joene 🏴🍉
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Aral Balkan
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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
bhaugen
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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
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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
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy
Jonathan Schofield
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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).
@adamgreenfield if you haven't seen it already.. think you'll find this article fascinating and may be some overlap with that book. I think was shared while you were 'on a break' from here. #permaculture #ClimateChange #Weather #rainfall #drought #vegetationhttps://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-07-17/millan-millan-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-mediterranean-storms/
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
Jonathan Schofield
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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
Cory Doctorow
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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!
Wouter Tebbens
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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
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
"The main point, says the editorial, is that natural disasters “are a result of living in a fallen and sinful world,” and that humans and the natural world itself are both cursed by original sin, so you’d better focus on getting right with Jesus. Also that extreme weather, like the rain, fall on both 'the just and the unjust,' and God’s will is inscrutable (and of course human activity like burning fossil fuels can’t affect the atmosphere)."
"But most importantly, natural disasters are a reminder to 'repent or perish,' because see point #1 about living in a fallen world."
"Following Hurricane Helene last fall, the 'Standing for Freedom Center' explained that the death and destruction of a natural disaster must be understood through 'sound Christian doctrine,' which is why no one should think that the hurricane had anything to do with 'climate change,' which isn’t real, and is in fact 'a fabricated crisis that is weaponized by the global elites.'”
"The main point, says the editorial, is that natural disasters “are a result of living in a fallen and sinful world,” and that humans and the natural world itself are both cursed by original sin, so you’d better focus on getting right with Jesus. Also that extreme weather, like the rain, fall on both 'the just and the unjust,' and God’s will is inscrutable (and of course human activity like burning fossil fuels can’t affect the atmosphere)."
Doktor Zoom explains why, in Texas, getting politicans to enact legislation assuring that summer camps for children (many of them church-based) are safe is an uphill climb:
"For a lot of fundagelical Christians, taking care of each other is something people should only do on their own, because God wants government to be very, very limited."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-texas-could-require-less-drowny
"Following Hurricane Helene last fall, the 'Standing for Freedom Center' explained that the death and destruction of a natural disaster must be understood through 'sound Christian doctrine,' which is why no one should think that the hurricane had anything to do with 'climate change,' which isn’t real, and is in fact 'a fabricated crisis that is weaponized by the global elites.'”
Doktor Zoom explains why, in Texas, getting politicans to enact legislation assuring that summer camps for children (many of them church-based) are safe is an uphill climb:
"For a lot of fundagelical Christians, taking care of each other is something people should only do on their own, because God wants government to be very, very limited."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-texas-could-require-less-drowny
Doug Belshaw
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I never thought a needlework could be so relatable...
#art #funnymemes #climatechange #handmade #nature #outside
