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- How to influence the US election towards climate action
If you’re a US citizen, no matter where in the world, start by making sure you’re registered to vote. Many districts are gerrymandered, so you’ll want to register as the party that’s likely to win congressional and/or state legislative districts where you live, and vote in that party’s primary.
In addition to voting, you’ll want to influence politics beyond that. Your local races are a good place to start; cities and states control local land use and things like building codes.
To affect congress, you’ll want to pick swing house districts or swing senate seats. Volunteer and donate accordingly.
For President, the reality is that Biden has done far more than Trump would even consider, starting with the Inflation Reduction Act, and continuing through numerous executive actions. Getting involved in this race means volunteering, and if you can, donating to the Biden Victory Fund. If you’re giving really large amounts of money, and the logistics of it work, go to an in-person event and talk to the candidate or other official about climate:
- Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why. The number of tornadoes so far in the United States this year is just above average. But their distribution is changing.www.nytimes.com Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why.
The number of tornadoes so far in the United States this year is just above average. But their distribution is changing.
> While the timing of this trend lines up with the planet’s rising temperatures, scientists are hesitant to definitively attribute tornadoes’ clustering behavior to human-caused climate change. > >“The link between climate change and tornadoes is still pretty tenuous,” Dr. Fricker said. “It’s a really open and difficult question for us.” One difficulty is that tornadoes are too small on a planetary scale, and too ephemeral, to show up in the global mathematical models that scientists use to study climate change.
- ‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despairwww.theguardian.com ‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned
cross-posted from: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/11288860
> >Instead, Cerezo-Mota expects the world to heat by a catastrophic 3C this century, soaring past the internationally agreed 1.5C target and delivering enormous suffering to billions of people. This is her optimistic view, she says.
- Why Petrostates Keep Seizing the Serengeti | A carbon credit company run by an Emirati sheik just gained control over 8% of Tanzania’s land, displacing nearly 100,000 Maasai people in the process.atmos.earth Why Petrostates Keep Seizing the Serengeti | Atmos
A carbon credit company run by an Emirati sheik just gained control over 8% of Tanzania’s land, displacing nearly 100,000 Maasai people.
- What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign: Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy & morewapo.st What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.
The corruption is really open at this point.
Given how close the polls are, if want to stop this, Americans here going to need to actively work to help elect Biden. That means checking your voter registration, talking with people you know, volunteering, and financially supporting the campaign
- Nicaragua drops 10-year-long Plan for Chinese canal concession which experts said would imperil the climate and uproot provincial networkswww.theglobaleconomics.com Nicaragua Drops 10-Year-Long Plan for Chinese Canal Concession
Almost 10 years after it got things started on a dubious arrangement to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific, Nicaragua has dropped a
Almost 10 years after it got things started on a dubious arrangement to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific, Nicaragua has dropped a concession conceded to a Chinese businessman to finish the task.
Despite exemplary discoveries in 2014, no amount of considerable work has been done on the canal to connect Nicaragua’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The most work that has been done in the area is to break ground on access roads close to but digging the stream never started. Along with this, a large number of Nicaraguan framers have questioned the land seizures intended to create a route for the government-backed project.
In 2019, a Nicaraguan judge condemned three farmers’ chiefs who partook in the fights to jail for 216 years, 210 years, and 159 years. They were blamed for advancing a “failed coup” against the government. Nicaraguan regulation covers jail time served at 30 years. The proposed $50bn, 172-mile (278km) trench across this Central American nation was for quite some time seen as a joke that later turned dangerous and troublesome.
The canal and its expected impact on the climate turned into an image of the odd and inconsistent nature of President Daniel Ortega’s inexorably harsh system. Ortega’s administration guaranteed the channel would create a huge number of job opportunities and invigorate the economy. Critics contended that it presented serious ecological dangers, would uproot huge numbers of families in the countryside, and was monetarily impossible.
The 50-year canal concession was granted to the Hong Kong-based organization HK Nicaragua Channel Canal Development Investment Company, owned by the Chinese finance manager Wang Jing. Experts expressed regulation to empower the task was sped up without authentic counsel, ecological investigations, or political discussion.
Prior to winning the concession, Wang had no involvement with structural designing and had constructed a fortune in telecoms. Quite a bit of that fortune was cleared out in China‘s 2015 stock market crisis when he was accounted to have lost up to 85% of his riches.
- G.M. Will Retire the Chevrolet Malibu to Make More Electric Cars | The gasoline-powered Malibu was the last sedan sold by Chevrolet, the General Motors brand, in the United States.www.nytimes.com G.M. Will Retire the Chevrolet Malibu to Make More Electric Cars
The gasoline-powered Malibu was the last sedan sold by Chevrolet, the General Motors brand, in the United States.
