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Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt? An excerpt from Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis.

The Case for Letting Malibu Burn https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/

#ClimateChange #GOPKillsUsAll #ExxonKnew #WeAreRoasting #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #ClimateEmergency #LAFires #WildFires #USPol

The Case for Letting Malibu Burn

Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?
Longreads
#climateemergency #climatechange #fossilfuels #GlobalWarming #uspol #wildfires #exxonknew #lafires #gopkillsusall #weareroasting

#australia so fire prone #auspol

“We sound like a broken record but only because the records keep breaking,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which monitors global temperatures. “They will continue to break until we get emissions under control.”
#emissions #fossilfuels #climatechange #science

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/climate/california-fires-climate-change-disasters.html

The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change. ‘We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters.
#science #climatechange #fossilfuels #auspol #emissions #Australia

With carbon pollution fueling hotter summers, weather whiplash, and fiercer Santa Ana winds, the dead of winter is now fire season in southern California, after the hottest year in human history.
#LAFires #climatechange #fossilfuels #climatejustice https://hillheat.news/p/big-oil-burns-down-los-angeles

Big Oil Burns Down Los Angeles

"The anger comes rushing in, as fierce as the Santa Ana winds."
Hill Heat
#climatechange #fossilfuels #ClimateJustice #lafires

"99% of existing US #coal plants are more expensive to run than replacement by local #wind, #solar, and #energy storage resources."

#renewables #batteries #FossilFuels #nuclear #auspol

https://energyinnovation.org/report/the-coal-cost-crossover-3-0/

The Coal Cost Crossover 3.0

99% of the U.S. coal fleet is now more expensive than replacement by local clean energy, which could generate $589 billion in new investment.
Greg Alvarez (Energy Innovation)
#energy #fossilfuels #coal #auspol #wind #renewables #solar #nuclear #batteries

Another expose of the #AtlasNetwork.
This is a summary of the webinar from December 2023 held by Sydney University of Technology.
#politics
#auspol #democracy
Even more relevant today with an approaching #australia federal #election.

#disinformation
“The disinformation campaign against offshore wind power in Australia comes out of the same American sources as all the other disinformation campaigns against competition for fossil fuel profits”

#money #fossilfuels
#usa #disease #AtlasNetwork #Advance #CIS

https://substack.com/home/post/p-154113679

Home | Substack

Discover and discuss great writing with the world’s smartest readers on Substack.
substack.com
#democracy #election #fossilfuels #politics #auspol #usa #Australia #money #disinformation #disease #AtlasNetwork #advance #cis

The Mount Vernon News was family owned from 1939 until it was sold in 2020 to a “pink slime” media company with ties to conservative billionaires. Then it began publishing one-sided articles that make dubious claims about solar power.

(Published Oct. 2024)
https://propub.li/3CY5WFR

#News #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Solar #Energy #Billionaires #Journalism

The Secret Playbook Behind Effort to Kill Solar in an Ohio County

A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
ProPublica
#energy #news #billionaires #fossilfuels #journalism #oil #gas #solar

Opinion | The World’s 10th Largest Economy Just Signed on to Make Climate Polluters Pay https://www.byteseu.com/599357/ #ClimateEmergency #DonaldTrump #economy #ExtremeWeather #FossilFuels #KathyHochul #NewYork
Opinion | The World’s 10th Largest Economy Just Signed on to Make Climate Polluters Pay

Opinion | The World’s 10th Largest Economy Just Signed on to Make Climate Polluters Pay

The great question for people who care about the climate is: what now? How do we proceed with the most important fight in the world, when the most important office in the world is about to be filled by a climate denier, and when there’s a Congress wi…
BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
#climateemergency #fossilfuels #donaldtrump #economy #newyork #extremeweather #kathyhochul

Gaza war victims take legal action against BP over oil supply to Israel | BP | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/23/gaza-war-victims-legal-action-bp-oil-supply-israel

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #BigOil #FossilFuels @palestine
#fossilfuels #israel #palestine #bigoil #gaza @palestine

To be fair to Tanya Plibersek, she did come to an agreement with the Greens on more effective environmental law reform that would’ve passed in the Senate. It was blocked by politicians scared of #fossilfuels politicians.

