Yes; yes we do.
Author Andreas Malm on the failures of climate activism and the need for escalation
— Read on www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22691428/vox-conversations-climate-change-andreas-malm
Category: gnus
#TheDayAfterTheDayAfterTomorrow
A slowdown in the network, which influences weather far and wide, could spell trouble. “We’re poking a beast,” one expert said. “But we don’t really know the reaction we’ll cause.”
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/gulf-stream-collapse.html
#PublishAndPerish
A pair of English researchers found that New Zealand is best poised to stay up and running as climate change continues to wreak global havoc. Other scientists found flaws in their model.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/us/collapse-of-civilization-study-new-zealand.html
…obviously, it matters bigly how we’re generating the electricity in question; still, it is a for–serious relief to be done with this particular part of the conversation.
In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are already 60-68% lower than gasoline.
— Read on arstechnica.com/cars/2021/07/electric-cars-have-much-lower-life-cycle-emissions-new-study-confirms/
Sunny skies and hot temperatures have contributed to a major meltdown. It’s part of a worrying long-term trend of ice loss on the island.
— Read on gizmodo.com/greenland-lost-enough-ice-in-a-single-day-to-cover-flor-1847407127
“Consumers,” not ‘citizens’. #MathHasAWellKnownLiberalBias
Consumers get most of the benefits of unpaid costs, but companies get a slice, too.
— Read on arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/unpaid-environmental-damages-from-fossil-fuels-are-a-600b-annual-subsidy/
#DennisQuaidWasRight
Another predicted impact of climate change may be here.
— Read on arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/atlantic-currents-seem-to-have-started-fading-last-century/
#MathsAreHard
Combined, the 75 new pledges would only achieve a 1% cut in global greenhouse gas pollution by 2030. But to keep the world below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), we’ll need a 45% global reduction.
Leading climate scientists are freaking out. That’s a clear takeaway from a new report commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the body that represents the 197 signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement.
— Read on earther.gizmodo.com/new-un-climate-report-puts-the-world-on-red-alert-for-c-1846363339
Hint: bring extra socks.
This is the grim lesson of paleoclimatology: The planet seems to respond far more aggressively to small provocations than it’s been projected to by many of our models.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/extreme-climate-change-history/617793/
The downgrading of Telone’s cancer classification paves the way for the reregistration of the pesticide, a process that happens every 15 years and enables the product to remain in use
— Read on theintercept.com/2021/02/25/epa-cancer-pesticide-telone/
…these processes were more-than-bad-enough before Trump; we’ll be cleaning up messes like this for the foreseeable future. Whee!