Category: Climate Change

Climate Change

Climate Crisis: Greece’s Record Rainfall, Flooding, are part of a Mediterranean trend to more Dangerous Weather

According to Murdoch Media, these events are local and exceptional only in those areas in which they occur and maintain there’s nothing to worry about globally. Australia predicted to be the most threatened place by global climate change is being laughed at by News Corp and on a regular basis by hired media puppets like Andrew Bolt and Rowan Dean. Despite the increasing scientific data that’s been collected even when the government cut back on research.

These unprecedented flash floods were triggered by rainfall from the arrival of Storm Daniel on Monday September 4 which also affected Turkey and Bulgaria. The following day, in the village of Zagora, a record-breaking 754mm of rain fell in just 18 hours, leaving parts of the region of Thessaly in crisis and unable to respond.

Source: Climate Crisis: Greece’s Record Rainfall, Flooding, are part of a Mediterranean trend to more Dangerous Weather

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Past three Months Hottest on Record, as UN SecGen Warns “Climate Breakdown has begun.”

The World Meteorological Organization reports the results of a study by the European Union-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which found that the past three months were the hottest 90-day period in recorded history.

Source: Past three Months Hottest on Record, as UN SecGen Warns “Climate Breakdown has begun.”

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Breaking the suicidal impasse – Pearls and Irritations

Part of a globe with map of Australia on wood background.

Man on a mission to not just self-destruct but take the planet with it

In the last few months events have occurred globally which indicate an astonishing, but not unexpected, acceleration in the pace of climate change. The world has now entered a new era of extremely dangerous climate impacts which are already proving catastrophic in many parts of the world. The factors which hitherto have constrained warming, such as the inertia of the climate system and the cooling effect of atmospheric aerosols, are fading, pushing the global climate system into uncharted territory.

Source: Breaking the suicidal impasse – Pearls and Irritations

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Idalia: DeSantis may not want to “politicize” Climate Change, but Climate Change is determined to Politicize DeSantis

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on being asked about human-caused climate change, said he did not want to “politicize the weather.” Of course, it is not the weather that is at issue but climate, which is long-term and repeated weather patterns. DeSantis ducked the question because Koch Industries and ExxonMobil etc. are big donors to Republican candidates and he did not want to alienate them. DeSantis says that hurricanes are not more frequent now than in the twentieth century. But frequency is not the issue. Intensity is the issue. DeSantis turned down $350 million from the Biden administration for the green energy transition, of which governors like Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer are making use to create jobs and slash carbon pollution.

With the beginning of the hurricane season, the climate is announcing that it is perfectly happy to politicize DeSantis.

Source: Idalia: DeSantis may not want to “politicize” Climate Change, but Climate Change is determined to Politicize DeSantis

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Florida-Bound Biden Faces Calls to Declare Climate Emergency After Hurricane Idalia

woman wades through flood waters from Hurricane Idalia

Murdoch Media still keeps telling the West that this is all a hoax

Campaigners also argue that “Big Oil CEOs and politicians like Ron DeSantis must be held accountable for knowingly fueling the climate crisis that heats our oceans and strengthens deadly storms.”

Source: Florida-Bound Biden Faces Calls to Declare Climate Emergency After Hurricane Idalia

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Polar regions in peril without government action

What will it take to get any government to recognise and take substantive action on climate change and biodiversity loss?

Source: Polar regions in peril without government action

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Joint retreat: AUKUS nations back peddling on climate – Pearls and Irritations

Demonstrator in the city protesting against climate change and pollution - Global warming and environment concept.

ALP Government’s -SHAME They won’t release the National Security Intelligence Report on Climate Change that was completed in 2022.

“What China does or does not do will not drown small island states, nor desertify the dry subtropics, nor drive a global decline in crop yields, kill the Barrier Reef, salinate Kakadu or force the displacement of tens of millions of people. But a hotter climate will, probably in significant measure even before a full fleet of nuclear submarines has been commissioned in the 2040s”, said ASLCG in a recent report.

“Australia is missing in action”, but we are not the only ones.

Source: Joint retreat: AUKUS nations back peddling on climate – Pearls and Irritations

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Climate Change is now throwing at us Every Weapon in its Arsenal, from Heat Domes to Massive Wildfires, to Mega-Hurricanes

For the most part, the earth is heating up just in the way that climate change models from a decade ago had predicted if we went on spewing 35 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere every year. And we have. The frightening thing is that unfolding climate events are sometimes worse than the models had suggested because of factors of which the models did not take account.

