Climate models & weather models all deal with chance and probability. Most of us (including me) do not understand probability all that well. Can we use checking the #weather, personally, to better understand #ClimateChange?
Trump’s anti-green agenda could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths.
Most of the people expected to suffer live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change. propublica.org/article/trump-c…
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
#AI sounds amazing and yes there are downsides (lost jobs, energy use, etc), but who cares, onwards!!
A clean healthy planet sounds amazing but woah woah there are downsides (some economic sacrifices & some mega oil corps need to pivot) we obviously can't do it!!
What humanity chooses to be unstoppable about is utterly tragic.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith have signed an agreement to advance Alberta’s pipeline dreams — and weaken some pollution laws. Here’s what you need to know https://thenarwhal.ca/carney-alberta-pipeline-grand-bargain/
Of course it is very sad that the 3 million people of Jamaica have to endure the lethal torrential floods, landslides, & ~300km/h winds of Hurricane Melissa. But surely we can all agree that is the necessary sacrifice we all must make to ensure that the murderous thugs running the world’s fossil fuel industries continue to enlarge their absurdly huge incomes they insist are their right and due. #ClimateChange #Hurricane #Mellisa #Catastrophe #FossilFuels
Even those passively trying out AI-this and AI-that are part and parcel of the problem...
I've watched friends, over the last 2+ years, go from "Hey, look at this!" to "I didn't know it used that much energy!" to "Oh f*ck, I haven't had any freelance work in *insert industry here* in months..."
With a “flashing red warning light” heralding years of low oil prices, and a major Canadian fossil company joining its international peers in laying off hundreds of workers, a Simon Fraser University political scientist says no new oil pipeline will …
So #Carney axed the carbon tax, 'paused' the EV mandate, and is keen to waive reviews of pipeline propsals to get more built faster. Do the #Liberals have a climate policy anymore?
Public health officials in Montreal confirmed a second person has died as a result of the extreme heat that has gripped the city over the past several days.
The Trump administration isn’t stopping at skepticism about climate change. It’s moving to bar any future administration from responding to it. Read more from @CNN:
Until 1990, nights with a low of 20°C or more were rare here, once in a decade or so. Now, we have a few every year. Called 'tropical nights' here :) Graph runs through 2022. #globalwarming #ClimateChange
Boggling to watch towns across western Canada evacuating again in the face of what will be yet another super heavy wildfire season as Premiers from these same provinces bang the table for more pipelines. Equally boggling is our media STILL failing to make the obvious connection for us in any way /2 #abpoli #cdnpoli #Wildfires #pipelines #Climate #ClimateChange
The media should always be vigorously defended from cynical politicians seeking to hide their bad actions or poor policies but it's also true they need a reckoning when they fail at their very core purpose of exposing the full facts of the day & creating an informed electorate🧵 #abpoli #cdnpoli #Wildfires #pipelines #Climate #ClimateChange
American Geophysical Union (#AGU) and the American Meteorological Society Say They’ll Keep Working on #US #NationalClimateAssessment The organizations said they would publish researchers’ work even after Trump administration decision to dismiss all authors on the project. The new effort would not replace the federal report, which is Congressionally mandated, the statement from AGU and American Meteorological Society said. nytimes.com/2025/05/02/climate… archive.ph/veXe9 #climate #climatechange
There was a moment in Peter Dutton's pitch to voters when the full Trumpian catastrophe of his climate, energy and industry policies should have been exposed.
The public comment period is currently open for a proposal to remove NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) regulations. Please share this with your networks and add your thoughts: federalregister.gov/documents/…
They cover a lot of really interesting aspects of #ClimateChange, technology and #OpenSource. There are so many good innovators in the clean tech space, yet even with good motives, the incentives can drive towards #enshittification.
The author of What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures explores how we can tackle the worst effects of climate change, without resorting to nihilism.
Human-caused climate change is intensifying Atlantic hurricanes, with rising ocean temperatures adding an average of 18 mph to wind speeds, according to a new study by Climate Central.
This is an important effort to help explore what can be done to make the #Web less energy-hungry…. and thereby help reduce the impact of the overall #Internet on #ClimateChange. (Since web traffic is such a huge amount of Internet traffic.) Good to see this happening!
The newly launched Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). The guidelines are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help organizations in…
A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River.
Devastating scenes of piled-up cars in #Valencia, #Spain today after yesterday’s historic flooding. A year’s worth of rain fell in a few hours with a peak of 500mm.
What is "Amoc" and why is it so important? _________________________________________
The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as Amoc, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating and irreversible impacts, according to an open letter released by 44 experts from 15 countries.
There are indications that Amoc has been slowing down for the last 60 or 70 years due to global heating. The most ominous sign is the cold blob over the northern Atlantic. The region is the only place in the world that has cooled in the past 20 years or so, while everywhere else on the planet has warmed – a sign of reduced heat transport into that region, exactly what climate computer models have predicted in response to Amoc slowing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
Another indicator is a reduction in the salt content of seawater. In the cold blob region, salinity is at its lowest level since measurements began 120 years ago. This is probably linked to Amoc slowing down and bringing less salty water and heat from the subtropics.
It is an amplifying feedback: as Amoc gets weaker, the oceans gets less salty, and as the oceans gets less salty, then Amoc gets weaker. At a certain point this becomes a vicious cycle which continues by itself until Amoc has died, even if we stop pushing the system with further emissions.
The big unknown here – the billion-dollar question – is how far away this tipping point is. It is very difficult to answer because the process is non-linear and would be triggered by subtle differences in salinity, which in turn depend on amounts of rainfall and cloud cover over the ocean as well as Greenland melting rates. These are hard to model accurately in computers so there is a big uncertainty relating to when the tipping point will be reached. _________________________________________
Greta Thunberg joined our United for Climate Justice coalition today and our blockade of a busy Brussels' street. This disruption of traffic and of business as usual is nothing in comparison to what the climate catastrophe will wreak. We need urgent action now, but we're still rushing headlong into a terrifying future, all for the sake of greed and growth.
Carbon capture and storage will play absolutely no role in "the energy transition" as there's no evidence it can be scaled up in any meaningful way that even lowers emissions, and isn't creating energy either.
CCS is simply just a scam that's been designed by and for the fossil fuel industry so they can keep burning and profiting - and make you suffer for it.
Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by #Climate Migration? —
#HurricaneHelene was the latest in a generation of storms that are intensifying faster and dumping more rain as the climate warms. It's precisely the kind of event expected to drive more Americans to relocate as climate change gets worse — leaving behind those who are older, poorer and more vulnerable.
We know — and our rulers certainly know — that if we are to have any hope of preserving even a limited version of today’s complex modern society, greenhouse gas emissions MUST go down, swiftly and urgently.
But instead, emissions continue going up and up and up. It is literally suicidal.
So, WHY haven't we stopped burning fossil fuels?
Because there are profits to be made. Huge, massive, irresistibly tempting profits.
In a sane world, these actions would be seen as criminal.
Perpetrators like fossil fuel executives, their financiers, and the politicians who enable them, would be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted, with assets forfeited to pay for mitigation and reparations.
#Tuvalu, likely first modern country to become uninhabitable, has new plan for keeping control of fishing rights even if its land disappears by #climatechange.
#LawOfTheSea treaty says sea territory, fishing rights only exist with reference to land territory, but is silent on what happens when land changes, disappears. Tuvalu has multi-pronged strategy to form intl consensus that sea borders remain if their land disappears.
