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Cool tech: Battery-powered sea glider could make coastal travel more climate-friendly.

Vehicles like it could connect cities like New York and Boston. #ClimateChange

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/11/battery-powered-sea-glider-could-make-coastal-travel-more-climate-friendly/

Battery-powered sea glider could make coastal travel more climate-friendly

YCC Team (Yale Climate Connections)
#climatechange

TIL: The yellows and oranges in fall foliage are what's revealed once leaves stop photosynthesizing, but the red is something that plants specifically make, and scientists aren't entirely sure why or for what. Possibly a sunscreen of sorts.

Anyway, that red is missing from a lot of foliage in recent years, and that's because it needs cold nights to make it pop.

#ClimateDiary #ClimateChange

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/07/climate-change-fall-foliage-science-new-hampshire

Climate change could affect fall colors. 30 years of data from N.H. might provide insights on how | WBUR News

Amey Bailey has been watching trees change at Hubbard Brook since 1992. Her observations could help scientists understand how forests are responding to climate change.
Mara Hoplamazian, New Hampshire Public Radio (WBUR)
#climatechange #climatediary

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
#climatecrisis #climatechange #flood #valencia

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
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says -- "No turning back: Accepting the irreversible global collapse. The entire world will change and no one will be spared." Below this is a fictional but evocative image of a planet exploding.
#science #environment #climatecrisis #climatechange #climate

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
Crystal ball
Aure Free Press

Antarctica: is coldest continent heading for chaos?

China and Russia signal new scramble for control of the resource-rich region
The Week UK (Yahoo News)
#climatecrisis #news #climatechange #press #GlobalWarming #antarctica #aurefreepress #headline

"As Earth’s temperature rises, agricultural practices will need to adapt. Droughts will likely become more frequent, and some land may no longer be arable."

"On top of that is the challenge of feeding an ever-growing population without expanding the production of fertilizer and other agrochemicals, which have a large carbon footprint that is contributing to the overall warming of the planet.

"Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles."

https://news.mit.edu/2024/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-change-1101

#Agriculture #Farming #Science #Nature #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #MIT

Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

Researchers across MIT are taking on the agricultural challenges posed by climate change, from engineering plants that sound an alarm when they’re under stress to making seeds more resilient to drought.
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
#science #environment #Nature #climatechange #climate #agriculture #climatediary #farming #mit

How to Grow a Forest: It Takes More Than Just Planting Trees.

In an e360 interview, microbial ecologist Jake M. Robinson, of Australia’s Flinders University, takes a critical look at tree planting campaigns and discusses scientists’ varied approaches to both “planting” and “growing” forests to restore their ecological health. #ClimateChange

https://e360.yale.edu/features/jake-robinson-interview

How to Grow a Forest: It Takes More Than Just Planting Trees

In an e360 interview, microbial ecologist Jake M. Robinson, of Australia’s Flinders University, takes a critical look at tree planting campaigns and discusses scientists’ varied approaches to both “planting” and “growing” forests to restore their eco…
Yale E360
#climatechange

For some reason #Israelis seem to be happy about the #floods that so far have killed more than 200 #Spaniards.

After #Spain recognized the State of #Palestine and despite condemning the Hamas attack against Israel, many Israeli netizens posted on their social networks that they are glad that hundreds of Spaniards have died due to the floods.

Some of them have said this is a divine punishment to Spain for recognizing Palestine and stopping some explosives shipments to #Israel, similarly to how some of them believed #Florida was hit by hurricanes due to the pro Palestine protests.

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/11841?single=

#SanctionIsrael
#BoycottIsrael
#ZionismIsACult
#ClimateChange
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#USAfundsTerrorism
#climatechange #florida #israel #Spain #palestine #floods #freepalestine #israelis #boycottisrael #IsraelWarCrimes #zionismisacult #sanctionisrael #israelisaterroriststate #racistisrael #israelroguestate #armsembargoonisrael #usafundsgenocide #spaniards #usafundsterrorism

Climate activism is no longer a young person's game

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-climate-longer-young-person-game.html

#ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate activism is no longer a young person's game

When Cathy Fulkerson walked into her bank in Reno, Nevada, she was ready to cancel her credit card. Carrying a letter stating her concerns, Fulkerson explained to the manager why she wanted to cut ties: its investments in fossil fuels.
Olivia Rudgard (Phys.org)
#pollution #ecology #environment #climatechange #climate #massextinction #globalburning #climatedestruction #climatesuicide

Below is an excerpt from an absurdly hopeful article about plans for developing “green concrete” to keep up with the AI-driven data center building boom.
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The United States is home to more than 5,000 data centers today, and the Department of Commerce forecasts that number to grow by around 450 a year through 2030.