Source: Climate Change is now throwing at us Every Weapon in its Arsenal, from Heat Domes to Massive Wildfires, to Mega-Hurricanes

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Climate Change Litigation: The Montana Precedent – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Mordecai Bromberg wiser than the Supreme Court

The lower court decision had shaken the fossil fuel industry with its finding in favour of the eight children and their litigation guardian, an octogenarian nun. Justice Bromberg found that considering the potential harm arising from carbon dioxide emissions was a mandatory consideration of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. The Minister for the Environment also had a duty of care given that it was reasonably foreseeable that the Australian children would face a risk of harm in extending the mine project. Furthermore, the Minister had control over that risk, given that she could approve the extension, and that the children were vulnerable to a real risk of harm arising from climatic threats.

Source: Climate Change Litigation: The Montana Precedent – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Tropical storm Hilary hits Mexico, United States, bringing flash floods, mudslides, high winds – ABC News

On Sunday, concerns were raised

Tropical storm Hilary has inundated streets across Mexico’s Baja California peninsula with deadly floodwaters, before moving over southern California, where it has swamped roads and downed trees.

Source: Tropical storm Hilary hits Mexico, United States, bringing flash floods, mudslides, high winds – ABC News

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Climate scientists warn nature’s ‘anaesthetics’ have worn off, now Earth is feeling the pain as ocean heating hits record highs – ABC News

During July, sea surface temperatures across much of the Mediterranean Sea were as much as 3 degrees Celsius higher than normal, with pockets up to 5.5C above average along the coasts of Italy, Greece and North Africa.

Source: Climate scientists warn nature’s ‘anaesthetics’ have worn off, now Earth is feeling the pain as ocean heating hits record highs – ABC News

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What do climate denialists say when the facts change? – Pearls and Irritations

Contrary opinions. One hand, thumb in the air, gives a favourable opinion, another thumb pointed down, opposes it.

Remember when Andrew Bolt kept telling us the world was “cooling”. He no longer does but parrots off that the proposed “solutions” to climate change are wrong. Has the worm really turned?

The indefatigable Creighton does though use one of the most recent versions of the denialist position with the proviso: “Noone denies that climate changes. It always has, for reasons obviously unrelated to human activity. The question is how much of its our fault”.

for some time now, researchers have suggested that the balance of arguments propagated by climate sceptics or denialists has shifted from denying or undermining climate science to challenging policy solutions designed to reduce emissions.

“To comprehend the truth and not act upon it – is there a greater sin than this? Knowledge masked is murder.”

We might also take solace in all this with A.E.Housman’s “The house of delusions is cheap to build, but drafty to live in, and ready at any instance to fall…..It is and it must in the long run be better for a man to see things as they are than to be ignorant of them.”

But then it’s hard to see things clearly if you read Adam Creighton and watch Fox news or Sky After Dark.

Source: What do climate denialists say when the facts change? – Pearls and Irritations

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Sixteen Young People in Montana Just Won a Historic Climate Lawsuit – Mother Jones

Two white youths raise their fists into the air in celebration. They stand next to a bright blue sign that partially reads "Montana Youth Making." In the background, others give high fives.

Would Dan allow a decision like this to happen in Australia? Or would kids trying to sue the State in Australia be decreed “Vexatious Litigants” and have them arrested for contempt?

A healthy climate is included in your constitutional rights, at least if you live in Montana. On Monday, District Court Judge Kathy Seeley sided with the 16 young plaintiffs who sued Montana three years ago, arguing that its pro–fossil fuels legislation violated their right to a safe environment. Seeley ruled in the case, Held v. Montana, that “plaintiffs have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment, which includes climate as part of the environmental life support system.”

Source: Sixteen Young People in Montana Just Won a Historic Climate Lawsuit – Mother Jones

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As 93 Confirmed Dead, Locals Fear Lahaina Rebuild Dominated by Rich Outsiders

A volunteer makes a damage assessment of a charred apartment complex

“Disaster capitalism will happen yet again unless they act proactively.” Jessica Corbett Aug 13, 2023 6

Source: As 93 Confirmed Dead, Locals Fear Lahaina Rebuild Dominated by Rich Outsiders

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Maui’s Deadly Wildfires Burn Through Lahaina – It’s a Reminder of the Growing Risk to Communities That Once Seemed Safe – scheerpost.com

Australia how prepared are we? Murdoch’s media screams little or nothing needs to be done global warming is a hoax. However, the winds Maui is experiencing are the direct result of the hurricane experienced on the American mainland.

