Measurements from Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory showed that atmospheric carbon concentrations surged by 86% in 2023 compared to the previous year, marking a record high since tracking began in 1958. Despite this sharp increase, fossil fuel emissions only rose by about 0.6%, suggesting that other factors, such as weakened carbon absorption by natural ecosystems, may have driven the spike.

Earth systems have reached the limits of their ability to absorb pollution.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Extreme_heat_weakens_land_s_power_to_absorb_carbon

Yes, each one of us should cut our carbon footprint as individuals. It’s the right thing to do. We can stop flying, stop eating meat, and ride a bike instead of driving. But the fact is, no matter what you and I do, it won’t make a big enough difference.

That’s because all of the truly significant decisions about the future of our planet are taken far above street level, far above voting level, far above legislatures or the UN.

The choices that matter most to us are made by the leaders of capitalist mega-corporations and their financiers.

So although you and I should take appropriate individual actions, we also must recognize that while those actions are important, they are not sufficient.

Because what we need is system change. The end of capitalism. Without that, there is no chance of civilization surviving.

➡️ https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/11/09/25-years-counting-carbon-footprints-experts-assess-the-term-beloved-by-oil-firms

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Greenwashing

http://350.org/tax-their-billions-dossier
#eatTheRich #taxBillionaires #350org #climateChange
#climateCrisis

We are *firmly* on a climate chaos pathway.

A Resilience Plan for yourself and the people you love and care about starts with understanding your risk.

Here are two resources to get you going:

1) Think Hazard thinkhazard.org/en/
2) Probable Futures probablefutures.org/climate-maps/

#ClimateRisk #ClimateCrisis #ClimateLiteracy #Adaptation

Australia urged to increase climate goal after UK announces ambitious 81% reduction target
One expert says climate targets can seem abstract but matter because they serve as an ‘investment signal’ to cashed up investors
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/14/australia-urged-to-increase-climate-goal-after-uk-announces-ambitious-81-reduction-target

Schools closed and people evacuated as torrential rain returns in Spain | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/13/spain-flood-warnings-schools-closed-people-evacuated

#Spain #SpainFloods #ClimateCrisis

Mother Nature says: FAFO
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Trees and land absorbed almost no carbon dioxide (CO2) last year, and scientists are struggling to work out why.

Carbon sinks, such as forests, oceans and soils, are an essential part of regulating the Earth’s climate. Through natural processes, these land and ocean masses absorb almost half of all human carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

But preliminary findings for 2023 – the hottest year ever recorded on Earth – have found that the amount of carbon absorbed by forests, plants, and soil has temporarily collapsed.

This was completely unexpected, and therefore not something factored into most predictions and calculations about how quickly the Earth will heat up as a result of climate change. The breakdown of the land carbon sink could be temporary, but if it isn’t, this will drastically increase the rate of global heating.

It will be impossible for the world to reach net zero without carbon sinks, because there is simply no human technology that can absorb carbon on the same scale as the forests, grasslands, peat bogs, and oceans of the world.
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FULL STORY ➡️ https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/environment/trees-absorbed-almost-no-co2-last-year-and-scientists-are-struggling-to-explain-why-385673/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

“There is “no sign” of the transition away from burning fossil fuels that was pledged by the world’s nations a year ago, with 2024 on track to set another new record for global carbon emissions.” As long as it makes the super rich even richer the world will burn! #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism

Spain braces for torrential rain as new weather system reaches Med coast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e73xd60evo

Apparently, we just have to "adapt" to this as the new normal... anyone who has actually listened to the warnings from scientists knows that things are going to get worse...

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCrisisIsNow #DontLookUp

#Presentación

Buenas!

🌍Somos Juventud x Clima Málaga 🌱, un movimiento de jóvenes luchando por un futuro sostenible y justo. Nos movilizamos por el clima y trabajamos para proteger nuestro entorno en Málaga y más allá 🌊

🌿 Acciones, manifestaciones y proyectos eco para un cambio real.

