TROM II: The Climate Report https://videos.trom.tf/w/9xVJBz21bqXeXWNhP1KqXH

#climatechange #climate #capitalism #trade #pollution #co2 #un

TROM II: The Climate Report

Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

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Biden's tariffs on Chinese imports are understandable politically. Sadly, they pit workers against middle-class consumers and against the planet.

There's a better way to accomplish just the same goals — and it aligns politics, industrial policy, and climate coals:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/biden-china-trade-electric-vehicles-solar-panels-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE0.wQre.PyIMZMxD5LNk&smid=url-share

#climate #EVs #tariffs #economics #USpolitics

Florida Governor deletes 'climate change' from state laws amid rising sea levels

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging energy bill that deletes the phrase "climate" eight times and eliminates entire sections addressing global warming

https://www.indiatoday.in/environment/story/florida-governor-deletes-climate-change-from-state-laws-amid-rising-sea-levels-2539843-2024-05-16

#Florida #USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Florida Governor deletes 'climate change' from state laws amid rising sea levels

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging energy bill that deletes the phrase quotclimatequot eight times and eliminates entire sections addressing global warming

^{India Today Environment Desk (India Today)}

Missing the forest for the trees: The role of forests in Earth's climate goes far beyond carbon storage

The fragrant vapors emitted by trees react in the atmosphere to form aerosols, which reflect incoming solar radiation and cool the Earth

https://thebulletin.org/2024/05/missing-the-forest-for-the-trees-the-role-of-forests-in-earths-climate-goes-far-beyond-carbon-storage/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Missing the forest for the trees: The role of forests in Earth’s climate goes far beyond carbon storage - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The fragrant vapors emitted by trees react in the atmosphere to form aerosols, which reflect incoming solar radiation and cool the Earth.

^{Jessica McKenzie (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)}

No #internet, no #phone: #Canada #wildfires expose fragility of rural #infrastructure

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/internet-access-rural-canada-wildfires

Northwestel, which provides telecommunications for the #Yukon, Northwest Territories, #Nunavut and northern #BritishColumbia announced on Friday that a wildfire had damaged a critical fibre optic cable near the town of #FortNelson. The company said it had also lost its redundancy cable due to a separate wildfire burning near Jean Marie River and #Kakisa in the Northwest Territories.

#news #disaster #climate #environment

No internet, no phone: Canada wildfires expose fragility of rural infrastructure

Remote communities suffer total loss of communications after fires damage critical fibre optic cables

^{Leyland Cecco (The Guardian)}

#Canada: #Evacuation order issued as #wildfire threatening Fort #McMurray draws closer

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfire-grande-prairie-fort-mcmurray-1.7203695

#alberta #news #emergency #climate #environment #disaster

Criticize the world's largest oil company? They'll sue you!!

(And I promise they can easily afford more and better lawyers than you can. Not to mention bribing judges.)

⬛️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-exxon-mobil-suing-shareholders-100046384.html

#Law #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

"Ocean temperatures are currently hovering around the levels they typically reach in late July — and they’re likely to continue rising as the summer goes on."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/record-breaking-ocean-heat-wave-foreshadows-a-dangerous-hurricane-season/

#Nature #Environment #Ocean #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Record-Breaking Ocean Heat Wave Foreshadows a Dangerous Hurricane Season

An active hurricane season could be in store because of ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic that broke records for more than a year

^{Chelsea Harvey (Scientific American)}

People across the world are demanding @equinor's majority shareholder Norway get #EquinorOut of oil & gas.

#climatechange #climate

📢 Here's how you can help:

1. Go to @equinor's profile and reply #StopRosebank and #EquinorOut on their posts.

2. Take more digital action here:

http://www.stopcambo.org.uk/equinor

Stop Equinor

Thousands of people across the UK will come together to #StopRosebank and all new oil and gas fields.

^{www.stopcambo.org.uk}

This chart shows annual hours of smoke-filled skies in Calgary from 1953 to 2023.

As the first wildfire smoke of the 2024 season blew into the city this week, it's hard to convey the sadness it elicited in a lot of folks here.

There's a growing realization this is our new reality. And a genuine sense of mourning.

#calgary #alberta #canada #ableg #cdnpoli #climate #climatechange #wildfire #wildfires #smoke

It's happening for a second straight year: Dozens of wildfires are burning across Canada and sending unhealthy smoke blowing into the northern U.S., and at the same time, the southeastern U.S. is getting smoke from fires in Mexico.

Is this the new normal for summers? Why air quality scientists say yes:
https://theconversation.com/wildfire-smoke-is-back-fires-burning-across-canada-are-already-triggering-us-air-quality-alerts-in-the-midwest-and-plains-229992
#News #BreakingNews #wildfires #Smoke #Climate

Wildfire smoke is back – fires burning across Canada are already triggering US air quality alerts in the Midwest and Plains

States could be in for another summer of unhealthy wildfire smoke as ‘zombie fires’ resurface in western Canada and more blazes break out in the dry conditions.

^{The Conversation}

Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds

https://thedriven.io/2024/05/14/nearly-all-major-car-companies-are-sabotaging-ev-transition-and-japan-is-worst-study-finds/ #ElectricVehicles #transport #Climate #climateChange

An interesting article which I missed from Thursday #theGuardian #Climate #ClimateAction

Vote for representatives who pledge strong climate action 277

Reduce flying and fossil fuel-powered transport in favour of electric and public transport
202

Reduce meat consumption
104

Reduce home heating or cooling emissions
102

Join a campaign or protest group
72

Have fewer children
42

Other
95

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/what-are-the-most-powerful-climate-actions-you-can-take

What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view

Voting tops the list for the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the polls

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}

When are we going to fucking wake up?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

#climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned

^{Alessia Amitrano (The Guardian)}

How #Saudi tech is addressing the lack of #construction #sand

source: https://www.agbi.com/construction/2023/12/how-saudi-tech-is-addressing-the-lack-of-construction-sand/

However 95 percent of the sand on #Earth, including the vast sands of the Arabian Peninsula, is unsuitable due to its fine particle size.

This means riverbeds across the world are over-mined, causing pollution and flooding, while also shrinking aquifers and deepening droughts.

#news #science #Arabia #dessert #environment #climate #building #co2 #concrete

How Saudi tech is addressing the lack of construction sand | AGBI

ClimateCrete, a technology developed in Saudi Arabia, aims to significantly increase the use of desert sand in concrete manufacturing

^{Neil Perry (Arabian Gulf Business Insight)}

Compliments to The Guardian for polling #climate scientists recently and publishing their predictions that are so much scarier than the official ones.

But in spite of their coverage, the Guardian has a hard time accepting it themselves. At +2.7°C, they say, 2 billion people will be pushed out of the conditions that allow humanity to live. And at above +3°C, they say we will have “millions of refugees”. Ahem.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/brutal-heatwaves-submerged-cities-what-3c-world-would-look-like

Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like

Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}

#Biden crackdown on #PowerPlants expected to speed shift away from coal https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4625164-biden-power-plants-crackdown-coal-renewables/

"experts say that instead of trying to meet these requirements, more #coal plants may just retire — and some power companies may opt to invest in #renewables... the rule could increase the amount of coal power that comes offline between 2028 and 2035 by nearly 25%"

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #USpol #Climate #FossilFuels

Venezuela may be first nation to lose all its glaciers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx8qv1nvdppo

#Venezuela #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate change: Venezuela may be first nation to lose all its glaciers

Scientists say the South American nation's last glacier is now just an ice field.

^{Aleks Phillips (BBC News)}

Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of sheating with disastrous results for #humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

Leticia Cotrim da Cunha, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, said: “I am extremely worried about the costs in human lives.”

#news #future #science #climate #earth #heat #temperature #problem #politics #nature #environment

World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}

68 today. I've been waiting for the axe to fall since I woke up and found myself in a body in Western Europe in 1972. Still waiting.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

By 2100? That's only 76 years and less than one lifetime away. Pah! What about by 2124?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

#climate

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned

^{Alessia Amitrano (The Guardian)}

Smarter than dinosaurs? Nope, not us!

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

IPCC scientists talk about the future:

“The big difference [with the most recent IPCC report] was that all of the scientists I worked with were incredibly frustrated. Everyone was at the end of their rope, asking: what the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is?”

“We did our science, we put this really good report together and – wow – it really didn’t make a difference on the policy. It’s very difficult to see that, every time.”

“1.5C is a political game – we were never going to reach this target.”

Asked what individual action would be effective, he said: “Civil disobedience.”

