#ClimateChange
Just found out about some intense wildfires in my old hometown of #Halifax. Pretty sure that province isn't really equipped for that kinda #ClimateChange side effect. Thinking of people I know back there and hoping they are OK.
Arias et al present a sediment core record from a maar in the Eifel volcano field in central Germany that securely dates the Elsterian glaciation to MIS 12, and the Holsteinian interglacial to MIS 11. Based on the tephra dates and annual layer counting, they constrain the MIS 11 interglacial optimum to be between 395-421 thousand years ago #PaleoClimate #IceSheets #ClimateChange #SedimentCore #Tephra https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818123001169
@manderson
Hi Mark,
I believe you might be interested in a petition for radical reform of the UN 🇺🇳, which has been vocal, but largely ineffective, when faced with 21st century challenges such as #ClimateChange.
If indeed you are interested, the petition is accessible via toot:
Yes, #Extinction has been something on my mind.
I believe you might be interested in a petition for radical reform of the UN 🇺🇳, which is vocal, but largely ineffective, when faced with 21st century challenges such as #ClimateChange and #Extinctions.
If indeed you are interested, the petition is accessible via toot:
There is a new #preprint out by Creel et al, where they suggest based on a large model ensemble that it is very robust that mid-Holocene global mean sea level exceeded present day levels, by up to 1.5 m. #SeaLevel #PaleoClimate #IceSheets #ClimateChange https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5419/
Of course it’s not, but it is small step in the right direction.
Saving the iconic Colorado River — scientists say latest plan is not enough
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01746-y
Most of the water goes to agriculture and the lion’s share goes to water for animal feed crops (cattle). No one should be growing alfalfa in the desert, one of the most water intensive crops.
#ColoradoRiver #megadrought #water #mniwiconi #WaterIsLife #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #drought #Nature
The thing is, fossil gas interests fund a lot of antivaxx activism and *a lot* of "masks don't work" nonsense. So it's really no surprise these interests get money from a manufactured debt ceiling crisis that resolves by "compromising" public health funds. #COVID #COVID19 #climate #climatechange #debtceiling https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/ https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1662969309931487232
"between 25% and 70% of #California #beaches might be washed away by the end of the century, leaving only cliffs or coastal infrastructure in their wake."
"Science is an evil conspiracy against the people" always ends well, right?
What are the most pressing world problems?
Published August 2018 · Last updated May 24th, 2023
1. Risks from artificial intelligence (#AI)
2. Catastrophic #pandemics
3. #NuclearWar
4. Great power conflict
Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has recommended that shareholders of Toyota vote in favor of a resolution urging the automaker to improve disclosure of its lobbying related to climate change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/28/business/toyota-shareholder-proposal/?utm_content=bufferaa16f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #business #stocks #toyota #carmakers #climatechange #investments #electricvehicles #corporategovernance #environment
I get it that universities succeed partly because they don’t/can’t change quickly. They’re both criticized for and proud of ignoring “trends.” And pure curiosity-driven research has created tremendous knowledge and understanding. But is the climate/environmental crisis just another shiny object that must be resisted by BAU institutions? At least we should recognize the missed opportunity and complicity of the academic-industrial complex. #climatechange #sustainability https://www.salon.com/2023/05/28/universities-arent-doing-enough-for-climate-heres-what-a-real-sustainability-plan-would-look-like/
Since this post received no boosts, I thought I'd better edit it so as to dial down the message somewhat + I added a photo of a #sports #car (the #tech affect)
A photograph of a landscape in #Cumbria , #England that will be hammered by droughts (summer) & floods (generally autumn) as the effects of climate change intensify.
But, the fewer greenhouse gases people emit today & tomorrow, the less #ClimateChange will "hammer".
#ClimateHeating isn't a holiday in a hot country.
