🌋 Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down

｢ Data collected by Mauna Loa from 1958 onward let us clearly see the evidence of climate change for the first time. The station samples the air and measures global CO₂ levels. Charles Keeling and his successors used this data to produce the famous Keeling curve – a graph showing carbon dioxide levels increasing year after year ｣

http://theconversation.com/mauna-loa-observatory-captured-the-reality-of-climate-change-the-us-plans-to-shut-it-down-260403

#science #climatechange

🌏 Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites • AP

｢ And it’s dangerous for the country, Hayhoe said, comparing it to steering a car on a curving road by only looking through the rearview mirror: “And now, more than ever, we need to be looking ahead to do everything it takes to make it around that curve safely. It’s like our windshield’s being painted over.” ｣

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8

#uspol #climatechange #science

With techniques such as cross-ventilation and materials such as clay, architects around the world are adapting schools to climate change without the use of air conditioning. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/17/climate-change/schools-built-extreme-heat-aircon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #education #climatechange #schools #heatwaves #architecture #pritzkerprize

"I see glimmers of hope. For example, an economy-wide carbon price, long recognised by economists as the lowest cost way of achieving net zero, is appearing in many conversations."

#NickiHutley, economist, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/protecting-the-environment-has-always-made-economic-sense-now-we-have-proof

Many years ago, some political economists wrote about feeding the revenue from a carbon price into a pool that funds a UBI. So everyone's purchases are subsidised, but carbon-intensive stuff gets more expensive. Clever.

#ClimateChange #NetZero #PolicyNZ

Landmark ruling - Latin America’s highest human rights court found countries there are legally obliged to protect people from climate harms. This obligation includes tougher govt regulations for fossil fuel extraction
#climatechange #environment #law
#auspol has no such law

https://theconversation.com/a-top-court-has-urged-nations-to-clamp-down-on-fossil-fuel-production-when-will-australia-finally-start-listening-259996

The bottom line is this: my new updated graph will only start to tell a different story from the original one, if we manage to bring down the annual growth rate of our CO2 emissions.

So please help me make my new graph useful, by breaking the system that causes the emissions to go up with a steady 2.84% per year.

#EarthSciences#ClimateScience#ClimateChange#Aardwetenschappen#ClimateDiary#Klimaatverandering#CambioClimático @davidho

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The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the loss of $39 trillion in economic benefits by 2050, a report has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/16/sustainability/39-trillion-economic-losses-wetlands/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #wetlands #climatechange #environment

🌰 Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-offsetting-fossil-fuel-reserves-trees.html

#climatechange #carboncapture #forests #trees #environment

Pakistan’s Solar Revolution Is Bringing Power to the People.

Fed up with pricey electricity from an unreliable grid, Pakistanis have snapped up cheap solar panels. In an interview, Muhammad Mustafa Amjad, of Islamabad-based Renewables First, says his country can stand as a model for other nations as they transition away from fossil fuels. #ClimateChange

https://e360.yale.edu/features/pakistan-solar-boom

The world's climate goes down the drain and nobody is doing anything against it?

Well... not quite. There is more to be done, that's for sure, every °C counts. But there has been quite some progress in the last years, and Simon Clark was so nice to make a video about it.

Enjoy 15-20 minutes of a person listing all the nice things the news don't tell you very often because bad news give more clicks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1jOqyjcO4g

#GlobalWarming#ClimateCrisis#ClimateChange#RenewableEnergy#SolarPower#SimonClark#Youtube#ShareGoodNewsToo#GoodNews

Wildfires have scorched hotspots in several Mediterranean countries this month, with blazes forcing thousands of people into lockdown in Catalonia in Spain, and encroaching on France's second-biggest city of Marseille. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/15/climate-change/europe-wildfires-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #wildfires #europe #heatwaves

Karachi is a striking example of how rising temperatures can turn cities into pressure cookers, as its 17 million residents endure overlapping crises of toxic air, flooding, poor waste disposal and climate change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/15/climate-change/when-its-this-hot-we-are-enduring-not-living/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #pakistan #asia #climatechange #heatwaves

Despite the prospect of hosepipe bans the UK has actually been getting wetter in the last decades, as well as warmer.... also there've been higher water around the coasts than elsewhere (13.4cm against a global average 10.6cm since 1993); a different water water problems.

But even with increased rainfall out privatised water industry fails to store enough water, with leaks continuing to be a major issue; now more than ever our water infrastructure needs to work!

#water#ClimateChange
h/t FT