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W_Lucht

@W_Lucht@mstdn.social

⭕ Earth system scientist; in Germany, EU - here not in official function. 💫
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Consider coming out to join your local climate strike event today, May 31!

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CNN posted a great summary.

17 lines listing the verdict from "Count 18" to "Count 34", all say: "Guilty"

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So wow - I turned 60 today. I really don't know how that happened. Or maybe I do.

I must say, I've enjoyed every decade of my life just as it is, for what it is.

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Don't know whom to vote for in the upcoming EU elections?

Well, I just saw this poster (file under: no limit to the craziness):

"Where do you want to live in 800 years?

For more rapid development of medicine with which humans can live healthily for a thousand years.

Party for Medical Academic Research on Rejuvenation.

Vote for us!"

Ermmmm ... errrrmmm ... no!

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💥 Against the roll-back of critical environmental regulation in the EU that business interests and conservative politicians are lobbying for.

A coalition of organisations - incl. the Scientists for Future's Interdisciplinary Scientific Panel - have published a letter:

"Expression of Concern by Scientists: Rollback of EU environmental legislation and policies jeopardises the future of EU citizens"

Read the text here: https://zenodo.org/records/11373475
And the press release:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtpsGRY7FpuWAbMY_dPK37Bar5aii4ha_CECBfyQV64

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Tonight, German investigative journalism will uncover what they call one of the largest consumer and climate frauds involving the German fossil fuel industry: green washing of fossil emissions, defrauding paying consumers.

👉 from around 18:00
👉 on ZDFheute and investigative show "frontal" (21:00)


@S4F @fff
@parents4future

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The story is now already breaking. The president of 🇩🇪's Env. Protection Agency is preparing to involve the legal system. All of these projects greenwashing the emissions budgets of fossil corps - some or many of which do not actually seem to exist or aren't credible, while the corps deal with consumer-paid certificates - have to now be checked.

If true, this should never have been allowed to happen.
There is no alternative to actual decarbonisation.

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/unternehmen/oelkonzerne-klimaschutz-projekte-china-verdacht-betrug-100.html

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Care for the future? I find it telling how totally normalized flying has again become, as if there's no tomorrow. Nobody seems to think it's a problem anymore. But it is.

Influencers have no qualms posting about flying out for weekends, events, drop-ins. Friends and their neighbours fly for distant vacations, concerts, quick visits.

The spirit of 2019, a hope of turning the tide, is gone.

Let's travel sustainably. Let's sense distance again. Let's celebrate the act of truly travelling again.

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@rahmstorf @W_Lucht cc @pvonhellermannn

via World Bank and EU Commission #ClimateDiary

>>Europe is facing overwhelming losses and destruction from climate-related disasters.

"A piecemeal approach is no longer enough. EU’s substantial climate risks require reforming institutions, legal frameworks, across sectors and ministries, planning, fiscal, and sectoral strategies" explains Solene Dengler, a senior climate change adaptation specialist with the World Bank.<<

https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eca/brief/economics-for-disaster-prevention-preparedness-europe

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@anne_twain @Unknowable @rahmstorf @pvonhellermannn
Already back in 2012 the World Bank had commissioned from us a report entitled "Turn Down the Heat. Why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided". At the time, it ended up being the most downloaded World Bank report ever, and was supported from the top. Two more regional reports followed.

Little side fact: they had wanted a report on how to adapt to a 4°C warmer world. We wrote why it has to be avoided.

And here we still are, 12 years later ...

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And it seems we are back online! :blobcheerwitch: Still got some fixes to do..

Unfort glitch-soc didnt work out so we're on the latest vanilla code for now!

This didn't really went as planned unfort, I'm sorry for that :sadlinux:

Currently just over 12 hours in the migration oof

W_Lucht,
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@stux
Hero admin!!

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After having been in danger of losing his life, the first of the hunger strikers for climate in Berlin has decided to now end his hunger strike, in hospital, in a critical state, and not die. I support this personal decision and am relieved it was made.

And no, we're NOT on track.
And yes, public and politics are still NOT awake.
We need to work hard - building coalitions, finding solutions - arguing wherever we stand.

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Weird that we can't explain a few kubic meters heavy radioactive waste from the NL each year but somehow we can justify pumping our Atmosphere full with toxics each day with our burning engines

"Oehhh all things radioactive are soo scary, we can't setup our grandkids with that" is what they say

But apparently they are totally fine with ruining the climate and expel toxic next where you breath

Until we have something better like fusion we should stick with fission also, but what do I know!🤷

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@stux @wiredfire
The thing is that the need for continuous operation and powerful market actors (investment of billions) actually tends to crowd out more flexible decentralised energy such as the renewables - apart from being the most expensive (and uninsurable) form of electric energy, it therefore undermines the needed dynamics to truly renewable, decentral energy. Imo, the popular meme of green hypocracy doesn't hold up well to scrutiny.

