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#trump and #ElonMusk are #fascism #womensrights are lessened
#genocide in #gaza is glorified #climatechange and #xenophobia rage #profitsarepreferable to #people , convenience and security to #freedom opinion bests reality
compassion cedes to indifference
Do not let the anguished cries fall on deaf ears. Engage in radical #directaction and #mutualaid
@analog #filmphotography #analogphotography #analog #FilmMastodon #filmisnotdead
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
Extreme heat weakens land’s power to absorb carbon
A new European Space Agency-backed study shows that the extreme heatwaves of 2023, which fuelled huge wildfires and severe droughts, also undermined the land’s capacity to soak up atmospheric carbon.www.esa.int
Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700189
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisisIsNow
Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis
Communicate clearly: 1) the science behind the climate crisis - how & why for the first time in the last year we've averaged 1.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
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
25 years counting ‘carbon footprints’: Experts assess the term beloved by oil firms
A quarter century since we learned about ‘carbon footprints’, researchers say it’s time to change the conversation.Euronews (Euronews.com)
#eatTheRich #taxBillionaires #350org #climateChange
#climateCrisis
Tax Their Billions: Dossier - 350
Calling on the UK Government to Tax Their Billions: back a global wealth tax on the mega-rich and increased taxes on fossil fuel corporations.350.org
"Italy’s Sicily Flooded As Intense Storm Unleashes Year’s Rainfall In Just 12 Hours
Sicily endures catastrophic flooding as a severe storm unleashes a year’s rainfall in 12 hours, sweeping cars to sea and prompting emergency rescues amid climate crisis-fueled extremes."
https://www.newsx.com/world/italys-sicily-flooded-as-intense-storm-unleashes-years-rainfall-in-just-12-hours/
#floods #Italy #climatechange
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
#extremeweather #ClimateChange #floods
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/low-emission-zone-london-school-test-scores-lse-pollution-cognition-b1175236.html
#ClimateChange #AirPollution #Health
London's Low Emission Zone improved schoolchildren's test results, study finds
Research suggests ‘reduced air pollution may directly enhance cognitive performance’ among pupilsNoah Vickers (Evening Standard)
Minnesota teachers now required to teach climate change - EUROPE SAYS
MINNEAPOLIS — Climate scientists say this will be the hottest year on record, for a second year in aEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
Hats off to #extinctionrebellion
#climate #climatechange #COP29 #australia #melbourne
https://www.9news.com.au/national/extinction-rebellion-protest-climate-activists-block-traffic-on-busy-melbourne-road/da41450b-3675-45aa-90ec-b6905828bd40
Extinction Rebellion climate activists block traffic on busy Melbourne road
A group of protesters blocked cars and clashed with angry commuters.Allanah Sciberras (9News)
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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
Also no progress since Cop27, or Cop20, or Cop15, or...
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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.
The new data comes from the Global Carbon Budget project, a collaboration of more than 100 experts led by Prof Pierre Friedlingstein, at the University of Exeter, UK, who said: “The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dramatic, yet we still see no sign that burning of fossil fuels has peaked. Time is running out and world leaders meeting at Cop29 must bring about rapid and deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions.”
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I wish they'd just be honest and announce that they have absolutely no intention of meeting any of their goals. Ever.
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FULL STORY ➡️ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/13/no-sign-of-promised-fossil-fuel-transition-as-emissions-hit-new-high
#Politics #History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
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America has always been a violent, racist country. Little wonder, being built on slavery and genocide, spawn of the brutal British Empire.
Our war for independence was no romantic story about a fight for freedom and justice. It was a revolt against a king not playing nice with his colonists. Some were fleeing religious persecution, but many were here to get rich. They had no compunction about murdering the indigenous people who saved them from starving in their first winter on these shores.
Native Americans were slaughtered, the survivors driven across the land to reservations, their resources stolen. Texas was annexed in 1845 from the brown people of Mexico under the newly invented guise of “Manifest Destiny” which argued we have moral virtue, and a divine right to that destiny.
Through this time and well before, Africans were packed into the holds of dank, leaking ships for weeks-long voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. The fifty percent that survived disease outbreaks from these barbaric conditions were sold as if animals. Eventually, slavery ripped families apart in the Civil War. The emancipation of blacks led to the Jim Crow laws in the south not overturned until 1965.
To understand what happened on November 5, we must consider history.
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Geoff has written a long, angry, and well-informed essay about our shameful past and present — and near the end, he also offers several good suggestions on how to organize and take action to build a better future. I hope you’ll read the whole thing.
➡️ https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/descent-into-madness
#USA #Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
@breadandcircuses Hope it's ok to tag you on this; it seems like something you might be interested in.
#ev #av #autonomous #vehicle #urbanplanning #urbanism #climatechange
https://youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0?si=zN2mwpoZLtPP3dn0
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
Spain braces for torrential rain as new weather system reaches Med coast
Two weeks after flash floods devastated eastern Spain, several areas are on alert again.Guy Hedgecoe & Sarah Keith-Lucas (BBC News)
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
#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/
‘Praying for rain’: How New York farmers are dealing with drought — and unexpected brush fires
The historic lack of rainfall in New York is just another sign of the increasingly erratic weather conditions under which food must grow.Frida Garza (Grist)
But let's not fool ourselves into believing that a Harris victory would have been *good* for our climate and environment. We've been going in the wrong direction for at least 20 years under Presidents from both parties — and there's no reason to think that Kamala Harris would have charted a different course.
SEE ➡️ https://archive.ph/VnlWF
When it comes to our climate and environment, we can't blame either the Democrats or the Republicans. We have to blame both. We have to blame capitalism.
