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Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning
As the Cop16 biodiversity conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zonePhoebe Weston (The Guardian)
Cheap desalination without a power hookup, without even batteries, produces drinkable water.
A "shipping container" sized unit, again with no power, no batteries....
"On average, it desalinated around 5,000 liters of water per day—enough for a community of roughly 2,000 people."
"Cheap as tap water"
This is good news. Very good news.
Desalination system adjusts itself to work with renewable power
Instead of needing constant power, new system adjusts to use whatever’s available.Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)
#FarRight Extremists Embrace #Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
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Rather than reject #climate science like many on the right, some have followed the path laid out by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton, using concerns about population growth and scarce resources to rationalize their hateful agendas.
#News #Extremism #Science #WhiteNationalism #Environment
Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Rather than reject climate science like many on the right, some have followed the path laid out by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton, using concerns about population growth and scarce resources to rationalize their hateful agendas.ProPublica
Most soft plastic collected for recycling is burned, campaigners say
Campaigners call supermarket takeback schemes a diversion and say there is too much plastic packagingSandra Laville (The Guardian)
Eric Schmidt says we’re not going to meet our climate targets, so we must put all our energy into improving AI and hope it solves the problem for us.
He’s part of a growing chorus of tech billionaires openly admitting they’ll sacrifice the climate on the altar of their AI ambitions.
https://disconnect.blog/silicon-valley-is-sacrificing-the-climate-for-ai/
#tech #ai #genai #generativeai #climate #climatechange #ericschmidt
Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI
Eric Schmidt is the latest tech executive to claim AI must be built regardless of the climate costParis Marx (Disconnect)
A warning to my fellow #climate reporters: Citing 3.3 mm/year as the average global sea level rise is increasingly misleading. The rate accelerated late last decade, and now stands at 4.5 mm/year.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01761-5
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, based on a sea-level trajectory from altimeter data.Nature
"Survey of young people aged 16-25 from all US states shows concerns across political spectrum.
The overwhelming majority of young Americans worry about the #climate crisis, and more than half say their concerns about the environment will affect where they decide to live and whether to have children, new research finds."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/17/young-americans-climate-change
"UKRI staff voice concerns over chair’s Shell role"
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-research-councils-2024-10-ukri-staff-voice-concerns-over-chair-s-shell-role/
(#paywalled)
I wish this article were not paywalled. (I don't even have access through my institution.) I share the alarm of UKRI staff and #climate researchers.
The chair of largest research funding agency in the UK (#UKRI, @ukri_news) is also the chair of #Shell oil company, and has been since 2021.
Can anyone report on the UKRI funding of climate research since 2021?
Clean energy can't save us - Freedom News
From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about the looming catastrophe that threatens our societies because of climate change and deepening ecological c…Uri (Freedom Press)
How King #car fought back in the voting booth in #Belgium.
Source: https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/hoe-koning-auto-terugsloeg-in-het-stemhokje~b5f732b9/
Belgian voters reject #climate - friendly #transport #policy
#news #vote #election #politics #city #society #traffic #politics #future #earth
Hoe Koning Auto terugsloeg in het stemhokje
Van Oostende tot Leuven: over heel Vlaanderen kregen voorvechters van zones 30, ‘knips’ en dure parkeerplaatsen een tik van de kiezer. Een signaal dat het verkeersbeleid aan bezinning toe is. ‘De zuurtegraad moet omlaag.’Ann De Boeck (DPG Media België)
The #Heat #Crisis Is a #Housing Crisis
"Humble told me that we talk about how sharply smoking increases lung cancer risks, up to 3,000 percent according to #government statistics. But, he added, “being #homeless increases your chance of dying from heat in Phoenix by 50,000 percent.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/climate/the-heat-crisis-is-a-housing-crisis.html
#health #humanrights #politics #environment #earth #emissions #climate #economy #fail #justice #news
A vast underground network of fungi has been supporting life above ground for 450 million years, but the recent discovery by scientists, including researchers from the University of Sheffield, that fungi is storing OVER ONE THIRD OF THE CARBON created from fossil fuel emissions each year indicates that it could be crucial as nations seek to tackle climate change and reach net zero emissions
#Fungi #Climate #Carbon #Emissions
Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero
Researchers are now calling for fungi to be considered more heavily in conservation and biodiversity policies, and are investigating whether we can increase how much carbon the soil underneath us can holdThe University of Sheffield
Trees and land absorbed almost no #CO2 last year. Is #nature’s #carbon sink failing?
