Climatehistories

Climatehistories, 3 months ago to Alberta

A regional agency in #Alberta , #Canada has banned oil and gas operations from using its treated water for #fracking

This decision comes as a response to the severe #drought conditions prevailing in Western Canada.

Oil and gas activities comprise about 12% of Alberta 's water allocations.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-alberta-drought-oil-companies/

Climatehistories, 3 months ago to spain

According to the Spanish meteorology institute AEMET, temperature records have been broken in more than 90 places throughout January, with over 400 observation stations reaching or exceeding 20C on January 25 alone

In fact, #Spain experienced its warmest January day ever recorded on Jan 27, 2024, with temperatures reaching 30.7C. Several Valencian towns saw temperatures that exceeded 29C, and even more reached 28C, in #weather more typical of spring and summer than winter.

#ExtremeTemps

Climatehistories, 3 months ago to uk

📈 A new page of British climate history was rewritten today.

📈 Α new #UK January daily max temperature record set today at Kinlochewe where the temperature reached 19.6°C

This beats the previous January UK record of 18.3°C set at Inchmarlo and Aboyne in 2003 and Aber in 1958 and 1971.

#climate

Climatehistories, 3 months ago to Denmark

Scientists are clear we need to farm and eat less meat to help the planet and our health.

Politicians not only ignore them, they continue to subsidize the meat industry.

But #Denmark ,one of the largest pork exporters in the world, has become the first country in the world to publish a roadmap to make its food system more plant-based.

https://www.ft.com/content/3f4d58f4-2a3b-4aef-88a8-83784b36c835

Climatehistories, 3 months ago to brazil

#Brazil has reached 26 gigawatts (GW) of installed solar power capacity in 2023, a 36% increase from the previous year, O Globo reports.

Most of the #solar power comes from distributed generation, which is the installation of photovoltaic systems on rooftops, facades, and small lands by consumers themselves.

#energytransition #energy

https://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/miriam-leitao/post/2024/01/geracao-propria-de-energia-solar-cresce-mais-de-30percent-em-12-meses.ghtml

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to uk

Nonviolent direct actions such as road blockades and civil disobedience are a key fixture of social and environmental movements.

However, the #UK ’s Public Order Act 2023 makes #climate activism almost illegal.

Not only that. At Inner London crown court, peaceful protesters have been forbidden by court order from mentioning the #climatecrisis, fuel poverty, or even the US civil rights movement in their statements to the jury.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/23/un-expert-condemns-uk-crackdown-on-environmental-protest

#activism #protest #UKPolitics

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to coffee

I first heard about Nicholas Saunders when I went for #coffee with a friend for at Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden.

A few years later, I found in a second-hand bookstore a copy of his #book Alternative London, which became something of an underground bible in #London in the 1970s-80s.

Today, The Guardian has a great article about this counterculture pioneer who was passionate about spreading knowledge and changing the way people lived.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to UKpolitics

How on earth did these not very bright people come to govern us, and how did they possess such significant power?

Lee Anderson, Conservative MP:

"I was going to vote no... I got into the no lobby ... but the Labour lot were laughing at me .. I couldn't vote no.. but I wanted to vote no..." 🤦 🤦

#UKpolitics

(Video 👇 : Farrukh @implausibleblog)

Lee Anderson, Conservative MP. Video Source: Farrukh @implausibleblog

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

A new study by @nasa JPL researchers found that the #Greenland ice sheet lost more mass from 1985 to 2022 than previously estimated, mostly from below sea level.

The ice loss from glacial retreat has had only an indirect impact on sea level rise, but could affect the global ocean currents that transport heat and salt.

#ice #climatechange

https://www.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/ice-glaciers/nasa-study-more-greenland-ice-lost-than-previously-estimated/

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

Apparently, according to #Azerbaijan 's President Ilham Aliyev, the world belongs to men.

"Azerbaijan appoints no women to 28-member #COP29 #climate committee"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/15/cop29-climate-summit-committee-appointed-with-28-men-and-no-women-azerbaijan

#climatechange #ClimatePolicy

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

"Americans are less convinced that climate change is caused mostly or entirely by humans compared to data from recent years, declining from 60% in 2018 to 49% this year."

It's not surprising. The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls, and profit-motivated individuals have spent years sowing doubt about who is to blame for #climatechange

https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EPIC-factsheets.pdf

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

NASA published the global temperature data for 2023.

No surprise. #globalwarming is accelarating.