Wildfires, pushed by powerful winds, raced through Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 8 and 9, 2023, leaving a charred and smoldering landscape across the tourist town of about 13,000 residents that was once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii. At least 36 people died, Maui County officials said. Others were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after going into the ocean to escape the flames.

Source: Maui’s Deadly Wildfires Burn Through Lahaina – It’s a Reminder of the Growing Risk to Communities That Once Seemed Safe – scheerpost.com

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How Colonialism Contributed to the Maui Wildfires – Mother Jones

Orange and yellow wildfire engulfs a triangular building. Blackened trees lay in front.

Hawaii is not a natural fire ecosystem and has not evolved to rebound after wildfires. Not surprisingly, preliminary reports suggest climate change is partly to blame,

Source: How Colonialism Contributed to the Maui Wildfires – Mother Jones

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Climate Crisis: The GOP Death Cult is holding the Earth Hostage to White Privilege

Who are you going to believe, Republicans or a bunch of lying climatologists? Diane Roberts Diane Roberts

A new NPR/PBS/Marist poll shows that nearly three-fourths of Republicans don’t think the climate crisis is a big deal and we don’t need to do anything about it.

I guess the good news is that 56 percent of all political persuasions say the climate crisis requires urgent action. That includes nearly nine out of 10 Democrats and over half of Independents.

Source: Climate Crisis: The GOP Death Cult is holding the Earth Hostage to White Privilege

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Psychopathic link to Climate Denial – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Really, is it any wonder that we’re struggling to find the political drive and commitment to finally come to grips with the catastrophic problems that threaten the viability of this planet? Only the evangelists are smiling – they have the Rapture to look forward to! But only in their own deluded psychopathic minds, that is!

Source: Psychopathic link to Climate Denial – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The Later We Stop, The Worse the Result | The Smirking Chimp

If we let the current situation persist — if we let those with control maintain that control — we doom ourselves to death on a dying planet. And our children will curse us indeed for doing it.

Source: The Later We Stop, The Worse the Result | The Smirking Chimp

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Oceans Hit Hottest Average Temperature ever Recorded, endangering Ecosystems on which We Depend

The world’s oceans hit an average temperature of 20.96°C (69.728°F ) this week, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It is the highest average ocean temperature ever recorded, beating a previous record from 2016. So reports Rosie Frost at Euronews.

Source: Oceans Hit Hottest Average Temperature ever Recorded, endangering Ecosystems on which We Depend

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During Earth’s hottest year, Murdoch’s climate denial is un-fucking-hinged – The Shot

Andrew Bolt for years insisted that the REAL science showed us the world was cooling from 1998 until 2018. He falsely accredited himself with Adelaide University qualifications when he had none. He was even included in the IPA’s book published at the time of REAL facts and declared a “world expert. Today Mr Bolt is a nobody even in the current decibel output of the News Corp’s new brigade of climate deniers claiming to provide us with the REAL facts. They have all barrelled over the top of Andrew Who? Who has been left behind in their wake.

Given the gravity of climate denialism’s consequences, it should in the future be considered a serious crime. We would not be in this perilous position without it. This isn’t Thought Police shit, calm down Twitter Blue subscriber, this is about perspective, about survival, about punishments fitting the scale of the sin. We lock teenagers up for possessing marijuana; why not CEOs, and politicians and journalists for collaborating with our species’ own demise? At the very least, opinions as thickheaded as these should get you tarred and feathered on the back of a donkey as the village jeers and hurls mud, rotten fruit pelting perpetrators as they begin an exiled existence roaming the ever-warmer desert wastelands at the edge of the known world. We would all be better off for it.

Source: During Earth’s hottest year, Murdoch’s climate denial is un-fucking-hinged – The Shot

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Science shows the severe Climate Consequences of new Oil, Gas and Coal Production

Murdochians laugh as the world burns

The world has just suffered through its warmest month ever recorded. Heatwaves have swept across southern Europe, the US and China, breaking many temperature records in the process.

Source: Science shows the severe Climate Consequences of new Oil, Gas and Coal Production

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The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Paying the GOP Handsomely to Deny Climate Change

Who and why Murdoch bends over so readily to please.

