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2026-03-13 13:22:55 GMT

"Turkey and South Korea are discussing the joint construction of a nuclear power plant, the latest of recent efforts by Ankara to diversify its energy sources.
[In addition] state-run energy companies Turkish Petroleum Corp. and Botas are exploring investments in Canadian oil and gas fields.
Ankara is also ramping up oil exploration in the Black Sea, including in a partnership with Shell off the coast of Bulgaria."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-13/turkey-moves-toward-nuclear-in-bid-to-diversify-energy-sources

2026-02-08 14:28:20 GMT

Warming temperatures are shrinking snowpack in key Canadian watersheds, study suggests
"The declines in snow have major consequences for everything from municipal water systems to agriculture, lake water levels and shipping, and wildfire risk in Canada’s forests.
We should expect some vulnerabilities that are going to be intensifying in the future,” Nazemi said."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/winter-snow-climate-water-9.7078119

2026-01-21 14:35:31 GMT

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"That last one, subsidence, often surprises people. But it’s a signature of water bankruptcy. When groundwater is overpumped, the underground structure, which holds water almost like a sponge, can collapse. In Mexico City, land is sinking by about 10 inches (25 centimeters) per year. Once the pores become compacted, they can’t simply be refilled."
https://theconversation.com/the-world-is-in-water-bankruptcy-un-scientists-report-heres-what-that-means-273213

2026-01-21 14:35:18 GMT

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"At first, we pull a little more groundwater during dry years. We use bigger pumps and deeper wells. We transfer water from one basin to another. We drain wetlands and straighten rivers to make space for farms and cities.
Then the hidden costs show up. Lakes shrink year after year. Wells need to go deeper. Rivers that once flowed year-round turn seasonal. Salty water creeps into aquifers near the coast. The ground itself starts to sink."
https://theconversation.com/the-world-is-in-water-bankruptcy-un-scientists-report-heres-what-that-means-273213

2026-01-21 13:27:19 GMT

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"Billions of people are facing the reality of irreversible water “bankruptcy", according to a stark warning from UN researchers.
The report said water supplies are "already in a post-crisis state of failure" after decades of unsustainable extraction rates that have drawn down water "savings" contained in aquifers, glaciers, soils, wetlands and river ecosystems, with supplies also degraded by pollution."
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/world-water-supplies-bankruptcy-un-b2904219.html

2026-01-21 13:21:20 GMT

"Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires from 24 countries are calling on global leaders to increase taxes on the super-rich, amid growing concern that the wealthiest in society are buying political influence."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/millionaires-billionaires-taxes-super-rich-mark-ruffalo-wef-davos

2026-01-19 14:03:46 GMT

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To Understand Rising Energy Costs in Wisconsin, Follow the Data Center Bread Crumbs
The Union of Concerned Scientists are preparing a report that will advise:
– Data centers should bring their own clean energy
– Data centers must pay their fair share
– Information Transparency: Data centers must disclose data regarding their intended energy, water, and other resource uses which would impact the communities surrounding them and the state as a whole.
https://blog.ucs.org/maria-chavez/to-understand-rising-energy-costs-in-wisconsin-follow-the-data-center-bread-crumbs/
#BYOG

2026-01-19 13:46:33 GMT

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"When they open their electric bills in January, Connecticut residents know that they can expect to see a jump in the numbers.
That’s because winter price hikes are tied to the state’s reliance on natural gas, a vulnerability that lawmakers and advocates have long said could be eased by adding more clean energy sources. But one year into President Donald Trump’s second term, that push ... is colliding with a federal government moving in the opposite direction."
https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/ct-trump-climate-energy-agenda-cost-environment-21294687.php

2026-01-19 12:39:26 GMT

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"Water scarcity in northwestern Turkey has reached a critical point after the Kadıköy Dam, a key drinking water source for the town of Keşan, effectively ran dry, according to Daily Sabah.
The Kadıköy Dam supplies drinking water to Keşan. The reservoir, designed to hold 56 million cubic meters of water, has dropped to below 1% capacity."
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/turkey-water-scarcity-kesan-dam/

2026-01-19 12:35:34 GMT

"At the recent World Water Congress in Marrakech, experts emphasized the importance of strengthening water infrastructure in Africa and the Global South to adapt to climate change.
The UN Secretary-General’s special envoy on water, Retno Marsdui, highlighted that by 2030, 4.8 billion people could face health and livelihood risks from poor water quality, emphasizing the grim reality confronting many communities."
https://news.fundsforngos.org/2026/01/19/climate-change-drives-growing-water-challenges-across-africa/

2026-01-17 15:29:16 GMT

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"The Trump administration froze five big offshore wind projects last month but judges this week allowed three of the projects to resume. Federal clean energy tax incentives expired on Dec. 31 that include installing home solar panels.
“My prediction would be that electric prices are going to be to the 2026 election what egg prices were to the 2024 election,” said McKibben.
Democrats blamed rising electric bills on Trump and his dislike of renewable energy."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-vermont-gop-china-united-nations-b2902410.html

