#ClimateCatastrophe
The world is on track to have burned more coal, oil and gas in 2023 than it did in 2022, according to a report by the Global Carbon Project, pumping 1.1% more planet-heating carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a time when emissions must plummet to stop extreme weather from growing more violent.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/05/global-carbon-emissions-fossil-fuels-record
“Wherever you are, become a climate advocate or activist. Join or start groups pushing for policies that help secure a better future. Contact groups that are active where you are, find out when they meet and attend their meetings."
“If we are to create a liveable future, climate action must move from being something that others do to something that we all do.”
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Without their #petroleum, the sheikhs would still be living in tents and wandering nomadically through the desert with their camels. Holding a #climate conference there, the aim of which should be to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels to zero, is absurd in itself. Few places are better suited to express the disinterest of #politics and #economy in the inevitable #ClimateCatastrophe. #Neocapitalism will fight tooth and nail against the exit of its most profitable sources. #COP28 #profit #greed
Fossil fuels are today’s weapons of mass destruction, representing an existential threat.
Richer nations that benefited the most from coal, oil and gas extraction should commit to ending, equitably, the era of fossil fuels.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Saturday's cartoon in the MercuryComAU
Individual choices are not enough.
Not when global greenhouse gas emissions are primarily about generating electricity and heat (around 38%), non-aviation transport (21%), and agriculture (23%).
At worst, the focus on individuals may even be purposeful distraction.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/04/climate-crisis-europe-eu-emissions-us
“There is only one measure of success for Cop28: will it include a commitment to phase out fossil fuels or not,” Gore said. “If it does include such a commitment it will be a smashing success; if it does not it will be a failure.”
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
In the Face of Mounting #ClimateRisks, the #Insurance #SafetyNet Is Falling Apart
#Naturaldisasters are costing the US #insuranceindustry a fortune. What happens when no one wants to pick up the tab? #ClimateCrisis #housing #economy #risk #ClimateCatastrophe https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-the-face-of-mounting-climate-risks-the-insurance-safety-net-is-falling-apart/
The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
'Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels': https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels
This is, naturally, just blether from a person who has everything to lose if fossil fuels go away.
#COP28 is a façade to benefit the rich and wealthy, it's not to save humanity, which is at a precipice of decision.
UAE Cop28 president and representative of country with more than a third of its economy based on fossil fuels, claims we don't need to phase out fossil fuels to reach 1.5°C target. 🤦♀️🤡🤑
Watching some 1970s ITV sitcoms. Back when #ClimateCatastrophe felt like a distant concept, not an immediate prediction.
Electricity generation in China and India, and oil and gas production in the US, have produced the biggest increases in global greenhouse gas emissions since 2015, when the Paris climate agreement was signed, new data has shown.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Hello Fediverse, hello Bits&Baeume,
I’ve moved recently, time for a (re)introduction — and a heartfelt Thank You! to @ben
I am a writer, copywriter, online editor, and I generally write a lot; I design websites with plain HTML/CSS/JS or using WordPress and other CMS; occasionally I work as a speaker, podcast producer, sound designer — to mention the most important bits.
My blog: https://wernerprise.com/blog (mostly German, but I am considering making it bilingual at some point.)
Climate catastrophe is on my mind, degrowth close to my heart; capitalism needs a short leash!
Also, I still take SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 very seriously. Thus:
#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #NoCOVID #LongCOVID #COVIDIsNotOver #WearAMask #TeamCaution #CleanAir
#NewHere #Intro #ClimateCatastrophe #Capitalism #WealthRedistribution #TaxTheRich #Democracy #AntiAI #AntiFa #StopConsumerism #WeAreThe99Percent
#HTML #CSS #JavaScript #Webdesign #WordPress
“We don’t have time to waste with more pledges and initiatives with fancy names. In order to shift the billions of dollars going to fossil fuels to renewable energy, and achieve an ambitious renewable energy target globally, we need a fast, fair and equitable fossil fuel phase out that does not rely on dangerous distractions.”
