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2024-06-25 at 11:08 PM UTC in We’ve been accidentally cooling the planet — and it’s about to stopEither way who cares?
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2024-06-25 at 10:45 PM UTC in Adults who play video games are LOSERS
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2024-06-25 at 6:30 PM UTC in We’ve been accidentally cooling the planet — and it’s about to stopWe’ve been accidentally cooling the planet — and it’s about to stop
Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.
And now, as society cleans up pollution, that cooling effect is waning. New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans; China, fighting its own air pollution problem, has slashed sulfur pollution dramatically in the last decade. -
2024-06-24 at 10:26 PM UTC in The New Climate Denial Is Based on These Six TermsThe New Climate Denial Is Based on These Six Terms
It’s absurd, at this point, to claim that climate change isn’t real: Every summer a ghastly parade of stories about deadly extreme weather marches across the news, and climate scientists can now explicitly attribute this weather to climate change. Even 70 percent of young Republicans now connect climate change to human activity. So now Republicans in swing states, titans of finance and tech, as well as coal, oil, and gas executives themselves, have started spreading a new, more subtle form of climate denial. This new denial acknowledges that climate change is real but still seeks to justify continuing the fossil fuel system.
This propaganda is spun out of six key terms that dominate the language of climate politics: alarmist, cost, growth, “India and China,” innovation, and resilience. Together these terms weave a narrative that goes something like this: “Yes, climate change is real, but calling it an existential threat is just alarmist. And, anyway, phasing out coal, oil, and gas would cost us too much. Human flourishing relies on the economic growth enabled by fossil fuels, so we need to keep using them and deal with climate change by fostering technological innovation and increasing our resilience. Besides, America should not act unilaterally on the climate crisis while emissions are rising in India and China.” This narrative is designed to encourage the incorrect and dangerous belief that the world does not need essentially to stop using fossil fuels—either because climate change won’t be that destructive or, in some versions of the story, because the world can keep using coal, oil, and gas and still halt global heating anyway. -
2024-06-24 at 7:05 PM UTC in Can global warming be reversed? Does Uncle Scam want to? Why/Why Not?
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2024-06-21 at 11:44 PM UTC in I smoke weed every day of my life and have since I became an adult basicallyIt's a marketing ploy, of course you're going to hate it if you're an actual stoner.
Gay people hate rainbow washing, too. -
2024-06-21 at 6:37 PM UTC in Well Beyond the U.S., Heat and Climate Extremes Are Hitting BillionsWell Beyond the U.S., Heat and Climate Extremes Are Hitting Billions
Between May 2023 and May 2024, an estimated 6.3 billion people, or roughly 4 out of 5 people in the world, lived through at least a month of what in their areas were considered abnormally high temperatures, according to a recent analysis by Climate Central, a scientific nonprofit.
The damage to human health, agriculture and the global economy is just beginning to be understood.
Extreme heat killed an estimated 489,000 people annually between 2000 and 2019, according to the World Meteorological Organization, making heat the deadliest of all extreme weather events. Swiss RE, the insurance-industry giant, said in a report this week that the accumulating hazards of climate change could further drive the growing market for insurance against strikes and riots. “Climate change may also drive food and water shortages and in turn civil unrest, and mass migration,” the report said. -
2024-06-21 at 6:25 PM UTC in Heat waves have killed thousands this year. Experts say the worst could be yet to comeHeat waves have killed thousands this year. Experts say the worst could be yet to come
Unsurprisingly, climate change is a major culprit in this unfolding crisis and experts agree that it will get worse.