Extreme Heat in Burgundy since record keeping in 1921; the number of days with max temperatures >35C has been surging. The top 5 extreme-heat years all occurred after 2022: 2003 (14), 2015 (10), 2020 (9), 2022 (7), 2019 (7). #climatechange #globalwarming
May 24 EWE: Czech Republic — Heavy rains flooded roads and house foundations in Moravia. https://newsday.ie/heavy-rains-flooded-roads-and-house-foundations-in-moravia/ #ClimateChange
Halifax Fire on radar.
#halifax #tantallon #westwoodhills #lucasville #highlandpark #forestfire #climatechange #novascotia
The Links at Brunello,
#forestfire #climatechange #fire #halifax #novascotia #timberlea #tantallon
(Photo Credit: Myself)
By 2024, trucks bought for use in the state’s ports and rail yards must be zero-emission.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/truckers-are-caught-on-the-front-lines-of-californias-ev-push/ #cleantech #cleanenergy #sustainability #renewableenergy #climatechange #greenenergy
Well things aren't going well around here this afternoon. #forestfire #climatechange #tantallon #halifax #novascotia
Photo Credit: Jeverick
Best companion for conserving #water. I bought a couple of 12qt plastic dish pans from Target for $4 each with free shipping. It is much sturdier than the one I bought from an estate sale. I use the gray water from washing vegetables and eating utensils to water trees and shrubs. As long as the gray water doesn't contain any toxic chemicals, plants do not mind if the water is "dirty". #homestead #climatechange
Amy Scott went to #Miami and talked to real estate agents about the market. They told her ~none of their wealthy clients were asking or talking about #ClimateChange. She talked to a buyer who wasn't thinking about it either.
"In this episode we’re asking: If Miami is doomed, why isn’t the housing market acting like it?"
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/how-we-survive/selling-miami/
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#marketplace #HowWeSurvive #Florida
#iTHiNKLabs Episode 267🔴https://rb.gy/7pse7
Focus:
#Ukraine #Security #Bakhmut #Fentanyl #China #Neuralink #Taiwan #Android #Singapore #Twitter #Russia #Africa #InfoSec #Australia #Business #Leadership #Energy #DebtCeiling #Crypto #Travel #Military #Robotics #USA #Fediverse #Britain #AI #Politics #VoltTyphoon #BlackMastodon #NewZealand #Future #War #Canada #Biden #Tech #Drugs #Prigozhin #Train #CriticalInfrastructure #Smartphone #GOP #Construction #ClimateChange #Education #CyberSecurity▼
The answer to: "how hot can it possibly get on #earth?" is debated. we do know ppl can't naturally adapt v quickly, & a lot of our food sources wont either
Now a new Nature study says it may top 50ºC
A 2020 SciAdvnc study theorized that humans cannot survive more than a few hours in shade even w unlimited water in wet-bulb temp of 35C (95F) (= a heat index of 70C or 160F)
#WetBulb temp is measured w a thermometer covered in a H2O-soaked cloth
#Climate #ClimateChange
I'm thinking #today about how #crisis reveals #character.
The world is arguably in the midst of multiple, ongoing, concurrent, existential crises. The most obvious ones are #COVID, #ClimateChange, the #TransGenocide, and the resurgence of #ChristianWhiteSupremacy. 1/3
On the Eve of Plastics Treaty Talks, a Youth Advocate From Ghana Speaks Out: ‘We Need Urgent Action’.
United Nations delegates gathering for a second negotiating session stake out their positions as environmental groups, businesses and scientists seek to influence the outcome of plastic treaty talks.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28052023/un-plastics-treaty-chemical-recycling/
Gasoline use isn’t falling fast enough. Targeting ‘superusers’ could help.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://grist.org/transportation/peak-gasoline-superusers-electric-vehicle-incentives/
‘Clean energy is moving fast’: Solar set to overtake oil in investments for the first time ever.
