$1tn a year in climate finance to the poor world will be needed by 2030 to meet the core goal of the Paris agreement, to limit global heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/19/it-is-feasible-climate-finance-wont-burden-rich-countries-say-economists

At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how severely human-caused global heating is supercharging extreme weather.

#climateCatastrophe
#climateBreakdown

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

The *most optimistic* scenario.

"Warming in the most optimistic scenario rose slightly from 1.8C last year to 1.9C this year, the report found."

I don't know what we have to do, individually or collectively, to get the aliens to invade, like, NOW, but I wish someone would tell me.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/14/minimal-progress-global-heating-report-cop29

#ClimateCatastrophe #EndTimes

Updated the #ThisIsFine dog...

#ThisIsFine #Flooding #Floods #Pollution #ToxicWaste #ClimateCatastrophe #ThisIsFineMeme

More marvellous ecocide news.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/12/shell-wins-appeal-against-court-ruling-ordering-cut-in-carbon-emissions

#ClimateCatastrophe

Morning 👋🥰

"Earth may be alive, not as the ancients saw her - a sentient goddess with a purpose and foresight - but alive like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the wind, yet endlessly conversing with the sunlight and the soil, using sunlight and water and nutrient minerals to grow and change, but all done so imperceptibly that to me the old oak tree on the green is the same as it was when I was a child."

~ James Lovelock

#ClimateCatastrophe #Trees #Nature

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

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

By Kara Fox, CNN
September 14, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you don't find this terrifying, then you probably haven't thought through the implications.

Especially as the world's largest economy has just put a climate change denier in charge.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #WeAreSoFucked

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dpnxnvv2go

Excellent.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/04/drax-will-keep-raising-carbon-emission-levels-until-2050s-study-says

#ClimateCatastrophe #UKPolitics #EndTimes

Climate activists are prophets

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2024/10/climate-activists-are-prophets.html

#Activism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

Here’s how solar energy saved Europeans $29 billion this summer

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/solar-power-europe-energy-transition/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #CllimateChange #Europe