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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) says we need to spend the next three-plus years reforming our labor unions and building toward a general strike in 2028.
I like it.
✊ https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/11/rip-jane-mcalevey/#organize
#Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
I like it.
✊ https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/11/rip-jane-mcalevey/#organize
#Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
Cause and effect?
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#News #Conservation #Environment #Journalism #EnvironmentalJournalism #Fisheries #Webinar
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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
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
NEW: In Indonesia, two islands have already disappeared and thousands more are at the mercy of the oceans as global sea levels rise and threaten coastlines.
But even Java, one of the largest islands in the country, can’t escape this fate. Now, millions are at risk.
This is the second story in our two-part photojournalism series “Parched and Drenched” on the water crisis in Indonesia by Garry Lotulung.
https://www.thexylom.com/post/it-s-not-just-drought-java-is-drowning-as-well/
#indonesia #java #environment #climate #photography #journalism
But even Java, one of the largest islands in the country, can’t escape this fate. Now, millions are at risk.
This is the second story in our two-part photojournalism series “Parched and Drenched” on the water crisis in Indonesia by Garry Lotulung.
https://www.thexylom.com/post/it-s-not-just-drought-java-is-drowning-as-well/
#indonesia #java #environment #climate #photography #journalism
For those in my network who work in #health or #environment, the commentary below about the destruction of Gaza is calling for the scientific community to:
✅ Speak out within their respective institutions,
✅ Advocate for divestment from war-fueling industries, and
✅ Protect early-career researchers and students who speak out in support of social and environmental justice and a ceasefire.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5021472.
#Gaza #ArmsEmbargoNow #CeasefireNow #PublicHealth
✅ Speak out within their respective institutions,
✅ Advocate for divestment from war-fueling industries, and
✅ Protect early-career researchers and students who speak out in support of social and environmental justice and a ceasefire.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5021472.
#Gaza #ArmsEmbargoNow #CeasefireNow #PublicHealth
🛑 Business As Usual will lead to our demise. 🛑
Sooner or later, perhaps within years, certainly within a decade or two, the fragile and tenuous structure of our complex modern industrial society will break down. It won’t take much — overlapping natural disasters, collapse of the marine food web, an even worse pandemic, serious supply chain disruption, a major crop failure — some of these, or maybe all at once, and everything falls apart.
That’s not an outcome we should welcome. It can only lead to widespread suffering and starvation, with millions and possibly billions of human deaths.
If we are to have any hope of avoiding such a catastrophic societal collapse, we must rapidly reduce the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. But that will never happen as long as capitalism remains in charge.
So capitalism must go. The system must be changed.
Those at the top, however, will not give up easily. They will have to be forced to surrender, to step down and relinquish their power. The only way I can see that happening, short of violent revolution, is through a critical mass of people agreeing that it’s time for ACTION, then joining together for coordinated civil disobedience at a level never seen before.
The primary tactic is a prolonged general strike.
But it must be carefully thought out, every step meticulously organized. This would start with activists and neighborhood leaders meeting up and developing practical plans, locating resources, evaluating areas of strength and also of weakness.
Community groups could then begin stockpiling food and basic supplies and organizing voluntary systems of local/regional assistance, whether with transportation, health care, or finances, in preparation for the strike.
And when it begins:
⦿ No one goes to work
⦿ No one buys anything
⦿ No one pays any bills
If a wide-scale action like this could last at least a month, or even better two or three months, then I think we *might* have a chance of getting our demands met.
We’re at an inflection point, a moment of decision: either stay with capitalism and face disaster, or do whatever is necessary to bring about degrowth.
#Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
Sooner or later, perhaps within years, certainly within a decade or two, the fragile and tenuous structure of our complex modern industrial society will break down. It won’t take much — overlapping natural disasters, collapse of the marine food web, an even worse pandemic, serious supply chain disruption, a major crop failure — some of these, or maybe all at once, and everything falls apart.
That’s not an outcome we should welcome. It can only lead to widespread suffering and starvation, with millions and possibly billions of human deaths.
If we are to have any hope of avoiding such a catastrophic societal collapse, we must rapidly reduce the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. But that will never happen as long as capitalism remains in charge.
So capitalism must go. The system must be changed.
Those at the top, however, will not give up easily. They will have to be forced to surrender, to step down and relinquish their power. The only way I can see that happening, short of violent revolution, is through a critical mass of people agreeing that it’s time for ACTION, then joining together for coordinated civil disobedience at a level never seen before.