Spending on clean energy technology has soared, in part due to the global energy crisis.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/26/clean-energy-is-moving-fast-solar-set-to-overtake-oil-in-investments-for-the-first-time-ev
May. 27, 2023,
Canada's first-ever disaster report at the national level showcases the threats the country faces, the regions at risk, and what is needed for agencies and people to better handle future catastrophes https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/national-report-reveals-canadas-disaster-vulnerabilities-risk-areas
#Canada #earthquake #fires #floods #news #cdnpoli #Climate #ClimateChange #globalwarming #Alberta
Extinction Rebellion protest in #Netherlands ends with 1,500 arrested
#ClimateStrike #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ExtinctionRebellion
How will Copenhagen look in 30, a hundred and a thousand years?
Minik Rosing rightly pointing at both #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity crises, Eline Lorenzen emphasising how dependent on natural ecosystems we are and how many species we stand to lose..
We are potentially in an ecological catastrophe as well as a #ClimateCrisis .
Om tjugo år kommer de att offra meteorologer på altare i hopp om att blidka vädergudarna. Allt för att kunna fortsätta köra bil. #climatechange #klimatforandring
'Murderers and criminals:' Meteorologists face unprecedented trolling from conspiracy theorists | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/27/world/meteorologists-conspiracy-harassment-abuse-climate-intl/index.html
Floating solar is ramping up to fight climate change. The technology uses floating platforms to install solar panels on water bodies. This could save land, water and energy resources while generating clean power.
Like a good neighbor, State Farm has stopped accepting homeowner insurance applications in California #wildfires #climatechange
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/28/1178648989/state-farm-home-insurance-california-wildfires-inflation
Whoever wins on Monday has the critically important job of LEADING #Alberta towards #NetZeroBy2050, which means important work needs doing NOW. Here is a policy we will be advocating for on Day One. We hope you'll join us.
Full Platform here: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/announcing_our_election_climate_platform
#AlbertaElection #abpoli #ableg #yyc #ClimateChange #AlbertaElection2023 #Urbanism #ActiveTransportation
Climate change and extreme events are explicitly mentioned as a reason insurance companies are withdrawing from markets with skyrocketing risks.
Do you still deny #climate change, or don't want to act to address it?
The market is coming for you.
Check out our @cclatx website featuring opinions and suggestions from the Citizens' Climate Lobby Austin Metro Chapter: https://voicesofaustin.online/ #cclatx #ccl #climatechange #nonpartisan #climateaction #TexasClimate #AustinTexas
With hot weather forecasted across #Quebec this week, the province's forest fire agency is advising the public not to light outdoor fires until at least Thursday.
"In the next few days, it's critical," said Stéphane Caron, spokesperson for the Société de protection des forêts contre le feu ( #SOPFEU ). "[Conditions] could make for fires with good spread and good intensity."
#Alberta politics made it into today's UK Guardian re #ClimateChange
I'm not a subject matter expert about politics in that province so I'm not going to comment further.
Raccoon Butterflyfish feed on invertebrates and fish eggs. They grow to about 20 cm, and are found in loose groups during the day. Your #Hawaii #sealife #photooftheday
#animals #wildlife #nature #outdoors
#photography #nature #animals #climatechange #wildlife #environment #follow #outdoors #explore #camera #underwater #scubadiving #Visuallyimpaired #fish #Sunday Find me at https://mastodon.online/@hawaiianeye797
Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. And have a GREAT Sunday! #yyc
#AlbertaElection2023 #AlbertaWildfires #ClimateChange
https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/albertas-climate-platform-and-the-wildfire-vote-238301/
Whilst we all focus on the catastrophe that is ever-increasing atmospheric CO2, methane levels are shooting up - and methane has a much higher warming potential than CO2.
Source: ourworldindata.org
Good doco...
Wind and climate change | DW Documentary https://youtube.com/watch?v=qySBQjSXbfw&feature=share
>Shifting wind patterns are making extreme weather events more likely. This is because the wind, which distributes areas of high and low pressure along the la...
#ClimateChange
A few years ago Sarah Miller wrote this marvelous piece on Florida and #SeaLevelRise, posing as a prospective condo buyer and asking real estate agents about #ClimateChange.
