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TROM II: Politicians vs Reality - https://videos.trom.tf/w/2nrAPGm3kRQbTSszdHtjcH

Let's put their promises face to face with reality.

#politics #climatechange #climate #capitalism #trade #money #environment


Just a few evolved apes that have learned to go to the toilet but don't even manage to maintain their own habitat.


#ape #earth #quote #future #environment #nature #pollution #apocalypse #humanity #Problem #capitalism #fail #Intelligence #climate



#Desert city of #Dubai #floods as heaviest #rainfall in 75 years hits #UAE


source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast

#Rain is unusual in the UAE but occurs periodically during the cooler winter months.


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#weather #climate #environment #earth #news #disaster


One is a billionaire who is selling all of his books, the other one is a quite-broke human who has the courage and decency to provide her book online for free. Trade-Free. No ads, no data collection, no subscribe-here-to-read bullshit.

That's the world in which we live. The ones who make a fortune are trained and incentivized to not even share their "must read" books for free, despite having so much wealth.

Oh look, Bill Gates released a book about "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"! It must be important.... so it is worth 18$ to read.

Grab @Sasha 's book from here https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - she also talks a lot about Climate Change, solutions, and a new kind of worldview.

#gates #climatechange #capitalism #TradeRuinsEverything #climate #billionaires


Title: Unequal Outcomes 
Description: Nations with large gaps between rich and poor tend to have worse health statistics, more violence, and worse pollution than do more equal countries.

Plot graph comparing differences between 22 different countries. Y-axis is an index of health, social, and environmental problems. X-axis is income inequality. The United States is the greatest outlier, performing badly in both measures. At the opposite end are mostly Scandinavian countries.


Global #warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year for the first time.


source: https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/worlds-first-year-long-breach-limit/

This year-long breach does not mean that the world has broken the #Paris #Climate #Agreement #limit, but it does bring it closer to doing so in the longer term. The 1.5C limit is a legally binding 2015 treaty with 195 signatories to set out a path for dealing with climate change.


#environment #news #fail #temperature #future #co2 #emissions #greenhouseEffect #earth



Do the right thing.

It may not always be clear at first what the right thing is. For example, recycling is fairly easy but accomplishes much less than something more difficult such as changing your diet or giving up your car.

Learn the differences, and do the right thing. 🤗

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #WarOnCars #BanCars

Graphic is titled: "Carbon Footprint Misconceptions." It lists eight actions that we as consumers might take in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint, and shows that some of those actions that we might think will make a high impact actually will not, such as recycling, whereas other actions, such as not having a car, will save greatly on emissions.


Expedia CEO Peter Kern has led the online travel agency for three years, from its pandemic nadir to the post-COVID surge in travel. With that experience, one trend he says he doesn’t see changing anytime soon is people traveling like there’s no tomorrow. What’s more, he says, people talk a good talk about climate change angst but are not modifying their behavior much

https://fortune.com/2023/10/06/expedia-ceo-travel-climate-change-rewards/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate


Message posted by Corporate Accountability and the Institute for Policy Studies. 

Message says: "Net Zero is Fake Zero. We need real emissions reductions, not gimmicks and false promises."


The priority should therefore not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink mobility in general

It’s true that fully electric vehicles do not emit waste products but the batteries that supply energy to the vehicle are made of minerals like lithium and cobalt which have an impact on climate change.

And those mines have incredible environmental and health impacts in the places that they exist

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/09/17/why-tech-companies-are-wrong-to-think-electric-cars-are-a-solution-to-climate-change

#pollution #ecology #environment #climate


This is not planet Earth as we found it. The world we’ve known all our lives is vanishing in front of our eyes.

Human civilization was built upon the certainty of a stable, predictable climate allowing consistently reliable agriculture producing decade after decade of steady economic growth and allowing huge, thriving coastal cities.

But now we're seeing what happens when human industry pumps a *trillion* tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in only a few decades, when we warm the oceans to levels never seen before, and when we threaten the survival of everything that makes our lives possible.

The past is gone. Continue to hope and work for the best, but *prepare* for the worst.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #CO2 #Emissions

Line graph shows levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 800,000 years. After a steady and predictable range of ups and downs, suddenly in the past century the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere shot off the charts.