2026-01-17 15:20:23 GMT

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BYOG
Bring Your Own Generation.
Sounds reasonable.
What is not reasonable is that new data centers hoover up electricity supply built for households, and then those households have to pay much higher rates. Because the law of supply and demand.
"A recent PJM capacity market auction set record-high prices for power generators that were more than 800% higher than the previous year, increasing electricity prices for homes and businesses."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/white-house-seeks-emergency-power-auction-largest-us-electric-grid-2026-01-16/

2026-01-17 15:17:58 GMT

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"PJM later on Friday unveiled its own plan, which called for big data centers to voluntarily bring their own new generation or face the potential of having their power supply curtailed during peak demand periods. The grid operator also called for the creation of an accelerated interconnection track for state-sponsored generation projects."
BYOG
"bring your own generation"
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/white-house-seeks-emergency-power-auction-largest-us-electric-grid-2026-01-16/

2026-01-17 15:16:52 GMT

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"The White House on Friday urged the largest U.S. electric grid to conduct an emergency power auction to protect against rolling blackouts as energy demand from data centers grows faster than the country can build new generation plants.
Rising power bills in PJM's region have led to a political backlash over the last year."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/white-house-seeks-emergency-power-auction-largest-us-electric-grid-2026-01-16/

2026-01-17 15:03:51 GMT

Washington's largest climate polluter shuts down despite federal order
"Canadian company TransAlta’s coal-burning power plant in Centralia, WA, shut down Dec. 19. The plant has not re-started since then, despite a Dec. 16 emergency order from U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to keep operating.
“There's no emergency,” said attorney Kelly Wood with the Washington Attorney General’s Office."
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-s-largest-climate-polluter-shuts-down-despite-federal-order
KUOW public radio

2026-01-16 13:32:30 GMT

"By slowing water without blocking its flow, terraces reduce erosion, keeping soil where crops can grow and preserving the moisture they need.
Crop choice is another example of adaptation. By planting different, locally selected rice varieties on different terraces matched to specific conditions, farmers spread risk rather than relying on a single harvest strategy."
https://theconversation.com/how-mountain-terraces-have-helped-indigenous-peoples-live-with-climate-uncertainty-271599
So, eminently not suited for industrial scale farming. But climate resilient.

2026-01-13 14:35:51 GMT

"Corporate Budgets Hold $1.3 Trillion of Untapped Climate Capital
A Dutch nonprofit analyzed about 1,600 companies worldwide and found the median share of spending currently devoted to low-carbon projects is just 7%.
Raising that figure to 30% would free up vast new pools of capital, WBA said."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/corporate-budgets-hold-1-3-trillion-of-untapped-climate-capital
#ClimateDisclosure

2026-01-13 13:50:28 GMT

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps.
The cost of a human life [will be set] at $0 when doing cost-benefit analysis for PM2.5 or ozone pollution — two air pollutants that can cause lifelong respiratory issues and are estimated to cause tens of thousands of premature deaths every year in the U.S."
https://truthout.org/articles/epa-no-longer-considering-lives-saved-in-pollution-rules-only-cost-to-business/

2026-01-11 13:45:02 GMT

"Our research has uncovered the hidden world of the tiny organisms living in the bark of trees. We discovered they are quietly helping to purify the air we breathe and remove greenhouse gases.
These microbes “eat”, or use, gases like methane and carbon monoxide for energy and survival. Most significantly, they also remove hydrogen, which has a role in super-charging climate change."
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/microbes-in-bark-eat-climate-gases-this-will-change-the-way-we-think-about-trees/

2026-01-10 14:33:50 GMT

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"The UK is bracing for widespread ice and freezing temperatures on Saturday as tens of thousands of people remain without power."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgdezxj617o

2026-01-10 14:30:41 GMT

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"Several containers have fallen from two cargo ships off the Isle of Wight amid strong winds sweeping in from Storm Goretti."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdj3pdzv09o

2026-01-09 13:17:20 GMT

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Climate-induced chaos
"Storm Goretti battered northern Europe on Friday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, shutting schools and suspending rail services in France, Britain and Germany as heavy snow and gale-force winds compounded a week of freezing weather."
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/widespread-power-cuts-travel-disrupted-storm-goretti-hammers-northern-europe-2026-01-09/

2026-01-08 22:18:59 GMT

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"A sting jet is a narrow core of violent winds that sometimes forms within rapidly intensifying extratropical cyclones in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, producing powerful windstorms near the ground. Sting jets are associated with the strongest and most damaging windstorms, resulting in violent, hurricane-force winds."
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/storm-goretti-sting-jet-english-channel-england-france-snow-western-europe-mk/

2026-01-08 22:13:18 GMT

"Europe was set to be buffeted by weather ranging from severe winds to snow and freezing temperatures with the arrival of Storm Goretti on Thursday, with forecasters issuing warnings from Britain to Germany.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260108-storm-goretti-set-to-batter-europe-with-heavy-wind-rain-and-snow
"Exceptionally strong winds" of up to 160 kph;
Schools closed in France on Friday;
In Germany, heavy snow and winds in the north were set to affect schools, hospitals and transport links.