The primary tactic is a prolonged general strike.
But it must be carefully thought out, every step meticulously organized. This would start with activists and neighborhood leaders meeting up and developing practical plans, locating resources, evaluating areas of strength and also of weakness.
Community groups could then begin stockpiling food and basic supplies and organizing voluntary systems of local/regional assistance, whether with transportation, health care, or finances, in preparation for the strike.
And when it begins:
⦿ No one goes to work
⦿ No one buys anything
⦿ No one pays any bills
If a wide-scale action like this could last at least a month, or even better two or three months, then I think we *might* have a chance of getting our demands met.
We’re at an inflection point, a moment of decision: either stay with capitalism and face disaster, or do whatever is necessary to bring about degrowth.
#Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
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
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
NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels
An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since.James R. Riordon (Phys.org)
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
➡️ 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
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
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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
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
Copernicus: 2024 virtually certain to be the warmest year and first year above 1.5°C
C3S routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables.climate.copernicus.eu
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
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
‘Net-zero’ banks raised $1 trillion for fossil fuel giants
Taken together, the projects being financed would produce almost seven times the annual emissions of the United States.Josephine Moulds, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Grist)
If you're a supporter of Business As Usual — and especially if you're an investor in oil and gas — there's good news! 🙄
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One year after world leaders made a splashy promise to shift away from fossil fuels, countries are burning more oil, natural gas, and coal than ever before, researchers said this week.
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are on track to reach a record 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024, a 0.8 percent increase over 2023 levels, according to new data from the Global Carbon Project.
It’s a trend that puts countries farther from their goal of stopping global warming.
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FULL STORY -- https://archive.ph/4zcDX
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
#Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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One year after world leaders made a splashy promise to shift away from fossil fuels, countries are burning more oil, natural gas, and coal than ever before, researchers said this week.
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are on track to reach a record 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024, a 0.8 percent increase over 2023 levels, according to new data from the Global Carbon Project.
It’s a trend that puts countries farther from their goal of stopping global warming.
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FULL STORY -- https://archive.ph/4zcDX
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
#Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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
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
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather.Carbon Brief
#TheConversation #Energy #Environment #auspol As Australia privatises nature repair, the cheapest approach won’t save our threatened species Read more…https://theconversation.com/as-australia-privatises-nature-repair-the-cheapest-approach-wont-save-our-threatened-species-241900
As Australia privatises nature repair, the cheapest approach won’t save our threatened species
Australia’s carbon credit scheme largely fails to protect threatened species, despite assumptions to the contrary. The findings provide cautionary lessons for the nature repair scheme.The Conversation
In 2013, #ChineseMining company #Chinalco (中国铝业集团有限公司) sparked an international conversation about extractive impacts with the news it had successfully relocated an entire #Peruvian town of 5,000 residents to clear space for a #CopperMine. At the time, the #relocation project in #Morococha, central #Peru, was touted as a solution to protect villagers from #pollution and #environmental degradation as a result of #mining practices, and as a potential template for #Chinese overseas #investment in #LatinAmerica.
Ten years later, experts describe the move as a “tragedy.”
Joselyn Jaua, a Peruvian #journalist who covers the #environment and communities in the region, explained to #GlobalVoices that Chinalco’s policies have deeply impacted both Old Morococha and New Morococha: “The rise of poverty is notorious for relocated and non-relocated people alike.”
https://globalvoices.org/2024/10/11/a-chinese-mining-company-relocated-a-whole-peruvian-town-now-they-are-struggling-to-survive/
#GlobalSouth #geopolitics #ecocide #SouthAmerica #Globalization
Ten years later, experts describe the move as a “tragedy.”
Joselyn Jaua, a Peruvian #journalist who covers the #environment and communities in the region, explained to #GlobalVoices that Chinalco’s policies have deeply impacted both Old Morococha and New Morococha: “The rise of poverty is notorious for relocated and non-relocated people alike.”
https://globalvoices.org/2024/10/11/a-chinese-mining-company-relocated-a-whole-peruvian-town-now-they-are-struggling-to-survive/
#GlobalSouth #geopolitics #ecocide #SouthAmerica #Globalization
A Chinese mining company relocated a whole Peruvian town. Now, they are struggling to survive
In 2013, a Chinese mining company forcibly relocated a community of 5,000+ people in Peru. Ten years later, the community is living in poverty and the company has failed to honor its promises.Global Voices
You can actually turn an old phone into a NAS
If you’re a tech enthusiast like me, chances are you have an old phone or two lying around unused. While it’s not necessarily the best use for it, you can definitely take one of those older devices and use it as a rudimentary NAS (network attached storage device) for sharing data across all your devices.
