"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."
Do bike lanes really cause more traffic congestion? Short answer, no. Cycling advocates have always suspected that, and now we have the proof. This CBC article goes into detail.
Brutal but also realistic.
Renewable distributed power is radical. It would transform the world.
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
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.”
Another Global Warming Record: Hottest Summer Ever
#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.
New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, who was not required to relocate from California to Starbucks' Seattle headquarters, will commute weekly by private jet.
"Niccol’s private jet perk has brought some attention to the climate change implications of those flights and Starbucks’ projection as an environmentally friendly business, which recently rolled out new cups that use less plastic and eliminated plastic straws."
Folks, it's gonna take a lot more than thinner plastic cups and plastic straw bans to counter this asshole's George Jetson carbon footprint.
#BoycottStarbucks #Sustainability #TaxTheRich #USPol #USPolitics #ClimateChange
California achieves remarkable milestone with 100 days of 100% of electricity demands met by clean energy.
"That's a lot of energy," the commenter added. #ClimateChange
The Mendenhall River near Juneau has crested at the highest recorded level following the Sunday's release of the Suicide Basin glacial dammed lake. Juneau CB reporting areas have flooded that did not last year. Let me repeat: this is an unambiguous result of a warming climate and the rapid thinning of the Juneau Icefield glacier thinning. This did not occur on the Mendenhall River before 2011. #akwx #Summer2024 #ClimateChange
Updates from KTOO at:
𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸
Read that again. I did!
From Australia’s ABC News: China will “meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month — or 6.5 years early.” Their storage: pumped hydro and battery.
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...
Londoners should be charged for paving gardens and offered incentives to restore soil, says climate resilience report
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/17/londoners-should-be-charged-for-paving-gardens-says-climate-resilience-report?