2026-01-06 13:58:45 GMT

"More than half of Australia is set to swelter in blistering temperatures in what is expected to be the worst heatwave since the devastating black summer bushfires.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned that dry, hot conditions would create extreme fire conditions across several states as temperatures topped 45C in parts of the country."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/06/worst-heatwave-since-black-summer-forecast-australia

2026-01-01 20:48:52 GMT

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On earthquakes: It depends on what geographic scale you're looking at.
"The tectonic forces (and stresses) responsible for very large earthquakes are much, much larger than the stresses due to melting glaciers and ice sheets.
While melting ice might not have a global affect, it could have an impact on active faults that lie directly underneath glaciers on landmasses such as Alaska or Greenland."
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/03/17/3165155.htm

2026-01-01 14:23:15 GMT

"Ice sheets and glaciers lie on top of volcanoes like thick, weighted blankets, exerting a downward pressure.
If they melt rapidly, that pressure is reduced,
Hot rock moves toward the surface to fill the space. As it rises upward, the pressure drops, allowing it to melt and form magma.
A melting glacier is effectively relieving the pressure below, allowing more magma to be produced. And this additional magma “will cause more and/or larger volcanic eruptions.” "
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2025/12/climate/melting-glaciers-climate-change-volcanic-activity-vis/
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2026-01-01 13:55:29 GMT

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In 2025, city and state actions against climate change made progress despite federal rollbacks
Case study: Boston, MA.
https://baystatebanner.com/2025/12/31/in-2025-city-and-state-actions-against-climate-change-made-progress-despite-federal-rollbacks/

2026-01-01 13:47:41 GMT

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"Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/31/greenwashing-illegality-false-claims-climate-litigation-wins-2025
#Climate2025

2026-01-01 13:42:48 GMT

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Interview with Bill McKibben.
"Took me too long, at least a decade, to figure out that we had won the argument, but that we were losing the fight because the fight wasn’t about data and reason and evidence. The fight was about what fights are always about, money and power."
But now more and more money is moving into clean energy.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/climate-doomsayer-bill-mckibben-solar-power/

2026-01-01 13:02:47 GMT

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"While many scientists are concerned about the potential destruction and disruption of larger and more violent waves, others believe waves have a role to play in tackling the climate crisis. The average power of the waves crossing Australia’s continental shelf is estimated to be around 10 times Australia’s annual energy consumption – more than any other country in the world."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/22/waves-are-getting-bigger-is-the-world-ready?CMP=soc_567
#WaveEnergy

2026-01-01 02:28:16 GMT

House of the rising cost of living
#2025InASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

2025-12-31 14:34:44 GMT

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"Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.
It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times."
https://apnews.com/article/climate-world-weather-attribution-year-end-extreme-1e9028da87e518382482e21fef3cfeee

2025-12-31 14:28:49 GMT

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"Climate change worsened by human behaviour made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.
It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 C since preindustrial times. "
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/climate-heat-emissions-2025-9.7030427

2025-12-31 14:25:34 GMT

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Climate hits the vulnerable.
"But the inequity goes deeper: the scientific evidence base itself is uneven. Many of our studies in 2025 focused on heavy rainfall events in the Global South, and time and again we found that gaps in observational data and the reliance on climate models developed primarily for the Global North prevented us from drawing confident conclusions. This unequal foundation in climate science mirrors the broader injustices of the climate crisis."
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evidence-and-impacts-limits-to-adaptation-extreme-weather-in-2025/

2025-12-31 14:21:28 GMT

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2025 in the UK:
"The National Trust, which provides a snapshot of how the weather is hitting wildlife every Christmas, described it as a rollercoaster of conditions that tested nature’s resilience like never before in modern times.
Ben McCarthy, the head of nature conservation at the charity, said: “Heat, drought and fire are the defining headlines of 2025."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/29/extreme-weather-climate-change-2025-national-trust
#Climate2025

2025-12-28 13:56:38 GMT

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"Wealthy countries tend to place higher on the disaster cost ranking as they typically have higher property prices and residents are better able to afford insurance.
Yet the economies of poorer nations are usually hit harder by climate change extremes as these countries have fewer resources to respond."
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/cyclone-alfred-among-most-costly-disasters-of-2025/5oh2c849g

2025-12-27 13:43:44 GMT

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"The 10 worst climate-related disasters of 2025 amounted to more than $120bn in insured losses, according to an annual report from the charity Christian Aid.
The true losses are likely to be much higher, as only the insurance costs could be reliably measured. The human costs, in lives, displacement and lost livelihoods, are uncounted."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/27/cyclones-floods-and-wildfires-among-2025s-costliest-climate-related-disasters

2025-12-26 22:25:42 GMT

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The day after the needles start to fall out....

2025-12-26 17:20:28 GMT

"Scientists flew drones equipped with special kit through the exhaled droplets, or "blows", made when the giants come up to breathe through their blowholes.
They detected a highly infectious virus linked to mass strandings of whales and dolphins worldwide."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdrpkj8111o

2025-12-26 13:40:48 GMT

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" Record warming met weak political resolve as climate pressures mounted this year.
[Meanwhile]
Looking back at the last 12 months, there's a long list of natural disasters amplified by climate change."
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/12/26/as-the-planet-warmed-politics-wobbled-the-defining-climate-moments-of-2025

2025-12-26 00:51:38 GMT

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That one also looks good, to try for another day!

2025-12-25 20:04:25 GMT

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Plain wild rice from the health food store, I'm had no chestnuts or mushrooms nor cranberries but added pecans, some celery, and the syrup in which I cooked the orange peels before candying them 🙂
I'm thinking one day I'll try it with. pomegranate seeds. I bet walnuts would be great, too, or maybe sunflower seeds. Play!

2025-12-25 19:13:30 GMT

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Thanks for posting the recipe!
I made it (with mods), it was delicious, I'll make it more often.

2025-12-24 21:43:01 GMT

Colorado air quality protections cut greenhouse gases by 70%, new study from environmental group shows
"State oil and gas regulations meant to cut leaks of the highly damaging greenhouse gas methane slashed the unwanted emissions 70% after Colorado launched a series of first-in-the-nation compromises with the industry in the 2010s."
https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/22/colorado-methane-oil-and-gas-leaks-cut/

2025-12-24 17:57:42 GMT

A New Testament scholar asks, "Was there really no room at the inn?"
A true scholar, he even asks "What inn?"
Fascinating look at that bit of the Christmas story.
https://pres-outlook.org/2006/12/the-manger-and-the-inn-a-middle-eastern-view-of-the-birth-story-of-jesus/
The crucial words:
πανδοχείο - inn, hostel
κατάλυμα - quarter(s), accommodation, what the author says is part of a private home.

2025-12-24 15:20:13 GMT

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"The 2025 hurricane season was a study in contrasts.
No storms made landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015.
And yet, the storms that did form were among the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded.
The total number of tropical storms and hurricanes, 13, was about average. But a lot of those storms ended up being massive Category 5 behemoths."
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/24/nx-s1-5620997/2025-hurricane-season-storm-climate-melissa-category-5

2025-12-22 16:45:35 GMT

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Just wondering: why CO2?
I mean, nitrogen is super-abundant. Its boiling point is lower, 77K, but it's that at ambient pressure.
(You can't offer the plant workers free carbonated drinks on the job though, whereas the CO2 version is a giant Sodastream).

2025-12-22 16:06:02 GMT

"Hydrogen does not warm the planet directly. Its impact comes from how it changes the chemistry of the atmosphere.
Hydrogen indirectly heats the atmosphere roughly 11 times faster than carbon dioxide over 100 years, and around 37 times faster over the first 20 years after it is released. The effect comes from chemistry, not heat trapping."
https://www.earth.com/news/rising-hydrogen-emissions-are-quietly-heating-the-planet/

2025-12-19 13:41:15 GMT

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In just six years, the landscape has changed drastically for e-car sales.
https://electrek.co/2025/12/17/25-percent-of-new-cars-sold-globally-are-evs-heres-who-is-buying-them/
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2025-12-19 13:24:28 GMT

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Countries outside the OECD are leapfrogging "legacy" car markets.
These countries are ditching the high costs of imports and air pollution, and getting clean manufacturing jobs.
"Emerging markets are overtaking advanced economies like the US and Japan. India, Mexico and Brazil now have a higher EV sales share than Japan, while Indonesia’s EV sales share has reached 15% this year, overtaking the US for EV penetration."
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-ev-leapfrog-how-emerging-markets-are-driving-a-global-ev-boom/

2025-12-19 13:05:11 GMT

"[New Zealand's] highest court has found that governments must consider climate change when deciding whether to offer oil and gas blocks for tender.
The case against the Energy and Resources minister was taken all the way to the Supreme Court by a group of Victoria University law students."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582302/supreme-court-finds-government-must-consider-climate-change-when-offering-oil-and-gas-tenders

