Yes, we're entering the time when feedback from climate makes fascism worse which leads to policies that make climate worse, rinse, repeat.

America just dramatically failed to keep #fascism at bay and this will have dire #climate consequences.

But we have a choice, every day into the future: keep rushing off the cliff, keep feeding the doom loop, or wake up to the disaster and do something about it.

#climatechange

theconversation.com/a-doom-loo…

A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning

Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.

^{The Conversation}

Despite loving nature, many Americans feel powerless to protect it.

A recent study examines how to tap into morals and ethics to create lasting behavioral shifts on #climatechange: buff.ly/4f7zwX5

Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows

New research shows that Americans have positive feelings toward nature but also detects strong undertones of longing, guilt and worry.

^{The Conversation}

"Earth just experienced its second-warmest November on record — second only to 2023 — making it all but certain that 2024 will end as the hottest year ever measured, according to a report Monday by European climate service Copernicus."

@AssociatedPress reports: flip.it/5bR7iv

#ClimateChange #Climate #Weather #Science

Second-warmest November on record means that 2024 is likely to be Earth's hottest year, report says

A new report says Earth just experienced its second-warmest November on record — second only to 2023 — making it all but certain that 2024 will end as the hottest year ever measured.

^{TAMMY WEBBER (AP News)}

A recap of articles discussing climate migration, which is already underway in the USA

magazine.columbia.edu/article/…

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CliamteMigration #ClimateAdaptation

America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Columbia researchers are developing innovative ways to protect communities most vulnerable to floods and other disasters.

^{Columbia Magazine}

Opuha

Irrigation lake turned to dust.

Photograph: Bailee Barton/TNC Photo Contest 2024

@photography
#ClimateChange
#water

@economics-that-works

16 min

We grow animal fodder and food additives, but not our own food supply.

youtube.com/watch?v=CFcQOSzetO…

#uspol #economics #climatechange

Grist has unpacked the background of the Trump Cabinet nominees who will have an especially significant impact on federal climate policy, the public, and, ultimately, the planet. texasobserver.org/trump-cabine…
via @grist

#environment #politics #USpol #Trump #DonaldTrump #news #extremism #ClimateChange #energy #OilAndGas

The Trump Picks Who Could Decide Our Climate Future

It's not just the EPA. From Elon Musk and RFK Jr. to Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, Trump's choices to lead key agencies are poised to set a very different climate agenda.

^{Grist Staff (The Texas Observer)}

To prepare for an even hotter future, architects and city designers could learn from the past.

The Sumerians who lived in southern Iraq 6,000 years ago used thick walls and small windows to keep indoor temperatures cool. Ancient Egyptians harnessed the wind and funneled it downward into buildings. Ancient Puebloans understood the importance of solar orientation.theconversation.com/5-lessons-… #climatechange #Histodons @histodons

5 lessons from ancient civilizations for keeping homes cool in hot, dry climates

Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It’s time to get that knowledge back.

^{The Conversation}

billionaires only contribute around 0.3% of their wealth in taxes. So do billionaires need to pay more tax?

2% annual tax to be applied to the wealth of billionaires. If it were to go ahead, $250 billion would be generated every year from fewer than 3,000 individuals worldwide

because of the progress we’ve made on international tax co-operation recently, the billionaire tax agenda is technically feasible. The main obstacle is political will

forbes.com/sites/maevecampbell…

#ClimateChange #climate

A Global ‘Billionaire Tax’ Could Make A Dent In Climate Finance

Countries failed to deliver on an adequate climate finance target at COP29. Would taxing billionaires raise more money?

^{Maeve Campbell (Forbes)}

"Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods"

#Spain #Floods #Climate #ClimateChange

theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods

Government approves up to four days of paid leave so workers can avoid travelling during weather emergencies

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Five years of no flying
✈️ ❌ ➡️ 🚅 ✅

5 years ago, I realised that my #academic travels were emitting way too much #greenhouse #gas #GHG (up to 20 t #CO2 / yr) and hence that my #professional activity was not #sustainable. I thus decided to completely ban air #travel (#plane) and travel mainly by #train within #Europe.

5 years later (i.e. now), my professional travels' #carbonfootprint dropped by **a factor 50**, without impacting my #publication records (compared to 2017 - 2019).

I wrote a post for the #blog of @a4e about my experience. Check it out: astronomersforplanet.earth/fiv…

cc @labos1point5 @LAM_Marseille @CNRS_INSU @academicchatter @astrophysics @StayGrounded_net

#Research #Science #sustainability #ecology #Earth #NoPlanetB #Climate #academicchatter #academicmastodon #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

"Les mécanismes de compensation carbone expliqués à mon hamster"

Brilliant essay by @ploum written as a dialogue. Hilarious. And tragic.

ploum.net/2024-06-17-compensat…

I would only have changed one word, in the last sentence: "sauvetage" (save) for "sabotage". But then it wouldn't be a fable.

#CarbonNeutrality #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #CO2 #CO2emissions

Les mécanismes de compensation carbone expliqués à mon hamster

Les mécanismes de compensation carbone expliqués à mon hamster par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

^ploum.net

You could always build a car wall.