Concrete is a major ingredient in data center construction — and is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Data centers use so much concrete that the AI building boom is wrecking tech giants’ commitments to eliminate their carbon emissions.

Last year, Microsoft’s carbon emissions jumped by over 30%, primarily due to the materials in its new data centers. Google’s greenhouse emissions are up by nearly 50% over the past five years. As data centers proliferate worldwide, Morgan Stanley projects that data centers will release about 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 each year by 2030 — or about 40% of what the United States currently emits from all sources.
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In a masterpiece of greenwashing, the article tries to put a happy face on everything, with section headings like these:

😃 “1,000 Companies Working on Green Concrete”

😃 “Better Cement Through Chemistry”

😃 “Software Takes on the Hard Problem of Concrete”

😃 “Cement Plants That Capture Carbon”

😃 “A Sustainable Foundation for the Information Age”

And somehow, oblivious to the crazy irony, this article actually touts AI itself as part of the solution!! 🤦‍♂️

➡️ https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-concrete

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "The AI boom rests on billions of tonnes of concrete." Below this is a photo of a Microsoft data center being constructed in Wisconsin, using giant slabs of concrete.

The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete

Big data means big concrete. And that’s undoing tech’s climate pledges
Ted C. Fishman (IEEE Spectrum)
#environment #climatechange #climate #capitalism #greenwashing #businessasusual

Inhaltswarnung: general despair about the world

#climatechange #art #Earth #whales #palestine #Sudan #gaza #everything #allthefuckingthings

Addressing climate change is too expensive, they said. “Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us”

Agreed. What shall we do stop this happening?

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #pollution #news
Picture: woman tries to clean up the mud and what remains of the flood in Spain.
#science #climateemergency #pollution #climatecrisis #news #Nature #climatechange #photography #climateaction #climate #Photo #gasemissions #Development #GlobalWarming #warming #geography #deforestation #renewableenergy #ActOnClimate

It is frankly absurd that people's food is grown thousands of miles away and transported across the world to various locations. Such a method of production, done only to swell corporate coffers, is quite obviously prey to interruption, if not destruction, by all kinds of foreseeable disasters.

But if the world is arranged to benefit corporations then those who allow this will always end up paying the price when it all goes to shit.

#capitalism #climatechange
#climatechange #capitalism

Face Of Disaster

Satellite images show a devastating transformation of eastern Spain, where catastrophic flash floods have killed more than 200 people and upended entire towns.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Spain #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/02/nx-s1-5176508/spain-valencia-chiva-flood-map
Spain climate damage

Satellite images show the devastation from Spain's deadly floods

The images show a devastating transformation of eastern Spain, where at least 205 people have been killed by flash floods.
NPR
#climatecrisis #news #climatechange #press #GlobalWarming #Spain #breakingnews #aurefreepress #headline #Breaking

Hey friends, Do you want to help with scientific research?
The University of Colorado Boulder needs people to help transcribe bee information from photographs of their collection. You look at a picture and type out any of the written information in the bee's label.

If you've got a few free minutes, give it a whirl! Even just doing 1 or 2 will help

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/md68135/notes-from-nature-big-bee-bonanza/classify

#CitizenScience #Research #AcademicChatter #Bees #Entomology #ClimateChange

Zooniverse

The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
www.zooniverse.org
#climatechange #research #bees #academicchatter #entomology #citizenscience

Over the past 65 years, the rate at which atmospheric CO₂ grew, increased from less than 1 ppm/year in the 1960s to 2.5 ppm in the 2010s.
Last year saw a record increase of 3.36 ppm.
So far this year, we're 3.54 ppm higher than last year...

#emissions #co2 #climate #ClimateChange
Annual increase of CO2 at Mauna Loa, 1959-2023. Big variations but trend still up.
#climatechange #climate #emissions #CO2

The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe

Toxic waste, water-borne diseases, vast carbon emissions: Dr. Mariam Abd El Hay describes the myriad harms of Israel’s assault to the region’s ecosystems.

