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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship Heres what actually happened at the coal port blockade
Tens of thousands in six Malaysian states hit by flooding, says PM Anwar Ibrahim is real No, Christine Lagarde doesnt want to scrap cash to fight climate change Comment sadapter +4C en France - ADEME Infos : l'adaptation, c'est maintenant !
Study Shows Natural Regrowth Of Tropical Forests Has Immense Potential To Address Environmental Concerns
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New on our blog! Climate Justice or Market Expansion Unpacking COP29s Financing Decisions Vancouver council votes to keep natural gas heating ban for new homes
A proposal to remove Vancouver's ban of natural gas for heating and water in new builds has failed after two days of discussion by councillors.
Vancouver council votes to keep natural gas heating ban for new homes
A motion to remove Vancouver's ban of natural gas for heating and water in new builds has failed after two days of discussion by councillors.
Brazilian Emissions Trading System Approved by the National Congress , Investors balance net zero with fiduciary duty and climate scepticism Climate Change Big win for progressive and climate groups going up against very powerful interests - Vancouver council has banned gas going into new housing - and it split the right wing coalition There is hope Tell President Biden: Stop These Fossil Fuel Projects While You Still Can Evergreen Collaborative
Going to also begin a thread of the earthworks & planting we're doing on the West side of the house. We're starting our most intensive efforts at regeneration & food production near the house, and working outward. This fall our focus has been this area: planting mesquite guilds including nopales (prickly pear cacti), jojoba, and elderberries in addition to the trees themselves. Some of our started trees are bigger and ready to support the other plants, or plants have been added if other structures or trees provide enough shade to support them. Some will stand alone until they're prepared to support other plants. It's important to zoom into an area to focus, but to always zoom out to see the picture of the land holistically.
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Sues Major Over Ongoing Deception About The lawsuit follows similar suits by eight other states and the District of Columbia against major oil companies, all alleging complicity in climate change. Those states are New Jersey, California, Delaware, Minnesota, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Story by Nina Golgowski
November 27, 2024 "The state of Maine has filed a lawsuit against five major oil companies and their top lobbying group, accusing them of carrying out a decades-long disinformation campaign about climate change and their contribution to it in order to maximize profits. "Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, in his lawsuit filed Tuesday in state court, accuses Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco and the American Petroleum Institute of withholding internal knowledge about fossil fuels catastrophic effects all while spinning public doubt. "'For over half a century, these companies chose to fuel profits instead of following their science to prevent what are now likely irreversible, catastrophic climate effects,' said Frey in a statement. 'In so doing, they burdened the State and our citizens with the consequences of their greed and deception.'" Read more:
Right here! Right now! New roles for energy efficiency in an electrified energy system , , How much does the fossil fuel industry fund medical research , Unprecedented climate extremes are everywhere. Our baselines for whats normal will need to change What a Trump administration means for the federal hydrogen energy push , , Traditional as well as modern versions are also very effective against . I found fascinating -- and not surprising. We need to look to for inspiration, and use materials to build structures that can withstand . + ! If folks in are noticing a drop in shearwater populations, this may be why. Spoiler alert: this is a sad story. The role of in polar and by Tim Woollings, et al. 13 Jan 2023 Abstract: "Recent Arctic warming has fuelled interest in the weather and climate of the polar regions and how this interacts with lower latitudes. Several interesting theories of polar-midlatitude linkages involve Rossby wave propagation as a key process even though the meridional gradient in planetary vorticity, crucial for these waves, is weak at high latitudes. Here we review some basic theory and suggest that Rossby waves can indeed explain some features of polar variability, especially when relative vorticity gradients are present. "We suggest that large-scale polar flow can be conceptualised as a mix of geostrophic turbulence and Rossby wave propagation, as in the midlatitudes, but with the balance tipped further in favour of turbulent flow. Hence, isolated vortices often dominate but some wavelike features remain. As an example, quasi-stationary or weakly westward-propagating subpolar anomalies emerge from statistical analysis of observed data, and these are consistent with some role for wave propagation. The noted persistence of polar cyclones and anticyclones is attributed in part to the weakened effects of wave dispersion, the mechanism responsible for the decay of midlatitude anomalies in downstream development. We also suggest that the vortex-dominated nature of polar dynamics encourages the emergence of annular mode structures in principal component analyses of extratropical circulation. "Finally, we consider how Rossby waves may be triggered from high latitudes. The linear mechanisms known to balance localised heating at lower latitudes are shown to be less efficient in the polar regions. Instead, we suggest the direct response to sea ice loss often manifests as a heat low, with radiative cooling balancing the heating. If the relative vorticity gradient is favourable this does have the potential to trigger a Rossby wave response, although this will often be weak compared to waves forced from lower latitudes." Read more:
Unexplained Are Popping Up Across the Globe Kevin Krajick
