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Sigh.
  • Strayan govts: protection racket for the miners & fossilfools
  • Strayan ABC: shallow RWNJ talking points for the Great Unwashed, the careless & clueless
#ClimateCrisis #wearetotallyfscked


Erin Ryan, CANA said, “high-income countries and the COP presidency barely moved an inch. An annual finance goal of USD $300b by 2035 leaves us where we started: with low-income countries struggling to shoulder the rising costs of a #climatecrisis they never caused. Countries like #Australia need to realise that you can’t draft an ambitious text on #fossilfuels with one hand while tightening the world’s purse strings with the other.”

https://climatenetwork.org/2024/11/23/cop29_betrayal_in_baku/


Full Coburg Town Hall in Naarm / #Melbourne hearing first hand from Traditional owners on gas #Fracking and MiddleArm hub: the Northern Territory as sacrifice zone with the #ClimateCrisis

The Federal Government is providing $1.9 billion for MiddleArm hub that will enable Beetaloo gas fracking, LNG export from Darwin.

Water is life and fracking will damage aquifers and the hydrology for large areas of the Territory.

#StopMiddleArm #DontFracktheNT #Willsvotes #ClimateJustice
Speakers at Coburg Town Hall talking on Northern Territory gas fracking and LNG processing and export impacts
Full Coburg Town hall


"Climate change is the 100 ton diesel locomotive with 120 loaded coal cars barreling towards you at high speed and your foot is stuck on the tracks."
- Aure

Northern California faces record-breaking rainfall from atmospheric river and another storm is coming!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/weather/bomb-cyclone-atmospheric-river-west-coast-hnk/index.html
Aure Free Press drought
Aure Free Press Flooding


"We're setting sail
To the place on the map
From which no one has ever returned
Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool
By the light of the crosses that burn
Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace
And the gold and the cotton and pearls
It's the place where they keep all the darkness you need
You sail away from the light of the world
On this trip, baby

You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow, yeah
You will pay tomorrow"

#PrivateRevolution #EightiesMusic #80s #WorldParty #ClimateCrisis #Trump #ShipOfFools #SaveMeFromTomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nCugGQZO


#RisingTide #ClimateCrisis #MidnightOil

Midnight Oil - Rising Seas (Official Video) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWgesOsL2dA&t=62s&pp=2AE-kAIB


This just posted on Rising Tide's Facebook page:

"Over 100 people are risking arrest by continuing to blockade the coal port. Police have told protestors that they’re breaching section 15A of the Maritime Safety Act by remaining in the shipping channel."

Source: https://www.facebook.com/risingtide.aus

#PeoplesBlockade #RisingTideAus #NoNewCoal #MakePollutersPay #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #Newcastle
An image taken from Rising Tide's Facebook page. It shows 100 people in kayaks out on the water at Newcastle coal port (in New South Wales, Australia) being confronted with a police vessel filled with officers. The water is murky green, the kayaks are very brightly coloured (red, yellow, green, blue, etc) and the police boat is darkest black.


Climate scientists talking about dragons and monsters?!!

Why? Because they're scared and terribly worried about our future as capitalist-driven global warming races past the old 1.5°C do-not-cross line.
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“The goal to avoid exceeding 1.5C is deader than a doornail. It’s almost impossible to avoid at this point because we’ve just waited too long to act,” said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth. “We are speeding past the 1.5C line in an accelerating way, and that will continue until global emissions stop climbing.”

The 1.5C target now appears to be simply a rhetorical rather than scientifically achievable one. “I never thought 1.5C was a conceivable goal. I thought it was a pointless thing,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA.

“I’m totally unsurprised, like almost all climate scientists, that we are shooting past it at a rapid clip," Schmidt said. "But what matters is we have to reduce emissions. Once we stop warming the planet, the better it will be for the people and ecosystems that live here.”

As the world barrels past 1.5C there lie alarming uncertainties in the form of runaway climate “tipping points,” which once set off cannot be halted on human timescales, such as the Amazon turning into a savanna, the collapse of the great polar ice sheets, and huge pulses of carbon released from melting permafrost.

“1.5C is not a cliff edge, but the further we warm up, the closer we get to unwittingly setting off tipping points that will bring dramatic climate consequences,” said Grahame Madge, a climate spokesman at the UK Met Office.

“We are edging ever closer to tipping points in the climate system that we won’t be able to come back from; it’s uncertain when they will arrive, they are almost like monsters in the darkness,” Madge said.

