Whee!
A provocative new study finds emissions from leaks could be 25 to 40 percent higher.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/19/were-vastly-undercounting-methane-emissions-fossil-fuels-scientists-say/
Category: gnus
…cli-fi micro-primer?
Stories about climate disaster have entertained us for years. Now, they’re getting more unforgiving and dire.
— Read on www.wired.com/story/doomer-lit-climate-fiction/
like many parents, they’re concerned that their children could be overwhelmed by predictions
…or, you know, seawater.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/02/03/eco-anxiety-is-overwhelming-kids-wheres-line-between-education-alarmism/
“Their whole gambit appears to be playing off our cultural love of trees and attempting to pick off a few environmentalist supporters here and there, win some praise, and keep the fossil fuels flowing.”
— Read on earther.gizmodo.com/the-dangerous-seduction-of-republicans-trillion-trees-1841699197
#FarmBabyFarm
The new study published in PLOS One on Wednesday shows that disturbing soils on new northern farmland could release 177 gigatons of carbon. That’s equivalent to more than acentury’s worth of present-day carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S.
— Read on earther.gizmodo.com/the-new-frontiers-of-farming-come-with-huge-climate-ris-1841665187
Atop the list of stats in response to which I lose my shiat anew each time I encounter it:
“The U.S. alone spends hundreds of billions of dollars on them, ten times as much as it spends on education.”
— Read on earther.gizmodo.com/cutting-fossil-fuel-subsidies-could-be-even-more-benefi-1841500311
I’m sure it’s nothing.
The simulators used to forecast warming have suddenly started giving us less time.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-03/climate-models-are-running-red-hot-and-scientists-don-t-know-why
“You can get uptight white guys to talk about erectile dysfunction and diarrhea, if there are stocks involved. But you couldn’t get them to talk about climate change.”
“Groundshine” is *definitely* the name of the next band I don’t start.
the cancers came from exposure to radioactivity on the job, including inhaling dust and radioactivity accumulated on the workplace floor, known as “groundshine.” Their own clothes, and even licking their lips or eating lunch, added exposure.
— Read on www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/
STATON, District Judge, dissenting:
In these proceedings, the government accepts as fact that the United States has reached a tipping point crying out for a concerted response—yet presses ahead toward calamity. It is as if an asteroid were barreling toward Earth and the government decided to shut down our only defenses. Seeking to quash this suit, the government bluntly insists that it has the absolute and unreviewable power to destroy the Nation.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/read-fiery-dissent-childrens-climate-case/605296/