As environmental law currently exists, she doesn’t have a legal basis to refuse the approval. #environment #law

#vote for environment / #climate #climateaction oriented independents or Greens #auspol we need a Labor minority govt
#environment #vote #fossilfuels #climateaction #climate #auspol #law

Hey folks. Shit news but we all knew it was coming. Caval ridge, Lake Vermont, and Boggabri have all been approved just now #fossilfuels #coal #gas #auspol #energy #corporategreed #money #australia
A list of the new coal approvals (listed above)
#energy #fossilfuels #coal #gas #auspol #Australia #money #CorporateGreed

"Given that most of the country’s power is still generated from fossil fuels, this raises some obvious climate concerns. Major tech companies have started investing in next-generation energy technologies like nuclear fusion, carbon capture, and small modular nuclear reactors. But those require lead time and in some cases luck, and the same companies want new data centers now. Data center growth is already helping to extend the life of coal-fired power plants and fueling a boomlet for the gas power providers furnishing Silicon Valley titans with new turbines. There is nothing inevitable, though, about the tremendous energy demand that AI boosters say they’ll need.

“Nobody has any idea what AI electricity usage in data centers is going to be in three to four years,” says Jonathan Koomey, a researcher and consultant who studies the energy impact of internet and information technology. Electricity demand is indeed growing for the first time in over a decade, he says. Not all of that is from data centers, and larger spikes in demand are generally concentrated in places with new factories and data centers, like Virginia and Georgia. The modest overall load growth happening now, moreover, doesn’t indicate that there’s some looming crisis in which the U.S. will run out of electricity as data centers proliferate.

The bigger risk may well be that these fantastical demand projections are used to bring new fossil fueled power plants online and keep existing ones running—regardless of whether they’re actually needed. Once built, new coal or gas plants are likely to operate for decades. “When people think it’s a crisis they make big mistakes,” Koomey says. “It’s absolutely not a crisis.”"

https://newrepublic.com/article/189460/ai-data-centers-coal-fossil-fuels-energy

#USA #AI #DataCenters #FossilFuels #Energy #Electricity

What If Tech Execs Don’t Really Need All These Data Centers?

The rush to build new computing and energy infrastructure for artificial intelligence comes with a lot of unintended consequences—especially if this new infrastructure isn’t actually needed.
The New Republic
#energy #ai #fossilfuels #usa #electricity #datacenters

Welcome good news 👇
#climateaction
“Australia will soon seal an agreement with a group of Western nations to END PUBLIC SUBSIDIES for fossil fuel export projects, drying up a key source of finance for new oil, gas and coal fields.” 👏
#climatechange #fossilfuels
Australia’s decision to formally end financial support for international projects raises pressure on major trading parties such as South Korea & Japan to do the same."
#advertising #marketing
(Why is Labor so shit at publicising their wins?
#auspol #australia #politics #government
They need to flood #media & #socialmedia with memes like the right wing do. Use the allegedly non- partisan Topham Guerin agency)

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2024/12/14/australias-clean-energy-transition-partnership-huge-win-climate

Australia’s Clean Energy Transition Partnership a ‘huge win’ on climate

Australia is expected to take a significant, symbolic step towards entrenching a phase-out of fossil fuels under the United Nations agreements on climate change next week, as representatives meet at the OECD to finalise an agreement between a group o…
Royce Kurmelovs (The Saturday Paper)
#climatechange #fossilfuels #climateaction #politics #auspol #socialmedia #Australia #advertising #media #marketing #government

From the US to Uganda, how climate activism has been criminalised in 2024

The global crackdown against climate activists and groups is clearly part of the fossil fuel industry’s strategy to crush dissent and keep burning the planet

Britain has the dubious honour of leading the world in arrests of environmental protesters, at “nearly three times the global average rate”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/12/down-to-earth-climate-protest-new-york

#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #UkPolitics #TheyDontWorkForUs
#climatechange #fossilfuels #ukpolitics #theydontworkforus

the UK government has paused approving new fields while it examines how to regulate new drilling - & it's asking the public what we think should happen. will it listen to us? sign the petition & let's find out.
#stopRosebank #fossilFuels #ukPol #oil
https://tinyurl.com/4zvcutmb