Republican super PACs in the House and Senate raked in major donations from the fossil fuel industry this year. Proving to be money well spent, GOP lawmakers are ramping up a campaign of outright climate denial.

Source: The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Paying the GOP Handsomely to Deny Climate Change

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WMO: July to be Hottest month on Record, as World enters era of Global Boiling, Global Burning

The World Meteorological Association said this weekend as July comes to a close that it will have been the hottest month in recorded history. Its first three weeks were certainly the hottest on record. It likely will have been the hottest month in 120,000 years. Modern homo sapiens as a species is thought to have begun about 150,000 years ago. The WMO quotes United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who pointed out that already in July we have seen the three hottest days on record, and the highest ocean temperatures ever recorded for this time of

Source: WMO: July to be Hottest month on Record, as World enters era of Global Boiling, Global Burning

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The climate emergency is real – with hope going up in smoke

Carbon dioxide must be removed from the atmosphere to avoid the horrible consequences of 2 degrees of warming, or more, and the only way to do that is with trees.

Source: The climate emergency is real – with hope going up in smoke

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416,000 Years Ago, All Greenland’s Ice Melted and Raised Sea Levels 5-20 Feet: A Warning from the Past

About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands. Evidence suggests that a forest of spruce trees, buzzing with insects, covered the southern part of Greenland. Global sea level was much higher then, between 20 and 40 feet above today’s levels. Around the world, land that today is home to hundreds of millions of people was under water.

Scientists have known for awhile that the Greenland ice sheet had mostly disappeared at some point in the past million years, but not precisely when.

Source: 416,000 Years Ago, All Greenland’s Ice Melted and Raised Sea Levels 5-20 Feet: A Warning from the Past

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Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent-
Forked Tongues: heavy emitters exposed as hypocrites on climate action, new analysis shows

 Behind public statements supporting climate action, key companies engaged in extensive lobbying against Labor’s flagship climate policy, reports Callum Foote.

Forked Tongues: heavy emitters exposed as hypocrites on climate action,

 

 

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Europe and US heat matches climatologists’ worst predictions

The planet’s hottest year

Some regions are facing temperatures that are expected to remain well above 40 degrees Celsius, the European Space Agency says.

Source: Europe and US heat matches climatologists’ worst predictions

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John Kerry Says ‘Under No Circumstances’ Will US Pay Poor Nations for Climate Damages

​John Kerry

This is unfair and goes against what was agreed upon at COP27 in Egypt. Climate activists especially from the Global South must stand up to the U.S. and other Western powers that want to short-change developing countries.” Kenny Stancil Jul 14, 2023 17

Source: John Kerry Says ‘Under No Circumstances’ Will US Pay Poor Nations for Climate Damages

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It’s Official, Say NOAA and NASA: This June Was the Hottest Ever Recorded on Earth

Madrid heatwave

NASA called the soaring heat “part of a pattern of increasing global temperatures, as a result of human activities, mainly carbon dioxide emissions.” Brett Wilkins Jul 13, 2023 4

Source: It’s Official, Say NOAA and NASA: This June Was the Hottest Ever Recorded on Earth

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To Stop Global Heating, Cut Military Spending

Economic plunder of the planet by the Industrial-Military Complex

ALP just did a $1B manufacturing deal with Germany and are proud of it. WTF, isn’t arms dealing the equivalent of fossil fuel export just like gas and coal?

Most of us understand the need to cut carbon emissions. But a huge share of our tax dollars are funding the most carbon-intensive institution on the planet.

Source: To Stop Global Heating, Cut Military Spending

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Why are so Many Climate Records breaking all at Once?

So what’s going on with the climate, and why are we seeing all these records tumbling at once?

Source: Why are so Many Climate Records breaking all at Once?

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Did Planet Earth Just Have its Hottest-Ever Week? – Mother Jones

The average global temperature hit an unofficial high Tuesday and Wednesday. Then, Thursday was even steamier.

Earth’s average temperature hit an unofficial record high on Tuesday, according to the University of Maine’s climate data website Climate Reanalyzer: 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius). It wasn’t a fluke. The temperature hit the same reading on Wednesday.

Then on Thursday, the average surpassed the brand new record, hitting 63 degrees Fahrenheit.

Source: Did Planet Earth Just Have its Hottest-Ever Week? – Mother Jones

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Opinion | The Hottest Days in 125,000 Years—So Far | Common Dreams

Man in heatwave.