It's climate denial all the way to the bank.
(For now).
The very sad thing is that the taxpayer (that is, the voters) will hold the literally stranded assets. Citizens Property Insurance is basically Taxpayers' property insurance. Taxpayers just don't know yet.
"#Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has recommended that shareholders of #Toyota Motor Corp vote in favour of a resolution urging the automaker to improve #disclosure of its #lobbying related to #ClimateChange.
The recommendation comes as Japan's largest firm faces pressure from green #investors and #climate activists which have criticised it for being slower than rivals to embrace all-battery electric vehicles (#EVs)."
#AGM
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/iss-backs-toyota-shareholder-proposal-climate-disclosure-2023-05-28/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels #Fallacies: "As a philosophy professor, this is how I explain the fallacy to my students: If the argument is not going your opponent's way, a common strategy — though a fallacious and dishonorable one — is to divert attention from the real issue by raising an issue that is only tangentially related to the first.
If our collective philosophical literacy were better, we might notice that this fallacy seems to be working spectacularly well for the fossil-fuel industry, the petrochemical industry, and a bunch of other bad actors who would like to throw us off the trail that would lead us fully to grasp their transgressions. We shouldn't keep falling for it.
But we do. Time after time, the real issue stands before us, and we find ourselves baying after some side issue of far less importance. I quiz my students: Explain, give examples."
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/
I didn't expect themes of #ClimateChange to emerge from ancient Roman #literature, but that's exactly what happened when I began #writing #poetry for @spearmintwarlock 's new #ambient #music album, "Over Mountains, Under Stars".
The short #blog post linked below reveals the creative process behind the words I contributed to the album's opener, "After The Noise". Don't forget to check out the other tracks and enjoy reflective beats to wind down your weekend. They're free to download on BandCamp!
https://wildtype.ink/2023/05/20/after-the-noise-a-music-poetry-collaboration/
Why do we accept these obscene levels of #Inequality in the #UK? #Foodbank demand soaring and soaring; families who only have £4 per week for #Food; better paid #NHS staff routinely bringing in food so that their colleagues can make it through the day. Meanwhile more #Billionaires and wealth at the top than ever. Yet all “normal” by now. We have #ShiftingBaselineSyndrome not just with #ClimateChange but also inequality
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/uk-food-bank-cost-of-living-crisis-getting-worse
More than 1,500 arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest in The Hague
#climate #protests #crisis #europe #EU #environment #climatechange #capitalism #politics #sociology
Starting this weekend, America's biggest car & home insurer -- State Farm -- will no longer write new home or contents insurance in California. Existing policies will be honoured.
Last year AIG advised thousands of Californians that their insurance would no longer be renewed.
An increase in wildfires due to climate change is the driver here. And if you can't insure your home, you can't get a mortgage.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/27/state-farm-home-insurance-california-wildfires
@ingalls
Hi Mark,
I believe you might be interested in a petition for radical reform of the UN 🇺🇳, which is vocal, but largely ineffective, when faced with 21st century challenges such as #ClimateChange.
If indeed you are interested, the petition is accessible via toot:
State Farm no longer issuing new home insurance policies in #California, claiming #wildfire risk.
@RadicalAnthro
Hi
I believe you might be interested in a petition for radical reform of the UN 🇺🇳, which is vocal, but largely ineffective, against 21st century challenges such as #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss.
If indeed you are interested, the petition is accessible via toot:
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Figure 6. Energy determines GDP.
The correlation between global energy production and global GDP is overwhelmingly strong. A simple linear regression between energy production and GDP has a correlation coefficient of 0.997.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2020.1807856
@RD4Anarchy @zenkat @nebulousmenace To add to that:
It is possible there is no solution to our predicament. That wouldn't make the description of the problem invalid or fallacious, would it?
