Fascinating to see how fast Paris cleaned up its smog pollution.

Equally fascinating: how this same graphic has been making the round from French via German to now English meme status

Article link here for your ease of reference: 

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24312002/ev-plug-and-charge-universal-protocol-sae-pki-roaming

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Fantastic news! A universal EV “Plug and Charge” interoperable protocol will roll out in 2025.

Say goodbye to the soup of EV charging apps. The goal: just plug in & have automatic, seamless secure payment processing.

Beyond cause for rejoicing by EV owners, this is an important step towards secure vehicle-to-grid & bidirectional charging too.

Turn off #AI features by default (to reduce their #climate impact)

https://hidde.blog/please-make-ai-opt-in/

Jonathan Watts is not mincing his words when he (rightly) concludes that:

'The unnatural disaster in Spain – Europe’s deadliest flash floods in at least half a century – is evidence of two undeniable truths: the human-caused climate crisis is just starting to pick up ferocity & we need to quickly kill the fossil fuel industry before it kills us'!

We have been warned, yet still we do too little; this is can that can no longer be kicked down the road!

#climate #politics

@pvonhellermannn

"Emissions generated by the lifestyles of 50 of the world’s richest people are greater than the emissions generated by 155m people combined.

"Oxfam has called for a ban, or punitive tax, on luxury consumptions — at 90% tax or above — such as private jets, superyachts, SUVs, and frequent air travel."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41504786.html

Latest comic on Big Tech's climate hypocrisy

i dont understand why these folks in #CancerAlley dont want the 15 jobs this ammonia plant will provide

Floods in Europe.

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

I added a new 🌱 Damaged Earth Catalog🌿 entry, co-written with, and about the work of, @mordremoth

❤️ Disability Driven Development🛠️

https://damaged.bleu255.com/Disability_Driven_Development/

A direct link to Amelia's work: https://spoonstack.org/

What a set of headlines, can't get any more dystopian than that. The rich go into vanity trips into space, while the common people down below drown.

The climate review for summer 2024 in the Arctic is now posted in the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. Spoiler: warm and wet overall (but of course not everywhere). @Climatologist49
https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-summer-2024-climate-summary

“Over the past 12 months, the global average temperature was 1.64°C higher than pre-industrial levels, above the 1.5°C threshold that policymakers and scientists say threatens life on the planet.”

https://time.com/7018495/hottest-summer-record-heat-extreme-temperatures-global-warming-climate-change/

Another Global Warming Record: Hottest Summer Ever

#climate
#extremeweather

#GlobalWarming Breaks Another Record With Hottest Summer Ever

BY EAMON AKIL FARHAT / BLOOMBERG
September 6, 2024 12:15 AM EDT

This summer was the hottest ever in the Northern Hemisphere, putting the Earth on track for another record-breaking year.

The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that for June to August, global temperatures were 0.69°C above historical averages, beating the previous high set last year. The record for the world’s highest average temperature was broken on a number of days over the summer.

#ClimateChange is increasing the frequency and intensity of #heatwaves triggering extreme #Weather events from #droughts and #wildfires to violent #storms and #flooding. Over the past 12 months, the global average temperature was 1.64°C higher than pre-industrial levels, above the 1.5°C threshold that policymakers and scientists say threatens life on the planet.

Read More: Human Adaptation to Heat Can’t Keep Up With Human-Caused Climate Change

https://time.com/6292615/human-adaptation-to-heat-climate-change/

In #europe the heat over the June to August period was 1.54°C above the 1991-2020 average, according to #Copernicus. The most extreme conditions were recorded in the #mediterranean region and #easterneurope while the #uk, #iceland parts of #ireland the west coast of #portugal and southern #norway were cooler than the norm.

Across the world, soaring temperatures are testing the limits of the human body, posing threats and even causing deaths at outdoor activities such as concerts, sports events, and religious gatherings. More than 1,300 people died during the Hajj pilgrimage in #saudiarabia in June after temperatures reached 52°C (126°F). There were heat-related fatalities in nations including the #us #Thailand #India and #mexico this year.

#china weather authority said the nation had its hottest summer since records began in 1961, with heat scorching crops from rice to corn. U.S. cities also experienced historically high temperatures, and New York canceled commuter trains as rails overheated. And parts of the Southern Hemisphere just had a very mild winter, with #australia experiencing the hottest August since data started in 1910 and looking forward to a warmer-than-average spring.