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#Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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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
I might have once considered the description of human beings as parasitic to this world as hyperbolic but....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/12/shell-wins-appeal-against-court-ruling-ordering-cut-in-carbon-emissions
#ClimateChange #Environment #Greed #HumanBlindness
"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
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/11/extreme-weather-cost-2tn-globally-over-past-decade-report-finds
US suffered greatest economic losses, report commissioned by International Chamber of Commerce finds, followed by China and India.
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisisIsNow
Rising sea levels & extreme weather will force millions to migrate, creating a surge of climate migrants. This shift poses major social, economic, and political challenges as nations adapt to new population dynamics.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-weather-extremes-illegal-migration-mexico.html
#climatechange #migration
Weather extremes influence illegal migration and return between the U.S. and Mexico, study finds
Extreme weather is contributing to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States, suggesting that more migrants could risk their lives crossing the border as climate change fuels droughts, storms and other hardships, accordin…Dorany Pineda (Phys.org)
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
Earth on track for hottest year in recorded history, passing critical 1.5º warming threshold
Climate scientists have long identified 1.5º of temperature rise as a grave milestone for avoiding disasterSalon.com
A new model estimates that up to 95 million Americans may use groundwater with PFAS contamination, largely unregulated in small public systems and private wells. #ClimateChange
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-up-to-95-million-americans-could-be-drinking-toxic-pfas-contaminated-water/
#US #USA #America #Climate #ClimateChange
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-climate-contributing-drought-american-west.html
Climate change is contributing to drought in the American West even without rainfall deficits, scientists find
Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020–2022.Holly Ober (Phys.org)
"the extra 4GtCO2e from a second Trump term would negate – twice over – all of the savings from deploying wind, solar and other clean technologies around the world over the past five years."
It could be the final death knell for keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees.
#climatechange #uspol
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030/
Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030 - Carbon Brief
A victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could add 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plansCarbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)
Before #ClimateChange was a term, I bought this waterfront property. There were minor changes in shoreline silt deposits, but in the last two decades, increased hurricane strength and frequency has destroyed coastal trees, the strong currents have pushed my apple tree over! And I've watched the marsh disappear. The pair of geese I named Gail and Gordon mated out there. That spot is gone, washed away
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
All motorists will now be banned from driving through the centre of Paris as the city launches a traffic-free zone. #ClimateChange
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/11/08/paris-follows-major-european-cities-with-introduction-of-car-free-zones-and-residents-dont
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
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
The horrifying desiccation of the Amazon - SUMAÚMA
River levels have reached record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, another sign that the vast rainforest basin is slipping toward a point of no returnViviane Zandonadi (SUMAÚMA)
Turning over a new leaf? Acknowledging it’s time for capitalism to end? Mea culpa?
Ha-ha, no.
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A senior official at the COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals.
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," says Soltanov.
As well as being chief executive of COP29, Soltanov is also the deputy energy minister of Azerbaijan and is on the board of Socar, Azerbaijan's state energy firm.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmzvdn9e18o
SEE ALSO -- https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-gas/cop-is-for-oil-deals/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #COP29
COP29 chief secretly filmed promoting fossil fuel deals
Undercover filming shows COP29 chief exec discussing new oil and gas projects ahead of climate summit.Justin Rowlatt (BBC News)
This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass 1.5 degrees C. Meanwhile Trump has vowed to keep on burning fossil fuels and seems to be relying on prime ocean real estate being revealed to keep his popularity up, climate related diseases will continue to proliferate and agriculture will suffer. You have to be elderly or stupid to look forward to this.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2024-will-be-the-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5-degree-celsius-warming/
#ClimateChange #Environment
2024 Will Be the First Year to Exceed the 1.5-Degree-Celsius Warming Threshold
This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris climate accord aims to keep warming below that level when looking over multiple yearsAndrea Thompson (Scientific American)
http://palmoildetectives.com/2024/04/28/african-forest-elephants-unsung-heroes-helping-congo-fight-climate-change/
African Forest Elephants Help Fight Climate Change
Discover the awe-inspiring role of African forest elephants in the Congo Basin—nature’s master gardeners who literally shape the world around them! These gentle giants roam through muddy, min…Palm Oil Detectives
The youth vote was not a monolith in Tuesday’s election, despite its broad concern for the environment and disillusionment with politics and government
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08112024/young-voter-turnout-slumped-support-split-between-parties/
#USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Despite Climate Concerns, Young Voter Turnout Slumped and Its Support Split Between the Parties - Inside Climate News
The youth vote was not a monolith in Tuesday’s election, despite its broad concern for the environment and disillusionment with politics and government.Derek Harrison (Inside Climate News)
#ClimateChange
OXFAM actually released this on October 26th.
Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-emit-more-carbon-pollution-90-minutes-average-person-does-lifetime
(at bottom of which is link to the full report from Oxfam).
Carbon Inequality Kills
https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-inequality-kills-why-curbing-the-excessive-emissions-of-an-elite-few-can-621656/
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Superyachts and jets of Europe’s elite emit more carbon pollution in a week than the world’s poorest 1% emits in a lifetime
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/superyachts-and-jets-europes-elite-emit-more-carbon-pollution-week-worlds-poorest-1
#climatechange
Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all - Oxfam Policy & Practice
The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect pe…Oxfam Policy & Practice
The team calculated that 370 million tons of these nine materials were manufactured in the United States in 2018, resulting in 427 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. This resulted in $79 billion of climate costs that are not included in the market prices of these materials
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/assessing-real-climate-costs-manufacturing
#USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Assessing the real climate costs of manufacturing
A new study from UC Davis quantifies the climate costs of carbon emissions from manufacturing common materials such as steel, aluminum, plastics and cement.University of California