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How is the C balance of #plants and #ecosystems regulated: We assume that C #sequestration under future #climate conditions will follow #optimality principles that balance #water and #carbon resources to maximize growth in the long term https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.19611


Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom.

But new analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

#tech #ai #datacenters #microsoft #google #apple #meta #climate


#lispyGopherClimate https://archives.anonradio.net/202409110000_screwtape.mp3 #archived
#climate #academic the climate crisis at universities
why I think #lambdaMOO and #lisp indie #gameDev are our way forward with reference to #Heinlein's Cat Who Walks Through Walls (I made it to the last book, so...)

#music is gonna be @flockofnazguls #ModularTransmission live show from this week

I reworked my common lisp pseudo-MOO server to be a metacircularly programmable MOO first and foremost using a DSLGopher
#unix_surrealism @prahou


#News: #Study finds #Climatechange will increase the risk of the food-borne illness eg. #Salmonella impacting large populations of people. Help forests, #climate and protect animals by simply changing what you eat! Be #vegan #BoycottMeat #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240829132359.htm


Turns out ecologists and entomologists around the world have been warning about declining insect numbers for years. The culprits are climate change, habitat loss, light pollution, intensive farming, pesticide and fertiliser use. But it’s a struggle to get people to act.

It’s not just about bees and butterflies, the poster children of the pollinator world. Other, less photogenic pollinators such as hoverflies, moths, wasps, soldier beetles and earwigs are also showing declines. Several of these species don’t just pollinate. They also eat the pest insects that ruin crops.

Already, in the apple and pear orchards of south-west China, depleted populations of pollinators have forced farmers to hand-pollinate their trees, carrying pots of pollen and paintbrushes with which to individually pollinate every flower. If it sounds labour-intensive and time-consuming, that’s because it is.

#green #ukpolitics #uspol #ukpol #climate #environment #insects #agriculture #farming

https://archive.ph/tvnld#selection-1659.0-1668.2


“How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact”

Meat isn't treated near as seriously as fossil fuels, but it should be. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/362224/environment-groups-meat-industry-lies-global-warming-climate-change-wwf #climate


A detailed #news story at CNN about record breaking heat across the US, yet no mention of #climate change? 🤔


#News: The Pan-Amazon Social Forum of #Indigenous communities share their plans to protect the #Amazon #rainforest and have criticised #climate talks as being Global North focused #IndigenousRights #ClimateAction #BoycottGold #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife via Environmental Health News https://www.ehn.org/amazon-rainforest-inhabitants-share-plan-to-save-their-home-2668657087.html



The end of the great northern forests? The tiny tree-killing beetle wreaking havoc on our ancient giants

“This is a global phenomenon but it is also a complicated story,” says Prof Diana Six, a forest entomologist at the University of Montana.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/05/collapse-northern-boreal-forests-drought-fire-beetles-climate-crisis-ancient-trees-carbon-sink?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#forests #climate #BarkBeetle


You know what? In the capitalist bizarro-world, it's a crime to protest *against* ecocide and homicide committed by Big Oil.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #JustStopOil


There are massive differences in the GHG emissions of different foods & "local" isn't always best for the environment.

This chart continues to be a great reference I return to in my work. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local #science #climate #food


Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
In marine systems where high nutrients lead to #hypoxia (low oxygen), it is commonly thought animals must avoid these zones - wrongly. Many types of #zooplankton seek refuge from predation in low oxygen layers in lakes and oceans. This is quite relevant to the #carbon pump off Peru because mesopelagic zooplankton, including Euphausiid #krill can graze on algae sinking in these zones, and produce rapidly sinking fecal pellets. #Climate
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01140-6


"The Coalition will strip funding from the Environmental Defenders Office if it wins the next federal election, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has promised."

https://abc.net.au/news/2024-01-30/dutton-commits-to-defunding-environmental-defenders-office/103403866
#EDO #Biodiversity #climate #law #destruction #conservation #ExtinctionCrisis



Old forests critically important for slowing climate change, merit immediate protection from logging #environment #forest #deforestation #climate #ClimateChange https://phys.org/news/2024-01-forests-critically-important-climate-merit.html


New study: For the past 20 years, the global cost of extreme weather events has been $143 billion/year.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41888-1

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis



Why #AI is a disaster for the #climate - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/23/ai-chat-gpt-environmental-impact-energy-carbon-intensive-technology "Amid all the hysteria about ChatGPT and co, one thing is being missed: how energy-intensive the technology is" - yes, this is the real threat to humanity, not AI taking over...


I know a lot of ppl at #COP28. But the thing is, the majority of them aren’t scientists or legislators. They’re also not working on #ClimateChange issues personally.

I can’t help but wonder if the UN #climate summits have become more of an annual festival than a productive dialogue.

According to The Washington Post, there are a record 84,000 attendees in Dubai this year due to “a large influx of business executives & lobbyists.”


1/ #Billionaire #Ecoterrorism
Kill off, sicken, or weaken, your own citizens & neighbors so long as you can make billions?
The ruling families say, "Fuck, yes!"
Toxic gas putting millions at risk in #MiddleEast
[& in the US, but shhh.🤫 ]
""Very disturbing. Big oil companies (#BP, #Shell, et. al) & states in the Middle East are violating the human rights of millions of people by failing to tackle air pollution from fossil fuels.

"Despite the massive human suffering, Big Oil & #petrostates carry on with business as usual with total impunity & zero accountability."
#climate #pollution #AirPollution #health
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67522413


deeply depressed. just read that the amazon rainforest, home to thousands of bird species (including at least 1/3 of all living parrot species) has crossed a #climate & #deforestation #TippingPoint & will quickly devolve into savannah. all this destruction for a cheap fcuking HAMBURGER


At the #NextcloudConference @katrin keynoted: we need to fix the carbon footprint of the internet.

The Green Web Foundation is working towards a fossil-free internet by 2030.

#Climate #GreenInternet #OpenData

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-conference-2023-keynote-speaker-katrin-fritsch/


Gorgeous ecological comic-based journalism from Aotearoa: a clear-eyed telling of how monoculture forestry destabilizes lands and rivers even before major climate-driven events come raging through.

#ecology #climate #forest #restoration #aotearoa

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-07-2023/the-side-eye-deeper-roots


Happening NOW: Hundreds & hundreds of people have entirely shut down the Federal Reserve of New York City.

The Fed needs to force Wall Street to stop funding climate chaos!

#Biden #Climate #fossilfuels


All use of carbon fuels is deadly waste. A filtghy history ending waste.

24 Billion trees. Twenty Four Billion Trees. With a "B"

Greenland will NO LONGER allow any search, drilling exploration for oil. Ever. Done.

India interrupted their new Five Year Plan to DROP ALL NEW COAL Spending, already budgeted.

The money will be spent on renewables.

Build ALL the new energy needed to END ALL CARBON FUELS FOREVER.

UN-used UN-needed UNderground.

Carbon fuels are death.

#Climate


in 2013, coal generated 175 times as much electricity as #solar power in the US. Within a decade, in 2022, coal was generating less than 5 times as much electricity (incl. estimated rooftop solar).

So far this year, coal has generated slightly more than twice as much electricity as all solar.

Coal is dying here but needs to die even faster.
#energy #climate #climateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=table_1_01



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

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