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  1. DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports

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    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

  2. DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports

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    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

  3. DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

    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

  4. 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'.
    nature.com/articles/s44168-026
    #AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering

  5. 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'.
    nature.com/articles/s44168-026
    #AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering

  6. 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'.
    nature.com/articles/s44168-026
    #AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering

  7. 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'.
    nature.com/articles/s44168-026
    #AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering

  8. 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'.
    nature.com/articles/s44168-026
    #AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering

  9. National Security Archive: New Documents Detail Industry Efforts to Roll Back Federal Methane Regulations But Maintain Emissions Monitoring System. “The fossil fuel industry is trying to weaken methane reporting requirements while simultaneously fighting to preserve the related federal emissions database it relies on for credibility, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/21/national-security-archives-new-documents-detail-industry-efforts-to-roll-back-federal-methane-regulations-but-maintain-emissions-monitoring-system/
  10. RE: scholar.social/@Aepasek/117071

    'our central finding is that the climate impact of subsea data transmission is significantly lower than previously assumed, which can help recalibrate how ICT-sector emissions are calculated as global network traffic accelerates. Subsea cables contrast sharply with mobile- and satellite-based systems, whose emissions are substantially higher'

    #polycrisis #carbonEmissions #technology #communicationsInfrastructure #infrastructure

  11. This is as close as we plan to get this year to “Car Week” events. Did errands in Monterey today, ready to stay out of all high traffic areas through Aug 16. How we feel about these 10 days of #car events, which reportedly bring 100,000+ visitors to Monterey County: bikemonterey.org/reflecting-on.

    With friends in #Spokane and elsewhere impacted by #wildfires, our dedication to to doing what we can to help people reduce #CarbonEmissions of #transportation choices continues! #ActOnClimate

    montereycountynow.com/news/loc

  12. 6-Aug-2026
    Thinking about trading your car in for an #EV? Here’s a compelling new reason to do it now
    Research shows the #carbonEmissions benefits are far greater than you might imagine

    ^^Only 58 % reduction of carbon emissions over 16 years. Better to have no car and 100% reduction ...

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #environment #climateCatastrophe #bancars #banSUVs

  13. And, which countries/regions are the world’s highest emitters #CarbonEmissions? Reported 2022, but the emission numbers are 🤯 -- which contribute to #ExtremeWeather #wildfires

    "Once heat trapping gases get into the atmosphere, the effects are global. Trapping the sun’s energy doesn’t stop at national borders."

    "Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for as much as 200 years or longer. So historic emissions matter."

    #ClimateFingerprints #ClimateChange #CdnWildfires

    apnews.com/article/science-chi

  14. I will likely never own or drive a fossil-fueled car. Why? Not only cars are money-wasting machines and a pain in the ass to park, but also the private ownership of fossil-fueled cars is the biggest attributable source of carbon emissions.

    "Guardian analysis found that the eight listed oil producers made almost $93bn (£69bn) in the three months to the end of June – the first full financial quarter after the US-Israeli war on Iran triggered a surge in global oil prices to highs above $126 a barrel.

    The companies have used the biggest disruption of fossil fuel supplies in the market’s history to almost double their combined profits from just under $50bn in the same period last year, with campaigners warning that millions of households are left paying the price in higher bills and climate chaos.

    The data suggests the eight oil companies – Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron and ExxonMobil – made more than $700,000 of profit every minute over the spring quarter.

    While their market valuations were swelling by about $600bn to above $3tn, temperatures built towards a run of deadly heatwaves, all made more likely and more severe by burning fossil fuels.

    Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms were directly linked to fatal spells of hot weather for the first time by scientific analysis published last September. It found the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were each enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible."

    theguardian.com/business/ng-in

    #BigOil #FossilFuels #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

  15. China Doubles Down on Clean Energy Even as Coal Keeps Growing

    China has announced plans to double down on its already ambitious renewable energy targets by massively expanding its…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #batterystorage #CA #Canada #carbonemissions #China #coal #electricity #energytransition #five-yearplan #renewableenergy #Science #solarpower #windpower
    newsbeep.com/ca/842912/

  16. Metal mining greatly increases the surface area of sulfide minerals that are exposed to weathering (mine surfaces and waste from crushed ore), and weathering of those minerals produces sulfuric acid. A new study estimates that the long-term carbon footprint of neutralizing acid mine drainage will be many times higher than that of the mining itself.

    Summary: scitechdaily.com/a-hidden-sour

    Original paper: pubs.acs.org/esthag/article/do

    #Science #CarbonEmissions #Environment

  17. Study Reveals Drying Lakebeds Emitting Significant Carbon Dioxide

    📰 Original title: Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon, Study Finds

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/study-reveals-

    #environment #carbonemissions #environmentalscience

  18. Airline emissions bills and carbon credits for investment dominate a revamp of the EU’s labyrinthine emissions scheme.

    International flights arriving in Europe from destinations within 5000 km will be required to pay for their CO2 emissions from 2029 as part of a major overhaul of the EU’s emissions trading system announced on Friday.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260717

    #EU #EmissionsTradingSystem #Airlines #Aviation #ETS #CarbonEmissions #CarbonTrading #Politics #Environment

  19. 🇪🇺 EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses

    「 The reforms would relax the rules of the bloc's emissions trading system (ETS) to give businesses more time to reduce their carbon output than previously planned 」

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgv0z

    #decarbonisation #climate #carbonemissions #eu

  20. Rock Weathering Can Counteract River CO2 Emissions Induced By Permafrost Thaw
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    doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-106 <-- 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

  21. 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."

    newatlas.com/energy/largest-sa

    #renewables

  22. #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.'

    yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/s

    #SolarPunkSunday #VisibleRepair #VisibleMending #Mending #FiberArts #Crafting #DIY #MakeAndMend #RepairDontBuy #ResistFastFashion #BuildingCommunity

  23. Actuia: Watershed Launches Free Version of Its Climate Database. “Watershed, a platform specializing in corporate sustainability, announced on May 22 the public release of its global carbon data archive, the Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive (CEDA)…. Covering 148 countries, 400 industrial sectors, and representing 95% of the global GDP, CEDA aims to establish a common benchmark for […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/24/actuia-watershed-launches-free-version-of-its-climate-database/

  24. "Warren Wells, policy and planning director for the Marin County Bicycle Coalition, said his organization has long been a supporter of e-bikes and believes they can make an impact on climate goals.

    “'However, for the past year we have been sounding the alarm about electric motorcycles capable of speeds over 30 mph being marketed as e-bikes and sold to young people."

    marinij.com/2024/12/26/fairfax

    ICYMI: Marin County Bicycle Coalition, along with Bicycling Monterey and others, issued a related statement Dec 10. bikemonterey.org/california-bi

    #ebikes #ebike #ElectricBicycles #ElectricBikes #ActiveTransportation #transportation #CarbonEmissions #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateHope