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doomscroller, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to climate

EIA projects global energy consumption will outpace efficiency gains in most cases
"we project that global energy-related CO2 emissions will increase by 2050 in a number of IEO2023 cases as global population growth and higher living standards push growth in energy consumption beyond advances in energy efficiency."
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=60642&utm_id=IEO
#WASF #ClimateChange #Energy #2050

rahmstorf, 8 months ago to random German

Warum es jetzt immer mehr Extremregen gibt - und gleichzeitig mehr Dürren. Es sind zwei Gesichter desselben physikalischen Gesetzes.
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/clausius-clapeyron-gesetz-wie-sich-das-extremwetter-am-mittelmeer-durch-formel-erklaeren-laesst-a-228942e0-99ba-4cf6-b1ce-fc23f79d9372

tagesschau, 8 months ago to random German

Afrika und der Klimawandel: Mit voller Wucht

Die Menschen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent verursachen einen Bruchteil der klimaschädlichen Treibhausgase - bekommen die Folgen der Erderwärmung aber mit voller Härte zu spüren. Das zeigt ein Bericht der Weltwetterorganisation. Von S. Biegger.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afrika/klimagipfel-nairobi-102.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Klima #Schäden #Folgen #Afrika

tagesschau, 8 months ago to random German

Antisemitismus-Experte: "Erleben erinnerungspolitischen Klimawandel"

Der Stiftungsdirektor der Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora warnt vor einem "erinnerungspolitischen Klimawandel". Das zeige sich auch am Auftreten der AfD, an Aussagen von Maaßen und der Diskussion um Aiwanger, sagte Wagner.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/antisemitismus-wagner-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Interview #Aiwanger #AfD #Thüringen

KevinCarson1, 8 months ago to random

"If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming." https://www.mdpi.com/2441678

axbom, 8 months ago to random Swedish

Vikten av att offentlig sektor och nationelll media återuppbygger förmågan att informera medborgare via egna plattformar illustreras kanske bäst av situationen i Kanada just nu, där Meta strypt alla kanadensiska nyhetskällor på Facebook.

https://www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/8/29/stupid-and-dangerous-metas-news-ban-fuels-anger-amid-canada-wildfires

PKarPsto75, 9 months ago to climate Finnish

Mosquera & Jylhä:

Negative feelings arising from the inappropriateness of one’s emotions may hinder motivation for action and negatively impact self-esteem.

Emotional disagreement and judgment (e.g. public shaming, gossiping etc.) can potentially hinder our already fragile trust that others be appropriately motivated to act. This is problematic, given the role of trust in cooperation and collective action, much needed to solve the #ClimateCrisis

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09672559.2022.2125150?scroll=top&needAccess=true&role=tab
#psychology #Thunberg

immersfer, 9 months ago to random Finnish

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ZDF, 9 months ago to random German

Wer bei #BurgerKing Mayonnaise bestellt, bekommt "Pommes-Sauce". Ein Trick, der sich für die Kette rechnet, denn die Sauce besteht vor allem aus Wasser.

Sebastian Lege deckt auf, wie auch #McDonalds, Subway & Ditsch sparen, tricksen & strecken. #ZDFbesseresser

https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfzeit/zdfbesseresser-die-tricks-von-mcdonalds--co-100.html#xtor=CS5-433

PKarPsto75, 9 months ago to Finland Finnish

The All Points North podcast reviews the political turbulence in #Finland as racism and far-right scandals rock the coalition government.

Non-Discrimination Ombudsman Kristina Stenman:

"We get messages from people who have been living in Finland for a long time, saying that #racism is becoming more of an everyday thing, and that these kinds of slurs and problematic behavior are something that people encounter more frequently today."

https://yle.fi/a/74-20044700

#FinnsParty #politics #FIpol

davidho, 9 months ago to random

Scientists are accustomed to gradual change.

But for a large part of Wally Broecker's career — based on paleoclimate evidence — he was obsessed with the idea of abrupt climate change that arrives suddenly and dramatically.

Looks like Wally was right.

https://doi.org/10.1038/328123a0

tagesschau, 9 months ago to random German

Länder wollen Kommunen und Bürger stärker an Windkraft beteiligen

Anwohner könnten künftig an den Gewinnen aus Windstrom beteiligt werden. Mehrere Bundesländer arbeiten an entsprechenden Gesetzen. Erhöht das die Akzeptanz von Windrädern vor der eigenen Haustür?