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
I believe Sunak seeks to embolden other governments to follow his example. There's money to be made, and fossil fuel exploiters are ready to pay anyone willing to advance their agenda.
Oh, did I just imply Rishi is on the take?
Sorry, not sorry
#environment #climate #pollution #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarning #ExtinctionLevelCrisis #SaveHumanity
and now, a few words from Robert Frost ...
👑 King Charles, COP 28:
“We are carrying out a vast, frightening experiment of changing every ecological condition, all at once, at a pace that far outstrips nature’s ability to cope … Our choice is now a starker, and darker, one: how dangerous are we actually prepared to make our world?”
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
A Belgian court has declared the country’s climate targets “clearly insufficient” and ordered the government to cut emissions faster.
In a powerful victory for climate campaigners, the Brussels court of appeal ordered Belgium to cut its planet-heating pollution by at least 55% from 1990 levels by 2030.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
30-Nov-2023
#Antarctica 's ancient ice sheets foreshadow dynamic changes in Earth’s future
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009720 #science #ClimateCatastrophe #SeaLevel
Oh, and since King Charles seems to be in the news for his #COP28 speech, another way of putting $400 million into perspective is that it is massively less than the tax that King Charles has personally dodged by exploiting loopholes in inheritance tax.
Yes, less than the tax that just one person has dodged.
#BlahBlahBlah #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #RichTaxDodgers
30-Nov-2023
#CarbonDioxide becomes more potent as climate changes, study finds
New study shows potency of the #GreenhouseGas increases with increased concentrations
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009730 #science #ClimateCatastrophe
1-Dec-2023
Scientists raise alarm as bacteria are linked to mass death of #SeaSponges weakened by warming #Mediterranean
#Vibrio bacteria are important for novel disease in sponges recorded by Aristotle
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009200
#science #ecology #ClimateCatastrophe #environment #MarineBiology
decades ago👀??
“‘It looks like we’ve lost control of melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. If we wanted to preserve it in its historical state, we would have needed action on climate change decades ago.’”
#climateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateBreakdown https://www.ft.com/content/87695156-d715-4cd7-8621-0dc3858a4965
“The reality is that technologies for cleaner flight either don’t work, or don’t even exist yet. We think that airlines’ misleading claims about their emissions are unfair on people who want to do the right thing when they travel. It’s time for airlines to start being honest about their sky-high emissions.”
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
#AlGore gives us the real view of #COP28:
“I did lose, sadly, my hope with oil and gas companies because of the evidence that came forward over the past 12 to 24 months. Would we be in a much better position if they decided to invest their unparalleled engineering skill and their deep wallets to the solution space? Absolutely. Are they doing that? No.”
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Periodic reminder that we have a Patreon and we need support! We're a two-person endeavour, and we don't have ads or sponsorships or get money from like, Big Solarpunk (though that would be hilarious and terrible if such a thing existed). We basically are paying for this out of our own pockets, and investing the time and energy into this that capitalism is telling us would be much better spent EARNING a WAGE at some sort of JOB (Ariel is writing this and she's bitter, sorry, let me start this again....)
If you can find it in your hearts and wallets to support us financially through a Patreon subscription or a one-time donation to our PayPal, that would go a long way towards encouraging us to keep going. We want to keep bringing our listeners interviews with the people who are doing solarpunk in the present. It's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.
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#Patreon #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresents #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #support #hope #hopepunk #environmentalism #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateGrief #reviews #ReviewsPlz #SharingIsCaring #compassion #imagination #Future #PositiveFuture #Futurism #PositiveFuturism #SolarpunkPodcast #SolarpunkPodcasting
Leaked: the #COP28 corporate buy-in
via @The_Goose_Media on #YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWv-r1PC65w
Sign today to pressure your government for #ClimateAction against the #ClimateCatastrophe:
“This year has seen communities around the world pounded by fires, floods, and searing temperature – and the impact is devastating,” Guterres said. “Record global heating should send shivers down the spines of world leaders. And it should trigger them to act.”
