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CelloMomOnCars

@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social

Climate-friendly cars that fit the planet and the budget - and the cello
Plus climate news

http://www.cellomomcars.com/

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AAronL1968, to random
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Adobe Tells Users They Can Be Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xk3p/adobe-tells-users-they-can-get-sued-for-using-old-versions-of-photoshop

CelloMomOnCars,
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@AAronL1968

Graphic Converter for me.
For $40 you can OWN it, forever.

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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Priest, 82, and retired [biology] teacher, 85, smash case holding copy of in environmental protest

"The Magna Carta is rightly revered, being of great importance to our history, to our freedoms and to our laws," Parfitt said. "But there will be no freedom, no lawfulness, no rights, if we allow breakdown to become the catastrophe that is now threatened."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/magna-carta-british-library-environmental-activists-smash-arrest/

These women have my utter respect.

CelloMomOnCars, to renewableenergy
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" accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures.

The surge in clean electricity is expected to power a 2% decrease in global fossil fuel generation in the year ahead, according to Ember."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply

CelloMomOnCars,
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Yes, that's ^^ electricity.

Renewables make up about 13% of worldwide primary energy. But remember that for fossil fuels, usable energy (what you need to compare with renewable energy) is 25-40% of primary energy, because fossil fuels are that inefficient. This means that renewables make up significantly more than 13% of the world's usable energy.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix

CelloMomOnCars,
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"The US gets just 23 percent of its electricity from .

The [Biden] administration’s ability to mandate a transition to cleaner energy is limited after SCOTUS decided in 2022 that the EPA shouldn’t be allowed to determine how the US generates its electricity. Since then, the ’s long-awaited rules for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants have leaned on getting energy companies to capture carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151375/renewable-energy-global-electricity-report-us-gas

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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US face data challenges, Fed analysis shows

"In the exercise, undertaken over several months in 2023, the central bank aimed to understand how lenders would manage the risks of rising temperatures and changing external policies.

"Participants suggested that climate-related risks are highly uncertain and challenging to measure," the report said."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/us-bank-climate-change-exam-highlights-data-modelling-challenges-says-fed-2024-05-09/

So banks are flying blind into the climate storm. That really inspires confidence </sarc>

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"Hotter and drier conditions brought on by may lead to a decrease in areas suitable for transmission starting from 2025.

However, the news is not all positive. The decrease in malaria-friendly areas may come at the cost of reduced availability."

https://www.theheritagetimes.com/climate-change-may-reduce-malaria-transmission-in-africa-but-theres-a-catch/

Seems a high price to pay for having fewer mosquitos and less malaria 😥

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"For many decades, the world's have been the Earth's 'get-out-of-jail card' when it comes to .

Not only do they absorb around a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans produce, they also soak up around 90% of the excess heat.

But over the past year, the oceans have displayed the most concerning evidence yet that they are struggling to cope, with the sea surface particularly feeling the heat."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68921215

Get ready for hurricanes and typhoons.

CelloMomOnCars, to brazil
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Fort #McMurray residents told to be ready to evacuate on short notice due to wildfire threat

"#Brazil Wildfire MWF-017 is currently classified as out of control at 1,000 hectares."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-evacuation-alert-1.7201442
#wildfire #alberta #canada

Fort McMurray is tar sands capital of Canada.

noblessefemina, to random
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So I'm keeping a list of things that are about to be gone or severely restricted (in the next 10 years) due to climate change, so far the list has been growing:

  • Avocadoes
  • Potatoes
  • Olive Oil
  • Cocoa / Chocolate
  • Tomatoes
  • Salmon and pretty much all things from the ocean.
  • Mangoes (added by @337guanacos)
  • Almonds (added by @neverbeaten)

Anything more to add?

CelloMomOnCars,
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@noblessefemina @sashin @keith

Potatoes are shorter, so french fries are shorter when it gets too hot.
(And overall yield goes down).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/05/uk-chips-an-inch-shorter-after-summer-heatwave-report

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

CelloMomOnCars,
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@mekkaokereke

18 percent of all cars sold worldwide in 2023 were EVs.

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024/executive-summary

But in the US, it's only 6.5%.

https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/percentage-of-electric-cars-in-us.html

Why? Because Americans are by and large offered the most expensive EVs.
Those of us with more modest means get priced out, and the more affordable EVs aren't allowed into the US.

Because profits.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@luxmoore @mekkaokereke @WeeDramAtic

I think having a captive audience in a Drive Or Die society helps you sell cars period. And I suppose you could in that case get away with leaving the smallest cars out of your lineup, because people must buy a car anyway.

