Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

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Pain Compliance Torture Is The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Latest Police Tactic Against Activists

Vilification of protesters, pain compliance torture, anti-protest legislation, and abusive lawsuits: these are some of the insidious tactics that the fossil fuel industry is using in its full-court press against climate activists. Confronted with...

www.dailykos.com

Confronted with strong support for climate action and organized protests against fossil fuel projects, the fossil fuel industry has resorted to using a series of despicable tactics to suppress dissent in the US: 1) characterizing activists as extremists, 2) funding police violence, 3) lobbying for harsh legal penalties for protesting, and 4) filing abusive, resource-sapping lawsuits

Fossil fuel firms spent millions on US lawmakers who sponsored anti-protest bills

About 60% of oil and gas operations protected from protest due to money spent on lobbying, says Greenpeace USA report

www.theguardian.com

Always behave EXTREMELY CORRECT when you are complaining about something. This is particularly true for the Climate Change issue.
For instance here in Rome we have people complaining about the Climate Change issue by stopping the traffic of cars.
What do they think to get by stopping the traffic of cars?
NOTHING
They will only make car drivers angry. NOTHING MORE.
They will not certainly do anything to work out the Climate Change issue.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1726229409756225765

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1726229409756225765

Actually the Temperature Deviation is calculated by averaging the Temperatures over a period of one year, meaning that the Temperature Deviation is the result of an integration. So we cannot still say that the specification given by the Agreement of Paris to keep the Temperature Deviation well below 2 Degrees Celsius has been broken.
But yes it's an alarming signal. It will be necessary to calculate the Temperature Deviation at the end of 2023, which is foreseen to be warmest year on record, to understand the gravity of the Climate Change issue.

 

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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

www.theguardian.com

The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year, accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019 – enough to cause more than a million excess deaths due to heat, according to the report.

Using a “mortality cost” formula – used by the US Environmental Protection Agency, among others – of 226 excess deaths worldwide for every million tonnes of carbon, the report calculates that the emissions from the 1% alone would be enough to cause the heat-related deaths of 1.3 million people over the coming decades. Over the period from 1990 to 2019, the accumulated emissions of the 1% were equivalent to wiping out last year’s harvests of EU corn, US wheat, Bangladeshi rice and Chinese soya beans.

 

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President Biden says USA can reach NET ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS within 2050.
President Biden hopes to involve also other Countries, as India and China, in his ambitious plan to reach NET ZERO EMISSIONS within 2050.

 

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The great carbon divide

We are not equally to blame for rising temperatures, and recognising that is an important step in identifying possible solutions

www.theguardian.com

The climate chasm between the world’s carbon-guzzling rich and the heat-vulnerable poor forms a symbolic shape when plotted on a graph. Climate-heating greenhouse gas emissions are so heavily concentrated among a rich minority that the image resembles one of those old-fashioned broad-bowled, saucer-shaped glasses beloved of the gilded age: a champagne coupe. At the top is the wide, flat, very shallow bowl of the richest 10% of humanity, whose carbon appetite – through personal consumption, investment portfolios, and share of government subsidies and infrastructure benefits – accounts for about 50% of all emissions.

This year, the extremes have been more apparent than ever. Oil firms have raked in trillions of dollars in profits that they plan to use to expand production of climate-destabilising fossil fuels despite warnings from the International Energy Agency that this will make it impossible to keep global heating to within 1.5C. Meanwhile, 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record, and the victims of global heating and extreme weather have been legion. From the dozens of poor Central American migrants who died from heatstroke trying to cross the desert into the wealthy US, to the 18 north Africans, including two children, who burned to death as they attempted to pass through Greek forests engulfed by flames; from the thousands of Hebei villagers who lost their homes when the Chinese government diverted flood waters from wealthy Beijing, to the Mexican fishing community of El Bosque that is being eroded due to more frequent storms battering its coastline. Speaking from an emergency refuge, Guadalupe Cobos Pacheco, a resident of El Bosque, said she felt resentment towards the oil companies that operated platforms within sight of her disappearing village. “We are living in a total climate breakdown. It is a constant worry … we don’t know what to do,” she said. “All this oil exploitation has consequences yet it is we who are paying.”

We humans are not equally to blame for rising temperatures, more destructive storms, longer droughts and fiercer forest fires. Recognising that is an important step in identifying the cause of the problem, possible solutions and fair compensation for those affected.

It is becoming clearer that the climate crisis worsens inequality and inequality worsens the climate crisis.

We need a political discourse that is class conscious, that recognises that the rich and capitalism are the major drivers of the climate crisis,” said Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist at the London School of Economics and the author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. “This is about bringing production – and provisioning systems and energy systems – under democratic control.”

 

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World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28

‘We must start setting records on cutting emissions,’ UN boss says after temperature records obliterated in 2023

www.theguardian.com

The report found that today’s carbon-cutting policies are so inadequate that 3C of heating would be reached this century.