On top of that, if you really want to take things a step further, you can root an old Android phone and set up Docker on it. From there, you can host normal applications that you would on any other NAS and deploy them on your network, including running things like Pi-hole or Jellyfin. They’re making just a NAS out of an Android phone, but you can easily host a Nextcloud Pi server on your smartphone if it’s rooted.
We forget that yesterday’s flagship, or even mid-range, phones are actually pretty powerful devices, often a fair bit of storage. With a USB hub plugged in, you can attach storage, an Ethernet connection, and more.
Repurposing an old phone, instead of throwing it out, is certainly also cutting down on e-waste.
See https://www.xda-developers.com/how-turned-old-phone-nas
#Blog, #environment, #NAS, #technology
Denmark’s groundbreaking new agriculture and climate policy, which taxes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock production, restores nature and pays farmers to reduce nitrogen pollution, is the world’s most comprehensive national effort to address the environmental challenges of agriculture.
#Denmark #Agriculture #Farming #Environment #GHG #NitrogenPollution
https://www.wri.org/insights/denmark-agriculture-climate-policy
#Denmark #Agriculture #Farming #Environment #GHG #NitrogenPollution
https://www.wri.org/insights/denmark-agriculture-climate-policy
Denmark’s Groundbreaking Agriculture Climate Policy Sets Strong Example for the World
Denmark’s Green Tripartite Agreement imposes taxes on livestock, restores forests and peatlands, and pays farmers to reduce pollution.World Resource Institute
Interview: Judith Enck: "Trump Taps Fossil Fuel Ally Lee Zeldin to Head EPA, Push Anti-Environmental Agenda”
Zeldin has a history of opposing critical environmental protections & clean energy job investments.
Trump is reportedly discussing moving the EPA outside D.C., which could lead to an exodus of staff & expertise from the agency.
"This is about terrorizing the career staff," said Enck.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/13/epa_zeldin
#Project2025 #TrumpPicks #USPol #FarRight #EPA #Environment .
Zeldin has a history of opposing critical environmental protections & clean energy job investments.
Trump is reportedly discussing moving the EPA outside D.C., which could lead to an exodus of staff & expertise from the agency.
"This is about terrorizing the career staff," said Enck.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/13/epa_zeldin
#Project2025 #TrumpPicks #USPol #FarRight #EPA #Environment .
Trump Taps Fossil Fuel Ally Lee Zeldin to Head EPA, Push “Anti-Environmental Agenda”
Environmental defenders are raising alarm over Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, former New York Congressmember Lee Zeldin, who has a history of opposing critical environmental protections and clean energy job investmen…Democracy Now!
https://www.europesays.com/1613362/ Christmas tree farmers across the Northeast are struggling to keep their trees alive amid a weeks-long drought #Environment
Christmas tree farmers across the Northeast are struggling to keep their trees alive amid a weeks-long drought - EUROPE SAYS
Christmas tree farmers across the Northeast are struggling to keep their trees alive amid a weeks-long drought https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/climate/northeast-drought-killing-christmas-trees/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=redditEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
Female rangers lead the way in sharing their work on country and inspiring others
By Victoria Ellis
More than 400 Indigenous rangers attend a conference at Uluru to share important cultural and land management knowledge, focusing on themes of fire management, protecting native animals and plants, and cross culture collaboration.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/indigenous-desert-alliance-conference-at-uluru/104592978
#IndigenousCulture #IndigenousAboriginalandTorresStraitIslander #Environment #VictoriaEllis
By Victoria Ellis
More than 400 Indigenous rangers attend a conference at Uluru to share important cultural and land management knowledge, focusing on themes of fire management, protecting native animals and plants, and cross culture collaboration.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/indigenous-desert-alliance-conference-at-uluru/104592978
#IndigenousCulture #IndigenousAboriginalandTorresStraitIslander #Environment #VictoriaEllis
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
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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
No progress since Cop28 last year.
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
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
Dealing with the pain from last week’s disastrous election and trying to understand it all, our Mastodon friend Geoffrey Deihl (@gdeihl) takes a look back at our nation’s sordid history…
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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
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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
Soaring grocery prices and the changing environmetn
A reasonable warming (it was a misspelling of warning but I decided to keep it) - but I am bemused by the suggestion/plea that Economists need a solution. I think that economists are a big part of the problem, and their ‘group think’ exacerbates it.
