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This is an ancient tradition in many Asian countries, it’s not new. Jute, hemp, other natural materials used widely. Bamboos still make furnitures.
But the quick-fix climate solution-givers from capitalists present it as ‘novel’. What’d they think people used before plastics?🤔
#climatechange #climatesolutions #plasticpollution


More than 90% of emperor penguin colonies are predicted to be all but extinct by the end of the century, as the continent's seasonal sea-ice withers in an ever-warming world.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66492767


So I totaled my car a few days ago.

If I had access to public transportation I could have carried on with my life while building up my finances for an EV or at least an hybrid.
But no.
Because states and cities refuse to invest into correct public transportation I had literally no choice but to get a cheap gas one in a hurry.

This really pisses me off.

I'll never say it loud enough: public transportation is fundamental to fight both social inequality and climate change.

#climatechange #publictransport #carculture #ev #hybrid #socialinequality


‘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


'An Important Step Forward': Deep-Sea Mining Not Approved During International Talks - EcoWatch

“Thus far, 21 countries have expressed their support of a ban, moratorium or precautionary pause on deep-sea mining, including new supporters Finland, Brazil, Portugal and Canada.” #stopdeepseamining #climatechange #marineecology

https://www.ecowatch.com/deep-sea-mining-international-seabed-authority.html


The surface temperature of the world’s oceans has hit its highest ever level as climate breakdown from burning fossil fuels causes the oceans to heat.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/04/oceans-hit-highest-ever-recorded-temperature


So, we shouldn't expect climate change to happen gradually, but rather abruptly.
And this was known in 1975.#ClimateChange #Science


Scientists are accustomed to gradual change.

But for a large part of Wally Broecker's career — based on paleoclimate evidence — he was obsessed with the idea of abrupt climate change that arrives suddenly and dramatically.

Looks like Wally was right.

https://doi.org/10.1038/328123a0

NATURE VOL. 328 9 JULY 1987 COMMENTARY 

Unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse? 

Wallace S. Broecker 

There is now clear evidence that changes in the Earth’s climate may be sudden rather than gradual. It is time to put research into the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on a better footing.

David Ho
bdonnelly


Hi Everyone 👋 We're thrilled to be part of the fediverse and make our #introduction.

We are Terraso, a free and open-source platform for environmental communities and landscapes. Our goal is to empower people doing conservation to gather data, share resources, create maps and communicate their stories.

Ready to join us on this transformative journey? Get started today at https://terraso.org and let's make a greener and more sustainable world.

#climateChange #opensource


Climate mini-rant coming...

When the seas are boiling and the sky is on fire, don't come crawling to science looking for help.

#Science has tried to help us for decades. Science saw this coming, crafted solutions, and shouted them from the rooftops. Those in power did not listen.

So, go pick a god and pray to it.

Appeal to the Kardashians.

Maybe Lebron James or Elon Musk will help.

Perhaps a podcast will intervene and save us,

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #HeatWave
Photo of a wildfire that is a raging inferno. A firefighter in protective gear stands in the foreground with a hellish landscape of fire and smoke behind him.

Text reads : At least billionaires are getting richer.


In the U.S., recent annual estimates of bird deaths due to:

Cats = 2.4 billion bird deaths

Collisions from building glass = 600 million bird deaths

Land wind turbines = <200,000 bird deaths

Some politicians claim wind turbines “kill all the birds.”

But… they’re not really worried about birds. Rather, they prefer we stick with oil & gas over renewable #energy.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/ #climatechange


‘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.


#ClimateChange mitigation.

Wrong idea - The tech heads talk of constructing Carbon Capture machines. That would require hundreds of thousands of machines, more mining, more power consumption #fail

Right approach #nature

But, the photo of another deforested landscape. This is not wetland, Tree's used to & would grow here. Sheep keep it looking like this.

Photo taken in #Sheep District National Park, #England (officially called the Lake District National park)

#ClimateAction #ClimatePolicy
The photo shows a stream running through a deforested landscape. The only place where the odd tree grows is where humans or sheep couldn't get to them (e.g., on the vertical rocky crags).

As Tree's grow they capture carbon. To mitigate climate change we need to use solutions, big & small, that don't emit & or sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide


Quoting because I don't think I can get to them and the rest of the conversation is important. Saying "WE are consuming the oil" is technically correct as no other species on Earth has figured out how to do it, but this observation and four quarters gives you a full dollar.

Ultimately people use what is affordable for them, including availability and cost. Using alternatives to fossil fuels is currently more expensive, whether in research, time or straight up money. There are several reasons for this, subsidies and marketing playing no small part, but boiling this question down to personal responsibility is either ignorant of the larger picture or incredibly privileged as in "if I could do it, anybody else can easily do it".

#Environment #Ecology #ClimateChange #FossilFuels


Sure, I am aware of the greenwashing and B.S.
But as I say WE are consuming the oil.
@doctormo



"#Portugal has signed an agreement to swap #CapeVerde's debt for investments in an environmental and climate fund that is being established by the archipelago nation off West #Africa's coast... Such "debt-for-nature" swap deals are emerging in other countries and are part of attempts to resolve a dilemma faced by world leaders on how and who will foot the bill for actions taken to reduce the impact of #ClimateChange

#Portugal #CapeVerde #environment #debt #ClimateAction

https://youtu.be/bTkMMbz_n8Y


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.


Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years, new study warns

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/catastrophic-climate-doom-loops-could-start-in-just-15-years-new-study-warns

#TippingPoint #ClimateChange #nature #ecosystems #FossilFuels


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


Wealthy #tourists really are the worst: “Traveling to #Antarctica is a #carbonintensive activity. Flights and cruises must cross thousands of miles in extreme conditions, contributing to the #climatechange that is causing ice loss and threatening whales, seals, and penguins.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/antarctica-tourism-overcrowding-environmental-threat/674600/


“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.


It's wild to me that there's currently so much panic & fear about what #AI *might* do to "destroy" humanity, yet - at the same time - so little attention to the way that human behaviors are already, knowingly, putting billions of people & global biodiversity at tremendous risk. 🌍 #climatechange



This article is sickening to read. It perfectly encapsulates the disgusting horror of consumer capitalism at its very worst while presenting the stark difference in reality between the Global North and South.
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‘It’s like a death pit’
How Ghana became fast fashion’s dumping ground

https://archive.is/lC6Na#selection-913.0-913.71

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Pollution
Graphic illustrates in seven steps "How T-shirts donated to charity are causing pollution in Ghana."


Greta Thunberg, in her graduation dress, posing outside the Swedish Parliament with her School Strike for the Climate sign.



Oops!

I was planning to suggest that you reserve your space early for this event, but it's already sold out, almost instantly. Well, maybe they could arrange to stream the proceedings so that others can virtually attend?

Sunday, 13 August
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Greta Thunberg -- Special Event

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GretaThunberg

https://www.eif.co.uk/events/edinburgh-international-book-festival-greta-thunberg


Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg), from page 19 of The Climate Book:

"Most people today are living well within the planetary boundaries. It is only a minority of us who have caused this crisis and who keep driving it forward. The widely popular argument that ‘there are too many people’ is a very misleading one. Population does matter, but it is not people who are causing emissions and depleting the Earth, it is what *some* people do. It is some people’s habits and behavior, in combination with our economic structures, that are causing the catastrophe."

GET THE BOOK -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #ClimateJustice
A photo of Greta Thunberg, holding a microphone and speaking at a rally -- shown along with the front cover of The Climate Book.


Greta Thunberg: "I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as if you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is."

#Canada #US
#FossilFuelsKill
#DontLookUp #fire #smoke
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
Greta Thunberg: "I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as if you would in a crisis.  I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is."


Chart that shows trends in atmospheric CO2 versus global temperature change.

CO2 concentration rises from ~315 ppm in 1962 to ~420 ppm in 2021. Chart is annotated with dates of international meetings to address climate change, none of which have had any appreciable effect.