#carbonemissions — Public Fediverse posts
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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports
Source: PBS News Hour
In a first-of-its-kind report issued Wednesday, the United Nations has said that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Now, the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials warn. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate agreement because of warming from the burning of coal, oil,...
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #1point5Degrees #UNReport #ParisAgreement #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #SustainableFuture #CarbonEmissions #EnvironmentNews
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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports
Source: PBS News Hour
In a first-of-its-kind report issued Wednesday, the United Nations has said that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Now, the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials warn. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate agreement because of warming from the burning of coal, oil,...
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #1point5Degrees #UNReport #ParisAgreement #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #SustainableFuture #CarbonEmissions #EnvironmentNews
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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports
Source: PBS News Hour
In a first-of-its-kind report issued Wednesday, the United Nations has said that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Now, the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials warn. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate agreement because of warming from the burning of coal, oil,...
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Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
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Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
#AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering -
Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
#AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering -
Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
#AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering -
Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
#AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering -
Financial markets can’t drive Canada’s climate transition alone
#Canada #ClimateChange #ClimateFinance #ClimatePolicy #EnergyTransition #ClimateRisk #CleanEnergy #OilAndGas #Economy #NetZero #GreenFinance #Business #Finance #Environment #CarbonEmissions #RenewableEnergy
https://the-14.com/financial-markets-cant-drive-canadas-climate-transition-alone/ -
“You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”*…
The first two installments of what will be an on-going series from ProPublica and Drilled, covering fossil fuel companies in the 1990s who, even as they denied the reality of climate change, were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses…
An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.
The research produced by those schools in turn shaped global climate models, as well as the policy and technology solutions adopted by governments around the world.
Ultimately, it fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels — a notion that has delayed emissions cuts by decades.
Corporate funders sponsored entire centers, paid the salaries of researchers, kept offices on campus and in some cases had veto power over projects.
Companies maintain they are supporting innovation and needed science. Universities say that with safeguards, sponsorship enhances research programs while preserving academic independence.
Still, the impact of funding constitutes a pattern that Benjamin Franta, an associate professor of climate litigation at University of Oxford, called the “colonization of academia.”…
“Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change“- For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. From Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron.
“How Oil Execs Shaped A Landmark Climate Study“- BP created an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” shaped climate discourse for a generation. From Maddie Stone.
As the first piece concludes…
Climate experts know about the costs, technical troubles, and failures of CCS [Carbon Capture and Sequestration] test projects.
Yet many of them have continued to boost the technology, even as they have downplayed solutions showing greater progress.
For example, the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.
A distressing– but critically important– read. How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: “Carbon Captured,” from @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
And as a reminder that, while climate change is certainly reason enough, it’s by no means the only reason to care: “Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds.”
* Bill McKibben
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As we face facts, we might give ourselves a short break on this, the anniversary of “Raspberry Beret,” by Prince & The Revolution, hitting #1 on the charts in 1985.
Here is the official video (now in 4K). Directed by his Purple Majesty himself, it features graphics and animation from Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, and the crew at Colossal Pictures.
https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?si=lEGZZM2x16Ulk2fx
#BP #carbon #carbonCapture #carbonEmissions #climateChange #culture #fossilFuels #globalWarming #history #music #musicVideo #Prince #Princeton #RaspberryBeret -
Rock Weathering Can Counteract River CO2 Emissions Induced By Permafrost Thaw
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10664-8 <-- shared paper
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H/T @aaron Bufe
“[The researchers] measured carbon emissions and water chemistry in 50 headwater rivers draining 780,000 km² of the Tibetan Plateau.
The rivers flow in landscapes underlain by continuous permafrost and landscapes in which the permafrost has retreated since the last glacial maximum. They collect[ed] organic carbon from soils and dissolved inorganic carbon that is fixed by rock-weathering.
Where the permafrost cover is continuous, rivers emit CO2 from degrading (permafrost) soil carbon. Weathering reactions in these catchments are relatively slow.
In landscapes with (almost) no permafrost, carbon fluxes from weathering are faster than CO2 emissions from rivers.
Thus, as permafrost landscapes transition to landscapes without permafrost cover, chemical weathering reactions may play an ever more important role in riverine carbon cycling.
