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China hit its 2030 renewables target in...2024.

To paraphrase The Economist, Solar PV = sun + sand + human imagination, and all 3 are infinite. This is a revolution, and it's beautiful to watch.

Bloomberg gift link: https://bit.ly/3AyaNMR

#climate #China #solar #energy #economics

This is a terrifying article.

Methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, is increasing fast in our atmosphere — both from industrial emissions AND from "natural" sources triggered by global warming, which then cause more global warming, and so on, and so on...
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New research shows that feedbacks in the climate system are boosting methane emissions from natural sources, especially tropical wetlands.

Scientists say that an abrupt surge in methane emissions in the early 2000s is probably due mainly to the response of wetlands to warming, with additional contributions coming from fossil fuel use, “implying that anthropogenic emissions must decrease more than expected to reach a given warming goal.”

Increasing rainfall, a well-documented impact of global warming, is making wetlands larger and wetter, and a warmer world fosters more plant growth, which means more decomposing material that emits methane.

About 60% of methane emissions are from fossil fuel use, farming, landfills, and waste, with the rest coming from rotting vegetation in wetlands in the tropics and Northern Hemisphere.

A new trouble spot is in the Arctic, where scientists recently found unexpectedly large methane emissions in winter. And globally, the increase in water vapor caused by global warming is slowing the rate at which methane breaks down in the atmosphere.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28082024/surging-methane-emissions-major-climate-shift/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

How Halloween pumpkins contribute to the climate crisis

But there’s a sinister side to the fun

After Halloween ends, people throw their pumpkins away, and they’re hauled off to landfills. Pumpkins in landfills rot — & when they do, those gourds expel gas

methane is at least 28 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere over a century-long period

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/halloween-pumpkins-climate-crisis-b2606240.html

#Halloween #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #environment #climate

#Iceland’s relatively mild #climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the #Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier & stormier. As evidence mounts these currents could be on course for #collapse, Iceland’s govt has designated the risk a #NationalSecurity threat, prompting a a high-level response into how to prepare for this “#existential threat.”

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/climate/iceland-warming-current-amoc-collapse-threat?cid=ios_app

The #Trump admin proposed Monday to significantly limit the EPA’s authority to limit #pollution in #wetlands, #rivers & other bodies of #water across the country.

The proposed rule could strip federal #protections from millions of acres of wetlands & #streams, potentially threatening sources of clean #DrinkingWater for millions of Americans.

#climate #wildlife #law #EnvironmentalLaw #CleanWaterAct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/climate/epa-curbs-protections-for-wetlands.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

After lying to generations of Canadians about #Climate, #BigOil wiped its websites & socials in the face of #BillC59, Canada's new anti-#Greenwash legislation. Here's The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment's Dr. Leah Temper & Dr. Joe Vipond on the big win & what comes next

https://www.podcastics.com/episode/311755/link/

#Disinformation #Greenwashing #Propaganda #Climate #BigOil #ClimateAction

A Just Energy Transition: Law, Economics, and Public Policy - 21 November 2025 https://drrimmer.medium.com/a-just-energy-transition-law-economics-and-public-policy-9a68767675a0 Symposium - Programme. When the recordings are available, they will be posted here. #energy #environment #climate #IP #IndigenousIP #justtransition

LOL can't have those homebuyers realizing their Florida home is destined to join the Atlantic ocean and that their bucolic mountain home is at risk of catastrophic wildfire destruction.

#climateemergency #climate #realestate

#EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron’s Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause #Cancer
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The decision comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than the agency usually considers acceptable.

#News #Chevron #Plastic #Environment #Health #Government #Climate #Chemicals

https://propub.li/4dICeSd

Before the automobile industry invented the catalytic converter, the costs of reducing air pollution seemed astronomical, enough to bankrupt the entire industry. After they invented the catalytical converter, the costs were manageable. And they only invented it because they were faced with the threat of being shut down.

Industries creating harms often claim that controls and regulations are impossible, would bankrupt them, etc., trying to make their existence into a zero-sum game (for some people to have the benefit of our industry, other people must suffer). AI companies claim they must steal copyrighted works because they could not exist otherwise; or be allowed to use as much electricity as they demand in spite of the costs. But it's B.S., and we should stop accepting this rhetoric. Forced to innovate to reduce harms, these industries have innovated, and made themselves even more profitable than they were when they were dragging their feet about it like children who don't want to clean their rooms.

From Is Climate Change An Externality

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #law #copyright #pollution #climate #innovation

Latest comic on Big Tech's climate hypocrisy

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #tech #technology #ai #energy #cartoon

#Weather #Climate #Meteorology picks of the day:

➡️ @TheConversationClimate - News on the climate crisis written by qualified experts

➡️ @openmeteo - Open source weather data free for non-commercial use

➡️ @MPI_Meteo - Climate research institute in Hamburg, Germany (in English & German)

➡️ @DeutscherWetterdienst - Germany’s National Meteorological Office (in German)

➡️ @admin - Fediverse weather accounts, see https://fedimeteo.com for specific towns & cities

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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.

#climate

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/desalination-system-adjusts-itself-to-work-with-renewable-power/

#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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-mount-vernon-frasier-solar-fossil-fuel-metric-media?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Journalism #CleanEnergy #Agriculture #Oil #Koch #Climate #Energy #Politics #Government

A Just Energy Transition: Law, Economics, and Public Policy - QUT Symposium - 21 November 2025 https://drrimmer.medium.com/a-just-energy-transition-law-economics-and-public-policy-9a68767675a0 The videos from the event are now available in the archive. Feel free to share. #energy #SDGs #climate #justice #IndigenousIP #greenwashing #misinformation #disinformation #greenIP #cleantech #renewables #cleanenergy #law #economics #publicpolicy #innovation #auslaw #auspol c @doctorow @glynmoody @JohnMashey

The past week with the heat, and now last night with sporadic thunder and smoke from the fires and the house still being hot has been bloody awful. Nothing compared to what people in the fire zones are experiencing, but still grim.
#vicpol #auspol #climate ##Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic

Let me be explicit. Here at the end of 2025, if you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewableenergy is cheaper now.

#lispyGopherClimate With #guests?! If everythink works. https://archives.anonradio.net/202412040000_screwtape.mp3 #archived wonderful show everyone!

#climate #haiku by @kentpitman

Hopefully @sacha will tell us about the #emacs #emacsconf this weekend!

+ #webcomic #author, @shizamura https://sarilho.net/en/ ? emacs-people = alien-robot-people?

Also #lisp emacs, I want to talk about porting #ZWEI like Kent did ^ https://tumbleweed.nu/r/sys/dir?ci=tip @amszmidt

#unix_surrealism @prahou

#lambdaMOO too!

This guy reeeaaaallllly hates #California.

#Trump Blocks California #EV Rules in Latest Move to *Rein In* the State

California leaders said the #state intends to challenge the move in #court, & to find new ways to move drivers toward #ElectricVehicles.

Trump signed joint resolutions of #Congress on Thurs that block California’s effort to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles, his latest attempt to reduce the power of the nation’s most populous state.

#law #Climate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/california-trump-electric-vehicle-waiver.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

For nearly 50 years #BigOil slow-walked the world to disaster by lying about the danger of Climate Change & creating denial/doubt about the science & solutions. Our latest show digs in to a new report about how they're STILL doing it to our children in our schools

https://www.podcastics.com/episode/352139/link/

#BigOil #Petroganda #PetroPedagogy #abpoli #Climate #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Disinformation #Indoctrination #Propaganda

North Dakota Sued the Interior Department at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He’s Set to Run the Agency.
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The state was hostile to Interior Department policies during the Biden administration. A review of its lawsuits under Burgum reveals an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doug-burgum-north-dakota-interior-department-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthDakota #Government #FossilFuels #Energy #Oil #Gas #Climate

Hello! We never did a proper #introduction.

We're an #OpenSource and #NonProfit #research, #design and #development organisation, based in #Cornwall in the UK. We actually care about stuff, and mostly work on #environment, #climate and #social projects.

We're all a bit #generalist, and many of our projects are rooted in rural issues, rather than being city-centric. Always open to collabs.

Most of us are on here: @nebogeo @amberfirefly @yaxu @cassandreces and @kanderson_rs

This is bad news, obviously, but let’s not pretend things weren’t already terrible. Led by the Biden administration, the US became the world’s #1 producer of fossil fuels.

That’s what you get when short-sighted capitalists take complete ownership of the political system and the government — under both parties.

Now it will just get worse.

➡️ https://grist.org/politics/trump-climate-actions-day-one-energy-emergency/

#Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism

Well, there's a headline that certainly captures the moment: Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential.

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month."

"The stunning conclusion indicates that the bank believes the planet is hurtling toward a future in which severe droughts and harvest failures become widespread, sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches and tropical regions experience episodes of extreme heat and humidity for weeks at a time."

"Morgan Stanley’s climate forecast was tucked into a mundane research report on the future of air conditioning stocks, which it provided to clients on March 17."

https://www.eenews.net/articles/big-banks-predict-catastrophic-warming-with-profit-potential/

h/t @ai6yr
#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #Banking

Hey! 👋 Time to update my #introduction post!

I'm a lead platform engineer, in my late 30s (ouch), been working with #AWS technology for a solid 17 years now.

Some of my interests:

🏃🏼‍♂️ #running
👨🏻‍💻 #devops #terraform #fediverse #cloud
🎮 #nintendo #games
🌱 #climate
🇪🇺 #europe
✨ #minimalism

I run a small blog over at https://mijndertstuij.nl/