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THIS should be front-page news every day.
THIS should be the primary focus of every major world leader.
But it's not.
Instead, all we get is month after month of more Business As Usual.
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Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) delivers the latest update on our global climate emergency:
"The last 12 months were each at least 1.5°C (2.7°F) warmer than Berkeley Earth's 1850-1900 baseline. This brings the 12-month moving average of Earth's global temperature to a record high of +1.68°C (+3.02°F) above the 1850-1900 baseline, far surpassing previous short-term warming events."
See ➡️ https://fediscience.org/@RARohde/112824106977970378
Learn more ➡️ https://berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-temperature-update/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Major tech companies are producing far more carbon emissions than they suggest in their sustainability reports.
They’re lobbying hard to rewrite the rules on how emissions are calculated to show net zero on paper, but not in practice.
https://www.ft.com/content/2d6fc319-2165-42fb-8de1-0edf1d765be3
TECH BROs v. THE OCEAN:
CRYPTO: let's boil the oceans to create fake money for criminals. We'll fleece the rubes and make miillions. LOL you own that JPG now. Sure you do.
LLMs: let's boil the oceans to create pure garbage out of people's intellectual property. We'll steal from everyone and make millions.
THE OCEANS: brb making some hurricanes
For >30 years, the world’s largest #iceberg was stuck in the Antarctic. 5X the size of NYC’s land area & >1k feet deep, the mammoth piece of ice became loose in 2020 & began a slow drift toward the #SouthernOcean.
Now, #A23a, as it’s known, is spinning in place.
After leaving #Antarctic waters, the iceberg got stuck in a #vortex over a seamount….
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ocean
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/a23a-iceberg-antarctica-spinning.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Greenpeace is being sued for $300 million. It's an attempt by the capitalist establishment to permanently silence them.
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Energy Transfer, the Big Oil company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, claims that Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International organized the 2016-2017 Standing Rock resistance. This is a false and racist attempt to erase Indigenous leadership from this historic protest.
The trial begins in February 2025. If we lose, Greenpeace USA could face financial ruin, ending over 50 years of environmental activism. But this is bigger than just us.
Energy Transfer’s lawsuit threatens our fundamental rights to organize and protest. A win for them sets a dangerous precedent – allowing more attacks on unions, activists, and journalists – and silencing our speech through intimidation.
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LEARN MORE -- https://greenpeaceontrial.org/
Bananas are at risk of extinction, but scientists have a plan. 🍌
From @popsci: A fungus that can infect over 100 different plants is devastating the popular fruit.
#Bananas #Food #ClimateChange #Climate #Agriculture #Botany #Science
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
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
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
#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
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.
#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
#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
#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.
#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
#technology #podcast #lispyGopherClimate
@nosrednayduj #live #Interview #archive https://archives.anonradio.net/202502190000_screwtape.mp3
Late notice, please #boost <3
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yduJ from #lambdaMOO and the usual #lisp companies/Stanford #AI lab original extraction.
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#lispyGopherClimate #lisp #softwareEngineering #podcast
#climate #haiku from @kentpitman
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Break from guests this week just
Richard P Gabriel's essay Incommensurability (2012) vs @robpike 's #Systems #software #Research is Irrelevant (2000).
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