This season’s hellish heat simply has to move us into action; the power of the sun can help.

Source: Opinion | The Hottest Days in 125,000 Years—So Far | Common Dreams

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‘Death sentence’: World registers hottest day on record

A climate scientist has warned of a “death sentence” as the world registered its hottest day in recorded history.

Source: ‘Death sentence’: World registers hottest day on record

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Global average sea and air temperatures are spiking in 2023, before El Niño has fully arrived. We should be very concerned

What makes these most recent temperature spikes so alarming is that they’ve occurred before a forecast El Niño event in the Pacific, rather than during one.

It is now clear that Earth’s climate system is way out of kilter and we should be very concerned.

Source: Global average sea and air temperatures are spiking in 2023, before El Niño has fully arrived. We should be very concerned

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Oceans absorb 30% of our CO2 Emissions; Phytoplankton are Central to its Climate Impacts

In Australia, AGL is about to double it’s profit. The mega electricity and gas supplier delivered its upgraded full-year profit targets on Friday. AGL shares jumped more than 14 percent higher in early trade and closed at $10.60. Meanwhile, they continued to announce again and again their “plans” to replace their antiquated coal plants. These “announcements” have now spanned years of no action on the part of this giant Australian emitter of CO2. Gunna AGL is what it is all talk and no action.

The ocean holds 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere and absorbs almost 30% of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from human activities. This means the ocean is key to understanding the global carbon cycle and thus our future climate.

Source: Oceans absorb 30% of our CO2 Emissions; Phytoplankton are Central to its Climate Impacts

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Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment

Source: Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment

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Carbon Dioxide in our Atmosphere hits High not seen for Millions of Years, threatening Accelerated Global Heating

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Monday that parts per million of carbon dioxide in our planet’s atmosphere averaged 424 ppm in the month of May, reaching a level not seen for millions of years. In May 2022 it was only 421 ppm so this is a tremendous jump on a year over year basis. It probably reflects the resurgence of the world economy as the COVID pandemic has transitioned to an endemic infection and governments have dropped most prophylactic measures. Courtesy NOAA NOAA administrator Dr. Rich Spinrad observed, “Every year we see

Source: Carbon Dioxide in our Atmosphere hits High not seen for Millions of Years, threatening Accelerated Global Heating

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State Farm Halts New Homeowner Insurance In California Due To Wildfires | HuffPost Latest News

Flames from the Jerusalem Fire consume a sign containing addresses to homes in Lake County, California, in 2015. Major wildfires in California, and losses in the billions of dollars, have led some big insurance companies to stop writing homeowners policies for households that are considered at high risk of fire.

California Flooding State Farm Insurance has announced it will no longer offer new home insurance policies in California due to rising wildfire risks and construction costs.

Source: State Farm Halts New Homeowner Insurance In California Due To Wildfires | HuffPost Latest News

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“Politicizing the Weather:” Florida’s DeSantis doesn’t Understand that Carbon Emissions make Hurricanes more Intense, not More Frequent

DeSantis read Andrew Bolt ” Both believe man has no influence on nature. Leave well enough alone and stop interfering in my source of political donations.

DeSantis said, “I’ve always rejected the politicization of the weather.” He said that hurricanes are a fact of life in Florida and have not become more frequent.

Source: “Politicizing the Weather:” Florida’s DeSantis doesn’t Understand that Carbon Emissions make Hurricanes more Intense, not More Frequent

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How Big Oil is Manipulating the Way You Think About Climate Change – scheerpost.com

A logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change.

In medieval times, gamekeepers trained dogs to the hunt by setting them on the trail of a dead rabbit they had dragged through the forest. Once the dogs were baying along the rabbit’s scent, the gamekeeper ran across the trail ahead of them, dragging a gunny sack of red herrings. Red herrings are smoked fish that have been aged to a ruddy, stinking ripeness. If any dog veered off to follow the stench of the red herrings, the gamekeeper beat him with a stick. Thus did dogs learn not to be lured into barking up the wrong tree.

This practice became the namesake of one of the best-known types of fallacies, the red herring fallacy. As a philosophy professor, this is how I explain the fallacy to my students: If the argument is not going your opponent’s way, a common strategy — though a fallacious and dishonorable one — is to divert attention from the real issue by raising an issue that is only tangentially related to the first.

