Haloo ! Koska meill

Tried to a pull a fast one didn't they

Good idea: green fee tax for hotels

Hawaii lawmakers have passed a first of its kind bill that increases the US states hotel tax to fund climate change relief efforts, the governors office said.

"Reforms green energy assault in Lincolnshire puts 12,200 jobs at risk"

The Revive Our Ocean Initiative: Humanitys Last Chance to Save Our Climates Blue Heart

On April 24, 2025, the world witnessed a landmark moment in environmental history: the launch of the Revive
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The nation's fastest-sinking city is Houston, with more than 40% of its area dropping more than 5 millimeters (about 1/5 inch) per year, and 12% sinking at twice that rate

We are all responsible for the actions we take to reduce the damage done to the environment and climate, but this damage is not the fault of the working people, the capitalist system is destroying the planet on a massive scale, Governments turn a blind eye to this in the name of money and greed, while pushing the blame and responsibility on to us, this can continue no longer.

Stop consuming. Start living.

Europe increasingly vulnerable to hailstones the size of golfballs

Very large hail hailstones more than 5 centimetres in diameter poses a growing threat to Europe as the climate warms, with increasing risk of expensive damage to cars and property

Avocado farms in Ruisui Township, Fonglin Town, and Soufeng Township, along with mango farms in Fonglin, reported yield losses of approximately 20% to 25%, per CNA. Officials confirmed the damage exceeds the threshold for compensation and have submitted requests for aid to the central government

Hiding the true cost of climate change, the current US government scraps a key NOAA disaster database.

Visualized: The World's Biggest Corporate Polluters

The Story of More How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren, 2020

"Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet The Story of More is thoughtful, informative, andabove allessential." Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

Sadiq Khan to announce plans to build houses on London green belt

Nice entry-level explainer for why the CO2 concentration grew so much in 2024, and what that means for temperature rise.

CO2 grew by 3.5ppm, up from an average annual growth of 2.4 during the decade, as measured in Tasmania, Cape Grim
It grew that much more even tho our emissions "only" increased by 0.6%.

Why: nature's ability to use and store carbon was down, namely due to fires in South America and drought regions in the Northern Hemisphere.
Not mentioned: CO2 grows more during El Nino  in reaction to the effect of El Nino on world regions, ie drought or flood, and heat.

What it means: when nature stores less carbon as is projected as one impact of  
more of our, even still increasing annual emissions stays in the atmosphere.
Adhering to Paris C limits becomes harder because emission decline to zero must be faster to balance out the lost carbon sink.

The bathtub illustration is used.
Interactive graphs show the effect of emission reduction pathways on the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
Downlinks for data are provided.
The charts might be worth sharing in your bubble

Some think, keeping emissions on the same level would stop warming. It doesn't. Added CO2 accumulates = concentration rises = temperature rises.

Some think, gradually reducing annual emissions immediately reduces CO2 concentration.
It doesn't. "Reducing" still means that more CO2 is added to the atmosphere and accumulates = temperature rises.
Also, nature's carbon sinks start outgassing when concentration really starts to shrink.

But: once our annual emissions have reached a certain threshold far lower than today, CO2 concentration begins to slowly drop too. That threshold is at 2.13GtC or 7.8Gt CO2 of human emissions per year. From then on, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere slowly drops.
We're now at 37Gt CO2 fossil emissions and 4Gt from Land Use Change. So that threshold of 7.8Gt CO2 are a thing for our children to witness.
If negative emissions are effectively accomplished, CO2 drops faster.

Trump's NOAA Will Stop Tracking Costliest Climate Disasters

"Their philosophy is, if we ignore it, it's not a problem," said one meteorologist.

It is late autumn here in , but today it felt like summer. Usually we'd be having max temperatures ranging between 16C to 24C (60.8F to 75.2F), but today it was 32.6C (90.7F).

There have been earlier points in time the planet warmed very fast in the past 60 million years due to carbon gasses. Most comparable is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). A lot of deep-sea creatures went extinct, the ecosystem permanently changed.