Hausfather added, “Every tenth of a degree matters. All we know is that the more we push the climate system away from where it has been for the last few million years, there be dragons.”
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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-world-temperature-target

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis


A powerful “bomb cyclone” will combine with an atmospheric river to unleash over a month’s worth of rain, hurricane-force wind gusts and feet of mountain snow to parts of the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. #ClimateCrisis #globalwarming #ExtremeWeatherEvents https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/weather/bomb-cyclone-atmospheric-river-california-climate/index.html


This is truly scary.

It might be another example of Mother Nature saying: FAFO, you fools.
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An international team of scientists using observations from satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. The researchers say the shift could indicate Earth's continents have entered a persistently drier phase.

From 2015 through 2023, satellite measurements showed that the average amount of freshwater stored on land — that includes liquid surface water like lakes and rivers, plus water in aquifers underground — was 290 cubic miles (1,200 cubic km) lower than the average levels from 2002 through 2014. According to Matthew Rodell, one of the study's authors, "That's two and a half times the volume of Lake Erie lost."

It remains to be seen whether global freshwater will rebound to pre-2015 values, hold steady, or resume its decline. Considering that the nine warmest years in the modern temperature record coincided with the abrupt freshwater decline, Rodell said, "We don't think this is a coincidence, and it could be a harbinger of what's to come."
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://phys.org/news/2024-11-nasa-satellites-reveal-abrupt-global.html

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels." Below this is an artist's conception of the GRACE satellite orbiting the Earth. (See first comment below.)


As we saw yesterday, in 15 out of the last 16 months — from July 2023 to October 2024 — the average global temperature has already exceeded the 1.5°C do-not-cross line.
➡️ https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/113504612194113421

And that titanic amount of extra heat is doing serious damage to Earth's climate and environment.
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In August and September, huge portions of South America were shrouded in intense smoke from wildfires raging in the Amazon and other parts of Brazil and Bolivia. The Brazilian Pantanal — the world’s largest tropical wetland — had an almost eightfold increase in wildfires this year compared to 2023. From Manaus to São Paulo and Buenos Aires, the smoke, visible from space, blurred sunlight for weeks and posed a threat to the health of millions.

The occurrence raised alarms, but some experts warn that in the future, it might not be such an extraordinary episode.

South America is becoming drier, warmer, and more flammable, according to a new study. These conditions favor not only natural wildfires but also the uncontrolled spread of human-caused fire.
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FULL STORY -- https://eos.org/articles/south-america-is-drying-up

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "South America is drying up. A new study shows that dry, warm, and flammable conditions have skyrocketed across the continent, favoring the spread of uncontrolled fire." Below this is a photo of a firefighter in the Brazilian Pantanal, standing amid the charred remains of a blaze.


the 'let's roll up our sleeves and get organizing' in response to the election results and potential crises on the horizon is encouraging (albeit frustrating since it's what so many have been pleading for us to start doing since the *last* election), but as things stand right now, i don't see a path toward meaningful organizing gains

until we can reach a critical mass of masking again, working together is a non-starter. we can have our differences but when they put others at risk, we're simply not on the same side. soc-dem, dem-soc, little c communist, liberal, anarchist, leftist, feminist, abolitionist, antifascist, environmentalist... it doesn't matter how you identify unless we find consensus on taking care of each other

developing a culture (counterculture?) of care is step zero and your organizing efforts won't have any support from people like me until we do

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#organizing #communityOrganizing #movementOrganizing #activism #ClimateCrisis #election2024 #trump #antifascist #leftistnews #migration #immigration #housingjustice #disabilityJustice #COVID #COVID19 #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #Gaza #genocide #endtheoccupation #reproductivejustice #feminism #abolition #protest


This post by local #RhodeIsland environmental journalist Frank Carini nails how the false promise of #SMRs is being used as a cynical delaying tactic.

The title says it all: We can't wait.

#nuclear #energytransition #climatecrisis

https://ecori.org/we-cant-wait-for-promise-of-unproven-nuclear-technology-to-save-planet-from-roasting/


For 15 out of the last 16 months — beginning in July 2023 and continuing through October 2024 — the average global temperature has been more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average.

That’s what Business As Usual is doing to us.

VIDEO REPORT -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfkyquTEec

DATA SOURCE -- https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2024-virtually-certain-be-warmest-year-and-first-year-above-15degc

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Screengrab from linked video. We see a chart of monthly global surface air temperature anomalies, measured from January 2023 through October 2024. Caption says: "October was 1.65°C above pre-industrial levels. The 15th month out of the last 16 to cross the 1.5°C do-not-cross line."


More than 140 banks worldwide have "pledged" to cut emissions associated with their lending and investments to almost zero by 2050.