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/windkraft-akzeptanz-buerger-beteiligung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Windkraft #Akzeptanz #Länder #Kommunen

tagesschau, 9 months ago to random German

Wieder mehr Großspenden an Parteien im Bundestag

Die Parteien im Bundestag haben im ersten Halbjahr mehr als doppelt so viel Geld aus Großspenden erhalten wie im Vorjahreszeitraum. Spitzenreiter ist die AfD, gefolgt von der CDU. CSU und Linke gingen leer aus.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/grossspenden-parteien-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Großspenden #Bundestag

gerrymcgovern, 9 months ago to random

Net Zero is a scam

"Collectively we three authors of this article must have spent more than 80 years thinking about climate change. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero? In our defence, the premise of net zero is deceptively simple – and we admit that it deceived us."

https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368

PKarPsto75, 9 months ago to random Finnish

We need to change our approach to the climate problem.

ex-CSIRO scientist Graham Turner :
“Vested interests and corrupt politicians combined with a population happy to deny problems overwhelm those that are trying to promulgate truth and facts."

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber:
"there is a very big risk that we will just end our civilisation. The human species will survive somehow but we will destroy almost everything we have built up over the last two thousand years.”

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists/

thisismissem, 9 months ago to random

Boosting for the folks that were asleep when I posted this:

“The Fediverse has a Problem. A Mental Health Problem.”

https://medium.com/@thisismissem/the-fediverse-has-a-mental-health-problem-4cb4845dfee1

s_lundsteen, 9 months ago to random

Danish journalists have taken up the task of addressing climate change (other than “my vacation is ruined” or “ more tourists are visiting Denmark=new business opportunities”). However, the doomer narrative, which Rebecca Solnit touched upon recently, is still the predominant discourse. I have offered some perspectives, however, they have asked me for examples. I am calling for the fediverse to ask for stuff that is neither overtly optimistic or alarmist, but can spark action. Any suggestions?

breadandcircuses, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to environment

A beautiful, sad, and justifiably angry essay from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) about people continuing to ignore the climate crisis...

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Today I watched a math professor and climate activist named Eliot Jacobson talk to CNN about global temperature records and arctic sea ice. He sums it up in the simplest terms. Climate scientists are shocked at what’s happening. None of their models predicted any of this. A mass extinction usually takes millions of years. As he said, “We’re going to do it in a hundred.”

For Jacobson, the collapse of global industrial civilization has become a certainty. A recent column in The Guardian says the same. We’re already breaking through the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Climate Agreement. Scientists are telling us to brace for 2C or even 3C of warming. All of the books I’ve read make it very clear: That kind of warming will turn the planet into something humans have never seen. Large parts of the earth will become uninhabitable for us.

Even the gloomiest climate scientists are left speechless by the disasters unfolding this summer. Climate activists who’ve been urging for an emergency declaration are saying: “I thought we had more time.”

The scenarios scientists were predicting for 2050 are happening now, and they don’t know how much worse it’s going to get. They’re starting to admit, they can’t predict anything anymore.

It’s hard to plan for a future when not even the climate scientists know what’s going to happen next.

Best not to think about it, right?

Nobody wants to talk about reality. They want to talk about Barbenheimer. They want to pretend we’ve still got time. If you face the truth of what’s happening, then suddenly the vast majority of what we’re forced to do makes no sense anymore.

Maybe that’s why people get so angry now when we talk about climate change. They know, but they want to spend however long they’ve got left chasing and consuming whatever pleasure they can. Part of them knows their time is growing short, and they don’t want to spend it angry or depressed, or even trying to stop it.

When you understand the full scope and gravity of what’s happening, most jobs don’t make any sense. It doesn’t make sense to plan a vacation when half the world is burning. It doesn’t make sense to save up money to send your kid to college in ten years.

But it’s easier to ignore it all.

It’s easier to keep working and going to movies while you wait for the wildfire, the flood, or the heat wave that kills you. It’s easier to delay the realization of your climate death as long as possible.