#environment #climate #emissions #news #future #crisis #forest #tree
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heatingPatrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating
#ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Why a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism
We have to be cognizant of the facts that a struggle for economic liberation in the South is fundamentally antithetical to the capitalist world economy, because accumulation in the core depends utt…scheerpost.com
Smart mitigation is adaptation
Smart adaptation is mitigation
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/12/climate/hurricane-milton-helene-florida-homes/index.html
JD Vance says it’s ‘deranged’ for women not to have children due to climate change - EUROPE SAYS
JD Vance says it’s ‘deranged’ for women not to have children due to climate changehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-childless-cat-ladies-women-climate-change-b2628318.htmlby crustose_lichenEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#SpaceX #Starlink #Security #Climate
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...and Global Climate*
#The BC (or soot) particles from rockets are also of great concern, as these are 👉almost five hundred times more efficient at warming the atmosphere than all other sources of soot combined. These findings demonstrate an urgent need to develop environmental regulation to mitigate damage from this rapidly growing industry..."👈
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002612
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#SpaceX #Starlink #Security #Climate
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While grounding #Musk's #SpaceX is an excellent idea....
/s: ...yes, the impact on "nearby wildlife" really IS the reason to do so! /s 🤦
No, actually, there are serious
and very concerning national and global security reasons for doing so:
2. #StratosphericOzone and #ClimateChange 2)
1) https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111464956447349385
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*Impact of Rocket Launch and Space Debris Air Pollutant Emissions on Stratospheric Ozone...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)
For those wondering about #ElonMusk's unprecedented power in satellites 🛰 and mobile internet-based communications, here is the #Starlink background story again (via #NYT): https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111141586398331386 ...Mastodon
"Researchers tracked 266 forest plants over several decades, finding that many plants found in Eastern Europe — such as tufted hair grass and seedlings of silver fir, hornbeam, and sycamore — are migrating west, where cars, power plants, and factories are producing huge sums of nitrogen dioxide." https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-forest-vegetation-nitrogen-climate-change
Original paper here: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado0878 #botany #climate #pollution
You Should Be Furious at the Political Class For Enabling This Climate Catastrophe
As another massive hurricane bears down on Florida, let’s remember that our climate is worsening for entirely preventable reasons and the scale of these disasters is not “natural.”Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs Inc)
“#ClimateChange is this overflowing bathroom, and #DeSantis is coming in with towels. He’s putting on more and more towels without turning off the faucet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/09/hurricane-milton-helene-florida-desantis
DeSantis supports "policies to boost fossil fuels, suppress carbon-free energy and ignore global heating." When asked about these policies, his office said: “You & your publication are despicable for running nonsense stories like this the day a major hurricane is making landfall in #Florida.”
Ron DeSantis is unfit for hurricane response, activists say: ‘Florida isn’t safe’
Advocates believe governor is unfit for emergency planning due to policies that fuel the crisis worsening stormsDharna Noor (The Guardian)
Sahara Desert flooded after decades of drought
Parts of the Sahara Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, have been transformed into blue lagoons following a rare downpour.Guardian Nigeria
“Scientists have said that we can cool the planet back down. Now they’re not so sure. It might be possible to “overshoot” and then return to our climate targets. But some changes will be irreversible.”
(Gift article)
Scientists have said that we can cool the planet back down. Now they’re not so sure.