Framing the problem as one of "long-term" sustainability may be invalid in itself. Many problems of overshoot, including #climateChange will unravel within our lifetime. Our problems are immediate and dire.
Rapidly increasing likelihood of exceeding 50 °C in parts of the #Mediterranean and the Middle East due to human influence
@nebulousmenace @midgephoto @RD4Anarchy @breadandcircuses Yeah, you get it. If "we don't tend to run out of things" why worry about #climateChange at all? We won't run out of food, water, materials or fossil fuels, so why not just build higher walls on coasts and more AC units?
#Overshoot is the source of the problem, and climate change is just one of many symptoms. Building more solar won't help with depleting fish stock, topsoil erosion, biodiversity loss, etc. and may actually make it worse.
#ClimateChange #UrbanAgriculture #GreenSpaces #FoodForests #cities
'What if you could grow fresh food where it is most needed, cost-effectively reduce heat-related deaths, and create green space for the local community? What if you could also reduce flooding and help mitigate climate change? These questions and more are at the heart of a report on the many possibilities of urban agriculture ...'
What Will Our Children Do!
The Pacific Northwest’s early heat wave is a warning for the world.
Higher Heat, coupled with increased humidity, will make parts of the earth unlivable in the future - the only question is how much of earth?
#News #GlobalWarming #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/05/pacific-northwest-early-heat-wave-spring/674218/
@zenkat @nebulousmenace @RD4Anarchy Transition to renewables must be coupled with intentional #degrowth of the economy, otherwise we will not prevent catastrophic effects of #climateChange. Our civilization is on a very strict timer and "green" transition in a global economy that is expected to grow 3% each year (= double in size every 23 years) will fail, as the growth in energy demand will undercut decarbonization efforts.
Jason Hickel described it succinctly here: https://mastodon.world/@MatthiasSchmelzer/109993443853083855
Do electric vehicles have an efficiency problem? Axios explains why long-range EVs are not the best climate solution.
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/27/electric-vehicles-carbon-emissions
#ElectricVehicles #ClimateChange
#Guam, "climate colonialism," and the risks of having military bases endangered by #ClimateChange." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26052023/whats-climate-colonialism-typhoon-mawars-carnage-in-guam-offers-insight/
State Farm out of California: Major insurer will no longer write home insurance in California.
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/26/state-farm-says-no-new-property-insurance-clients-in-california/
#climatechange #california #insurance #wildfire #politics #fair #-
Bluestripe Snapper, aka Ta'ape, are found in schools throughout Hawaii waters. They were introduced in the 1950s but are now considered invasive even though they may, finally, be a sustainable fishery. Your #Hawaii #sealife #photooftheday
#animals #wildlife #nature #outdoors
#photography #nature #animals #climatechange #wildlife #environment #follow #outdoors #explore #camera #underwater #scubadiving #Visuallyimpaired #fish #Saturday #taape
Whoever wins on Monday has the critically important job of LEADING #Alberta towards #NetZeroBy2050, which means important work needs doing NOW. Here is a policy we will be advocating for on Day One. We hope you'll join us.
See full platform here: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/announcing_our_election_climate_platform
#abpoli #ableg #abelxn #yyc #yeg #AlbertaElection2023 #ClimateChange
@katestarbird Motivated cognition is a hell of a drug : #climatechange edition…
"#Hoboken says #FossilFuel companies united behind trade associations and front groups to perpetuate a “#fraudulent scheme to deceive the public about the link between #FossilFuels and #ClimateChange.”
Big Oil used Big #Tobacco’s #playbook — now they could face a similar reckoning."
#ExxonKnew
https://www.exxonknews.org/p/hoboken-brings-rico-charges-against
#water.... the major issue of the new millennium:
in the UK we have a problem of #pollution compounded by leaks & dilapidated #infrastructure;
In southern #Europe the persistent #drought, caused by #climatechange & again compounded by leaks is about shortages of water;
periodically, across the world, suddenly there is too much water & #flooding ensues....