> G.M. produces the Malibu at a plant in Fairfax, Kan., and will continue to manufacture the car until later this year, when it plans to retool the factory to make a new version of the Chevrolet Bolt, an electric car, and the Cadillac XT4, a luxury S.U.V.
- Another Sriracha shortage could be coming. A severe drought is to blame.www.washingtonpost.com Another Sriracha shortage could be coming. A severe drought is to blame.
Huy Fong Foods said it was halting its Sriracha sauce production until after Labor Day. Experts said the blame lies on a severe drought in Mexico.
> “This case is very poignant because it shows how an extreme weather event — that has been fueled by climate change — results in major disruptions,” said Guillermo Murray-Tortarolo, a climate scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research.
- Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds | Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous resultswww.theguardian.com World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
I'll note that 2.5°C of warming by 2100 is a significant improvement over the trajectory we were on a decade ago, even if still far from where we need to be
- The world's oceans just broke on an important climate change recordwww.salon.com The world's oceans just broke on an important climate change record | Salon.com
Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment.
- Supercharged thunderstorms: have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods?theconversation.com Supercharged thunderstorms: have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods?
Why have we seen so many extreme floods in recent years? Climate change is supercharging thunderstorms, adding moisture and heat.
- More and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global totalapnews.com More and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global total
A record 30% of global electricity was generated from renewables in 2023, according to a report released by Ember, a think tank based in London.
> Scientists say emissions from burning fuels like coal must ramp steeply down to protect Earth’s climate, yet there was an increase in electricity made from burning fossil fuels. China, India, Vietnam and Mexico were responsible for nearly all of the rise. > > The report said some countries burned coal to make up for the loss of hydroelectric power they experienced when drought caused their reservoirs to dry up. This is an example of a vicious cycle — when climate change prompts the use of more of the substances that cause climate change in the first place.
- From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhereapnews.com From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere
In a world growing increasingly accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few days and weeks have seemingly taken those environmental extremes to a new level.
> When the world is warmer, it is likely to have more extreme weather and climate events, including record heat and rainfall, scientists say. And climate change is also changing weather patterns, leading to rainy and hot systems stalling over areas and the jet stream meandering, said Alvaro Silva, a climate scientist at the World Meteorological Organization.
- Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity | They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. The technology is expandingwww.nytimes.com Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity
They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. And the technology is expanding rapidly.
- Academics and Lawmakers Slam an Industry-Funded Report by a Former US Energy Secretary Promoting Natural Gas and LNGinsideclimatenews.org Academics and Lawmakers Slam an Industry-Funded Report by a Former Energy Secretary Promoting Natural Gas and LNG - Inside Climate News
With a pair of fossil-fuel friendly senators at his side, former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Tuesday released a favorable report on U.S. natural gas and liquified natural gas (LNG), funded by the natural gas industry. The report, “The Future of Natural Gas in a Low-Carbon World,” was wri...
- Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’www.theguardian.com UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9336139
> He mentiond climate change and pollution , well worth a read IMO > > >“The future is really daunting for people in the Maldives … the climate emergency is an existential threat that overshadows all the other issues.” > > --- > > >over 40 million people have died of air pollution since I became special rapporteur in 2018, yet I just can’t get people to care.
> > >“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.” > > >“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.” > > >If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper. > > I get his bemusement, just here in Australia, 11,000 die from air pollution from cars annually, another 20,00 are hospitalised annually. The numbers are beyond horrendous and yet, on a scale of 1 to 5 fucks given, it's 0
- China Is Way Ahead in Green Energy. Here’s Why That’s Risky for the U.S. Beijing’s dominance raises economic and security concerns, and tensions will be on full display as top climate diplomats meetwww.nytimes.com China Is Way Ahead in Green Energy. Here’s Why That’s Risky for the U.S.
Beijing’s dominance raises economic and security concerns, and tensions will be on full display as top climate diplomats meet this week.
- Vermont legislature passes bill to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate changewww.nbcnews.com Vermont passes bill to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change
The legislation — the first of its kind in the U.S. — would require companies with high emissions to help pay for destruction caused by climate-fueled extreme weather.
I'll note that it hasn't yet been signed by the Republican governor, but it passed the legislature with a margin large enough to override his veto.
