Kevin Anderson is a Professor of Energy and Climate Change, holding a joint chair in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester (UK), the Centre for Sustainability and the Environment at Uppsala University (Sweden), and the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at Bergen University (Norway).

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Greenwashing

Imagine if we could spend two and a half TRILLION dollars to slow climate change, protect endangered species, re-wild the planet, and bring billions of people out of poverty while promoting equality and social justice.

But where could we possibly find that kind of money? 💵 💵 💵

Oh, wait…

➡️ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/global-defence-budget-jumps-to-record-high-of-2440bn

#Politics #War #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice

Good. Very good.

“The regulations could deliver a death blow in the United States to coal, the fuel that..has caused global environmental damage.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/climate/biden-power-plants-pollution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE0.9-Li.cFw_Pisqs7Zz&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #ClimateChange #GiftLink

EU lawmakers agree to exit energy treaty over climate fears

The 1994 treaty has at times penalized investors for not investing in fossil fuels.

https://wecanfixclimatechange.com/2024/04/eu-lawmakers-agree-to-exit-energy-treaty-over-climate-fears

#climatechange #earthday #physorg

EU lawmakers agree to exit energy treaty over climate fears - We Can Fix Climate Change

^{news (We Can Fix Climate Change)}

Comedy can run the risk of merely distracting people from the serious climate challenges before us or trivializing the problems.

But comedy also has – and continued to be – a transformative power to educate and motivate people on very heavy and serious topics like #climatechange
https://theconversation.com/climate-comedy-works-heres-why-and-how-it-can-help-lighten-up-a-politically-heavy-year-in-2024-224457

Climate comedy works − here’s why, and how it can help lighten up a politically heavy year in 2024

Jokes can be a healing contagion as they expose hypocrisy, spark laughter and open minds.

^{The Conversation}

The Financial Times and Reuters have taken down advertorials paid for by Saudi Aramco that showcased the oil giant’s preferred climate solutions.

The content, which was produced by FT and Reuters’ in-house ad agencies, disappeared following a February 20 complaint to UK regulators that the FT ads mislead readers by depicting the world’s biggest oil company as a climate champion. #ClimateChange

https://www.desmog.com/2024/04/23/financial-times-reuters-pull-saudi-aramco-sponsored-climate-content/

Financial Times, Reuters Pull Saudi Aramco-sponsored Climate Content  - DeSmog

Advertorials and a podcast vanish as regulators consider greenwashing complaint against the state-owned oil giant.

^{Joey Grostern (DeSmog)}

Collapsing earth and vast chasms .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-61d57e25-d458-4785-8a37-3ef119a504c7

#collapsed #earth #climatechange #chasm #gorge #ravine #danger #news #warnings

The vast ravines swallowing whole neighbourhoods around the world - BBC News

Huge gullies that open up suddenly, swallowing homes and businesses, are advancing at a worrying speed, warn experts.

^{BBC News}

Frog story. 🐸🔥🌡️

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics

Can wind and solar solve climate change? Foreign Policy magazine reviews a new book that "unwittingly makes the case that they can’t."

Here's their review of Brett Christophers’s "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet."

(Subscription may be required) https://flip.it/LT82MB

#ClimateChange #Solar #Wind #Climate #Capitalism

Why Wind and Solar Won't Solve Climate Change

A new book unwittingly makes the case that they can’t.

^{Ted Nordhaus (Foreign Policy)}

Because unlike a lot of gringo fuckbagels, insurance companies do believe in and understand the idea of #ClimateChange.

>Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners After Natural Disasters https://jacobin.com/2024/04/insurance-natural-disasters-louisiana-regulation/

#BadEconomy #weather

Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners After Natural Disasters

As increasingly severe natural disasters ravage the South, insurance companies are abandoning clients, increasing premiums, and fighting regulation measures — forcing homeowners to fend for themselves in the wake of destruction.

^jacobin.com

The human implications of the climate crisis are stark when bodies start piling up over natural resources. Less apparent is the burden it imposes on day-to-day life, especially those of women.

While South Sudan isn’t in an official war, peace remains dangerously fragile. And it is water—or the lack thereof—that is ominously sowing the seeds of future conflict.

Read this from Ryan Biller who traveled to the region to report.