We need answers to these issue if we are to survive & let me tell you #privatised water provision is not going to deliver anything useful
#Cambridge joins the #NoLawn club: “Wider meadow planting would have a positive impact on climate change mitigation efforts, saving around 1.36 Mg CO2-e per converted hectare per year. Meadow planting would have additional climate change adaptation benefits including increased albedo via higher reflectances and a reduced urban heat island effect” https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2688-8319.12243
Pro Tip: If you think someone's proposed solution to the climate crisis sounds too easy, too cheap, or simply too good to be true — that's because it is.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Greenwashing
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Environmentalists are behind the times. And need to catch up fast. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/05/16/arnold-schwarzenegger-environmental-movement-embrace-building-green-energy-future/70218062007/ #cleantech #cleanenergy #sustainability #renewableenergy #climatechange #greenenergy
Headline at the Guardian:
"Is it too late to halt deep-sea mining? Meet the activists trying to save the seabed"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/21/is-it-too-late-to-halt-deep-sea-mining-the-activists-trying-to-save-the-seabed
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If mining companies are given the go-ahead to exploit the ocean depths, the environmental cost will be devastating.
Miners hope to drill into hydrothermal vents (those iconic deep-sea chimneys), and also extract metals from mountains protruding from the seabed. Most commonly explored, however, and likely to be the first mining undertaken, are what’s known as polymetallic nodules: lumps of metals and minerals mixed with all sorts of sediment, which sit on the ocean floor.
This mining will see hordes of large mining machines moving along the seafloor like bulldozing combine harvesters, scooping up nodules and whatever else is in their path.
“Everything around them will be disturbed,” says Dr Diva Amon, a deep-sea biologist. “The top 10cm for certain, home to the majority of life on the seafloor. That means huge amounts of habitat and animals will be lost.” Out the back, water, sediment and shredded wildlife will be pumped out, wreaking havoc. Everything else collected will be pumped through a network of pipes up to a ship on the surface. “Here the nodules will be separated from other materials like water, sediment, and likely crumbled pieces of metal that will be spewed out into the ocean as waste.”
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#Ocean #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Pollution #Capitalism
Yesterday, 25 May 2023 — For only the third time in recorded history, we had the highest average world air temperature, the lowest global sea ice extent, and the highest average ocean temperature, all on the same day.
And this is just the beginning of the dubious and destructive record-setting events we will see in the months and years ahead.
Continue to work and hope for the best, but definitely *prepare* for the worst.
#Ocean #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
For anyone still pinning their hopes on a bright future of techno-fantastic Green Growth, a hard look at the real world proves it's all a dream that can never come true...
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Copper is at the heart of everything electric. It is no exaggeration to say that our entire “renewable, clean, green” future hinges upon its uninterrupted supply.
In fact, according to a recently released report, in order to transform the world economy to using electricity alone we would need to mine more copper than what we did during the course of our entire written history. This is not to mention the fact that this amount of material would only cover the build-out of the *first* generation of wind and solar power plants (together with the many electric engines, batteries, inverters, transformers etc) needed for the change. So where do we get all that copper from?
This is an extremely important question. Why? Well, because if it turns out that the proposed “clean, green, renewable” Technutopia is physically unattainable, then we would immediately need to start working on an alternative, a Plan B if you like, before we cook ourselves or run out of the materials which could be used for a better purpose than to maintain an industrial civilization eating this planet alive.
Our global reserves of copper amount to some 880 million tons. However, a transition to an energy system powered by a combination of “renewables”, nuclear, and hydro would require us to mine 4575 million tons — some five times the amount we have located so far.
Considering 2019 production levels, and presuming we would magically discover the missing amount, we would need 189 years to mine the required amount of copper for that first generation. If those magic reserves are nowhere to be found, though, it would still take us 36 years to mine all the copper we have — allowing us to replace a mere 20% of our energy production from fossil fuels.
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This thorough and sobering article (which I'll link below) then goes on to describe the "rather dirty business of mining," before finishing with...
