopolitics #Climate #FarRight #UN #Development
Don’t mention the climate: Trump creates ‘beyond absurd’ situation at global finance talks
Developing countries face possible shelving of crucial green action plan at IMF and World Bank spring meetingsFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
Global #temperature correlates strongly with extreme climatic events.
In a new paper, exploiting natural global temperature variability, researchers find that 1ºC warming reduces world #GDP by over 20% in the long run.
This implicates that the #macroeconomic damages from #climate change are an order of magnitude larger than previously thought.
“[Researchers] find that…storms that pass through a marine heatwave during their rapid intensification cause 93% higher economic damages than storms that do not.”
carbonbrief.org/marine-heatwav…
#Ocean #ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis #Climate #ClimateScience #Science #Economics
Marine heatwaves ‘nearly double’ the economic damage caused by tropical cyclones - Carbon Brief
Tropical cyclones that rapidly intensify when passing over marine heatwaves can become “supercharged”, increasing the likelihood of high economic lossesGiuliana Viglione (Carbon Brief)
Two iconic #SouthPole species, the #EmperorPenguin & the #AntarcticFurSeal, have been officially declared #endangered by the world’s leading #conservation authority — a consequence of dramatic changes to their #habitats caused by #GlobalWarming.
#climate #environment #wildlife #MarineLife #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science
washingtonpost.com/climate-env…
A juvenile #GrayWhale that amazed Washington state residents after it swam 20 miles up a small river was found dead, & an official with a #marine mammal research group suspects #hunger may have driven the whale to new hunting grounds as the species’ population declines.
#science #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EndangeredSpecies #ecosystems #MarineLife #whales #law #EnvironmentalLaw
apnews.com/article/gray-whale-…
I hate this timeline.
As a long time #climate campaigner... I almost feel like I should be hoping that the Iran/US war continues as long as possible so the price of oil and gasoline can go as high as possible and force economies to electrify and shift at emergency-speed to renewables.
We could have started on this the easy way 30 years ago... but a few of the same people objected and obstructed.
#IranUSIsraelWar #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateWar #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateCollapse #USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli
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#US panel votes to exempt #GulfOfMexico #drilling from #EndangeredSpeciesAct
The committee — nicknamed the “God Squad” for its ability to decide the fate of #species — voted to exempt #oil & #gas firms from federal #wildlife protections, citing the #IranWar.
#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth
washingtonpost.com/climate-env…
Disturbing case study in censorship and self-censorship: climate scientists trying to do their work without using the word "climate".talkingpointsmemo.com/news/to-keep...#BannedWords #Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
To Keep Climate Science Alive,...
To Keep Climate Science Alive, Researchers Are Speaking in Code
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. At the Department of Agriculture’s research division…Kate Yoder (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area.
AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
newscientist.com/article/25212…
#datacentre #AI #climate #science
I really, truly, fucking despise people such as this Mary Franson shit bird.
#USpol
#Climate
“They don't think Jesus is going to fix the climate, they think they can throw their garbage in the oceans, burn the forests, pollute the air, drill Baby drill, and instead of having to face the consequences, Jesus will show up and whisk them all away to Christian Heaven where they get to live in paradise while smugly laughing at the sinners burning down below.” - Jim Wright
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"My faith is not in climate change”: Minnesota GOP lawmaker doubles down on denial
Minnesota Rep. Mary Franson dismissed scientists’ warnings because her Christian faith taught her the crisis is irrelevantFriendly Atheist
#climate
monbiot.com/2026/03/24/leave-t…
Leave Tyrants in the Ground
By unhooking ourselves from fossil fuels, we release ourselves from a world of harm.George Monbiot
💀🌎 CNN #Climate:
"The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US. TotalEnergies will now spend the money on the development of a new liquified natural gas plant in Texas that will help export US LNG overseas to Europe."
