Stonehenge is literally just some old stones yet you will sincerely get people who care more about that than the lives of millions of currently existing people.
Just Stop Oil today sprayed a couple of the stones with harmless orange cornflour which will wash off without any damage at the first rain but there are people genuinely apoplectic about it.
We are a totally fucked species. Totally gone. Dead.
Not sure why this message is not being amplified more:
"Once it reaches the atmosphere, methane’s super heat-trapping properties render it a major agent of warming. Over 20 years, methane causes 85 times more warming than the same amount of carbon dioxide. But methane doesn’t stay in the atmosphere for long, so stopping methane leaks today can have a fast impact on lowering global temperatures."
Here Keen picks apart some fallacies regarding of other critics of neoclassical economics in areas of tech (which most people here understand as an enormous consumer of energy and water for starters)
You couldn't write a dystopian novel with a grimmer plot than what we're witnessing in reality.
Here's how the story goes: Capitalism removes the forests in search of profits, drills into the earth in search of profits, pollutes the air and water in search of profits... and now, what's left?
Oh, wait, say the capitalists, we haven't dug into the DEEP SEA yet in search of profits, er, um, minerals. And guess what, we can pretend we're doing that for the sake of the climate and environment!
Yeah, that's the idea. We need those minerals to make electric cars. So it's a win-win. We'll make billions more in profits, AND we'll make ourselves look good by promoting Green Growth! 😃
"There's no such thing as climate change," said nobody who pays for homeowner's or renters insurance. Meanwhile, some politicians, legislators and fossil fuel interests deny its existence and cause great harm — mental, physical, financial — to constituents. That's fine. 🙃😕
Greece Lost 250 Sq Km of Its Beaches in 30 Years Due to #ClimateChange
"Synolakis went on to warn of the enormous financial cost of large swathes of tourism-dependent #Greece’s heavily developed coastline being destroyed.
“The cost has already reached some 2.6 billion euros a year,” he said, pointing to estimates according to which every square meter of coastline brings 10-15 euros into the local economy every year."
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Ce livre dresse un bilan scientifique et technique complet des moteurs #diesel (et autres moteurs thermiques) : impacts toxiques sur la santé publique et l'#environnement, mais aussi les solutions de #dépollution et les alternatives.
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Holding Olympics in July will be 'nearly impossible' over extreme heat, report warns.
For this year's Olympics in Paris, French forecaster Météo France has already predicted warmer than normal conditions for July and August. Athletes and scientists now say a summer Olympics could eventually be "impossible". #ClimateChange
The term "climate change" was researched by the fossil fuel industry as the least scary and non-attributable to the fossil fuel industry reference they could find. Just sayin.
Have you ever thought about how dinosaurs lived on a warm, swampy Earth and how we live on one that’s cold enough to keep pretty much the entirety of Greenland and Antarctica buried under kilometers-thick sheets of solid ice and wondered, hmm, how did we get from there to here? The short answer is that it took 50 million years of declining atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and dropping temperatures, not to mention building an ice sheet or two. For the longer story of the last 50 million years of climate change, including some of the reasons why, catch this episode of our podcast with Dr De La Rocha! You’ll hear about plate tectonics and continental drift, silicate weathering, carbonate sedimentation, and the spectacular effects the growth of Earth’s ice sheets have had on Earth’s climate. There are also lessons here for where anthropogenic global warming is going and whether or not its effects have permanently disrupted the climate system. Fun fact: the total amount of climate change between 50 million years ago and now dwarfs what we’re driving by burning fossil fuels, and yet, what we’re doing is more terrifying, in that it’s unfolding millions of times faster.
!!Nerd alert!! If you're interested in the primary scientific literature on the subject, these four papers are a great place to start:
-Dutkiewicz et al (2019) Sequestration and subduction of deep-sea carbonate in the global ocean since the Early Cretaceous. Geology 47:91-94.
-Müller et al (2022) Evolution of Earth’s plate tectonic conveyor belt. Nature 605:629–639.
-Rae et al (2021) Atmospheric CO2 over the last 66 million years from marine archives. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 49:609-641.
-Westerfeld et al (2020) An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years. Science 369: 1383–1387.
The IRA was passed in August 2022, with specific rules about how states should award residential heat pump rebates.
Minnesota Dept. of Commerce was still asking for RFPs for somebody to "run the program" for it 17 months later.
Now there are "listening sessions" through fall 2024 (so I guess targeting 2025 construction sseason?)
We took a home loan out in 2023; selected a contractor; picked a heat-pump and HVAC design; even signed a contract and a deposit to the supplier. We are just waiting for !@#$ program to launch. You've had all the info for almost 2 years now.
Even if you don't give a damn about the climate, you're going to miss an election cycle before awarding a single dollar. That is squandered political capital at best, and could even risk the entire program, at worst.
Today, there are around 1.31 billion personal vehicles (cars, trucks, and SUVs) in the world. Of those, only about 2% are hybrid or electric. The other 98% are ICE vehicles burning gasoline/petrol.
By 2050, it’s estimated we’ll have about 2.21 billion vehicles in the world. That’s a HUGE number, almost 70% greater than today.
But how many of those will be electric? Instead of only 2%, it’s expected they will increase to around 31% of the total.
That sounds great! More EVs is a good thing, right?
Well, if 31% are EVs in 2050, that means the other 69% will still be ICE vehicles burning gas/petrol. So the number of cars and trucks and SUVs burning fossil fuels will go UP from 1.28 billion now to about 1.52 billion by 2050.
That’s… not so good.
We don’t need more cars, more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more road damage, and more CO2 emissions.
Don't forget to leave out fresh, clean potable water for your #bird and #pollinator friends during #heatwaves. They get thirsty too! I use smooth stones and marbles in my #BeeWatering station, to keep them from drowning.
"Higher premiums are also just the tip of the iceberg of the financial risks of #ClimateChange. When state-run, last-resort insurance programs become overburdened, taxpayers end up footing the bill. A dwindling tax base and a foreclosure crisis in vulnerable areas could create risks for regional banks and spread risk to the broader economy. Without insurance, there is no #mortgage market."
Someone has finally dropped the word "subprime" into a discussion of #mortgages and #ClimateChange.
" There’s a new kind of #ToxicAsset emerging in property portfolios. The number of homes in what you might call “#subprime” locations is rising and, in some parts of the world, property value—like a crumbing coastline—is at risk of erosion. Lenders are getting noticeably more reluctant to lend against these assets."