The Rising Cost of the Oil Industrys Slow Death
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Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.

Transform Trade: The UK is leaving the !

Today (21/2/2022) the UK Government finally announced that it would begin the process of exiting the Energy Charter Treaty! This is a massive win and comes off the back of years of campaigning by dedicated people.

The is an outdated international agreement that gives fossil fuel companies the right to sue Governments when their plans to combat the climate crisis harm potential future profits.

: Staggering rise of rooftop solar to put all other power generation in the shade

"The capacity of will soon exceed that of , and combined in 's main grid. There is already almost 20GW of in Australia, but this is forecast to more than triple in coming decades."

Planet Mark Certification for Branded Garden Products - owners of Thompson & Morgan and Suttons - for commitment towards combatting climate change.

Finally! Genuinely good news as this treaty had potential to hold the transition back through lawsuits.

UK quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies Climate crisis The Guardian

The impacts of and natural hazards dominated global headlines in #2023, and with the UK's Met Office suggesting that global temperatures for #2024 could surpass last years records, the likelihood of yet another year defined by extreme events and severe storms is highly likely:  

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Just a dumb question, wasnt technology supposed to be climate friendly as we shifted from legacy tech of pens and papers

Me: Drinking out of a paper straw and watching my potato based spork turn into potato soup.

This kid trying to afford rent...

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Look at this gift from CopernicusECMWF Service. The data available for us, the less code-literate storytellers.

Take the time to explore it. Amazing tool

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The Government didnt want to publish these climate risk tables here they are -

The Good Law Project has taken the UK Government to court to force them to release their own assessment of the risks to their plans to meet their legally binding climate targets.

To mitigate , it is crucial to stop using all and to ramp up electricity production. So how long does have a Future Catch up with the recording of our recent seminar at

Even as demand for coal has slumped nationwide, mining companies have pushed federal land managers to open up more land for exploration particularly in the western U.S., citing its location as a possible continued export market to countries such as China.

Its not yet clear how Biden will respond to Wednesday's ruling or how soon new leasing could resume on federal public land.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Always overturning the good things.

I quit my job at the end of 2023. Partially because of burnout, partially for other reasons, but mainly because I want to help.

I moved to the to be able to enjoy the beauty of big and the it can offer. Two years ago I started (amongst others) . It was the best time of my life. Now I'm afraid that it was effectively the last good season. This picture was taken on 2024-02-20. The sportsting should be at full swing till end of April, with cover fully reaching the village down there ().

Even though it's not my expertise I want to work on the topics of and . I don't really care about the bucks given for the , but I want to make sure that there is a future where I can actually spend those bucks.

Some species such as mountain ash are not coping with pressures such as logging and climate change, while thin-barked snow gums are struggling to cope with new fire regimes. Every living thing has limits

The first 3 weeks of February were as warm as a normal April, here in the Netherlands: average 8.9C, that's about 5C warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for February.
Given the forecast, the whole month will definitely be the warmest February on record too.

17% of EU in drought due to climate change

- Company fined over massive leak

Growth in CO2 emissions leaves China likely to miss climate targets

... "After years of extraordinarily rapid growth, China is now grappling with a slowdown that is causing ripples internally and internationally. The government has supercharged the growth of the renewable energy industry but it has simultaneously poured stimulus funds into construction and manufacturing, and continues to approve coal power."

The Dispossessed

North East Syria

I realised this whole thread is relevant to , as well as

After all, its the big oil companies who are behind The Atlas Network. Of course their #1 interest is protecting Big Oil.

Did anyone hear the RNZ story on Nine to Noon about plastic & how recycling is a farce

Its here for anyone who is interested: Plastics recycling was a green-washing lie all along - report author

I remember about 15 years ago cutting out plastic use, switching to metal, glass, paper/cardboard, etc, & afterwards wishing that if i had to do it all again, Id have kept our plastics for re-use.

Anyway, recycling is a have & always has been.

The biodiversity crisis is not often in the focus or rhetoric from political decision makers because, unlike , you cant try to sell it as fixable with just more technology and growth.

On the contrary, the main drivers of it are due to human activity and behaviour, of course including, but not only, climate change. So whoever wants to solve it or at least mitigate it has to go deep into our industrial-consumer values.

Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics by Paul G. Harris

This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of global environmental politics.

B.C.s carbon tax not to blame for affordability crisis: UCalgary study CityNews

The world needs "trillions" of dollars to spur on the green transition and tackle global warming, the head of last year's COP28 climate talks has said, warning that political momentum can evaporate without clear action.

Global Crisis: Groundwater Levels Are Sinking Ever Faster Around the World

(More not very good news. It's not just but overuse and poor management of resources also).

The is a key , , and that must not become a .

Sentinels of the sea: ancient boulder corals are key to reef survival in a warmer world

Weather expert says Hurrican scale isn't up to measurement of new that is causing. Even measurements are affected by

The average temperature in Europe is about to drop 5C when the AMOC fails.

February average precipitation (melted snow plus rain) 50-year change in and around Alaska. Western Alaska into the central Interior typically sees much more precip nowadays than in Februarys of yesteryear. The slight drying in Southeast Alaska is not (statistically) significant. Data from ERA5 courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus.

Second presidency would axe agenda, gut energy regulators

"U.S. President has spent years implementing programs to fight by advancing and imposing tougher on . Much of that work could go up in smoke if his likely rival beats him at the polls in November, according to policy advisers."

"At the end of the day, all of the best available research shows that having robust ecosystems, like healthy forests & grasslands are our best reservoirs for water, right They've long adapted with it, having a healthy forest that's not logged or clear cut logged."

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The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution Scientific American