🟥 warmer than normal
🟦 colder than normal

Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5207/

#climatechange

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to uk

In the meantime in England, the Environment Agency accused of ‘scandalous neglect’ over chicken excrement entering River Wye , a major river in the #UK .

This issue has arisen from intensive poultry production farms. The excrement from hundreds of thousands of chickens has been allowed to run off, without any proper mitigation, straight into the river system.

Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history.

#pollution #environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/environment-agency-accused-of-scandalous-neglect-over-chicken-excrement-entering-river-wye

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

The US government will charge oil and gas companies a fee for excess #methane emissions.

The fee would start at $900 per ton of methane in 2024 and increase to $1,500 per ton in 2026.

Unlike carbon dioxide, which stays in the atmosphere for centuries, methane only lasts for about a decade. According to a UN report, reducing methane emissions by 45% by 2030 could avoid nearly 0.3°C of global warming by the 2040s.

#climatechange #ClimatePolicy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/climate/methane-biden-oil-gas-fee.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NE0.cOY7.-m2dt8svlNek&referringSource=articleShare

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to random

A Conversation With a Climate Denier. 😩

Yesterday evening in a friend's house I met a climate denier for the first time in a while.

We had a conversation about climate change. It went on about like this (photo 👇 ) and it cost me a night's sleep.

Enjoy!

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to Archaeology

Incredible discovery !

Huge ancient city found in the Amazon challenges the Eurocentric view of civilisation and shows that ancient people lived in sophisticated urban societies in the Amazon, not just in small nomadic groups.

The city consisted of thousands of rectangular platforms arranged around plazas, connected by straight roads and canals2. Some of the features are unprecedented in South America.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67940671?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

#archaeology #civilizations

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

Climate activists are increasingly using legal action to enforce climate action.

Here's Bonaire, a small Dutch municipality island in the #Caribbean. Research shows that part of island will be submerged by 2025.

Therefore, they' re taking the Dutch government to court for not doing enough to protect them from the impacts of the #climatecrisis

#ClimateInTheCourts
#StandUpForClimate

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/11/dutch-caribbean-islanders-sue-netherlands-over-climate-change

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

The effects of global heating are already being felt, and communities must take steps to prepare for the inevitable challenges ahead. This includes implementing resilient infrastructure, developing early warning systems for extreme weather events, and promoting sustainable #agriculture
practices.

#StormHenk the first named storm of 2024, brought heavy rainfall and strong winds to large parts of the UK.

https://youtu.be/bU27yU0y6lU

#climatechange

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to random

Norway becomes the first country to approve deep-sea mining, that is extracting minerals, such as cobalt and nickel from the seabed at depths greater than 200 meters.

Deep-sea mining can cause severe and irreversible harm to global ocean ecosystems, already threatened by the climate and biodiversity crises.

Capitalism reinforces consumerism. Our constant pursuit of material possessions has resulted in environmental destruction. Can we put an end to it?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/norway-set-to-approve-deep-sea-mining-despite-environmental-concerns

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

How many species will Earth lose to climate change?

New study suggests that even under intermediate climate change scenarios, we could see the extinction of 3 to 6 million (or possibly more) animal and plant species within the next 50 years.

The loss of species can lead to a destabilization of ecosystems, and if not reversed, it can ultimately result in total ecosystem collapse.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.17125?af=R

#climatechange #ecosystems #extinction

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to random

"We have arrived. We are here. We are sailing. We are navigating, just like our ancestors once did, in the biggest ocean in the world."

Please watch this. 👇

⁦Maori_Party ⁩ MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke performed the Maori posture dance HAKA in ⁦ New Zealand Parliament.

She's 21 and the youngest MP in since 1853... It's the best maiden speech I've seen ❤️

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Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

Yet another oil-man is named president-in-waiting of UN #climate summit to be held in November 2024 #COP29

Before his entry into politics in the autocratic country,Mukhtar Babayev spent 26 years working for the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic.

I wouldn’t have any expectations from #COP29 if I were you.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/05/cop29-will-be-led-by-mukhtar-babayev-azerbaijan-ecology-minister-who-is-oil-industry-veteran?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to climate

If you are looking for practical answers to the questions about how to get involved with and take action against #ClimateChange here's a helpful guide.

It covers four main areas for action: fossil fuel, democracy and human rights, the human landscape, and the natural world.

It also provides tips on how to get informed, choose your scale, find a group, and reduce your personal climate footprint.

Part of the book Not Too Late 👇

https://www.nottoolateclimate.com/_files/ugd/c8ef46_ff209e95f1f94336b40c02ad2c78aee7.pdf