Interestingly, weathering can affect the carbon cycle in different ways. Where sulfide minerals are present, weathering reactions can emit CO2. Where silicate minerals dominate, weathering draws down CO2 from the atmosphere…”
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“Climate-induced permafrost thaw unlocks large stores of organic carbon that are mineralized and emitted as carbon dioxide (CO2) from rivers to the atmosphere. Concurrently, warming and permafrost thaw can increase mineral weathering rates, thus affecting the release and sequestration of inorganic carbon. Yet how these biological and geological carbon cycles interact and jointly affect CO2 dynamics (emission compared with drawdown) in permafrost rivers remains unknown. Here [they] combine[d] CO2 emissions, organic and inorganic solute concentrations, dual carbon isotopes (δ13C–Δ14C) and geochemical modelling to infer how permafrost thaw may affect river biogeochemistry over decades to centuries across the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Leveraging a gradient of thermal permafrost degradation, we find that river CO2 emissions decline, whereas solute fluxes from rock weathering increase with decreasing permafrost cover. Across this region, net CO2 drawdown fluxes from rock weathering are about 35% of river CO2 emissions, varying from around 15% in catchments with continuous permafrost to more than 100% in catchments with discontinuous or isolated permafrost. Thus, carbon fluxes from chemical weathering may become increasingly important with ongoing permafrost thaw, potentially even outpacing river CO2 emissions. [Their] findings disentangle the interplay between biological and geological carbon fluxes that are important for the cryosphere and the global carbon cycle…”
#permafrost #melting #thaw #climatechange #warming #Tibet #TibetanPlateau #Qinghai #water #hydrology #carbonemissions #CO2 #emissions #waterchemistry #waterquality #cryosphere #sediment #sedimentation #weathering #rock #carbon #river #riverine #carboncyling #geochemistry #biology #geology #soil -
bsky.app/starter-pack... #Glencore led by Gary Nagle #PeabodyEnergy led by Jim Grech #Gazprom associated with Russian state gas production. #ClimateAction #Democracy #Science #Environment #Sustainability #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenial #ClimatePolicyUSA #DonaldTrump
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Rethinking the Global Response to Deforestation
#Deforestation #ClimateChange #Environment #Forests #Sustainability #Biodiversity #COP31 #COP30 #EUDR #IISD #TradePolicy #GreenEconomy #CarbonEmissions #Nature #LandUse #Earth #NetZero #ForestProtection
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Rethinking the Global Response to Deforestation
#Deforestation #ClimateChange #Environment #Forests #Sustainability #Biodiversity #COP31 #COP30 #EUDR #IISD #TradePolicy #GreenEconomy #CarbonEmissions #Nature #LandUse #Earth #NetZero #ForestProtection
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/21/microsofts-biocirc-deal-keeps-its-carbon-removal-plan-alive-xcxwbn/
Microsoft has signed a carbon-removal agreement with BioCirc that shows its buying program is still active after pause fears.
#AI #Microsoft #BioCirc #CarbonRemoval #ClimateTech #Sustainability #RenewableEnergy #CarbonEmissions
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/947798/ Why climate awareness isn’t becoming action for Gen Z #AirPollution #CarbonEmissions #ClimateAwareness #ClimateChange #CurrentAffairs #editorial #Environment #GenZClimateAwareness #GHGEmissions #GlobalWarming #GreenhouseGasEmissions #IndianExpress #OpinionNews #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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love both #energyStorage and #sand :,D
"#PolarNightEnergy has built an industrial-scale sand battery in Pornainen #Finland. The #battery is set to reduce #carbonemissions from the local #heating network by as much as 70%. At 42 feet tall and 50 feet wide, the battery can store up to 100 MWh, enough to heat the whole town for a week. The #sandbattery can hold a charge for months at a time, helping balance the energy #grid during periods of high demand."
https://newatlas.com/energy/largest-sand-battery-finland-pornainen
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#StitchIt, Don’t ditch it: Resisting #FastFashion through #VisibleMending
Kaja Šeruga
Fri, June 13, 2025"Once a month between April and October, a group of stitchers takes to the streets of #EdinburghScotland, making themselves comfortable on camping chairs decorated with hand-embroidered banners inviting people to #stitchitdontditchit. Equipped with sewing baskets and mending skills, they repair their garments in public and teach interested passers-by how to do the same.
"The #EdinburghStreetStitchers, as they call themselves, are part of a growing movement that is reclaiming the ancient art of mending. Historically, mending was done in private and in ways that concealed, rather than announced, the repair. Choosing instead to mend visibly—whether through the color of the stitching or by doing it in a public location—is a statement and a conversation starter, Reasons to be Cheerful says.