2025-12-18 15:01:42 GMT

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"The study finds that the rate of U.S. coastal sea-level rise has more than doubled in the past 125 years, from a rate of less than 2 millimeters per year in 1900 to more than 4 millimeters per year in 2024, and that present rates are well above the historical average. This translates to a rise in U.S. coastal sea level of about 40 centimeters, or nearly 16 inches, over that time."
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-coastal-sea-century.html

2025-12-17 14:48:34 GMT

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"A little over two years after it was enacted, the European Union’s 2035 ban on gasoline-powered cars is dead.
Its killers: Germany, home of Europe’s largest car industry, and the center-right European People’s Party, the pro-business political family to which von der Leyen and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz belong."
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-eu-climate-policy-epp-cars-climate-policy/

2025-12-17 01:49:55 GMT

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"The delayed package follows fierce lobbying to allow transitional technologies such as plug-in hybrids and CO2-neutral fuels, while climate campaigners and EV-focused companies had pushed to keep the original target.
Corporate fleets, which account for about 60% of new car sales in Europe, will face binding electrification targets based on member states' GDP per capita; enterprises with fewer than 250 employees and below 50 million euros of turnover will be exempt."
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/factbox-whats-european-commissions-proposals-reverse-2035-combustion-engine-ban-2025-12-16/

2025-12-17 01:46:43 GMT

"The European Commission unveiled a plan to drop the EU's effective ban on new combustion-engine cars from 2035 after pressure from the region's auto sector, marking the bloc's biggest retreat from its green policies in recent years.
The move, which still needs approval from EU governments and the Euro Parliament, would allow continued sales of some non-electric vehicles. Carmakers in regional industrial powerhouse Germany and in Italy had sought easing of the rules."
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-relent-combustion-engines-ban-after-auto-industry-pressure-2025-12-16/

2025-12-17 00:50:43 GMT

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Probably costs less than the socialism that goes into building and maintaining roads, parking spaces, etc. for cars!

2025-12-16 13:02:54 GMT

"Spain’s socialist-led government is to launch a national public transport pass that will allow people to travel anywhere in the country by bus or train for a flat monthly fee of €60 (£52.70).
The prime minister ... said the pass, which will cost €30 a month for those under 26, would allow people to “travel anywhere in the country” on middle-distance and suburban trains, and on national bus services."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/spain-to-launch-60-monthly-nationwide-public-transport-pass

2025-12-14 14:09:56 GMT

"For the first time, the averages recorded over three years, from 2023 to 2025, will exceed the +1.5 °C set as the limit threshold by the Paris Agreement.
But the 12 months that are about to end have also marked other extremes, not just on the thermometer. 2025 was a year of disastrous climate events and a dangerous approach to so-called climate tipping points, at least one of which has already been reached."
https://evidencenetwork.ca/climate-2025-will-also-be-remembered-as-a-year-of-extremes/

2025-12-12 12:47:07 GMT

"Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris climate treaty.
[Progress has been made].
Is this good enough? Far from it, but we are, as they say, “bending the curve”: before Paris the world was headed for 4 degrees of warming; it’s now headed for 2.5 degrees, which should only be acceptable as a sign that we have bent it and must bend more and faster."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/paris-climate-treaty-anniversary

2025-12-09 13:59:35 GMT

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"In a letter to Congress, the groups said data center development raises concerns about rising energy costs, water use and climate impacts. Many communities are fighting back."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08122025/environmental-groups-demand-data-center-construction-freeze/

2025-12-09 13:42:27 GMT

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"The move is the latest action by the Trump administration to reverse Biden-era policies that encouraged cleaner-running cars and trucks, including electric vehicles, and it sparked criticism from environmental groups. Burning gasoline for vehicles is a major contributor to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-gas-mileage-per-gallon-electric-vehicles-363fcad4bb90a0859f6906d086aeac69

2025-12-09 13:38:37 GMT

"President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s plan to relax stringent Biden-era fuel efficiency standards, casting the change as a way to lower consumer costs.
Under those Biden-era standards, automakers must achieve an average of about 50 miles per gallon across their 2031 model-year vehicles.
The new Trump administration proposal would lower that requirement to 34.5 mpg for the 2031 model year."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/trump-outlines-plan-to-unwind-biden-era-car-mileage-mandates

2025-12-08 19:15:51 GMT

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"A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/us-data-centers

2025-12-08 14:56:24 GMT

Fox. Henhouse.
"For decades, noxious, cancer-causing gases poured from some of the nation’s largest industrial polluters.
And for decades, the Environmental Protection Agency tracked those emissions not by monitoring the air but by relying on a kind of honor system. Companies were allowed to estimate their chemical pollution using methods that even the EPA conceded were often unreliable."
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works

