This tells you everything you need to know about how serious the fossil fuel industry is about the clean energy transition.
“The Godfathers of climate chaos – the fossil fuel industry – rake in record profits and feast off trillions in taxpayer-funded subsidies.”—Antonio Guterres
Every single month in the last 12 months has broken temperature records for the respective month. For ocean surface temperatures - it's now a 14 month streak
If we choose to continue to add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere then 2023/4 will soon look like a cool year, in a similar way to how 2015/6 now appears
What is fantastic about composting worms is that not only they are able to process an insane amount of waste and help us limit greenhouse gasses from landfills, but we often forget that they produce one if the most powerful manure that can be made at home.
If you apply the worm castings in your garden, you will boost the biology in your soils and provide a lot of nutrients for your plants.
If you want to do something for the #climate a worm bin is a very good start.
A streak of record-setting #heat that began last summer has now persisted for an entire year across the globe, researchers announced Wed, pushing #Earth closer to a dangerous threshold that the #world’s nations had pledged not to cross.
Temperatures surpassed the 1.5°C #warming threshold over the past year, & scientists warn they will again soon.
“Fossil-fuel co’s are “godfathers of climate chaos, shd be banned in every country from advertising akin to restrictions on big tobacco, sec-gen of UN said while delivering dire new scientific warnings of global heating
..called on news/tech media to stop enabling “planetary destruction” by taking fossil-fuel ad $ while warning world faces “climate crunch time” in its faltering attempts to stem the crisis” #ClimateCrisis
#Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) will withdraw the state from particip in CA’s tough auto emissions standards at end of this year, using opinion from Virginia AG Jason S. Miyares (R) as justification for undoing an action taken by Gen Assembly.
“Once again, Virginia is declaring independence — this time from a misguided electric vehicle mandate imposed by unelected leaders nearly 3,000 miles away from the Commonwealth” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/05/youngkin-virginia-auto-emissions-california/
Just want to point out how completely sociopathic the capitalist class truly is.
Check out how nonchalantly they talk about destroying the earth for literally NOTHING. Nobody needs diamonds. You don't eat them. You don't do anything useful with them except for the small fraction used at tips to cut stuff with.
Look at how they think nothing about manipulating people. "the diamond industry will need to work hard to reignite Chinese consumer demand."
They are talking about using advertising to manipulate people into wanting/buying a thing they DO NOT NEED at great expense to poor people who work these jobs that produce almost no value to anybody except billionaire owners amid a #ClimateCrisis where these operations will pollute surrounding areas and definitely need fossil fueled machinery.
These people are sick. Have absolutely NO conscience. They will not stop until half the population is starving and finally revolts.
It is absolutely disgusting to read a piece like this when you think about it in the context of workers rights and climate breakdown.
#MediaIsComplicit in all this because of the glowing way it writes about these sick sick action. They talk about advertising like it's some glorious Mad Max kind of thing.
These people will not agree to scale back production, stop pursuing infinite growth unless they are stopped. I have lost all hope that we can turn to the current power structures to save humanity and society. I can only hope that when the guillotines come out, these people go first.
Summer has not officially started yet and the world's largest economy, home of a large base of #ClimateBreakdown deniers is about to experience dangerously hot temperatures.
The United States is one of the largest per capita polluters in the world.
Their own citizens are suffering for the sake of #FossilFuel greed.
Few countries in the world have the kind of power to do something about #ClimateCrisis the way the US does. They must act NOW
Deadly heat is gripping India, Pakistan, the Middle East, and North Africa. You’ve probably seen the dreadful news stories.
This is what happens at “only” 1.5C above the pre-industrial average.
Humans did not evolve in a climate like this one — and it’s an open question how many of us can survive as global temperatures climb to 2C, 3C, or 4C before the end of this century.
I think many people are sure they'll be among the survivor's because they live in a wealthy country, but civilizational collapse will be ugly all around. This is why billionaires are buying land and building bunkers.
"Catastrophic population decreases are survivable. Terrible but survivable."
Many people, even young healthy people will not survive this week because of #ClimateBreakdown
#ClimateCrisis is hitting us already. Not sometime in 2030 or 2040 when we have fresh targets to not hit.
This is genocide.
Indian authorities won't be able to keep an accurate tally of the dead. It is a crisis that #FossilFuel companies gave us. we need to sue them out of existence.
Actually, the last John Oliver about Corn is quite good - not just for farmers, gardeners and climate activists. He explains how subsidy policies in the US have favoured monoculture and are actively destroying life on this planet. He explains how nitrates used as fertilizers pollute fresh and ground water sources. All of this is neither new, nor exclusive to the US. Quite similar here in Germany. Agriculture policies have a massive impact on the #ClimateCrisis.
"If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO₂"
I'm so disgusted, I can't find the words... 🤬
SUVs accounted for 48% of global car sales in 2023, reaching a new record and further strengthening the defining automobile trend of the early 21st century – the shift towards ever larger and heavier cars.
There are now more than 360 million SUVs on the roads worldwide, resulting in combustion-related CO2 emissions of one billion tonnes, an increase of around 100 million tonnes from the previous year.
Despite advances in fuel efficiency and electrification, the trend toward heavier and less efficient vehicles such as SUVs, which produce 20% more carbon emissions than an average medium-sized car, has largely nullified the improvements in energy consumption and emissions achieved elsewhere in the world’s passenger car fleet in recent decades.
Yesterday we looked at the problem of feedback loops in the northern forests of Canada and Siberia, where a warming climate dries out vegetation, making wildfires more frequent and more intense, with those fires then releasing tons of CO2, methane, and black carbon which warm up the climate even more, and so on.
But another related problem is plaguing forests further south, in the United States. Trees there are threatened not only by drought, but also by infestations of bugs, such as bark beetles in the Rocky Mountains, and by fir borers in Oregon, Washington, and California.
These bugs are much more common now than they used to be, doing far more damage to forests, and it's all because of warmer, dryer weather brought on by — you guessed it — climate change. It's a vicious cycle that only gets worse, decade after decade.
Here's one story about the sad decline of fir trees in Oregon, where experts worry that forests there may be disappearing forever.
Temperatures in India's capital soared to a national record-high of 52.3 degrees Celsius (126.1 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, the government's weather bureau said.