Come the revolution who do you want to be the first up against the wall? And the second and….
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/grocery-prices-donald-trump-climate-crisis-olive-oil-butter-extreme-weather-cost-of-living
#Environment #Crisis #Food #HungerToCome #Hunger #Migration
A reasonable warming (it was a misspelling of warning but I decided to keep it) - but I am bemused by the suggestion/plea that Economists need a solution. I think that economists are a big part of the problem, and their ‘group think’ exacerbates it.
Come the revolution who do you want to be the first up against the wall? And the second and….
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/grocery-prices-donald-trump-climate-crisis-olive-oil-butter-extreme-weather-cost-of-living
#Environment #Crisis #Food #HungerToCome #Hunger #Migration
[Sud-Ouest] - #Agriculture : des #pesticides interdits exportés depuis la #France ? Le Conseil d’État saisi.
« La France continue de produire et d’exporter des substances actives dangereuses, interdites d’usage sur son propre territoire en raison de leur toxicité pour la #santé et l’#environnement », soulignent deux organismes.
[Accès libre]
https://www.sudouest.fr/environnement/pesticides/agriculture-des-pesticides-interdits-exportes-depuis-la-france-le-conseil-d-etat-saisi-22133879.php
#Health #environment
#AgroIndustrie #AgroChimie
#RevueDePresse #Press
« La France continue de produire et d’exporter des substances actives dangereuses, interdites d’usage sur son propre territoire en raison de leur toxicité pour la #santé et l’#environnement », soulignent deux organismes.
[Accès libre]
https://www.sudouest.fr/environnement/pesticides/agriculture-des-pesticides-interdits-exportes-depuis-la-france-le-conseil-d-etat-saisi-22133879.php
#Health #environment
#AgroIndustrie #AgroChimie
#RevueDePresse #Press
Agriculture : des pesticides interdits exportés depuis la France ? Le Conseil d’État saisi
« La France continue de produire et d’exporter des substances actives dangereuses, interdites d’usage sur son propre territoire en raison de leur toxicité pour la santé et l’environnement », soulignent deux organismesSudOuest.fr avec AFP (Sud Ouest)
"Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment #Pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/07/plastic-pollution-is-changing-entire-earth-system-scientists-find
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment #Pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/07/plastic-pollution-is-changing-entire-earth-system-scientists-find
It’s obvious that a second Trump administration will be worse in almost every conceivable way from what a Harris administration might have been.
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
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
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
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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
We really are stuffed aren't we….
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
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
https://theconversation.com/plastic-eating-insect-discovered-in-kenya-242787
Plastic eating insect found in Kenya
#worldnews #news #africa #kenya #environment #climate
Plastic eating insect found in Kenya
#worldnews #news #africa #kenya #environment #climate
Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya
Natural ‘plastic eaters’ could help in the fight against pollution in Africa.The Conversation
https://www.altrenotizie.org/primo-piano/10479-israele-la-strategia-dello-sterminio.html
#environment #technology #gaza
#environment #technology #gaza
Israele, la strategia dello sterminio
Da settimane, la striscia di Gaza è sotto un intensificato assedio delle forze armate israeliane, che non si limita al controllo delle vie d’accesso e delle risorse, ma che continua a prendere di mira in maniera diretta e deliberata la popolazione ci…www.altrenotizie.org
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
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
https://www.europesays.com/1598312/ Navajo Nation Environmental Remediation Fund Ensures the Protection and Longevity of Navajo Lands #Environment
Navajo Nation Environmental Remediation Fund Ensures the Protection and Longevity of Navajo Lands - EUROPE SAYS
Details By Native News Online Staff November 09, 2024 On Thursday, Council Delegate Dr. Andy Nez joined NavajoEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
Some trees essentially shut their windows and doors and hold their breath when there is wildfire smoke
https://theconversation.com/trees-dont-like-to-breathe-wildfire-smoke-either-and-theyll-hold-their-breath-to-avoid-it-227318
#environment
https://theconversation.com/trees-dont-like-to-breathe-wildfire-smoke-either-and-theyll-hold-their-breath-to-avoid-it-227318
#environment
Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it
An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.The Conversation
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
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)
What do you think happens when a UN climate conference is hosted by a petrostate — a country like Azerbaijan whose economy relies heavily on oil and gas?
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
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)
Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year
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
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)
Despite Climate Concerns, Young Voter Turnout Slumped and Its Support Split Between the Parties
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
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)