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Some inconvenient conclusions:
1. We neither have the copper reserves nor the mining capacity to replace our current fossil fuel infrastructure.
2. Even if we had, we wouldn’t have enough cheap and abundant fuel (diesel), sulfuric acid, and water to process it.
3. As a result, we would be able to get to a maximum 20% replacement of our fossil fuel infrastructure, presuming that peak oil and geopolitics do not throw a monkey-wrench into the process.
This implies that we will have to do with less (much much less) energy as fossil fuels — and copper — leave us during the coming decades. We are talking about an 80% drop, and it really doesn’t matter at all if the remaining 20% comes from the last drops of fossil fuels or the last grams of copper available to build “renewables”. Both solutions are (were) a limited-time offer on this planet.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/the-copper-conundrum-3b98704602c8
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg), on page 355 of The Climate Book...
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The school strike movement is based on climate justice. We seek to shine a light on the intergenerational impacts of climate change and the need for equity for the most affected people in the most affected areas. We are not a political organization, we are a grassroots movement dedicated to spreading awareness and information. We are not interested in compromises or deals. We tell it like it is.
For this, we are receiving unimaginable amounts of hate and threats. We are being mocked, bullied, and ridiculed. And for pointing out that our political leaders have spent 30 years debating this while our emission levels have done nothing but keep on rising, there are elected officials who have called us “a threat to democracy.”
Perhaps this level of political desperation should not come as a surprise, since over one third of our anthropogenic CO2 emissions have occurred since 2005. There are leaders who have been in charge of some of our major emitting nations for large periods of that time. Imagine how their historic responsibilities will be viewed in the future.
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She's angry, as she should be. So should we all!
GET THE BOOK -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #CO2 #Emissions
Translation:
A United Nations panel is casting doubt on the promise of immense profits to be made from claiming to capture vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and sea in order to fight #ClimateChange.
"The U.N. panel called the sector “unproven,” with “unknown” risks."
Why stake our future on this vague promise?
So far, it doesn't work, is searingly expensive, and is used as an excuse to keep burning #FossilFuels.
#CarbonCapture #CDR #gaslighting
https://www.eenews.net/articles/u-n-slams-carbon-removal-as-unproven-and-risky/
"A United Nations panel is casting doubt on the promise of using machines to remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and sea in order to fight #ClimateChange.
... igniting pushback from an industry that is gaining popularity but so far has not captured sizable amounts of warming gases.
The U.N. panel called the sector “unproven,” with “unknown” risks."
#CarbonCapture #CDR
https://www.eenews.net/articles/u-n-slams-carbon-removal-as-unproven-and-risky/
This week's net.wars, "The arc of surveillance", goes to #cpdp2023 and finds activists counting the climate costs of structural surveillance: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/05/26/the-arc-of-surveillance/ #NetWars #surveillance #privacy #cpdp #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange
These 291 weather stations have been collecting a wide range of weather data, including temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation for at least 100 years.
The commitment to keep these running form the backbone of our monitoring climate change.
Source: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/centennial-weather-stations-are-vital-climate-monitoring
Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to determine how quiet or chaotic the Atlantic hurricane season will be.
The AP reports on El Nino vs. record ocean heat: https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-atlantic-el-nino-climate-change-warm-dfe5ac53a4c2c1805f0e70e9e99009cf
Journalist Sarah Miller (@sarahmiller_22747) offers a thoughtful and informed examination of our troubled times...
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As springs fades into what is an already intolerably hot summer across much of the Western world, a sense of anxiety and insecurity is palpable across much of that world. Some of this is the crazy climate. It’s knowing that flood and fires, frost and heat waves are breaking out all over, decades ahead of “schedule,” and that it can only get worse.
Humanity has for too long been at war with everything non-human on Earth and with the Earth itself.