#ClimateChange
#GlobalWarming
#Spain
#Valencia

Carry this away:

#ClimateChange
#GlobalWarming

A Rising Tide protester is carried away by police in front of Parliament House in Canberra.

Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

@photography
#Australia
#ClimateChange
#protest

I am here on the cold tiled floor with my son
who is stripped down to his diaper.
He is learning how to crawl, how to move
in this great big world. Together, we feel
how cool air falls, how the hot air of the morning rises ...

Poem: To the CEO of Centerpoint Energy, Who Smirks Next to a Thermostat that Reads 70 Degrees
texasobserver.org/poem-ceo-cen…

#culture #poetry #poem #ClimateChange #environment #weather #GulfCoast

Poem: To the CEO of Centerpoint Energy, Who Smirks Next to a Thermostat that Reads 70 Degrees

I am here on the cold tiled floor with my son...

^{Katie Hoerth (The Texas Observer)}

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" If we fail, the future is #fascism. "
- comment on #JustCollapse website (about #Climate etc)

justcollapse.org/2023/03/13/a-…

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As Homo selfishens breaches more planetary boundaries (climate #disruption being just one of those) the #results will show up not just via adverse #weather events but through serious# economic disruption. That will include worsening inflation, #supplychain problems, #crop# failures, and debt default. The result will be increasing inequality, #poverty and #crime.

Conventional economics will attempt to explain these in the usual hand-waving terms, and fail.

Angry #citizens will, as always, blame the incumbent #government. In #democracies this will lead to pointless lurching from left to right and back again, with – very likely – a gradual trend towards #autocracy. In non-democratic nations, it’ll lead to a rapid clampdown on human #rights and #dissent. The end result, in either case, is #dictatorship.

To that mix, add the increasing problem of mass #migration from #tropical states that are failing #economically as well as gradually becoming unlivable due to climate disruption, and we have the perfect recipe for #violent #unrest in coming #decades.

Any #planning for a viable future must surely take this into account and try to #educate the wider #public; if we do that we might ameliorate the worst of it.

If we fail, the future is #fascism.

#ClimateChange #Fediverse

‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’

As we collapse, this free online book provides examples of what action we can take collectively. Taken from academic literature, it’s about how we struggle together as the world we have depended up…

^{Just Collapse}

When Silicon Valley says “jump!” Ireland asks “How high, daddy?”

#Ireland #SiliconValley #digitalImperialism #institutionalCorruption #climateCrisis #climateChange #BigTech #DataCentres mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/…

Gerry McGovern

2024-11-28 09:58:37

In Ireland, data centers already use more metered electricity than all urban households. That’s not all. Their backup and emergency generators caused 135,000 tons of CO2 over the last 5 years.

Some planned data centres intend to be powered by gas because they cannot be connected to the grid as it is under such strain.

thejournal.ie/investigates-dat…

Ireland's data centres turning to fossil fuels after maxing out country's electricity grid

Climate-impacting emissions are being released from data centres using off-grid generators.

^{TheJournal.ie}

youtube.com/watch?v=6CXRaTnKDX…

This 10-year old #Newsroom clip has aged well — it’s the one that was uniquely pessimistic about (fighting) climate change, when we passed #CO2 400ppm.

We’re now around 440ppm and not slowing down — remember we started around 280.

Looking at the straight line, 500 is a certainty and 1,000ppm is a realistic bet.

Rather than extinction it’s “world wars” level of disruption. #Inflation? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

#climatechange

There's no rush, no reason to panic. Everything is fine.

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #COP29

Tell me again how we can't transition to net zero because it's "too expensive"?

#StormBert #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg7w7xzrj…

Flooding latest: 'Everything's been wiped out': Residents reeling after Storm Bert

As communities recover from flooding, there are still more than 100 flood warnings in force across England, Wales and Scotland.

^{BBC News}

U.K. puts Canada to shame with bold 2035 climate target

The United Kingdom (U.K.) has just lowered their 2035 climate target to a staggering 81 per cent below their 1990 emissions.

Canada will set our 2035 target in the next few days. Here’s a chart-filled look at where both nations are today and how close they are to their upcoming targets

nationalobserver.com/2024/11/2…

#UK #canada #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate

U.K. puts Canada to shame with bold 2035 climate target

The British just set their 2035 target at an eye-opening 81 per cent below their 1990 emissions. Canada will set a 2035 target in a few days. Here’s where both nations are today.

^{Canada's National Observer}

This is the kind of propaganda we are up against. The planet is burning and this shit is still legal.

When enough people die, surely the knives will come out for these types of people.

#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis

Climate Change ‘Burnout’ Is Taking Its Toll

Activists and others on the front lines of the climate crisis, one therapist says, “are living in fight-or-flight mode constantly.” Here’s their battle-tested advice

insideclimatenews.org/news/231…

#health #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate Change ‘Burnout’ Is Taking Its Toll - Inside Climate News

Activists and others on the front lines of the climate crisis, one therapist says, “are living in fight-or-flight mode constantly.” Here’s their battle-tested advice.

^{Inside Climate News}