But meanwhile...
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Less than a hundred miles from where world leaders are discussing how to meet their climate pledges, BP is drilling for gas. The project, a sprawling gas field off the Azerbaijani coast, could inject more than 1 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, striking a major blow to efforts to slow global warming.

BP has said it intends to invest heavily in new oil and gas fields in the coming years. But it would be unable to pursue these dirty projects without billions in support from big banks. Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, along with a number of other banks, all helped BP raise more than $5 billion last year.

Since May 2021, global banks committed to "Net-zero" have poured almost $1 trillion into companies pursuing expansion of oil and gas projects that would push the world beyond its survivable limits. Taken together, these projects would produce almost seven times the annual emissions of the U.S.
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FULL STORY -- https://grist.org/accountability/net-zero-banks-raised-1-trillion-for-fossil-fuel-giants/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Economics #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "Net-zero banks raised $1 trillion for fossil fuel giants." Below this is a composite image of oil wells against a background of dollar bills.


I often ask myself whether we would even be able to re-ratify the UN Charter of 1945 these days, or whether this world is now so caught up in its individualistic distribution struggles that it would take a major catastrophe to create another miracle of human reason. I fear the answer and want to believe otherwise.

#ukraine #gaza #sudan #climatecrisis #UN #opensociety

https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-conflicts-watch-2024


Inhaltswarnung: Just completed an "anonymous" survey for Crikey. They'll not find much pleasantness in my answers. Here's an early one, & the final one.


Collating data on the effect of human related influences on climate change and extreme weather events

https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-studies/index.html

A disturbing collection, summarised in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal

#ClimateChange #Environment #ClimateCrisis
Chart titled ‘Human-caused global heating is making extreme weather more severe and frequent. It presents data on severed , less severed , no influence and inconclusive summaries.


And the next administration shrugs.

“Scientists warn that a key Atlantic current could collapse, among other climate tipping points

A new report describes the dire state of Earth’s snow and ice, suggesting several major tipping points are likelier than scientists once thought.” #ClimateCrisis

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/atlantic-current-collapse-ice-melt-report-climate-change-rcna179649


The US released an estimated 5,970 MtCO2e in 2023 (excl. LULUCF), a change of -1.4 % compared to 2022.

Per capita GHG emissions were 18 tCO2e in 2023. (Highest in the world)

Cumulative CO2 emissions since 1850 were 527 GtCO2, or about 20% of global emissions to date.

Meanwhile at #COP29 “House Republicans delivered an aggressive message in support of oil, gas, and coal”

https://grist.org/politics/cop29-republicans-august-pfluger-congress-trump/

#ClimateCrisis


Humans? Dead species walking.

“The president of Azerbaijan, who is hosting climate summit COP29, has hailed oil and gas as ‘a gift from God’ as he lambasted Western media and climate activists.

President Ilham Aliyev kicked off the conference with a wide-ranging, critical speech in which he hit out at those opposed to his country's oil and gas industries.”

https://news.sky.com/story/azerbaijan-president-hails-oil-and-gas-as-gift-from-god-as-he-lambasts-climate-activists-in-cop29-opening-speech-13253258

#COP29 #climateCrisis #extinction #idiots #absoluteIdiots


Fortune Magazine calls the Dutch court ruling overturning the injunction that would have forced Shell to reduce its emissions to 45% of 2019 levels within 6 years a "Pyrrhic victory" for Shell:

-the Court of appeal recognizes that protection from climate change is a human right

-the decision did not rule out enforcement of "more specific" emission reduction strategies in the future, such as forcing them to stop new investments in oil and gas fields

-"Third, the case has already spurred the creation of regulatory obligations to reduce emissions."

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #JustTransition #EUpol

https://fortune.com/2024/11/15/shell-pyrrhic-victory-sets-stage-for-more-corporate-climate-accountability-energy-environment-law/


Global warming is on the cusp of crucial 1.5 °C threshold, suggest ice-core data
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03655-0
New method finds human-caused warming is about to reach the limit set by the Paris climate agreement.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis


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
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "25 years counting carbon footprints – experts assess the term beloved by oil firms." Below this are two photos side-by-side, one of a factory spewing emissions into the air, and the other of a grassy lawn with the shadow of a human footprint.


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 https://thinkhazard.org/en/
2) Probable Futures https://probablefutures.org/climate-maps/

#ClimateRisk #ClimateCrisis #ClimateLiteracy #Adaptation
Steps to Resilience

- Understand Exposure
- Asses Vulnerability & Risk
- Investigate Options
- Prioritize & Plan
- Take Action


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


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
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "Trees absorbed almost to no CO2 last year and scientists are struggling to explain why." Below this is a photo of trees in a tropical forest.


“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