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FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.li/hGjWt#selection-327.0-327.16

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

rahmstorf, 9 months ago to random German

Weitere Studien zum Atlantik-Kipppunkt erläutere ich bei den Wissenslogs bei Spektrum! Wenn mehrere Studien mit unterschiedlichen Daten und Methoden auf einen bereits recht nahen Kipppunkt hinweisen, sollte man dieses Risiko m.E. sehr ernst nehmen. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/was-ist-los-mit-der-atlantikzirkulation/

PKarPsto75, 10 months ago to Filosofia Finnish

#Voima-lehden kesäteatteriarviosta (Slutopia !!) sunnuntaipohdittavaa:

Perinteisten utopioiden tulevaisuuteen sijoittuvien jättirakennelmien sijaan nykyutopioissa tunnustetaan paikallisuuden tarve.

Utopian voi löytää arkisista ja jokapäiväisistä käytänteistä, joiden avulla haastetaan totuttu ja tavoitellaan jotain parempaa, uudenlaista tapaa olla.

Halkeamia, disruptiota ja ruoho tunkee kyllä läpi asfaltin!

Keijo Lakkalan engl. väikkäri

https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/78576#

#filosofia #utopia #aatteet

rahmstorf, 10 months ago to random German

'Big-time bad news':
"This is the evidence that Greenland can vanish. It's not a model. It's not a hypothetical. We know that the ice sheet vanished and it vanished under much less extreme conditions than we're forcing the climate to right now." https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-07-21/greenland-ice-core-secret-us-army-base-reveals-dramatic-melting/102609654?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web

PKarPsto75, 10 months ago to Suomi Finnish

#Rasismi Suomessa (osa 1/2)

Laura Saarikoski Hesarin pääkirjoituksessa 20.7. "Miksi rasismi vetoaa osaan äänestäjistä?"

"Toisaalta on naiivia kuvitella, että vaalitulos olisi muuttunut, jos rasistiset kirjoitukset olisivat olleet äänestäjien tiedossa. Jo HS:n saaman palautteen perusteella osa suomalaisista kannattaa perussuomalaisia rasismin takia, ei siitä huolimatta."

https://www.hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-2000009727867.html

#politiikka #Suomi #äärioikeisto #persut #HelsinginSanomat

breadandcircuses, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to environment

Andrew Dessler (@andrewdessler) has a timely reminder for us about non-linearity, especially as it relates to the climate crisis...

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If you’re struggling to understand why the impacts of climate change suddenly seem so awful, it’s time we discuss a key scientific term: non-linearity.

In a linear system, changes occur in a straight line. If climate impacts were linear, each 0.1°C increase in temperature would produce the same increment of damage. In that world, things slowly get worse over decades until, later this century, the accumulations of slow impacts becomes truly terrible.

But impacts of climate change are different — they are non-linear. In a rain event, for example, the first few inches of rain typically produce no damage because existing infrastructure (e.g., storm drains) were designed to handle that much rain.

As rainfall continues to intensify, however, it eventually exceeds the capacity of the storm runoff infrastructure and the neighborhood floods. You go from zero damage if the water stops half an inch below the front door of your house to tens of thousands of dollars of damage if the water rises one additional inch and flows into your house.

Thus, the correct mental model is not one of impacts slowly getting worse over decades. Rather, the correct way to understand climate change is that things are fine until they’re not, at which point they’re really terrible. And the system can go from “fine” to “terrible” in the blink of an eye.

The speed of us passing limits is mind-bending. People who are impacted are often shocked and we frequently see people bemoaning the fact that some impact never happened before — this is the calling card of non-linear effects.

So when we see all of the climate impacts of the last few years suddenly appearing, it shouldn’t surprise us. The very rapid warming we are experiencing is pushing us past many thresholds in our human and natural systems.

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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/why-are-climate-impacts-escalating

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

EevaXTiina, 10 months ago to random Finnish

Viikonlopun Iltalehden toimittajat ansaitsevat rohkeusmitalin. Meillä ei ole keskusteltu perussuomalaisten olemuksesta kuunaan näin kriittisesti, lähteet mainiten, tiiviisti ja kohkaamatta kirjoittaen. Edit: taidanpa laittaa positiivista sähköpostia sen sijaan että odottelisin mitalitoimikuntaa.