‘We can’t escape’: #climatecrisis is driving up #costofliving in the US west
In what is already one of the most expensive states in the US, the #climate emergency is driving up the cost of living. Extreme #weather, #drought and drastic swings in temperature, all fueled by global heating, are affecting utility costs and #insurance premiums, exacerbating housing shortages and causing food prices to go up.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/climate-crisis-cost-of-living-energy-water-california #climatechange


This is like dinosaurs having their picture taken with an asteroid. #funny #climate
Park rangers posing  in desert with temperature meter showign 132F / 55 C.


‘We are damned fools’: #scientist who sounded #climate alarm in #1980s warns of worse to come
James Hansen, who testified to #Congress on #globalwarmng in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new #climate frontier’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning #climatechange #climatecrisis

Things we talked about in 1999 as being detectable by 2100, are easily found now in 2023 and have been for years!


Flames engulf a house as a wildfire burns in Saronida, near Athens, Greece, on Monday.



It takes a village…

…of billionaires to wreck a planet.

They don’t need to have a majority, or anything even close to a plurality. All it takes is a few thousand sociopathic billionaires — the population of a village — to take full control of everything and then completely ruin our livable biosphere while further enriching themselves.

The scale on the image below is NOT exaggerated. In less than two centuries, and especially just within the last 30 years, capitalist oligarchs have burned so much coal, oil, and gas that our climate system simply can’t handle it.

It’s almost out of control now. But the people who are to blame have names and addresses.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #CO2 #Emissions #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

Image source — http://climateemergencydeclaration.org/climatemessaging/
Graphic shows average global temperature from 20,000 BC until the present, then extended until 2100. Also indicated are the safe climate temperature zone, the rise of human civilization, the start of the industrial revolution, and the extreme temperature danger zones that we will reach before 2050 and before 2100 if current policies are not changed.


Line graph shows average world temperatures from 1979 until today, with 2023 trending far above the average, now into record territory.
Graph shows "monthly global sea surface temperature departure from 20th century average." The trend is steadily upward from 1900 until 2023, with a new record in June of this year


Monday, July 3 was the hottest day EVER recorded on Earth. A hugely significant record that stood...

... a mere 24 hours when Tuesday, July 4 broke the record for hottest day ever measured.

This is the #climate crisis. Every day is record-breaking, every day is heartbreaking.
Chart of world average daily temperature for each year since 1979.

Each line represents a year between 1979 and 2023. A gap in the data at the end of February is due to leap years being included.

Chart show July 4, 2023 has temperature peak of 17.18 degrees celsius.

Source: Climate Reanalyzer

Graphic: Krystina Shveda and Byron Manley, CNN

Reuters headline: World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3

Washington Post headline: This July 4 was hot. Earth’s hottest day on record, in fact.


“If a few decades ago, some people might have thought climate change was a relatively slow-moving phenomenon, we are now witnessing our climate changing at a terrifying rate,” says Professor Peter Stott, who leads the UK Met Office’s climate monitoring team. “As the El Niño builds through the rest of this year, adding an extra oomph to the damaging effects of human-induced global heating, many millions of people across the planet and many diverse ecosystems are going to face extraordinary challenges and unfortunately suffer great damage.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/03/a-perfect-storm-scientists-ponder-if-climate-has-entered-a-new-erratic-era

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency


Chart showing "Monthly averages of atmospheric CO2 as recorded at Mauna Loa in Hawaii."

Amounts of CO2 rapidly climb from ~325 ppm in 1960 to ~418 ppm in 2020. 

Graphic also notes when various meetings were held and agreements were made to limit or reduce carbon emissions. None of this has had any effect.


This is a good primer, if you or someone you know needs a basic understanding of how climate change works and how damaging its effects can be...

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-are-effects-climate-change

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency


What is the hottest temperature you have experienced?

Please boost to increase sample size.

#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#climate

  • 47 to 50C (23%, 293 votes)
  • 45 to 46C (17%, 215 votes)
  • 40 to 44C (45%, 570 votes)
  • 35 to 39C (14%, 179 votes)
1257 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago



Relevant to my previous post, here is another article about the tragic ongoing loss of biodiversity.

TITLE -- "Biodiversity: State of Emergency"

Key points:

◘ By 2050, 38-46% of animal and plant species could be wiped out from the planet.

◘ Of particular concern are Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, which are more vulnerable to soil impoverishment.

◘ Within 30 years, the number of people living in arid regions could rise from 2.7 to 4 billion, increasing the risk of migration crises.

◘ Land degradation and climate change, leading to declining crop yields and social and economic instability, are likely to force 50-700 million people to migrate by the middle of the century.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/biodiversity-state-of-emergency

#Nature #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Extinction
Photo of a lone elephant crossing the savannah in Africa.