Website Realtor.com adds climate change risk features; 40% of US homes show risks of heat, wind, air quality. #ClimateChange
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Electric vehicles clearly are better for our climate and environment, at least in terms of overall carbon emissions, than traditional ICE vehicles.
That doesn't mean EVs are good for the climate and environment, however, because they're not. As always, the best option is not to drive a car at all. Instead, if you can, ride a bicycle or an electric bike or scooter or use public transit.
But tire manufacturers *really* want you to keep driving. And they're okay with either kind of vehicle, ICE or electric. Of course, they would prefer that you drive a large SUV or one of those giant pickup trucks. That makes more money for them because the tires cost more and they wear out faster.
Big EVs are especially great for tire companies...
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With their heavy weight and quick acceleration, EVs tend to burn through tires about 20% faster than internal combustion vehicles do, according to AlixPartners. And the tires cost about 50% more.
“If EV does proliferate through the car population like some think, it may bring about what I call the gold rush for tire manufacturers,” said John Healy, an analyst with Northcoast Research.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/why-evs-are-causing-a-tire-boom.html
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #WarOnCars #BanCars
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It’s basic physics: hotter, thinner air allows baseballs to fly farther and has juiced overall home run counts since 2010, according to an analysis of over 200,000 hits ⚾
And hey – this isn’t just a fun fact. Rising temperatures will threaten the health and safety of players and fans. And this is just more reason to stop #climatechange.
https://theconversation.com/mlb-home-run-counts-are-rising-and-global-warming-is-playing-a-role-203226
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On-street battery-swapping station for electric scooters in Taipei. Rather than plug-in and wait, you can just swap your low battery for a charged one … and go. #climatechange #ev
We will not meaningfully tackle #ClimateChange unless we change the global #food system.
Positive #climate news:
Pollution will be curbed under a #climatechange rule from the EPA -esp. beneficial to poor, Black & Latino communities. It'll require manufacturers to slash emissions of GHG from new trucks, delivery vans & buses. The rule will not mandate the adoption of a particular 0-emission tech, rather -will require manufacturers to reduce emissions by choosing from several cleaner technologies: electric trucks, hybrid trucks & hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles-.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/29/truck-pollution-regulations-climate/
In case anyone’s not too sure.. this is what a 'spring lawn' is supposed to look like.
Breakdown:
• No irritating lawn-mower lines.
• A multitude of flowers.
• Lawn-mower rests, unperturbed in garden shed.
• No Louis X1V - 'rules over nature'.
• No walking up and down for hours, making a really annoying, loud noise and irritating the neighbours.
• Just peace, quiet and LOTS of bees.
#Nature #NoMowMarch #NoMowApril #ClimateDiary #Climat #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #WildLife #Insects #Bees
Are you old enough, like me, to remember the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989?
Here's some important info about that event from Greg Palast...
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"Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable of the Drunken Captain"
The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giant breaking their promises, cynically and disastrously, in the 15 years leading up to the spill.
As for Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar.
But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker’s radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.
Today, three decades after the oil washed over the Alaskan beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.
The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/
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Huzzah! 🥳
We've reached 10,000 followers. Thanks to all the scientists, students, teachers and science nerds who contribute to this community. We just love sharing interesting science news with you.
What would you like to see more of?
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I love this PBS series on climate change. The presenter (Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant ) tells it as it is.
"You can't shop your way out of climate change"
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FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrested in the Netherlands
Dutch authorities have detained Greta Thunberg and other climate protesters from the Extinction Rebellion group after they blocked a motorway in The Hague on Saturday.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange #BreakingNews #Breaking
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction.
The loss of plant and animal species on Earth is happening at a speed never seen in human history, according to the United Nations. #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Climate #Environment
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lizard-population-declining-climate-change/
Do champion trees have the best shot at sequestering carbon from the air?
PREMIERES APRIL 22, 2024
Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal
Available on air and streaming online #ClimateChange #Pollution #Documentary #Film
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoned-ground-tragedy-love-canal/
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It’s #EarthDay & I’m giving a talk all about the global food system & its impact on the environment.
The agricultural sector is one of the most significant + immediately scalable places to have impact.