Now, nearly 300 years into the Industrial Revolution, the Earth is striking back. Not only has the climate gone berserk, and the bugs and birds and fish begun to disappear, but most every “natural resource” we humans want seems to be in short supply, from oil, to lithium, to good soil, to whatever.
The only things in assured oversupply are people and plastic. Somehow, peace must be restored to the planet itself.
Humanity can ignore the signals of rebellion coming from the Earth and its non-human inhabitants, the signals that are the root cause of our anxiety and insecurity, until civilization collapses. Or we can find simpler ways of living with less stuff, less destruction, and a lot more attention to those signals.
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That's just part of a well-written, somewhat philosophical piece. I hope you'll read the whole thing.
FULL ESSAY -- https://medium.com/@sarahmiller_22747/when-the-earth-strikes-back-97f4d465d89d
Not unexpected, but definitely not good news...
"Ice is Melting Faster Than We Knew"
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According to the most recent international study, the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets are losing three times more ice per year than they were in 1993.
Greenland’s melt has been described as going “into hyperdrive.” It is now melting 20% more a year than it was at the start of the decade, more than seven times faster than the melt in the early 1990s.
This means our models of ocean level rise need to be revised — upward. Warming oceans melt glaciers, which causes sea level rise to accelerate, which increases the contact between glaciers and oceans, which melt glaciers still more.
Revised models that factor in the collapse of ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica lead to an increase in ocean levels of six feet by the end of the century — *double* the high-end estimate of the International Panel on Climate Change.
The east and west coasts of the United States could see sea level rise of over a foot by 2050. River deltas are at risk: the Nile, the Mekong, the Gnges-Brahmaputa, and the Mississippi. At-risk cities include Mumbai, Shanghai, Tokyo, and New York City. Jakarta, Indonesia, was dubbed the “fastest-sinking city” in 2018. The World Economic Forum has predicted that Jakarta could be underwater by 2050.
What we are finding is that the models have consistently *underestimated* the danger from climate change. It is only by cutting the level of greenhouse gases to below current levels that the worst can be avoided. Even then, we will need to deal with climate extremes and sea level rise for centuries to come.
This is not an excuse to surrender. Things we do today may still moderate, to some degree, the worst of what may happen. But it means we have to start with the realization that we can’t “win,” if by winning we mean keeping a world similar to the one we grew up in, or one similar to the world we live in today. We are at a point where the best we can hope for is to select the least-bad of a horrible set of futures.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fillumination-curated%2Fice-is-melting-faster-than-we-knew-966a13a361eb
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
"As Typhoon #Mawar neared the coast of #Guam early Wednesday, it also drew attention to an uncomfortable fact of U.S. #military strategy: Many of America’s most strategic assets are in places increasingly threatened by #ExtremeWeather events, rising seas and other consequences of #ClimateChange.
It’s hard to mobilize a military response if, for example, “your most important rear logistics base is under three feet of water,” Jones said. "
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/25/world/climate-change-threat-us-pacific-strategy/
🏙️ Guten Abend... Gute Nacht / #GoodEvening... #Goodnight 🌠
Artist: #NataliaRak in - City: #AsparnAnDerZaya Austria 🇦🇹 - Title : untitled - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #ClimateChange #AustrianWorldSummit #Mural #GuteNacht #Traum #Dream 🌟
A new, potential unlimited, sustainable source of electricity from the air around us.
A new material creates clean electricity from the air around it
The physics at play in a storm cloud, but in a thin, hole-filled film.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/air-gen-electricity-film/
#ElectricFuture #Sustainable #green #ClimateChange #electricity
I had not noticed until just now in fact that the EU's #Copenicus #Climate change service is now also on #Mastodon -
worth a follow for those interested in #ClimateChange + environmental monitoring
The Plastic Crisis Finally Gets Emergency Status.
Plastic pollution costs the world up to $600 billion a year. A new UN report provides a road map for drastic action.
#plastic #pollution #climate #climatechange
https://www.wired.com/story/plastic-pollution-emergency-united-nations/