This summer the effects of a strong El Niño weather pattern, which causes warming in the #pacific #ocean started giving way to the La Niña phenomenon. This shift usually means less extreme heat, but it can also bring droughts in some areas and produces #flooding and #hurricanes elsewhere.

The new Starbucks CEO, Brian Niccol, is going to commute to the office 3 days a week by private jet.

Don't forget to take your reusable cup to the coffee shop!

#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment #EatTheRich

Microsoft and Google have admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out new data centers to power generative AI.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Sasha Luccioni to discuss why AI is so computationally intensive and is a climate problem.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/229_generative_ai_is_a_climate_disaster_w_sasha_luccioni

Roger Hallam is one of the founders of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, and a leader in the fight against global climate change. I would like you to read this statement he posted yesterday… 🧵1/4
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I've just been sentenced to 5 years in prison.

The longest ever for nonviolent action.

The 'crime'?

Giving a talk on civil disobedience as an effective, evidence-based method for stopping the elite from putting enough carbon in the atmosphere to send us to extinction.

I have given hundreds of similar speeches encouraging nonviolent action and have never been arrested for it. This time I was an advisor to the M25 motorway disruption, recommending the action to go ahead to wake up the British public to societal collapse.

I was not part of the planning or action itself.

In the trial, I swore before God to tell the truth. The truth is the science. The science is clear. We're heading for billions of deaths and ecological collapse. To prove this, I presented the jury with a 250-page dossier of leading scientists' research as evidence in my defence. This was denied by the judge as an invalid - climate science is now illegal in the British courtroom.

I then began to speak about the apocalyptic conditions humanity faces - floods, wildfires, mass heat deaths - and was silenced by the judge. He sent out the jury and threatened to arrest me if I didn't stop. Instead, I stayed in the dock and argued that until I was given the right to complete my defence – I would not move. Even the prosecution tried to argue in my defence and the judge let me continue.

When the jury had shuffled in again, I spoke about the legal concept of “equality of arms” – that as the prosecution had had a right to lay facts over a whole week, I also wanted an equal opportunity. I spoke of various cases where juries had acquitted defendants when they had heard the facts, such as the Extinction Rebellion cracking of Shell's windows in 2018 as a reasonable action against criminal destruction. The Dutch Supreme Court has even said that all governments have a legal obligation to prevent the emission of greenhouse gases. Whilst the prosecution accepted that emissions pose an existential threat, for the first time in British history no less, they still tried to convict us for public nuisance rather than praise us for trying to stop those emissions. Given the objectivity of existential threat, there were overwhelming grounds to be involved in a plan to cause some disruption to the M25.

In the British law on public nuisance, there is a ‘reasonable excuse’ clause. Science says there is an overwhelming threat to my life, my children, you and your children. To argue there is not a reasonable excuse directly defies the wish of this legislation. Things are happening that cause harm – people are engaged in physical acts to stop that harm – it doesn’t matter whether it’s a protest or not.

As I began to offer up some case law, the judge kept intervening telling me I was “wasting my time” and ordering the jury to disregard me. To illustrate that I was not talking about my motivations but speaking about real necessity, I referred to a famous case over a decision to operate on conjoined twins with the likelihood that one would die. In this dilemma, I quoted the 19th Century principle that the action was necessary if the threat faced was inevitable and irrevocable, that no more should be done than essential, and that it must be proportionate. I argued that there was a “duress of circumstances” including the objective danger I’ve experienced as a farmer unable to grow food, and the global significance of “food insecurity” – a euphemism for famine and starvation.

There has never been a moment in history where ‘necessity’ has been more supported by objective facts – more than 10,000 scientific and peer-reviewed papers, indicating an outcome of mass starvation and death from man-made climate collapse.

In response, Judge Hehir called for an early lunch and dismissed the jury. He turned to me and warned that I wasn't a lawyer and that “this is not the Roger Hallam show”.

He then gave me just 15 more minutes to put forward my “beliefs” - a totally fucking incoherent statement. This isn’t belief - it’s the objective threat of destruction of property and livelihoods of billions of people and the secondary effects of famine i.e. war, rape, and torture.
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That's Part 1 of 4. Read the next below...

Monthly climate data update from NASA-GISS for the month of June 2024.
Hottest month of June since 1880.
Thirteenth hottest month in a row.
https://datagraver.com/climate-data-set-nasa-giss/