Since my talk isn’t public, here’s a great piece from @globalecoguy & the good folks at Project Drawdown. https://drawdown.org/news/insights/how-food-and-farming-will-determine-the-fate-of-planet-earth
#climatechange #science #food
I hate articles like this. A vegan shopping bag toting, straw refusing person is not going to do jack for the #ClimateCrisis
Instead of writing about actual solutions to #ClimateBreakdown like going after oil producers, pointlessly large car manufacturers, fast fashion, or Amazon. The tail wagging writers doing the billionaires bidding has once again pinned the problem on you, the consumer with no agency except to pick one brand of potato chip over the other in a desperate attempt to reduce your plastic by micro grams while Bezos has bridges removed so he can float his yacht out to sea.
#MediaIsComplicit in #ClimateChange from doing Exxon's climate denial bidding back in the day to obfuscating the real problem now.
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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.
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President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.
NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."
In honor of Earth Day, Vox launched a special Home Planet package. Here's the entire collection, which includes fascinating stories on giving up meat, fostering pigeons and the "Squirrel Census."
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
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/
The human implications of the climate crisis are stark when bodies start piling up over natural resources. Less apparent is the burden it imposes on day-to-day life, especially those of women.
While South Sudan isn’t in an official war, peace remains dangerously fragile. And it is water—or the lack thereof—that is ominously sowing the seeds of future conflict.
Read this from Ryan Biller who traveled to the region to report.
#Journalism #climatechange #sudan
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/04/23/sudans-water-crisis/
A few excerpts below from an excellent article that explains what is happening to sea ice around Antarctica, and what it means for the global climate and for our future...
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Until recently, Antarctic sea ice fluctuated between relatively stable summer minimums and winter maximums. But after a record minimum in 2016, things began to shift. Two record lows soon followed, including the smallest minimum ever in February 2023.
As winter began in March of that year, scientists hoped the ice cover would rebound. But what happened instead astonished them: Antarctic ice experienced six months of record lows. At winter's peak in July, the continent was missing a chunk of ice bigger than Western Europe.
"We all thought that the minimum was as bad as it was going to get; it was 2023, not 2070," said Ariaan Purich, an Antarctic climate researcher at Monash University in Australia. "So when winter came, we were in disbelief."
Now, in 2024, the sea ice extent has reached another near-record low. A profound "regime shift" has taken place in the Antarctic, and climate scientists are racing to understand what will come next.
"When you push any part of the climate system, it has ripple effects that are felt all over the world — not necessarily immediately, but many years down the line," said Ella Gilbert, a polar climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey. "So by pushing the system more and more and more, we're making those ripples bigger and bigger. And eventually, we're all going to feel them."
In the meantime, the obvious prescription for our ailing planetary systems still applies: urgent and deep cuts to global CO2 emissions, according to Martin Siegert, a glaciologist who led an investigation of the Antarctic's dwindling sea ice.
“The only way forward is to decarbonize, and decarbonizing as soon as possible means we’ll not see the worst possible outcomes.” Siegert said.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/we-were-in-disbelief-antarctica-is-behaving-in-a-way-weve-never-seen-before-can-it-recover
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
To keep us distracted from what’s really going on in the world, our rulers constantly provide more and more circuses — a new Marvel superhero movie, the latest celebrity scandal of the week, a huge sale at Amazon — because if everyone was paying attention to *genuine* reality, the whole capitalist charade might just collapse.
But guess what: Earth's climate and environment pay no heed to such circuses. Instead, they respond directly to real physical inputs, the continual burning of fossil fuels, the ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, the enormous heat being trapped and absorbed...
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March 2024 was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high.
It is the latest red flag in a year already marked by climate extremes and rising greenhouse gas emissions, spurring fresh calls for more rapid action to limit global warming.
Every month since June 2023 has beaten its own "hottest ever" tag – and March 2024 was no exception.
The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that March globally was 1.68ºC hotter than an average March between the years 1850-1900, the reference period for the pre-industrial era.
Huge swathes of the planet endured above-average temperatures, from parts of Africa to Greenland, South America, and Antarctica.
March was not only the tenth consecutive month to break its own heat record, but capped the hottest 12-month period on the books – 1.58ºC above pre-industrial averages.
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#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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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.
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
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