November 26, 2024 "Earths hottest recorded year was 2023, at 2.12 degrees F above the 20th-century average. This surpassed the previous record set in 2016. So far, the 10 hottest yearly average temperatures have occurred in the past decade. And, with the hottest summer and hottest single day, 2024 is on track to set yet another record. "All this may not be breaking news to everyone, but amid this upward march in average temperatures, a striking new phenomenon is emerging: distinct regions are seeing repeated heat waves that are so extreme, they fall far beyond what any model of global warming can predict or explain. A new study provides the first worldwide map of such regions, which show up on every continent except Antarctica like giant, angry skin blotches. In recent years these heat waves have killed tens of thousands of people, withered crops and forests, and sparked devastating wildfires. "'The large and unexpected margins by which recent regional-scale extremes have broken earlier records have raised questions about the degree to which climate models can provide adequate estimates of relations between global mean temperature changes and regional climate risks,' says the study. "'This is about extreme trends that are the outcome of physical interactions we might not completely understand,' said lead author Kai Kornhuber, an adjunct scientist at the Columbia Climate Schools Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. 'These regions become temporary hothouses.' Kornhuber is also a senior research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. "The study was just published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." "The study looks at heat waves over the past 65 years, identifying areas where extreme heat is accelerating considerably faster than more moderate temperatures. This often results in maximum temperatures that have been repeatedly broken by outsize, sometimes astonishing, amounts. For instance, a nine-day wave that hammered the U.S. Pacific Northwest and southwestern Canada in June 2021 broke daily records in some locales by 30 degrees C, or 54 F. This included the highest ever temperature recorded in Canada, 121.3 F, in Lytton, British Columbia. The town burned to the ground the next day in a wildfire driven in large part by the drying of vegetation in the extraordinary heat. In Oregon and Washington state, hundreds of people died from heat stroke and other health conditions. "These extreme heat waves have been hitting predominantly in the last five years or so, though some occurred in the early 2000s or before. The most hard-hit regions include populous central China, Japan, Korea, the Arabian peninsula, eastern Australia and scattered parts of Africa. Others include Canadas Northwest Territories and its High Arctic islands, northern Greenland, the southern end of South America and scattered patches of Siberia. Areas of Texas and New Mexico appear on the map, though they are not at the most extreme end. "According to the report, the most intense and consistent signal comes from northwestern Europe, where sequences of heat waves contributed to some 60,000 deaths in 2022 and 47,000 deaths in 2023. These occurred across Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and other countries. Here, in recent years, the hottest days of the year are warming twice as fast the summer mean temperatures. The region is especially vulnerable in part because, unlike places like the United States, few people have air conditioning, because traditionally it was almost never needed. The outbreaks have continued. In September, new maximum temperature records were set in Austria, France, Hungary, Slovenia, Norway and Sweden. Well into October, many parts of the U.S. Southwest and California saw record temperatures for the month more typical of midsummer. "The researchers call the statistical trends 'tail-widening'that is, the anomalous occurrence of temperatures at the far upper end, or beyond, anything that would be expected with simple upward shifts in mean summer temperatures. But the phenomenon is not happening everywhere the study shows that maximum temperatures across many other regions are actually lower than what models would predict. These include wide areas of the north-central United States and south-central Canada, interior parts of South America, much of Siberia, northern Africa and northern Australia. Heat is increasing in these regions as well, but the extremes are increasing at similar or lower speed than what changes in average would suggest. "Climbing overall temperatures make heat waves more likely in many cases, but the causes of the extreme heat outbreaks are not entirely clear. In Europe and Russia, an earlier study led by Kornhuber blamed heat waves and droughts on wobbles in the jet stream, a fast-moving river of air that continuously circles the northern hemisphere. Hemmed in by historically frigid temperatures in the far north and much warmer ones further south, the jet stream generally confines itself to a narrow band. But the Arctic is warming on average far more quickly than most other parts of the Earth, and this appears to be destabilizing the jet stream, causing it to develop so-called Rossby waves, which suck hot air from the south and park it in temperate regions that normally do not see extreme heat for days or weeks at a time." Read more:
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Climate Change Is the Real National Security Threat , It's more likely that there is no new normal baseline. From here, onwards, each year will bring new, unanticipated each year outdoing the previous one, with never before seen from droughts and heatwaves, torrential rains, 1000 year floods. The new normal is, there is no baseline normal. to phase-out coal and gas power within 15 years The Indonesian government plans to phase out all coal-fired and fossil fuel power plants by 2040. Fossil fuels accounted for 81% of Indonesias electricity generation capacity between 2018 and 2023, making this ambitious transition a highly positive step toward a cleaner energy future. Unprecedented climate extremes are everywhere. Our baselines for whats normal will need to change EDIT: Link to article: Melon Husk Publicly Targets Federal Workers by Posting Their Names Online: His recent posts targeting workers in climate-related government roles. Melon Husk Publicly Targets Federal Workers by Posting Their Names Online: His recent posts targeting workers in climate-related government roles. Hinweis auf einen verwandten Artikel: Essay zur Klimakrise Sloterdijk sieht grn 09.06.2023
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Australia: Senate committee sets out proposals to deal with climate-driven insurance unaffordability The Senate Select Committee has presented its report on the "Impact of Climate Risk on Insurance Premiums and Availability" that contains recommendations that seek to address the immediate challenges of insurance unaffordability arising from climate risk, while providing longer-term solutions for communities Maine Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change Deception Ariana Bindman: California scientists accidentally find nuclear fever dream in Arctic snow: A Cold War relic, Camp Century was supposed to be entombed in ice forever "NASAs April 2024 expedition to the Greenland Ice Sheet was supposed to play out like every other geological research mission. At the time, scientist Chad Greene was soaring above the barren landscape in a Gulfstream III, a small aircraft previously used to transport astronauts returning from Kazakhstan to Houston after completing various space missions. The coder and satellite specialist, along with a team of engineers, was closely monitoring the radar as it mapped the 1,380-mile-long terrains hidden, icy layers. But when they took a photo, they noticed something unusual: a cluster of turquoise dots in a vast expanse of noisy black nothingness that beckoned to them like a siren song."
Inside the Plastic Industrys Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a tide of anti-plastic sentiment.
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