Governments are taking baby steps to avert the climate crisis – they [must] make bold strides forward at Cop28 in Dubai to get on track,” said Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of UN Climate Change.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1726742955719897350

Luckily NASA has the EMIT Instrument useful to pinpoint sources of GHG emissions.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1726742955719897350

Luckily NASA has the EMIT Instrument useful to pinpoint sources of GHG emissions.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1726743377214062894

Leaks of methane, which is a powerful GHG, are identified and fixed thanks to the NASA EMIT Instrument. In fact reducing methane emissions is key factor in limiting the Climate Change issue.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1724887612278587399

"This assessment shows us in clear scientific terms that Climate Change is impactng all regions, all sectors of the United States, not just some ALL"

President Joe Biden

The Fifth National Climate Assessment

The Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment, released on November 14, 2023, demonstrates how climate change is affecting America’s working lands, how communities are reducing their risks, and how winning solutions to climate change can be found in productive landscapes.

www.usda.gov

The Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment, that President Biden mentioned in the quoted post, has been released one week ago and in this link an overview of this Assessment is reported.

 

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El Nino 2023 could be a MONSTER!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1722699568977248361

NOAA confirms that, as expected, Super El Niño 2023 could last also during the winter with Global consequences.

 

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In fact La Nina lasted three years rather than one year. That's why we expect a super 2023 El Nino. But yes this could mean that the world's Climate has entered into a more erratic and dangerous phase.

The Super El Niño 2023 has been foreseen because La Niña lasted 3 years rather than one year, as usual, meaning that we entered a more erratic and dangerous phase of the world's Climate.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1722699568977248361

NOAA confirms that, as expected, Super El Niño 2023 could last also during the winter with Global consequences.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1724091574265553149

El Niño is a Climate Phenomenon that can cause droughts and floods in different parts of the world. That's why its persistence in the Pacific Ocean is harmful.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1724820747858714888

The temperature deviation of October 2023 measured by NASA confirms that October is the fifth record hottest month in a row in 2023 meaning that 2023 is on track to be warmest year on record.
NASA also points out that this warming trend is caused by human activities.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1724820750513627525

NASA says more in detail what was the Temperature Deviation of October 2023 which was a record October. The Temperature Deviation of October 2023 was second only to September 2023 whose Temperature Deviation was defined "scary" by NOAA.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1724831510455300234

NASA records of the Temperature Deviation goes back to 144 years ago but thanks to the tree rings scientists can reconstruct the Temperature Deviation of last 1000 years as it shown in the graph above, where it can be seen that on the Earth in last 1000 years we never had such a high Temperature Deviation as that we had in recent years (red line).

 

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The Super El Niño 2023 has been foreseen because La Niña lasted 3 years rather than one year, as usual, meaning that we entered a more erratic and dangerous phase of the world's Climate.

El Niño and La Niña are the extreme phases of the ENSO cycle; between these two phases is a third phase called ENSO-neutral. El Niño: A warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures (SST), in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
The ENSO-neutral phase is also called "La Nada"
ENSO stands for The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

 

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While Biochar is a Chemical Carbon Sequestration there is also a Not Chemical Way to get Carbon Sequestration.
The Carbon Footprint is a number saying what is your Carbon contribution. When your Carbon Footprint is negative it means that thanks to your use of Electric Cars, Renewables and Energy Savings you are Sequestering Carbon from the atmosphere.
In fact not only you have no Carbon Emissions because you have an Electric Car, not only you have less Carbon Emissions because of your Energy Savings, but you are also giving Energy to the net which will be used by somebody else.
So let's calculate our Carbon Footprint and let's try to get it negative.

A better way to say how we can achieve Carbon Sequestration in a not chemical way by getting a Negative Carbon Footprint.

Since Carbon Sequestration represents an indirect way of emission reductions if we manage to get a negative Carbon Footprint it means that we are giving to the grid Energy that will be used by somebody else implementing this way INDIRECT EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, that is to say a not chemical Carbon Sequestration.

 

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The climate emergency really is a new type of crisis – consider the ‘triple inequality’ at the heart of it | Adam Tooze

Global conferences such as the upcoming Cop28 may seem like staid and ritualistic affairs. But they matter, writes Adam Tooze, a history professor at Columbia University

www.theguardian.com

Half the world’s population, led by the top 10% of the income distribution – and, above all, by the global elite – drive a globe-spanning productive system that destabilises the environment for everyone. The worst effects are suffered by the poorest, and in the coming decades the impact will become progressively more extreme. And yet their poverty means they are virtually powerless to protect themselves.

So extreme is inequality that the lowest-earning 50% of the world population – 4 billion people – account for as little as 12% of total emissions. And those at the very bottom of the pile barely register at all. Mali’s per capita C02 emissions are about one-seventy-fifth of those in the US. Even if the lowest-earning third of the global population – more than 2.6 billion people – were to raise themselves above the $3.2-a-day poverty line, it would increase total emissions by a mere 5% – that is, one-third of the emissions of the richest 1%..

 

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The High Stakes of Low Quality https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/23/....Jtio.sAJNVlH-XRRt&smid=nytcore-android-share

Cheap products, made poorly and thrown away quickly, are killing people and the planet.

Since 1999, humans have far surpassed — by billions of metric tons — the amount of Earth’s resources that scientists estimate we can sustainably use. The culprit: our overconsumption of stuff, from shoddy tools to fast fashion that is trendy one day, trash the next.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1727653677400293674

One week to COP28 in Dubai, an opportunity to find solutions to the Climate Change/Global Warming issues.
COP28 takes a particular importance because of the recent heat records broken (five record warmest months in a row, 2023 heading to be warmest year on record).