" 'You are clearly stating that you have kept this from a #landfill,' says Kate Sekules, a mender who teaches fashion history at the Pratt Institute in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn, and is pursuing a PhD in the history and theory of mending. 'It’s also got the advantage of making everything you own unique and special. And when you’ve invested time and energy and thought and craft into your clothing, you value it so much more.'
"Inspired by the global #StreetStitching movement, the former pharmacist Mary Morton started the #Edinburgh group in 2022, three years after a discussion with her son sent her down a rabbit hole of research and learning about the #ClimateCrisis. 'At the end of all of that, I was absolutely horrified. I thought, ‘What can I do about it?' she recalls.
"Volunteering at the #SHRUBCooperative, which is working to reduce waste in Edinburgh, she learned about the high carbon impact of textiles—producing a kilogram of fabric releases 23 kilograms of greenhouse gases on average. 'I’ve always done a bit of sewing, so I thought teaching people how to sew and repair their garments was something I could do to help,' says Morton. She started teaching sewing at the cooperative’s #ZeroWaste Hub, but quickly realized she was preaching to the choir. 'I wanted to do something to reach out to the broader community and make them aware of the situation,' she says.
"The term 'fast fashion' was coined by the New York Times in 1989 to describe Zara’s business model, which turned a designer’s idea into a garment available to consumers in only 15 days. Today’s ultra-fast fashion retailers have further accelerated the pace of production: #Shein, for example, has created 52 micro-seasons per year and adds up to 10,000 items to its website each day. With plummeting prices and a rising throwaway culture, by 2014, people were buying 60 percent more clothes than at the turn of the millennium, and keeping them for only half as long.
"Today the fashion industry is responsible for 92 million metric tons of #TextileWaste annually, and the dyeing and finishing of textiles causes 20 percent of industrial #WaterPollution. Due to energy-intensive production and long supply chains, the apparel industry is responsible for eight percent to 10 percent of global #CarbonEmissions—more than aviation and shipping combined.
"The quiet, simple act of mending can go a long way toward reducing these impacts: According to research by the climate action NGO WRAP, 82 percent of repaired garments prevent the purchase of a new one, and extending the life of an item of clothing by only nine months reduces its carbon, water and waste footprint by a total of 20 percent to 30 percent.
" 'One of the other big benefits is to #NormalizeMending again,' says Morton. For most of human history, textiles were time-consuming to produce and expensive to buy, so mending them was second nature, says Sekules. Repairs were often visible out of necessity, since matching thread to existing fabric was a costly and often impossible proposition. One of the oldest extant examples of visible mending is a 2,000-year-old Egyptian tunic in the Whitworth Geller’s collection in Manchester, England, though the practice is far older than that. Over millennia people across the world developed their own distinct techniques of darning, embroidery and appliqué, using colorful patches or designs to hide holes and stains. 'It was made to seem deliberate, because it was a shameful sign of poverty to look as if you’ve been mended,' says Sekules.
"As mending fell out of favor in Europe and the U.S. in the late 20th century, the skills associated with it were also lost over time. 'As far as we can tell it used to be passed down the maternal line since time immemorial,' says Sekules. 'Then we forgot about it—culturally, it was just no longer a skillset we needed.'
"In recent years a growing opposition to fast fashion has coalesced under the umbrella of #SlowFashion, a movement championing quality over quantity and responsible use of resources. 'People are becoming more aware that the way we produce is harmful to people and the environment,' says Sam Bennett, maker, researcher and one-half of the duo behind Repair Shop, which takes mending commissions and offers online and in-person mending workshops. 'It’s a smaller, quieter form of #activism that I think is really exciting.'
"The resurgence of mending coincided with early Instagram, with visible mending especially well-suited to such a visual medium, and menders like Celia Pym and Tom van Deijnen started to document their mends on the platform in 2014. 'Those posts and popularity then allowed for people to create public workshops, publish books and so on,' says Bennett, who is working on a timeline documenting how mending skills have been passed on over the past 300 years. Much of the skill-sharing has also moved to virtual spaces, which makes it accessible to anyone with an internet connection. But while they serve their purpose, online workshops don’t have quite the same magic, says Bennett: 'It really started with community and sitting side by side with someone. And I think that in the end, that is still the most successful way to learn.'