Source: How Big Oil is Manipulating the Way You Think About Climate Change – scheerpost.com

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The Market Won’t Save Us: How to Rapidly Reduce Deadly Fossil Fuel Use

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The burning of fossil fuels—oil, coal, natural gas—is responsible for nearly 90 percent of global carbon emissions. Despite almost-universal recognition of the need to reduce the use of those fossil fuels, the industrialized world is having the hardest time breaking its addiction. The economic rebound from the COVID-19 shutdowns generated the largest ever increase in global emissions from fossil fuels in 2021—around 2 billion tons. The increase in 2022 was considerably more modest—thanks to a surge in renewable energy investments—but it was an increase nonetheless. Meanwhile, subsidies for fossil fuel consumption rose to….

Source: The Market Won’t Save Us: How to Rapidly Reduce Deadly Fossil Fuel Use

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Global Heating could make it too Hot for a Third of Humanity by 2080 – 2100

A lot of studies have focused on the economic cost of global heating, caused by humans burning fossil fuels. A new study in Nature Sustainability “Quantifying the human cost of global warming,” by Timothy M. Lenton et al. instead concentrates on what heating will mean for the lives of human beings.

Source: Global Heating could make it too Hot for a Third of Humanity by 2080 – 2100

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2/3s of the Extra Dry Air that encourages Wildfires comes from Humanity burning Fossil Fuels

The earth’s atmosphere can make things wet or dry them out depending on the water vapor pressure. When there is a Vapor Pressure Deficit, it dries the earth out. VPD is defined as “a measure of atmospheric water demand defined as the difference between the amount of water vapor in the air and the amount of water vapor that air would hold at saturation.” If there is a lot less water vapor than the atmosphere would normally hold, all other things being equal, you have a bigger deficit. A dry atmosphere also makes the earth beneath it drier. Dry land conditions are conducive to wildfires. The dryness of the atmosphere can also be seasonal. But more than 66% of the summertime vapor pressure deficit in the West has been caused by human activity in burning fossil fuels.

Source: 2/3s of the Extra Dry Air that encourages Wildfires comes from Humanity burning Fossil Fuels

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Environment: Emissions, climate change and disasters got markedly worse in 2022

Aerial view coal power plant station in the morning mist, the morning sunrises. coal power plant and environment concept. Coal and steam. Mae Moh, Lampang, Thailand.

Global Climate Report 2022 The World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) 2022 update continues to tell the same sad story of political neglect:

Source: Environment: Emissions, climate change and disasters got markedly worse in 2022

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The People and Planet Subsidizing the Private Jets of the Ultra-Rich | The Smirking Chimp

The High Flyers 2023 report from the Institute for Policy Studies demonstrates how the boom in private aviation has a disproportionate negative effect on our environment while private jet owners continue to pay less in taxes than commercial air passengers.

Source: The People and Planet Subsidizing the Private Jets of the Ultra-Rich | The Smirking Chimp

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Record low Antarctic sea ice is another alarming sign the ocean’s role as climate regulator is changing

A changing climate is upon us, with more frequent land and marine heatwaves, forest fires, atmospheric rivers and floods. For some, it is the backdrop to day-to-day life, but for a growing number of people it is a life-changing reality.

It is now more remarkable when a year is not the hottest since our species began to develop civilisations.

Source: Record low Antarctic sea ice is another alarming sign the ocean’s role as climate regulator is changing

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The USA and Australia fail on climate change – Pearls and Irritations

Climate change and greenhouse gases as a shadow of industrial pollution.

Australia wants 8 subs and a God Machine as weapons of “defence” not war we are told. However, they don’t seem to give a shit about the fact we already have weapons that are destroying the planet and taking advice from those manufacturing them.

Nearly two years ago relief was expressed that the USA had emerged under President Biden to offer world leadership on climate change. Sadly this leadership has been a disappointment and today both the US and other high emitters such as Australia are not on track to meet the challenge.

Source: The USA and Australia fail on climate change – Pearls and Irritations

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Climate-change-driven Heat Waves: People told to stay home in Thailand; Fears of Wildfires, crop Failure in Spain

One of the most visible manifestations of the climate emergency is heat waves. The earth’s climate is incredibly complex, and climate change can produce freezing “bomb cyclones” as well as unseasonably sweltering weather. Still, the past ten years are the hottest in recorded history on average, and extra heat is being injected into the climate by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.

Source: Climate-change-driven Heat Waves: People told to stay home in Thailand; Fears of Wildfires, crop Failure in Spain