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We have the confirmation that, according to Berkely Earth, the Global Temperature Deviation already overtook the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius set by the Agreement of Paris with a value of 1.54C.
The accuracy of the measurement done by Berkely Earth was 0.06C. It means that the Global Temperature Deviation could also be 1.6C!
IMO at the UN they should be VERY WORRIED because of this value of Global Temperature Deviation calculated by Berkely Earth.
mspohr
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How This Climate Activist Justifies Political Violence How This Climate Activist Justifies Political Violence
With the 2021 publication of his unsettling book, “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” Andreas Malm established himself as a leading thinker of climate radicalism. The provocatively titled manifesto, which, to be clear, does not actually provide instructions for destroying anything, functioned both as a question — why has climate activism remained so steadfastly peaceful in the face of minimal results? — and as a call for the escalation of protest tactics like sabotage.
The point that’s important to make is that the reason that people contemplate escalation is that there are no risk-free options left.
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown,” written with Wim Carton and scheduled to be published this year, examines the all-consuming pursuit of fossil-fuel profits and what the authors identify as the highly dubious and hugely dangerous new justifications for that pursuit. But, says Malm, who is 46, “the hope is that humanity is not going to let everything go down the drain without putting up a fight.”
We need to start seeing these people as victims of the violence of the climate crisis. In the light of this, the idea of attacking infrastructure and closing down new pipelines is a disarmament. It’s about taking down a machine that actually kills people.
With the 2021 publication of his unsettling book, “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” Andreas Malm established himself as a leading thinker of climate radicalism. The provocatively titled manifesto, which, to be clear, does not actually provide instructions for destroying anything, functioned both as a question — why has climate activism remained so steadfastly peaceful in the face of minimal results? — and as a call for the escalation of protest tactics like sabotage.
The point that’s important to make is that the reason that people contemplate escalation is that there are no risk-free options left.
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown,” written with Wim Carton and scheduled to be published this year, examines the all-consuming pursuit of fossil-fuel profits and what the authors identify as the highly dubious and hugely dangerous new justifications for that pursuit. But, says Malm, who is 46, “the hope is that humanity is not going to let everything go down the drain without putting up a fight.”
We need to start seeing these people as victims of the violence of the climate crisis. In the light of this, the idea of attacking infrastructure and closing down new pipelines is a disarmament. It’s about taking down a machine that actually kills people.
Bill McKibben On Global Heating, Capitalism, Insurance, And Social Friction - CleanTechnica
Bill McKibben is musing about what happens to the global economy as insurance companies decline to offer coverage in some areas.cleantechnica.com
Bill McKibben And The Insurance Industry In his latest Substack post, Bill McKibben delves into the insurance crisis brought on by a warmer climate. He argues that insurance is the lubricant that makes commerce possible. Losing insurance creates friction in the economic system and he warns that friction can lead to a collapse of important parts of local, national, and global economies. McKibben is not a voice crying in the wilderness. Just last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article with the title, “Buying Home and Auto Insurance Is Becoming Impossible.” Here are the first few paragraphs: After Allstate suffered billions of dollars in losses and failed to get the rate increases it wanted, it resorted to the nuclear option. The insurance giant threatened last fall to stop renewing auto insurance for customers in three states that hadn’t given in to its demands, which would have left those policyholders scrambling for coverage. The states blinked.
Insurers are coming off some of their worst years in history. Catastrophic damage from storms and wildfires is one big reason. The past decade of global natural catastrophes has been the costliest ever. Warmer temperatures have made storms worse and contributed to droughts that have elevated wildfire risk.
Bill McKibben says. “Insurance sounds like a boring topic, until you think about it a little. It’s the (enormous) part of the economy that’s assigned to understand risk. And to do so it developed one of the most powerful technologies in all of human history — the actuarial table. Using it, the industry can predict what’s going to happen — predict it accurately enough to allow everyone else to affordably hedge against that risk.
It’s already happening. Recently, Forrester Research predicted, “Climate change will destabilize the global insurance industry.” Increasingly extreme weather will make it harder for insurance companies to model and predict exposures, accurately calculate reserves, offer coverage and pay claims, the report said. As a result, it said, “more insurers will leave markets besides the high stakes states like California, Florida, and Louisiana.”
Insurance is one industry Climate Change Denial will not work. Be in denial and go out of business from excessive payouts.
@mspohr.... As a result, it said, “more insurers will leave markets besides the high stakes states like California, Florida, and Louisiana.”Bill McKibben On Global Heating, Capitalism, Insurance, And Social Friction - CleanTechnica
Bill McKibben is musing about what happens to the global economy as insurance companies decline to offer coverage in some areas.
quite understandable, Hurricane Irma nailed us, Hurricane Ian, brushed us (20K unpaid damages) Insurance company bankrupt, UPC, many folks had rates Quintupled (5X) more energy in the system = stronger hurricanes. AGW (seeing over 50% of houses with missing damaged roofs is sobering)
there is still the cognitive dissonance of the AGW deniers
That's why we must do our best to fight the Climate Change issue. The damages that we are getting because of it are HUGE.
According to NASA Global Warming not only continues but it has also accelerated over the past 40 years.
shahryaran
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Earth/ environment/ nature is tougher that we think.
A single volcano can erupt and inject more CO2 in the atmosphere than all the cars combined in history.
However, there is no deny that human CO2 production is greatly effecting our lives.
The main concern about global warming is not the environment itself, rather the living beings in the environment including humans.
What affects directly is very local. And at the top is the air we breath.
As someone with allergic asthma, every time a gas car passes, I have to cough for 5 minutes. Specially when the car just started.
The problem is that one's property (the gas car) is affecting others by polluting the air that is shared among all. And it would be disrespectful to not to care. It's all about caring for others. Always has been.
So the the problem of global warming is a social problem not a environmental problem.
A single volcano can erupt and inject more CO2 in the atmosphere than all the cars combined in history.
However, there is no deny that human CO2 production is greatly effecting our lives.
The main concern about global warming is not the environment itself, rather the living beings in the environment including humans.
What affects directly is very local. And at the top is the air we breath.
As someone with allergic asthma, every time a gas car passes, I have to cough for 5 minutes. Specially when the car just started.
The problem is that one's property (the gas car) is affecting others by polluting the air that is shared among all. And it would be disrespectful to not to care. It's all about caring for others. Always has been.
So the the problem of global warming is a social problem not a environmental problem.
Please watch the video till the end and you will realize what is the difference between the Temperature Graph of 2023 and previous years.
In this tweet we find AN IMPORTANT THING that I said in a previous post.
We have the graph of atmospheric CO2 but we have also the graph of EQUIVALENT atmospheric CO2 which considers all GHGs that is to say H20, CH4, N2O and CO2 of course.
We can get the graph of EQUIVALENT atmospheric CO2 by shifting upwards the normal graph of atmospheric CO2 of about 140 units!
So today it's as we had an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 560 ppm!
And this is how a graph of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere at 560 ppm looks like!
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, calling climate change perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction, urged developing nations on Sunday to do more to cut greenhouse-gas emissions as he derided climate-change skeptics at home and blamed big companies for hijacking the debate.
That's why the US Department of Defense considers the Climate Change issue a serious threat.
mspohr
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Sorry but whoever is emitting GHGs is the problem.
Main thing is that John Kerry said that the Climate Change issue is perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. This is first time that I see this thing said by a politician and I think that John Kerry is 100% correct.
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