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

Shell has sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits based on emissions savings that never happened, according to a new investigation.

Shell made more than $200 million dollars selling the credits from its flagship carbon capture facility called 'Quest'.

Canadian taxpayers covered 93% of the costs of building the 'Quest' carbon capture project. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/07/false-promises-and-phantom-emissions-how-was-shell-able-to-double-its-carbon-credits-in-ca

‘False promises and phantom emissions’: How was Shell able to double its carbon credits in Canada?

Canadian taxpayers covered 93 per cent of the costs of the Quest carbon capture project, a Greenpeace report reveals.

^{Euronews (Euronews.com)}

Hello fediverse!

So far we've federated 450 #Flipboard accounts which have now received more than 100,000 likes, boosts, replies and follows from people in the #fediverse. Today we are federating another 100 people who are curating terrific magazines that people in the fediverse can now enjoy.

Here's just one of my many favorites:

Addressing Climate Change Locally
By Ms. Coleman La Salle
High school Biology and Anatomy Teacher in Portland, Oregon

Federated link:
@addressing-climate-change-locally-cariecoleman

Note that it takes time for newly federated magazines to populate so click on "Browse more on original profile" in order to see all the stories in the magazine. Once you follow, you'll see new stories as they are added in real time.

Enjoy and check out this post for more great examples:
https://medium.com/fedi-curious/over-100-000-social-interactions-from-the-fediverse-to-flipboard-f76465dee4f8

#ClimateChange

Over 100,000 Social Interactions From the Fediverse to Flipboard

Flipboard curators have seen over 100,000 boosts, likes, replies and follows from people across the fediverse since in-app notifications went live on April 11. Over the past few weeks people on…

^{Flipboard (Fedi Curious)}

WARNING...WARNING 🚨🚨

Weather forecasters issued dire warnings Monday for a significant tornado outbreak that's expected in the central U.S. on Monday that could impact millions of people from Texas to the Dakotas!

STAY TUNED to your local weather source if in the affected areas!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange #weather #BreakingNews #Breaking

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-high-risk-warning-issued-175221153.html

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)}

"Admiral Barrie said [#Australia's] government should be moving to an effective "wartime" footing on #ClimateChange — instead, it had dedicated "precisely two sentences of substance" to climate impact.

"It appears that the government either doesn't understand what our scientists are telling them, or they are deliberately hiding the facts from the Australian community," Admiral Barrie said."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/national-defence-strategy-ignored-climate-risks/103789018

Climate risks ignored in National Defence Strategy, former defence chief says

Former military and intelligence leaders, including the former chief of Australia's Defence Force, say the government has "astonishingly" forgotten the risk of climate change in its defence strategy. 

^{Jake Evans (ABC News)}

Look at this! 👁️
We can't go back! We're running out of time! That's why we need #BidenHarris4More and not a return to pillage the environment! #ClimateChange is real!

#BidenHarris2024 #DemocratsDeliver

The Tories will just write a new law saying 'climate change is safe, actually', just like they did with Rwanda, despite also there being told, internally, the opposite.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68947242

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Tories #ukpol

Government defeated in High Court over climate plans

Activists argued that the plan for cutting emissions would not meet the UK's climate targets.

^{By Esme Stallard (BBC News)}

#ClimateDiary Watching this made me think yet again about #ClimateJustice or rather, the profound iINJUSTICE of climate change: how the poorest - Rikshah drivers, street hawkers, labourers - suffer the most, without any accees to #AirCon, outside all day, yet contribute nothing to #ClimateChange. The impacts are so hnequal, so unfair, in micro as well as macro ways, it makes you want to screem. #Heatwave #Asia #India #Odisha

https://youtu.be/HG1ABV5xfiw?feature=shared

Heat Wave In Odisha: Bhubaneswar Sees 'Longest Spell Of Max Day Temperature In April’ Since 1969

Heat Wave In Odisha: Bhubaneswar Sees 'Longest Spell Of Max Day Temperature In April’ Since 1969 #imd #weather #weatherforecast #weathernews #heatwaves #uma...

^YouTube

Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.

Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions. #ClimateChange #Nature

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02052024/from-the-archive-exxon-research-global-warming/

Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago - Inside Climate News

^{Derek Harrison (Inside Climate News)}

"One in three Britons advocate for fossil fuel divestments in pensions, poll finds"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

https://www.edie.net/one-in-three-britons-advocate-for-fossil-fuel-divestments-in-pensions-poll-finds/

One in three Britons advocate for fossil fuel divestments in pensions, poll finds

A new poll has found that one in three Britons aims to avoid investing in fossil fuels through their pension, highlighting the imperative for the pension industry to divest from fossil fuels.

