doomscroller

doomscroller, 8 months ago to auspol

After Australia's warmest winter on record, the government approves more coal mining

“The cognitive dissonance is stunning,” said Climate Council head of advocacy Jennifer Rayner. “It makes zero sense to have one hand claiming Australia is a global leader on action on climate while the other is busy rubber stamping 50 more years of coal.”

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australia-approves-more-coalmining-while-recording-its-hottest-winter-on-record/49vkmf8ns

#AusPol #ClimateChange #LateStageHumanity

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

Good article:
Canada left battered by 'never before seen' wildfire season
"And in the boreal forest, due to the thickness of the humus on the ground, fires can continue to burn for months.

"When we explain to people that the fires will only really be extinguished with snow, everyone becomes eager for winter to arrive," Guy Lafreniere"
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/breaking-news/canada-left-battered-by-never-before-seen-wildfire-season/news-story/d553a6c50bca93fee500077a07f7f12d

Canada Seasonal Fire Trend Charts:
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/gwis.statistics/seasonaltrend

#Canada #BorealForests #ClimateChange #Fire #WildFire #Arctic

doomscroller, 10 months ago to random

Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure

"A moulin is forming right in front of me on the Greenland ice sheet. Only this really shouldn’t be happening here – current scientific understanding doesn’t accommodate this reality.

As a glaciologist, I’ve spent 35 yrs investigating how meltwater affects the flow and stability of #glaciers and ice sheets."
https://theconversation.com/meltwater-is-hydro-fracking-greenlands-ice-sheet-through-millions-of-hairline-cracks-destabilizing-its-internal-structure-207468
#Cryosphere #Greenland #ClimateChange

doomscroller, 10 months ago to random

A part of a mountain's summit in the Alps has collapsed, the likely result of #permafrost thawing driven by #ClimateChange.

Dramatic footage taken earlier in June shows millions of cubic feet of stone thundering down a steep mountain landscape as one of the summits of the Fluchthorn, a mountain in the Silvretta #Alps, disintegrates.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/climate-change-mountain-collapse

#Cryosphere

doomscroller, 3 months ago to random

#AusPol

doomscroller, 4 months ago to climate

"The Panama Canal is enmeshed in a crisis that’s disrupting global trade. But it will take years and billions of dollars to fix The vestiges of an ancient forest tell the story of just how bad things are at the drought-stricken Panama Canal."
https://fortune.com/2024/01/02/panama-canal-shipping-bottleneck-cargo-climate-drought/ #PanamaCanal #Panama #Drought #ClimateChange

doomscroller, 4 months ago to portland

Historic South Portland fish shacks washed away by high tide at Willard Beach
"The Portland tide gauge settled out at 14.57 feet. That's the highest tide ever recorded in Portland.

The old record was 14.17 feet, which was set during the blizzard of 1978. The records go back to 1912."
https://wgme.com/news/local/historic-south-portland-fish-shacks-washed-away-by-high-tide-at-willard-beach-maine-flooding-coast #Portland

doomscroller, 7 months ago to random

America’s Osage Natives want you to know their story doesn’t end with Killers of the Flower Moon
"Today, the Koch oil trucks are gone, but their poisons are left behind – and I’m not just talking about the economic legacy. Former Koch trucker Jack Crossen told me that Koch ordered its workers to cover up toxic sludge spilt into creeks and water supplies."
https://www.gregpalast.com/americas-osage-natives-want-you-to-know-their-story-doesnt-end-with-killers-of-the-flower-moon/ #Koch #Osage #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon

doomscroller, 2 months ago to Palestine

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Hamas

doomscroller, 7 months ago to random

Never fear, folks, the superyacht industry is here to save us!
#LateStageHumanity

doomscroller, 1 month ago to random

Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights
Trudi Warner was accused of contempt for holding placard reminding jurors of right to acquit based on conscience
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/judge-throws-out-case-against-uk-climate-activist-trudi-warner-sign-jurors-rights

doomscroller, 5 months ago to climate

Antarctica: a continent in crisis
As world leaders gather for the COP28 climate summit, we bring you a special report on how Antarctica is already responding to a warming world.
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2023/12/antarctica-a-continent-in-crisis/ #Antarctic #Cryosphere #ClimateChange