Scientists and world leaders have said we can “overshoot” and then return to our climate targets. But much damage will be done.Shannon Osaka (The Washington Post)
RTE defends advertising revenue from 'fossil fuel' companies
The national broadcaster also said that its viewers are “ambivalent” about the climate crisis and take the view that “it’s somebody else’s problem”
this view was formed on foot of research with the audience and focus groups carried out in the last month on the issue of climate change
https://businessplus.ie/news/rte-advertising/
#Ireland #ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate
RTE defends advertising revenue from 'fossil fuel' companies
Photo: Director of news and Current Affairs at RTE Deirdre McCarthy. Photo: Sasko Lazarov/ RollingNews.ieCormac Cahill (Business Plus)
#FossilFuel Interests Are Working to Kill #Solar in One #Ohio County. The Hometown #Newspaper Is Helping.
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A retired #gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial #media company are spreading #misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
#News #Journalism #CleanEnergy #Agriculture #Oil #Koch #Climate #Energy #Politics #Government
The Secret Playbook Behind Effort to Kill Solar in an Ohio County
A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.ProPublica
Remember that this is a choice — a choice that has been made for us. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Latest comic on Big Tech's climate hypocrisy
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #tech #technology #ai #energy #cartoon
Symbolic image for the current state of our #civilization.
#meme #future #humanity #crisis #politics #society #capitalism #war #terror #finance #economy #climate #environment #nature #earth #biodiversity #memes #titanic
Discover many of downballot candidates in Hurricane Helene’s path who are climate hawks and Green New Dealers running against MAGA climate deniers.
This is how we rebuild and build a sustainable future!
#helene #climate #uspol #gapol #flpol #ncpol
cc @GottaLaff
https://hillheat.news/p/u-s-climate-politics-almanac-2024-helene-races
U.S. Climate Politics Almanac: 2024 Helene Races
Key downballot climate candidates along Helene's path of destructionHill Heat
California panel calls attention to ties between Southwest climate crisis and cancer disparities
#health #California #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
California panel calls attention to ties between Southwest climate crisis and cancer disparities - Cronkite News - Prescott eNews
“You cannot be a healthy person in an unhealthy home. This planet is our home,” said Dr. Leticia M. Nogueira of the American Cancer Society. Photo taken onPrescott eNews
"response on #SocialMedia Thursday from President Joe #Biden ... “You can’t only help those in need if they voted for you.”...
Democratic California Gov. #GavinNewsom... calling the episode “a glimpse into the future if we elect” #Trump...
Harvey and Olivia Troye, a former Trump #WhiteHouse homeland #security adviser who backed up Harvey’s claim, say Trump ...is politicizing a #disaster that has killed more than 170 people in six states"
#GOP #Politics #Hurricane #Helene #USA #News #Climate
"Mark Harvey, who was Trump’s senior director... on the National #Security Council... [stated] that #Trump initially refused to approve disaster aid for #California after deadly #wildfires in 2018 because of the state’s #Democratic leanings.
But Harvey said Trump changed his mind after Harvey pulled #voting results to show him that heavily damaged Orange County, California, had more Trump supporters than the entire state of #Iowa."
https://www.eenews.net/articles/helene-isnt-the-first-time-trump-inserted-politics-into-a-natural-disaster/
#GOP #Politics #USA #News #Climate
Helene isn’t the first time Trump inserted politics into a natural disaster - E&E News by POLITICO
Former White House advisers said Trump hesitated as president to provide disaster aid to California because of the state's Democratic leanings.Scott Waldman, Thomas Frank (E&E News by POLITICO)
#EnergyTransition: The $20B US green bank program just funded its first project https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/policy-regulation/the-20b-us-green-bank-program-just-funded-its-first-project
"A #Bide-#Harris IRA program meant to expand #climate investment in underserved markets has its 1st target — a $31 million #solar effort in #Arkansas... At 66 MW across 16 sites, the project will be the largest commercial solar deployment in Arkansas and the 4th largest university #RenewableEnergy deployment in the US"
#Renewables #CleanEnergy #SolarEnergy #USpol #Harris2024 #ClimateChange
The $20B US ‘green bank’ program just funded its first project
An Inflation Reduction Act program meant to expand climate investment in underserved markets has its first target — a $31 million commercial solar effort…Canary Media