2025-12-05 14:18:00 GMT

Your opinion please:
"The European Commission has launched a public consultation on climate resilience, inviting citizens, businesses, regional authorities, civil society and all stakeholders to share their views and perspectives on how Europe can better prepare for and respond to climate change.
The consultation is open until 23 February 2026 (midnight, Brussels time) and is available on the Have Your Say portal."
https://www.eureporter.co/environment/2025/12/03/commission-seeks-input-to-shape-europes-future-climate-resilience/

2025-12-03 02:14:08 GMT

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National Emergency Briefing site will have links to all the expert talks, and the letter to sign.
https://www.nebriefing.org/

2025-12-03 02:11:59 GMT

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Excerpts (that is, most powerful moments) of the talks from the climate briefing in this video, with a call to sign a letter to UK government and public media to put the climate crisis front and center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7uh192r0

2025-12-03 02:09:47 GMT

"A host of eminent scientists have warned politicians, business and community leaders that the UK risks severe climate-related risks to its economy, public health, food systems and national security.
According to its organisers more than 1,000 corporate bosses, senior civil servants and civic leaders assembled in the Methodist central hall in Westminster for the “first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing” on Thursday morning."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/27/limate-related-risks-uk-economy-security

2025-12-02 19:26:52 GMT

Europeans: this is where Chat Control leads next.
Let's not have Chat Control, hmmm?
"India has ordered all new smartphones to come pre-loaded with a state-run cybersecurity app, sparking privacy and surveillance concerns.
Under the app's privacy policy, it can make and manage phone calls, send messages, access call and message logs, photos and files as well as the phone's camera."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedxyvx74p4o

2025-12-02 13:01:46 GMT

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"With global warming soon to exceed the Paris agreement target of 1.5°C average global warming, “the world has entered a new reality,” warns the Dartington Declaration, led by climate scientist Tim Lenton and issued Dec. 1. “This puts humanity in the danger zone where multiple climate tipping points pose devastating risks to billions of people,” and “every fraction of a degree of additional warming increases the risk of triggering further damaging tipping points.”"
https://www.theenergymix.com/if-we-wait-it-will-be-too-late-600-scientists-warn-as-climate-tipping-points-approach/

2025-11-30 13:31:02 GMT

"Activists have blocked two more coal ships from entering the Port of Newcastle on the fourth day of the Rising Tide protest, bringing the total number of ships turned around by campaigners this weekend to three.
The blockade began on Thursday and will continue until Tuesday. Hundreds have kayaked into the port, with many more watching on from the beach."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/30/rising-tide-protest-climate-activists-stop-three-ships-from-entering-worlds-largest-coal-port-in-newcastle

2025-11-29 20:16:40 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@nrc_nl/115633259981280862
We need to talk more about the motivations for the US attacking Venezuela.
Something I haven't seen mentioned much: Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
#note1h8p…ltpr

2025-11-29 13:12:03 GMT

#DonutEconomics 101
The Doughnut of Social and Planetary Boundaries [has] two concentric rings: a social foundation, to ensure that no one is left falling short on life’s essentials, and an ecological ceiling, to ensure that humanity does not destabilise the life-supporting systems that sustain all life on Earth.
Between these two sets of boundaries lies a doughnut-shaped space that is both ecologically safe and socially just: a space in which humanity can thrive.
https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics

2025-11-26 23:00:32 GMT

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Ban on exploration!
"The [UK] government has ruled out new North Sea oil and gas exploration or lower taxes for fossil fuel companies as it struggles to protect workers from the industry’s collapse.
In a strategy paper, Ed Miliband confirmed the crackdown on new North Sea exploration – although the energy secretary will still allow new offshore fossil fuel projects to move ahead as long as they are linked to existing fields."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/26/ed-miliband-confirms-crackdown-on-new-north-sea-oil-and-gas-exploration
Decision on Rosebank expected in 2026.

2025-11-24 15:16:45 GMT

"Wildfires have devastated more moorland, forests and fields in the UK this year than at any time since records began.
The fire and rescue service is poorly equipped to deal with incidents like these, having lost nearly 12,000 firefighters since 2010 – one in five posts.
Central government funding has been cut by 30% in cash-terms alone and many services have faced equipment shortages, under-staffed control rooms and insufficient protective gear."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/24/uk-wildfires-more-areas-in-2025-than-since-records-began

2025-11-22 12:54:00 GMT

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Anybody who has been following the development of renewable energy has seen how wildly off the IEA prognosis has been when it took into account only existing policies.
"Missing the mark" doesn't begin to describe it; they seemed not to know where the mark even was.
The IEA just went back to doing things that way. The honest thing would be to do both CPS and STEP scenarios. But the pressure from the biggest sponsor.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/07/12/has-the-international-energy-agency-finally-improved-at-forecasting-solar-growth/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/593/434/097/039/508/original/e7fdb0a7c7069de5.png

