How we should react to the #ClimateCrisis:
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AFP-March saw 10th straight month of record global heat: monitor #ClimateCrisis
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
Via Melissa Schwartz
"For decades, the fed govt has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands. That could soon change under an Interior rule that puts conservation, recreation and renewable energy development on equal footing w/ resource extraction." #ClimateCrisis
WaPo:
The Interior Department finalized a rule that puts conservation on equal footing with mining, grazing and drilling on public lands across the country. https://
#Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of #Alaska petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/climate/alaska-drilling-ban-biden-climate?cid=ios_app
Sigh
#ClimateBreakdown is happening to us. We are suffering floods, fires, and in some parts famine.
Why? Because our leaders can't stand up to big oil. Because our fellow citizens won't give up convenience or big cars and endless fancy clothes.
I am not sure how many people understand that many people will die. This isn't a theoretical possibility anymore. This is already happening. Entire towns, even in rich nations are getting burnt to the ground.
Our billionaire owned media just doesn't attribute it to #ClimateCrisis. Instead they publish endless stories about phantom arsonists so you keep driving your SUV.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68841141?utm_source=press.coop
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.
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
The G7 has agreed to shut down coal plants by 2035, UK minister says, in a climate policy breakthrough. The US declined to comment on the agreement #ClimateCrisis https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/climate/g7-end-coal-fossil-fuels-climate-intl?Date=20240429&Profile=cnnbrk
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
⚠️Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the planet, an exclusive Guardian survey has revealed. #ClimateCrisis
“Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources — ones that don’t emit planet-warming pollutants like carbon dioxide and methane…
For the first time, 30% of electricity produced worldwide was from clean energy sources as the number of solar and wind farms continued to grow fast.” #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/2718fce0ed37232dc25dbf46fff87955
Great, another source of emissions that has been underestimated.
The US obviously tops the charts, but other notable mentions are China, Australia and Norway.
Direct link to study: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3a7d
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climate #aviation #USA #China #Australia #Norway
Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to _not_increase_ the CO2 level. And we need to significantly _decrease_ the CO2 level.
Carbon capture is a scam.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.fastcompany.com/91120071/climeworks-carbon-removal-factory-iceland
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A message from Canadians to US citizens:
Dear US,
As the smoke from our wildfires continue to pollute your air and many of you struggle to breathe please think about this:
If you chose to abstain from voting or do not vote Blue, your air quality will continue to worsen because Trump will increase the use of and development of fossil fuels which will increase our wildfires.
Thanks for listening.
Breathe easy today.
“Fed regulators on Monday approved sweeping changes to how America’s electric grids are planned & funded, in a move that supporters hope could spur thousands of miles of new high-voltage power lines & make it easier to add more wind and solar energy.
The new rule by Fed Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees interstate electricity transmission, is most significant attempt in years to upgrade and expand the country’s creaking electricity network”
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/climate/electric-grid-overhaul-ferc.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Scientists tracked a young #whale's journey before he vanished. What they learned could help save his species.
#Bishop’s story, from birth to presumed death, shows the extreme danger facing right #whales, which could be extinct in 3 decades if they continue to disappear at the present rate. Bishop’s species is not doomed to #extinction …but time is running out.
#RightWhale #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife #Conservation #MarineLife #Ocean
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/north-atlantic-right-whale-species-challenges/
Canada is back in the news. And not in a good way…
HEADLINE: "Canadian wildfires forcing thousands to evacuate"
➡️ https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/canadian-wildfires-forcing-thousands-to-evacuate-210857029869
During the winter, numerous blazes in Canada — known as 'zombie fires' — smoldered beneath the snow. The combination of a warm and very dry winter set the stage for flames to quickly expand this spring.
Belts of extreme to exceptional drought are draped across the zone from central British Columbia to northern Alberta, where many of the worst fires rage. More than 100 fires were burning in British Columbia on Monday morning, and four dozen in Alberta. Other large blazes were scorching provinces to the east.
➡️ https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/13/canadian-wildfire-smoke-minnesota-wisconsin/
And what happens in Canada doesn't necessarily stay in Canada...
HEADLINE: "Canadian wildfire smoke chokes Upper Midwest for second straight year"
➡️ https://apnews.com/article/canadian-wildfires-air-quality-midwest-smoke-569be65d172bae427cd93ad8703c75ff
🔥 We are in a climate emergency. 🔥
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
🔥 👩🚒 Wildfire growth prompts another evacuation order in northeastern B.C.
Two more communities under evacuation orders:
Doig River First Nation and the Peace River Regional District as a fire threatens nearby.
#News #ClimateCrisis #Wildfire
https://montrealgazette.com/news/national/wildfire-growth-prompts-another-evacuation-order-in-northeastern-b-c
Criticize the world's largest oil company? They'll sue you!!
(And I promise they can easily afford more and better lawyers than you can. Not to mention bribing judges.)
⬛️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-exxon-mobil-suing-shareholders-100046384.html
#Law #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
From HEATED:
Pure propaganda. The laws of physics are immune to it.
Don’t fall for “climate-friendly” beef https://heated.world/p/dont-fall-for-climate-friendly-beef
#ClimateCrisis
⚠️World's oceans have gone 'crazy haywire,' officials warn, with majority of coral reefs in peril
Conditions last year were so unusually warm in some waters that heat stress levels were literally off the charts of NOAA's alert system. #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ocean-record-heat-coral-bleaching-rcna152637
🚨 The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way that scientific models used to project future sea level rise have not taken into account, suggesting current projections could be significantly underestimating the problem, according to a new study. #ClimateCrisis
"If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO₂"
I'm so disgusted, I can't find the words... 🤬
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SUVs accounted for 48% of global car sales in 2023, reaching a new record and further strengthening the defining automobile trend of the early 21st century – the shift towards ever larger and heavier cars.
There are now more than 360 million SUVs on the roads worldwide, resulting in combustion-related CO2 emissions of one billion tonnes, an increase of around 100 million tonnes from the previous year.
Despite advances in fuel efficiency and electrification, the trend toward heavier and less efficient vehicles such as SUVs, which produce 20% more carbon emissions than an average medium-sized car, has largely nullified the improvements in energy consumption and emissions achieved elsewhere in the world’s passenger car fleet in recent decades.
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Capitalism is killing us.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.iea.org/commentaries/suvs-are-setting-new-sales-records-each-year-and-so-are-their-emissions
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual