The Trump administration is now disappearing climate change data.

The administration is planning to suspend data collection for emissions for roughly 10 years-- until 2034.

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So, any other news yesterday
Anything important

I live in constant fear: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkeys farmers

Another dramatic example for climate change having a direct effect on water resources and habitability of a whole agricultural region!

Wissen frs Kopfkissen:

Wie luft es eigentlich mit dem

Der Kohleausstieg bezeichnet den schrittweisen Stopp der Strom- und aus . Dabei geht es nicht nur um die , sondern auch um die Heiz- und Prozessanlagen der und den . Wie sieht es aktuell mit dem Verbrauch von und weltweit aus und machen wir Fortschritte

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater directly into rivers and streams.

The new permit would apply to water that circulates through all current or future data centers, regardless of location.

Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too - Slashdot

"takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat" before a person gets smart -- and that on a per-query basis, AI has "probably already caught up on an energy efficiency basis."

... UP!!! ...

host Bentley: "Is there any universe in which, right now, we can say that Canada is behaving like an electro state and not a petro state"

Canadian Energy Writer Markham Hislop: "No."

In der trkischen Provinz bedrohen immer mehr die .

Sinkende , extreme und wasserintensive Anbaumethoden beschleunigen den Einsturz von Bden. Fast 700 Krater wurden erfasst, viele Seen sind verschwunden. Bauern verlieren Felder und Einkommen.

Fachleute fordern daher weniger wasserintensive Kulturen und eine Rckkehr zur .

Southern Right Whales Are Having Fewer Calves Scientists Say a Warming Ocean Is to Blame.

After decades of recovery from commercial whaling, climate change is now threatening the whales future.

If every adult in the UK sent one less thank you email, it could save 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year, according to the energy company, OVO. This would be the equivalent of taking 3,334 diesel cars off the road, or taking 81,152 flights to Madrid

Are you aware of any interesting depictions of disaster response and relief in art

I'm especially interested in community collaboration, rebuilding, not just "handing out the care packages".

I quote : "It's going UP! Even if you flip the chart upside down, it's going up! So it doesn't matter if sometimes it's cold in Cincinnati, because the line keeps going the f*ck UP!!!"

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"What we're seeing is a gradual shift in blood chemistry that mirrors the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide which is driving climate change," A/Prof Larcombe said.

"If current trends continue, modeling indicates average bicarbonate levels could approach the upper limit of today's accepted healthy range within 50 years,"

"Calcium and phosphorus levels could also reach the lower end of their healthy ranges later this century."

Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows.

Researchers find that across 195 US cities, winters are on average nine days shorter than they were in 1970-1997.

Noch einmal : "They must learn climate."

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Environment and Climate Change Canada press secretary Keean Nembhard wrote in an emailed statement to DeSmog that the governments clean energy regulations continue to apply in all provinces and territories and will require electricity-generating units to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

However, Nembhard added, data centres with their own power generation, not connected to the commercial grid, would not be covered by the regulation.

This effort aims to protect 60 million acres of the Amazon rain forest.

The partnership empowers Indigenous people to steward the land by growing the markets for goods like acai, Brazil nuts, honey, and sustainable rubber.

And before you ask "what about the water" for cooling, who ever said we could only use water for cooling Do run on water Force to build their , or otherwise, using for EVERYTHING and that's our getting funded & built

Weird!

The prediction is for temps in the mid 70's today in the but back to the mid 60's tomorrow.

WTF

And just SIGN IT

yes. Very interesting paper : and caused in 2018-2020 a strong tree mortality and thus a widespread across Central Europe. The authors observed post-disturbance regeneration in nearly 900 plots across 10 countries : the good news: recovery was robust. The bad news : 75% of the regenerating seedlings are projected to be **outside of their climatic niche** by the end of the century under even moderate (RCP4.5)
This suggests to me that "leaving forests alone" is not the best way to adapt them to . There is just not sufficient local

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New field data from West Antarctica reveal that meltwater provides far less iron than scientists once believed. Instead, most of the iron comes from deep ocean water and sediments, not from the melting ice itself. The discovery raises new questions about how Antarctica influences climate change

Climate Action councilmember: High utility costs are caused by U.S. gas exports, not the energy transition

"The then Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, promised in 1989 that privatisation would deliver higher investment."

It sure did. Shareholder profits over everything.

The southern region was impacted by an atmospheric river that gained additional moisture by passing over a marine heatwave in the Atlantic
Our colleagues at climatecentral.org found that this marine heatwave was made 10x more likely by The storms caused over 50 deaths and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in Morocco, and caused billions of Euros in damages.

You can read the full study here: 5/5

High School Science Proves Climate Change

Can the deniers use that level of scientific logic to debunk

"a permit authorized Enbridge to withdraw roughly five billion gallons of freshwater from wetlands and aquifers for the construction of the pipeline, depleting water in a region where wild rice depends on stable levels of clean water to survive....threats to manoomin look different but no less serious. disrupts the seasonal rhythms on which wild rice depends, while mining and development projects threaten water quality." JSTOR article

Malawian communities are increasingly aware of climte change and their rights in the face of its impacts, but women remain largely excluded from meaningful decision-making despite being routinely included in climate discussions, according to a new study by the Civil Society Network on Climate Change, writes

So-called Net Zero Flights Flush Rainforest Carbon Into the Sky

Virgin Atlantic airlines now uses a technology it claims will result in Net Zero flights. However experts and researchers have lambasted this #aviation and #palmoil industry promotion as #greenwashing. They cite problematic evidence that using Sustainable Aviation Fuel or #SAF in #airlinefuel will undermine goals of . In the meantime, despite the greenwash and industry spin, SAF is poised to flush gigatonnes of #rainforest #carbon into the sky exacerbating #climatechange. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife

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Written by Ben Webster for Open Democracy, . Republished under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

Virgin Atlantic and the UK government have been accused of misleading the public over what they claim will be the worlds first net zero transatlantic flight ahead of next weeks  summit.

The  said the flight, scheduled for Tuesday, was ushering in a new era of guilt-free flying because it will run entirely on so-called (SAF).

But openDemocracy  concerns earlier this year that SAF production in the UK may be  to deforestation.

There are some incredible double standards at play here, said Matt Finch, UK policy manager of green campaign group Transport & Environment.

The is largely dependent on used cooking oil from Asia where sellers are suspected of passing off unused palm oil as waste in order to attract lucrative credits. This is a particular problem for the environment, as producing palm oil drives deforestation.

Virgin last year bought more than 600,000 litres of used cooking oil from China and to turn into SAF and mix with regular fuel for routine flights. Although it says the raw material for next weeks flight from London to New York will come purely from Europe and the US, the airline admitted it was still buying feedstocks from Asia for further SAF production this year.

Some British airlines are right now greenwashing themselves by using used cooking oil made from Asian feedstocks, said Finch.

If airlines were genuinely trying to be sustainable, they would stop right now because of the huge risk of rogue palm oil getting into the SAF supply chain.

Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is a biofuel alternative to using fossil fuels for powering planes and cars. SAF is being aggressively marketed by multiple industries as a greener alternative to burning fossil fuels in cars and airplanes.

However, SAF is produced from food crops such as rapeseed, palm oil, soy and sugar cane. This

Net zero target

The aviation industry  that SAF which is almost all made from either biofuel crops or waste could deliver around 65% of the reduction in emissions needed for airlines to reach net zero in 2050.

Under the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO), the government allows used cooking oil to be used to make the fuel. It currently accounts for the vast majority of SAF declared in the UK, most of which comes from Asia.

In 2024 alone, British airlines have  more than 26 million litres of used Asian cooking oil including 18 million litres from Malaysia, five million from China and two million from Indonesia.

Only about 15% of the used cooking oil purchased by airlines in 2023 has come from European sources, mainly the UK and the Netherlands.

Investigations  there is a high risk of fraud in the supply of biofuel from Asia, with particular concern over virgin palm oil being passed off as used cooking oil.

Labelling virgin palm oil as used makes it more valuable, partly because waste products earn double credits under the UK governments rules for sustainable fuels.

Even genuine used cooking oil can indirectly cause deforestation because countries export waste oil they would otherwise have used domestically, and instead use virgin palm oil to meet their own local demand, according to .

The campaign group says used cooking oil from Asia would be more effective at cutting emissions if it were used to replace diesel in road vehicles in the countries where it was produced rather than being shipped across the world to be refined, using additional energy, into jet fuel.

The Royal Society, which represents the UKs leading scientists, has also  that an would be needed to grow enough biofuel crops to meet existing aviation demand in the UK alone. Increased levels of recycling are also likely to mean less waste material is available for making the fuel.

Green fuel mandate

Commercial jet engines are currently allowed to burn a maximum of 50% SAF, which is blended with traditional kerosene jet fuel. But next weeks demonstration flight is expected to show that it is safe to use 100% SAF. It is being funded with a government grant of up to 1m.

It comes only weeks before the government is due to announce details about the so-called SAF mandate, which will require at least 10% of jet fuel in the UK to come from sustainable sources by 2030.

The Department for Transport (DfT) is planning to cap the amount of used cooking oil and animal fat that airlines can use to meet this obligation, because demand could divert the products away from efforts to decarbonise road transport.

The cap, though, could be as high as 250 million litres a year of waste fats and oils.

Finch of T&E said: The SAF mandate will be the biggest environmental regulation applied to UK aviation ever, and the government has a choice to make: should it carry on allowing SAF to be made from feedstocks that have dubious environmental benefits, or should it ensure that the sustainability criteria it sets genuinely achieve carbon reductions Used cooking oil should be banned from UK planes.

Undermining climate goals

Virgin and other UK airlines say their SAF has been certified by International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC), a scheme governed by a board that includes an executive from Air BP one of Virgins SAF suppliers.

ISCC has nonetheless taken some action over SAF mis-selling. It launched an  this year into potentially fraudulent behaviour involving biodiesel that had been declared as waste from Indonesia or Malaysia and then exported from China to Europe.

It also  the sustainability certification of three Chinese biofuel exporters and last month  to clamp down on fraud by implementing a traceability database by the end of the year.

A Virgin Atlantic spokesperson told openDemocracy: With all SAF purchases, we require suppliers to comply with applicable sustainability standards. In respect of HEFA (Hydrogenated Esters and Fatty Acids) SAF, we ask suppliers to ensure that feedstocks do not contain palm oil or its derivatives.

SAF is an emerging industry and we source feedstocks from regions around the world and ask that suppliers undertake robust due diligence to ensure there is no palm oil or derivatives.

However, the Aviation Environment Federation says the aviation industrys enthusiasm for SAF is obscuring the urgent need for genuinely sustainable solutions to aviation emissions, including development of zero emission aircraft and an overall reduction in flying.

Even if every drop of used cooking oil available globally were refined into jet fuel, there would only be enough to power about one in every 40 flights, according to estimates by sustainable fuel consultancy Cerulogy.

The aviation industry says it is developing alternative sources of sustainable aviation fuel, including non-edible industrial corn, forestry residues and household waste.

But a  in August by Manchester Metropolitan University challenged the industrys claims that sustainable aviation fuel can drastically cut emissions.

It said: The scaling up of SAF to not only maintain but grow global aviation is problematic as it competes for land needed for nature-based carbon removal, clean energy that could more effectively decarbonise other sectors, and captured CO2 to be stored permanently. As such, SAF production undermines global goals of limiting warming to 1.5C.

Cait Hewitt, policy director of the Aviation Environment Federation, said one flight using 100% SAF will make no difference to the fact that only 2.6% of UK aviation fuel is anything other than kerosene. And globally, the figure is more like 0.1%.

She said the industry and DfT were wrong to suggest that waste-based SAF could be scaled up sustainably.

Its a nice idea to make fuel out of rubbish, which is what the UK government and others are pushing for, but producing more rubbish to turn into plane fuel is pretty obviously not a sustainable long-term option.

She also said it was misleading to claim, as the , that SAF cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 70%.

Even using 100% SAF, as with the forthcoming Virgin Atlantic flight, reduces tailpipe emissions by 0% compared with using kerosene. Any CO2 savings will be net savings, just as with carbon offsets.

She said the flight would not achieve any net CO2 savings unless Virgin and the DfT could demonstrate that more carbon had been captured than would have happened anyway.

A Department for Transport spokesperson said: Our sustainable aviation fuel programme is one of the most comprehensive in the world.

We require that the fuel used for the 100% SAF flight must meet the specified sustainability criteria. However, it is for the operator and their fuel suppliers to determine the exact nature of the fuel within these parameters. Fuel suppliers are subject to independently verified checks to confirm the authenticity of their materials.

Written by Ben Webster for Open Democracy, . Republished under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

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