2025-11-22 12:23:21 GMT

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Why do the IEA scenarios matter?
"The IEA’s Current Policies Scenario (CPS) was produced following fierce criticism by Trump's pro-fossil fuel administration.
Many of the CPS’s assumptions are highly questionable, such as the expectation of a sharp slowdown in global sales of electric vehicles and smaller gains in petrol car efficiencies."
If you believe the CPS scenario, as an investor you may miss out on big opportunities.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/investors-risk-being-hoodwinked-by-grim-energy-transition-vibes-bousso-2025-11-20/

2025-11-18 20:18:27 GMT

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That's good advice, if you know how to do those things, or have even heard about them.
I'm thinking more of regulations.
I mean, letting misinformation run rampant has real-world consequences, think facebook and Myanmar.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait

2025-11-18 19:40:08 GMT

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News outlets absolutely must be regulated, as some of them too often go over that line into the territory of outright lies.
Any ideas about how to stem the tide of dis- and misinformation on social media? So many people get their "news" from that.

2025-11-18 08:42:04 GMT

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"More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at #COP30", some as part of country delegations.
“Advocates are already calling for the fossil fuel industry and its disinformation to be banned from future climate talks, and the influence of big ag is similarly toxic … we won’t have sustainable, fair, healthy, or climate-resilient food systems anywhere in the world as long as giant agribusiness and food corporations are making the rules.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/big-agriculture-lobbyists-cop30-climate-summit

2025-11-18 08:25:05 GMT

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"What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it’s not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It’s being built by startups selling solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it’s working."
https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening
h/t @npub1jgs…ft7z
https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/115558652174425347
#note1c6y…9n7h

2025-11-18 08:00:57 GMT

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"South Korea, Australia’s third-biggest market for coal burned to generate electricity, announced at the Cop30 climate conference in Brazil that it was joining the “Powering Past Coal Alliance”, a group of about 60 nations and 120 sub-national governments, businesses and organisations committed to phasing out the fossil fuel."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/south-korean-decision-to-close-all-coal-fired-power-plants-by-2040-sounds-alarm-for-australian-exports

2025-11-17 07:48:35 GMT

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Fossil fuel phase-out road map
Possibly.
"Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last week called for world leaders to prepare a road map to “overcome dependence on fossil fuels.”
Spearheaded by Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva, countries including the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Colombia and Kenya signaled their support to try to agree on the outlines of a path away from fossil fuels."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-13/a-fossil-fuel-fight-brews-at-cop30-as-delegates-draft-road-map

2025-11-17 07:22:34 GMT

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"The number of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP summits has been climbing each year, raising concerns over industry influence on global climate policy.
Major oil and gas companies continue expanding production while participating in negotiations, prompting activists to demand bans, accountability, and stricter transparency rules."
https://oilprice.com/The-Environment/Global-Warming/The-Fossil-Fuel-Lobby-Is-Under-Scrutiny-at-COP30.html

2025-11-16 10:14:17 GMT

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"China is stepping into the limelight as a leader in the fight against global warming.
Its country pavilion dominates the entrance hall of the sprawling COP30 conference grounds in Belem, executives from its biggest clean energy companies are presenting their visions for a green future to large audiences in English, and its diplomats are working behind the scenes to ensure constructive talks.
Those were Washington's roles, but they now reside with Beijing."
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/china-finds-bigger-role-us-sidesteps-brazil-climate-summit-2025-11-15/

2025-11-16 10:11:42 GMT

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"Protesters from across the world, including Indigenous activists from the Amazon region, braved the tropical heat to demand governments step up efforts to combat climate change and protect nature.
The protests set apart this conference, hosted in democratic Brazil, from the past three years of summits held in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan — autocratic states with little tolerance for demonstrations."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/protests-climate-summit-brazil-00653476

2025-11-16 09:56:43 GMT

Google has quietly shut down the curating of climate change news.
This rubric used to yield a long list of news items related to climate.
Now, an empty page.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/558/772/759/240/449/original/ddfa5e560beb34b2.png

2025-11-16 09:50:06 GMT

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"As more countries phase out coal, they offer examples of how to ensure coal-dependent workers, communities, regions and entire countries benefit from a just transition to a coal-free system.
[Groups] have been pushing for a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty. It would legally bind governments to a ban on new fossil fuel expansion and eventually eliminate fossil fuel use."
https://theconversation.com/can-the-world-quit-coal-269772

2025-11-16 09:26:37 GMT

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Saudi Arabia "depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’."
"In essence, it is a race: Saudi Arabia is trying to sell enough oil to fund its transition from a petrostate before the world stops buying.
“Saudi Arabia wants to be a green country,” he says. “It wants to be a player in the climate economy that is currently being forged, but it can only do so with the money that it is currently making from fossil fuel sales.” "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/15/170000-a-minute-why-saudi-arabia-is-the-biggest-blocker-of-climate-action