📢 Levantamos la voz por un planeta habitable para todes.

♻️ Únete y lucha con nosotras. ¡Juntas somos la ola de cambio!

#Introduction

Hi!

🌍 We are Fridays for Málaga 🌱, a youth movement fighting for a sustainable and a fair future. We mobilize ourselves for climate action and we work to protect our environment in Málaga and beyond 🌊

🌿 Actions, protests, and eco projects for real change.

📢 We raise our voices for a habitable planet for everyone.

♻️ Join us and fight alongside us. Together, we are the wave of change!

#FridaysForFuture #Juventudporelclima #climatejustice #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climateaction #degrowth

New York farmers trying to cope with the warmest October in human history, which has led to forest/brush fires in the Catskills and New Jersey, and turned the soil into superdry dust, making it impossible to plant cover crops or otherwise prepare fields for spring planting.

#ClimateDiary #NYpol #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Farming

https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/praying-for-rain-how-new-york-farmers-are-dealing-with-drought-and-unexpected-brush-fires/

You may not agree with everything in the essay linked below, but I expect it will make you think. Sarah Miller (@sarahmiller_22747) presents some “hard truths” about where we are now, how we got here, and what the future might bring…
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For liberal America, this election season has not been fun. It has not been honest. It did not turn out well. And now that it’s over, the time has arrived for a dose of brutal honesty. Forget about Donald Trump’s real and perceived lies. We have lied to ourselves for too long.

Our country and our world are in a dire state. That state has everything to do with the climate crisis, species extinction (possibly including our own), wars with no end in sight, dysfunctional geopolitics and domestic politics, and worst of all, irrational devotion to economic growth that is literally killing us.

The energy transition demanded by the climate crisis is an area where facing up to hard truths is particularly vital. It is also the area of our misguided American experience of the last half century that I know most about. A long career of writing about the energy industry tells me that recovery from our binge of self-deception must start with admitting:

1. Trump’s presidency will not bring the great change for the worse in US energy policy that establishment environmentalists claim it will. Not, tragically, because Trump is better than they say, but because the Biden/Harris administration was much, much worse than hoped.

2. The US is not a leader in positive climate action. It has not been under Biden, and it will not be for the foreseeable future. On the contrary, both political parties seem determined — in practice, if not in words — to lead a reactionary defense of fossil fuels.

3. Climate breakdown is much more advanced than widely admitted. There’s no time left for a carefully designed transition, or even a thought-out, gradually implemented shift away from the devastating paradigm of economic growth. An economic collapse is the only evident path to slower climate destabilization.
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There's a lot more in the full essay, including some suggestions of books to read, along with action steps for those of us who are ready to start off in a new direction.

➡️ https://medium.com/the-new-climate/post-us-election-the-contrarian-take-on-climate-2ba24101b2c9

#Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Philippines set to be hit by fifth major storm in less than a month | Philippines | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/typhoon-usagi-the-philippines-weather-path-tracker

#ClimateCrisis

Climate experts have been correct for decades, mitigating #climatechange would be cheaper than the catastrophic fallout of doing virtually nothing.

"Violent weather cost the world $2T over the past decade, a report has found, as diplomats descend on the Cop29 climate summit for a tense fight over finance... Economic damages hit $451B across the past two years alone."

#ClimateCrisis #ActOnClimate #COP29
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/11/extreme-weather-cost-2tn-globally-over-past-decade-report-finds

Sharing good news as a tonic: The State of Washington rejected an initiative that would have repealed the carbon auction cap-and-trade system. It has produced revenues for greatly increased investments in transit, active transportation, home energy improvements, and other climate-friendly work (including programs I oversee so yes I'm relieved).

