Besides big data centers planned by Facebook, Google and Amazon, there’s a fourth site planned by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation estimated to pull 100 million gallons per day from an aquifer.
As he sat w/some of the country’s top #oil execs at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one exec complained how they continued to face burdensome #environmental#regulations despite spending $400M to lobby the #Biden admin…
#Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1B to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President #Biden’s #environmental rules & policies & stop new ones from being enacted, acc/to people w/knowledge of the meeting…
Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation & regulation they would avoid thanks to him….
VT is poised to pass a groundbreaking measure forcing major polluting cos. to help pay for damages caused by the #climatecrisis, in a move being closely watched by other states incl. NY & CA.
More than 100 people are dead and 136 people have been reported missing in Brazil after unprecedented rainfall devastated the state of Rio Grande do Sul with flooding. The Brazilian government is warning residents that more rain is expected. Rescue efforts were suspended on Wednesday in the face of continuing precipitation and winds exceeding 50 miles (80 Kilometers) per hour. USA Today has more on the disaster.
🇧🇷 #Brazil: Among the 497 cities in the state, 414 have been hit. As you read this, there is a chance people are still waiting on roofs for rescue, trapped in houses and buildings surrounded by water. Others are still looking for victims of landslides. Many are without access to clean water, power, or ways of coming and going from their cities, with bridges missing and roads destroyed.
I need you to start using Facebook again-- really. I mean it.
I need you to start sharing information there. Share leftist news. Share real news about #Palestine. Share #BLM posts. Share #Queer & #Trans news and resources. Share #Climate Crisis news. Share increasingly #radical memes and personal takes. Ramp it the fuck up till you're worried your family & friends will think you're absolutely unhinged.
I'm completely serious.
Why? Because older people use it who only get their news from Fox or CNN. Because your centrist friends and conservative family are there. Because you are the last line of hope for them to learn anything about what's really happening, and about things that actually matter. Some of them know you and trust you enough to listen-- not all, but some. They aren't going to read theory or pay attention without a thread or connection to someone else that cares.
They need real connections like you so that these ideas are not abstract.
Mayors want bigger tax hike to manage climate change
Regional mayors have added their voices to calls to make big offshore oil and gas companies pay more tax.
In an open letter to the Albanese government published in several major mastheads across the nation, almost 40 mayors and councillors called for major profits to be taxed at a higher rate to help fund communities to manage climate-fuelled disasters.
“Given that we’ve seen an unprecedented jump in global warmth over the last 11 months, it is not surprising to see worsening #climate extremes so early in the year,” said University of Michigan environment dean Jonathan Overpeck. “If this record pace of warming continues, 2024 will likely be a record year of climate disasters and human suffering.” https://apnews.com/article/bizarre-weather-climate-heat-flood-extreme-e13a4a5f2c4de870269b36d5de570aa5
Major housing/transpo/#climate progress for Colorado.
Thanks to the #Boulder team for helping make happen & being out front on HB1152 (ADUs), SB65 (phones/driving), SB184 (rail funding), SB195 (protections for vulnerable users), & HB1313 (TOCs).
Can somebody explain to me how any climate scientists think we will stay below 1.5C by 2100? I don’t see how we can keep below 1.5C considering the current temperature, the continued rate of high emissions, and the likely future efforts to reduce emissions (specifically, the insufficient efforts in the near future).