#Journalism #climatechange #sudan

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/04/23/sudans-water-crisis/

What the Western World Should Understand About Sudan’s Water Crisis

The scorching hot temperatures and evaporating water levels in the war-torn African nation is a warning for our collective climate future.

^{Ryan Biller (Dame Magazine)}

Remember that this is a choice — a choice that has been made for us. It doesn’t *have* to be this way.

Did any of us consent to this? Are we consenting to it now?

We can’t opt out. But can we opt in, and force a different choice?

See: https://archive.ph/gPQec

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Degrowth

In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice

> Using less water and using a drone to fertilize are new techniques that Van is trying and #Vietnam hopes will help solve a paradox at the heart of growing #rice: The finicky crop isn’t just vulnerable to climate change but also contributes uniquely to it.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/vietnam-farmers-reduce-methane-emissions-changing-grow-rice-109515423 #farming #climatechange #Methane #globalwarming #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA

In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice

Vietnam aims to transform its rice sector, making it more resilient to climate change while also reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide

^{ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press (ABC News)}

Happy birthday to #geochemist Charles David Keeling (1928 - 2005) whose decades long observations of CO2 in air samples from Mauna Loa Observatory were some of the 1st direct data to show the human contribution to greenhouse effect & global warming. The 'Keeling Curve' (in copper & red) shows both the seasonal variations (the wiggles) & the strong upward trend with time as the greenhouse gas built up in the atmosphere. 🧵1/

#linocut #printmaking #climateChange #geochemistry #sciart #MastoArt

This #EarthDay, a series of some of our favorites on what makes Earth unique, ending #climatechange and what climate #activism is actually working ⬇️

🌎 Dispelling 3 big myths about climate activism (It's not just young people and throwing soup cans at expensive art kind of works): https://theconversation.com/climate-activists-arent-just-young-people-dispelling-3-big-myths-for-earth-day-225269

🌎 How to cope with 'eco-anxiety': https://theconversation.com/eco-anxiety-climate-change-affects-our-mental-health-heres-how-to-cope-202477

🌎 Will the Earth last forever?
https://theconversation.com/will-the-earth-last-forever-203021

🌎 The many reasons to protect the planet: https://theconversation.com/should-we-protect-nature-for-its-own-sake-for-its-economic-value-because-it-makes-us-happy-yes-180302

Climate activists aren’t just young people – dispelling 3 big myths for Earth Day

Not all activists are in the media spotlight, but they’re crucial to promoting action to slow climate change.

^{The Conversation}

More like Earth Day 2024, am I right?

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Greenwashing

In honor of Earth Day, Vox launched a special Home Planet package. Here's the entire collection, which includes fascinating stories on giving up meat, fostering pigeons and the "Squirrel Census."

https://flip.it/IQd-yq

#EarthDay #ClimateChange #Climate #Green #GreenLiving

Home Planet

Stories that celebrate life on Earth and deeper ways of connecting with our shared home.

^{Vox (Flipboard)}

President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.

NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."

https://flip.it/ImkS4B

#EarthDay #Biden #ClimateChange #USPolitics #Climate #News

I hate articles like this. A vegan shopping bag toting, straw refusing person is not going to do jack for the #ClimateCrisis

Instead of writing about actual solutions to #ClimateBreakdown like going after oil producers, pointlessly large car manufacturers, fast fashion, or Amazon. The tail wagging writers doing the billionaires bidding has once again pinned the problem on you, the consumer with no agency except to pick one brand of potato chip over the other in a desperate attempt to reduce your plastic by micro grams while Bezos has bridges removed so he can float his yacht out to sea.

#MediaIsComplicit in #ClimateChange from doing Exxon's climate denial bidding back in the day to obfuscating the real problem now.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/earth-day-how-one-grocery-shopper-takes-steps-to-avoid-pointless-plastic-1.6855883

Earth Day: How one grocery shopper takes steps to avoid 'pointless plastic'

Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern supermarkets, they're bagged or wrapped in plastic too.

^CTVNews

It’s #EarthDay & I’m giving a talk all about the global food system & its impact on the environment.

The agricultural sector is one of the most significant + immediately scalable places to have impact.

Since my talk isn’t public, here’s a great piece from @globalecoguy & the good folks at Project Drawdown. https://drawdown.org/news/insights/how-food-and-farming-will-determine-the-fate-of-planet-earth
#climatechange #science #food

How food and farming will determine the fate of planet Earth

Agriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm and eat.