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Billions of tonnes of CO2 are still pumped into the atmosphere every year from coal, oil and gas burning. The slight reduction in 2020 as a result of coronavirus lockdowns was no more than a “tiny blip”, and emissions have since resumed their upward trajectory.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
A broad coalition of interests – fossil fuel companies, billionaires and their newspapers and other members of the economic elite – has lobbied for and achieved the criminalisation of environmental protest in many parts of the world.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Big meat companies and lobby groups are planning a large presence at the Cop28 climate conference, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Some people still believe that money will fix all of their problems…
#COP28 #climatechange #climatecatastrophe #agriculture #TheGuardian
To stay within 1.5C, global emissions need to come down by about 7% a year for this decade. Yet they are still rising.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/29/what-is-cop28-and-why-does-it-matter
Nature loss and the climate crisis are locked in a vicious cycle. These two issues are separate yet inextricably linked. As the climate crisis escalates, natural habitats are being destroyed. This in turn exacerbates the climate crisis and loss of wildlife.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
The fact that the president of this week’s Cop28 climate conference in Dubai is also the CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil firm crosses the fine line between mirthless joke and extinction-level distress signal.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/28/cop28-save-planet-oil-uae-telegraph
According to the International Energy Agency, petroleum revenues were $1.5tn a year pre-Covid but soared to a record $4tn in 2022. This is 20 times the entire global aid budget, more than 30 times the budgets of all multilateral development banks combined, and 40 times the $100bn a year promised in 2009 for poor countries to help cut their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
The rest of the world is weaning itself off dirty and polluting fossil fuels and Saudi Arabia is getting desperate for more customers and is turning its sights on Africa. It’s repulsive.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/27/revealed-saudi-arabia-plan-poor-countries-oil
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious Anyone who thinks it's possible – let alone desirable – to get economies 'growing again' in a #ClimateCatastrophe isn't living in the real world.
But, unfortunately, very few of our politicians have any contact with reality.
A catastrophic 2 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-catastrophic-2-degrees-above-pre.html
#ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
La Moda SUV mata
“Emissions from the motor sector could have fallen by more than 30% between 2010 and 2022 if vehicles had stayed the same size”
#climatechange #climatecrisis
#environment #ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateCatastrophe news are becoming "better" every week:
"With #GlobalWarming the share of the most intense tropical cyclones is expected to increase so that economies may not be able to recover fully in between storms.
However, long-term effects of extreme events are not taken into account so far."
The rich are a literal scourge. They need to be excised :guillotine: :guillotine: :guillotine:
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-world-richest-emit-carbon-bottom.html
#rich #capital #climatechange #globalwarming #climatecatastrophe
"...other ideas for managing the chaos."
Friends help a lot, as well as focus, e.g. using the way you described.
Having fun with arts, e.g. pics and music, and messing around with friends very much so.
I focus on big global events, politics in some countries, and the #ClimateCatastrophe.
I do like to get out of my bubble several times a week, though, and do look at other media (podcasts!), as well as the local and sometimes the Federated TL.
Life itself is deadly.
But I won't stay calm. Communities only delay the inevitable at the expense of their members. It will be the strongest hunting pack that survives the longest. But nothing more.
It is time to recognize that late romantic ideas about collective provision remain utopic.
Climate-heating gases reach record highs, UN reports
Periodic reminder that we have a Patreon and we need support! We're a two-person endeavour, and we don't have ads or sponsorships or get money from like, Big Solarpunk (though that would be hilarious and terrible if such a thing existed). We basically are paying for this out of our own pockets, and investing the time and energy into this that capitalism is telling us would be much better spent EARNING a WAGE at some sort of JOB (Ariel is writing this and she's bitter, sorry, let me start this again....)
If you can find it in your hearts and wallets to support us financially through a Patreon subscription or a one-time donation to our PayPal, that would go a long way towards encouraging us to keep going. We want to keep bringing our listeners interviews with the people who are doing solarpunk in the present. It's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.
