https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lknel1xpo
UN climate talks 'no longer fit for purpose' say key experts
The United Nations' COP climate talks are "no longer fit for purpose" and need an urgent overhaul, key experts including a former UN secretary general and former UN climate chief have said.
In a letter to the UN, senior figures say countries should not host the talks if they don’t support the phase out of fossil energy.
#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #FossilFuels
The planet is screwed
America’s oil industry released its wish list for the incoming Trump administration on Tuesday, a five-point plan that would eliminate many of the Biden administration’s most far-reaching efforts to reduce climate pollution and limit the warming that is driving ever more destructive and deadly extreme weather.
#ClimateChange #Spain #Barcelona #flooding
Spain's woes with excessive rain and flash flooding continue further to the south around Barcelona. 200mm (25in)in a couple of hours.
#ClimateChange #Biodiversity
@Parliament
Important legislation is stalled in the house due to political infighting. While the article doesn't expand on that but it must be the CPC who don't even really believe in man made climate change.
Canada’s moment of truth at the U.N. biodiversity conference
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/31/opinion/canada-UN-biodiversity-conference
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-atmospheric-rivers-shifting-poleward-reshaping.html
Atmospheric rivers—those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions—are shifting toward higher latitudes, and that's changing weather patterns around the world.
#climatechange #ClimateEmergency #AnthropomorphicClimateChange
Nothing good that's for sure.
What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon?
Ask Finland.
Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores.
Hold them accountable
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has sided with the 7 youths who took the province to court for Ontario's failure to reduce emissions and that failure was "contributing to an increase in the risk of death & in the risks disproportionately faced by youth.
https://coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/item/22746/index.do
#climatechange at work. Excessive rain causing flooding in the Sahara desert
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/weather/sahara-desert-floods-climate/index.html
Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.
The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco
#ClimateChange #Misinformation
https://thinc.blog/2024/10/12/is-this-a-disinfo-blip-or-tipping-into-a-abyss/
Misinformation is too technical, too freighted, and, after almost a decade of Trump, too political. Nor does it explain what is really happening, which is nothing less than a cultural assault on any person or institution that operates in reality. If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target. The same goes for journalists, election workers, scientists, doctors, and first responders.
#ClimateChange #Hurricanes #FossilFuels #BigOil
They knew. It's well past time to hold them all accountable.
We need to see more of this type of action
The first gas utility sued for climate deception
Multnomah County, Oregon, says NW Natural “engaged in an enterprise of misrepresentation” about its products’ harm to the climate.
#trees #climatechange #extinction
Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issue a Bleak https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-studying-earths-trees-issue-a-bleak-warning-to-humanity
From soaring coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most revered woody plants are in an awful lot of trouble.
But it turns out that losing some species won't just endanger local forests; it will threaten entire ecosystems, research shows.
https://heated.world/p/jd-vances-cowardly-climate-denial
JD Vance’s cowardly climate denial
Amid unprecedented destruction from Helene, Vance was too afraid to tell Americans what he actually believes.
...At the vice presidential debate on Tuesday, Donald Trump’s running mate cast doubt on the “idea” that heat-trapping pollution heats the atmosphere, calling it “weird science” that he would only accept “for the sake of argument.”
Michael Mann on Helene and #ClimateChange
"The Science is pretty rock solid here, it's not rocket science it's pretty basic physics"
Dr. Michael Mann on the effect that #Project2025 would have on #ClimateChange actions
A good discussion on the #AMOC with Stefan Rahmstorf (https://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/stefan/homepage) one of the leading experts on this topic.
From ProPublica - one of the training videos from #Project2025 pertaining to #ClimateChange
via: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election
“Eradicate Climate Change References”
The project’s experts outline regulatory and policy changes that future political appointees should prepare for in a Republican administration.
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