"Texas wildfire - rising temperatures, winds and dry air hamper firefighting - Personnel battle to keep largest wildfire in state history from turning more of the #Panhandle into a parched wasteland
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The massive #fire has left a charred landscape of scorched #prairie and dead cattle and destroyed as many as 500 structures, including burned-out homes, in the Texas Panhandle. It has merged with another fire and crossed the state line into #Oklahoma, burning more than 1,700 sq miles (4,400 sq km) and was 15% contained, the Texas A&M forest service said Saturday."
Women and children gather to fetch water at the Ladan internally displaced persons camp. They have been forced to leave their homes because of climate change and insecurity
"The World Trade Organization's chief is on a mission to put #ClimateChange at the heart of its work.
But at a biennial #WTO meeting in Abu Dhabi where negotiators hope to fix new rules for global commerce, the sole paragraph in a 56-page draft agreement that explicitly addresses the topic is stuck in an annex - with an explanatory note referring to "deep divergences" among members."
George Monbiot really threw down the gauntlet with this one. I get his frustration. The planet has warmed and we’ve waited to long to start mitigation meaning we need more extreme mitigation efforts. Have I gone vegan after reading it? No. Do I consume large amounts of animal products? Also no. Did it make me think about how so much of what we consider ’better’ alternatives actually aren’t. Yes. #ClimateChange#Regenesis#FoodSecurity#Reading@bookstodon
"As the planet continues to warm, the [#WaterCycle] is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken.
We walk through these crucial steps — precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, runoff and storage — to illustrate how #ClimateChange is already changing our environment in ways that are affecting millions of people across the U.S."
@ucaccessnow approached UC Green New Deal several times about the accessibility issues that keep disabled students & others from being able to use our sustainable transit on campus, but they turned a cold shoulder.
Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics by Paul G. Harris
This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of global environmental politics.
"‘Grossly irresponsible’: #UK hands out 24 new #NorthSea#oil and #gas licences - The move to grant 17 companies the right to drill for #FossilFuels is ‘a pipe dream’ that will do little for #energy security, say #environmentalists ... The North Sea regulator said 17 oil companies, including #Shell and #BP, were granted licences in the Central North Sea, Northern North Sea and West of Shetland areas to “provide benefits to the local and wider economy”.
The latest licences, which follow an initial tranche of 27 licences offered in October last year, could begin producing oil and gas before the end of the decade, according to the North Sea Transition Authority.
The move has angered MPs and #environmental campaigners who called the move “grossly irresponsible” and accused the government of overstating the economic benefits of the North Sea and sacrificing Britain’s climate leadership for “a pipe dream”."
As Cory Doctorow's post in @pluralistic mentioned this article, it's important to see that the neoliberal approach to addressing #Climate runs into the same problems everywhere.
Here in Ithaca, our city's contractor BlocPower did the same with heat pumps and has significantly underdelivered on initial promises.
Here in the US, most everything is just the financial industry in disguise. Airplanes? Finance Industry. Healthcare? Finance Industry.
#Book 5: Book 5: Sanctuary by Andrew Hunter Murray: A solid, entertaining #audiobook set after #climatechange Thanks to Blackstone Audio and Librofm for the review copy.