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This is the only way that is going to work. If #ClimateCrisis is hurting the profits.
@ajsadauskas @jaystephens Ta, interesting. I vaguely recall some of that, but your helpful toot defo provided more info than i knew.
I think something like this is why i feel, & tbh remain, so archly cynical... If Straya, & frankly the rest of the world, was genuinely honestly doing all the serious shit needed NOW to decarbonise & ameliorate, then seeking engineering solutions in flood zones like this would be ok. Knowing though that we & most others are totes NOT seriously addressing the crisis, fuels [boom tish] my severe pessimism, coz eg, engineering designs need engineering assumptions [in this case including expected heights & frequency of floods]. Such assumptions necessarily must be predicated on a certain "steady state" belief [plus safety margins thrown in]. That's all fine, IF we had reason to trust such assumptions. I do NOT trust them, simply coz there IS no steady state; humans are continuing to add more & more CO2 & CH4 to Gaia's atmosphere, thus more & more raising the enthalpy, ergo the heating energy, ergo... yada yada.
"The recent reports — from Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and the Institute of International Finance — show that Wall Street has determined the temperature goal is effectively dead and describe how top financial institutions plan to continue operating profitably as temperatures and damages soar.
"We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month, citing "recent setbacks to global decarbonization efforts."
The stunning conclusion indicates that the bank believes the planet is hurtling toward a future in which severe droughts and harvest failures become widespread, sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches and tropical regions experience episodes of extreme heat and humidity for weeks at a time that would bring deadly risks to people who work outdoors."
"Few areas of government policy are more important. Preventing nuclear holocaust comes to mind, but it’s increasingly apparent today that energy policies rank a close second. So, we must ask why President Trump is imposing short-sighted, irrational and profoundly destabilizing energy policies on this and future generations of Americans.
The president dwells in a fantasy land where there are no downsides to America’s fossil-fuel addiction. Yet, our history is rife with oil wars, price and supply shocks, pollution-related diseases, and now the catastrophic weather disasters related to global climate change."
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5220484-trump-energy-policy-global-warming/
@feather1952 Paul has mixed feelings, but i don't; i feel quite clear on this. IMO we are federally, governmentally, little more than mega-greenwashing climate-criminals, & absolutely do not deserve to host this. Given ofc my opinion counts for nothing, & we prolly will host it, coz this world just rewards abject shitfuckery, i do hope at least that ALL OS attendees make official public statements vigorously condemning us. This fraudulent govt [& predecessor] deserves excoriating opprobrium, not praise.
hey #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction, especially on #bluesky
u good?
bc your feed is still full of #antivaxxers and #antiscience grifters
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- Italie : Région indéminse partiellement éleveurs environ 500 000 € pour 3 000 brebis malades/difformes -> rembourser emprunts arrêt d'activité sans bétail (cf 2003 2007 2025) + feux de déchets + famille Pellini menaces les victimes de leur mafia + plainte en diffamation pour empêcher candidature contre eux mairie d’Acerra.
Ugh #ClimateChange and the #ClimateCrisis is REAL!
Today we have a 77 f day. But strong storms are coming in from the west and it looks ominous. Tomorrow we'll be in the 50s.
Isn't March supposed to go out like a fucking lamb, not a fucking lion?
This all at ~1.5°C of heating.
What happens at 1.6 or 1.8 and then 2°C?
We are on a highway to hell!
#ClimateCrisis
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnrmm6asldwf64okm3e2kriu/post/3lloxszcack2u
Severe Weather Hits Greece: Massive Rainfall Floods Mykonos And Paros https://www.byteseu.com/881503/ #112Alert #AegeanIslands #Attica #CentralGreece #ClimateCrisis #cyclades #EmergencyResponse #Flooding #Greece #GreeceNews #GreekNews #hailstorms #HeavyRain #landslides #Mykonos #NationalMeteorologicalService #Paros #peloponnese #RoadDamage #SchoolClosures #SevereWeather #thunderstorms #WeatherForecast
"neoliberalism was destined to fail—and it has delivered us to this precipice... The collapse of neoliberalism is inevitable, and it may bring humanity down with it."
