Very sad but very true 😕

#vaccines #climate #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #activism

If we would use these two products instead of #plastic it would make all the difference!

Canceling the Economist subscription is a bye bye product of realizing that platforming climate change denier bullshit is part of an existential crisis. (via Tim Schlappohr ;)

exhibit a: "Climate change is a by-product of progress, not an existential crisis"

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/07/14/climate-change-is-a-by-product-of-progress-not-an-existential-crisis-says-trumps-energy-czar

#TheEconomist #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis 1/🧵

"Renewable natural gas" is just biogas rebranded. 🙄

I was just on the Enbridge website where they are raving about it. False solutions and greenwashing everywhere.

"RNG is not as low-carbon as the industry claims and its local air and water impacts are concentrated in vulnerable communities. Even if it were low-carbon and equitable, there simply isn’t enough of it to substitute for more than a small fraction of natural gas. And even if it were low-carbon, equitable, and abundant, it still wouldn’t be an excuse to expand natural gas infrastructure or slow electrification."

#ableg #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/2/14/21131109/california-natural-gas-renewable-socalgas

Our next newsletter will discuss something that maybe you've been thinking about (but probably not): raising chickens in a dryland environment. What aspects of care are different? How do chickens fit into a regenerative project? What alternatives to chickens are there and what differences are there in the niche they fill?

If your land is not arid or dryland, but you are concerned about increasing temperatures and more frequent droughts, some of the care information in this post may be useful as your environment changes in the near future.

I hope to release this early this week, but don't forget to subscribe so that you don't miss it in your inbox.

And please consider subscribing at our supporter tier for fun gifts twice a year and access to additional information - this month I'll be releasing a delightful recipe for paid subscribers only. We could use your support to keep this space going. Thank you!

https://rancholibertad.com

#RegenerativeAg#Permaculture#DrylandPermaculture #ClimateChange#FoodSecurity#FoodSovereignty#Preparedness#Regeneration#Gardening#Farming#Chickens

"- It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.

- That’s because people are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours. Solar power is now growing faster than any power source in history, and it is closely followed by wind power—which is really another form of energy from the sun, since it is differential heating of the earth that produces the wind that turns the turbines.

- Last year, ninety-six per cent of the global demand for new electricity was met by renewables, and in the United States ninety-three per cent of new generating capacity came from solar, wind, and an ever-increasing variety of batteries to store that power.

- In March, for the first time, fossil fuels generated less than half the electricity in the U.S. In California, at one point on May 25th, renewables were producing a record hundred and fifty-eight per cent of the state’s power demand. Over the course of the entire day, they produced eighty-two per cent of the power in California, which, this spring, surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy.

- Meanwhile, battery-storage capability has increased seventy-six per cent, based on this year’s projected estimates; at night, those batteries are often the main supplier of California’s electricity. As the director of reliability analysis at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation put it (...), “batteries can smooth out some of that variability from those times when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining.” As a result, California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023..."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment

#SolarPower#Renewables #ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#USA

Why the world cannot afford the rich

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2024/03/why-world-cannot-afford-rich.html

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Reposting with alt-text...

#ClimateChange#Hurricanes#Wildfires
#Heatwaves#BigOilAndGas#WeatherMachines#TexasFloods #Geoengineering

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point, according to figures shared with staff Monday evening. That includes a national incident management team, plus regional and headquarter staff. In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process. 'We are doing a lot less than normal,' the FEMA staffer said."

~ Marisa Kabas

#ClimateChange#FEMA#Trump#Texas
/9

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-response-deadly-texas-floods-delayed-deficient-noem

"In a repulsive show of cowardice and buck-passing, Texas Governor Greg Abbott went on a bizarre tangent about how asking who’s to blame for the historic flood disaster that has killed at least 111 people was for 'losers' and compared the tragedy to…a football game."

~ Daily Dose of Democracy

#ClimateChange #NWS#NOAA#FEMA#Trump#Texas#GregAbbott
/13

https://doseofdemocracy.com/greg-abbott-denigrates-flood-victims-in-vile-exchange/

"Planet-heating pollution tripled the death toll from the 'quietly devastating' heatwave that seared Europe at the end of June, early analysis covering a dozen cities has found, as experts said the worsening health crisis is being overlooked."

~ Nicola Slawson

#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming #heatwave#Europe#DeathToll
/10

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/first-thing-supreme-court-clears-way-trump-mass-fire-federal-workers