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Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels – September 2023
This September, people on every continent will join the largest-ever globally coordinated action to demand that governments end fossil fuels. Join us.Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels
I wish I didn't have to tell you about this again, but I do. It's not being reported much in the news — and you know why?
Because it's not 'new' (the origin of the word 'news'), it's old. This has been going on for months now, and corporate news outlets are simply tired of reporting it. But it is still happening.
Canada's boreal forests are burning up.
At least 1100 fires are active, more than 700 out of control. Over 13 million hectares have been burned so far, with no end in sight. It's an unprecedented climate and environmental disaster.
#Canada #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
SOURCE OF MAP -- ciffc.ca/
A cost-effective, scalable & available solution to reduce the #climate impact of flying?
Yes please. blog.google/technology/ai/ai-a…
Contrails - those thin, white lines behind airplanes - account for ~35% of aviation's #ClimateChange impact.
New research reveals how #AI & satellite imagery can help us reduce their warming effects.
How AI is helping airlines mitigate the climate impact of contrails
We used AI to help airlines choose routes that are less likely to cause contrails, minimizing the environmental impact of flights.Carl Elkin (Google)
It’s worth noting that by Fall of 2012, the majority of both Republican & Democrat voters acknowledged #ClimateChange is occurring. But not the majority of all politicians.
Back then, I ran large public opinion surveys out of UT Austin & it was the first time citizens from both parties agreed. (Here’s a 2015 SciAm piece w totals blogs.scientificamerican.com/p…)
We can’t said what changed attitudes, but a drought had impacted U.S. crops that summer & the pope was also discussing #climate. /2
Over 3 out of 4 Americans Now Acknowledge Climate Change Is Occurring--Including the Majority of Republicans
Seventy-six percent of Americans now say that climate change is occurring, up eight points from one year ago. And Republicans are largely responsibleScientific American Blog Network
NYT’s opinion writer Paul Krugman is declaring #climate is now a culture war issue 🤔
I worked in the U.S. Senate ~20 years ago. Covered climate as a journalist. Cofounded an NGO focused on science policy issues during elections. Am finishing a dissertation on how Congress has made decisions about #science policy for the last 1/2 century - with climate as a central theme.
This isn’t new. #ClimateChange has *always* been a culture war issue.
Climate change threatens 771 endangered plant and lichen species: Despite the risk, very few of these species have recovery plans that directly address climate change
All plants and lichens listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act are sensitive to climate change but there are few plans in place to address this threat directly, according to new research.ScienceDaily
Latest cartoon: Quackery Quotas
The right's cries for "ideological diversity" sound fair to well-meaning people who believe in good-faith debate as a way to arrive at the truth. But truth is not the goal here; the goal is power.
#education #science #college #university #climatechange
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.
statista.com/chart/amp/15195/w… #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!”
theguardian.com/australia-news…
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)
github.com/GreenAlgorithms/Gre…
#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.
latimes.com/world-nation/story…
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.
news.stanford.edu/2022/02/01/n…
#vegan #ClimateChange mastodon.world/@MatthiasSchmel…
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: 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 ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-…
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”
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:
theguardian.com/sustainable-bu…
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.” revkin.substack.com/p/putting-…
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:
texasobserver.org/88th-session…
#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 (iea.org/reports/fossil-fuels-c…)
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