Okay I'll get off my soapbox and just leave this here: https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/support
PS: Those in financial straits, we see you, too. If you want to support our show and solarpunk in general but you just can't monetarily, it's chill: instead, write us a review on your podcatcher of choice - they go a long way to encouraging us and giving us good ideas for future episodes and guests. Or, share an episode you particularly liked with a friend; word of mouth recommendations are so important in our current sea of media ;)
#Patreon #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresents #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #support #hope #hopepunk #environmentalism #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateGrief #reviews #ReviewsPlz #SharingIsCaring #compassion #imagination #Future #PositiveFuture #Futurism #PositiveFuturism #SolarpunkPodcast #SolarpunkPodcasting
If you look at the picture, you wouldn't think that #water might be a problem in this region, but not everything is what it seems.
With only 580mm of annual rainfall, #Brandenburg is one of the driest regions in #Europe. It's just so flat that water has no place to run away.
With the #ClimateCatastrophe, always hotter summers and always less snow in winter, the precarious balance of rainfall and precipitation is getting out of hand. Add to that the fresh water thirst of the Berlin
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Real, intelligent #prepping within the #climatecatastrophe isn't about supplies. It's about relationships.
https://steadyhq.com/de/friedlichesabotage/posts/f330e7a4-b53e-42d8-846c-c194365d7a44
Your nuclear power plants are so fucking boring!
Extraordinary contra-rotating floating wind turbines to begin testing
#atomkraftNeinDanke #sayNoToNuclear #greenEnergy #climateCollapse #climateCatastrophe
The ‘flickering’ of Earth systems is warning us: act now, or see our already degraded paradise lost
@123456Moto the oil companies and the car companies (both big advertisers) don't want their adverts run alongside pictures of #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe devastation.
#hurricaneotis #hurricane #otis
This is not #Gaza .…this is #Acapulco #Mexico
Why is there media silence about this catastrophic destruction by the forces of nature, unleashed by #ClimateChange ??
https://youtu.be/PrGZQ6ws3Ac?si=gSX4wu7vKcbGgJ3D
#ClimateChaos
#ClimateCatastrophe #EarthIsBurning #EarthIsDrowning #collapse #extinction
#JustStopOil #KeepItInTheGround
Heat is making our planet uninhabitable. Why isn't this the top news story around the world?
Recent study finds that millions will be displaced as #ClimateChange makes their regions too hot to live
By Matthew Rozsa
Staff Writer
Published October 16, 2023
"In the 1973 sci-fi movie '#SoylentGreen,' the year 2022 is depicted as a world so ravaged by pollution that the temperature never drops below 90°F (32°C). Food is scarce; millions of people are homeless and crowd together in hallways just to sleep; the government has become overtly authoritarian. While things are not currently that bad (at least not yet), studies on climate change repeatedly indicate that the heat-based premise of 'Soylent Green' is rapidly becoming close to reality.
"Why is this not universally regarded as the biggest news story in the world?
"Consider a study published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which studied #Wetbulb temperatures (meaning the temperature measured by a wet thermometer in the shade as water evaporates off it). If wet bulb temperatures exceed 31°C (88°F), people cannot consistently perform physical labor without endangering their lives; in temperatures that exceed 35°C (95°F), a healthy human can die within a few hours without access to water or shelter. The authors of the PNAS study analyzed 'wet-bulb temperature thresholds across a range of air temperatures and relative humidities' using bias-corrected climate change models. Their conclusions were sobering...
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #ExtremeHeat #WetBulbTemperatures
Whales are dying of hunger: Boom-bust cycles in gray whales associated with dynamic and changing Arctic conditions [the crabs they eat are are dying too so the entire ecosystem is in trouble]
#ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange
China's #BeltAndRoad Initiative – and probably the World Bank and Western banks as well – are lending poor countries huge sums of money to spend on investments such as motorways and airports which can only ever repay that investment in a fossil fuel economy – an economy which guarantees #ClimateCatastrophe.
How can we save the planet without driving those countries into utter destitution?
The Midwest US could be a hotspot for deadly ‘moist heat stress’ as global temperatures climb
Large parts of the world, including China and the Midwest US, are on track to become too hot for humans to handle as accelerating global temperatures expose billions to heat and humidity so extreme their bodies will no longer be able to cope, according to a new study.