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/stitch-don-rsquo-t-ditch-153005359.html
#SolarPunkSunday #VisibleRepair #VisibleMending #Mending #FiberArts #Crafting #DIY #MakeAndMend #RepairDontBuy #ResistFastFashion #BuildingCommunity
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The EU is on track to meet its 2030 emissions goal thanks to strong progress on renewables.
The EU is “well on track” to reach its 2030 climate targets, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
An assessment of updated National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) shows the EU is on course to achieve a 54% emissions reduction by 2030 - just one per cent shy of its legally binding 55% target.
#EU #Emissions #ClimateTargets #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #CarbonEmissions
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Friday is farmers market day at Del Monte Center, Monterey. Don’t know who rode this bike to DMC today, just appreciate that they did. Related tips in “Bike to Farmers Markets” https://bikemonterey.org/tips-for-tourists/food-for-all and in “Shopping by Bike”: https://bikemonterey.org/tips-for-tourists/unique-attractions
DMC is in city of Monterey. The city’s bike-aware leaders, e.g., Mayor Tyller Williamson and Council Member Gino Garcia (whose day job is working for Ecology Action of Santa Cruz / Lets Modo) may be unaware that we formerly had in that Shopping section of the Tips guide a detailed map listing all Del Monte Center bike rack locations. Their ED at that time himself biked to work! Why is that detailed map no longer in our guide? Because DMC 🔥REMOVED those bike racks! 😭#NotProgress #GoingBackward #CarbonEmissions #TrafficCongestion #Monterey #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #transportation
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #BikeMonterey #BicyclingMonterey #ShopByBike #BikeToShop #ShoppingCenters #ParkingLots #ebike #DelMonteCenter #DelMonteShoppingCenter
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Permafrost Alone Holds Back Arctic Rivers—And A Lot Of Carbon
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https://phys.org/news/2024-02-permafrost-arctic-rivers-lot-carbon.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307072120 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Arctic #Alaska #watersheds #drainageareas #3dhp #3dep #elevation #remotesensing #frozensoil #permafrost #hydrology #water #rivers #geomorphology #geomorphometry #climatechange #carbonemissions #carbon #co2 #hillslope #erosion #freezing #thawing #soil #sequesteredcarbon #feedbackloop #landscape #spatialanalysis -
Just watching: Special Briefing: Hidden climate cost of Australia's Plastic Consumption, Webinar by WWF Australia and Australian Marine Conservation Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6rrgtZBfhg
Read the Full and summary reports here:
https://www.marineconservation.org.au/plasticemissions/#Plastics #Microplastics #BeyondPlastics #CarbonEmissions #LCA #PlasticsPollution #Australia #PlasticsCrisis #ClimateCrisis
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What would happen in #GreaterManchester if the spatial plan 'Places for Everyone' were to be implemented?
Could GM stay within its carbon budget?
Could it make a fair contribution to the nationally legislated net zero target?
We ran the numbers, trying our best to be fair and rigorous.
It's not a pretty picture.
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2023/01/03/places-for-everyone-the-carbon-impact-revised-figures/#planning #CarbonBudgets #EmbodiedCarbon #Aviation #Manchester #CarbonEmissions
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What would happen in #GreaterManchester if the spatial plan 'Places for Everyone' were go be implemented?
Could GM stay within its carbon budget? Could it make a fair contribution to the nationally legislated net zero target?
We ran the numbers, trying our best to be fair and rigorous.
It's not a pretty picture.
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2023/01/03/places-for-everyone-the-carbon-impact-revised-figures/#planning #CarbonBudgets #EmbodiedCarbon #Aviation #Manchester #CarbonEmissions
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We published 23 articles in 2022.
They covered a variety of topics including
#GreaterManchester #Planning #CarbonEmissions #Policies #Degrowth #Books #Spain #Housing #Advertising #CommunityArts #Textiles and more.
See 2022 | Search Results | Steady State Manchester -> Please share if you like it.
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#Tories don’t follow the science, nor do they believe in transparency. Building more and more roads will never lead to lower emissions...but they think if they hide the evidence, we’ll never question them.
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Coronavirus cancels F1 and Formula E races, could make EU miss CO2 target - Enlarge / A man wearing a face mask rides his bicycle along an empty street in Beijing on February ... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1654383 #carbonemissions #coronavirus #autoshow #formula1 #formulae #china #cars #eu