#WAState #WashingtonState #ClimateCrisis #ActOnClimate #BikeTooter #cycling #walking #transit

We need serious #ForestryReform in #BritishColumbia immediately. We need to implement the science-based recommendations from experts who were commissioned multiple times by #BCNDP #BCgovernment to produce #OldGrowth Strategic Reviews (twice during Horgan's regime). They promised to implement the recommendations but they have not done so. Our old growth forests aren't numerous anymore & yet our #capitalist driven, #neoliberal government is still allowing them to be cut. In a severe #ClimateCrisis - we're stuck with political leaders who are still siding with ecocidal corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyists. They never have citizens' best interests at heart & our politicians are too easily bribed.

#SaveOldGrowth #EcoActivist #TreesOverGreed #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #NatureGuardians #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #PNW #StopDeforestation #BanCorporateLobbyists #CDNpoli #activists #monochrome #BCForestryReform #Cascadia #HelpMotherNature #StopKillingForests #Ecocide #SaveOurForests #ClimateINACTION #MonochromeMonday

Why are you so upset? Stop worrying!

Business As Usual is turning out just fine. 🙄
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European Union organization that monitors global heating, announced on Thursday that the year 2024 will be 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels. That means humanity has passed a critical threshold established in 2015 in the Paris climate accord.

“After 10 months of 2024, it is now virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first year of more than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels," Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement. "This marks a new milestone in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst to raise ambition for the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29.”

The EU agency announced this moment as nations all over the world gather in the Azerbaijani city of Baku for the 29th Conference of the Parties. The ERA5 dataset found that global temperatures in 2024 were on average 1.55 degrees Celsius higher than the 1.48 degrees threshold measured in 2023. The report also noted climate change-fueled major weather events in 2024 such as torrential floods in Spain and rapidly melting Antarctic sea ice.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.salon.com/2024/11/09/earth-on-track-for-hottest-year-in-recorded-history-passing-critical-15-warming-threshold/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Climate breakdown will hit global growth by a third, say central banks - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/08/climate-breakdown-will-hit-global-growth-by-a-third-say-central-banks "New modelling finds risk to global economies much worse than previously thought, but group of central banks says even this may be an underestimate" maybe we should, you know, do something about this... #ClimateCrisis

THE RAIN IN SPAIN...

220+ Dead in Spanish Flash Floods

Tens of Thousands protest in Valencia over flood handling

Residents of the eastern Spanish city accuse the regional government of failing to issue a flood alert soon enough. Over 220 people were killed in the flooding, which was the most deadly in Europe in decades.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #Spain #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis

https://www.dw.com/en/spain-thousands-protest-in-valencia-over-flood-handling/a-70744791

Well done Spain, Israel hates you now so might as well go all in.
They laughed at your Climate Dead, and our Media makes them out to be the victims, because they have chosen the side of Genocide.

We are all at War now, don't be naive, think about your children.

Every sign of Resistance ✊

#Algeciras #Spain #Israel #FreePalestine #Valencia #ClimateCrisis

"as #Hurricane Milton bore down on South Florida last month, high winds began shredding the roof of Tropicana Field, home for 26 years to the Tampa Bay Rays baseball...In the end, it took only a few hours for the Trop to lose most of its roof—a roof that was built to withstand high winds; a roof that was necessary because...people can no longer sit outside in the summer; a roof that was supposed to be the solution." Ellen Cushing via The Atlantic #ClimateCrisis https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/stay-ahead-of-the-curve-with-feedly-ai-1

Emissions from private jets are soaring
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03687-6
The popularity of private planes, the distance covered by flights and associated greenhouse-gas production are all on the rise.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

The week around the world in 20 pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/08/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Israel-Gazawar #Climatecrisis #Artanddesign #Photography #Worldnews #Culture #Lebanon #Ukraine #Israel #Russia #Hamas #Gaza

The United Nations — founded by and controlled by the world’s most powerful capitalist countries — will NOT save us from climate and environmental collapse.

All we’ll ever get from them and our so-called leaders is a lot more “blah, blah, blah.” Words, not actions.

What our biosphere will get is more chemicals poisoning the land and sea, more plastic waste, more cars, more roads, more forests chopped down, and more droughts...
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The Amazon Basin is responsible for around 15% of all fresh water discharged into the oceans and 13% of the planet’s biodiversity. But the rivers in the world’s largest tropical rainforest are drying up. Their waters have dropped to record lows this year.

