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When the #EmergencyBrake needs engaging more than ever, the EU instead firmly puts its foot on the other brake, to stall the (inadequate already) fight against #ClimateChange.
La ola reaccionaria frena la lucha climática de la UE cuando la emergencia planetaria más apremia
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/cambio-climatico/ola-reaccionaria-frena-lucha-climatica-ue-emergencia-planetaria?utm_source=feed
Arctic sea ice hit its 2025 summer minimum without setting a record low on Sept. 10, despite a historically low winter maximum earlier.
Scientists say sea ice loss has slowed over the past 20 years due to natural variability in atmospheric and ocean systems, counterbalancing the impacts from human-caused climate change.
However, they warn that this slowdown likely offers only a temporary reprieve.
by Gloria Dickie
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/no-new-record-low-for-arctic-sea-ice-loss-in-2025/
Earth First: Call to Action: Rich City Action Kayaking Camp
https://earthfirstjournal.news/2025/09/01/call-to-action-rich-city-action-kayaking-camp/
from: Action Network Rich City Rays is a grassroots partnership of community groups and climate justice activists in Richmond, California who are using “kayaktivism” as a force for addressing the climate crisis and environmental injustice through community-led non-violent direct action on the […]
#CallstoAction #ClimateChange
Solar is taking off across Africa.
In the 12 months through June 2025, over 15GW worth of solar panels were imported. This wave is happening across the continent: 20 countries have set new import records.
Sierra Leone imported enough solar panels in one year to make up 65% of their entire nation's generating capacity.
If you're not preparing for significant drops in fossil fuel demand, you're not paying attention!
#solar #solarpower #renewables #energy #Africa #environment #climate #ClimateChange
https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/china-made-panels-drive-africas-15-gw-solar-import-milestone/
Solar is taking off across Africa.
In the 12 months through June 2025, over 15GW worth of solar panels were imported. This wave is happening across the continent: 20 countries have set new import records.
Sierra Leone imported enough solar panels in one year to make up 65% of their entire nation's generating capacity.
If you're not preparing for significant drops in fossil fuel demand, you're not paying attention!
#solar #solarpower #renewables #energy #Africa #environment #climate #ClimateChange
https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/china-made-panels-drive-africas-15-gw-solar-import-milestone/
The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.
The tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades.
#climateChange#climateCatastrophe#climateEmergency#climateBreakdown#tippingPoint
The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.
The tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades.
#climateChange#climateCatastrophe#climateEmergency#climateBreakdown#tippingPoint
Paul Krugman looks at Trump's decimation of renewable energy enterprises, electricity generated by wind and solar power"
“'The Crazy' is my personal term for the escalating barrage of destructive actions and statements coming from the madman-in-chief and his minions."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #ClimateChange #electricity#WindPower#SolarPower#RenewableEnergy
/15
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy
Paul Krugman looks at Trump's decimation of renewable energy enterprises, electricity generated by wind and solar power"
“'The Crazy' is my personal term for the escalating barrage of destructive actions and statements coming from the madman-in-chief and his minions."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #ClimateChange #electricity#WindPower#SolarPower#RenewableEnergy
/15
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy
Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. And the next data centre planned to run "Grok" will nearly double the number of fossil fuelled turbines.
Far from 'saving' the climate, it really looks like fossil-fuelled data centres are running climate-denying racist text generators for right-wing billionaires.
I found a new dataset that lays it all out pretty nicely: as bad as the generative AI data centre panic-build is, Musk is the worst of a bad bunch by a good margin.
Enjoy:
Links ->
The dataset: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-supercomputers?view=table#data-insights
Southern Environment Law Centre update: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-facility-in-south-memphis-gets-stronger/
Thermal images of the gas turbines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
More Perfect Union short documentary on the town Musk is poisoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw
Musk's chatbot is racist: https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-updates-grok-chatbot-after-white-genocide-comments-2025-05-17/
Once the site is grid connected, it'll raise power prices and increase grid-scale fossil fuel use: https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/energy-environment/data-centers-utilities-electricity-bills.html
A nice case study of a defeated 3.5 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel power station combo https://www.selc.org/news/a-rural-virginia-county-is-a-case-study-in-community/
#ElonMusk #XAI#Grok#AI#Datacentres#Racist#Chatbot #epochai #data#Fossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate#Fossilgas#Methane
I figure a good number of you heads’ll be interested to know this exists. Picked it up at blessed Housmans the other day, and really looking forward to getting into it when I’m done with “Fascist Yoga” (to which it seems like it’ll be a useful corrective/palate cleanser).
Finland's laudable "climate neutrality 2035" is based on the planning that in that year, Finland's forests will take up the very same amount of remaining fossil CO2 emissions: 20Mt/a.
This of course lightens considerably the requirement for fossil reduction policies.
Now, inexplicably, Finland's natural sink degraded steadily since 2015...
And so much so that by 2018, Finland's forest became a CO2 source. Essentially undoing all efforts since 1990 to reduce fossil emissions. By 2023, Finland's total emissions relative to 1990 not only didn't fall, they rose by 7.8% !!
Don't prematurely yell "Climate Change!!!!!"
It's wrong in this case.
Finland's forest sink degraded because of neoliberal deregulation!
Since 2015, forest owners no longer need to be member of a state- and science-based forest union. Instead, they can leave management decisions 100% to logging companies.
And they do.
And logging companies base decisions on profits.
That's the reason.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20162862
#neoliberalism #CapitalismKills #capitalism #degrowth #ClimateChange
China is becoming the world's first electrostate
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/08/china-is-becoming-worlds-first.html
China is becoming the world's first electrostate
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/08/china-is-becoming-worlds-first.html
Hey @pluralistic I'm 42 years old, I haven't had much hope for the future in a long time, and I just read The Lost Cause.
I still think we're probably doomed, but it was a HELL of a good try convincing me otherwise!
Hey @pluralistic I'm 42 years old, I haven't had much hope for the future in a long time, and I just read The Lost Cause.
I still think we're probably doomed, but it was a HELL of a good try convincing me otherwise!
Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
July 2025 was 1.03°C above the 1951-1980 average, that's around 1.22°C above the preindustrial average.
The map shows an anomaly of 4 to 8°C for West-Antarctica!
#globalwarming #ClimateChange
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