Then the and warming were spread over 10.000 years, allowing some adaption. Now similar amounts are emitted in just 500 years...

(Dutch)

will fund a small geoengineering research to study how Earths could be cooled.

The project include small-scale trials to thicken ice sheets with water pumped from underneath and theoretical work on whether a sunshade deployed in space could cool portions of Earths surface.

Fresh ideas are emerging: The Maldives is designing an innovative debt-for-resilience-building mechanism that links debt relief directly to progress on climate resilience.

Under this mechanism, countries can secure debt forgiveness or interest reduction by meeting pre-agreed milestones in resilience-building investments

More than half of the children born in 2020 will face unprecedented exposure to heatwaves over their lifetime even under a conservative projection for how climate change will unfold over the next 75 years.

Under a more pessimistic forecast, that figure rises to 92%, compared with just 16% of those born in 1960.

The extra warmth weve experienced raises obvious questions about the influence of human-caused climate change. The warming signal is clear and its a sign of things to come

Most of todays children could endure historic heatwaves as planet warms

New modeling shows that without urgent emissions cuts, most children born today will live through climate extremes far
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09.05.2025 - 08:00 Uhr
Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

The study included lasagne, chilli, curry and teriyaki meals, with the meat-based dishes using beef or chicken, meat-free versions using vegan mince or Quorn, and whole-food plant-based meals employing vegetables, tofu, and lentils.

In all cases, the whole-food plant-based meals consistently outperformed their meat-based counterparts on cost, sustainability, and nutrition

: Climate-Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care Facilities in the Western Pacific Region

LNG terminal completion fast-tracked, increasing emissions & gas prices.

"Trials will test ways to block sunlight and slow climate crisis that threatens to trigger catastrophic tipping points"

Uhhh... I have a small question:

What happens if someone fucks that up

Is this not massive hubris

Why don't we just wean ourselves from

This idea we're going to parasol the sun instead... seriously

Nobody is doing a risk-reward analysis here an elementary school kid could raise issues with

Climate Crisis Makes Sundarbans Population Vulnerable to Migration-Related Exploitation

Canning, West Bengal: When 23-year-old Rituri, who uses only her first name, got a job offer from her
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A gorgeous warm day after yesterdays lows. I am sitting on the deck and can smell spring flowers in Autumn. The climate is topsy turvy Here are my sweetpeas going crazy

From WTOP.com: US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change

So will Labor use the Greens in the Senate to strengthen progressive reform legislation Or will they use the Liberals to weaken it

Richard Denniss, Australia Institute

Following up on an earlier post about how energy-intensive generative AI/LLMs are, here's news about how Google is supporting the development of three nuclear power plants (locations TBD), which should produce 1.8 gigawatts of energy.

Note that estimates say 50+ gigawatts of additional power generation will be needed by 2027 to support AI initiatives... :-(

Oil giants are abandoning the energy battlefield, redirecting profits to shareholders.

Major oil companies are not just quitting renewablesthey're retreating from energy growth entirely. Rather than investing in future production, oil majors are now diverting more than half of their cash flow to shareholders, a withdrawal that signals "the future of energy is being built around them, not by them."

Pope Francis's encyclical on climate change was quite a wonky document. Kudos to him! And hope the new Pope builds on that work.

As part of its ongoing pivot to solar, Zambias Ministry of Energy has cut the approval timeline for solar energy projects from over six months to just 48 hours. The move is aimed at attracting swift private sector participation and fast-tracking the countrys renewable energy transition.

Well, the pigs are squealing, so that's a hopeful sign. Also, I think wanted him as his successor. He served in the US & Peru until two years ago, when he came out of nowhere and rapidly shot up the ranks in Rome. They share the same heart for the poor and .The last Pope Leo was in many ways ultraconservative, but also made remarks about the working class that you might think were made by a commie if you didn't know any better.

09.05.2025 - 02:00 Uhr
Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

It might be stupid not to believe in . But it is similarly stupid to make a policy regarding such an issue in a way that it has to be supported by the next 20 governments to work out.