Floods inundated southern Mississippi on Sunday.
Video from the Weather Channel #ClimateCrisis
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Excerpts from an essay about "Cars and Coal" from Athena, the Climate Historian (@Climatehistories)...
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As we strive towards a greener future, electric vehicles are often hailed as a climate saviour. They promise zero-emission driving — however, the story is not as straightforward as it seems.
When we think about EVs, we also need to think about coal consumption. While EVs are seen as a 'green technology,' they are also a matter of energy sovereignty, particularly in China. Half of the world’s EVs are currently produced in China, where two-thirds of electricity is produced from coal.
And the story of cars and coal does not end with the vehicles themselves. Cars require infrastructure: roads, bridges, and highways. This infrastructure consumes gigantic quantities of steel and cement, which indirectly fuels the demand for coal. Cement production, in particular, relies heavily on coal as fuel. Every new highway, every expanded road, every parking structure — each represents another link in the coal-to-car chain.
Perhaps instead of simply asking how to make more efficient cars, we should be asking deeper questions about mobility itself. Why do we need 80 million new cars each year? What alternatives might meet our mobility needs while treading more lightly on the planet and our health and quality of life? How might we design transportation systems that don't rely so heavily on private vehicle ownership?
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FULL ESSAY -- https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-cars-and-coal
It couldn't be more clear, in the midst of a surging climate and environmental catastrophe, that we need to urgently make huge systemic changes.
But those who own the system are not interested.
So instead we'll just get more and more of the same — more drilling for oil, more fracking for gas, more digging for coal, more burning of fossil fuels, along with more pollution and even more greenhouse gases. Plus we’ll also get more gigantic government subsidies to companies actively destroying the climate, AND more outrageously high profits for fossil fuel executives.
Business As Usual must go on, baby!
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Let’s all celebrate another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored this time by BP, Walmart, and Volkswagen.
"Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 
@jaystephens @ketanjoshi.co And then we have Australia's next great city, Parramatta.
It's a city that, roughly once a year, has a harbour...
This from Parramatta City Council itself: "From the earliest days, the changeable nature of the Parramatta River, and other waterways, has brought with it the risk of flooding.
"Today, our CBD is one of the most flash-flood affected areas in the country. Our challenge is to live with the river in all its various conditions."
https://www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/environment/connected-resilient-communities/flooding
And this from a top State Emergency Service official in 2019:
"A senior SES official has warned that Parramatta's CBD could be overwhelmed by a flash flood in as little as nine minutes, giving residents little time to evacuate.
"George Jeoffreys, senior manager for risk reduction and avoidance at the NSW State Emergency Service, cited the difficulty of predicting flash floods."
You had parts of Parramatta's CBD flood in 2020:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-10/parramatta-river-overflows-as-floods-grip-sydney/11948910
And earlier this year: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/nsw-pseudo-monsoon-humidity-flooding-rains-qld-nsw/105095284
And of course there's pressure to put new high-rise developments right on the river edge: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-council-rejects-build-to-rent-tower-plan-over-flood-risk-20240108-p5evsm.html
‘A pandemic-level shock to the system’: RFK Jr’s old environmental group weighs EPA cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/epa-cuts-environment-rivers-water-trump #Trumpadministration #RobertFKennedyJr #Climatecrisis #Environment #Pollution #NewYork #USnews #Water
Good discussion of SUVs in this episode of The Climate Question, which I’m slowly working my way through. It is worth listening to if only for the car industry’s own description of “who drives an SUV” at 12 minutes 20 seconds.
‘A pandemic-level shock to the system’: RFK Jr’s old environmental group weighs EPA cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/epa-cuts-environment-rivers-water-trump #Trumpadministration #RobertFKennedyJr #Climatecrisis #Environment #Pollution #NewYork #USnews #Water