But American lawmakers have been complicit in that outcome for decades.
David Zipper: "The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars"

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

CelloMomOnCars,
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@dr2chase @InkySchwartz @mekkaokereke @WeeDramAtic

The EV revolution comes on TWO wheels.
(American media tends to miss that, being in a car centric culture).
Here's a threadlet:
https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/110514322162088397

(Disclosure: I have a summer bike, a winter bike, a shopping bike, a touring bike, a romancing CelloDad bike.
It's one and the same bike.)
All I need is real - real safe - bike infrastructure.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@dr2chase @jbenjamint

That's me also: errands and romancing, as I'm not the athletic type. I only go to the next town if there's a good meal to be had over there.
But we do it down to 10F and up to 95F.
(I was on a bike at 0F once, that was nippy).

CelloMomOnCars, to humanrights
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"The race to save the planet is being impeded by a global economy that is contingent on the exploitation of people and nature, according to the UN’s outgoing leading environment and expert."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

This is why we need

CelloMomOnCars, to Venezuela
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"Venezuela may be the first nation in modern history to lose all its glaciers after climate scientists downgraded its last one to an ice field.

has lost at least six other in the last century."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx8qv1nvdppo

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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The need for protopia fiction:
"Protopias are achievable. They present a realistic, better tomorrow."

"Murdoch could not find a single YA show or book that portrayed a positive vision of the future, at least not a plausible one that didn't involve superheroes or dragons."

"Really, the last time we dreamed about a better future was Star Trek," she said. "It was 1964."

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1240026582/dystopias-are-so-2020-meet-the-new-protopias-that-show-a-hopeful-future

CelloMomOnCars,
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@PatrickoftheG

The Culture takes unbelievable amounts of energy.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@PatrickoftheG

Not utopian but protopian.
There are still plenty of problems. But the idea that humanity got itself past the Cold Was was quite something: having a Russian piloting a multinational ship was huge, in 1966.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@susankayequinn

Wow what a great collection!
I will start exploring.
Thanks!

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative #IPCC, foresee at least 2.5C of global heating, while almost half anticipate at least 3C (5.4F). Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C (2.7F) limit would be met.

Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature
#ClimateChange

CelloMomOnCars,
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@mathieu_caron

They JUST have to block streets.
Right.

I've been in those fights. Nothing like that JUST happens. Want to help? Show up at city hall when those kinds of decisions are made. Few people do, so your presence will have an outsized influence.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@mathieu_caron

Then there's that.
There are a lot of fights, and they are all connected.

CelloMomOnCars, to Canada
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sold millions of 'phantom' to Canadian oil sands firms - FT

"Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO2 removal that never took place to 's largest oil sands companies, Financial Times reported Sunday, raising new doubts about a technology seen as important in reducing greenhouse gas emissions."

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4100535-shell-sold-millions-of-phantom-carbon-credits-to-canadian-oil-sands-firms-ft

CelloMomOnCars,
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Exclusive: Corporate climate watchdog document deems largely ineffective

"The draft cites cases where have failed to deliver the benefits they tout.

Staff also reviewed evidence showing some schemes sell more carbon credits than the projects can deliver on, or exaggerate the emission reductions they achieve."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/corporate-climate-watchdog-document-deems-carbon-offsets-largely-ineffective-2024-05-09/

GreenFire, to random
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Yet another 🧵 1 of 7

So, I know I keep saying that I'll drop out of the U.S. campus anti-Joe Biden protest movement debate. I jumped in since I worry so much about our climate crisis that anything that might help out the GOP is something to worry about.

I've seen now how small the anti-Biden movement actually is despite how loud they are I'm not so worried except that since I monitor what motivates voters in the USA the true tiny size of this crowd may belie their political danger.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@GreenFire

I'm curious to know what makes you say the anti-Biden movement is loud but small? (I mean, I know they're loud).

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"After four decades of war, ranks as one of the countries least prepared to face the effects of , which is spurring extreme weather and warping natural environments.

Foreign aid to Afghanistan has dwindled since the Taliban takeover in 2021, with donors wary of backing a government considered a pariah, leaving poor and climate-vulnerable communities further exposed."

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/taliban-government-joins-climate-change-talks-for-first-time-5516129

CelloMomOnCars,
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"More than 300 people were killed in that ripped through multiple Afghan provinces, the UN's World Food Programme said Saturday, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured.

Many people remain missing after heavy rains Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces, causing what one aid group described as a "major humanitarian emergency"."

https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2194645.html

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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We really need to stop buying into the argument that are "radical" or "destructive". The opposite is true: the nature of the protests have been peaceful and, on the whole, pretty tame.

The idea that, say, sitting on a road is "radical", "extreme" and "criminal" came from a bunch of aligned think tanks, parroted by the media.
Reject them.

The framing needs to be: Fossil fuel companies are radical, extreme, criminal.


https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters

CelloMomOnCars,
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"An assortment of conservative and far-right politicians started using words like "criminal" and "terrorist" to describe the activists, seeking to spark a debate about the line between activism and extremism."

It's effective:
"It was just so smartly all put together that (the crackdown) just slowly suffocated us and didn't punch us off the street.
So we kind of reached a maximum amount of people that are ready to take that risk upon themselves."

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/christian-and-his-friends-have-taken-direct-action-over-climate-change-theyve-been-labelled-criminals/gwhlipga1

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