- How climate change is raising the risks of another pandemic | Evidence is mounting that human disruptions to natural ecosystems are raising risks of disease spread, according to a new study.wapo.st How climate change is raising the risks of another pandemic
As humans degrade the planet, the risks of new diseases and increased disease spread are rising, according to research published Wednesday.
- How to avoid a contractor nightmare when electrifying your home | Seven steps to cut your energy bill, upgrade your home and bid farewell to fossil fuels.wapo.st Advice | How to avoid a contractor nightmare when electrifying your home
Seven steps to cut your energy bill, upgrade your home and bid farewell to fossil fuels.
- A Vaccine for Climate Misinformation | Facts aren’t enough to combat false and misleading messaging. Experts suggest an additional strategy.www.desmog.com A Vaccine for Climate Misinformation
“The climate crisis is a hoax,” “climate action is too costly,” “the climate has already changed in the past”: Misinformation about climate change is everywhere, coming at us from multiple directions. Fake news circulates online. Political leaders make denier and delayer arguments. Companies with a...
The game described in the article is here
- Here’s why so many US Republicans won’t buy EVswapo.st Here’s why so many Republicans won’t buy EVs
Democrats are way more likely than Republicans to buy electric cars. Could that change?
- Sweetgreen Is Introducing Steak. What About Its Climate Goals? The fast-casual [restaurant] chain aims to be climate neutral by 2027, but beef is a big contributor to climate change.www.nytimes.com Sweetgreen Is Introducing Steak. What About Its Climate Goals?
The fast-casual chain aims to be climate neutral by 2027, but beef is a big contributor to climate change.
- Are Flight Offsets Worth It? A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly.www.nytimes.com Are Flight Offsets Worth It?
A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly.
- Self regulation "working" as intended
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/08/australian-red-meat-industry-says-it-doesnt-need-to-meet-its-self-imposed-net-zero-target
- CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limitwww.carbonbrief.org CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limit - Carbon Brief
carbon dioxide removal “fall short” of the quantities needed to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, new research warns.
The paper is here
- Travelers Insurance Increase in California as High as Almost 27% for Somewww.liveinsurancenews.com Travelers Insurance Increase in California as High as Almost 27% for Some - H2 News
In a move that underscores the growing financial impact of climate change on the insurance industry, Travelers Insurance, one of California's
> In a move that underscores the growing financial impact of climate change on the insurance industry, Travelers Insurance, one of California’s leading home insurers, has announced significant rate hikes and policy non-renewals due to increased wildfire risk. This development is poised to reshape the insurance landscape in California, signaling a critical shift as insurers deal with the escalating threat of natural disasters.
- Looming power grid rules could make or break the US energy transitionwww.canarymedia.com Looming power grid rules could make or break the US energy transition
Federal regulators are split on how to spread grid costs among states with dramatically different clean energy policies. Next week, they’ll reveal their decision.
- How scientists know how much climate change affects a hurricane, a heat wave, a drought, and more | The field of attribution science is 20 years old this yearyaleclimateconnections.org How do scientists know how much climate change affects a hurricane, a heat wave, a drought, and more? » Yale Climate Connections
The field of attribution science is 20 years old this year, and scientists’ ability to detect the fingerprints of climate change in extreme weather events is growing stronger.
- Here's what Exxon's CEO gets wrong about the climate crisiswww.latimes.com Column: Here's what Exxon's CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis
After decades of climate denial and delay, the company is still putting oil and gas first.
Archived copyof the article: archive.today
- Can corn ethanol really help decarbonize US air travel?www.canarymedia.com Can corn ethanol really help decarbonize US air travel?
The Biden administration will allow ethanol producers to access tax credits for sustainable aviation fuel. Farmers and climate groups have mixed reactions.
- Fish are shrinking around the world. Here’s why scientists are worried. | Figuring out the reason why has big implications, with billions of people depending on seafood for protein.wapo.st Fish are shrinking around the world. Here’s why scientists are worried.
With billions of people depending on seafood for protein, determining the answer has big implications.
> The pair restarted their work in Massachusetts with about 400 brook trout reared for up to eight months in tanks. The scientists kept some of the fish in waters set at 59 degrees Fahrenheit while others at 68 degrees Fahrenheit. All were fed the same diet. > > By the end of the experiment, the difference was stark. The trout raised in warmer waters were on average less than half the size as the other fish.
- Will Shoppers Ever Care About the Destruction of the Planet? Tactics to convince people to buy less aren’t working. A quirky new documentary by Patagonia takes a different approach.www.nytimes.com Will Shoppers Ever Care About the Destruction of the Planet?
Tactics to convince people to buy less aren’t working. A quirky new documentary by Patagonia takes a different approach.