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Published Oct 9, 2023
"At 3 degrees — which the study authors say is the most likely level of warming by 2100 if no action is taken — there is a sharp increase in people exposed to life-threatening heat and humidity. 'It’s really incredibly disturbing,' Huber told CNN.
"Humid #heatwaves will affect swaths of the world not used to such #extreme conditions.
"The #Midwest US will become a 'moist heat stress hotspot' at 3 degrees of warming, according to the report. The Midwest is susceptible to this kind of heat stress in part because its climate walks the line between dry and humid, Huber explained, allowing the region’s heat to push into the danger zone on very humid days.
"Another factor that makes the region vulnerable is its agriculture and the phenomenon called 'corn sweat,' Huber said.
"'The plants that we eat are sweating through evapotranspiration, and that may be adding to the humidity above what would normally be there,' he said.
"So-called 'hot hours' — times where heat and #humidity are especially life-threatening — will be concentrated in the #Missouri and #MississippiRiver valleys but also elsewhere in US including the #GulfOfMexico coast and the #AtlanticSeaboard according to the study.
"At 4 degrees of warming, the study’s worst-case scenario, researchers found that 1.5 billion people around the world would face a month of moist heat stress each year, and roughly 2.7 billion people will experience at least a week of these extreme conditions.
"Parts of #Yemen could experience heat and humidity that exceeds human tolerance for more than 300 days a year, making it virtually uninhabitable."
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Wetbulb #MassExtinction #ClimateCatastrophe
Middle America Will Soon Be Too Hot to Live in, Scientists Predict
Story by Robyn White, 10/10/2023
Daniel Vecellio, who performed the study: "I don't think that it was shocking that with continued warming, we would reach these lower wet-bulb temperature thresholds in more regions across the globe more frequently, but some of the magnitudes of the yearly exposure to uncompensable heat stress were sobering to see"
- The section of the United States from Florida to New York and Houston to Chicago could get so hot that humans would not be able to withstand the heat if the planet continues to warm past 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- At 3 degrees Celsius warming, a large part of the Indus Valley and coastal region of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea could possibly see over two months and even more than three months of uncompensable heat stress on average every year
- As human-induced climate change continues, the Earth will only continue to warm. Scientists believe it could be only a matter of time before the planet reaches a point beyond the point that a human could withstand
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Wetbulb #MassExtinction #ClimateCatastrophe
Setembre :bl48:
Suma y sigue
#climatechange #climatecrisis
#environment #ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCatastrophe
"the World Bank predicts that climate change will compel as many as 216 million people to move elsewhere in their countries by 2050; other reports suggest that more than one billion people will become refugees because of the impacts of a warming planet on developing countries"
We have somehow to find homes for that billion people. How many can your community welcome?
#ClimateCatastrophe
#RefugeesAreWelcomeHere
https://www.noemamag.com/the-bold-idea-to-move-millions-to-climate-havens/
@TSAguilar46 Well, that's true of course. During the 'migration period' huge populations, relative to the global population at the time, were on the move westward out of central Asia. However, in absolute numbers, my claim is correct: the migration of those displaced by the #ClimateCatastrophe over the next four decades will be unprecedented.
Oh goody! Can’t wait 😒 #Bushfires one day, #floods the next: why Australia can expect more ‘compound events’
Floods or fires are worrying enough, but as Gippsland has experienced this week, combined they are even more extreme, experts say
As a statistician, I am used to looking at data.
But there are some days when you see data that make you stop and loudly exclaim "WTF???"
Today is one of those days.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe
Hundreds of theatre-goers who could afford expensive tickets to be inspired by musical portrayal of liberation from destructive and life-threatening oppression, dismayed by actual attempts to liberate planet from destructive and life-threatening oppression that interrupted their entertainment
"Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!" 🎵
#JustStopOil #ClimateCatastrophe #Climate #LesMis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/04/five-arrested-after-just-stop-oil-protest-disrupts-les-miserables-performance-in-london