The Doomsday Glacier is rapidly melting. Scientists now have evidence for when it started and why CNN

"How will the increased frequency of coastal inundation events induced by sea level rise impact residential insurance premiums, and when would insurance contracts be withdrawn"

=>Insurance retreat in residential properties from future sea level rise in Aotearoa New Zealand

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"ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action"

Un F-cking believable. These are basic SLAPP techniques to stall things. Disgusting, but certainly not unexpected.

CEO blames public for failure to fix

"The world isnt on track to meet its goals and its the publics fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists.

Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods told editors from Fortune that the world has waited too long to begin investing in a broader suite of technologies to slow planetary heating. ..."

I have no words for that.

"There are noticeably fewer and for you and I to watch in our gardens, parks and the beautiful . Butterflies and moths play a vital role in pollinating wild and crop plants including strawberries, cucumbers and apples.."

Three ways is pushing butterflies and moths to their limits

Climate change: February became the warmest on record, with spring-like conditions causing early blooming in Japan to Mexico, snow melting in European ski resorts, and temperatures rising to 38 C in Texas.

Some good news - "We dont need air con: how builds that stay cool in 40C " - Architects use local materials and merge traditional techniques with modern technology to make schools and orphanages cool, welcoming places.

The Noomdo orphanage was another of his projects. The Kr building provides us with good thermal comfort because when its hot, were cool, and when its cold, were warm inside, says Pierre Sanou, a social educator at the orphanage near the city of Koudougou in the Centre-Ouest (centre-west) region of Burkina Faso. We dont need air conditioning, which is an incredible energy saving, says Sanou. Temperatures in this region of the world remain at about 40C (104F) during the hottest season.

Kr builds with local materials from our territory like laterite stone and uses very little concrete, says Sanou. Krs buildings in Burkina Faso are earthy. They start from the ground and take into account that concrete is a material that needs to be transported to the site, is much more expensive and generates waste. They are permeable buildings that seek the movement of natural air and protection from the sun. For example, they are built with very strong walls and very light roofs so that the cool air that enters from below pushes the hot air out from above, says Eduardo Gonzlez, a member of the Architecture School of Madrid.

One particularly ingenious innovation is his use of the ancient idea of raised and extended metal roofs. The rooms of Noomdo are covered by a shallow barrel vault resting on a concrete beam but with openings. Above, a metal plate protects the roof from direct sunlight and rain. Additionally, it lets out the hot air. Gonzlez says the technique can be found in the vernacular architecture of the Persian Gulf. In Burkina Faso, he says Kr integrates it into his projects and gives this technique a contemporary image."

The Global Resources Outlook 2024 is out now !

The pathway towards sustainability is increasingly steep and narrow, and the window of opportunity is closing. The science is clear: The key question is no longer whether a transformation towards global sustainable resource consumption and production is necessary, but how to make it happen now.

Read the newly published report here:

I told everyone that we were following the track on this.

One of the saddest studies I've read this year. What strategies motivate people to change their A gigantic work - 60K participants, 63 countries, 248 authors, tested 11 interventions, the most effective according to experts. The results the effect was almost 0, and sometimes even negative:

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Participants e.g. actively shared negative news about on social media, but this didn't lead to real action, but rather reduced tree planting.

Another "brilliant" idea that some believe is worth exploring to, potentially, solve a problem by creating another one that our children will have to deal with in the future.

The problem is that GHG emissions are rising, that is the problem which needs fixing and fast. The solution is simple, stop releasing fossil carbon into the atmosphere in the first place.

As for there being no evidence that stratospheric aerosols negatively impact worldwide ecosystems or food production. Try looking at what happened in 1816.

Here is how we go into this mess...

There is an interesting series of Country and by the . Check out this one for

Fire crews fought to contain a wildfire that grew to the largest on record in Texas history on Thursday after scorching more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares) of grassland and timber.

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time again. This time to support a combined effort of a worker's together with activists.

I figured those two things are important pillars of anyway.

So, ! If you have the time and energy, I'll see ya Invalidenpark in about 30-40 minutes (10am).

Edit: If the Berlin crowd could boost this for a little more spread, that'd be swell.

