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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.

The planet is screwed

insideclimatenews.org/news/131

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.

Spain's woes with excessive rain and flash flooding continue further to the south around Barcelona. 200mm (25in)in a couple of hours.


@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

nationalobserver.com/2024/10/3

phys.org/news/2024-10-atmosphe

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.

Nothing good that's for sure.

grist.org/international/what-h

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.

coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/

at work. Excessive rain causing flooding in the Sahara desert

cnn.com/2024/10/14/weather/sah

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

thinc.blog/2024/10/12/is-this-

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.

We need to see more of this type of action

desmog.com/2024/10/10/nw-natur

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.

Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issue a Bleak sciencealert.com/scientists-st

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.

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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.”

youtu.be/-L6W9dJEqko

Michael Mann on Helene and

"The Science is pretty rock solid here, it's not rocket science it's pretty basic physics"

youtu.be/Ht2JhcfmlBA

From ProPublica - one of the training videos from pertaining to

via: propublica.org/article/inside-

“Eradicate Climate Change References”
The project’s experts outline regulatory and policy changes that future political appointees should prepare for in a Republican administration.

youtu.be/7CgnMYUYpP8

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