NASA map of permafrost areas vs current temperatures.
The permafrost is already melting, and releasing trillions of tonnes of methane into the atmosphere. Look at how warm it is in Alaska and Siberia. It's shorts weather.
2024 is not just an election year. It is THE election year.
64 countries—representing a combined global population of about 49%—are holding national elections, the results of which will prove massively consequential as we head deeper into the #ClimateCrisis
“What can I do about the the #ClimateCrisis?” is an often asked question!
It begins with improving your Climate Literacy.
I would strongly recommend starting the journey by absorbing Chapter 5 of the IPCC WGIII report — at least the Executive Summary if your are time constrained. 😉
Forecasters are predicting that 2024's hurricane season could be among the most active on record. To understand what a super hurricane season is like, we spoke to people who have already lived through one.
“Miliband agreed with the audience member that the climate crisis is an emergency and must be treated as one, but said: “When you block a motorway of people who are trying to get to their relatives who are dying … that isn’t helping your cause.” Do you get motorways full of people trying to get to their dying relatives? #juststopoil#ClimateCrisis
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In the next 10 to 15 days, the country will experience the highest temperatures ever recorded.
Most of the metropolitan area's 21 million residents — accustomed to more temperate weather — lack air conditioning. Earlier this month, the capital was one of at least 10 cities in Mexico that registered their hottest day on record.
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Mmm, snake meat. As a protein source it's even more efficient than harvesting crickets!
I suppose MAYBE ... conceivably ... a factory farm swarming with hundreds of thousands of pythons could pose some risk to the neighborhood. But: say bye-bye to your rat problem.
Credit to @clive 's latest Linkfest. I always learn something.
“It is unprecedented, because communities will experience temperatures that they have not faced. It is the task of the Institute to make it known to the citizens so that they can take appropriate measures.”—Jorge Zavala Hidalgo, Director, ICAyCC
“Most of [Mexico City’s] metropolitan area's 21 million residents — accustomed to more temperate weather — lack air conditioning.”
A little late getting this one out today, but I like how it turned out (plus cool videos to watch!).
NEW EPISODE: How to Build a Good Anthropocene
Bright Green Futures — a podcast about stories to build a better world — We're lifting up #solarpunk and #hopeful#ClimateFiction stories to build a better world.
A reminder: epidemics and pandemics are expected to increase in frequency as the climate crisis advances [1] and as humans build deeper into wildlands [2].
So what do we do?
Address the climate crisis!
Embrace urbanism, controlled growth, and leave wildlands alone.
Push for infrastructure improvements for indoor air quality.
Push for better healthcare and sick leave policies.
Advocate for better funding for scientific research.
Online discourse: "You have to convince me to vote for Joe #Biden"
Why? I don't like Joe Biden. The idea that anyone has to convince you to fall in love with Joe Biden is as absurd of a #political assertion as the #MAGA cult and #Trump, that #politics is about #passion
"well i refuse to participate in such a fucked up system. i won't #vote"
do you (royal you, not you Maier) have a choice? welcome to reality
it should be better, but it isn't, so you do what you can
you don't whine it should be better then drop out and help make things worse
that is entitlement and privilege
that all the fucked up thing #Trump will do won't effect you, because you're not #trans, you're not a #woman, you can't be bothered to care about the #climatecrisis
The world's biggest renewables & storage project, in northern Australia, will have 12 GW of wind, 12 GW of solar, and 32 GWh of storage. It will supply both Singapore & Australia. The project will likely be rolled out in two stages – with the first sized at 12 GW of wind & solar and 16 GWh of battery storage.
L'Italia insieme all'Ungheria di #Orban si è già opposta al piano delle "case green".
Un fronte reazionario che contesta l'evidenza scientifica delle cause antropiche dell'emergenza climatica, nonostante l'aumento delle calamità naturali."
Unsurprisingly, the Government doesn’t like to draw attention to the fact that since the 2022 election:
It has approved four new coal projects.
It has approved the drilling of 116 new coal seam gas wells.
It has sat in court with coal companies and defended its right not to consider the climate impact of opening new fossil fuel projects.
The Government has passed legislation at the request of gas companies specifically designed to expedite their expansion. This is not hyperbole. The transcripts and documents are there in black and white.
The Government has stacked the agencies legislated to oversee and shape Australia’s climate policies — including the Net Zero Authority and the National Reconstruction Fund — with industry interests and surrounded them with a fortress-like bureaucracy, impervious to public scrutiny. It has left a former gas executive in charge of the Climate Change Authority.
The Prime Minister and various ministers have flown to India, Japan, Korea, and (just this month) Vietnam to lock in customers for our gas and coal. The media releases never mention that either. Australia is one of the world’s largest fossil fuel exporters, and the Government is subsidising, legislating, and using the full weight of our foreign policy to ensure we stay that way. Because Governments are very effective at making very big things happen very quickly when they want to.
The Australian Government has lobbied UNESCO to stop the Great Barrier Reef from being listed as “in danger”. This is as it is in the grip of another mass coral bleaching event.
The Australian Government has refused to end native forest logging. Despite the carbon it would store and the very real risk of extinction to the koala and the swift parrot. It has left the protection of our collapsing ecosystems to the market. It has put far more energy into talking about being ‘nature positive’ than doing anything about it.
The federal Labor government alone still gives over $9 billion in subsidies to fossil fuels. It has committed $1.5 billion to a gas export hub in the Northern Territory. One single gas export hub is getting half of what Australia has committed to global climate finance over five years.
When reseach shows global GDP will fall by 16% when we pass the 2° mark (on current trajectory in 16 years) then this is why.
Reminder the situation in #PortoAlegre is playing out in the context of +1.3°C (latest 5-year average) and +1.63°C 12-month running mean above preindustrial.
I don’t think any of us really understand how quickly collapse can happen:
> About 85% of the country expected to see highs of at least 40°C
> Almost 40% of the country’s dams below 20%
> 40% are between 20 and 50%.
> Mexico City (Population 22.51 million) forced to reduce water supply as reservoirs that feed city dry up.
> Stores running out of mineral water.