I guess that's the last place we haven't exploited yet...

😔

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/11/russia-uncovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-british-antarctic/

#Russia #UK #Antarctica #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary

Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory

Reserves 10 times the North Sea’s output raise fears over drilling in protected region

^{The Telegraph}

#ClimateDiary How dystopian is this.

Saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, an ex-intelligence officer has told the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68945445

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)}

#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

#ClimateDiary These are the kinds of calculations the poorest have to make in the #Heatwave

"If we are going to take a bath in the creek, we have to go far away from the camp," she said.

"It's not a walkable distance under this temperature. If we go by motorcycle, it's not worth it because of the cost of fuel. If we save money for fuel, we may as well use it to buy water."

#Myanmar

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/fuel-water-heatwave-myanmar-displaced-misery-4310706

'Fuel for water': Heatwave piles misery on displaced people in Myanmar

MYANMAR: Zay Yar Tun fills his truck with water for delivery to refugees in the parched hills of war-ravaged eastern Myanmar, where a heatwave is adding to the misery of life in displacement camps.

^CNA

'“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)}

I visited a regenerative farm this week. Seeing a field of cowslips again took me back in time. They were once common place, now seeing them feels extraordinary.

A mix of 17 green manures in a mob grazed herbal ley is the way to boost soil biodiversity and provide nutrition for the cash crops to follow. They have dung beetles back again on their land. #RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateDiary #RegenAg #SoilBiology #Biodiversity

In Wien blühen die ersten Rosen.

Hundsrosen und auch Zuchtformen mit großen roten Blüten.

#wien #ClimateDiary #phänologie #phänologischerkalender #Naturkalender #österreich

#ClimateDiary

Scotland to ditch key climate change target

What’s with all this ditching of climate targets at the moment? It’s positively trendy! Meanwhile Dubai flooding, Arctic permafrost officially becoming a source of greenhouse gases, etc etc etc

[*EDIT: I shouldn’t have shared this and headline uncritically and thrown SNP together with everyone else “ditching”. Reasons are more complicated - Westminster related - in Scotland. See replies].

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68841141

Scotland to ditch key climate change target

The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.

^{By Kevin Keane (BBC News)}