"I am 100% certain that worsening heat waves across Earth are due to global heating caused primarily by burning fossil fuels." -
2024-06-21 at 6:21 PM UTC in Most People on Earth, Even in Petrostates, Want Quick Fossil Fuel Phaseout
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2024-06-21 at 2:39 PM UTC in Most People on Earth, Even in Petrostates, Want Quick Fossil Fuel PhaseoutMost People on Earth, Even in Petrostates, Want Quick Fossil Fuel Phaseout
People in most major fossil fuel producing nations support a quick energy transition in their own countries, the poll showed. In the United States, the world's largest oil and gas producer, 53% supported either a "very" or "somewhat" quick phaseout; in Saudi Arabia, the second largest, 75% did so; and in China and India, the leading coal producers, the figures were 80% and 76%, respectively.
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2024-06-21 at 2:24 PM UTC in The Weatherman Who Tried to Bring Climate Science to a Red State
Mr. Sather reprimanded Mr. Gloninger for his tone in responding to some viewers, and said he’d violated company policy in telling Mr. Dutton that he’d been asked to talk less about climate change. At the heart of the station’s concerns was how much Mr. Gloninger talked about global warming on air. Mr. Sather said some viewers felt Mr. Gloninger seemed preachy, and also that climate change didn’t belong in every weather forecast.
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2024-06-21 at 2:21 PM UTC in Youth activists win ‘unprecedented’ climate settlement in HawaiiYouth activists win ‘unprecedented’ climate settlement in Hawaii
Under what legal experts called a “historic” settlement, announced on Thursday, Hawaii officials will release a roadmap “to fully decarbonize the state’s transportation systems, taking all actions necessary to achieve zero emissions no later than 2045 for ground transportation, sea and inter-island air transportation”, Andrea Rodgers, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the case, said at a press conference with the governor.
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2024-06-21 at 12:18 PM UTC in 80 percent of people globally want stronger climate action by governments80 percent of people globally want stronger climate action by governments
Even more - 86 percent - want to see their countries set aside geopolitical differences and work together on climate change. The scale of consensus is especially striking in the current global context of increased conflict and the rise of nationalism.
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2024-06-21 at 12:16 AM UTC in The Weatherman Who Tried to Bring Climate Science to a Red StateThe Weatherman Who Tried to Bring Climate Science to a Red State
Mr. Sather pressed on, telling Mr. Gloninger that the station had intentionally avoided the term “climate change” to avoid alienating viewers. Instead, it called a series about extreme weather “Forecasting Our Future.”
“When we talk about ‘Forecasting Our Future’, we have impact on people who would have shut down had we spoken about it in a different way,” Mr. Sather said. -
2024-06-21 at 12:15 AM UTC in Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work
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2024-06-19 at 10:17 PM UTC in I sold all my bitcoin last week
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2024-06-19 at 6:26 PM UTC in Climate protesters arrested after painting Stonehenge monument orangeClimate protesters arrested after painting Stonehenge monument orange
English Heritage, which manages the site, said it was “extremely upsetting” and said curators were investigating the damage. Just Stop Oil said on the social media platform X that the paint was made of cornstarch and would dissolve in the rain.
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2024-06-19 at 6:23 PM UTC in Climate Change Is Driving an Insurance Crisis: Policymakers and Regulators Must ActClimate Change Is Driving an Insurance Crisis: Policymakers and Regulators Must Act
Accelerating risks from climate change are colliding with shortcomings in insurance markets—such as a lack of transparent information and affordability provisions—to create a perfect storm for people and communities on the front lines of floods, droughts, and wildfires. As climate scientist Michael Mann has said, “Uninsurability is the first stage of uninhabitability.”
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2024-06-19 at 6:20 PM UTC in This Isn’t Your Grandparents’ Summer HeatThis Isn’t Your Grandparents’ Summer Heat
Exactly how many heat waves hit any city in a given summer has always been subject to the whims of the weather. But is very clear that—with global warming now heating the world to 1.2 degrees Celsius above its average in the late 19th century—summers are dramatically ramping up. “There’s no question that summers have changed,” says Kristie Ebi, an epidemiologist who specializes in heat-related health risks.
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2024-06-19 at 12:02 AM UTC in Earth is warming at a record rate, with 92% of last year's heat caused by humansNobody cares.