This is all happening, scientists warn, at a point when the biome has lost 18% of its forest cover, reducing its capacity to absorb and store carbon. The Amazon is now approaching the point of no return, while global temperatures are set to break the annual heat record for the second consecutive year.
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FULL STORY -- https://sumauma.com/en/infografico-o-terrivel-ressecamento-da-amazonia/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Inhaltswarnung: Australian Media Forgets To Follow Up On That Bombshell Story That Conveniently Broke On US Election Day About Coalition Senator McKenzie Also Asking For A Fuckload Of Free Flight Upgrades From QANTAS Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Inhaltswarnung: Liberals Expecting Big Swings In Northern Rivers And Blue Mountains After Vowing To Protect Misinformation Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Inhaltswarnung: Rinehart Orders Dutton To Get An Orange Spray Tan ASAP Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

And how much economic damage is from climate change and pollution from #FossilFuels? #BigOil is the real criminal here!

#ClimateProtesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

By Kara Fox, CNN
September 14, 2024

London CNN — "As #RightWing rioters attacked communities with #racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old #ClimateActivist #CressieGethin sat in a prison cell.

"Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating #FossilFuel — in the #NorthSea.

"In late July, a London court found #Gethin and four other members of the #JustStopOil activist group guilty of 'conspiring intentionally to cause a #PublicNuisance,' after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.

"Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a #ZoomCall, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.

"Now Gethin and three others — Louise Lancaster, #DanielShaw and #LuciaWhittakerDeAbreu, who planned the disruption on the call — are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder #RogerHallam was given five years. All are appealing.

"The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for #nonviolent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged #policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.

"They place the act of planning a 'public nuisance' event, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, on a similar footing as #ViolentCrimes like robbery, for which punishments range from community service to 12 years’ jail, or rape, which is four to 19 years.

"The judge — who in court referred to the activists as '#extremists' — justified the long jail terms because all five activists had previously been convicted of one or more offenses in relation to direct action protest. Each were on bail for another set of proceedings when the Zoom call took place. He also noted people missed important doctor’s visits and funerals because of the protest.

"But activists like Gethin say their demonstrations are proportionate to the problem at hand — a rapidly warming world that threatens to transform life as we know it, through deadly #ExtremeWeather events and by pushing #ecosystems to their brinks. They are now battling the bolstered powers of the #police and courts to get their point across.

“'A very harsh sentence like this doesn’t make sense morally or legally — but it does make sense politically,' Gethin told CNN in a handwritten letter from HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison just south of London’s Heathrow Airport.

"The laws have drawn criticism from the UN’s special rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders, #MichaelForst, who said not only do they criminalize peaceful protest, but they are being enforced in 'punitive and repressive' ways."

Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/climate/uk-climate-protests-policing-laws-prison-intl/index.html

#BigOilAndGas #ClimateActivists #ClimateProtest #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism #WaterDefenders
#ClimateDefenders
#EnvironmentalActivists
#SilencingDissent #SLAPPs #ClimateActivists #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
#EarthDefenders
#SLAPPs #Fascism #CivilDisobedience
#Activism #ClimateStrike
#HumanRights #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #ClimateNecessityDefense #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe

It's crumbing.

We *must* urgently ...
◽️Stop using damaging technologies
◽️Reduce per-head consumption
◽️Reduce the number of us

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics

Damning account of the Valencian right-wing government's repeated failure to heed warnings of the flood danger - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/warn-valencia-government-flooding

I was also struck by The Guadian's note on the author: "Juan Bordera is a climate journalist and an independent MP for Compromís in the Valencian parliament. He has donated his fee for this article to a fundraiser for those affected by the storm".

#Valencia #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Flood

Not that any of us really want to read MORE bad news this week. But — this is the world we live in.

Turning away from it and closing our eyes does not change things. I believe it's important to know just where we stand and what we face so we can make the best choices in how we should live.