“Fight for a fairer world.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

#Climate #ClimateCrisis

This is so annoying. 😡

Have you noticed that whenever corporate media decides to publish one of their rare articles about global warming, they almost always will headline it with a cheerful photo of people at the beach, or happily enjoying the sun?

It's a subliminal message.

Yes, the words you're reading might be alarming, but that's okay. We've got this. Business and industry and government will work together to solve the problem. There's nothing to worry about.

As you see here, these three young women are smiling as they relax by a fountain. Life is good!

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Vermont passes bill to charge fossil fuel companies for damages from climate change

The legislation — the first of its kind in the U.S. — would require companies with high emissions to help pay for destruction caused by climate-fueled extreme weather

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/vermont-climate-superfund-bill-charge-companies-weather-damages-rcna150243

#Vermont #USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Vermont passes bill to charge fossil-fuel companies for climate damages

Vermont lawmakers have passed a so-called "Climate Superfund Act" designed to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage from weather disasters fueled by climate change.

^{Maura Barrett (NBC News)}

Science finally catching up with what I've been raving about for years.

From the article:

"At $190 a ton, the utility industry averaged damages more than twice its profits. Materials manufacturing, energy and transportation industries all had average damages that exceeded their profits."

There is no profit when we account for negative externalities -- all of capitalism is premised on an accounting lie that doesn't work if, you know, we *actually account* for the pollution. Capitalist economics have always been premised on destroying our biosphere for free.

If you can't destroy the biosphere by using it as your own free cesspool -- you can't profit.

It's fucking physics. Balance the equations.

#climate #ClimateCrisis #Accounting #economics

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-carbon-corporations-damage-pollution-9cb9e7c9feb2a68cb6dc0ae99c5e943a

Study reveals how much carbon damage would cost corporations if they paid for their emissions

Economists calculate that the world's corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for what they put out.

^{SETH BORENSTEIN (AP News)}

Great, another source of emissions that has been underestimated.

The US obviously tops the charts, but other notable mentions are China, Australia and Norway.

https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2024/04/big-data-reveals-true-climate-impact-of-worldwide-air-travel/

Direct link to study: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3a7d

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climate #aviation #USA #China #Australia #Norway

Climate emissions from air travel 50 per cent higher than reported

A new study that looked at almost 40 million flights in 2019 calculated the greenhouse gas emissions from air travel internationally.

^{Nancy Bazilchuk (Norwegian SciTech News)}

This year we launched the first satellite capable of seeing methane emissions, a potent and dangerous greenhouse gas.
Now the fossil-fuel companies are building structures to hide those emissions.
Climate criminals.
#Climate

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/03/fossil-fuel-companies-build-structures-to-hide-methane-flaring-from-satellites/

Fossil Fuel Companies Build Structures To Hide Methane Flaring From Satellites - CleanTechnica

Fossil fuel companies are building enclosed structures that hide the flaring of methane gas from satellites.

^{Steve Hanley (CleanTechnica)}

Figures like this one from Carbon Brief are what make me optimistic that our society is ALREADY on the path to being much greener.

This is the distribution of the fossil/non-fossil fuel mix for electricity for every half hour in a year in Britain, and it's absolutely clear that a HUGE shift away from fossil fuels is taking place.

Yes, there's lots more to do, but we are already making great progress. We just need more of the same.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/chart-how-british-electricity-supplies-are-shifting-decisively-away-from-fossil-fuels/

#energy #climate #sustainability

France Crafts Offshore Wind Expansion to Meet Climate Goals
Julianne Geiger
2–3 minutes

France has revealed an ambitious strategy to amplify its offshore wind capacity, signaling a determined effort to make as much progress as neighboring nations in meeting climate objectives

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/France-Crafts-Offshore-Wind-Expansion-to-Meet-Climate-Goals.html

#France #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

France Crafts Offshore Wind Expansion to Meet Climate Goals

^{Julianne Geiger (Oilprice.com)}

#Death Toll From #Rain, Flooding In Southern #Brazil Rises To 13

Source: https://www.barrons.com/news/death-toll-from-rain-flooding-in-southern-brazil-rises-to-13-bc96d822

Entire communities in #RioGrande do Sul have been completely cut off as persistent rains have destroyed bridges and blocked roads, and left towns without even telephone or internet services.

#weather #climate #news #disaster #energency

Death Toll From Rain, Flooding In Southern Brazil Rises To 13

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the country's south Thursday, where the death toll from floods caused by torrential rains has risen to 13.

^Barrons