^{Sidhi Mittal (edie)}

Worst wine harvest in 62 years blamed on ‘extreme’ weather and climate change.

Experts blame “extreme environmental conditions” including droughts and fires that have been driving the downward trend in production. It hit its lowest level since 1962. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/26/worst-wine-harvest-in-62-years-blamed-on-extreme-weather-and-climate-change

'“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform and fucking awful.

“It’s a graveyard out there.”

#climatechange #climatediary

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis

Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’

Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

^{Mike Bowers (The Guardian)}

Scientists have been absolutely clear that we MUST make immediate and drastic changes if we are to avoid catastrophic eco-system collapse. But, as Greta Thunberg has said, all we ever get from politicians and industry leaders is more useless blah blah blah…

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BusinessAsUsual

Mangroves: we used freely-available satellite images to track climate-resilient forests

https://theconversation.com/mangroves-we-used-freely-available-satellite-images-to-track-climate-resilient-forests-228071

"Satellites equipped with radar or specialised sensors can measure the height and structure of forests... Satellite images can also help engage local people in restoration efforts and... help scientists map changes along the coast and assess how vulnerable mangroves might be."

#climatechange #climatecrisis #sealevelrise @TheConversationAfrica @theconversationes @TheConversationUS

#EnergyTransition: Biden Administration Moves to Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/climate/biden-administration-moves-to-speed-up-permits-for-clean-energy.html #USpol

"The #Biden administration on Tuesday released rules designed to speed up permits for #CleanEnergy while requiring federal agencies to more heavily weigh damaging effects on the #climate and on #LowIncome communities before approving projects... This is a big deal because for the first time it prioritizes projects that have #ClimateChange and or #EnvironmentalJustice benefits"

It's just like purchasing carbon offsets.

#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

Every day for the last 50 years, the oil and gas industry has brought in $3 BILLION in profits. Not revenues. Profits.

EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

See — https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years

That’s 💵 💵 💵 $52 trillion 💵 💵 💵 in pure profit, their payoff for happily destroying our climate and biosphere.

We need system change NOW.

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

Latest comic: No-so-silent Spring

#leafblowers #environment #climatechange #noisepollution #cartoon #comic #climate #climatecrisis #earthday

🌪️ The #tornado last night that ripped through #Marietta #Oklahoma just demolished a huge Dollar Tree distribution warehouse and flipped semis like they were toys🌪️ #climatechange

https://youtube.com/shorts/7wgtEDlMi1I

Tornado Destroys Dollar Tree Warehouse In Oklahoma

A tornado ripped through Marietta, Oklahoma, destroying a Dollar Tree distribution center and flipping semis. #shorts #oklahoma #dollartree

^YouTube

there's a reason she is called mother nature.

#p2 #BlackLivesMatter #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #environmental #justice

Worst wine harvest in 62 years blamed on ‘extreme’ weather and climate change.

Global wine production reached a historic low in 2023 and climate change could be to blame, a new report has revealed. #ClimateChange #Wine

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/26/worst-wine-harvest-in-62-years-blamed-on-extreme-weather-and-climate-change

India is currently experiencing a severe heatwave, with very high temperatures in many areas. The heat is so intense that a TV presenter fainted live on air.

#heatwaves #India #climatechange

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/doordarshan-anchor-faints-during-live-news-reading-of-heatwave-updates-5490762

"Teleprompter Faded Away": TV Anchor Faints While Reading Heatwave Updates

Lopamudra Sinha, an anchor with the Kolkata branch of Doordarshan, could be heard slurring while reading out the information before she blacked out.

^NDTV

Why beavers are essential to improving the climate and preventing wildfires.

Beavers are small, but mighty creatures. #ClimateChange #Nature #Beavers

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/beavers-climate-change-wildfires/

Why beavers are essential to improving the climate and preventing wildfires

WBZ's Jason Mikell joined the Department of Conservation and Recreation in Massachusetts to learn more about how beavers play an important role in our environment.

^{Jason Mikell (CBS Boston)}

I cannot fathom how anyone with even a shred of backbone or self-respect can happily keep chattering away at the Nazi Bar.

(Extra asshole-points for “babe.”)

#elonmusk #climatechange #Twitter

It is one thing to take inspiration from ancient religious texts.

It is a completely different thing to take them literally.

If the authors of those texts had known what we know today about physics, cosmology and evolution their messaging would likely have been quite different.

We live on a rare, small planet in the habitable zone of a stable star.

We are part of nature and have an extended family of millions of species.

All we need to do, is fit in.

http://www.aspenproposal.org

#sustainability #religion #spirituality #politics #Justice #biodiversity #Nature #climatechange

It's time to get to work — on system change.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

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