Also, note that this essay was published before this week's disastrous US election, which means that you can expect conditions warned about here to get even worse, sooner rather than later.
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In recent years, environmental warnings have become impossible to ignore. Humanity has pushed Earth far beyond its natural limits, launching it into a cascade of intertwined disasters that scientists now call the “polycrisis.” No longer a distant threat, this crisis is unfolding before us, destabilizing the foundations of ecosystems, economies, and communities worldwide.

While some hold out hope for a turnaround, the brutal truth is that we are too far gone. The trajectory is set, the damage done, and there is no miracle solution on the horizon. Our only option is to live through this polycrisis as best we can, facing an uncertain and increasingly harsh reality.

As temperatures climb, ecosystems crumble, and resource conflicts rise, it’s clear that our world will never be the same. For those of us with young families, our hopes are tempered by a haunting reality: the future we once dreamed of has shifted beyond reach. What remains is an obligation to understand the forces shaping this collapse, accept the inevitability of hardship, and try to adapt as the familiar falls away.
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The essay includes sections on climate change, biodiversity loss, economic and social erosion, and finally, "living through the polycrisis." I hope you'll find it helpful.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.ph/MwljK
ALTERNATE LINK -- https://medium.com/edge-of-collapse/no-turning-back-accepting-the-irreversible-global-collapse-21a97632b6d6

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Dining across the divide: ‘The only thing we agreed on was our mutual dislike of Boris Johnson’ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/07/dining-across-the-divide-the-only-thing-we-agreed-on-was-our-mutual-dislike-of-boris-johnson #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Israel-Gazawar #Climatecrisis #Lifeandstyle #Socialtrends #BorisJohnson #Environment #Worldnews #Politics #Society #Israel #UKnews

Antarctica: Is The Coldest Continent Heading For Chaos?

The US, Russia, and China are vying for a bigger footprint in the resource rich continent.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #antarctica #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis

https://www.yahoo.com/news/antarctica-coldest-continent-heading-chaos-115531097.html

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do | Rebecca Solnit https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga #USelections2024 #Climatecrisis #SiliconValley #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump #Socialmedia #USpolitics #USeconomy #ElonMusk #USnews #Media

‘Ecosystems are collapsing’: one of Australia’s longest rivers has lost more than half its water in one section, research shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/07/ecosystems-are-collapsing-one-of-australias-longest-rivers-has-lost-more-than-half-its-water-in-one-section-research-shows #NewSouthWales #Australianews #Climatecrisis #Environment #Wildlife #Science #Rivers #Water #Birds

Von der Leyen’s Cop29 absence sends ‘fatal signal’, say watchers https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/06/von-der-leyens-cop29-absence-sends-fatal-signal-say-watchers #EuropeanCommission #UrsulavonderLeyen #EuropeanUnion #Climatecrisis #Environment #Worldnews #Europe #Cop29

With Trump returning to the presidency, everything from abortion to immigration is under threat https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/06/donald-trump-wins-election-11-issues-threat #Reproductiverights #Oilandgascompanies #UScampusprotests #USelections2024 #USforeignpolicy #Climatecrisis #Pressfreedom #USguncontrol #LGBTQ+rights #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump #Environment #USpolitics #USmilitary #Migration #Inflation #Economics #Abortion #TimWalz #JDVance #USnews #Media

With Trump returning to the presidency, everything from abortion to immigration is under threat https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/06/donald-trump-wins-election-11-issues-threat #Reproductiverights #Oilandgascompanies #UScampusprotests #USelections2024 #USforeignpolicy #Climatecrisis #Pressfreedom #USguncontrol #LGBTQ+rights #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump #Environment #USpolitics #USmilitary #Migration #Inflation #Economics #Abortion #TimWalz #JDVance #USnews #Media

This is so sad 😢 Our glaciers are literally melting before our eyes.

WHEN will world leaders WAKE UP and start protecting nature?!

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics