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It shouldn’t need to be said, but given some comments, let me be clear: This is not a post about harming cats.
The point is that special interests have been framing the narrative around renewables in ways that aren’t evidence based to influence public opinion away from supporting wind turbines & other technologies.
But we need to decrease our dependence on fossil fuels to address #ClimateChange. /3
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
Wind Turbines Are Not Killing Fields for Birds
This chart shows the annual estimated bird mortality for selected anthropogenic causes in the U.S.Sarah Feldman (Statista)
Can somebody help me understand this please: why would we ever give out carbon credits for not chopping down a forest? “Here’s a forest we shouldn’t cut down anyway. Because we’re not cutting it down, now you can burn more fossil fuels!”
NSW Liberal plan to generate carbon credits by ending logging in state forests snubbed by federal Labor
Exclusive: State ministers touted ‘significant carbon abatement’ plus benefits for threatened species and regional economiesPeter Hannam (The Guardian)
https://github.com/GreenAlgorithms/GreenAlgorithms4HPC/issues/9
#climatechange
Direct #climateaction in a #climateemergency
#co2monitoring in #HPC #highperformancecomputing will allow running big science with a lower #co2footprint . Getting insight is a first step and one within your programming experience (am in an exam phase, i can't give it the attention it deserves, also if you see this you rock too).
Please be friendly and constructive. I don't wanna hug this to death
Support for (near real time) time varying carbon intensity · Issue #9 · GreenAlgorithms/GreenAlgorithms4HPC
As suggested in Nanoseb/gqueue#2 there are power grids where there is a lot of deviation of the carbon intensity hour by hour (15 min by 15 min) over the year. See some of those: https://app.electr...GitHub
So excited to read @MichaelEMann’s new book, “Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons From Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis.”
Mann is an incredible climate scientist & storyteller. I have no doubt this will be a fantastic & hopeful must-read for 2023! #ClimateChange
Yes. This is #ClimateChange.
Fires, floods, heatwaves. Is extreme weather 'a new abnormal'?
Floods, fires, extreme heat, awful air quality, warming seas: As extreme weather engulfs the nation, the United States resembles a disaster movie set.Jenny Jarvie (Los Angeles Times)
You can make a huge impact on your own climate impact with this one weird trick: going plant-based. Animal ag is responsible for about half of global emissions.
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/02/01/new-model-explores-link-animal-agriculture-climate-change/
#vegan #ClimateChange https://mastodon.world/@MatthiasSchmelzer/110657312175019411
New model explores link between animal agriculture and climate change | Stanford News
Phasing out animal agriculture represents “our best and most immediate chance to reverse the trajectory of climate change,” according to a new model developed by scientists from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley.Stanford News
In pictures: South America's 'lithium fields' reveal the dark side of our electric future
Demand for lithium-ion batteries is unprecedented - but is mining the chemical harmful to the environment?Maeve Campbell (Euronews.com)
Hi Jen,
I have had a go at a Titanic analogy in my petition below:
I believe you/others might be interested in a petition for radical reform of the UN 🇺🇳, which has been vocal, but sadly largely ineffective, when faced with 21st century challenges such as #ClimateChange.
If indeed you are interested, the petition is accessible via toot:
An upcoming episode of Serving Up Science is all about how soil sustains life & is critical in conversations about #ClimateChange & #food security.
Here you can see two glasses where I poured water over tilled (left) & untilled (right) soil.
The details will be in the full episode, but the take home is that soil structure matters. Healthy soil prevents erosion & flooding, stores carbon, supports biodiversity & keeps our crops growing. 🌱
Pre-order your copy here: https://www.cambridge.org/9781107589926
#Climate #ClimateChange #Models
I don’t like to mention that rich guy over at #Twitter, but he’s rambling on about #ClimateChange & agriculture, which is in my wheelhouse. And he is also unabashedly & absurdly wrong.
Misinformation on climate change is irresponsible & dangerous, so let’s be clear:
25% to 30% of global emissions come from our #food system.
As UT Austin’s Michael Webber describes, agriculture is a major cause, victim and - importantly - meaningful solution to #climate change.
More at https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions-food
How much of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food?
Estimates of food emissions can range from one-quarter to one-third. Where do these differences come from?Our World in Data
I am literally finishing a dissertation on how scientific information has been valued & prioritized by Congressional staffers from the 20th century through the Biden administration.
So for now I’ll just say, if you’re interested in the relationships between #science policy, #ClimateChange, lobbyists, researchers, media & #scicomm, stay tuned… /2
As a scientist who studies #science policy & risk communication, as a science journalist who has been writing in popular outlets about #ClimateChange & #scicomm for 20 years, & as a former congressional staffer focused on #climate & #energy policy in the early 2000s… This article is frustrating.
“Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas”
"The wealthiest 10% are responsible for 1/2 of global CO2 emissions."
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop21-richest-10-per-cent-produce-half-the-world-s-co2-emissions-a6756511.html
COP21: Richest 10 per cent ‘produce half the world’s CO2 emissions’
Oxfam report comes as 150 world leaders descend on Paris for the first day of a two-week UN climate change summitTom Bawden (The Independent)
Hi Sheril,
I believe you/others might be interested in a petition for radical reform of the UN 🇺🇳, which has been vocal, but sadly largely ineffective, when faced with 21st century challenges such as #ClimateChange.
If indeed you are interested, the petition is accessible via toot:
COP21: Richest 10 per cent ‘produce half the world’s CO2 emissions’
Oxfam report comes as 150 world leaders descend on Paris for the first day of a two-week UN climate change summitTom Bawden (The Independent)
Whenever someone tells you that the climate crisis is a personal responsibility issue, show them this:
The climate crisis is a billionaires crisis, a trillion-dollar corporations crisis, a capitalism crisis, a systemic inequality crisis.
#climateChange #climateCrisis #climateCatastrophe #climate #corporatocracy #capitalism
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate changeTess Riley (The Guardian)
“The news coverage of the smoke palls swirling out of Canada across the East Coast has centered on the substantial threat to people suffering from asthma, heart disease & other ailments exacerbated by smoke inhalation.
This would be a great moment to remind North American audiences that much of the developing world lives, indoors & outside, with vastly worse smoke exposure.” https://revkin.substack.com/p/putting-the-awful-eastern-us-wildifre
Excellent perspective by @revkin on the US #wildfire smoke. #ClimateChange
Putting the Awful Eastern U.S. Wildfire Smoke in Perspective
The media capital of the world is freaking out over air pollution levels that are low compared to those in millions of developing-country homesAndy @Revkin (Sustain What)
A comic I drew five years ago while hunkered indoors next to an air purifier in Seattle as wildfires raged in the Northwest. Now the east coast has the ticks AND the smoke.
#climate #climatecrisis #climatechange #wildfires
“Data shows for the first time that the peak demand for electricity this summer will exceed the amount we can generate from on-demand, dispatchable power, so we will be relying on #renewables to keep the lights on.”
But rather than fix the grid, #Republicans spent their time in the #Texas legislature trying to block renewable #energy:
https://www.texasobserver.org/88th-session-texas-legislature-lgbtq-energy-schools/
#environment #infrastructure #ClimateChange #TXlege #politics #news #USpol #OilAndGas
The Awful 88th Session of the Texas Lege
Losers during the 88th session of the legislature included taxpayers, teachers, trans youths, and anyone who uses electricity.Texas Observer Staff (The Texas Observer)
World's governments subsidized fossil foolishness with over $1 trillion last year, double the subsidies of the year before (https://www.iea.org/reports/fossil-fuels-consumption-subsidies-2022)
The billions spent "fighting" #ClimateChange which are completely fraudulent are stupid & evil & a fraction of the direct contributions we make to cutting our own throats as we destroy out species' ecological niche.
Homo sap sap is such a sap
“Rich nations say they're spending billions to fight #ClimateChange. But some money is going to strange places… like a coal plant, a hotel, chocolate stores, a movie & an airport expansion.” 🤔
It’s complicated, but worth a read from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-finance/ #climate
A pledge to fight climate change is sending money to strange places
Rich countries promised $100 billion a year to reduce the effects of global warming. Reuters found large sums went to a coal plant, a hotel and chocolate shops.Reuters
“You can say gravity isn't true, but if you step off the cliff, you’re going down,” says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about restrictions on teaching. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31052023/ohio-state-college-climate-bill/ #climatechange
Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies - Inside Climate News
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty. Now one year into her program, she wonders if she belongs here.Katelyn Weisbrod (Inside Climate News)
Breaking news :/
Based on daily data, the atmospheric CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa averaged ~424.0 ppm over May 2023. That's ~3.0 ppm higher than last year, and that's a lot.
It is also the highest monthly average on record, and most probably of the last 15 million years.
#co2 #ClimateChange #globalwarming #maunaloa #greenhousegas #emissions
Buckle up because El Niño is almost here, and it’s going to get hot
Prepare for temperatures reaching ‘uncharted territory,’ the World Meteorological Organization warns.
by By Justine Calma, May 17, 2023
"The next five years are almost guaranteed to be sweltering, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned today. Climate change has already raised baseline temperatures for the planet. Now, a weather pattern known as El Niño is going to make things even hotter when it develops later this year."
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ElNino #Heatwave
Buckle up because El Niño is almost here, and it’s going to get hot
A one-two punch from climate change and a developing El Niño is expected to drive more extreme weather over the next five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization.Justine Calma (The Verge)
I’m not linking to any articles in the news today about how we’ve surpassed some so-called “climate threshold,” but its frustrating to see the associated misleading, doomsday headlines & imagery.
As @globalecoguy explains, #climate targets & deadlines can be “very useful as guides, but not as precise ‘all or nothing’ specifications for our future survival.” More at: https://globalecoguy.org/drawing-lines-in-the-climate-sand-ccbbc605bfe2
#ClimateChange is real. It’s now. But there’s still time to act. Not much.
Drawing Lines in the Climate Sand - GlobalEcoGuy.org
People like to talk about deadlines, budgets, and other targets when it comes to climate change. Like the Paris Accords, or the remaining carbon budget. But what do they mean?Dr. Jonathan Foley (GlobalEcoGuy.org)
“When a new technology becomes cheaper than the old one & can do all the same stuff, people switch…
1. The EV revolution will help save the planet’s environment bc it’ll allow us to electrify most of transportation, which accounts for ~1/4 of global CO2 emissions. 2. It’ll give us cheaper transportation than before, which will boost economic growth & make life easier for lots of people.”
Excellent explainer of why “EVs will win” by @noahpinion https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/all-the-arguments-against-evs-are #climatechange #economics
A cartoon from 2018 that I republished over the holidays: Understanding the world through careful observation of reality isn't "partisan."
#comic #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #cartoon #science
#Dog and #cow are best #friends
Why #love one and #eat the other
If you #loveanimals #donteatanimals
#plantbased for the #animals #planet #climatechange #health
howdoigovegan.com 🌱