2025-11-16 09:02:41 GMT

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"Indigenous peoples from across the Amazon have sailed thousands of kilometers to demand active participation in negotiations. Their message: A green transition that leaves Indigenous voices out is not justice. It’s business as usual.
Their journey is both a protest and a demand: an end to fossil fuel extraction, respect for uncontacted peoples, direct financing for community-led projects, and a commitment to climate solutions centered around ancestral knowledge."
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/indigenous-flotilla-sails-to-cop30-to-demand-respect-and-climate-solutions/

2025-11-14 09:17:11 GMT

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But progress on climate action would be MUCH faster without the meddling of the fossil fuel industry.
Kick them out.
"More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are registered for COP30, according to an analysis by a coalition of environmental and social justice groups.
The group’s review of people granted access to COP30 found that fossil fuel lobbyists at the climate talks outnumber the delegations from nearly every country ([except host country Brazil). "
https://www.newsweek.com/cop30-climate-talks-flooded-with-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-report-11045180

2025-11-14 09:00:33 GMT

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"The evidence of nearly three decades of climate diplomacy is that when we set ourselves an objective, more often than not we will hit it.
Consider the European Union’s first pledge under the 2015 Paris Agreement to cut emissions in 2030 to 40% below levels in 1990.
Plenty scoffed at the time.
In fact, greenhouse pollution last year was already 37% below 1990, and on current trends the EU may achieve a 54% cut, almost enough to hit a stricter target passed in 2020."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-13/how-the-world-is-quietly-winning-on-climate

2025-11-14 08:59:22 GMT

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Are climate talks and climate policy failing?
In short: No.
"In instance after instance, sober realists have been proved wrong, while the wildest hopes of campaigners have been exceeded.
The problem is not that we fail to hit the objectives we set for ourselves. It’s that the drumbeat of bad-faith nihilism encourages us to forget the progress we’ve already made, and lower our ambitions for the future."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-13/how-the-world-is-quietly-winning-on-climate

2025-11-14 08:37:58 GMT

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"Renewables are now so cheap that the clean energy transition is no longer an economic burden, it is a momentous opportunity.
[Renewables] are also a powerful engine of investment, jobs and growth. They are reshaping the global economy."
https://theconversation.com/renewable-energy-is-reshaping-the-global-economy-new-report-268676

2025-11-13 08:15:34 GMT

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Here is the difference between IEA outlooks under current policies (blue lines), and taking into account countries' stated climate ambitions (pink lines).
https://www.ft.com/content/8696254d-1873-434a-96be-88aa690f9b75
These graphs say that increased oil and gas is a choice not an inevitability.
The fossil fuel industry will push hard to keep the world on track on the blue lines.
Our job is to push our governments to steer us on the pink lines. Lower than the pink lines, if we can. It's DIY lobbying now, at every step. Let's go!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/541/376/631/907/497/original/308eca07425f878b.png

2025-11-12 09:12:31 GMT

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"Private adaptation finance undisputedly has a role in providing the upfront finance for major adaptation investments. And while there is scope to increase current adaptation funding, it is not enough.
More international public climate finance is required to increase grants and highly concessional finance for particularly vulnerable countries, and to play a smaller but catalytic role in other developing countries."
Grants.
Concessional finance.
NOT profit-making loans.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2025/11/10/how-much-can-business-contribute-to-financing-climate-resilience/

2025-11-12 08:06:57 GMT

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BUT ALSO:
"IEA's current policies scenario shows no oil demand peak before 2050.
This scenario takes into account existing government policies and not aspirations to achieve climate goals.
The IEA last used the "current policies scenario" for its predictions in 2019 and switched to predictions more in line with a clean energy transition and pledges of reaching net zero emissions by mid-century from 2020.
This year's outlook ditched the pledges scenario."
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/world-oil-gas-demand-could-grow-until-2050-iea-says-2025-11-12/

2025-11-12 08:01:28 GMT

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"The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than has been rolled out over the last 40, according to the flagship annual report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
It also points to a “renaissance” for nuclear power, driven by major tech companies seeking a steady supply of low-carbon electricity to power their datacentres."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/12/supply-boom-in-cheaper-renewables-will-seal-end-of-fossil-fuel-era-says-iea

2025-11-11 06:09:10 GMT

"Scotland’s Highland region becomes the backdrop for Britain’s most ambitious energy storage project in half a century. The government has approved construction of a massive pumped hydro facility at Loch Earba, marking a revolutionary step toward energy independence. This groundbreaking infrastructure will deliver 1.8 GW capacity with 40 GWh storage, enough to power 1.4 million households for nearly 22 hours straight."
https://evidencenetwork.ca/a-first-in-50-years-for-the-uk-which-is-preparing-a-new-monster-capable-of-powering-1-4-million-homes-for-22-hours/