kcarruthers, 3 months ago to random

Oh that’ll help 🙄 Federal government approval final hurdle for mega Qld coalmine that could double Australia’s emissions”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/07/winchester-south-mine-queensland-federal-government-approval-emissions-whitehaven

doomscroller, 1 month ago to Russia

Nuclear expert fears flooded radioactive dump sites in Siberia can threaten Arctic Ocean
Floodwaters in Tomsk region threatens to submerge the river banks in Seversk where highly radioactive liquid waste from the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program for decades were injected into two unprotected underground reservoirs.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/nuclear-safety/2024/04/expert-fears-flooded-radioactive-dump-sites-could-leak-river-system-flow #Rosatom #Russia #Nuclear #nuclearWaste #Arctic

doomscroller, 3 months ago to Ukraine

Start of Russian war in WW2 vibes... lack of radios in armour. Going in circles, crashing:
Two T-72B3 Crash, Gets Immobilized And Later Destroyed (+Huge Losses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0UbPFCr-U
(Telegram translation from Andrew Perpetua's X account ( I don't link to X accounts))
https://t.me/infomil_live/3728 #Ukraine #Russia

doomscroller, 3 months ago to nuclear

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is falling apart, and the world is ignoring the danger
https://malcontentment.com/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-is-falling-apart/ #Nuclear #Zaporizhzhia #RosAtom #Russia #LateStageHumanity

doomscroller, 5 months ago to Canada

Canada produced 23 per cent of the global wildfire carbon emissions for 2023, according to a new report by Copernicus, an environmental observation department of the European Union’s Space program.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-produced-nearly-a-quarter-of-the-global-wildfire-emissions-in-2023-report-1.6688361 #Canada #WildFires

doomscroller, 21 days ago to nuclear

Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors
https://blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bros-dont-want-you-to-know-about-small-modular-reactors/ #Nuclear
#SMR

doomscroller, 4 months ago to WX

Extreme heat imminent for Pilbara, 50C possible

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/extreme-heat-imminent-for-pilbara-50c-possible/1744920 #OzWx #Wx

doomscroller, 4 months ago to nuclear

potholer54: The last surviving scientist on Japan's atomic bomb program tells his story (Dr. Tatsusaburo Suzuki)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4DThUr7bsY

#Nuclear #Japan #WW2

doomscroller, 25 days ago to Cats

Might want to avoid feeding cats unpateurized milk in the relevant areas.
4 more cats test positive for H5N1 bird flu in the U.S.
"Three of the new cases were found at two dairy farms in Curry County, New Mexico and all of them died, according to the state’s Agriculture Department. The fourth case was found at a dairy farm in Wood County, Ohio." https://bnonews.com/index.php/2024/04/4-more-cats-test-positive-for-h5n1-bird-flu-in-the-u-s/ #birdflu #cats

doomscroller, 18 days ago to random

Reef in crisis: scientists despair as corals perish
"The death is so widespread in the shallow lagoons of Heron, One Tree and Lizard islands that it's palpable.

At One Tree Island Research Station, at the southern end of the reef, University of Sydney marine ecologist Dr John Turnbull can smell the decay.

It's sour and sulphurous, as stressed and dying corals release chemicals into the water"
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8617369/reef-in-crisis-scientists-despair-as-corals-perish/ #GreatBarrierReef #Coral #CoralBleaching

doomscroller, 3 months ago to random

Veritasium: Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8d72mA41M

doomscroller, 2 months ago to auspol

Honest Government Ad | Whistleblowers (STFU)
The Australien Government has made an ad about its Whistleblower Protection Laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWkGmw3xMTU #WarCrimes #AusPol #JuiceMedia

doomscroller, 2 months ago to random

Hotter sea surface temps off Tasmania than in northern Queensland, at the moment. The ocean heatwave has been off Tasmania all through Summer.
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data_current/5km/v3.1_op/year-to-date/png/ct5km_baa5-max-ytd_v3.1_seel_current.png