Have your say in the UK’s oil & gas decision: No New Drilling

This is it: we are on the brink of stopping new oil and gas drilling for good. The government has paused approving new fields while it asks us, the public, what we think should happen.
tinyurl.com
#fossilfuels #oil #ukpol #stoprosebank

Fossil fuel fun fair just to annoy fossil fuel marketers
#fossilfuels #marketing #funny
https://youtu.be/UBKe_6RXsko?si=a5-cYor8zUAJ_nZQ

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
youtu.be
#funny #fossilfuels #marketing

The Mount Vernon News was family owned from 1939 until it was sold in 2020 to a “pink slime” #media company with ties to conservative #billionaires. Then it began publishing one-sided articles that make dubious claims about #solar power.

https://propub.li/3CY5WFR

#News #Journalism #Agriculture #Misinformation #FossilFuels #Climate #Environment #Ohio

The Secret Playbook Behind Effort to Kill Solar in an Ohio County

A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
ProPublica
#environment #news #billionaires #fossilfuels #climate #journalism #misinformation #agriculture #media #solar #ohio

Oil pipelines are often symbolized as black snakes FYI
#KeepItInTheGround #NoMoreOil #FossilFuels #DownWithPipelines
Illustration in pink & white on black of a possum chomping the neck of a black snake as they fight. "DOOM TO THE PIPELINES"
#fossilfuels #keepitintheground #nomoreoil #downwithpipelines

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/

Betrayal in Baku: developed countries fail people and planet - Climate Action Network

Climate Action Network wholeheartedly rejects the outcome of COP29 in Baku.
Danni Taaffe (Climate Action Network)
#climatecrisis #fossilfuels #Australia

Worth reading the analysis from @TheGuardian on #COP29 final deal on #climatefinance and how other decisions such as to transition away from #Fossilfuels were undermined
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/cop29-agrees-13tn-climate-finance-deal-but-campaigners-brand-it-a-betrayal
#climatecrisis #fossilfuels #COP29 #climatefinance @TheGuardian

The world put the brakes on nuclear weapons. Is it time to do the same with fossil fuels?
Isabella Kaminski
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241114-we-stopped-nukes-spreading-is-it-time-to-the-same-with-fossil-fuels
#COP29 #climate #fossilfuels

We stopped nuclear weapons spreading. Is it time to the same with fossil fuels?

The fear of nuclear war forced nations to come together to stop the spread of atomic weapons. Could a similar idea curb the use of fossil fuels?
Isabella Kaminski (BBC)
#fossilfuels #climate #COP29

Big oil = Big tobacco.... both knew the danger heir products were doing & hid it while arguing the science was mistaken.

If you wanted a reason not to trust the corporate world (many Im sure are already well past this point), this would look like a good one.

#FossilFuels #Tobacco #climate #health

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/big-oil-fossil-fuel-warning
#fossilfuels #climate #health #tobacco

Azerbaijan’s 🇦🇿 state #oil & #gas company is planning to increase new production of #FossilFuels at the same time as Baku pushes other countries for climate action as host of the UN #COP29 summit starting this week, new analysis shows https://buff.ly/3YM10Ls

UN climate talks host Azerbaijan plans to increase oil and gas production

State oil company strikes deals including gas project in United Arab Emirates
Alice Hancock (Financial Times)
#fossilfuels #oil #gas #COP29

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
#climatecrisis #climatecatastrophe #fascism #fossilfuels #freespeech #police #humanrights #activism #policing #environmentaldefenders #climatestrike #fossilfuel #rightwing #bigoil #extremeweather #righttoprotest #juststopoil #extremists #ecosystems #corporatefascism #racist #SLAPPs #corporatecolonialism #earthdefenders #criminalizingdissent #bigoilandgas #climateprotesters #climateactivist #cressiegethin #northsea #gethin #publicnuisance #zoomcall #danielshaw #luciawhittakerdeabreu #rogerhallam #nonviolent #violentcrimes #michaelforst #climateactivists #climateprotest #waterdefenders #climatedefenders #environmentalactivists #silencingdissent #biodiversitynecessitydefense #civildisobedience #article20 #2023publicorderact #climatenecessitydefense #corporatocracy

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