^{Project Drawdown}

Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average

https://www.thejournal.ie/europe-warming-twice-as-fast-global-average-climate-report-6360936-Apr2024/

#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

Europe is warming twice as fast as global average, leading climate monitors say

In a year of contrasting extremes, Europe witnessed scorching heatwaves but also catastrophic flooding, withering droughts, violent storms and its largest wildfire.

^{TheJournal.ie}

#climatechange #urbanPlanning

Someone posted the following article a week or so ago. It touches on a topic many here might understand. Climate risk includes systemic shocks could trigger a break down in the global and even national economies. Locality is an insurance policy.

“Then there are things that can be done quickly, and locally. Communities that “had been doing some of this work before the pandemic hit were better able to adapt” to the 2020 disruptions…”

🧵

https://newrepublic.com/post/180192/food-atlantic-ocean-climate-crop-failure-prepare

How to Avoid Food System Collapse

If Atlantic Ocean currents break down, the Northern Hemisphere could face crop failures. So why isn’t there a plan for that?

^{The New Republic}

Lethal heat in West Africa driven by human-caused climate change
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245524216/west-africa-heatwave-climate-change

How Oil Companies Could End Up Footing Bill For #Climate Disasters

“When a flood or wildfire hits, researchers in “attribution science” run computer models to help determine whether the disaster was caused or intensified by #ClimateChange.

As those models become more precise, other scientists are working to measure how specific companies, such as Exxon Mobil or Shell, have contributed to climate change through their historic #greenhousegasemissions.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lawmakers-hope-to-use-this-emerging-climate-science-to-charge-oil-companies-for-disasters

Lawmakers Hope To Use This Emerging Climate Science To Charge Oil Companies For Disasters

This story first appeared at Stateline. A fast-emerging field of climate research...

^TPM

Climate change is already killing people and the toll is going to continue to rise.
#Climate
#climatechange

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/04/climate-change-likely-killed-tens-of-thousands-of-people-in-2023

Climate change played a role in killing tens of thousands of people in 2023

And that’s an extremely conservative estimate.

^{Samantha Harrington (Yale Climate Connections)}

Great to have such official accounts on the #Fediverse!

Main topics IMHO:
✅ reinforced public health and concrete answers to the #ClimateChange crisis
✅ Better protection of workers and better #wellfare against precariousness
✅ To welcome #migrants according to European values and its #humanist principles
✅ A more combative Europe against racisms, especially antisemitism and muslim-hatred politics
✅ Protection of #Ukraine from #Poutine's agenda

#Européennes2024 #LesEcologistes

Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction.

The loss of plant and animal species on Earth is happening at a speed never seen in human history, according to the United Nations. #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Climate #Environment

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lizard-population-declining-climate-change/

Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction

A disappearing a lizard population in Arizona shows how climate change is fast-tracking the rate of extinction.

^{David Schechter (CBS News)}

The 12-month moving average of global mean temperatures has now moved slightly above 1.6 °C (2.9 °F).

#ClimateChange #globalwarming #temperature #climate

Utility-related fires are wreaking havoc across the United States. Since 2017, fires related to electricity transmission have burned at least 3 million acres.

New today: A closer look at the #Texas Panhandle fire, and why it's a grim preview of our near future. From our friends at Sierra Club magazine ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/

#wildfire #ClimateChange #environment #news #politics #USpol #weather #fire #drought #energy

The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview

Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.

^{Christopher Collins (The Texas Observer)}

Climatejustice.social is a Mastodon server for climate justice activists and those concerned about global warming and the current environmental crisis:

https://climatejustice.social

Find out more at https://climatejustice.social/about or contact the admin @PaulaToThePeople

#FeaturedServer #Environment #Green #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Environmental #Activism #GlobalWarming #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Climate Justice Social

Welcome to this official Fediverse instance for climate justice activists.

^{Mastodon hosted on climatejustice.social}

The editors of Scientific American have written an opinion piece saying we need to move away from #cars to #activetransport because of local & carbon #pollution, road crash death & injury and how it restricts access to life for so many- the young, the elderly, the poor & disabled.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/

TROM II: Mountains of Waste https://videos.trom.tf/w/2tA9iTuPGmDdTRZSNF4GoZ

#waste #pollution #climatechange #ewaste #capitalism #trade #TradeRuinsEverything