(In other words: Fedi is better than billionaire.)

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Johan Rockström at the Tyler Prize conversation.
Some (remembered) quotes from his contribution:

"Temperature heating to 2.7°C is nothing but disaster."

"Some overshoot of 1.5°C is inevitable now - but we can still and should hold that line in the longer term - and that is possible only if we return Earth's biosphere to within safe boundaries."

"One of the biggest mistakes we made when going to the Paris Agreement on Climate was to bet on voluntary contributions being sufficient."

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Today: Our director Johan Rockström will receive the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement "for his pioneering work on the Planetary Boundaries framework".

There will be a conversation, an award ceremony and a luncheon at Potsdam University in his honour.

It's been a privilege to work with Johan since we first met in 2009 - and since he came to PIK in 2018.

The Tyler Prize was established in 1973.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Prize_for_Environmental_Achievement

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In the style of autocrats everywhere, Trnmp is playing the judicial system. While one side proceeds with impartiality and decency, the other misses no opportunity to lie, obstruct and delay. Yesterday, an entourage of Republicans united to attack the criminal trial of Trnmp in NY.

The rule of law depends on people not supporting such attacks on a free society. But too many do, it seems.

Democracy needs to be able to vigorously defend against strongmen with autocratic, oligarchic minds.

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Where things stand:

Case on election subversion on indefinite hold as appeals court will hear arguments for disqualifying the judge.

Case on Jan 6 insurrection on indefinite hold as Supreme Court is slow to consider the outrageous claim that a president can never ever be tried for anything done in office.

Case on illegal possession of secret documents postponed indefinitely by a judge "due to complexity".

Case on hush money fraud: pending - but it's the weakest of the cases.

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The current issue of liberal The New Republic magazine in the US has this cover today - "American Fascism. What it would look like".

They warn: "... anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard".

And ask: "Yes, That’s Right: American Fascism. Why waste time debating the extent of Trump’s fascism when we ought to be fighting it instead?"

https://newrepublic.com/

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Last week the university course I teach was on the topic of: "What does it mean - for politics - to be in the Anthropocene!?"

But in light of the recent developments it had to be renamed, of course: "Are we in the Anthropocene? And if not, where are we? Or are we?"

Thanks, geologists.
(For nothing, actually.)
But we had a really good discussion of the complexities and issues involved.

Today's topic was: How and why are transformative environmental policies legitimate in a democratic state?

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Just found my first of the year.
Some things I never get tired of 😀.

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"I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care."

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Thread on the hunger strike for climate action in Berlin and my reaction to being mentioned in today's press release by the group.

For the past 61 days, a climate activist, Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick, has been on ("wet") hunger strike in central Berlin. He was subsequently joined by now three others. One activist's medical condition is reported to be critical now. The public has not taken very much notice.

Reports are that he is determined to die, if need be.

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https://hungern-bis-ihr-ehrlich-seid.de/

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In the statement I signed with other scientists, we also formulate something the group's press release neglects to mention: With much respect for their determination and in full acknowledgement of the magnitude of the action needed, we do not support that a hunger strike is the right, appropriate form of action. We call on them to not endanger their lives and health - i.e. to end their action before it is too late, and convert it to something else.

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I am very concerned. Reports are that there is a determination to see this through. Someone called it "announced political suicide".

For a statement by the chancellor that he's highly unlikely to give? We need activists for climate protection - all of them, alive.

Someone claimed that with this stance, we're just sitting at our desks and pacifying our conscience. Far from it: it is exercising my conscience.

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Also, there are many avenues to advance action against the ecological destabilisation of Earth. Urgency, yes. Extortion through threatened death - is NOT something I can support.

I understand the potential symbolic power of their physical action - sacrificing the ultimate own to try and wake up society to the common good. But I cannot and will not support death. I call on the hunger strikers to end their course of self-destruction and re-engage.

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When does the inalienable right of a person to choose their own fate end - and the responsibility of society, even of supporters, begin - to intervene, if at all possible, in order to save lives?

And yes: the group's factual statements require attention by everybody.

We're not on course.
Action is urgent.

7/end

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PPS: a day and two iterations later, the group has updated its press statement to now correctly reflect our statement.

So back to what we share: our deep concern about the magnitude of the emerging climate crisis, the degree of public complacency about it, the lack of political commitment to required action. We know about what's developing, but we hesitate to take the warnings seriously.

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