I'm pretty sure if your concern is that there are too many humans rather than a few humans are wildly overconsuming and we live in a system that drives overconsuming then I'm gonna block you.

Departing US climate envoy John Kerry has accused asset managers of turning away from science just weeks after a clutch of the worlds biggest investors stepped back from an industry group set up to tackle

Energy-related CO2 emissions hit record levels in 2023: IEA

Paris (AFP) Energy-related CO emissions rose to a record level in 2023, but the growth slowed from previous years thanks to continued expansion of clean technologies, the International Energy Agency said Friday.

"For the 1st time last year, at least half the power generated in advanced economies came from low-emissions sources like renewables and nuclear."

El Nio forecast to drive record heat from the Amazon to Alaska in 2024

The current climate event known as El Nio is likely to supercharge global heating and deliver record-breaking temperatures from the Amazon to Alaska in 2024, analysis has found.

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Brian Mulroney, the former Prime Minister of Canada passed away today. He obviously left a complicated legacy (his dealings with arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber were particularly hideous). However, his government was probably the last to seriously tackle environmental issues, including the treaty with the US to end acid rain, and leading the efforts to end the production of CFCs.

New analysis finds money from Bidens $1.2tn infrastructure bill has overwhelmingly been spent on widening highways for cars

>money has overwhelmingly poured into the maintenance and widening of roads rather than improving the threadbare network of bus, rail and cycling options available to Americans, a new analysis has found.

>Of reported funds dispersed to states, more than half around $70bn have been spent on the resurfacing and expansion of highways, a process that researchers have consistently found only spurs greater use of cars and therefore more congestion.

>This spending is a climate time bomb, according to the new Transportation for America analysis, which calculates that more than 178m tons of greenhouse gases will be emitted due to planned highway expansions by 2040,

The have been caught trying to ensure that the UK's reposes is potentially hobbled....

They know they're heading into (potential) electoral oblivion & want to ensure their toxic climate denial can be actioned via other means.

Luckily the devolved leaders spotted what they were doing.

We're tickled pink and admittedly a bit proud that our app originally created to help people think better about and dismiss has been adopted and adapted by to combat !

For small organizations such as ours this is an inspirational object lesson. Little pebbles can make astonishingly big ripples even in a globe-sized pond.

UNICEF tells the story of the new version. The original is at crankyuncle.com.

Linked vid contains a bit on the difference between doomers and pessimists. Well worth the watch imo.

Most important point: Don't be a doomer, keep at it, even is you think the pessimists are right.

This point applies in other areas than just climate. When you see no solution to a hairy monster of a problem, it is illogical to just give up.

**You can always try to come up with one tiny thing you can do that might have a small positive effect.**

So Exxon are blaming consumers for not tackling climate change

...whilst suing its own shareholders who aren't happy about its progress on net zero.

Ich wei zwar nicht, was und wo das DGT-Haus ist, aber die Teichstrae ist direkt am Hauptbahnhof, ihr wisst schon, die mit dem Astra-Kino.

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"Wer Pro-Auto-Politik macht, macht doch irgendwann Anti-Trans-Politik, macht doch irgendwann Anti-Klimapolitik, macht doch irgendwann Anti-Queere-Politik." (Tadzio Mller, ) Also kommet ziemlich zahlreich&zauberhaft.

Remember the misinformation campaigns, political bribery, sabotages and character assassinations that the industry unleashed on research and Now that the effects are too evident to hide, they reveal their new strategy - gaslight the rest of us for the failure to tackle it!

Never ever forget the greed, deviousness and utter disregard for life and the biosphere that they exhibited.

Extreme heat waves are already here, and they are killing tens of thousands of people. Blasting through 2 degrees Celsius of warming means theyll happen many times more frequently.

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Excellent talk. He excoriates the fossil fuel industry and the National Party. Really enjoyed it. This is interesting following Ross Garnaut's and Rod Simms' address to the NPC 2 weeks ago. I'm hoping it marks a reset in the national climate narrative.

These talks can be found here. Then do a lookup of National Press Club.

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NOAA proposes massive marine sanctuary filled with reefs, atolls, endangered aquatic life

"The area is home to multiple , including the Hawaiian and green sea . officials say the project will incorporate native Hawaiian expertise."

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