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-war-environmental-catastrophe/ @palestine @israel

#Israel #Palästina #Gaza #climate #climatechange #war

The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe

Toxic dust, water-borne diseases, carbon emissions: Dr. Mariam Abd El Hay describes the harms of Israel’s assault to the region’s ecosystems.
Jonathan Adler (+972 Magazine)
#war #climatechange #climate #israel #gaza #Palästina @palestine @israel

According to reports on the BBC news, the Spanish are complaining that they didn't get enough warning about the potential effects of global warming...

This is the new reality, brought to you by Shell, Exon, Repsol, Ford, SEAT, VW, and etc...

Is anyone listening yet?

Don't blame the weather forecasters, blame those who caused the climate crisis!

#DontLookUp #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisisIsNow
The cartoon shows a scientist at a lectern talking on six different years: 1990 "So, this climate change thing could be a problem ..." 1995 "Climate change: Definitely a problem" 2001 "Yep, we should really be getting on with sorting this out pretty soon ..." 2007 "Look, sorry to sound like a broken record here ..." 2013 "We really have checked, and we're not making this up" 2019 "is this thing on?" Scientist tapping the microphone The six years depicted were all years in which IPCC reports were published
#climatecrisis #climatechange #climatecrisisisnow #DontLookUp

Adding end of life recycling to solar panels dramatically changes the life cycle footprint of this technology.

"The Cedartown recycling factory is designed to recover up to 99% of the materials from solar panels, including bifacial panels, which have been harder to recycle efficiently. "

https://electrek.co/2024/10/31/solarcycle-new-plant-will-recycle-25-of-all-us-end-of-life-solar-panels-by-2030/

#solar #ClimateChange #engineering

SOLARCYCLE’s new plant will recycle 25% of all US end-of-life solar panels in 2030

SOLARCYCLE is building a huge solar recycling plant in Cedartown, Georgia, which will recycle 10 million solar panels a year.
Michelle Lewis (Electrek)
#climatechange #engineering #solar

They are the worst, scariest monsters you can possibly imagine. And they’re real.

#Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #JustStopOil
Drawing of a giant skeleton in silhouette standing atop a dark planet, with this caption: "The last fossil fuel executive stands astride the ruined the world, surveying his domain."
#environment #climatecrisis #climatechange #climate #capitalism #juststopoil #businessasusual

How Hurricane Milton rapidly turned into a monster as climate change supercharges storms
#climatechange
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/hurricane-milton-s-rapid-intensification/104444668

How Hurricane Milton rapidly turned into a monster as climate change supercharges storms

When Hurricane Milton formed, it met with waters "as warm as a hot tub". As the world continues to burn fossil fuels and ocean temperatures climb, cyclonic storms feed off the heat and become bigger, faster and nastier.
Jess Davis (ABC News)
#climatechange

In 1962, Exxon were still proud of destroying the environment.
https://books.google.de/books?id=k00EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA86-IA2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
@aeryn_thrace
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

LIFE

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet.
Google Books
#climatechange #GlobalWarming @aeryn_thrace

Liberals loved Greta when she only spoke on #climatechange, now that she has matured and connected the dots between climate change, war and inequity—- now they call her “prone to violence?”
Yanis Varoufakis ® @yanisvaroufakis • 6h The German state is becoming increasingly deranged. Accusing Greta Thunberg of being a violence-enabler would have been a joke if it weren't so obscene. Judith Meyer @ @GermanPolyglot•6h Germany has completely lost its mind. Yesterday police disbanded a pro-Palestine camp in Dortmund because Greta Thunberg was going to visit and they deem her "prone to violence"
#climatechange

Climate change isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime.

In the 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted global warming with “shocking accuracy,” but the company went on to spend millions lobbying against climate action.

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #warming #climate #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth
Picture: Hurricane Milton sponsored by Exxon
#climateemergency #pollution #environment #climatecrisis #news #climatechange #photography #fossilfuels #climateaction #climate #Photo #gasemissions #Earth #GlobalWarming #Cartoon #warming #endfossilcrimes #geography #deforestation #actnow #renewableenergy #ActOnClimate

Well done #Albanese.

Better watch out though or you'll get a taste for having a spine. And then your troubles will really start.

#ClimateChange #LibertarianBillionaires
#FossilFuels #MiningIndustry
#climatechange #fossilfuels #Albanese #libertarianbillionaires #miningindustry

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